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spod wrote: » The fact that the original namer finally settled on aluminium is what matters. He after all had that right and as the Americans preferred aluminium for sometime one can easily justify aluminium as the more correct spelling or maybe …
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dreyfus2 wrote: » Well, he originally published it as "alumium" in 1808, and later changed his mind. So, insisting on "original" makes both spellings in use wrong. Let's just say that it doesn't really matter. Regardless, "aluminum" came before "…
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spod wrote: » Americans have to keep things shorter owing to their limited IQ. I mean seriously did they really need to take the 'I' out of aluminium? That extra letter/syllable must've been a killer... They didn't. "Aluminum" is the original ti…
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wdowell wrote: » It's the way US English headlines tend to be capitalised - Welcome to The New World - that really does my head in! as I'm a half Frenchy i can assure that they find it even more abhorrent as they barely capitalise anything includ…
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solipsismy wrote: » It's interesting that the original app has a 4 star rating on Google Play, but when you put Apple's name is on it the reviews are considerably worse. It's almost as if Android users are being irrational, rash, and emotional. T…
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jungmark wrote: » Bad analogy. Doc did everything. All Marty did was hold a camera. Marty did a lot! He went on the adventure! He drove the machine to the past, gave 1955 Doc Brown the confidence to figure out what to do, came up with the idea to…
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solipsismy wrote: » Sure, Jobs couldn't have done it on his own, but the key differences I see behind Jobs and Wozniak I'll express in a what-if scenario (which of course is completely my opinion): What if Jobs and Wozniak never met. I believe …
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jpellino wrote: » Not sure how much time you spent with an Apple II. I'd put the odds that he was alive back when the Apple II was in use at 0.000000%.
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r geek wrote: » Others have replied well about whether SJ Iffy or was fired. It's an old story. Nobody would know who Wozniak is if not for Jobs and Apple. No one would know who Jobs was either if not for Wozniak and Apple. foggyhill wrote: »…
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mretondo wrote: » After 30 years in corporate america I have know doubt that Steve was fired or as the corporate world calls it "put on a special project". The corporate world never fires managers at a certain level or above. They put you on a sp…
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imember wrote: » If i was Steve Jobs business partner i would it accomplish more than that loser..even a monkey could create a computer if he has great teacher, and i'm pretty sure the first real modern computers were Macintosh I and II (the origi…
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monstrosity wrote: » You can be skilled and still be a moron (Hitler was a total asshole but still historically significant!). Most specialists are morons. He seems like one of those people who had a high degree of specialisation but was absolut…
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iamnemani wrote: » Invented the PC is probably too much praise. There were many people involved in advancing various aspects of the PC. Primary designer of the first successful 'Apple PC' is the more correct description. A lot of the stuff they us…
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monstrosity wrote: » Woz is such a jerk, and probably always has been. No wonder Steve gave him a hard time, I couldn't deal with such a moron either. The guy who invented the freaking personal computer itself is far from a "moron." What have …
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solipsismy wrote: » Great, a bunch of people in a place can have their phones activated by someone yelling "Hey, Siri!" Well, maybe movie theaters can add that before the movie starts so people will their phones still on get called out. On the Mo…
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richl wrote: » The important part of the original definition of 4G was a fully packet-switched network. VOIP still seems to be a pipe dream for most networks sadly. LTE with VoLTE is fully packet-switched, isn't it? My understanding is that VoLTE…
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timmyman wrote: » 1 gbps is only the theoretical maximum speed of the standard. It isn't the speed at which all customers have to be given service at at all times. Right, but LTE (other than LTE-A) doesn't have a theoretical maximum anywhere near…
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anome wrote: » More likely to be set to some arbitrary standard like "Capable of N Mbps" like they did to 4G, rather than based on actual technology. I know, that's what I was getting at. 4G was supposed to be 1 Gbps, and our "4G" LTE networks st…
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Is it safe to assume that "5G" will be defined as "actually meeting the ITU's requirements for 4G"?
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You can turn a USB stick into an install/recovery drive that works the way the old install DVDs used to. Just insert an empty USB stick in your drive, and then run these commands in the Terminal: cd (replace this with the path to your El Cap inst…