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  1. Re:Queue the headphone jack comments on Apple Sets a New Record For iPhone Sales (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A direct comparison with products like the iPhone 6/6s are specifically excluded. All we can say from that comment is that the ratio of iPhone Plus models was higher than previous iterations, not that the iPhone 7 sold more.

    Not sure that's accurate. ASP went up to its highest ever: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1...

  2. Re:Doll. Fin. on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or, as Winston Churchill purportedly said to a publisher who admonished him on ending a sentence with a preposition, "This is something up with which I will not put!".

  3. Re:The fifth force is... on There May Be A Fifth Force of Nature, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 2

    I believe he's referring to "Interstellar".

  4. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    It's just a variation of my god is better than your god. Some people get religious about brands. They project their identity onto them. You attack the brand, you threaten their identity.

  5. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    To be fair, any 'fanboy' is scary.

  6. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 2

    Based on analysis of the EXIF data and file names some of the images came from GoogleDrive, DropBox, and private Twitter messages.

    Citation?

  7. Re:Children, children... on Microsoft: Facebook Home Is a Copycat, Windows Phone Is the 'Real Thing' · · Score: 1

    You think you don't have a Facebook profile just because you never signed up? If you have ever been mentioned on FB, you have a profile. If any of your friends shared the address book, you have a profile. If anyone has shared something that you wrote, you have a profile. In the industry, they're called 'dark profiles'.

  8. Re:Surprised? on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 1

    Dell seems to be listening about the price. They've lowered it by $50 http://dell.to/Tw4xHx

  9. Re:That is cheap on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you really reach all 1,800 fans with your post? Have you looked at your actual reach counts? We have dozens of FB pages here with millions of followers. At the beginning of this year, our posts reached an average of 24% of our followers. After F8, it dropped to 16%. As of last month, our posts reach 4% of our audience. All due to the way Facebook has changed their EdgeRank algorithm. If we want our posts to reach more of our audience, we have to pay.

  10. Re:A Defense of Abortion on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 1

    Would the answer change if your actions caused the fatal kidney ailment?

  11. Re:Unfortunately it's the 1% who calls the shot on US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted · · Score: 1

    I original thought you were a young pup from this line: "Nobody used to complain about recording your LP to a cassette, or even recording your friend's LPs to cassette." But you're obviously old enough to remember the Taping is Killing Music initiative. Many albums came with a sleeve with a skull and crossbones on top of a cassette tape. Perhaps you've forgotten the industry was threatened by copying long before mp3's were around.

  12. I was at SXSWi on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 1

    I exchanged business cards with a dozen people. And I'm anti-social!

  13. Re:This is painfully obvious. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    What part of the country can you get a $1k beach apartment? $75k goes a lot farther in some parts of the country than others.

  14. Re:Adware built right into the OS on iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps · · Score: 1

    For developers, this is a feature. This was a developer preview.

  15. Re:$79 Touch on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    ...an iPhone w/o a contract will otherwise be a better deal.

    A $99 iPhone without a contract is $499 according to the Apple shop. Not really competitive with the Touch, is it?

  16. Re:FM Radio on High Expectations For Google Android · · Score: 1

    Here you go. This way, only the people who want FM have to have it. I have no need for it and would rather not have the size/price increased for unnecessary functionality.

  17. Re:Well on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    Interesting post until you wrote "I am a Pisces", which suggests mere Sun sign astrology as opposed to the complexity which is an astrological chart; the Moon, planets, houses, aspects, etc.

    Cavilling aside, an alternate possibility to the planetary pull is Jung's concept of synchronicity: "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." He'd done some astrological experiments, the first two of which confirmed his hypothesis, the later ones negating it. Critics believe that this is confirmation bias. Wolfgang Pauli co-wrote a paper with Jung disagreeing with that stance.

    Finally, there is a quote I'd read from Isaac Newton (possibly apocryphal) who, when asked how he could believe in tripe like astrology replied "I have studied it. You have not."

  18. Re:Dtrace on Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't speak to the rest, but you think it's "almost impossible ... to replace apple programs to default to other ones"? I just changed PDF's to open in Adobe Acrobat instead of Preview by going into Get Info and under "Open With" I selected "Change All". Are you calling this "almost impossible", or am I missing something?

  19. Re:What about the iPhone? on Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, you can just use Garageband Note that if you start with a DRM'd track, you'll have to pay for the output, but if you rip it yourself, you should be good to go.

  20. Re:Apple has just screwed itself, big time on Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers · · Score: 1

    Don't you think it's much LESS likely to happen in the future? Myself, I feel a lot more comfortable on the pricing of new Apple products knowing that they're aware of what a significant price drop does to the market and how they'll deal with it.

  21. Re:missing tag? on MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems · · Score: 1

    They didn't have that leverage when they first came to market with iTunes, and they didn't capitulate then either.

  22. OT: Re:Yeah... So? on NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD · · Score: 1

    >"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM Love your sig. It made me think. Wait. I think it made me think. On second thought, hate your sig.

  23. Re:Mod parent up; not a troll. on Dell Ships Ubuntu 7.04 PCs Today · · Score: 1

    This is what I see: Ubuntu page. Linux page Product page.

  24. Re:Who needs Live Ink? on Scientists Offer New Way to Read Online Text · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you're missing the part about how the positioning of the words are determined. The algorithms used were inspired by spoken syntax: "The prosodic cues in spoken language are more complex than simple pauses at phrase boundaries; subtle variations in pitch, volume, and the duration of word pronunciation have been shown to convey hierarchical structures in syntax (Ferreira & Anes, 1994). When these prosodic-syntactic cues of speech are experimentally stripped away from audiorecordings of sentences, listeners' comprehension drops (Cutler, Dahan, & van Donselaar, 1997). This finding has important implications for reading because, when language is written down, many of these same syntactic cues are similarly stripped away" Also, according to the supporting paper, parsing sentences along these lines help support the goals of the semantic web, helping online readers to parse complex expository writing.

  25. Re:Where are the EMI songs? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    The press release just says it will be released some time in May.