But that's the one alternatives are being proposed for, the question was "If they aren't doing this to screw the aftermarket and do more costly repairs themselves, why the change?".
And I do think 5. is the most likely alternative to the obvious reason...
1. They are technically better in some aspect for their use. 2. A supplier offered them cheaper than the what they were using. 3. The supplier of the new slightly more expensive screws is a good friend of an apple board member/engineer/designer/whatever. 4. It reduces the chances of idiot users doing idiot things. 5. Jobs thought they looked better.
Why is not possible to to have a higher quality of life without a welfare state than with one? Everything else is not the same of course.
Take a state in which certain members are rounded up and sent to gas chambers - say the Jews, the homosexuals, and the liberals. And in which anyone can be taken by the government and sent to the salt mines on a whim. And in which nobody is allowed to leave the state. But which has a welfare system in which the government pays the unemployed, the elderly, the sick, etc a good income (though of course most of them are just sent to the salt mines).
And another state which enshrines civil liberties and the government isn't allowed to kill on a whim, sending someone to prison requires convincing a jury that they should be. Travel is completely unrestricted. But there's no welfare system. The sick, the elderly, and the unemployed are forced to rely on the charity of others.
Are you really absolutely certain that the first state has a better quality of life than the second? You realy can't think of a case in which the non-welfare state would have a better quality of life than some other welfare state?
??? isn't quite good enough, since you missed more than one required step. And a "we did something" isn't good enough. Sure you could likely destroy it for less money if you removed all the red tape.
But do you want the government to have requirements and standards and documentation for such things? Or do you want them to just say "yeah, we deleted it. Trust us"?
I doubt google is going bust tomorrow. And the topic was some photos not "amounts in excess of 250GB" Yes if you do need to back up that it'll be $4/month (or even shock horror $8) instead of $2. But given it's just photos (and not pro level volume and resolutions) the $2/month variant will work for a long time.
Or since it is just photos, Yahoo via flickr is just $2/month. But yes Yahoo has a significantly higher chance of going under than google.
I assumed it wouldn't be being backed up because you didn't mention that as part of the solution when it was explicitely mentioned in the question, and is something those services you don't like provide.
When your house burns down so does that general pusrpose server and with it those archives. And did you say "hard drive" as in singular as in keep your fingers crossed?
I really doubt paying $2 a month for offsite backup is going to be financially infeasible.
They are all so cheap, you might as well get 2 of them just in case one goes belly up with your data (which seems a rather unlikely event in any case).
Region locking for a portable device is even more stupid. Because you'd never, say, take you hand held video game device with you when travelling from Australia to the United States on holiday.
And you'd never want to buy a new game for the flight back.
I guess you're supposed to buy a new device as well.
smarter companies will price appropriately for the market and local currency, such as offering something in the US for $249 while the same product in Europe is 199€ or 219€ which is much more inline with the currency's actual value
No the dumb companies or the ones selling things that are easy to import will do that.
The smart companies that can control their markets (via region locking, country specific warranties, etc) will sell it for the price in each region that maximises profit.
And of course sales tax is not the only cost difference. Tariffs and import duties can be significant. Compliance costs for environmental regulations and licensing (getting your device approved for meeting radio interference rules, etc) can vary. Why should the price of the device be set higher in the US because some other country whacks a higher import duty on and requires a "recycle" program for electronic devices or requires a longer replacement warranty?
""" You must complete this part if you (a) had over $1,500 of taxable interest or ordinary dividends; (b) had a foreign account; or (c) received a distribution from, or were a grantor of, or a transferor to, a foreign trust. """
Please note item (b) and the lack of income being relevant.
They can pay each employee whatever they can get them to agree to (well modulo minimum wage laws, overtime laws, etc, etc).
Chances are the experienced developer can pick up the new-whiz-bang-flavor-of-the-month in less time then a new guy to get set up and productive in the company.
The again, maybe this particular developer hasn't demonstrated that ability. Maybe he has made himself indespensible in whatever role he has now and hence they can't have him do other things.
If you admire business success he checks that box.
If you admire charitable works he checks that box.
If you admire wealth he checks that box.
If you admire brains he built a tech company before tech companies were cool which checks that box.
If you admire brawn, then he's not your man.
Note, that "checks that box" doesn't mean if you dig into it he was great. It doesn't matter if he was a great business man, or just lucky, or just a monopolistic parasite. It doesn't matter if he is or isn't smart.
This is admiration from people who have never been in the same room as the guy. Impression is all that matters.
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Licensing fees usually aren't so trivial, inspections usually aren't so trivial. Liability probably isn't so trivial.
If it was then someone would have bid less, surely?
I agree it's 6.
But that's the one alternatives are being proposed for, the question was "If they aren't doing this to screw the aftermarket and do more costly repairs themselves, why the change?".
And I do think 5. is the most likely alternative to the obvious reason...
Sure, and when the repair is replacing a resistor or capacitor on the board they have to send you the old busted one back in a little plastic bag too.
1. They are technically better in some aspect for their use.
2. A supplier offered them cheaper than the what they were using.
3. The supplier of the new slightly more expensive screws is a good friend of an apple board member/engineer/designer/whatever.
