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  1. Re:What did they expect? on Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For Apple In India (qz.com) · · Score: 2
    Except for some college-going students, I don't think I've ever seen any Indian willing to go stand in a line overnight to buy an Apple product. I don't think most of us worship brands (many worship personalities, but that's a different story).

    To most people:
    • - A phone is a phone.
    • - What does a ridiculously expensive Apple phone do that my affordable Samsung won't do?
    • - My phone still works, why would I buy a new one?
  2. Re:This won't work well at all on Samsung Opens World's Largest Phone Factory In India (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the comment refers to the fact that Lahore is no longer a part of India.

  3. Re:Kim Jong Don Absolutely Knows What HIV Is on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.computerworld.com/... Gates himself has strenuously denied making the comment. In a newspaper column that he wrote in the mid-1990s, Gates responded to a student's question about the quote: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time." Later in the column, he added, "I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."

  4. Re: Cheating is stupid on Some YouTube Stars Are Being Paid To Sell Academic Cheating (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's as assumption as well. When you listen to non-live music, how would you even know whether it was created by a person or a "robot"? Do you claim to be able to tell the difference?

  5. Re: Cheating is stupid on Some YouTube Stars Are Being Paid To Sell Academic Cheating (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an assumption, isn't it? Let's say I'm good at baking bread. I don't find it interesting because I really wanted to be a writer instead; but everyone who tastes my bread is ecstatic about it. How does my interest in baking make any difference to the outcome? Or would you like to argue that writing is more creative than baking and should be treated differently? How about making movies or playing the piano?

  6. Re:Cheating is stupid on Some YouTube Stars Are Being Paid To Sell Academic Cheating (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you say that? Do you mean to say I must necessarily be passionate about everything I am good at?

  7. Ummm... why doesn't this work with your logic? If you want internet access during this time, go some place where there is no restriction on ISPs, and do nothing to disturb that. If you want that as a group, find a place big enough for that group.

  8. From your link: They also had the advantage of being able to use bus lanes (which Ubers canâ(TM)t), but they regularly took more complex routes, utilising side streets to save time. So do we know how much of the difference was due to being able to use bus lanes?

  9. Re:It's called market demographics. on Embarrassing Ex-Employee Complaint Against Snapchat Unsealed (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    From: http://www.gartner.com/newsroo... Smartphones are expensive for users in India, but with the average selling prices (ASPs) of low-end models falling, Gartner estimates that 139 million smartphones will be sold in India in 2016, growing 29.5 percent year over year

  10. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  11. Re:Normally I try not to hack my games, but... on Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Replaying a captured server response may not be good enough.

  12. Re:Normally I try not to hack my games, but... on Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Look up "nonce".

  13. Re:Did His Contract Specify "Internal Waters"? on How To Rack Up $28,000 In Roaming Without Leaving the US · · Score: 1

    India.

  14. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Try alt-p or Esc,P ... :)

  15. Re:So group buy... on "World's Cheapest Laptop" Available in Bulk Only · · Score: 1

    I've seen it happening in techenclave.com too.

  16. Re:Why not block the USB port? on Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee · · Score: 1

    USB keyboard, mouse?

  17. Re:Of course Microsoft is against it... on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1

    "Life is too short to humor morons." I liked that.

  18. Re:There's a reason AMD is scared on The Register Finds Fault In Turion Benchmark Setup · · Score: 1

    9nm? Did you mean 90nm?

  19. Re:Does it work properly/completely with Opera yet on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    Opera 7.6 is supposed to have better compatibility with gmail.

  20. Re:Better free email on Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw · · Score: 1

    fastmail.fm ?

  21. Re:aMSN on MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients · · Score: 2, Informative

    aMSN rocks ! Pretty much platform independent and no compiling required. I was using it on Solaris earlier and now on FreeBSD.