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In the last few weeks, all of the high-end retailers in the SF Bay area have strangely begun to focus their point-of-purchase devices (the things that you swipe your card through) towards NFC. The on-screen messages are directing users towards NFC,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Incrociare Is there an easy way to roll back to the previous version of Pages? I had some documents get ‘interesting’ on me too. Pages 4.3 is still in your Applications folder. Just specify it as the default app fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 Yes, it's a bad idea. And it's very annoying. But it's not failure or stripped-down software for children. Well, except when it is. The reasoning for how it happened is less important than the result, unl…
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Just to add a different take: I have been a heavy Pages user for several years, and after attempting to use Pages 5.0 I just gave up. In my opinion it is mostly useless. It is a signal from Apple that they admit failure at making Pages a popular o…
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There has been at least 10 years of research on the impacts of compressing memory at different levels in the CPU architecture. I remember working (10 years ago) on techniques to compress data in the cache. The results at the time were only sligh…
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I'm guessing the next time capsule will also be smaller, to match, and quite possibly the mac mini server will be smaller as well. One nice touch of the new design is the apparent, integrated AC/DC power supply. I don't really care much what the d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton Dude. Chimay Blue is awesome. Red is fantastic. White, not so much. Seems like you're getting introduced to the major Belgian Ales. There are a lot of farmhouse ales from western europe and USA, n…
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Anchor Liberty is supposedly made from an old English recipe that was discovered by a museum somewhere and then applied to production by Anchor. Liberty Ale does have quite a bit of a floral note, but generally it has a more pils quality tha…
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The "West coast IPA" is sort-of an arms race for hops. Supposedly, Anchor Liberty Ale is a dutiful recreation of the original IPA style, but who can really say. It is still quite hoppy. By most admissions, the best West coast IPAs are Plin…
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This was for the patents. I don't think it is safe to say that Apple is going to be introducing WiFi location. WiFi is actually not so good for location, and there have been people doing it for years.
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Thank God. I detest the current design model, which uses analogues of old desk calendars, notepads, etc.
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I think I have, some years ago. It's nice to see that the craft beer movement has made it to HK, at least by way of importing. Most of the time I drink Trumer Pils, but here in SF the selection in any given grocer (or bar) is astounding. S…
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Whatever standard this is, the FRAND terms of standards just stipulate that licensing (a) must be available and (b) must have the same pricing for everyone. Pretty much every standard has some FRAND licensing to someone (or some group). I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mikeb85 Ideology shouldn't have anything to do with it. Why not? I am the market. I can choose a product on whatever merits it has, including that it does *not* fund people who don't believe in the c…
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It depends on your ideology. I try to avoid buying things from non-democratic countries, and especially middle eastern aristocracies/theocracies. Sometimes it's unavoidable. I wish US-made products actually said the state they came from. …
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Are you still alive? Maybe that's in bad taste, but just checking. If someone from the internet who you've never met cares about you (which is the case) maybe your life isn't so pointless.
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I admire Steve to a large degree, too, but in the world of technology marketing, if you have a big vision and tremendous persistence, it always seems to work-out. I wouldn't exactly call him a prophet or even someone who in 1983 had any idea how …