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the whole point of milling from a single slab of aluminum is that the chips are 100% recyclable and so reusable if it is done correctly. You cannot do that in steel so you have to stamp to save costs. I say gimmick
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Quote: Originally Posted by ECats If you have ever wondered how the big music labels came to be producing rote musical acts, you're watching the answer now with books. Unlike music however, the drastically reducing cost of technology won't magi…
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How this dont come under the monopoly no-bundling laws ? Amazon is using prime membership to make the phone attractive. Bundling is the reason of the Microsoft antitrust trials and even if they dodged the US part mostly on good old lobbying and tec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I wish it were easy as that. Some EU governments, e.g., France, were found out to be spying on their own citizens in a manner similar to NSA. The UK, a member of the EU, held Greenwald's partner at H…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram What I find surprising and maddening is, for all the vaunted data and privacy protection laws and tradition in the EU, where is the coordinated reaction to the NSA snooping? Despite ample evidence…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Those are just specific examples against specific companies when they've violated specific laws in the EU. Any court or government would do that. For example, the US has imposed many dozens of such…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djsherly My bad. The 2009 agreement is also annexed and was what I read. However, it's an Australian agreement so I have no idea why you think it's expressed in USD. The 20.15 you're talking about is already …
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Quote: Originally Posted by djsherly Heh, Perhaps you should read the agreement. 673 and some cents weekly for Retail 1. $17.71/hr Part Time. $22.14/hr Casual. I don't really see what's so controversial about my statement. It's not wrong. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by djsherly The agreement is for 38hrs a week. Coles for a checkout operator is 773/38hrs a week at entry level for full time workers The new Apple agreement is 673/38hrs at entry level for full time workers. fro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djsherly http://www.smh.com.au/business/genius-deal-apples-staff-paid-less-than-coles-checkout-workers-20140606-39nvc.html Depends which fountain you drink from for news, but you'll get more working at ALDI than wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ecs I learnt a long time ago that it's always a bad idea to use custom non-standard APIs or languages, unless you encapsulate all the nonportable stuff into insulated code. In other words, I won't use swift nor metal…
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Sorry, but this rumored deal has never passed the bulls**t test as far as I'm concerned. And for the amount of e-ink spilled, nobody ever shown a credible clue it is really happening. Just more of the same with some "journalist" hedging his bet sa…
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Remember, such an injunction in one EU country makes it easier (though not automatic) and faster to get similar stuff in other EU countries.
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Forget NSA, Big Google is watching you ! Am I the only one that find that integration more than a little creepy ?
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No way this is genuine. All the design cues are wrong. Especially the lower and upper sides have always been of equal height on iphones and ipads. Not the case here. Plastic backside not in a single piece ? Please dont kid me. A good 3D prinded spoo…
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> In fact, over the next year Samsung's entire U.S. tablet sales were on par with other major flops such as Microsoft's Zune and Surface, or Google's Honeycomb tablets, Google TV or Chromebook Pixel. Only DED can out such gems ! Hat tip Sir !
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In Steve own words : We dont ship junk / We don't offer stripped down lousy products
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My sarcasmometer went to 11 and exploded !!!
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Quote: Originally Posted by mpantone Swatch itself is not a luxury brand. However, the Swatch Group owns multiple brands in all price categories including luxury brands Blancpain, Bregeut, Harry Winston, and Omega as well as mid-range brands li…
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books are sold at reduced rates (0% to 10%) in all union except UK and Denmark, but afaik, it is Amazon who do shells games with VAT not Apple. And music is normal rate everywhere. Now UK will have a big problem to apply this I would think.