I knew someone that was trying to work at least 300 days of a year overseas so he wouldn't have to pay U.S. taxes at all (he missed it by a few days). If I remember what he told me (neither of us is a tax lawyer), the U.S. takes some proportional tax based on how many days you worked in the U.S.
They're still bent out of shape that their old business model just isn't working anymore. As has been said many times in *every* slashdot post about music piracy - it's the industries fault. They cling to physical sales when their audience wants to stream. They sell full albums when their audience wants variety and selection. They push their own distribution instead of going to the consumer via Amazon or Apple (in many cases, anyway). They insist on $1 a song, or more... then full albums at $9.99 or more to 'match' a physical CD sale. We no longer live in an era where the way to discover music was FM radio, and to keep listening to a song was to buy the album.
If the record labels would instead make their *entire* catalogs available, searchable, and "similar artists" reachable; then drop the prices for individual songs to impulse buy territory (say, $0.25) they could make a lot more money due to the sheer volume of sales. They make the same amount if it's 1 person spending a dollar or 4 people spending a quarter.. or even 10 people spending a dime. I for one think $1 is too much for one song, particularly since I get bored of most songs after 4-5 plays.
... and nobody has yet managed to pollute enough of the atmosphere that they can make money selling air - though I'm sure quite a lot of CEOs get wet dreams about one day making the atmosphere unbreathable and cashing in on sales of a product nobody can live without for more than 3 minutes).
Oh we're waaaayyy beyond that. $400 for a "personal oxygen bar", not to mention the assorted stores/bars/restaurants(?) that sell oxygen. It's like a modern-day hipster version of an opium den.
I still think it's hilarious that FoxNews refused to refer to Obama as "President". Most (if not all) reporting during his first term called him "Mr. Obama".
With the advent of streaming Nielson ratings are going to mean next to nothing anyway. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will already know what shows/episodes/movies are popular just by hit counts.
Who wants their processor to be idle all the time? "Couch-processors" have shorter lifespans than their well-exercised brethren and are more susceptible to diseases and viruses. Gentoo was ahead of the curve by creating an exercise program for all processors.
You make some reasonable points, but forget one of the big tenets of Capitalism. It's the quest for the allmighty dollar, and due to individual (or corporate) greed, it quickly becomes a "Screw you, I got mine and need more" mentality. Just look at the news regarding off-shoring corporate taxes. The Apples and Googles of the world make billions a year, yet pay minimal taxes and in some cases get paid instead. How exactly is that looking after your fellow man? How is that fair and even taxation?
If you want another counter-example of just how great the U.S. is, take a look at our debts and where we borrow from. We owe billions, if not trillions, to China yet we send billions in foreign aide to places like Israel. That's right, we cut funding for our own education, increased spending on standardized testing (now ~10% of the school year), cut after-school programs, and still give borrowed money to other nations. Capitalism is a great way to make money, but it's not a great way to boost a nation. The middle class has been slowly disappearing, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The government doesn't step in to level the playing field because they are bought and paid for by the rich.
You've got a point... but I don't think it quite works that way. At least, not when profit X is still greater than penalty Y.
If we really want corporations to be liable, any punishment - thousands of individual claims or one class action - needs to have some teeth. Rip apart the profits they made. Make new legislation that, when broken, demands a huge payout and cost to fix.
The only good example of class action and solid corporation punishment is what VW is going through worldwide. You can bet your ass that regulators are going to be looking closer at them and their competition. A handful of other car makers have admitted to gaming the system too, but none are suffering buybacks and billions in costs/penalties.
Really IMHO American corporations have themselves to blame for this. They have done a very good job of removing any kind of job security, chased profits for the sake of chasing profits, off-shored, out-sourced, missed en masse why claiming it was "necessary". Yeah I get it.
This exactly. Corporations have been so busy chasing profits that they've forgotten about who makes those profitable products. When you stop caring about your workforce, they stop caring about you.
Just in my ~15 years of career I've started with 15 days/year of holiday (10 federal + 5 discretionary) with 401k (with up to 8% matching) AND pension plans. Now its 10 days/year of holidays and 401k with 4% matching, if you're lucky. No pensions, less matching of 401k, less vacation (overall), an arguably a higher expectation of hours put in.
Pay hasn't increased substantially, my starting salary post-B.S. was ~$50k, and it's now somewhere around $53k some 12 years later. When I first started, I knew who the CEO was and they knew who I was (or at least who my boss was). Even more, I had shaken their hand and had a chance to talk to them in person. Now? They're just some guy in that has an aide or intern send an email out every few months telling us how awesome he is.
