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901.
by smackfu 12y ago
Is the back plate on that metal or plastic? It's the metal back that is bending and then staying bent, while plastic will bend and then return back.
902.
by smackfu 12y ago
Seems like a case would only help if it was made of metal.
903.
by smackfu 12y ago
The iPhone 6+ is thinner and longer than the iPhone 5, so it makes a lot of sense it would be more prone to bending due to physics.
904.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's not really plastic vs. metal, it's plastic vs. aluminum. Steel would be a much better choice for strength, it's just heavy.
905.
by smackfu 12y ago
The soft-touch plastic used on Lightning cables has the amazing property that stress failures look just like the cable was chewed on. Not even joking. It basically disintegrates and falls apart.
906.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's a deprecated standard as of 2007, so I'm not sure what can be done by the standards body to stop people using it.
907.
by smackfu 12y ago
For Target, the selling didn't come until after Target announced it was going to impact their earnings.
908.
by smackfu 12y ago
Target stock was fine until they put out this press release that updated guidance lower due to reduced sales after the announcement: http://investors.target.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=65828&p=irol-new...
909.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's mainly up due to a good earnings report in August, and good guidance going forward. If the breach doesn't hurt earnings, why should the stock price move?
910.
by smackfu 12y ago
Wonder how IBM feels about this development. From May: "IBM will cease operating Global Expense Reporting Solutions as a standalone product, effective March 31, 2016, and instead will refer customers to Concur." http:/&#x2F
911.
by smackfu 12y ago
I kind of feel like an expense reporting system is like an iceberg: the end-user UI is just the tip that is visible. Like here are things that you don't see as a user: * Data feeds from various providers, each with their own formats. *
912.
by smackfu 12y ago
Is NRO technically military?
913.
by smackfu 12y ago
Similar issues when people post scans of mail they get, and don't realize the barcode encodes the same info that the stuff they redacted had.
914.
by smackfu 12y ago
From this CBS case, you can see that even a large company with bottomless legal pockets can lose a ridiculous patent case. Who's to say that Carolla would have won?
915.
by smackfu 12y ago
It was also a VERY expensive tour to put on. Nine days to setup and tear down each stop, with hundreds of workers and dozens of track trailer trucks. Setup video: http://vimeo.com/24796838
916.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, another way to game the system is to include your album with concert ticket sales. That counts as a sale officially, but you probably aren't losing many "real" sales since your fans probably have the album already.
917.
by smackfu 12y ago
I think that's mainly because small animals don't generally walk like that when they're going slow.
918.
by smackfu 12y ago
I'm surprised none of these break-out Kickstarters have sold their product to an established consumer products company, who would handle the Kickstarter fulfillment and then sell the product at retail Because it's pretty clear tha
919.
by smackfu 12y ago
They have a Kickstarter to get a paper version printed, which I was very enthused about until I saw the price ($118.) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestandardsmanual/full...
920.
by smackfu 12y ago
If you zoom in, it gets lighter. That's unexpected, and seems to be an error in their averaging code. Maybe it's not averaging using HSV but in RGB?
921.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, colors are hard. Compare the full saturation red they are using for Asian to the baby blue for White. The red stands out more than the blue, even though they are both supposed to represent one person.
922.
by smackfu 12y ago
OTOH, iOS 7 did a fine job of almost entirely removing bitmaps from iOS in advance of these new screens. So developers are in a lot better shape now than if they had to redraw all their skeumorphic assets at 3x.
923.
by smackfu 12y ago
Moiré patterns probably.
924.
by smackfu 12y ago
Or change the motion curve so that it stays in the recognizable state for longer, like 90% of the time.
925.
by smackfu 12y ago
They could have shuttered the print magazine and kept the staff on to write for the website. Like all the other tech websites out there. Wonder why they didn't do that.
926.
by smackfu 12y ago
Well, that certainly goes in the "potential risks" section, but it hasn't happened yet, and it's been five years.
927.
by smackfu 12y ago
Just CDN issues.
928.
by smackfu 12y ago
Exactly. I just worry that 219 minutes will get bandied about as "what Ars got for the battery life."
929.
by smackfu 12y ago
Suppliers and retailers on opposite sides of the table, both trying to get the best deal. I don't know why they wouldn't have an adversarial relationship.
930.
by smackfu 12y ago
I think it's fine to create an artificial battery benchmark to compare watches, but unless that is representative of actual use, it shouldn't be used as the "real battery life" or anything.

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