I was expecting an answer to why that particular date was chosen. I could easily have guessed that they were back dated to allow files with new filestamps to take priority. But why that date, and not, say, 1970-01-01 00:00:00?
Same in the EU, and everywhere else that I know of. The 13bn owed here is taxes on profits made by Apple across Europe over a period of a few years. So you can imagine just how much profit they actually made!
Normal corporation tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%, which tells us that Apple made profits in excess of €100bn over those years in Europe.
If Ireland wants to exit the EU then sure, have fun being an irrelevant poverty stricken backwater, again.
We don't. We're not Britain. Nor are we stupid. Ireland is what it is _because_ of it's membership in the EU. We all know this.
However, we will fight for our rights of sovereignty, and our rights to set our own laws, as laid down by EU law and all of the various treaties that make up the bloc. While I think that we should take the money and that we did things wrong, I understand why the Government is fighting the EU on this. It's an important fight, even if ultimate we lose it (and are forced to accept the money - heaven's forbid!).
- A giant novelty cheque would be cool. And it's still legal!
- A mountain of pennies (or cents, as we no longer have pennies in Ireland) would not be legal tender.: The following is an extract from the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998: “10(1) No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction.”. I suppose they _could_ do it if they split them bill into 130,000,000 individual transactions and paid each with 50x€2 coins. But I don't think they'd be allow to split it down that way. I mountain of 1 300 000 000 000 (1.3 trillion!) 1c coins would look pretty cool, though. Although at a mass of 2.3g/coin, that's almost 3 million tons..
- At €349 per watch, this would be 37.2m watches, or 8 watches per person, plus change!
- At least with iBucks, we could sell them at face value and get the cash for them.
They missed a deadline to have the money in an escrow account. With the ongoing legal challenges, the money would stay in the escrow account until such time as it is decided whether they have to pay the taxes, or they can take the money back. This wasn't a deadline to pay the tax itself.
I kinda like the chunky look of the glasses, but the one thing that comes to mind if wearing them while driving is the last of peripheral vision they allow. The lens is quite small, effectively give you tunnel vision (albeit it with perfect clarity), but outside of that smallish window, your completely blinded.
I know it's a prototype, and they do mention that work needs to be done to make them look better, but I hope they can also vastly reduce the thickness of the frames and arms, reduce the weight, and increase the size of the lens so that they are actually useful.
I'm sure I'll soon be in a position again to be requiring glasses, so something like this will likely be really useful to me in the not-too-distant future - hopefully long enough for them to work out these little details.
What they need to do is have some weekly plan for travels to the USA. They'd make a fortune selling a cheap weekly throw away SIM with data and a few minutes and texts. Travellers want data for using Maps and looking up stuff of interest (and emails), but don't want to have to fork out $70 when they pay â10/month at home for 10G of data. Come up with something cheap for a week and you'll get plenty of tourists picking up a SIM every time they land. (Oh, and drop the charge for the SIM itself - in Europe, at least, the SIM and connection are free!)
Personally I'd prefer to see the original tokens being shipped, but sell new tokens to buy to use in the games. Maybe add some extras, but don't remove the originals. Don't really see a reason to change them. I wouldn't mind being able to buy extra tokens to use for current games I have, but I'll probably never not play as the dog...
For some movies, I want to see them in the cinema. I want the dark room, the big screen, the good sound, the lack of distractions. While I have a good home cinema setup, I find when watching a movie at home that I'll start fiddling with my phone, or I'll pause it go get a snack, etc. In the cinema, I don't. And I find I enjoy the movie more because of it.
There are some movies that I'd like to see that I really don't care about seeing them in the cinema or not. Whether I'd be willing to pay that amount for them, though, is the main question - my local cinema has €5 tickets on a Wednesday, every Wednesday, every film, so I do most of my cinema watching on a Wednesday as a result. I don't buy popcorn or drinks or any other treats/snacks. So it would cost me a lot more to watch the movie at home.
But for some movies, where I don't want the distraction of the people behind me talking, I may be interesting in paying out to watch it at home. I would have done that with Star Wars, most likely, had I had the opportunity.
