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Quote: Originally Posted by maccherry Text messaging is highway robbery. It is all electronic. It isn't like they have some illegal transcribing your next by hand! Da**! But competition would only lower the price of features and monthly bill. Th…
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I think what the FCC needs to SERIOUSLY look at in the wireless industry is the insane pricing for text messaging. It is highway robbery. I know some people might argue that if people are willing to pay for it, then the carriers can charge whatever …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta The really sad thing is that they see a lack of effective competition - yet just let Google monopolize online advertising. I don't mind either laissez faire or reasonable regulations, but simply making ran…
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I got my invite to the beta and have been using it for a solid 2 hours. I typically didn't use webmail unless I was traveling outside of the country where my iPhone would get murdered on data. I want to be the first to say...HOLY SMOKES! The new …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Harleigh Quinn Which means they should be investigating the FINDER and not Gizmodo. Officials have already spoken with the finder. His legal counsel admitted that he didn't take reasonable steps to return the phone …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui I think you are wrong on a number of points. Under section 480 of the California Penal code, it mentions an obligation on the part of a finder of lost property, to 'make a reasonable attempt' to contact the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui A bit presumptuous of you to declare someone has committed a crime, when there has been no arrest, no trial and no conviction. The fact that Gizmodo openly admitted to paying for a prototype of an unreleased…
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Quote: Originally Posted by harleighquinn This dead horse again? Really? The affidavit has not been released in it's customary ten days which already is bound to make anyone curious who is in the know of the way these situations usually pla…
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I have a feeling that the records will be unsealed and the warrant/raid will be deemed legal. On something this high profile, I would think that the DA and judge would cross all their t's and dot all their i's. The warrant/raid was most likely re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGrumble Specifically, any CEO who tried that would be fired by their own board. Their job is to act in the shareholders' interests, always. Very true. Quote: I seem to recall that H.264 usage won't requir…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rorybalmer Holy Crap Adobe.. Flash is like a decade old.. it was great while it lasted but get over it. Move on. They remind me of the record labels pretending cd sales will somehow comeback if they go after download…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater The reality is there are cases where HTML5 is slow and uses far more CPU then Flash 10.1. There are alot of advantages to Flash 10.1 over the current version the problem is you simply don't understand ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mplaisance Flash is free on the "user" end. But on the developer end it's a license fee! A fee that means developers are locked to having to use Adobe's CS. Am I wrong in this? And we all know how expensive CS is! Plu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mplaisance And I too agree with you. Everything should not come from Apple. But let's be honest where is the competition to Adobe's CS? is that why we pay so much for it. Because Adobe can get away with it. And don't y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Like in any war innocent bystanders are always caught in the crossfire. In addition to consumers being forced to choose sides, developers are also penalized if they have customers on each side of the conflict. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ilogic Not true, Opera is the first with its own rendering engine, they should have included that in the article. All existing ones use Safari in the underbelly of the app. Actually, while the other browsers in the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by paul123 I hope the get rid if the stupid and more than annoying glossy screens. I really wonder who came up with them. You can't work with them properly because it's like a freaking mirror. The worst idea ever... Th…
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Here's a quick explanation for those that don't understand why Opera Mini is faster. Unlike the desktop version of Opera, when you submit a URL in Opera mini, Opera's remote server actually render the website for you, then send you what equates t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram NEWS FLASH! Apple gets back to doing computers!!!!!!!! While this is somewhat true, I think and I'm sure you do as well, the iPad and iPhone are both computers...just smaller. I actually thin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by absd A good codec can also make a difference. To give you an idea, on my media center PC I use CoreAVC. About 2-3 years ago I started doing 1080P mkv files and my old CPU at the time (Core 2 E6300 1.86 Ghz) had some tr…