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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody So yeah, despite claiming Bell as one of their own, the USA has the weakest claim on him. You can try to spin things all you want, but the facts are that the telephone is an American invention. Just…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 Can u find a IBM PC now? Har! So true!!! All they make is servers and mainframes and supercomputers and stuff like that. They completely failed in the regular computer market where Apple is maki…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Good Fella Alexander Graham Bell was Born in Scotland. Furthermore the technology used by almost every country in the world for mobile phones was created by a European group lead by Torleiv Maseng, a Norwegian born eng…
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Quote: Originally Posted by str1f3 Android is garbage compared to these two OS's but the average person doesn't know any better. That's the real problem. Apple's new target customer for its mobile device business is the average person - t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sarges I'd have thought that the culprit was Jon Ive as VP for Industrial Design, has Papermaster made a scapegoat instead? Jony's designs are always brilliant and beautiful and combine form and function. How could…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cvaldes1831 IBM still sells computer hardware, but it's the enterprise market (like blade servers) and most of the draw is tied to professional services. Are they still the largest seller of software in the worl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism IThe methods I?ve suggested is to?[LIST=1][*]Simply show the best connection available. For example: No Service, Voice, GPRS (or Slow 2G), EDGE (or Fast 2G), 3G (or HSDPA), etc. That is WAY too confusin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody You say this a lot, but I don't' think you've ever made a case for what a more useful alternative might be, or why in fact the bars bother you so much. They botyher me because they are not usefrul, a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Good point. The purpose of spin is to make it "interesting". The reasons for Papermaster's leaving is not public information. That's all we know. I'm kind of surprised AI would speculate; they don't nee…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alphajack7 Short list of candidates to replace Mark Papermaster: James Rockmaster Fred Scissormaster If he was a Pokemon Master, he could beat both of them at once!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wurm5150 So how much did AT&T spend on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Do you know? ATT spent nothing on those wars. They are being paid for with off-budget deficit spending. The Chinese, buying Treasury Secu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregoriusM Or, as some have said, is this STILL overblown and the antenna works as well or better than many of the other top smartphones, and Papermaster's firing has nothing to do with me having a great phone when I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by str1f3 I'm willing to bet he was fired since he was apparently heading the development of the iPhone antenna. The iP4 Antenna System gives the best reception of any phone on the market. Why would he leave over that?
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton Before my family bought a C64, we had a Vic-20. Beat that. I can't. The best I can do is to say that I once amazed my friend by programming his TI to say "Hello World" over and over again in Basic. I've n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton Yes, but his point was that it's idiotic to do it at the Apple Store when you buy the machine, rather than buying the components separately and installing them yourself. I understand that. But what he does…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber I have a pet peeve about the new line up. I have a 24" iMac that is just perfect for me size-wise. To upgrade, I must either get a smaller screen or pay for more screen space than I want or need (or that ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by OllieWallieWhiskers well, adding RAM and upgrading the hard drive through the Apple Store is throwing your money away. Actually, increasing the RAM and HD at the time of purchase is a very reasonable charge, compa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor It's not too hard to imagine scenarios where a dual-core 3.6 GHz chip is the better solution. Indeed, I just ordered an iMac with the 3.6 GHz dual core CPU precisely because it will be used in a context where…
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Quote: Originally Posted by godrifle I'd say it depends on your intended use... Absolutely. If you need to spellcheck novels or if you work with huge spreadsheet files or you have a lot of videos to put onto your iPad, go for the quad co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I'd say the best value is determined after purchasing a machine and then weighing up how much you regret your purchase based on usage and for the vast majority of people, spending the extra $500 to get from the …