More than that. Anyone who uses their laptop to SSH to a *nix server will need ESC for vi. Yeah, it could be added to the ribbon, but muscle memory means many people will keep hitting `
Mine has a long left arrow, no text. The meaning, therefore, can be taken either way - back, or backspace. By comparison, the delete key says 'Delete'.
A lot of people don't like using the mouse, or having to move the mouse point all the way to the top of the screen to click on back. For then, it's a redundant time consuming move when a single key click will do the job just as good.
If I can, I try to not use the mouse at all. When filling in forms, I 'tab' between the fields. When editing text, I use the keyboard to navigate to the point when I need to change something. I only use the mouse when I really have to, and adding another reason that I have to use the mouse is quite frustrating.
Luckily, ALT-LeftArrow does the same job, so I can just get used to that. But changes like this can infuriate the people who use the function that has been removed. Especially when the reason is that the function upset fewer people.
Why didn't they just replace it with CTRL-Backspace or something? I use Backspace all the time - it even works in Windows Explorer. I have, on occasion, lost the contents of some form I was filling in, but the few times that happened didn't mean I wanted to remove the functionality. I'd be happy with a replacement - let Google lead the way towards using a different key or a key combination so that those of us who really don't want to have to use the mouse more than we have to aren't forced into using it for something else.
The problem here is that this isn't lazy... laziness would be learning the correct spellings and then just using them instead of having to put thought into how to spell a word based on its sound (and they getting it wrong). I know you were trying to be funny, but it didn't work. Sorry.
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I was expecting an answer to why that particular date was chosen. I could easily have guessed that they were back dated to allow files with new filestamps to take priority. But why that date, and not, say, 1970-01-01 00:00:00?
In the US at least, only profits are taxed.
Same in the EU, and everywhere else that I know of. The 13bn owed here is taxes on profits made by Apple across Europe over a period of a few years. So you can imagine just how much profit they actually made!
Normal corporation tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%, which tells us that Apple made profits in excess of €100bn over those years in Europe.
If Ireland wants to exit the EU then sure, have fun being an irrelevant poverty stricken backwater, again.
We don't. We're not Britain. Nor are we stupid. Ireland is what it is _because_ of it's membership in the EU. We all know this.
However, we will fight for our rights of sovereignty, and our rights to set our own laws, as laid down by EU law and all of the various treaties that make up the bloc. While I think that we should take the money and that we did things wrong, I understand why the Government is fighting the EU on this. It's an important fight, even if ultimate we lose it (and are forced to accept the money - heaven's forbid!).
- A giant novelty cheque would be cool. And it's still legal!
- A mountain of pennies (or cents, as we no longer have pennies in Ireland) would not be legal tender.: The following is an extract from the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998: “10(1) No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction.”. I suppose they _could_ do it if they split them bill into 130,000,000 individual transactions and paid each with 50x€2 coins. But I don't think they'd be allow to split it down that way. I mountain of 1 300 000 000 000 (1.3 trillion!) 1c coins would look pretty cool, though. Although at a mass of 2.3g/coin, that's almost 3 million tons..
- At €349 per watch, this would be 37.2m watches, or 8 watches per person, plus change!
- At least with iBucks, we could sell them at face value and get the cash for them.
- Isn't that what they are trying right now?
They missed a deadline to have the money in an escrow account. With the ongoing legal challenges, the money would stay in the escrow account until such time as it is decided whether they have to pay the taxes, or they can take the money back. This wasn't a deadline to pay the tax itself.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0...
I kinda like the chunky look of the glasses, but the one thing that comes to mind if wearing them while driving is the last of peripheral vision they allow.
The lens is quite small, effectively give you tunnel vision (albeit it with perfect clarity), but outside of that smallish window, your completely blinded.
I know it's a prototype, and they do mention that work needs to be done to make them look better, but I hope they can also vastly reduce the thickness of the frames and arms, reduce the weight, and increase the size of the lens so that they are actually useful.
I'm sure I'll soon be in a position again to be requiring glasses, so something like this will likely be really useful to me in the not-too-distant future - hopefully long enough for them to work out these little details.
...one sixth the distance to the moon... ...less that half that distance...
I'm almost shaking from just how the phrases "6 times closes to the moon" and "more than half a close" mess with my brain...
Please, for the sake of us people with less than normal minds, don't use phrases like that!
