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13y ago
And better still the device you’re buying doesn't even run the Windows Phone OS.
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13y ago
I would have thought what is more important than market share in the developed world is good market share in the emerging economies like Latin America. That would offer more scope for growth.
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13y ago
The Op is using commodity in the sense that wood is a commodity . Now anyone can grow wood, but the big money is turning that wood into furniture and that takes a skilled carpenter.
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13y ago
I can vouch for that. From my experience this is how it their tech support works. You raise and issue and they give you a ticket to track the issue. They then send you an e-mail asking for more details. You reply with the details and then t
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13y ago
> "What laws or regulations does this heinous act violate?" The Law of War defines rules of engagement. To define what engagement I’m referring, consider the few minutes after 4:45 at which point the pilot "lights them al
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He released tens of thousands of secret documents that highlighted the fact the USA knew it was breaking the Law of War. One of the first releases and the one that got him arrested was the video showing a US Apache helicopter gunning dow
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13y ago
Yes. In .Net 4.5 there are Async versions of the web, file, stream, image and SQL category of functions. It's also making its way into ASP.Net layer.
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13y ago
The Law of War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war From the prespecitve of the treatment of POWs Gitmo breaks most of those: http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/powerpoint/Military_Ju.
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13y ago
> allows for the single-threaded non-blocking I/O in a way that no other popular language does. C# Async and Await - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh191443.asp...
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> Go's type inference makes for lean code, but requires you to dig a little to figure out what the type of a given variable is if it's not explicit. So given code like: foo, bar := someFunc(baz) > You'd really
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13y ago
> Is this supposed to make people sceptical about Hyperloop? China announced plans to build a transport system very similar to Hyperloop some 3 years ago: http://www.dailytech.com/China+Plans+1000+KPH+Super+Train/ar.
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> I've communicated to him directly and apologized for the way the matter was handled at the meeting. Now you're fired again for making me look like a fool!
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13y ago
I'm no lawyer but doesn't this line provide the required protection: > This Contract can only be amended through a written document formally executed by all parties. To me, that suggests the contract can only be amended if all
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> Microsoft took seven straight year-over-year billion dollar losses until the Microsoft gaming division finally posted a profit in 2008. This page suggest XBox still has accumulated losses of 3 billion: http://www.neowin.net&
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The may have been forced to purchase Motorola in order to protect Android? During its Q2 earnings conference call Motorola hinted that it is ready to join Android patent racket, and start demanding licensing fees for its IP from other Andr
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But that 9.5 billion investment is yet to return a profit: Motorola, acquired by Google in 2012, racked up a loss of $218 million before items, more than four times the $49 million it lost a year earlier. http://www.dailyfinanc
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> This probably stemmed from their ideals and their culture, but the ugly reality is that companies need patent arsenals to protect themselves. I'm sure that's what Google was hoping for. But it appears the 12 billion paid for
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13y ago
> However, that doesn't and shouldn't diminish the fact that the actual science solidly favors one side. Despite the alarmist title, I found this a good video on the topic of climate change: "The Alarming Science Behind Cl
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> If you want an example of how intellectual forums die, this thread is it. Ok, let’s try to apply some intellectual thinking to the article. Firstly, The Rolling Stone is not a scientific journal, but rather a magazine catering to the g
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> There are no secret courts that can issue indictments You are 100% correct. The US government now thinks it's a court all unto itself and is now above the law. It's got to the point where it doesn't even try to hide thes
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As a juxtaposition consider this, just out today. Halliburton, the US energy services giant, has admitted destroying evidence relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst such disaster in Americ
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> He was held in a military brig in South Carolina, longer than he should have because So he was held for three and a half years as an "enemy combatant" under order of the US president, G.W. Bush. Is the US court system so bro
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> Why haven't they called? Here's how far our out going call has gone: http://zidbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/how-far-in-spa...
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Ok, let’s say they charged him with of "aiding the enemy" . That also carries the death penalty. Who knows what kind of trumped up charges the government where planning to throw at him. But there's no way he'd be gettin
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> not because there was some imminent threat to his life. Treason does actually carry the potential of a death penalty. Based on poor state of the current US legal system, I too would have run. The last decade has seen the US legal syste
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> That cannot explain a negative interest rate. Those were not bonds, but rather Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) which are tied to CPI. The fixed payment on five-year TIPS, known as the real yield, has been pushed below z
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> They should have kept it at $600 and increased the total needed for the project. I suspect the profit margin on the $600 price was too small, hence the small number offered.
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That link is pretty darn good, but don't forget the 97 year old guy is nearly blind.
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> There is a Photoshop filter for it, I am pretty sure In other words find a shortcut. I would say when it comes to art, shortcuts are not the best approach. Anyone could use that Photoshop filter, but it takes real skill to do it by han
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13y ago
It's there on Windows 7. Just select the Windows Start button, type in paint and hit return.
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