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Quote: Originally Posted by sflagel Guys! MCX will allow you to pay LESS at the cash register because the 3% - 7% credit card fees fall way. Be happy! Support it. And no, scanning a bar chart is not less convenient than scanning an NFC chip. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by aplnub How many operate in a non-admin account on their mac? I do. It's computing "best practice" for any platform-- Mac, Windows, or Linux. And this exploit exemplifies exactly why everyone should, running your…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy AdBlock and Ghostery do two very different things. they're complimentary. and it's really easy to temporarily disable them and narrow down any issues on a website. trivial -- click icon in menu, click…
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Tallest Skil: Each does things the other does not. True, but it's more overlap than not. For the average user, I recommend only one as it can get confusing for that user to troubleshoot when a site breaks, which add-on is causing the proble…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I’m to understand that YouTube doesn’t make money even with the ads. Apple only cares about things that are good. How are you not using AdBlock+Ghostery+DoNotTrackMe by now? Those plus ClickToFlash m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by blazar Skype being 64 bit seems pointless but I'm no programming expert. If all apps on a system are 64 bit, dOes that help all efficiency of the system? If one app isnt 64 bit, can a 32 bit app be run on a diff…
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Quote: Originally Posted by apple_badger One thing that worries me quite a lot is whether or not the OS X DHCP client can/does run scripts. That would make it a very big deal non-advanced users as well. Likewise, I'm curious as to whether iOS u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by malax I blame that Maps and 8.0.1 QA guy. They should fire him again for this. This comment wins! Quote: Originally Posted by rcfa Badly explained article: for someone to exploit bash, they would have to b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stonefingers Adoption and metrics would be reflected as even higher if we could load Yosemite in a Parallels 9 VM... I'm fairly confident that Apple is not the least bit interested in how well Yosemite performs i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Perhaps your ears are better at picking up variations in deep bass sounds than mine, but I find it extremely difficult to tell apart a (decent) $400 v. $4000 subwoofer. I bet you could. The diffe…
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Friends don't let friend buy Bose. I too once was sucked into their sexy tiny Accustimass 10 series IV home theater system. After getting tired of watching movies with subtitles on (because they have no mid-range frequency-- like where all the vo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mr O hello Developers out there, Is Yosemite compatible with Ruby and Ruby on Rails? I don't want to mess up my development environment. If you're asking that, then you should even entertain the idea of running…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RalphMouth I know plenty of iPhone owners but not a single one of them has ever dropped their phone into a toilet or puddle. Your acquaintances must be really clumsy and careless. And then they expect Apple to honor …
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Quote: Originally Posted by RalphMouth Why in the world should Apple be responsible for someone dropping their phones into the toilet? Apple should instead ban anyone who is that clumsy from buying anymore of their products. Really?! If y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bighype Google encrypts traffic between your browser and their servers. They also encrypt traffic between their servers. But Google DOES NOT encrypt anything they store on their servers! NOTHING! Fun fact #1–…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley "Incorrect" would have sufficed, since you don't actually know that the original post was knowingly withholding facts. Nope, I meant the word disingenuous. Had the original poster said something l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf Maybe someone could clarify this, but don't encrypted media extensions essentially replace a single universal plugin (Flash) with multiple site-specific and possibly browser-specific plugins? How are things a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gumbi Netmarketshare has Windows 8.1 6.35% overall market share. So, about the same installed base of all versions of OSX combined... You figure it out. Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley 5% of th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) I think that argument is as bad as people saying that you shouldn't buy from Apple because they make a profit off your purchase, instead you should buy from a company that can't figure out how to profi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gumbi The HTML5 player already works in IE11 on Windows... Just say'n. Curious about this, I fired up IE 11 on my Windows 7 VM and was immediately prompted to install Silverlight. A bit of Googling, and learne…