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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui I am very surprised AI haven't been all over this one, jumping up and down with glee. Here's an early Christmas present for everyone: Samsung to quit mobile phone business within 5 years. Why? It's just …
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Quote: Originally Posted by chadbag I suspect most car companies "cheat" when generating data for MPG etc. by running extra firm tires, removing all excess equipment (weight), etc. None of the car companies are to be trusted. But my poi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mark Fearing Seems the perfect gimmick. Put this out, and buy cheap. Or they are already shorting he stock. I would guess a release like this type of thing is at least half manipulation. Check out this story from t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon What will likely happen is these folks will be bitter and resentful, and some of them won't quit, but they'll be lousy employees, and their managers will walk on egg shells about firing them over fea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar Before Apple started selling glossy displays, a lot of Mac users at the time were complaining about glossy displays on PC laptops. And some of them complained even louder when Apple started selling ONLY …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gwydion Android and Windows dead ends? Really? On what alternate world? A world in which there is very little profit being made by Android phones, and less and less PCs are being sold every year. Oh wait, that'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Roake Didn't I read about this here last week? That was the jury decision itself. Today's development is that the judge accepted the jury's award, rather than reducing it (as judges sometimes do).
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B I'm shocked that the Woz was willing to have anything to do with this movie. It made me lose whatever respect I once had for him. Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Woz got paid $250,000 to consult on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Years ago when I first heard that Sorkin was doing the script, I made my views known on this site more than once, and I guess that the movie turned out to be pretty much how I predicted. This is not some mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ Oh, I will see it. Whether or not in the theater, that's a different question, as I rarely get to the theater much anymore. But frankly, I'm far more interested in pretty much anything by Sorkin and Fassbe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cpsro Except Steve Jobs the movie doesn't follow the book closely at all, even if you discount the altered timeline. Isaacson's book is well-researched, well-written and authorized, but the movie includes Sorkin's per…
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Quote: Originally Posted by whatisgoingon What kind of math is this? "The picture cost $30 million to make and at least as much to market. That means that 'Steve Jobs' needs to do at least $120 million in order to break even." No. If it w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by foljs So, like, the officially sanctioned biography of Steve Jobs, created in cooperatio with Jobs himself... Just because Jobs chose Isaacson to write his biography doesn't mean Isaacson did a good job. My opi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Vokbain I keep hearing about Office 2016 breaking, but I haven't had a single problem with it on any of my computers since 10.11 came out. I use Word and Excel daily. I wonder if it had something to do with upgradi…
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I was in that downtown Portland store for the first time last week (during lunch break from jury duty a couple of blocks away), and it was totally full. A bit chaotic for my taste - just less so than a public market in China. I usually go to the B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna The issue is that he was trying to get access to information and people he didn't need to be messing with. His job was to monitor book access contracts, that's all Not even that - his only job, as per th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Adrayven A good example is how they focus on him being an ass when he was young concerning if he was the father of his girlfriends child. Which is not exactly a unique situation, we see it all the time.. He did turn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon It's more competitive; however for the same $10 a month you can get five installs of Office 365 and 1TB of OneDrive space. And then you're stuck with five installs of Office 365.
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Wait a minute - a $2 million dollar fund, with 1/3 going to attorneys' fees leaves $1.33 million dollars. With 513,000 in the settlement class, that's $2.59 each. With some of the money going to "administrative costs", it's even less. Even assumin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H If you go here: http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/ and scroll down a bit you'll get to a section regarding Mission Control. The key differences seem to be: For the view that shows all your…