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I think the problem is that it's too big. Until they can shrink it down more, it's more likely they'll attach lenses to glass, rather than glass to frames. >As for the comment about making something that doesn't come between the user an
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People loved their hardware, they could have kept a huge chunk of the enterprise market and been one of those few manufacturers. If they had maintained their peak market share, it might have been worth it. At the very least it would have be
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14y ago
They don't have to be software-only, the large majority of Android phones aren't made by, or in partnership with, Google. In fact, their hardware division might be the least affected by switching to android. Their core OS people would be
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14y ago
They're ethically obligated to hide infomation users don't want released, but are they really expected to publish everything their users ask to make public? It's annoying, but it doesn't spur anything like the moral outrage I would feel if
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14y ago
Unless I'm trying to run a business, I almost always prefer this kind of error to the opposite.
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>I don't know how well the rotating aluminum impeller breaks-up the boundary layer surrounding the fins. It won't eliminate it completely but it certainly could be much improved from the case of stationary fins with low-speed air going
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14y ago
Exactly. Depending on how it feels to type on that keyboard and the weight of the device, this could be a fully functional laptop and tablet.
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It's a matter of luck, but given that I've literally never heard of anybody else having a poor experience with Newegg, they still compare favorably against most of the alternatives.
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>Yet, that's what's happening with the 451 error code. This is clearly aimed at government censorship - what the writer considers the wrong kind. I'm not sure I agree. While the author may have a certain connotation in mind, "not availa
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14y ago
>What? I suggested no such thing. What I am suggesting (if you read up the comments) is that a middleman has made the error and thus it is incumbent on that middleman to return a proper error of "Access denied for legal reasons". 1) The
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14y ago
In the absence of zoom-on-ambiguous, why is it so bad? I certainly have trouble accurately clicking links on a phone, so having no click correction is certainly worse than artificial latency. Don't confirmation dialogue boxes and password c
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14y ago
>if a government could spend $800B and prove/create a machine that makes asymmetric cryptography impossible - and will be reverse-engineered and known to the world within 3 years of when they start using it, they probably would. The alt
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14y ago
I reuse passwords for websites like that, but the other places I use it are similarly throwaway.
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I believe we're talking ethically, not legally. I don't believe there are technicalities in ethics like there are in law.
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14y ago
Nit picking: Jaywalking can put other people at risk if there's any amount of traffic. On a completely empty stretch of road it's not unethical, but the line between safe and unsafe jaywalking is extremely blurred.
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14y ago
It's not the students that are paying to be taught, it's the teachers/schools that are paying to reduce (or perhaps refocus) the teacher's workload. Instead of coming up with lesson plan from scratch, the teacher can start with something us
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14y ago
On-plan prices matter to you about as much as off-plan prices matter to most American consumers. The majority of them get phones with contracts, particularly when you're considering smartphones.
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14y ago
>It doesn't make any sense to compare those numbers Well, it's a valid comparison, since it's apples to apples. Even the numbers themselves can be considered valid, given that a large portion of American mobile customers get their phone