What you have to remember with China is it is not a corporation suing Apple but in effect the government suing Apple.
Companies in China belong to China – You can't trade in China, you trade with China. You can't go to a company wanting to trade, you have to deal with a government official asking you want to trade with China.
Most people who run these large companies rise through local and central governments, many becoming government officials. They have huge influence on all parts of China, think of it like a Masonic society – A magic handshake with the judge, you know the case will be favourable to you winning.
I welcome them getting rid of the optical drive. They consume about 1/4 the space in the 15 inch and 1/3 in the 13 inch. I haven't used my optical drive for OS X in a couple of years. Installing Snow Leopard and burning CDs for my old car I think was the last time I used it.
If you really need an optical drive. Apple do one for £65 http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC684ZM/A or you can get a different branded one at half the price from elsewhere.
I do burn CD/DVDs, we have a duplicator that burns 16 disks at a time and a DLT drive for sending masters for pressing. It used to churn out many hundreds of disks a week, now lucky to get an order each month for a handful, it is all Internet distributed.
He's talking about $100 point and shoot cameras, 14 mega pixels on a 1/8 inch sensor. The D800 isn't anything special, it has the same pixel density as a Canon 7D/60D/450D. D800 does a good job with noise as it has an newer generation sensor. Look at the Sony F65 for newer tech, 18 stops dynamic range, amazing colour and handles high ISO really well, but you'll only get that at a price of $100,000. I shoot with a D4, it is clean at high ISO. You get what you pay for.
I also shoot with a Contax 645 with Leaf Aptus II back. Produces 27mp images, has good colour and dynamics, but totally unusable past 200 ISO. $40,000 camera with older tech, medium format is dead if no new technology is made. Here you do not get what you pay for.
Their competitors (Mozilla) know they can't keep up with Google's advertising campaign. It's a shame that it hard to to get any sort of billboard or newspaper ad for Firefox.
At the moment the everything is competitive. But as you say, Google keep on introducing tags that only Chrome understands, I wish they would stop doing that and stick to ratified standard. Many web apps are only supporting Chrome only tags, your example was Angry Birds, mine will be Tweet Deck. Any others people can think of?
As a retail investor you'll never get a broker to sell to you on an IPO day. They have to pocket their own money, then sell to their own trusted clients. You might have a chance to buy shares when the people on Wall Street have sucked all the money out of the shares, like what happened to AOL and Yahoo.
Anyone got any numbers on how much the underwriters were moving around? They came in and took control within the first hour. Volume was massive especially in the last few hours when they forced it to flatline near $38.
Not forgetting the Evoke made in Halewood near Liverpool. New engine plant will be in Wolverhampton.
R&D in China. The engine technology from Ford and PSA Peugeot Citroën would not be allowed to be manufactured or assembled in China so they are having to design new engines. Similar to Focus in America are manufactured in Mexico. PSA Peugeot Citroën and others such as Mazda do not allow their technologies to be built in Mexico. The Focus in America stayed on the Mk1 platform and engines for 12 years while Europe released new versions based on totally new platforms and refined engines. Only until mk3 Focus did the USA catchup.
They are only moving assembly to China for the Chinease market. Shipping made cars two per container from the UK is not feasible. Everyone in Europe, America, Africa etc will still get the British made cars.
TFA is fud. The factory near where I live in Birmingham is recruiting like crazy. Soon to open a new engine plant in Wolverhampton too.
Parts for cars come from all over the world now anyway. Assembly doesn't employ many people compared to R&D, sourcing, etc.
A bunch of investors throwing tons of money after dot-com companies on the belief that these companies, despite having no earnings, would somehow grow big.
Just like Facebook then.
Their income and profits are that of a medium sized business, not that of a top NASDAQ trading company.
Facebook are already stuck in the dinosaur age of the Internet. Facebook is a web 2.0 company, people are moving to mobile and Facebook have nothing to answer. They are not inventing or innovating, just acquiring other companies.
More businesses are going to be overvalued the bubble will pop and the fallout will be huge. Facebook will survive by the skin of their teeth, just like AOL, Yahoo and MySpace do today.
