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Could be that too I suppose. 3 initials ending in D reminds me of NPD though.

That is the ideal Fyro. But denying reality of weaknesses and missteps don't benefit we consumers though.

Think they're one of the tracking groups - link doesn't elaborate though.

Just rumors at this point and only on regard to DS2 that I've seen.

Fined for being off by THIRTY INJURIES AND DEATHS TOTAL FROM 2003-2005. So assuming similar is going on now, a decade later after a relatively large fine, is all deaths (you didn't state injuries), and all the contract accompanies are doing it - it's probably 1-2 deaths assuming there was as...

Heko: Remember how I said a sale on Kindles was likely soon? Apparently $40 off for the 8.9 I consider the best deal. Same price as refurbs are usually for new ATM I think. Not sure how stock is on them though article that I read is stating the 8.9's are selling quickly though.

"Might be"... With no evidenced cases so far of being accurate. Fanaskin's might be retarded but I don't regularly throw that assault since I don'thave any solid evidence of its accuracy even though I do have suspicions. But if we're taking what ifs and might be's as debate evidence perhaps i...

Apparently there's 3 bands you can do LTE on, Spark enabled devices can use multiple LTE bands at once to theoretically get three times LTE speeds in a perfect situation. I think their statement in the press release was 1Gbps was theoretically possible in a perfect storm or something? (note...

It should be listed as MDET and should be precisely 2.3% of applicable equipment which is rather narrow.

Yea, that was a civil discussion - a bit inane and over misusing a word IMO - but it was civil. But Fuck, Fuck, Fuckity Fuck Fuck for the sake of adding some noncivility to our recent discourse or something.

When Triband/Spark was still working right here I was getting something like 55/30 with a similar ping out here near Towson, MD on the M8 - although it did vary by which part of the neighborhood I was in even seemed going one street over could cost a ton of speed. Hopefully the wonkiness is...

Sounds like you need to get a Martian Watch instead, chaos.

Yep, you can even run up the stairs and onto the top of the one arch to really stay clear of him - most of the time if he lunges at you from the stairs and you're there he'll miss. And just for the extra damage of it, once the dogs are dead I tend to keep using the stairs for plunging attacks...

Originally read it as GA doing the ban with that being his commentary on it - until I checked the thread and it became absolutely clear Sean did the ban. (Same anime commissar or whatever pic from last time, etc)

I'm confused by the GA quote in there.... did GA report you and that was his comment in the report or something?

That's fine, but you might want to be clearer of your meaning when the context in the thread in general is something different. [Although I will state, depending on the parts cost of the unit to produce including fail rate etc - it's possible they're actually losing money selling units -...

Depends on their agreement - books and software actually have a "buy-back" stipulation that the retailer can return supply to get refunded a portion of the original investment - not sure if hardware has the same options, not been relevant for any modern system before. (Might not even be now -...

The entire industry uses "sold at retail" figures for "sold"... that's how the industry as a whole operates... (NPD for example - uses "sold at retail" for their sales figures - something expected to do well and overstocked bombs - still reported as shitty numbers, not retailer bought figures...

And the second article elaborates on what "sold-in" means - it means sold to retailers, not necessarily sold to end-users/consumers. Bought and sitting in a warehouse amongst other possibilities are included in that 5 million figure. That's not 5 million sold to consumers that they've got...

Did you even read your links? "Microsoft announced that it sold 311,000 units in the US in March, and said that the console had surpassed 5 million units sold-in -- meaning only sold to retailers, not purchased by consumers -- worldwide." 311k sold to consumers in March is fact. 5 million...

AKA "Please forget about it, I'm stupid"

Yea it looks perfect.

Learn to read. I said to or from. You are a US resident, it shipped to you in the US. But the tax is also paid by international people as well is the point. If it's say $100b of revenue, likely a third or so is coming from the rest of the world, if not more. Additionally the tax is a...

On 1) that's the normal methodology, but since the profits are capped later in the formulae - it would be tricky to balance from what I know of it. 2) Insurance has ALWAYS worked that way, executives have always been part of the same pool as their lower tier staff - the scope is just larger...

Yep kicking in soon here not familiar with when indiegogo charges so been waiting til the budget is open officially.

Really wanted it to sound interesting, but the details so far ain't doing it for me. HTC definitely has the right mindset for me right now.

Eh, we're religious on charging stuff that's not a worry. But all stuff to weigh, could fitbit and watch up, too of course. Money isn't really an object to me for a one-time cost when its for our health. (seriously we keep a 3DS, Vita, 4 smartphones (no clue why we bother to charge the old...

Frk: 1) I'm sure they'll try to, just can't see a way for them to. There does always seem to be a loophole though, so you're probably right in the long run once they find one or create one via lobbying.

Might want to actually read it and the comments first... For starters the timeframe issue I mentioned, the fact that informally the Census has received direction from the Cabinet for thirty years since it's been established - they just formalized it, and that the old metric was counting...

I'm sure 2020 when the census is taken next we'll really have no easily visible idea how its doing regardless. You do realize the census is only tabulated every decade, right? So even if they start this policy tomorrow it wouldn't show results til 2020 - worst way to cook the books ever...

On the funding, the methods are all already demonstrated for everything included in estimates. And note that insurance profits were reduced as a cap, for the future - yes they'll stick to that new reduced cap - but that's gross profit that the cap applies to, not net profit that taxes are taken...

Yea, being a secondary user in most of the UHC nations (except for Singapore and Sweden I think?) sounds really wonky. Don't they have the big military hospital in Germany though? Would think that would've been the more efficient route being a military person - or do they not do those types of...

Technically somewhat true - it's a tax on any medical devices that are SHIPPED to or from the US. So for imported and exported units the taxes are only going to be indirectly represented here. It's not just a tax on US held companies or US purchased devices when it comes to those we ship out. In...

Neat and relevant that I just bumped into - apparently the Samsung Gear Fit MOSTLY works with HTC One M7 and M8 (probably with everything Android with 4.x or higher I'd assume) -How To Use Samsungs Gear Fit With Other Android Devices - YouTube

Looking into it more looks like if Moto 360 is oppressively expensive that there's going to be other Google Now integrated ones planned by the end of the year - wife made me check if HTC is doing a smartwatch - and they've apparently got two on the schedule for this year - one that is Google Now...

Medicaid is by law Federally funded, so it would all be coming from the top for anything when it comes to government funding - and additionally by the ACA it's required for each state that participates in the Medicaid Expansion to allow a variant of Medicaid where people can opt to BUY INTO...

Honestly Brut, it's just to show some level of participation to her so she doesn't feel like she's doing it alone, I realize it's halfassed. (and keep in mind my phone already does it, so it's just about having the data at hand easily) For her side we want the full spread. Although I am...

Probably from the taxes on the insurance companies would be my guess, but they don't have it elaborated in the report that I see.

You do realize that's talking about them stating that it was going to provide less revenue, right? And that now it's going to be providing slightly closer to the original estimate... Thus the word "collecting" - that correction is actually $43b more towards the "costing less" side because...

So far from my own looking around without guidance, candidates I've seen are: Watch: Pebble, Sony SW2, Razer Nabu (sorta both though for Nabu) and Martian - heavily leaning towards Martian though. Fitness Tracker: Razer Nabu, Garmin vivofit, and now Nike Fuel since I'd been unaware of them...