No, you don't get it. Apple makes a greater percentage profit on their cables than on their laptops. For example, with the $25 dongle the article mentions, Apple makes 235% profit. That's right, Apple makes $58.75 in profit, and that's after deducting the $1.18 cost for material and labor.
In addition, you haven't heard about the mandatory Cable-a-Month club membership that comes with every new MacBook. Since Mac users aren't good at maths, they never realize the monthly charge on their credit card for a USB-C to Lightning cable. They just assume they are getting a new cable in the mail every month for free.
So, you see, it's very simple how Apple makes much more money off their $25 cables than they do on their $2500 laptops.
Global warming and pollution will not be held back unless we have mandatory birth control world wide. As population increases more and more land must be used for agriculture and meat as well as housing and roads. The more human activity we have the worse nature will decline. One child for every female under every circumstance needs to be the world wide law.
Actually, in many places it does. The sun heating certain areas in the morning creates wind. Those areas cooling in the evening causes wind. At mid-day and mid-night, there is no heat gradient to cause strong wind.
Alternately, storms blow for days at a time, with strong winds for the whole period. And windmills are shut down so they don't break from turning past their rated rpm.
And nice way to completely leave off solar, as the article/submission mentioned how many millions of solar panels were installed last year. They sure don't produce much energy in a Northern winter.
I am not surprised that the concentration passed the threshold. I see people who sit in their idling cars who don't appear to be doing anything at all. Parked normally, in a busy (i.e. safe) parking lot, with nice weather, thus no need for AC or heat. I see people who start their big trucks up so they can charge their phones, because, otherwise, they'd have to go 5 minutes without a social media update. I see people who are at the gas station and are pumping gas to their car, which means their car is not going ANYWHERE for the duration of the fill-up, with the vehicle idling.
Please tell me where you see people filling their tanks with the engine running.
I see all these dumb people who think they must let the car idle because they are in the car and it would be a sin for the car to not be running if there is someone inside the car. It doesn't make any sense.
Of course, someone will reply to say that cars aren't contributing that much. Look up what part of the CO2 output now comes from cars. They've become the main source, according to at least one source. The person that replies so will probably also claim humans aren't doing anything that causes warming to begin with. Which means their reply is pointless.
Geologic time scales? Pisshhh. If you weren't such a poser you'd go straight to universal time scales, where the earth averages out to a cloud of dust. So whats the big deal if a supervillian builds a planet vaporizing death ray? The atoms were there before, they'll be there after.
Finally!! Someone gets it! I was beginning to think you guys would never figure that one out.
No, we can't. Airplanes aren't going to be solar powered, wind driven ships are extremely erratic, and delivering food to cities by horse-drawn carts is so last millennium.
Maybe he has an automated dog grooming station in the trunk of his current car. Just pull up, have the trunk open, toss the doggie inside, and it pops out twenty minutes later all cleaned and trimmed.
Sounds like working in the repair room at a national computer store chain (that is now out of business).
"Fix those 15 computers, while answering the phone every five minutes for people checking if their computer is done yet, let every customer on the sales floor stop you to ask what's on sale while you are trying to get a part for one of those 15 computers, and keep full notes on each work order's progress using the online forms written in ASCII ten years earlier."
Surprisingly, I increased my work output several percent just by buying my own tape gun. No more having to find where the overnight stock crew left them, to be able to tape the work orders to the finished computers.
Not many can. They stand up to get something, and forget what it was they needed. They need to look back at what they were doing to remember what other item they had to get.
...one's productivity output is lowered when keeping up with emails,
I've known this for years. That's why I rarely check email, and just let it sit in the inbox until the person calls me the following week asking if I got their message.
They are going to tell you to walk through the metal detector, same as everyone else. When it beeps, you can either take the phone out of your ass, or go back to your car.
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A dongle by its very nature sticks out. It is totally phallic.
You've never seen breasts, have you?
No, you don't get it. Apple makes a greater percentage profit on their cables than on their laptops. For example, with the $25 dongle the article mentions, Apple makes 235% profit. That's right, Apple makes $58.75 in profit, and that's after deducting the $1.18 cost for material and labor.
In addition, you haven't heard about the mandatory Cable-a-Month club membership that comes with every new MacBook. Since Mac users aren't good at maths, they never realize the monthly charge on their credit card for a USB-C to Lightning cable. They just assume they are getting a new cable in the mail every month for free.
