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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Why would you want to do that? So it'll drain your battery faster? Consume more data faster? So you can use your tablet more like a laptop/desktop. I generally have lots of applications running & vi…
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Quote: Impact of size reduction of 90 to 65 and 14 to 10 is about the same... a 40% reduction in size. You are correct that the size reduction is about the same, but the _impact_ of that size reduction is less. You almost never design a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cali YES!!! Someone on another article commented that the next iPhone will have everything needed and will plateau, saying after that there will be nothing more that can be added. Only people who lack imagina…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RadarTheKat ... Now we're to believe that Apple has engineered their supply chain with only single suppliers for each component. UBS clearly knows nothing of what they speak. No, The UBS report said Apple "...is f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan I'm curious how an investment firm would know if someone is the sole supplier for a component or not. I highly doubt Apple is giving up that kind of information so where are they getting it from? For many …
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Strange article. "Software without a firm release date is 'delayed' due to technical problems." Pretty much every software project ends up taking longer than initial estimates. Particularly software which has to interact with dozens of often poorl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon I'm sure you contribute more than you're legally required to. What, you don't add the customary 15% tip on your taxes???? /s
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You posted the usage notes from Dictionary.com? OK. I'll post the definition on Dictionary.com: unique [yoo-neek] adjective existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in typ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy buy something when youll get value from it, because there will always be improvements. until youre dead. Until Moore's Law runs out... :-)
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Quote: Originally Posted by DamonF Quote: For heaven's sake. The analysts are now complaining about Apple's R&D spending, which are generating new ways to make money. Is that just not the epitome of hypocrisy? They complain when it's b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone That is probably not possible because of all the third party vendors. All of those chips are full of IP that would need to be licensed and some of the manufacturers would probably not be willing to license it.…
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Quote: Maestri also indicated that Apple is developing "core foundational technologies" in-house, whereas in the past the company might have outsourced such projects. Interesting. That seems to indicate that a lot of the increase was on the 'R…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hodar If you want to see hordes of tattoos, visit a homeless shelter, or maybe a drug rehab, maybe volunteer to feed the poor or help out at a half-way house where felons are re-associated with society. You will see …
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Yup, that's what happens when people start Thinking Different™ – tattoos, piercings, long hair on men, pants on women, variable kerning on fonts... Where does it end??? /s
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Explanation: You don't need to click on an ad for Google to make money. They made their money when the ad was placed. That is, the advertiser buys the ad. It's exactly the same model as junk mail: …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon big.Little is stupid, because phone software is almost entirely single core. Phones are not the only thing that ARM is targeting. ARM's model is to make generic processors for a variety of applic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by HammerofTruth "Every Apple Store in the U.S., UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, and Spain is powered by energy from renewable sources." That's an easy claim. They don't tell you what percentage of it is renewable. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by zoetmb Great to preserve the forest, which I assume they'd really be doing since they have the endorsement of the Conservation Fund, which I assume is legit, but does paper and packaging need virgin fibers at all? Ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss The article mentions a margin of error cited by the survey company, so it sounds like they were using a statistical method. In any case I would not assume that it's a bogus result. I'm not assuming …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Allow me to introduce you to the concept of sampling, used for everything from opinion polling to the US Census. It's perfectly valid to extrapolate from a sample, provided that the sample is properly s…