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by cyxxon 9y ago
I actually read it again. Maybe I misunderstand it, but for me it is about the Google shopping comparison service: "Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its
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by cyxxon 9y ago
> If they are forced to stop doing this it will make my search experience worse for me. This seems to be the whole point of the fine. Currently Google's services just so damned conveniently integrated that no one uses competitors&#
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Ah...I remember having a Guillemot MaxiSound 64 (no clue what version exactly...), and it did indeed feature incredible sound like that, but I wonder if that was later and I mix it up with Quake? Quick Google says the chip was released in 1
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Thanks. We do not serve video, so it is indeed not that comparable. But we do have hosted web applications (SAP CRM), and syncing of offline applications for field staff (technicians) (and that can be quite a lot of data). It seems that our
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by cyxxon 9y ago
UIh, any specific issues? My company will be rolling out SAP from Germany to ZA soonish, and so far we have not yet had a chance to actually really test the connection. Self-hosted data center here, so probably not that comparable. Just ove
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by cyxxon 9y ago
I have a pressed CD that failed. It is a regular audio CD from 1993 or 1994, and it developed tiny black flecks all over the aluminium foil. I guess it is not perfectly sealed. I think I still have it somewhere, even if I just bought a repl
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by cyxxon 9y ago
As an off-topic counterpoint: I heard so much about SOMA, but I actually didn't get out of my apartment because of game mechanics (or lack of discoverability thereof). I actually didn't know what to do, as in what to click, drag,
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by cyxxon 9y ago
I was surprised a lot when Apple changed the grinning face emoji in iOS 10 to a boring smile. For me and my friends the original version was a sort of mischivious smile, but definitely positive. Seems a ton of people had negative connotatio
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Miele, but in the IT department. It is not really a rumor per se, I'd say - the internal idea at Miele is that the stuff should last 15 to 20 years with normal use. So of course it can break after 8 years, every
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Regarding your point 2 - have you been to an Ikea recently? They always put up prices for the way it is assembled in the showroom, so you see something cost €324, of which the main corpus is 156, the added part on the left is 68, etc., brok
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Interestingly, for me Google gave me "is dead", DDG and Bing gave me... nothing. The suggestions didn't even pop up. THis is in Germany, but for the .com domains.
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by cyxxon 10y ago
My dad worked as a the head of an engineering department at Miele in Germany, and therefore my family would always get new appliances before they hit the market, to actually test them out. My mum hated it, of course, to always have to relea
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by cyxxon 10y ago
In addition to that the 5 seconds seems really low. I own around a thousand CDs, I guess, and can guess where each is sitting in my shelf, but I would have to go to the shelf, scroll along it a bit to pick the correct album, get it out, go
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by cyxxon 10y ago
As a German, I say that is exactly what is wrong with Blablacar, so this is a good thing ;) Blablacar rpesents itself as a service that matches people having a spot in their car and people needing to travel from A to B, and for a long time
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by cyxxon 10y ago
All the monkeys only got the bananas because they were transported to them on public roads paid for by taxes, etc. Wait, you mean your example doesn't really fit the problem at hand?
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by cyxxon 10y ago
have similar visual memories from a very early age - I remember two (not too specific) scenes from the house I grew up in, when it was being built (no wallpapers, stairs were simple concrete and not yet with handrail etc). The trouble is, w
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Not (yet?) available in Germany, it seems.
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by cyxxon 10y ago
I guess that growing it would throw of the balance of the UI elements in the grid too much visually... /shrug What I find much worse is that the pressed state has a bigger shadow, meaning it is further away from the plane it casts the
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Interestingly enough, this is one of the reasons I still play World of Warcraft: I used to be pretty hardcore (never Realm Firsts or anything, but hard mode raiding during BC/WotLK), and thus invested into my main characters... but rec
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Looks nice, but for personal use I don't like the idea of a tool like this changing the file names, and then I see the option in the Pro version to use "sidecar files". Nice! It then brought up another question I have often h
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by cyxxon 10y ago
> The sale actually occurred outside Australia. I think this is where the problem lies - did it? I think it did, just like you. But as a German who e.g. always had trouble buying regular game version s on Steam and always getting "l
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by cyxxon 10y ago
I also found it interesting that Teletext is supposedly dead, but then the article itself links to another article that mentions how art contest winners will be broadcast in Germany, in the Teletext of broadcaster ARD... so... which one is
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by cyxxon 10y ago
I distinctly remember playing it with a buddy of mine in LAN in its first days. He had a 486DX4 at 100MHz, I think, and I a Pentium 75. He could play a lot of other games better, raw speed I guess, but he really struggled with Quake. It wor
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by cyxxon 10y ago
That page is not readable in Germany: ERROR. The request could not be satisfied. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. Any idea what could block it? Never seen this before...
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by cyxxon 10y ago
You can backup to (and restore from) iCloud, but then again WhatsApp (the company) does not have the data then.
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by cyxxon 10y ago
Indeed, that is the worst change from the original draft to the final version in my opinion. It puts Ryanairs wants over the passengers needs, clearly. because as a passenger I just don't care for the ad, but the travel plan is a reall
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by cyxxon 11y ago
Indeed, my first reaction to that statement was that that is not typical. It happens, sure, but for me it is always so fascinating that the MDMA / Ecstacy trips just kind of switch on and off, and everything afterwards is as it was bef
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by cyxxon 11y ago
Impressive, and seems to solve the problem of "hat weird portal am I using today to see if anything is up around here". Still looks a little like a beta, but does all I want. Someone else mentioned shareable URLs would be nice, an
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by cyxxon 11y ago
Or changed the promotion values depending on country. I know Hello Fresh offers promotions in Germany (I have some of their promo cards in my living room, undecided if I want to try it out, and it is for €20 off, IIRC - I am at work at the

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