Note it's not just about ordering the startup, it's about fulfilling all the requisites with 'dummy' interfaces until the provider of what the 'dummy' is for starts up, then transparently substituting. "Want to write logs but syslog still didn't start? We provide a queue that will store your logs until syslog... uh, wait, syslog can't do this that way. Welp, fuck syslog, here's our journald, and it has binary log files which are superior because we say so."
Put this way it sounds like systemd is to init what GUICE is to Java. Lets create some stub interface for all services that doesn't actually do anything until we can spin up whatever it is that's supposed to go there. It can be very powerful to do this sort of dependency injection in user space and have things like circular dependencies resolved automagically. I haven't had many issues with systemd on any of my personal systems, but I may be a over 3 sigma from the mean.
Though I do have to question the logic of bringing a Java-like idea into kernel space.
System76 has sold rebranded Clevo laptops for years. They've also offered their own apt repo for updates and drivers for years (at least the 5 or so years I've had my laptop).
Personally, I think developing a new OS is completely wasted effort on their part. Especially considering they have an alternative means to push whatever drivers they need on their equipment via repos. They could also push configuration that way for whatever flat crap look and feel they want.
This "no longer supported" nonsense needs to stop too. Microsoft released a patch for XP regarding the Samba flaw just a couple weeks ago. They (allegedly, anyway) still support XP for embedded systems such as ATMs and Point of Sale systems. I'd bet they still support it for any industry still willing to pay a service contract, including the gov.
At the risk of feeding the trolls, this is incredibly misguided.
Net Neutrality means anyone with internet access can access whatever they want, regardless of "connection tier", income, gender, race, sexual preference, generations in the U.S., or whatever other nonsense segregation you can come up with. It's what stops ISP's like Comcast from promoting only their stuff. It allows the cheapskates to avoid cable and opt for Netflix instead.
The only racism I can see in Net Neutrality is it's the old, stuffy, technologically inept, pro-business white guys that want it.
Yeah, but they're a tiny bit labor and resource intensive. With lab grown meat, you might be able to grow yer own on the kitchen counter top.
I've never had much luck growing anything on my kitchen counter top. Last time I tried leaving ham out, it turned gray/green and fuzzy, no matter how often I watered it or how much sun it got.
The fun part about RetroPie is it automagically detects controllers on startup. Check out the Controllers section of their docs to see common examples.
I tend to leave my Pi on, so I have a few wired 360 controllers attached to it (power-a xbox 360 controllers, if you're curious). I find they work pretty well for NES, SNES, PS1, and Genesis (with minor remapping) games, and they are ergonomic enough that I don't get X-Box claw or any other hand cramps. They don't have quite the same feel as original controllers, but I find I'm able to do stuff like the Mock Ball and other timing-dependent tricks just fine. Of course, you could also just find some original controllers and get a USB adapter.
I think they should have sent that other guys daughter to strut on in like she owns the place. That would have been a much more entertaining 4 minutes.
There's a sad truth to human memory. We don't always remember why we recognize a name or a face. The boss may not remember that you screwed up royally, but he remembers you... that often turns into raises and promotions when your name crosses his/her desk alongside the other hundred names.
MS Windows is a beautiful OS because it is designed to be used on any POS hardware that falls off the back of a truck. This is incredible useful, and represent a significant technological advancement. It also results in serious compromises that limits what the OS can do, and limits the type of legacy thing the OS no longer needs to support.
That's the beauty about standardization, there are much fewer compromises. We are not talking embedded software on a custom chip a-la PS1 and Saturn (and newer consoles to some extent). We are talking the x86 instruction set as it has evolved over the years. Mac OS and Windows don't differ here. The only difference is custom drivers, which Windows pushes to third parties and Linux has managed to do fairly well for years.
So, Apple never supported the lame parallel port because it was, well lame. When firewire became useful, SCSI, which was incredible useful and fast, was pushed out the door. It was possible to transition between processor families because the old stuff could go away.
Except the old stuff never really went away. People hold on to their Mac's for years. I know someone that finally went to OSX 3 years ago. Prior to that he had held on to a macbook running OS 9 that had all his photos and apps he needed. He only upgraded because it was getting hard to find replacement parts. They also haven't updated their underlying hardware in macbooks in 3 years, powermacs even longer.
Remember that the need to support legacy products pretty much meant the MS Windows could not really take full advantage of the new chips, so the x86 Intel and AMD development were basically starved because the gamers and few HPC customers could not support development. It was Apple's move to Intel that gave it the funds to progress.
Umm... what? It was only recently that Intel finally decided "enough of the old crap" and removed some of the old instructions that were no longer actively used. Apples move to Intel was due to stagnation of the PowerPC. Jobs stated they weren't impressed with the development of the architecture. 2003 was also when AMD moved to their Athlon line and Intel released the Pentium 4. Apple was nowhere near the top 5 PC manufacturers of 2003. The market also grew 27.6% that year, maybe some part of that was Apple, but they certainly didn't top Acer.
