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Quote: Originally Posted by Relic Yeah sorry but anyone who buys these things are just plain ignorant and deserve the discomforts. Especially when Amazon now has Kindled starting at 100 bucks. This story is nothing but click bait. So now it'…
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vmarks wrote: » Do you like it? What do you like about it? What's the best thing about it? What's the thing you would change if you could? I do like it. The software setup was brain-dead easy, and their support was first-rate when I called ab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost How could you ever tell? If saving money is that important, it's very easy to turn a thermostat down a couple of degrees and put a jumper on. Most energy providers give you a nice helpful graph…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rob53 Amortized over the life of the loan. Actually, larger homes are being built with multiple AC units instead of one large one. This makes it more efficient to run them only when they are needed in a specific part…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bdkennedy1 I'm never paying $250 for a thermostat. I bought a Honeywell Lyric, and it's already saved me it's purchase cost. Forest for the trees, and all that.
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Don't worry, I'm sure his "hardware incubator" will get bought up by someone with deep pockets before too long, just as soon as they show some half-baked knockoff of some other company's shipping product. Just like everything else he's done since …
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Quote: Originally Posted by 512ke What about all the people who paid $200 for this device under contract? Will Amazon give them all refunds? I hope so. Personally, if I had payed $200 and then Amazon reduced the price to 99 cents without …
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In no way is IBM looking to have an iOS window into the impressive amount of solutions that IBM is already selling based on DB2 / WebSphere and their AIX and Mainframe business, where these companies already have all their data. Nope. That's not …
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We have the Kronos touch time clocks here at my business for hourly employees. In exactly no way will someone confuse that massive chunk of plastic crap hanging off the wall with the fingerprint unlock of an iPhone.
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregInPrague So an alleged problem has allegedly been solved? Lets see how many more pitfalls we can drop the iPhone 6 in and pull it out the next day all without any real evidence of a problem or solution. What a …
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I don't understand why you would not want to look at the best display on the market after paying for it. To each their own, I suppose.
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Heh heh. On a vaguely related point, I have what is perhaps a dumb question: why is it that no one has been able to figure out a way to use radio broadcasting channels -- FM or AM -- for data/wifi? …
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lilsmirk wrote: » You're entering in conspiracy theories here... :) Okay, so they are either completely incompetent when it comes to securing confidential unreleased product information, or they are spreading FUD about their prime competition. …
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lilsmirk wrote: » "Action"? "Attempt"? Dude, this is a rumor, and Google declined to comment on it. Chill out ;-) Yeah, because no company has ever planted a "rumor" in the press, and then not commented on it before. Not even once.
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I'm surprised that nobody has commented yet that Google's action here is a page from Microsoft's strategy book: Quote: Don't have a product that people actually want? Competitor just put something out the door that makes your offerings look like …
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Wait a minute? A CEO is spreading FUD about a competitor's product? How strange...
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1983 Due to the aspect ratio of 4K video - 16:9 and 21:9, if Apple sticks with the 4:3 ratio 8MP sensor in the next iPhone, it won't be able to incorporate 4K video even if it wanted too. It would require at least a 1…
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Now only if it could talk to SharePoint, like the Windows version, and not be 100% tied to their damn Cloud (read: vapor) solutions. Totally useless for large business.
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Getting Win7 to boot on this hardware doesn't just happen magically. There's significant development effort to maintain compatibility with Windows 7 on a Mac. Consider: - Windows 7 uses a slightly different driver model, that requires drivers to…
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Quote: • A fix for an issue that could cause VPN connections to disconnect This can't come soon enough. Because of having a 2013 MacBook Pro, I must use Mavericks because it won't boot anything previous, and my SSL VPN connection to the office…