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The same happens with Windows.
People spending $300 on a laptop aren’t going get good performance.

about 12 hours ago on Android for cheap/medium handsets is a disgrace 1 recommend

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Cup ONLY $29.99, yeah right Apple.

3 days ago on Oldest cache of water on Earth may give clues to early life forms 1 reply

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Do they mean it has been 1.5 billion years as a liquid, because I’m sure that most water follows a fairly consistent cycle of water → evaporate → rain …

3 days ago on Oldest cache of water on Earth may give clues to early life forms 2 replies

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On the other hand Microsoft’s Game Content Usage Rights forbid the use of their game content for profit.
See here.
So I personally don’t think that this is too out of line.

3 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 1 reply

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Wasn’t “.com” created by the US Department of Defence and it now resides under US Jurisdiction (operated by Verisign, a US company).

8 days ago on Units: Is TheVerge meant for the global masses or not? 1 reply 2 recommends

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Or a geolocation could be used to remember pick the most appropriate one, and then a cookie could be used to store an alternative preference.

8 days ago on Units: Is TheVerge meant for the global masses or not? 1 reply 1 recommend

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How do we know that rising temperatures aren’t causing CO2 levels to increase?
If more water evaporates (higher temperature) won’t the CO2 stored there be released into the atmosphere?
Just a thought…

9 days ago on Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach milestone high as global warming worsens 1 reply

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What about a javascript mouseover units converter?

9 days ago on Units: Is TheVerge meant for the global masses or not? 2 replies 9 recommends

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No, its just using a ‘.com’ US domain, hosted on US servers and run and maintained by a US based country.

9 days ago on Units: Is TheVerge meant for the global masses or not? 1 reply 4 recommends

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Actually the current iTunes store is just a web browser.
It is a valid point that they could simply use any rendering engine to display it.

10 days ago on Microsoft wants an iTunes app for Windows 8, but it's not coming 'any time soon' 2 replies 3 recommends

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Some people don’t bother reading the article.
You couldn’t even be bothered to read the title.

11 days ago on Flipboard brings iOS magazine features to Android

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Yes you can.
Adblock Plus, It’s even in the stable version but it used to be in the beta release.

14 days ago on Google reportedly launching paid YouTube subscriptions this week 2 recommends

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The question that you ask yourself if Windows RT =/= Windows 8 is: why do desktop users have to use the metro interface?
Not that I don’t like it, I think it a really good widgets / rainmeter replacement, but some users are complaining about this.

20 days ago on I'm curious: Exactly what x86 apps do 'regular' users need that would render Windows RT useless? 2 replies

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Lol – my phone has like 250mb of internal storage left after android & samsungs stuff.
Had to root & link2sd to even use it :(

20 days ago on Remember when the Surface was thrashed for limited storage? 1 reply

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I still have mine – silver and the back is in mint condition :) had a case on it from almost day 1

22 days ago on What was your first iPod? First song you bought on iTunes?

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I don’t see how this will be enforced with the Facebook app, removing the Facebook app from Google Play would cause a massive backlash against the android ecosystem.

24 days ago on Google closes Facebook's loophole, bans non-Play store app updates in Android 1 reply

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Why don’t you do an AJAX query to retrieve the latest posts when someone opens the dropdown menu?

28 days ago on New posts feature being taken away? 1 reply 2 recommends