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Engadget was banned sitewide on Reddit a couple of days ago and then got unbanned shortly after. Maybe the same thing will happen with this too. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/1…

Engadget was banned sitewide on Reddit and then got unbanned shortly. Maybe the same thing will happen with this too. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/31/engadget_reddit_spat..…

Interestingly it doesn't seem to talk about this case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company "The Court held that a business corporation is organized primarily f…

Looks like recoiledsnake's reply is here. http://pastebin.com/gRHH0LFG

>OK, I didn't accuse you but I did accuse another poster of being an MS shill. I'll admit I could have been more diplomatic. Still, as I recall, the person I accused was a professi…

I guess there will be many who won't care about 300 years as well, since they won't be around.

Funny how Windows' profits are not part of the "PC market". I guess it's all about cherrypicking statistics to create a "winner".

>The striking thing is how the two companies peaked are almost precisely the same time and how that moment (end of 2010) was not related to the entry timing of their nominal disrup…

>Increasing the speed at the merge-point will not decrease the queue. It will only decrease the density of the queue but move it back further in traffic. Your time to cross the mer…

>The advert was apparently done by a Microsoft affiliated marketing firm, so it made sense (to me) to include it. Reference? >In regards to your second point, Google and others oft…

Agree 100%. From the article: >Suppose you’re on a 2-lane (each way) highway and one lane is closed up ahead due to construction. Now the flow rate of your lane is cut in half (or …

> http://modmyi.com/content/10764-microsoft-bashes-apple-samsu... I am lost. What's the alleged lie here? Also, two of your links leads to the ad which wrongly compares the screen …

The stats are sales over the last 3 months, not install base. However, Statcounter tries to measure usage, not unique devices. Netmarketshare tries to measure individual browsers/d…

I would try something non-habit forming like valerian root or melatonin first before going to prescription drugs. Also, at bedtime try to keep the TV and/or reading to something th…

I would have expected that putting this through a machine learning algorithm( or one of the face recognition ones) trained with a very huge dataset might improve the odds.

"BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS

>I really dont know, but will say seems crazy that Nokia didn't have at least a small team dedicated to making an android OS 'port' for their devices. It seems like even if they th…

Well, atleast gaining marketshare is better than going into a death spiral of losses like Blackberry seems to be doing. From http://www.wpcentral.com/kantar-windows-phone-hitting-8…

I really doubt an ethernet connection can push a full HD video frame in 1ms. The <1ms is for ping, which uses a really small network packet. Pushing 1080p HD video is a totally dif…

This article would have been much better without all the hyperbole and foaming at the mouth.