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Quote: Originally Posted by konqerror Wrong metric. Comparing US credit cards, Amex is bigger in dollars charged than MasterCard. They are 3 times bigger than Discover and are the 3rd largest credit card lender in the world (1 and 2 are Chase…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone That is one way to get around stubborn banks. AMEX is not bundled with traditional merchant gateway accounts. They run their own ecommerce service, at least in the US. Not sure about AU and CA. It gets the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sflagel It just means that better systems cause less distractions. Siri sucks, it never understands anything (other than really simple reminders). I am sure it will get better, but right now it gets so many things wr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by chadbag I would be interested on how they did the test and how they rate "distractedness" It's linked off the linked article if that makes sense.
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radarthekat wrote: » Not sure a new model can be called equivalent. The price adjustment from 2600 to 3399 likely is associated with some meaningful enhancement in the newer higher-priced model (perhaps Retina display?), so the comparison you are…
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Wow. I'd be interested to see if apples computing devices are in fact inelastic. The top of line 15 Mbp was 2600 when I bought it. Apple replaced it with this years equivalent when it was 3399. Now its a couple hundred more. I do pretty well for m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AAPLfanboy Screw Microsoft. I use LibreOffice which offers a great alternative to Word and Excel. Don't forget that you can always 'Save As' a Word doc in Pages. Depends on your use case. Ever tried to write a the…
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roake wrote: » It's like this; if it's legal (it is), then Australia is simply begging (and by begging, I mean frothing in rage at) Apple to do some nation-level philanthropy. Their begging is along the lines of, "We need you, and love you and al…
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yojimbo007 wrote: » It so juvenile when law makers point fingers at others for their ownfailure. No one is breaking any laws... Deal with it... Or change the law! Australian tax law has for a long time had an "if it looks like a duck" clause…
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spheric wrote: » Because politicians specifically enable them to get out of paying taxes in order to attract businesses. Are you "guilty" of not paying more income tax than you are legally required to? I guess. That's an interesting point.…
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spheric wrote: » As a rule of thumb, you can assume that whatever tax loopholes exist do so because they were explicitly designed into existence by your elected politicians and their lobbyists. Which is why it's so interesting to see the accusa…
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I think the banks would go for it if Apple halved their margin from what is being reported here. What they're asking is something In the range of 30-35% of the banks take. If they do drop the fee Apple get the same percentage of the margin in othe…
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I believe it's also available to existing subscribers as well
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Apparently Windows 10 is not just a facelift on top of the legacy code base. Our specialized medical imaging server (PACS) is not entirely compatible with it for some reason. The bad part in this case is that …
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Quote: Originally Posted by chadbag No, it does not make it less "personal". That is a bunch of dog dung. Especially if you have segregated user content No, it has nothing to do with them looking at things (for example perusing adult cont…
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bestkeptsecret wrote: » Hate quoting trolls, but when I see a post like this, I really miss TS. He used to take them apart really well. I guess it means you're not able to be critical *and* own Apple kit because that would be impossible, right? …
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I've found the is beta to be just Okay. A few strange issues I've come across: 1. Video occasionally doesn't play from streaming sites. The scrubber is moving the but there's no pictures. Once it gets like that, all videos go like that. A reset …
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Srsly, no one needs FB on a watch. Don't need a 20000 word article to prove it.
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 They used the same method for iPhone and iPad. And the Watch scored higher than those two amazing products. So you are saying most Watch users are probably happy? So whats your point with questioning the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 stop making things more complicated that it has to be. Bottom line is only 3% polled are not satisfied. PERIOD. End of STORY. You are either SATISFIED or you are NOT SATISFIED. Stop trying to make exc…