In reality if you can figure out how to get the OS to run on cheaper hardware, Apple really does not do anything t stop the private consumer. I have never seen a lawsuit where Apple has sued an end user for using it's OS on unsanctioned hardware. What Apple is not going to do it support its use because there is no upside or profit in it. People who want cheap hardware are not going to spend any money, and not going to support the advanced technology that Apple represents.
Apple has made a name for itself as a premium brand and they do spend a fair amount of time making sure the whole system is well integrated. I would never call them "advanced technology" though. As mentioned many times in many threads, they haven't updated their Desktop or Laptop lines in years prior to 2017. Asus has been engineering thin gamer laptops powered by the latest hardware a few months after retail release of those parts. What's Apples excuse? Too much money not enough engineers? The iPhone is continually playing catch-up with features of premium android phones. It's been out for how many years and just now gets a respectable, non-obfuscated file system with file manager? How hard was that to do from the beginning?
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I get that they might have 156k subscribers that unsubscribed, but how can it be a net loss if over 200k people subscribed?
Isn't the real news here "Boohoo, we didn't sucker as many people into our crap this quarter"?
I knew someone that was trying to work at least 300 days of a year overseas so he wouldn't have to pay U.S. taxes at all (he missed it by a few days). If I remember what he told me (neither of us is a tax lawyer), the U.S. takes some proportional tax based on how many days you worked in the U.S.
There's a shirt for that. Exercise, some motivation required
Yes, but these are Enterprise Glassholes. They have blue-er collars.
They're still bent out of shape that their old business model just isn't working anymore. As has been said many times in *every* slashdot post about music piracy - it's the industries fault. They cling to physical sales when their audience wants to stream. They sell full albums when their audience wants variety and selection. They push their own distribution instead of going to the consumer via Amazon or Apple (in many cases, anyway). They insist on $1 a song, or more... then full albums at $9.99 or more to 'match' a physical CD sale. We no longer live in an era where the way to discover music was FM radio, and to keep listening to a song was to buy the album.
If the record labels would instead make their *entire* catalogs available, searchable, and "similar artists" reachable; then drop the prices for individual songs to impulse buy territory (say, $0.25) they could make a lot more money due to the sheer volume of sales. They make the same amount if it's 1 person spending a dollar or 4 people spending a quarter.. or even 10 people spending a dime. I for one think $1 is too much for one song, particularly since I get bored of most songs after 4-5 plays.
... and nobody has yet managed to pollute enough of the atmosphere that they can make money selling air - though I'm sure quite a lot of CEOs get wet dreams about one day making the atmosphere unbreathable and cashing in on sales of a product nobody can live without for more than 3 minutes).
Oh we're waaaayyy beyond that. $400 for a "personal oxygen bar", not to mention the assorted stores/bars/restaurants(?) that sell oxygen. It's like a modern-day hipster version of an opium den.
I still think it's hilarious that FoxNews refused to refer to Obama as "President". Most (if not all) reporting during his first term called him "Mr. Obama".
With the advent of streaming Nielson ratings are going to mean next to nothing anyway. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will already know what shows/episodes/movies are popular just by hit counts.
Who wants their processor to be idle all the time? "Couch-processors" have shorter lifespans than their well-exercised brethren and are more susceptible to diseases and viruses. Gentoo was ahead of the curve by creating an exercise program for all processors.
You make some reasonable points, but forget one of the big tenets of Capitalism. It's the quest for the allmighty dollar, and due to individual (or corporate) greed, it quickly becomes a "Screw you, I got mine and need more" mentality. Just look at the news regarding off-shoring corporate taxes. The Apples and Googles of the world make billions a year, yet pay minimal taxes and in some cases get paid instead. How exactly is that looking after your fellow man? How is that fair and even taxation?
If you want another counter-example of just how great the U.S. is, take a look at our debts and where we borrow from. We owe billions, if not trillions, to China yet we send billions in foreign aide to places like Israel. That's right, we cut funding for our own education, increased spending on standardized testing (now ~10% of the school year), cut after-school programs, and still give borrowed money to other nations. Capitalism is a great way to make money, but it's not a great way to boost a nation. The middle class has been slowly disappearing, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The government doesn't step in to level the playing field because they are bought and paid for by the rich.
You've got a point... but I don't think it quite works that way. At least, not when profit X is still greater than penalty Y.
If we really want corporations to be liable, any punishment - thousands of individual claims or one class action - needs to have some teeth. Rip apart the profits they made. Make new legislation that, when broken, demands a huge payout and cost to fix.
The only good example of class action and solid corporation punishment is what VW is going through worldwide. You can bet your ass that regulators are going to be looking closer at them and their competition. A handful of other car makers have admitted to gaming the system too, but none are suffering buybacks and billions in costs/penalties.