4. It reduces the chances of idiot users doing idiot things.
5. Jobs thought they looked better.
Why is not possible to to have a higher quality of life without a welfare state than with one? Everything else is not the same of course.
Take a state in which certain members are rounded up and sent to gas chambers - say the Jews, the homosexuals, and the liberals. And in which anyone can be taken by the government and sent to the salt mines on a whim. And in which nobody is allowed to leave the state. But which has a welfare system in which the government pays the unemployed, the elderly, the sick, etc a good income (though of course most of them are just sent to the salt mines).
And another state which enshrines civil liberties and the government isn't allowed to kill on a whim, sending someone to prison requires convincing a jury that they should be. Travel is completely unrestricted. But there's no welfare system. The sick, the elderly, and the unemployed are forced to rely on the charity of others.
Are you really absolutely certain that the first state has a better quality of life than the second? You realy can't think of a case in which the non-welfare state would have a better quality of life than some other welfare state?
I will allow you to keep posting on slashdot and to eat cookies if the you have the desire.
I can now dictate that you can and can't do in the future right?
So there's some uncertainty in what you'll do?
??? isn't quite good enough, since you missed more than one required step. And a "we did something" isn't good enough. Sure you could likely destroy it for less money if you removed all the red tape.
But do you want the government to have requirements and standards and documentation for such things? Or do you want them to just say "yeah, we deleted it. Trust us"?
Maybe you should try looking at those laws again. Or think about what "produced" means in that context.
Except that the guy saying that is the "adult" who was giving the supervision and hence is hopefully the best judge of these things.
I doubt google is going bust tomorrow. And the topic was some photos not "amounts in excess of 250GB" Yes if you do need to back up that it'll be $4/month (or even shock horror $8) instead of $2. But given it's just photos (and not pro level volume and resolutions) the $2/month variant will work for a long time.
Or since it is just photos, Yahoo via flickr is just $2/month. But yes Yahoo has a significantly higher chance of going under than google.
I assumed it wouldn't be being backed up because you didn't mention that as part of the solution when it was explicitely mentioned in the question, and is something those services you don't like provide.
When your house burns down so does that general pusrpose server and with it those archives. And did you say "hard drive" as in singular as in keep your fingers crossed?
I really doubt paying $2 a month for offsite backup is going to be financially infeasible.
They are all so cheap, you might as well get 2 of them just in case one goes belly up with your data (which seems a rather unlikely event in any case).
Region locking for a portable device is even more stupid. Because you'd never, say, take you hand held video game device with you when travelling from Australia to the United States on holiday.
And you'd never want to buy a new game for the flight back.
I guess you're supposed to buy a new device as well.
No the dumb companies or the ones selling things that are easy to import will do that.
The smart companies that can control their markets (via region locking, country specific warranties, etc) will sell it for the price in each region that maximises profit.
And of course sales tax is not the only cost difference. Tariffs and import duties can be significant. Compliance costs for environmental regulations and licensing (getting your device approved for meeting radio interference rules, etc) can vary. Why should the price of the device be set higher in the US because some other country whacks a higher import duty on and requires a "recycle" program for electronic devices or requires a longer replacement warranty?
And 2000 years ago nobody thought anyone in a museum in 2000 years would give a fuck about their shitty beer mug.
The NIMBY crowd will possibly get annoyed with you when try and harvest said resource and when you use it as fuel.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VVp8UGjECt4#t=242s
Hopefully you don't have any foreign bank accounts then, since the penalties for not doing so are quite harsh.
here you go: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sb.pdf
"""
You must complete this part if you (a) had over $1,500 of taxable interest or ordinary dividends; (b) had a
foreign account; or (c) received a distribution from, or were a grantor of, or a transferor to, a foreign trust.
"""
Please note item (b) and the lack of income being relevant.
I don't care. I'm taking the statements made by the post I was replying to at face value.
They can pay each employee whatever they can get them to agree to (well modulo minimum wage laws, overtime laws, etc, etc).
Chances are the experienced developer can pick up the new-whiz-bang-flavor-of-the-month in less time then a new guy to get set up and productive in the company.
The again, maybe this particular developer hasn't demonstrated that ability. Maybe he has made himself indespensible in whatever role he has now and hence they can't have him do other things.
Because Japan doesn't have a culture of conformity or anything like that.
I'd have to take Gates from those four as well.
Gates is monopolistic businessman, who has got out of that business now and is doing something worthwhile with the ill gotten gains.
Beck is either insane or an entertainer playing with fire.
The Pope and the Dalai Lama are both actively evil.
Doesn't change the fact that they are admired in their hometowns.
Why?
If you admire business success he checks that box.
If you admire charitable works he checks that box.
If you admire wealth he checks that box.
If you admire brains he built a tech company before tech companies were cool which checks that box.
If you admire brawn, then he's not your man.
Note, that "checks that box" doesn't mean if you dig into it he was great. It doesn't matter if he was a great business man, or just lucky, or just a monopolistic parasite. It doesn't matter if he is or isn't smart.
This is admiration from people who have never been in the same room as the guy. Impression is all that matters.