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Hari_Seldon

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    Comment #5303866

    Samsung copying Apple is not bullshit, it was very overt and obvious to anyone paying attention. it was also proved in court.

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    Comment #5286046

    Agreed, reminds me of mp3. >Elements of the recordings that are easily perceived are represented with exacting precision, while other parts that are not very audible can be represe…

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    Comment #5036623

    Great quote, haven't heard this before, thanks.

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    Comment #4881078

    Strongly disagree, not being able to keep up with demand is not a bad problem to have. As for being out of ideas, Please - the competition are mainly me too products. No one else r…

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    Comment #4753120

    I'm not surprised, it's a cute ad.

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    Comment #4717637

    Agreed, I don't see the need for change, the incremental updates have gotten us to the point where iOS functions very well. If you're looking for innovative UI there are over 600,0…

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    Comment #4668911

    That link explains a mode by which Spotify's cloud based music can be available offline. iTunes Match gives access to YOUR OWN music via the cloud. Do you not see the difference? I…

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    Comment #4668475

    Spotify is online music, what are you talking about?

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    Comment #4668304

    Spotify bears no resemblance to iTunes Match so how can it be better?

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    Comment #4648261

    I think that there is a tendency amongst us westerners to believe that meditation is about attaining something, Chögyam Trungpa described this as a type of "spiritual materialism".…

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    Comment #4570684

    My favorite Guy Kawasaki quote is in connection with the launch of windows 95, when someone said that windows is now as good as the Mac. He response was "Saying Windows is equal to…

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    Comment #4521027

    Apple products are as good and better than they have always been, the problem is that users now have this entitled attitude and nothing is good enough for them. Witness the tech pr…

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    Comment #4474254

    friend of mine went on holiday to Tokyo (UK resident) a few years ago, he told me that the Yakuza seemed to have a corporate head office, a modern building with receptionists, typi…

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    Comment #4473826

    You are right of course, thinking this through - it is obvious that if innocents are targeted there is little honour in all of this.

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    Comment #4470781

    I think you're right that this guy was being shielded from the violence but I don't understand your objection to the Yakuza being referred to as honorable. Is it not possible to be…

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    Comment #4454590

    Yeah, but you seem to be assuming that the experience would be completely alien, a language needing to be learned so to speak. I'm not so sure about that, perhaps music being the m…

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    Comment #4454226

    >When Mozart's Lacrimosa came on, I was blown away by the beauty of it. At one point of the song, it sounded like angels singing and I suddenly realized that this was the first tim…

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    Comment #4396004

    Maybe, but Apple would be inclined to make it Mac / iOS only, which would be counter productive. The other non Apple stuff has had a strategic importance, iTunes for windows enable…

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    Comment #4385534

    With 97 comments (as I write this) I'd say many people :-)

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    Comment #4375449

    Not sure what you mean by "act like a monopoly". But you're right that Apple never forgot that microsoft ripped them off and dominated the industry with their sub par OS. (I know a…

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    Comment #4292370

    Indeed and if you click the printer icon you can save it as a pdf

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    Comment #4270927

    why do people write "noone" when they mean "no one"? it is very annoying

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    Comment #4254502

    The Obama administration has some believers http://www.examiner.com/article/the-obama-administration-s-s...

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    Comment #4218384

    The article is trite, the kind of thing one comes up with as a teenager, believing it to be an insight. The social contract is such that most of us are thoughtful enough not to bur…