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The real scandal should be that China "mandates" employees to work 60 hours a week. That's 10 hours a day, 6 days a week; or 12 hours a day 5 days a week, and in most factory jobs they are required to live in company dorms that are often locked at…
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This strike me as rather uninspiring. Since Apple starting bundling their poorly implemented scanning system none of the third-parties have been including software for Mac, and this looks like it will only further decrease their interest in supporti…
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Are there no truly mobile pros here? If Apple pushes forward on this, they risk doing to their mobile pro market what they've done to their desktop and enterprise pro markets, which is to chase them away with a stick. This is not to say that I don't…
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Has anyone else noticed who is conspicuously missing from the rolls of those acknowledging Steve Job's passing? As near as I can there hasn't been a word, let a lone a tribute from Disney/Pixar, the other company that Steve Jobs saved/founded. Even …
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Has anyone else noticed who is conspicuously missing from the rolls of those acknowledging Steve Job's passing? As near as I can there hasn't been a word, let a lone a tribute from Disney/Pixar, the other company that Steve Jobs saved/founded. Even …
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This is a perfect example of why you should never let anyone into your home without calling the police station, with the number in the phonebook, to verify the badge number and location of an officer reputing to have the authority to enter your home…
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This building has the potential to be one of the most significant builds of its century, but there is still work to be done to make that happen. The big question is, will the city planners and the political correctness of Californians get in the way…
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For years I bought the "only idiots could have ousted Steve Jobs from Apple" theory -- hook, line and sinker. Now, I'm reassessing that, and I think history will do so also. Oh, don't get me wrong. I do believe that Steve Jobs is a creative and mark…
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Who exactly is it that Microsoft thinks they are marketing to? Or, is it truly the case that no one over 25, and who won't be equally a turn-on to teenage girls and guys, is doing product development in the company?
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Can we be a little objective here? It is a major "con" that this thing can't be used as a input device to finally put the MacOS Inkwell technology into work. It is more than large enough for writing on, or drawing on. It is only Job's bias against s…
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Greed is a horrible thing, that mostly only affects that acutely wealthy. What Apple really needs to do is to find a granola-munching 20-something, with long hair and sandals, who wants to "change the world" to run their company. Just imagine the bl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mtcowdog I guess that's a price we have to pay in the "Last Best Place", but that hasn't stopped Verizon from putting in a great network here. Plus, more than a few people from all over the world visit those little pl…
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The U.S. patent system has become so corrupt and abused that it is little more than a cartelized-mercantilist old-boys club. It is about time someone started to act to put a stop to such abuse and to initiate reform. The entire system should probabl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by retiarius hiding cell towers in church steeples is another favorite trick -- in frisco there's supposedly one in st. paul's in noe valley (where sister act was filmed), but if so it's only helping us out only a littl…
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," It would do Apple's board well to do a little historical research and rediscover the price the company paid for letting job's retain fanatically tight control on their products in t…
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So, if Apple does rebirth the Newton, something that many loyal Newton users have long longed for, should we, after being left high-and-dry all this time trust them? It really would not have taken that much to have kept the Newton's compatible with …
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Do you really have to print every piece of garbage press lease that is sent to you? Can you use a little common sense to vet the information as presented? You don't have to be a trained statistician to realize that less than a month of numbers does …
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" "What's the big deal about a name change?" It seems like Apple Corp could have asked Steve Jobs that same question 30 years ago, when the shoe was on the other foot. Funny how the Brits were a bit more descent in their handling of such matters tha…
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This whole kerfuffle should easily be resolved by simply have Woolworth's tilt the stem of their fresh apple the other direction. The body of their fresh apple is clearly a stylized "W" and one without a bite taken out of it (as has Apple's less tha…
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If Apple were to do something truly radical in regards to it's Mighty Mouse -- it would take it out behind the barn and shoot it. A more radical solution to the iMac line, and to production streamlining, would be to replace those keyboards with lapt…