CommentRe:Glad (Score 1)233

by baka_toroion Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:53PM (#54790201) Attached to: Windows Phone Dies Today

You're underestimating how out-of-this-worldly easy to use the iPhone was for the common population. The iPhone was a smartphone that just fucking worked (as cliched as it sounds). iOS 1.0 didn't even include an app store. It was that browsing the web with Safari was almost as comfortable as doing it on a PC, excepting the obvious differences in form factors.

Windows Mobile 6.5 was DOS-like in comparison. Obviously designed for an era other than of readily available processing power.

CommentRe:That's great .. there's nothing more annoying (Score 1)175

by baka_toroion Monday October 10, 2016 @06:41PM (#53051299) Attached to: Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages

Currently the world is focused on more demographics than monolingual English speakers.

CommentRidiculous upgrade path (Score 1)85

by baka_toroion Thursday August 20, 2015 @06:16PM (#50357897) Attached to: NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950

Both the 650 Ti and the 950 are built on a 28nm process. Sure, that's not the only parameter that matters but I don't think it's a reasonable upgrade path at all. If you need more performance you should probably go for something bigger, or better yet, wait until 14/16nm becomes a reality for GPUs.

CommentRe:Rubbish (Score 1)159

by baka_toroion Wednesday July 22, 2015 @01:30PM (#50161859) Attached to: The Mystery of Acupuncture Partly Explained In Rat Study

For how many years have you studied acupuncture?

CommentFuck you Slashdot (Score 1)727

by baka_toroion Tuesday July 14, 2015 @05:21PM (#50111985) Attached to: Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question

Why do you proud yourself in becoming more and more shit each passing day?

CommentRe:I'm sooo glad they fired that evil "homophobe C (Score 1)172

by baka_toroion Friday July 03, 2015 @01:37PM (#50040071) Attached to: Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing

This is why SJWs are the cancer killing this industry.

CommentRe:I never knew (Score 2, Insightful)311

by baka_toroion Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:33PM (#50022727) Attached to: Is Safari the New Internet Explorer?

You are not aware iOS is a major OS?

CommentRe:CJK is Unicode's big failing (Score 1)164

by baka_toroion Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:35PM (#49953889) Attached to: Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0

I really can't explain this properly because I can't show you the symbols, but I'm sick of seeing the Chinese variant of the first kanji in "chokusetsu" whenever I type an email in Japanese. Of all the huge corpus of Chinese ideograms, the ones with different stroke order should've been separately encoded. It's really weird behavior and to me it's a bad enough oversight.

These problems are intrinsic to the languages; they are not problems with Unicode. The real solution is political and cultural: if using strings across languages is a frequent use case, that use case can only be addressed by harmonizing the writing systems themselves and adapting real-world usage; it's not something that the encoding can solve.

I don't follow what you are trying to say. Are you saying the Japs and the Chinks should unify their writing systems? Because that's as disrespectful as the demonyms I have just used.

CommentRe:Make a new windows 7 (Score 1)236

by baka_toroion Monday May 25, 2015 @11:03AM (#49768273) Attached to: Microsoft Tries Another Icon Theme For Windows 10

Microsoft spent 20 years teaching people how to use their UI then just throws that all out for no reason at all.

There is a reason: apps for the new paradigm (Metro?) have to go through their app store and they get a cut for each app sold there. As always, it all comes down to money.

CommentRe:It is news for nerds (Score 1)294

by baka_toroion Friday May 15, 2015 @06:07PM (#49701349) Attached to: The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless

OK, I'm an Argie and I don't like this government. But that link you posted couldn't be any more biased. Why should I trust them? Under that same domain you have this article: http://www.heritage.org/events...

I can't and I won't ever trust a website that claims "they [the U.S. and Israel] must remain steadfast allies if they are to overcome the serious challenges threatening both nations in today’s world." This is an 'us vs. them' kind of bias. They can shove their economic freedom index up their ass as far as I'm concerned.

CommentRe:The real solution to Argentina's woes. (Score 1)294

by baka_toroion Friday May 15, 2015 @05:42PM (#49701179) Attached to: The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless

put in one that is good at running the country.

Yeah, uhm, that's very difficult to accomplish, to say the least.

CommentRe:next? (Score 1)417

by baka_toroion Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:46PM (#49540935) Attached to: We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says

Maybe their server business is subsidizing their consumer departments. I'd like to see HP dead within this decade.

CommentRe:Qt is a dung heap (Score 1)20

by baka_toroion Thursday April 23, 2015 @02:19PM (#49539193) Attached to: Qt Creator 3.4.0 Released

What should we choose then?

CommentRe:Remember those memory cartridges on Star Trek T (Score 1)101

by baka_toroion Wednesday April 15, 2015 @07:24PM (#49482093) Attached to: Fifty Years of Moore's Law

Source? I'm interested in this.

CommentRe:Fuck No (Score 1)199

by baka_toroion Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:04AM (#49478489) Attached to: Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications

No, we can't. That ship has sailed.

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