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Google buys half of HTC.

Remember when they bought Motorola, then decided that was dumb, and sold Motorola?

They need to get better at hardware, but I don't understand why they didn't just follow through with Moto?
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I thought they bought Moto just for the patents?
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Leisher wrote: I thought they bought Moto just for the patents?
Well, they bought the entire thing. Then sold off most of it to Lenovo, but yes, kept the patents.
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Fiber has been down in my town since 11am. Fuckers.

No eta, no anything.
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Late to the party on this one. My wife's brother worked for Motorola in their North Burbs office (like, Waukegan or something). He has a nice house in a nice middle-class subdivision in what used to be a cornfield less than years ago. Literally five minute drive from work.

Google buys Moto and decides to move everybody into a hip downtown office, like on the Miracle Mile or something. So now he's got a 2-hour train commute, but there's wifi and hey, he works for Google! Bennies and perks!

Anyway. I believe he actually does OK and gets to work on cool stuff. Just a bitch of a commute.
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Fiber's back, it was an upstream provider that went down, wires cut, not other word on why/how they were cut.
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TheCatt wrote: Fiber's back, it was an upstream provider that went down, wires cut, not other word on why/how they were cut.
Spectrum Cable Internet sends their regards.
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Oh God, Jesus, don't make me think of those people.
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I got switched from Roadrunner to Spectrum, in the rebrand, or whatever it was.

Suddenly I am seeing micro-outtages when for 10 years I never did.
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Hasn't shown up on mine yet...
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Specific new phones. Read the article.
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Leisher wrote: Specific new phones. Read the article.
Mine is in the article. It's literally in the title.
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Let me know how it works when it does show up.
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If it works as well as Google Translate does (I used it a few times in Peru when there were words I was not familiar with in Spanish), that'd be awesome. Real-time translation is funky to watch.
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Turns out Big Mac does it that way, according to a video clip someone posted.

And what about this one?

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Well, I'm not shocked that Apple has better graphic artists...
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I think the question is why is there a gap between the beer and the foam?
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TheCatt wrote: I think the question is why is there a gap between the beer and the foam?
Because the people working at Google are too young to drink and/or too socially awkward to actually see what a beer served at a bar looks like?
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