This is what governments are for, to protect the people with legislation (treaties in EU case) and uphold them. One of those being price fixing, collusion and anti-trust.
So, they upheld their treaties by punishing those that broke them. They did their job.
They choose Mexico and Brazil because their import duty for foreign assembled products is so high. Look at products such a s cars. Foreign assembled and manufactured cars are luxury even though people in Brazil should be able to afford BMWs, Audis, or American/European Fords. They can't so they manufacture their own cars which do not share any likeness from platform, chassis or styling. A ford Focus is not the same as Euro/American versions.
As for Corning glass. Why is fish caught in the UK waters shipped to eastern Europe to be processed and then shipped back to the UK. The labour to process this fish is far cheaper even after the air miles than it would be to do it in the UK.
With OS X the main hurdle was to move from Carbon to Cocoa, as Apple dropped Carbon and never made it 64 bit. This took a couple of people a month or two at most.
So again, why is it so hard for Windows development?
As a sound engineer I find a lot of hearing aids have had major features removed. I'm always getting more and more people who have aids that have no induction loop ("T") setting. Some now come with bluetooth, good for your mobile phone but not easy to pair to a PA system, kiosk or POS.
They have to have police officers in American schools because gun crime is so bad. In the UK two kids will hit each other, in America a kid will bring a gun to school the next day. I actually thought someone was trolling me when I first heard that American schools have armed police officers.
I ordered one, two months later they cancelled my order for no reason. Ordered another in July from RS, one month past so I went to Element14. Element14 delivered in 3 days, ordered a seconds one a couple of weeks later and that took 2 days. My second RS order from July still hasn't arrived.
My local Tesco has RPi for sale in the CPC (Farnell) section.
It reminded me how incompetent RS are. I used to make orders of components, used to take weeks for everything to arrive. Farnell can get them to me by next morning.
PC manufacturers have done this for years and have never learnt either.
Nothing better than a brand new PC that take 2 minutes to boot then 3 minutes for the HDD to settle down after login followed by a ton of nagware, reformat and reinstall and choose not to install he bloatware and the PC takes 40 seconds to boot and no HDD activity after a couple of seconds after login.
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I bet you they made far more in profit than the cost of the fines.
I thought corporations were individuals in the USA?
This is what governments are for, to protect the people with legislation (treaties in EU case) and uphold them. One of those being price fixing, collusion and anti-trust.
So, they upheld their treaties by punishing those that broke them. They did their job.
They choose Mexico and Brazil because their import duty for foreign assembled products is so high. Look at products such a s cars. Foreign assembled and manufactured cars are luxury even though people in Brazil should be able to afford BMWs, Audis, or American/European Fords. They can't so they manufacture their own cars which do not share any likeness from platform, chassis or styling. A ford Focus is not the same as Euro/American versions.
As for Corning glass. Why is fish caught in the UK waters shipped to eastern Europe to be processed and then shipped back to the UK. The labour to process this fish is far cheaper even after the air miles than it would be to do it in the UK.
Apple do assemble in Ireland too. My iMac G5 with iSight says "Assembled in Ireland", as do many BTO products.
Most of that can be fixed by only allowing plain text e-mails.
Slashdot has ads, if you don't want to see them, how much are you willing to pay?
If you increase your karma by getting plenty of points, Slashdot give you a button to disable ads.
With OS X the main hurdle was to move from Carbon to Cocoa, as Apple dropped Carbon and never made it 64 bit. This took a couple of people a month or two at most.
So again, why is it so hard for Windows development?
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OS24Ever and I composed the same question at the same question. Reply to his post above. :)
I am not a developer. Can someone explain why making apps 64 bit for Windows is so difficult compared to other operating systems?
I take this isn't a utility patent but a design one? Why is this in the news?
Oh, I live in the UK and was unaware of a third candidate. I thought the US was a two party only system?
Mitt was a dreadful choice for a conservative presidential candidate.
Romney was a far right conservative presidential candidate, Obama is not "moderate" at all as he is a right wing conservative.
What is bad is America had no left wing candidate at all.
We're going how the rest of the world define political spectrum, not America.
As a sound engineer I find a lot of hearing aids have had major features removed. I'm always getting more and more people who have aids that have no induction loop ("T") setting. Some now come with bluetooth, good for your mobile phone but not easy to pair to a PA system, kiosk or POS.
Is the IT contracted out? I'm guess GMP will try to recoup the fines from the private contractors.
They have to have police officers in American schools because gun crime is so bad. In the UK two kids will hit each other, in America a kid will bring a gun to school the next day. I actually thought someone was trolling me when I first heard that American schools have armed police officers.
http://www.ifpo.org/articlebank/school_officers.html
It all fights fire with fire. Totally backwards and yes, Orwellian.
So are Tesco at some stores. They sell the CPC (Farnell/Element14) kits.
RS have been terrible.
I ordered one, two months later they cancelled my order for no reason. Ordered another in July from RS, one month past so I went to Element14. Element14 delivered in 3 days, ordered a seconds one a couple of weeks later and that took 2 days. My second RS order from July still hasn't arrived.
My local Tesco has RPi for sale in the CPC (Farnell) section.
It reminded me how incompetent RS are. I used to make orders of components, used to take weeks for everything to arrive. Farnell can get them to me by next morning.
PC manufacturers have done this for years and have never learnt either.
Nothing better than a brand new PC that take 2 minutes to boot then 3 minutes for the HDD to settle down after login followed by a ton of nagware, reformat and reinstall and choose not to install he bloatware and the PC takes 40 seconds to boot and no HDD activity after a couple of seconds after login.
But this bill is what we wanted. We voted the people in to government that are making this bill.
I'm sure the government will use some bullshit excuse like this.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=from:+japan+to:+china&saddr=japan&daddr=china&hl=en&sll=33.728725,121.197535&sspn=24.456251,44.560547&geocode=FRhxKAIdfJI9CCkvGX_XD05nNDFEUmZ81HVC9Q%3BFZw0IwIdReU1BinBQsblZI5QMTFvNp80fKodlQ&dirflg=d&t=m&z=5
Step 41.
Meh. It looks like Google+ to me if I didn't care or know about the backend.
I prefer this: http://klouchebag.com/
Leica can prove prior art with their M8.