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Quote: Originally Posted by TeaEarleGreyHot Seems to me that the fad-phase of ebook readers is now passing. Yes, there will continue to be users and specific applications, but I think we'll now see a resurgence of hardcopy print books…
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Quote: Originally Posted by geekdad It was the BW Nook in the sun....I was a little surprised it worked so well..... But then again reading in direct sunlight is a very specific use case. I have an iPad, and it's grea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil But the patent is on the implementation thereof, not the idea itself. And maybe that's part of the problem. The problem for Amazon was: "We store all the relevant customer infor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jessi There is no such thing as a patent troll. Apple has a lot of patents that it is a "non-practicing entity" on. They are still valid patents. Patents are meaningless if they can't be sold or enfor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy My speeds regularly exceed 20-30 mbps on AT&T. No cap here. Do you live underneath a cell tower? ;-)
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Two comments: 1) In my speed tests, I don't think I ever got 14Mbps download (Chicago area). I would guess that throttling peak downloads is probably not necessary for most parts. 2) "IOS consumes more data" -- yes, back in 2007 & 2008 when…
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Quote: Originally Posted by icemanis My "end" button doesn't work to end the call, unless i use my power button. This update didn't fix it. Sounds like you need to do a "restore" on your iPhone. I've had an issue once (lo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Playboy There is no scientific evidence that viewing or reading sexual explicit material causes anti social behavior. Of course it does! For the 5 minutes you're in the bathroom, you're practicing an…
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Adding my voice to the chorus: "Shake to [something]" is dumb. Hard to use, except for when you didn't want it to. I always turn it off for any given app that supports it.
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Quote: Originally Posted by BigMac2 I call it fallacious because the so-called vulnerability described in this article is made up, they basically setup a VPN or a proxy thru made for enterprise mobileconfig. I don't consider most of m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nagromme Meanwhile there's a HUGE security hole on iOS that remains unpatched: With a little simple social engineering, an attacker can persuade a user to turn off their passcode, mail the attacker th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BigMac2 Yet another fallacious vulnerability report. This non-issue vulnerability needed the users intervention for downloading the profile and accept to install it on his device. I don't think sane…
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In it's current form and function (streaming movies, airplay, etc), the current A5X processor has proven to be perfectly capable of decoding/playing 1080p movies. It's a bit hard to fathom what advantage a "faster" chip would provide. Apple seems …
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Quote: Originally Posted by HawkBlade Send/Receive without encryption is 100%??? wait, what? I for one, and see few others, would like to know specifically what "apps" you used. Were they the exact same "apps" on both systems? Did…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macxpress We don't control our firewall. Our ISP does and its not feasible to control websites based on that. Hard to explain here in a forum. Flash is set to update, but students don't have rights to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macxpress You obviously have no idea what its like to work in an IT environment. Its not as simple as just upgrade the Macs all the time. Its a huge pain in the ass to do this. This isn't a consumer s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macxpress While it may be good for the end user, from a person who runs Macs in an educational IT environment its a very large pain in the ass. It seems like every other god damn day I have to push ou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone It should be the user's choice. For example when I am far away from fast Internet and only have 3G, I suddenly discover that the latest Safari which I updated before leaving on my mapping excursion h…
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I'm glad Apple has taken an aggressive approach in disabling vulnerable plugins (first Java, now Flash). Me, I've uninstalled Flash altogether and haven't looked back. If there's flash content I need to view, I'll fire up Chrome, which has Flash e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sc_markt I do not believe for one second that these 'flaws" are accidents. I think they were put there on purpose for law enforcement purposes. How conspiratorial of you. If that were true,…