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People bought Windows Vista, but that didn’t make it good.

1 day ago on Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10 million units shipped, new colors coming this summer 1 reply 1 recommend

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Who cares if it sucked in the past, Sense 5 is far an away better than the current implementation of Touchwiz.

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply 2 recommends

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And it doesn’t have Touchwiz all over it.

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 3 replies 18 recommends

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The farmer in question in this case never signed a contract: he bought all the seeds from a grain elevator.

Try again.

11 days ago on Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents 1 reply

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[Citation Needed]

11 days ago on Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents 2 replies

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Monsanto is still making plenty of money producing the RoundUp that the farmers are using. All this decision means is that now biological processes are patentable. Get reading to get sued because your cells are copying patented genes.

11 days ago on Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents 2 replies 2 recommends

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Skyrim is still one of the only games that I’ve ever just stopped moving to look at just how damn pretty the game is.

But “timeless” is different than “beautiful”. All of these ultra-realistic games will look dated in a decade. That’s why I would also pick Wind Waker as a “timeless” title. It has an art style that not only is beautiful, but never grows old or outdated.

15 days ago on What games do you consider to have timeless graphics?

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Everyone who backed the console with more than two brain cells to rub together knew they were getting a first generation product that would have a lot of kinks to work out. Every first generation product has problems. I’m personally even more excited to get mine because of the way Ouya has handled their problems. They’re responsive, they’ve continued to work refining the product, and they’re actively engaged with their base. That gives me a lot of hope for the platform because I know if there’s something that doesn’t work I can submit some feedback and actually have a good chance of it being taken into consideration.

15 days ago on Ouya delays retail launch until June 25th to ensure it can meet demand 1 reply 2 recommends

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Minor correction – some types of dark matter can interact with matter through forces other than gravity (WIMP’s, for instance, theoretically undergo Weak Force interactions).

But yeah, this post was pure bupkis.

16 days ago on DARK matter = GHOST / SOUL ? 1 reply

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EA isn’t evil.

/s

16 days ago on EA's 'Star Wars' games unlikely to appear on Wii U, demanding Frostbite 3 engine to blame 1 reply

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Because:

1) Exclusives are bad. That means EA now has no real reason to put out anything other than crap – people will have no choice for Star Wars games except for what they produce. Star Wars is a large enough franchise that titles are guaranteed to sell at least moderately well, so if there’s no competition for the licence EA knows they have a captive audience.
2) EA has historically made a lot of very player-unfriendly decisions, particularly with their “always-on” DRM crap.

17 days ago on EA takes helm from LucasArts, will exclusively develop future 'Star Wars' games 5 replies 6 recommends

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That’s what billions in marketing can buy you.

18 days ago on Looks like high end Samsung devices are more popular than expected 3 recommends

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The NOOK HD has a TI OMAP 4470. It’s a dual core SOC clocked at 1.3GHz. In programs that support the 4-core multithreading that a Nexus can throw out you will get better performance from it. But for normal tasks there isn’t a massive difference between the two.

Both SOC’s are approaching a year old, so you’ll naturally be seeing some devices that can push far better benchmarks than these two devices soon.

19 days ago on Good Deal: Nook HD for $149, Nook HD+ for $179 1 recommend

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Yes, takes up to a 64GB card.

19 days ago on Good Deal: Nook HD for $149, Nook HD+ for $179

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Two years ago BN was the Android tablet market. And even into late last year (prior to the holiday season) they were still sitting at a comfortable third place for US sales behind Apple and Amazon.

Given that they’ve sold over 10 million devices since they were introduced, I’d still peg the NOOK line as far more successful than most other tablets out there.

21 days ago on Nook HD and HD+ get full Google Play support for Android apps 2 recommends

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No eInk device currently supports apps. Kobo, BN, Sony, and all the other Adobe EPUB vendors can share books natively already – Amazon (Kindle) and Apple (iBooks) are the only ones using proprietary formatting.

If it’s something you really want, it’s pretty trivial to root a NOOK Simple Touch (it’s running Android)

21 days ago on Nook HD and HD+ get full Google Play support for Android apps

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I wonder if David Pierce will finally update that NOOK HD review like he said he would six months ago after this.

21 days ago on Nook HD and HD+ get full Google Play support for Android apps 1 reply 1 recommend

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Dat giant home button.

25 days ago on Samsung says the Galaxy S4 design is 'like nothing you've ever seen before'

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Basically this. Look at how popular the Kindle Fire has been despite being a very poor excuse for a tablet – even by Android standards. It’s all in the brand recognition and marketing cash.

26 days ago on A civil war seems to be going on within android. 1 reply

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There is so much wrong with this comment…

26 days ago on Zach Braff's new film hits Kickstarter goal as director attempts to retain creative control 1 reply 3 recommends

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As I understand it, STMicro claimed that their exclusivity agreement with Nokia was for six months, while Nokia said it was for twelve – and the court ruled in favor of Nokia. There wasn’t an immediate turnaround – STMicro did wait, they just didn’t wait long enough.

29 days ago on After injunction over smartphone part, HTC plans switch to new microphone 1 reply

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A friend of mine just got hit while stopped at a red light because the other driver was too busy texting to look up and stop. Texting while driving is a huge problem.

30 days ago on Department of transportation thinks cars should stop you from texting while driving 2 replies 3 recommends

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Dat ugly Plastic. Also, why is everyone writing in italics?

about 1 month ago on Samsung Galaxy S4 review 1 reply 13 recommends