Maktab

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by Maktab 16y ago
Anecdotally, RIM has been making significant inroads amongst the smartphone-buying youth in South Africa by heavily advertising BBN and offering discounted models. Whether this will prove sticky enough in the end and whether it's applicable
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by Maktab 16y ago
It just means that it's profitable for them as a company to make it at that price, but their volumes are still relatively tiny compared to the overall fuel market. Presumably were we all to switch to gas-to-liquids to increased demand on li
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by Maktab 16y ago
Sasol, the world's largest coal-to-liquids (CTL) and gas-to-liquids (GTL) producer, has stated that GTL becomes financially viable at $10-$20 a barrel while CTL reaches the same level at $50-$60 a barrel. So with the current price of oil at
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by Maktab 16y ago
This may be true for basic equipment like assault rifles, but I haven't seen any indication that more complex equipment like fighter aircraft are cheaper to maintain or more reliable in Soviet/Russian guise. As a case in point, I've spoken
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by Maktab 16y ago
I think more interesting than the fact that one guy wrote the entire application is that Apple gave one guy the time and space to create the application on his own.
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by Maktab 16y ago
Most are privately owned or with historical flights, but some do remain in military service. For instance, the Salvadoran Air Force operates 2 near-original C-47Ds and a few Basler BT-67s and the South African Air Force has 10 C-47TPs (conv
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by Maktab 16y ago
The DC-4 was also introduced in the 1930s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-4
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by Maktab 16y ago
Two-finger tap.
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by Maktab 16y ago
Hard to say really, as it's been a while since I dove into this subject. But yes, considering the missile approach warning systems, directed infrared countermeasures and countermeasure dispensers available for use on helicopters today, it's
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by Maktab 16y ago
Any carrier unlocked iPhone will work with all the carriers in South Africa. The frequencies available are GSM 900/1800 and UMTS/HSDPA 2100 and all the carriers offer micro-SIMs if asked. In fact, that's true for the rest of Africa too, whe
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by Maktab 16y ago
The Anza range of MANPADs is based on Chinese MANPAD designs, themselves clones of Soviet/Russian MANPADs, and not on the Stinger. If you view photos of the Anza system the resemblance to Eastern Bloc weapons like the SA-7 Strela are quite
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by Maktab 16y ago
Their low-end consumer phones, maybe. In my experience their smartphones have been as poorly-built as everybody else's. My Nokia smartphones were the only phones I've owned that didn't still look good after two years, with discoloured plast
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by Maktab 16y ago
Which is why I referred to it as Nokia's implementation of Symbian, by which I meant S60. At the time the N70 was released Symbian was not controlled by any one company, with both Nokia and Sony Ericsson controlling the majority of shares i
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by Maktab 16y ago
FWIW, i-mate was never a phone manufacturer, it just resold phones made by others. For most of its existence, the company sold HTC phones under licence in some of the territories where HTC did not have a brand presence. This ended once HTC
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by Maktab 16y ago
When it comes to apps, Apple is the publisher. They make all the rules and can do as they like. For music and books Apple has to negotiate contracts with publishers who likely demand certain conditions in return for their content being made
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by Maktab 16y ago
Contracts with publishers.
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by Maktab 16y ago
It was a bit slow at first, but after a restart and a few minutes of usage it seemed to be back to its old speeds.
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by Maktab 16y ago
Yes and no. Cape Town does have a high violent crime rate compared to most Western cities, but the key thing to understand is that like the rest of SA the vast majority of that crime is concentrated in specific areas like the townships (slu
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by Maktab 16y ago
Depending on when you're going to be able to take the time off, I can recommend Cape Town, South Africa. By avoiding the traditional tourist traps you should be able to find a place to stay for a reasonable price once the football world cup
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by Maktab 16y ago
Great point. For historical reasons, many African countries established better links between themselves and their former Colonial rulers than they did between themselves, with inter-country links being neglected. Immediately after independe
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by Maktab 16y ago
Africa's an awfully big place to make generalisations about. Some cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town for instance, are near first world in their sophistication and living standards and have well-established tech industries, quite different
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by Maktab 16y ago
Gruber never had an app rejected and he doesn't have any apps in the AppStore. Are you sure you're thinking of the same site?
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by Maktab 16y ago
There has actually been a case of an Ebola-carrier travelling by plane to Johannesburg, back during the Gabon outbreak in 1996. The only other person he infected was a nurse who had come into direct contact with some of his blood. She died
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by Maktab 16y ago
It has been done before. In the 1950s, both the US and USSR did some fairly extensive research into nuclear-powered aircraft, culminating in flight tests by a US NB-36H carrying an operational 3 MW air-cooled nuclear reactor and a Soviet Tu
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by Maktab 16y ago
Apple have already stated that iPhone OS 4 will be available for the iPod touch, though only the third-generation touch will get multitasking. I'm not sure why you would have doubted it. How would it have made sense for Apple to exclude it
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by Maktab 16y ago
Probably not now, after the lines have been drawn this sharply. But what sort of argument would Apple have been able to present against Flash if a full mobile Flash port had been up to snuff two or even three years ago?
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by Maktab 16y ago
More like Adobe has finally poured some engineering investment into making Flash work decently on a mobile platform. By all indications 10.1 is a massive improvement over 10. It's still not quite as good as Adobe are saying, but it seems to
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by Maktab 16y ago
FNB in South Africa has a learning quick select feature for withdrawals like the one you describe. After I withdrew the same amount a couple of times it appeared on the main screen as a quick select option. Same with language. I'm sure I wa
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by Maktab 16y ago
But it does call into question their command of the facts and the small yet important details of the situation. In my opinion it was quite evident throughout the article that Malone had not studied the situation sufficiently and did not see
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by Maktab 16y ago
The recent Wired story about Brad Hogan, the guy who found the phone, implies that Hogan did not actually make any of the attempts to find the phone that Gizmodo claimed. Whatever the justification of the police raid on Chen's house and all

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