Posts by SolipsismX

Quote:Originally Posted by SpamSandwich The Mechanical Turk was a real thing at one time in the past. Amazon uses the metaphor to represent real people answering and solving problems online. I thought he was just making a joke. I...

Quote:Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee There are a gazillion places that repair iPhones/iPads. Seems once someone posts up a DIY on how to do it a bunch of people go "hey, I can make money fixing iPhones". Here in Vancouver there...

Quote:Originally Posted by Mr. Me It was with no small amount of horror that I watched Dropbox 2.1.x literally eat my files on two computers running MacOS X 10.4.11. Dropbox 2.0.x and older versions do not have this issue. Luckily,...

I guess this machine is a little too small for Apple to be pulling a Turk on us with a Foxconn worker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk Quote:Originally Posted by jusjeff Display calibration device? I've repaired a bunch...

Quote:Originally Posted by sflagel How big is this thing/ At first glance, it appears huge, but it ma actually be sitting on a table top? Mentally my first thought was that it was huge but I think that's a drawer in the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Splash-reverse Why do you need Apple to do everything? I'm not sure how need comes into play, but I certainly want Apple to make a better cloud-based file sharing system for users. Despite all that Dropbox...

The screenshot saving thing is something you can do on your own with Automator easily but it's still a nicety that shows Dropbox is thinking about the user. Quote:Originally Posted by anantksundaram Granted Dropbox rebuffed Apple's...

Quote:Originally Posted by diplication I thought I read that Amazon coerced the publishers into an early release of ebook titles? (If you don't let us sell the ebook now, we won't sell your hardcover book at all) Someone with a...

Quote:Originally Posted by Victory2013 Sorry but that is a bogus excuse, if they don't want their high priced hard cover books cannibalized then don't offer that book in e book format until they are done with their hard cover....

Quote:Originally Posted by geekdad Yes it does.... [image] Assuming you did them at the same time and in the same place the iPad 4 antenna might not be as sensitive as the S4, which was barely hanging onto an LTE signal as it was.