Going back in history. 44.1kHz was chosen because it syncs with PAL video frames, 48kHz syncs with NTSC. If you were doing linear editing, you can dub and cut the audio perfectly to the half frame.
44.1kHz stuck because Umatic, an analogue videotape that you could buy a PCM head as an optional extra, was chosen to create the master copies for CDs to be sent to duplication in to pressed CDs.
It's usually more to do with the processing underneath than the panel itself. Samsung processing is mediocre at best, not even as good as Fujitsu Plasmavison or Pioneer panels from 5 years ago. Sharp have good panels, but poor DSP processing. Samsung have ok panels but better processing.
We no longer have high-end TVs on the market, so no excellent panels with excellent processing. Nobody has yet to beat Kuro and Aviamo.
Apple would never call it iTV for this reason. And before people ask "why don't Apple buy ITV", ITV's enterprise value is 327.01 billion. Apple could afford that, but 1/3 of all their money just for a name, I don't think so.
The PM is chosen by the conservative party as they created a majority by forming a coalition - only 32% of the nation using the FPTP system elected the conservatives in to government.
This would make some of the most corrupt governments in the world happy to have such unfair systems. UK still uses it.
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What you have to remember with China is it is not a corporation suing Apple but in effect the government suing Apple.
Companies in China belong to China – You can't trade in China, you trade with China. You can't go to a company wanting to trade, you have to deal with a government official asking you want to trade with China.
Most people who run these large companies rise through local and central governments, many becoming government officials. They have huge influence on all parts of China, think of it like a Masonic society – A magic handshake with the judge, you know the case will be favourable to you winning.
Spam on /. is getting worse. Whatever happened to goatse and fristpost?
Britain has representative democracy
No they don't with having First Past The Post as their method for electing members of Parliament.
I welcome them getting rid of the optical drive. They consume about 1/4 the space in the 15 inch and 1/3 in the 13 inch. I haven't used my optical drive for OS X in a couple of years. Installing Snow Leopard and burning CDs for my old car I think was the last time I used it.
If you really need an optical drive. Apple do one for £65 http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC684ZM/A or you can get a different branded one at half the price from elsewhere.
I do burn CD/DVDs, we have a duplicator that burns 16 disks at a time and a DLT drive for sending masters for pressing. It used to churn out many hundreds of disks a week, now lucky to get an order each month for a handful, it is all Internet distributed.
He's talking about $100 point and shoot cameras, 14 mega pixels on a 1/8 inch sensor. The D800 isn't anything special, it has the same pixel density as a Canon 7D/60D/450D. D800 does a good job with noise as it has an newer generation sensor. Look at the Sony F65 for newer tech, 18 stops dynamic range, amazing colour and handles high ISO really well, but you'll only get that at a price of $100,000. I shoot with a D4, it is clean at high ISO. You get what you pay for.
I also shoot with a Contax 645 with Leaf Aptus II back. Produces 27mp images, has good colour and dynamics, but totally unusable past 200 ISO. $40,000 camera with older tech, medium format is dead if no new technology is made. Here you do not get what you pay for.
You're new here. I think what you were supposed to write was "whoosh!"
Good for Google and good for the web!
Their competitors (Mozilla) know they can't keep up with Google's advertising campaign. It's a shame that it hard to to get any sort of billboard or newspaper ad for Firefox.
At the moment the everything is competitive. But as you say, Google keep on introducing tags that only Chrome understands, I wish they would stop doing that and stick to ratified standard. Many web apps are only supporting Chrome only tags, your example was Angry Birds, mine will be Tweet Deck. Any others people can think of?
This is what I was thinking, to be played on the NASDAQ floor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=32V3GRnz4us
As a retail investor you'll never get a broker to sell to you on an IPO day. They have to pocket their own money, then sell to their own trusted clients. You might have a chance to buy shares when the people on Wall Street have sucked all the money out of the shares, like what happened to AOL and Yahoo.
