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polshaw
15y ago
This is a dangerous game however; the flip-side is that the airline has more potential profit to lose by not having google to sell their flights for them.
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It's no different from the SGS (1); physical button flanked by a capacitive button each side, with physical power and volume buttons on the sides.
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15y ago
So what of the uneducated man from a developed nation? Unemployed, by your statement.
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15y ago
Income equality has a broader meaning than just people doing the same job having similar wages. It most definitely includes the difference between the boss and the workers.
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15y ago
This new 'power off' isn't meant to be a full hibernate. It only stores the kernel-related RAM, not your data. So you would only lose your kernel data, which would be reloaded in the 'full' boot. Full hibernate is still a separate entity (o
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15y ago
98 and ME could easily be prepended onto that list. (The fact they were 9x vs NT is irrelevant, they were still MS's consumer OSes)
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The only thing that could be argued to have its life shortened to an extent that was relevant is the HDD. And this is powered off with any of sleep/ hibernate/ power off.
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15y ago
Maybe, but apple only make 'premium' laptops (especially since killing the macbook), not comparable to an 'average' (read: a few years old, fairly budget) laptop.
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15y ago
> It will crash when booting and corrupt my data I'm sorry but i have to call you out here; i would be suprised if MS hasn't thought of this in some way; whether detecting changes and initating a more complete boot or dealing with it in
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15y ago
As others have noted this is perhaps more a hardware issue than software, but it does highlight the real advantage at the core of apple's business; a tight synergy of hardware and software. Seen elsewhere with improved battery life of the i
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15y ago
Relevant to note that the keyboard here was a detatchable dock.. so its 'default' form was closer to the ipad. http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/06/02/the_digital_writin... -2003.
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15y ago
He certainly doesn't employ all the tax avoidance strategies available to him.. implied here[1]. But lets not forget, he has to act in the interests of shareholders, not just himself, in his business interests. 1. http://www.youtube.com/wa
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15y ago
works for me with firefox 6 (windows)
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I don't see apple pulling this off in a way that would fit with their high usability standards just yet. Personally i could see it in the mac pro or iphone first. But (whilst i think its awesome tech) i just have a feeling it is a little to
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I am a tab hoarder also but personally i'm quite impressed at the speed and responsiveness of FF when restarting with 100-or-so tabs.
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15y ago
I believe there is law that states that a baseball bat with no ball can be considered an offensive weapon.
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15y ago
I disagree that we are seeing any significant number of first generation immigrants here.
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relevant to note that subsequent rioting has had little to do with this. (more general) anger towards the police, along with opportunistic looting.
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> unless you really do get multiple choice questions in university Having gone through the UK university system, i can honestly say that multiple choice questions can be some of the hardest questions there are (not that I ever had any o