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There are 14 competing standards.[Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other.] Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Ponytail: Yeah![Another text-only panel. The word "Soon:" appears in its own box at the upper left of ...
Hence, which small bodies of water are "lakes" and which is the smallest can't be clearly answered, without specifying a whole list of parameters and standards. This question is related to the Tom Scott video What counts as the world's shortest river? What lake has the largest surface ...
NortonandMcAfee(note spelling) are competing software security companies, founded byPeter NortonandJohn McAfeerespectively (though neither has any involvement with their name-sake companies anymore). This "protection" combines the two of them and claims that Norton (the person) will defend you if Mc...
competing formatWebPwhich appeared 10 years later is supported in all major browsers and has much wider support in other applications as well. As a result, the conventional file name extensions for files using the JPEG2000 standard, .jp2 and .jpx, remain unfamiliar to many users while the .jp...