Posts by dreyfus2

Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb  At the end of the day I don't think Apple would have picked Intel because their chips used too much power when compared to ARM.   Really depends on when these talks took...

Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal  But don't worry. If you listen to the know-it-all fandroids, they will just tell you that you should always research the app you want to install and verify that it's from a site you...

Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling    Where does it say that the aluminum frame is the antenna?   E.g....

So, Nokia finally uses an antenna-frame design that they once mocked (during "Antennagate") and that looks quite similar to the one Apple patented...

Quote: Originally Posted by mstone  Every democracy is a republic, but not every republic is a democracy.   While I fully agree with your definition, I remember loosely from long-ago history lessons, that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Maestro64  That is okay France also enacted pirating tax on various storage devices like HDD, they make end users pay a tax based on the total storage capacity because they may steal...

Quote: Originally Posted by msimpson    Funny, a co-worker returned today from a trip to France.  Her comments were "everything they sell were things we can already buy in the US or online, except they...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross  Perhaps you noticed that the taxes are on content, and the people accessing it? This is totally different. It's a tax on the physical products foreign companies are importing into...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross  I don't think you understand the issue here. Taxing everyone in order to fund the arts is fine, unless you are a philistine. But this isn't that. It's taxing selectively foreign...

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich    If France is one of the most "capitalistic" countries, then surely their socialism has had the net effect of blunting it's effectiveness.   Thanks for...