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So maybe someone should talk to the teens, rather than wasting taxpayer money trying punish a company for building a better product...
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You can also do this for iPhone...
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>> A good first step to the chicken and egg problem. Living in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station. There are approximately 35 active Tesla Supercharger stations with almost 300 individual chargers in Wisconsi
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>> EV chargers are a landmine for business/income taxes I think you mean a goldmine for business & income taxes?
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Well... Googlebot does pay attention to robots.txt - I don't think (original) OpenAI-bot did.
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>> Has Apple ever put out a "Pro" version of a product before the "normal" version? The Lisa before the (original) Mac
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Yes, given that that's also the phone line for many people and therefore is an emergency service...
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3y ago
When was the last time that something titled a "Temporary Cyber Act" was ever temporary (other than being replaced by something worse)?
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iPhone 15 Pro Max; iOS 17.4; Safari: 26.2 in a private tab Pixel 8 Pro; Android 14 QPR2; Chrome: 9.47 in an incognito tab
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Nikon also makes mirrorless cameras that do video a lot better than their DLSRs did (especially, for example, the Z9). But, yes, they don't make dedicated camcorders...
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That's different from being "overpriced." Overpriced would be "costs more than it should for what it is," not "costs what it should but is more product than I can afford."
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I mean, after 120+ years that's still not the case for gas filler ports, so I don't hold out hope...
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I'm sure that's true - but, as an application developer and service operator, we don't really have the option to access the keyboards that are hidden by the TV OSs that we are running on. Additionally, I'm not sure that
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I'm pretty sure that most of the on-screen keyboards for TV / streaming device platforms don't support emoji. (I've spent about 6 years of my career running video streaming services... People watch a lot of video on TVs,
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US Domestic Box Office was about $7.5B in 2022 and $8.9B in 2023. So if there's a number of $42B, it is including a lot of other revenue.
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Market Cap (and, therefore, growth in Market Cap) is not a component of GDP. Also, to the extent that the chips are built in Taiwan, I'm not sure that they count in the US's GDP at all.
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Since the son (Leland Stanford Jr) was named after the seller, I guess you could still say it was named after him...
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Well, they're as "African" as "African Americans" are... OTOH, Elon Musk is a literal African American (as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt or Morocco), but can't be called that. So let's ad
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>> No I do not agree with you. Majority of people never read their message history, want their messages to self-detruct Citation needed.
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You laugh, but then I found this when following a link on the page to learn more about Royal Cyphers... There are simply thousands of Pillar Boxes across the United Kingdom and the best way to date them is to look at their cypher. This will
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Red Sparrow (the book, not the movie, which was awful...) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008J4PK86
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According to Gartner, Surface has never been more than 2.1% of the global market.
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As I said in my original note: "(Of course, there are also computers such as the Microsoft Surface, but these represent a tiny fraction of the universe of Windows computers ever sold...)" According to Gartner, "Surface has ne
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"Windows" didn't sell them a computer. Microsoft sold an OS to - for example - Dell, who then sold a computer to the user. So they are Dell's customers. And Dell, for sure, earned a lot of money selling placement on the
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This is a house, not a hotel. It's in Hornstrandir. (Coincidentally, I'm going to Grímsey this summer to shoot [with a camera!] puffins...)
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Many of the people on this site are involved in technology (software and/or hardware) product development. If they work for a company that spends $10M in development salaries & related costs to build a product, and then decides not
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Since - as only one example of the complexity involved - the music used in the film is almost certainly licensed and must be paid for, and the studio does not "own" it, there's no way that they can simply release it for free
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Sorry, when I saw this, my first thought was "What kind of an MBA won't charge? If there's one thing those guys are optimized for, it's generating revenue!" Then (doh!) I realized what you meant...
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>> The notion that you might heat a house with electricity or by setting trees or dinosaurs on fire is so foreign to Icelanders I'm sorry but this is hyperbole. I just spent nearly a week staying in a house *in Iceland* that was
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Wouldn't laws in certain jurisdictions require them to allow you to download your data?
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