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5y ago
lol this is literally all false. toys - no, the gi-joe does not improve anyone's mental capacity. sports - are mostly played because people all over the world spend billions per year watching them. the athletes who play them end up wi
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5y ago
kwh is just as dumb a term though, although correct. you're taking joules per hour and then multiplying it by an hour. highway speed limit is 90kmkgWlboz/(hkgWlboz).
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5y ago
define useless. toys are useless. playing cards are useless. what exactly is the purpose of sports - having a ball go in a round wire hole? oh, that's entertainment and people need that. well so is this. it's quite literally pla
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5y ago
the graphing calculators are differentiated exactly by being able to do analytical solutions. they run the equivalent of derive, mathematica, and wolfram alpha. you're paying for the software, and similar software for your pc costs m
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5y ago
You absolutely can, via registry, group policy, or 3rd party apps. Have you ever gotten any of the browser change stuff or ads on your work laptop? I have not, ever, at any company. You can do that on your home computer too.
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5y ago
I won't switch her browser to firefox. I'm not her tech support although I am in tech. Welcome to 90% of users. If I was her tech support, and I wanted to prevent the browser being changed by the user, I would.. Explain it to the
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Here's the thing - there's an actual reason that is beneficial to 90% of their customers that they do this. Let's take my wife. She got her lenovo laptop because it was silver and really thin, and had a touchscreen. She do
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The webex interface is perfectly fine, but if you are comparing it for the use case of zoom and skype, your target interface is wrong for the tool you're using. Webex is for working on something together. Multiple users using an appli