So, you see, it's very simple how Apple makes much more money off their $25 cables than they do on their $2500 laptops.
Global warming and pollution will not be held back unless we have mandatory birth control world wide. As population increases more and more land must be used for agriculture and meat as well as housing and roads. The more human activity we have the worse nature will decline. One child for every female under every circumstance needs to be the world wide law.
So, then, there is no hope at all.
I have two points left right now. I'll mod it funny for you.
If lies about someone are "shouted from rooftops or in public assemblies", it is slander, not libel.
Actually, in many places it does. The sun heating certain areas in the morning creates wind. Those areas cooling in the evening causes wind. At mid-day and mid-night, there is no heat gradient to cause strong wind.
Alternately, storms blow for days at a time, with strong winds for the whole period. And windmills are shut down so they don't break from turning past their rated rpm.
And nice way to completely leave off solar, as the article/submission mentioned how many millions of solar panels were installed last year. They sure don't produce much energy in a Northern winter.
You'll have to forgive him. As a martian, English isn't his first language.
Is one of those words "Foster"?
Exactly. Thank you for playing.
Mt Dew for the win.
It's all just yeast shit anyway.
I am not surprised that the concentration passed the threshold. I see people who sit in their idling cars who don't appear to be doing anything at all. Parked normally, in a busy (i.e. safe) parking lot, with nice weather, thus no need for AC or heat. I see people who start their big trucks up so they can charge their phones, because, otherwise, they'd have to go 5 minutes without a social media update. I see people who are at the gas station and are pumping gas to their car, which means their car is not going ANYWHERE for the duration of the fill-up, with the vehicle idling.
Please tell me where you see people filling their tanks with the engine running.
I see all these dumb people who think they must let the car idle because they are in the car and it would be a sin for the car to not be running if there is someone inside the car. It doesn't make any sense.
Of course, someone will reply to say that cars aren't contributing that much. Look up what part of the CO2 output now comes from cars. They've become the main source, according to at least one source. The person that replies so will probably also claim humans aren't doing anything that causes warming to begin with. Which means their reply is pointless.
Geologic time scales? Pisshhh. If you weren't such a poser you'd go straight to universal time scales, where the earth averages out to a cloud of dust. So whats the big deal if a supervillian builds a planet vaporizing death ray? The atoms were there before, they'll be there after.
Finally!! Someone gets it! I was beginning to think you guys would never figure that one out.
No, we can't. Airplanes aren't going to be solar powered, wind driven ships are extremely erratic, and delivering food to cities by horse-drawn carts is so last millennium.
That's all right. I've spent the last few years building up a tolerance to autism.
Now I only have Asperger's.
Maybe he has an automated dog grooming station in the trunk of his current car. Just pull up, have the trunk open, toss the doggie inside, and it pops out twenty minutes later all cleaned and trimmed.
This would be great in a driverless car. :^)
My wife definitely think I should ignore all such emails. :^P
you probably don't even know what MMR means
Measles, Mumps, Rubella?
That was my first thought.
Sounds like working in the repair room at a national computer store chain (that is now out of business).
"Fix those 15 computers, while answering the phone every five minutes for people checking if their computer is done yet, let every customer on the sales floor stop you to ask what's on sale while you are trying to get a part for one of those 15 computers, and keep full notes on each work order's progress using the online forms written in ASCII ten years earlier."
Surprisingly, I increased my work output several percent just by buying my own tape gun. No more having to find where the overnight stock crew left them, to be able to tape the work orders to the finished computers.
Not many can. They stand up to get something, and forget what it was they needed. They need to look back at what they were doing to remember what other item they had to get.
Or is that just me?
...one's productivity output is lowered when keeping up with emails,
I've known this for years. That's why I rarely check email, and just let it sit in the inbox until the person calls me the following week asking if I got their message.
My network has 100% uptime
so does mi
Ahh, Slashdot humor. It never fails to serve.
What? I'm sure some of the various ethnic-group females are lesbian. What other diversity is there?
Oh shit, we're fucked now. Hillary found out how to use her powers of ESP to go online.
They are going to tell you to walk through the metal detector, same as everyone else. When it beeps, you can either take the phone out of your ass, or go back to your car.
What are you? Amish?