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  1. Re:With an small download cap! on New Zealand To Bring Ultrafast Internet To 85 Percent Of Population (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    And how much speed to you get to a USA or Europe based server? NZ is "far" from most of the Internet. They can sell you a gigabit connection but saturate the oceanic cable. What matters is what speed do you get out of your island?

  2. Maybe he didn't accept AMEX. Visa and Mastercard are much more accepted in Canada.

  3. Re:Availability? on LG Continues To Bleed Money, Thanks To Smartphones (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would anyone invest in those modules? LG should have made a pledge to support these modules, and that every future phone they release in the next 5 years will be compatible with the modules if they wanted to be trusted.
    Otherwise everybody knew these modules were going nowhere and that the G6 would not support them.

  4. Yeah, couldn't possibly be people like single working mothers

    It's single mothers as well as much richer people. Most of them care more about their wallet than pollution.
    That's why you can't just rely on good will to solve the pollution problem. It's not going to work.

    Why, exactly? Look around you, battery tech as just one example is advancing at amazing speed.

    It's advancing at that speed because of subsidies and regulations. Tesla wouldn't be in business without government intervention. And the average car fuel consumption would be much higher.

    Climate change has a cost. You don't pay it when you drive your fuel car. Others do. If you cause $40 of damage to the environment when filling your car, what's wrong in taxing you $40? That's would be how it should work in a true free and working market.

  5. The majority of Americans will also support anything as long as someone else suffers from the consequence of their pollution. Actually, they suffer too but a large part is exported to other countries so they don't care as much as they should. That's why we need the government to set limits (cap and trade) or taxes to change habits of selfish people who would rather save 5/gallon even if it meant polluting 10x more.

  6. So the baby is a clone of the mother?

  7. As long as he hand himself over in May when Manning is released.

  8. I thought App meant Application software. That includes PC software. All those working on a computer (a lot of people these days) easily spend 7-8 hours/day in "apps". It's hard to believe the time spent can raise by 20% over just one year.

  9. Re: False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    My laptop has 64GB RAM, a 2TB SSD, a 7th generation i7 and dual GTX 1080 in SLI. It runs Gentoo / Windows 7 Ultimate dual boot. It's probably more capable than your desktop.

    And it's probably just as heavy and non portable. At least the desktop can be upgraded / repaired, can hold more drives and have faster components (especially CPU/graphics).

  10. Re: False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 home can do that job just as well as Windows 10 Pro. Home 64-bit is limited to 128 GB RAM, while Pro allows up to 512.

  11. Re:140% on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    TFS says the sales are up 140%. What if they were up by "only" 40%? Wouldn't they raise from 10 to 14?
    10 to 24 is a 140% increase, or 240% of the original value.

  12. And all that time I thought it was because the US had 10x the population of Canada.

  13. Re:From the department of the obvious... on Wireless Headphone Sales Soared After Apple Dropped Headphone Jack (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Well 50% of all headphones is big. I doubt the numbers actually, and it is probably not worldwide.

  14. Re:From the department of the obvious... on Wireless Headphone Sales Soared After Apple Dropped Headphone Jack (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that only a very tiny part of the consumers own an iPhone 7, the only device without a 3.5mm audio jack, except my toaster.
    Therefore the iPhone 7 can't explain the surge from 50 to 75%.

  15. Re:cult of mac on Apple's iPhone Turns 10 (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    how so?

  16. Looking at? That doesn't answer my question. Is it being used for something else than a toy? And why? If I were to develop a Linux server application, Swift wouldn't even be in my top 10 language choice.

  17. Re:What hardware is used for workstations at apple on Author of Swift Language Chris Lattner is Leaving Apple; We're Interviewing Him (Ask a Question!) (swift.org) · · Score: 1

    you forgot the obvious: iPad

  18. Is there a single swift program actually being used by more than 2 people in a basement which is NOT using these Apple APIs?

  19. Again, LG is doing something stupid this year.
    Last year they tried modules. They failed. Not that it was a bad idea, but everybody knew this was a one shot deal and that the G6 would not support G5 modules.
    This time they do a stupid aspect ratio, which will mean many apps will suck on the G6. You've read it here first: the G7 will revert back to a standard 16:9 ratio like all other Android phones of this year. Developers will rejoice and say they were right in not modifying their app to support the 2:1 ratio of the G6.

  20. The Earth can handle temperature raising at the current rate. So can life. Even the human specie will survive without any problem.
    The problem is the *cost* of that change (deserts, flooding), which is more expensive to mankind as a whole (although some individual obviously benefit) than lowering our emissions.

  21. Re:I'd listen to more of my purchased music... on Streaming Now Officially the Number One Way We Listen to Music in America (pitchfork.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called google play music. You can send 50000 MP3 for free to the cloud. You can then listen to them all on your device, and can locally download songs if you want.
    At least you are not stuck using a single computer/phone pair. There is no excuse for the shit called iTunes.

  22. Re:cult of mac on Apple's iPhone Turns 10 (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Again, the best product doesn't always win. Apple had the best marketing.

  23. Do you have a contact for the month or forever? Just like they can increase the price, they can end their current plan. You are not forced to continue to pay if you don't like the new terms.

  24. Re:wtf google on Google Abandons Their Google Hangouts API (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a stupid reason. A Google account is much more convenient then a phone number. When you are on Android you need a Google account anyways. At least you can use your Google account on your PC.

  25. Re:cult of mac on Apple's iPhone Turns 10 (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Even if a MP3 player supported PlaysForSure, you could still choose not to use that function, isn't it?
    You could still drag and drop MP3 files through the file explorer. The iPod was the exception.