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Quote: Originally Posted by RemE Like this isn't happening right now?? That's true, the amount of people I see turning their phones on silent and continue to message etc really does make me wonder!
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Quote: Originally Posted by gwilm I'm not confident that all of the passengers will manage to get their devices into Airplane Mode. And the cabin crew will not be able to tell. Cabin crew get pretty good training and there are only a small n…
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This is a welcome policy review, I don't get to the states often but regularly fly in Asia and Europe and any changes the FAA make will likely be followed by other aviation authorities eventually. I take a lot of 1-2 hour short hops and by the tim…
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Yes! At last. It would be even better if warranty issues could be less regionalised.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Booga Yes, in a couple ways. On a HD, the less you're reading/writing, the less likely it is that a jolt could cause damage. On an SSD, there is a finite number of writes before the cells no longer …
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Quote: Originally Posted by chabig That's not an idiotic question, and I would guess that the answer is yes. But I doubt that it's significant. Thank you for the info
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How can a gun smoke when it hasn't been fired? This 'email' was never sent so it never was an email Quote: email |?i?me?l|(also e-mail )noun [ mass noun ]messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to on…
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I can't pretend to understand the details of this so I have a question for those more informed than me. If this reduces the number of page in/out to the disk, is it likely to impact the life of the hard disk or SSD? If this is an idiot…
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What!!!! There is going to be a new iPhone you say? Coming out in the fall you say? How ridiculous /s
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dlux What's missing from this report is which carriers the companies are available on. The largest carrier in China uses a proprietary radio technology which Apple does not (yet) support, whereas Samsung mig…
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hjb wrote: » We individuals declare all income worldwide in income tax return in a country of tax residency. Why should this differ to companies? Me not USA citizen either, but I see unfairness here. Why not giving some sort of tax credit for c…
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hjb wrote: » Thanks for your info. IMHO, American tax resident companies should include all worldwide business & investment activities, regardless of how they structure overseas operation, in their USA company tax return and pay USA corpora…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hjb Thanks, but your reply does not answer my question. Sorry if it is not clear, but the answer to your question is no. Apple is not required to bring profits from overseas subsidiaries …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hjb Impressive performance by Tim Cook. Just one question. Apple is an American tax resident company. All the profit Apply made through it's subsidiary companies around the world belongs to Appl…
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Amazon seem to have an economic model that is all about selling content. It widely agreed that they are making nothing or next to nothing on the hardware and have to make it up by getting people to buy apps and other media. I am guessing tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Some industry executives are said to believe that, due to Apple's massive financial reserves and the likelihood that it will make a considerable amount of money off the service, the company shou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Steven N. I never once said what you believed. In fact, had you read what I wrote, you would have seen I specifically ASKED what your view was and did TELL you what your view was. Do not presume to know wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Steven N. So your view is that there should be no IP and companies should be able to freely copy, clone and replicate the designs of other companies without limit? It is easy and "noble" to declar…
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"I think that companies should spend their time innovating and competing on the merits of the products they offer — not misusing their intellectual property rights to hold up competitors to the detriment of innovation and consumer choice," Joaquin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I hope so. iWork's badly in need of an upgrade/update. Especially Numbers, which I have stopped using given its mediocre functionality. Couldn't agree more, it is time for a massive upd…