Anyone got any numbers on how much the underwriters were moving around? They came in and took control within the first hour. Volume was massive especially in the last few hours when they forced it to flatline near $38.
They would go down further if it wasn't for underwriters propping it up, that's the troubling part.
Not forgetting the Evoke made in Halewood near Liverpool. New engine plant will be in Wolverhampton.
R&D in China. The engine technology from Ford and PSA Peugeot Citroën would not be allowed to be manufactured or assembled in China so they are having to design new engines. Similar to Focus in America are manufactured in Mexico. PSA Peugeot Citroën and others such as Mazda do not allow their technologies to be built in Mexico. The Focus in America stayed on the Mk1 platform and engines for 12 years while Europe released new versions based on totally new platforms and refined engines. Only until mk3 Focus did the USA catchup.
Nobody can buy a TVR, they haven't been made since 2006.
They are only moving assembly to China for the Chinease market. Shipping made cars two per container from the UK is not feasible. Everyone in Europe, America, Africa etc will still get the British made cars.
TFA is fud. The factory near where I live in Birmingham is recruiting like crazy. Soon to open a new engine plant in Wolverhampton too.
Parts for cars come from all over the world now anyway. Assembly doesn't employ many people compared to R&D, sourcing, etc.
They are only moving assembly to China for the Chinease market. Shipping made cars from the UK, two per container is not feasible.
Everyone in Europe, America, Africa etc will still get the British made cars.
A bunch of investors throwing tons of money after dot-com companies on the belief that these companies, despite having no earnings, would somehow grow big.
Just like Facebook then.
Their income and profits are that of a medium sized business, not that of a top NASDAQ trading company.
Facebook are already stuck in the dinosaur age of the Internet. Facebook is a web 2.0 company, people are moving to mobile and Facebook have nothing to answer. They are not inventing or innovating, just acquiring other companies.
More businesses are going to be overvalued the bubble will pop and the fallout will be huge. Facebook will survive by the skin of their teeth, just like AOL, Yahoo and MySpace do today.
I'm a sound engineer and you are totally right.
Going back in history. 44.1kHz was chosen because it syncs with PAL video frames, 48kHz syncs with NTSC. If you were doing linear editing, you can dub and cut the audio perfectly to the half frame.
44.1kHz stuck because Umatic, an analogue videotape that you could buy a PCM head as an optional extra, was chosen to create the master copies for CDs to be sent to duplication in to pressed CDs.
I've been to some large company HQs like Tesco and VW and even large offices for IBM, all still stuck to IE6.
Brand new Tesco by me all their tills, stock control, e-mail, quite literally everything is done within IE6.
Their software requires IE6 and they are not likely to change soon.
I've never seen a grade 1 or grade 2 screen with a gloss black surround. They are usually matte black or 18% grey.
I used Yahoo Finance, http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ITV.L
Perhaps Yahoo are a factor of 1,000 out. Unsure what is realistic these days, with tech company bubbles around.
It's usually more to do with the processing underneath than the panel itself. Samsung processing is mediocre at best, not even as good as Fujitsu Plasmavison or Pioneer panels from 5 years ago. Sharp have good panels, but poor DSP processing. Samsung have ok panels but better processing.
We no longer have high-end TVs on the market, so no excellent panels with excellent processing. Nobody has yet to beat Kuro and Aviamo.
Makes Denon's cat5 cable look a steal.
Apple would never call it iTV for this reason. And before people ask "why don't Apple buy ITV", ITV's enterprise value is 327.01 billion. Apple could afford that, but 1/3 of all their money just for a name, I don't think so.
Or a paid subscriber that gets to see slashdot posts before they are posted to the public.
We're also desensitised to middle-east terrorists, we have had to live with some from Ireland for many years.
Terrorism happens, we're human, someone will always have a grudge. We just need to get on with our lives.
The UK already elects a leader
No we don't. We elect MPs, not the leader.
The PM is chosen by the conservative party as they created a majority by forming a coalition - only 32% of the nation using the FPTP system elected the conservatives in to government.
This would make some of the most corrupt governments in the world happy to have such unfair systems. UK still uses it.