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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I happen to think the EU is going to eventually break up. Germany should definitely leave, for one thing. At least they have a functioning economy, but they are paying for the irresponsibility of the ot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross If that were the case, yes. But it won't be one in a thousand customers. It will be, at first, one in fifteen, in the EU. One in five in Japan, and one in four in the USA. Those numbers will go up. iOS user…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Apple system is NFC. They choose the best communication standard for mobile payments. It's an open standard anyone can use… and do use. It's already supported in Europe, but instead of the insecurity of a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU I have a chip in my card but no one supports it. That’s what I suspected. In this particular case, the US are still using neolithic technologies. Conversely, where it is in use, e.g. in Europe (I thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by blackbook Funny thing is I see people with those cards go up to card readers and swipe them because they don't know they can wave it at the card reader. Honestly for a payment card I'm not sure if waving it at a car…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheOtherGeoff (crown on the other side) That’s also what the Scots are going to say in a week (at least, I hope)…
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Uh. Don’t tell me in the US you don’t have chip cards? Mine, which is two years old, has an embedded NFC as evidenced by the ‘wavy’ symbol on it
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Isn't it funny how, not that long ago, we didn't know about mobile phones and smart phones. Now they are "necessities". The patter of marketing does miracles.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I think so, but then again freezing. By the way, this was a big botch. I mean the live stream, or at least what I could get of it. Here in France, although I have a FTTH access with more than 100 M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by M3dik http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/10/apple-collecting-bank-fee-apple-pay-purchase/ Well, what did you expect? They’d do it for free. That’d have been a first!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Ah, really? I’d always heard that the thought of one resting day per 10 (rather than 7) was its downfall, but this makes even more sense. That might have been another factor, but I suspect at that t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flaneur We absolutely should go back to 13 months. The Babylonian twelve months is a crime against nature for which we're still paying, actually more with each passing "moonth" that we ignore the harmony of the sol…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I know there were physical metric clocks built after the French Revolution, but to buy an original would likely require parting with a couple of organs. Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui Y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Is there a version with a metric clock? Or with 13 hours instead of 12 (that was already made for Auguste Comte, I believe, though I'm not sure and Google does not find anything relevant. Modern version …
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd That's about the same as last year. iPhones are designed to be subsidised. I can’t remember how much I’d paid for my iPhone 4 but it wasn’t that expensive. Maybe € 450 to 500. But that was four years ago.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd There is a left handed version. Is there a version where the hands move counterclockwise? That would be a real doozy.
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Quote: Originally Posted by pazuzu The renderings on AI over the past year draw rings around this fugly design. Even though I'm not particularly interested in the functionality of it I certainly expected much more than this that would coax me to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) But the data plan is already associated with the iPhone so saying it needs a data plan is disingenuous. As previously stated you can run the iWatch without every getting data to it from a cellular networ…
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chia wrote: » Speak for yourself, I hope you don't work in a career that is time dependent or relies on timetables such as healthcare, transport or even the military. Well no. But time presence is almost cloying. Clocks are everywhere: stations…