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I have a XPS 13 and I had arch on it but it would drain power while sleeping. The laptop would be dead overnight. Tried a lot of things but couldn't fix it. Had to go back to Windows.


XPS 13 w/ Kubuntu and I don't have this issue.


I don't have it either, but I have heard of it. It's something to do with the kernel not being set to allow the s2idle power level. I don't know what triggers it, but setting some kernel flag forces it to show that sleep level which will then be used for sleeping.

A such-afflicted laptop will be missing the s2idle that you see querying /sys here: https://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/sleep-modes.html


Relevant discussion about the pivot here: https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/discussions/3075


They are also going to debut their new 300 series GPUs with HBM in two weeks at E3. https://twitter.com/AMDRadeon/status/605938931448737792


The 300 Series will be slightly improved repackaged 200 Series chips without HBM though. They will announce one really new chip (Fiji based) with HBM memory and a different name to compete with the 980Ti/Titan X enthusiast cards though.


I have been meaning to work on something like this too. My email is in my profile if either one of you is interested in collaborating.


I would just like to say that I love Foundation! Kudos to the team and congrats on the new release. I look forward to exploring the new version. That being said, I am not really digging the new documentation page. The sample code containers should have a non-white background or at least some kind of a border.


They do for me - maybe your device has the contrast set too low?


Hmm, they should, have a light grey background. Maybe too light?


I could see it after fiddling with my contrast setting. I am not sure how bad it is for other people.


We'll see if we can amp it up a bit.


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What's new in Windows 8.1 can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn140266.aspx


"Improvements have been made to better support users who prefer a mouse and keyboard experience to access applications."

That's pretty strange wording and makes it sound like desktop users are an afterthought compared to mobile devices.


I wouldn't agree. I haven't tried it recently, but I tried Windows 8 in a VM on a Mac Mini when it first came out as a preview release. I found it enjoyable even with just a keyboard and mouse. I could navigate the start screen extremely rapidly, not only via Win key-search, but using the arrow keys to traverse tiles. I came away thinking Metro struck the right balance between touch-only and traditional interfaces.

I used it in a pretty limited and less typical fashion, however. I did some development to port an AIR/AS application written on OSX to Windows. (We needed a native installer and creating a Windows installer required the Windows SDK, and WORA is always a lie, so extra dev was required. So instead of requisitioning a Windows box, I thought I'd try out Microsoft's latest and greatest for free.) Edit: Also had to do some Java development, same setup, different command-line SDK.

I used little more than TextPad and the command prompt (free version of SDK = no IDE), and didn't really use the Metro apps much. Except maybe IE to search for stuff. So I did spend more time in the desktop view. However, the time I spent on Metro was definitely enjoyable.

Another thing that impressed me was that it was still pretty smooth despite running in a VM on a pretty underpowered Mac Mini. It was nowhere as smooth as the Ubuntu VM I also had, but I expected W8 to be significantly more bloated.


I wouldn't agree. I haven't tried it recently, but I tried Windows 8 in a VM on a Mac Mini when it first came out as a preview release. I found it enjoyable even with just a keyboard and mouse.

Wow. I love how you disagree, but then go on to point out you are anything but an expert or regular user of it, and only used a preview, which isn't even the same as what we real users are using. Let me say, as someone that uses Windows 8 every day it is horrible. It pisses me off regularly. I've detailed it here:

http://envoy510.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/windows-8-worst-win...


Well, I did use it regularly for about 3 - 4 months, and since it was a preview, I assumed it would only get better.


Third link to your blog post in this thread. You've posted more anti-Windows 8 stuff here than anyone else- so by your own logic I am forced to assume you are an anti-Microsoft paid shill.


Woah, as you've said elsewhere there are plenty of people who do disagree about the utility of the start screen for use with kb+mouse. Personally I've found it just as, and indeed more, efficient than the start menu.


Well, that was one of the chief complaints.


They were.


They were in Windows 8. The theory was everyone would use touch, so touch first, mouse/keyboard second. Far-sighted, perhaps.


If I am not wrong, this is what Xbox One wanted to do initially.


The Xbox One was originally to have applied digital distribution restrictions to physically distributed media. That is the problem that people had with it.

Had Microsoft simply restricted their program to their digitally distributed games -- which they are likely to loop back on -- I doubt anyone would have taken issue with it.


... Except that's what a lot of Steam-distributed physical games do anyway. Quite a few games just come with a Steam Key and then you can install over the internet or use the disks as installation media into Steam.

... Which is exactly what the Xbox One proposed.


I seem to remember Half-Life 2 having similar distribution scheme.


digital distribution restrictions and benefits. That's what's annoying about the walkback Micosoft did. They would have had you being able to electronically lend your friends games you owned on physical media. But then when they canned that feature, they seem to have canned the entire family sharing facility.


Nokia tweeted this: https://twitter.com/nokia_uk/status/377483408043036672


Nokia is full of it here, it's not like Apple has never released multicolored versions of their products before:

http://cdn.cnet.com.au/story_media/339291893/apple_ipod_2008... http://images.apple.com/ipod-shuffle/images/hero1.jpg http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPod_tou...


Two points:

1) Crayola got there before Apple did.

2) Rounded corners patent.


They could also be pointing out that the device color matches the OS color. I'm pretty sure Apple has never done that before.


In Mac OS 8, the 'yum!' Gestalt selector returned a value corresponding to the case color. The OS tinted based on this value (at least on first install.)


It isn't just the colors, the shape and the plastic back look quite similar to the Lumia 620.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lumia+620&tbm=isch&tbo=u


Huh, that image looks familiar.... Apple, 1999: http://i.imgur.com/McRhNgK.jpg


The point of that image is to get eyeballs, Nokia sharing some mindspace with Iphone. Besides Nokia did it with polycarbonate.


Nokia's bragging point is that Apple caught up to them on...color? Hey, how's the processing power on those industry-leading colorful devices? and the biometric security?


Note that biometrics are identifiers, they cannot be used for authentication (not securely anyway).


Identity is one part of authentication.


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