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cropr said: I don't know for physical goods, but Amazon is not selling an e-book below cost, The production cost for an e-book is a few cents per item. All other costs are a percentage of the selling price. So any e-book sold for $1 or …
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tzeshan said: Without zooming, there is no point spending $500 on such thing. Yeah, it makes no sense to use, say, a Leica rangefinder camera. Or any of the innumerable fixed-lens cameras that were used over more than a century to make his…
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ireland said: It seems to me what is more needed is a DSLR with Dropbox connectivity for auto-sync, not this attached to an iPhone. iPhone is a good camera—for a smartphone. There's no comparing with with a decent DSLR. The DxO One doesn't…
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bobcat4424 said: The FBI is not even asking for access to the phone. They only want Apple to force a backup because they already have access to the cloud backups. Apple can do this by simply pushing a phone-specific update to the OS that force…
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Attaeus said: Where is this mythical buddy you speak of? Did it ever occur to any of you boot-licking, authoritarian gun lovers that the time to catch the terrorists was BEFORE they killed all those innocent people? "This mythical buddy" …
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JamesBB said: The current homicide rate per capita in USA is 5 times higher than Germany... You are obviously as educated as the rest of the gun lobby... According to The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) site the Global …
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melgross said: And for these who say that Apple has had a free OS for years, without Ads, again, to be fair, Apple charges for the OS in the price of the computer, which is, after all, an Apple product. Microsoft has nothing comparable other…
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sandor said: or go after the the perpetrators of the other 30,000 guns deaths every year in the US. The majority of which are suicides, which seems to get lost in the fog somehow. Given that suicide has been shown repeatedly, over decades…
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foxface616 said: I do not support Apple. What if it were your family? I think once you commit murder, or an act of terror, you shouldn't have the right to privacy. Once again, in America, we put the rights of the criminal first. Of cours…
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sandor said: apple ][ said: ...but I do not in any way, shape or form support the protesters, as I do not know them, and they're probably the same sorts of people that will protest other causes which frankly speaking, disgusts me. At …
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Because they're fun?
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfc1138 And yet cars are registered and operators are required to be licensed: so, great point! Happy to see your support. They're only registered if they're operated on public roads. (Vehicle registration is prim…
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Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry That is incorrect, and there is no rabbit hole here. The Fresnel equations for reflectance depend only on refractive index (n), which is itself wavelength dependent, and angle of incidence, and for normal i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by konqerror Simple physics. Gorilla glass refractive index n=1.51 Sapphire n=1.77 Air n=1 Refractive index has nothing directly to do with light transmission. Grossly simplified, it's the ratio of the speed of light …
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Quote: Originally Posted by scotty321 Oh, okay, Apple... because soooooo many high school kids have prior experience with Java, Python, or C . SMH. As of, oh, 15-20 years ago high school programming classes where my son attended used Java as i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flaneur To be fair, we have to allow for the quarter-century lag in perception that afflicts conservative viewpoints. For example, it was around 1990 that Deng Xiaoping was ditching the old Red Star regalia ("ChiCo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Throwthatham I knew that when the Chinese scalper mafia showed up at the stores. I do have to say that it's disappointing to see Tim Cook put it in writing though. I had hoped that all customer populations were impor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shen No, they are leaving. Tech is so sexist as to make the regular world look like a feminist paradice. Just read the responses left to this article. The proof is in the everyday existance of women in tech, whi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RichL So I guess the question is - where have all of the women in tech gone? Why are they leaving? I doubt that they're leaving so much as the field is growing as fast or faster than new ones are coming in to t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KiltedGreen "Open source" is a noun, not a verb. Everything gets verbified if you're not careful.