I, for one, wanted to see pictures (why does no one ever think of the pictures??!). There are some here: https://www.thenews.com.pk/lat...
What they need to do is have some weekly plan for travels to the USA. They'd make a fortune selling a cheap weekly throw away SIM with data and a few minutes and texts. Travellers want data for using Maps and looking up stuff of interest (and emails), but don't want to have to fork out $70 when they pay â10/month at home for 10G of data. Come up with something cheap for a week and you'll get plenty of tourists picking up a SIM every time they land. (Oh, and drop the charge for the SIM itself - in Europe, at least, the SIM and connection are free!)
You may also find that auto-correct will add the extra L to Wil - certainly for me, "Wil" is highlighted as being a wrong spelling.
Surprisingly not mentioned in the summary above, the name of the asteroid is "391257 Wilwheaton".
See http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.c... for more details on the asteroid itself.
"Here we report the detection of an interhemispheric bow-shaped structure stretching 10,000km across at the cloud-top level of Venus..."
from the original article, for those of us that don't know archaic measurements.
I was wondering how long it would take for the phone/tablet devices from Westworld to be real.
Just a pity it's not Android... But one can hope.
Personally I'd prefer to see the original tokens being shipped, but sell new tokens to buy to use in the games. Maybe add some extras, but don't remove the originals. Don't really see a reason to change them. I wouldn't mind being able to buy extra tokens to use for current games I have, but I'll probably never not play as the dog...
For some movies, I want to see them in the cinema. I want the dark room, the big screen, the good sound, the lack of distractions. While I have a good home cinema setup, I find when watching a movie at home that I'll start fiddling with my phone, or I'll pause it go get a snack, etc. In the cinema, I don't. And I find I enjoy the movie more because of it.
There are some movies that I'd like to see that I really don't care about seeing them in the cinema or not. Whether I'd be willing to pay that amount for them, though, is the main question - my local cinema has €5 tickets on a Wednesday, every Wednesday, every film, so I do most of my cinema watching on a Wednesday as a result. I don't buy popcorn or drinks or any other treats/snacks. So it would cost me a lot more to watch the movie at home.
But for some movies, where I don't want the distraction of the people behind me talking, I may be interesting in paying out to watch it at home. I would have done that with Star Wars, most likely, had I had the opportunity.
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It's one of the first things I look at when I buy a new laptop. If ctrl is in the wrong place, it's enough reason to not buy one...
More than that. Anyone who uses their laptop to SSH to a *nix server will need ESC for vi. Yeah, it could be added to the ribbon, but muscle memory means many people will keep hitting `
Mac allows keep remapping, yeah?
It's a pity, for this last release, then didn't break with the numbering convention and just jump to 3.14.159...
Mine has a long left arrow, no text. The meaning, therefore, can be taken either way - back, or backspace.
By comparison, the delete key says 'Delete'.
A lot of people don't like using the mouse, or having to move the mouse point all the way to the top of the screen to click on back. For then, it's a redundant time consuming move when a single key click will do the job just as good.
If I can, I try to not use the mouse at all. When filling in forms, I 'tab' between the fields. When editing text, I use the keyboard to navigate to the point when I need to change something. I only use the mouse when I really have to, and adding another reason that I have to use the mouse is quite frustrating.
Luckily, ALT-LeftArrow does the same job, so I can just get used to that. But changes like this can infuriate the people who use the function that has been removed. Especially when the reason is that the function upset fewer people.
Not when you don't want to use the mouse!
Or, like most, have only 3 buttons.
Why didn't they just replace it with CTRL-Backspace or something? I use Backspace all the time - it even works in Windows Explorer. I have, on occasion, lost the contents of some form I was filling in, but the few times that happened didn't mean I wanted to remove the functionality.
I'd be happy with a replacement - let Google lead the way towards using a different key or a key combination so that those of us who really don't want to have to use the mouse more than we have to aren't forced into using it for something else.
T-Mobile offered a weekly tariff with 2GB data (I think), which was great for tourists. Will that still be available?
The problem here is that this isn't lazy... laziness would be learning the correct spellings and then just using them instead of having to put thought into how to spell a word based on its sound (and they getting it wrong).
I know you were trying to be funny, but it didn't work. Sorry.