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sky king wrote: » To Acquies: I'm not qualified to work for Apple...and I know it. On the other hand, I might suggest that you study history before you make ultimate judgements. History does repeat itself. Sure, Steve Jobs dying means A…
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paxman wrote: » Apple was always criticized for lack of upgradability. The reason they didn't was simple, very few people ever upgraded any part of their machines - even RAM. Apart from myself I don't think I've ever known anyone to upgrade their …
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bsenka wrote: » Don't stupid, the point is to reduce costs. People don't do it anymore because Apple is producing designed obsolescence. They used to, all the time, and it was quite inexpensive. No, people never switched out every component of …
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bsenka wrote: » Better for everyone, even if they don't choose to take advantage of it. You think increased costs (and potential size increase and weakness, especially in notebooks) is better for everyone when very few consumers do HW updates, …
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suddenly newton wrote: » I remember the "big cat" era of OS X releases. That was so early 2013. The era of naming them after the pluralization of Top Gun characters is so much better. Next one will be Icemans followed by Gooses.
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sky king wrote: » C'mon. don't be ridiculous. The simple fact that Mr. Ive is a designer who has imposed his will on iOS and osx does not get me to leave Apple. I am, however, extremely interested in making certain that Apple does not revert to…
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bsenka wrote: » A better option would be to build machines that allow people to upgrade their video card. A better option for whom?
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darryn lowe wrote: » Neither does... well anything from the last 5 years. (It won't play as an embedded video. Why do up loaders do that?)
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It doesn't work with my 2002 iMac running Leopard. Fail! /s
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focher wrote: » Just to confirm, iBeacons uses BTLE? I want to know exactly which radio(s) to turn off before walking into these places. They do, but if you are really concerned about being tracked the cellular, GPS, and WiFi on your devices sh…
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SpamSandwich wrote: » That's the graphic I was thinking of... So, the Pentagon has more square footage based on the additional pentagonal "rings" it would seem. Yeah, according to Wikipedia it has 6.5 million sq ft compared to Campus 2's piddly…
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Phoebe definitely alerted my One-i'ed-Beacon.
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SpamSandwich wrote: » Am I misremembering that the new building is big enough to hold the Pentagon inside the torus? I thought the torus was the center axis of the ring, but I am not certain. If it is then it doesn't look like it could, but it …
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disturbia wrote: » This time I thought I would go with Fitbit Force but apparently the display is too small. And I prefer not to put on my glasses when running around! I find the display to be just fine for a quick checking of the time, pace…
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markd85 wrote: » I think the same argument for why TV/DVD/VCR combos never really took off could be made for smart TVs. One part breaks and the whole thing is useless. How many of us had TV/VCR combos with a second VCR hooked into it? I have a Viz…
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tallest skil wrote: » Not really, since I’m talking about the building. Whatever; it’s not important. Yeah, but the building proper is much smaller than the Pentagon so when it comes to actual time to build we need only concern ourselves w…
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tallest skil wrote: » This is why TVs should be as stupid as possible. Let the little box connected to them manage everything. At least you can trust it. I somewhat agree with you but I must say the worst part about the television experience, f…
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tallest skil wrote: » No, just fulfilling a prophecy. ;) I see, but my point about the time frame still stands if most of the footprint is just soil and shrubbery.
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tallest skil wrote: » *cough* Am I wrong about the internal space?
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tallest skil wrote: » For a building larger* than the Pentagon and the grounds to go with it, I think two years is ludicrously optimistic. I hope Apple doesn’t think construction can be managed like product creation. Because it can’t. Construction…