Really IMHO American corporations have themselves to blame for this. They have done a very good job of removing any kind of job security, chased profits for the sake of chasing profits, off-shored, out-sourced, missed en masse why claiming it was "necessary". Yeah I get it.
This exactly. Corporations have been so busy chasing profits that they've forgotten about who makes those profitable products. When you stop caring about your workforce, they stop caring about you.
Just in my ~15 years of career I've started with 15 days/year of holiday (10 federal + 5 discretionary) with 401k (with up to 8% matching) AND pension plans. Now its 10 days/year of holidays and 401k with 4% matching, if you're lucky. No pensions, less matching of 401k, less vacation (overall), an arguably a higher expectation of hours put in.
Pay hasn't increased substantially, my starting salary post-B.S. was ~$50k, and it's now somewhere around $53k some 12 years later. When I first started, I knew who the CEO was and they knew who I was (or at least who my boss was). Even more, I had shaken their hand and had a chance to talk to them in person. Now? They're just some guy in that has an aide or intern send an email out every few months telling us how awesome he is.
Note it's not just about ordering the startup, it's about fulfilling all the requisites with 'dummy' interfaces until the provider of what the 'dummy' is for starts up, then transparently substituting. "Want to write logs but syslog still didn't start? We provide a queue that will store your logs until syslog... uh, wait, syslog can't do this that way. Welp, fuck syslog, here's our journald, and it has binary log files which are superior because we say so."
Put this way it sounds like systemd is to init what GUICE is to Java. Lets create some stub interface for all services that doesn't actually do anything until we can spin up whatever it is that's supposed to go there. It can be very powerful to do this sort of dependency injection in user space and have things like circular dependencies resolved automagically. I haven't had many issues with systemd on any of my personal systems, but I may be a over 3 sigma from the mean.
Though I do have to question the logic of bringing a Java-like idea into kernel space.
I give it 6 months until those same folks start getting ads for medications of deepmind-guessed ailments.
"I see your free operating system. And I raise you waiting two years then complaining the price your charging is too high"
System76 has sold rebranded Clevo laptops for years. They've also offered their own apt repo for updates and drivers for years (at least the 5 or so years I've had my laptop).
Personally, I think developing a new OS is completely wasted effort on their part. Especially considering they have an alternative means to push whatever drivers they need on their equipment via repos. They could also push configuration that way for whatever flat crap look and feel they want.
This "no longer supported" nonsense needs to stop too. Microsoft released a patch for XP regarding the Samba flaw just a couple weeks ago. They (allegedly, anyway) still support XP for embedded systems such as ATMs and Point of Sale systems. I'd bet they still support it for any industry still willing to pay a service contract, including the gov.
At the risk of feeding the trolls, this is incredibly misguided.
Net Neutrality means anyone with internet access can access whatever they want, regardless of "connection tier", income, gender, race, sexual preference, generations in the U.S., or whatever other nonsense segregation you can come up with. It's what stops ISP's like Comcast from promoting only their stuff. It allows the cheapskates to avoid cable and opt for Netflix instead.
The only racism I can see in Net Neutrality is it's the old, stuffy, technologically inept, pro-business white guys that want it.
Yeah, but they're a tiny bit labor and resource intensive. With lab grown meat, you might be able to grow yer own on the kitchen counter top.
I've never had much luck growing anything on my kitchen counter top. Last time I tried leaving ham out, it turned gray/green and fuzzy, no matter how often I watered it or how much sun it got.
The fun part about RetroPie is it automagically detects controllers on startup. Check out the Controllers section of their docs to see common examples.
I tend to leave my Pi on, so I have a few wired 360 controllers attached to it (power-a xbox 360 controllers, if you're curious). I find they work pretty well for NES, SNES, PS1, and Genesis (with minor remapping) games, and they are ergonomic enough that I don't get X-Box claw or any other hand cramps. They don't have quite the same feel as original controllers, but I find I'm able to do stuff like the Mock Ball and other timing-dependent tricks just fine. Of course, you could also just find some original controllers and get a USB adapter.
I think they should have sent that other guys daughter to strut on in like she owns the place. That would have been a much more entertaining 4 minutes.
There's a sad truth to human memory. We don't always remember why we recognize a name or a face. The boss may not remember that you screwed up royally, but he remembers you... that often turns into raises and promotions when your name crosses his/her desk alongside the other hundred names.
You mean a comedian didn't provide truthful, unbiased reporting?
I'm shocked.
MS Windows is a beautiful OS because it is designed to be used on any POS hardware that falls off the back of a truck. This is incredible useful, and represent a significant technological advancement. It also results in serious compromises that limits what the OS can do, and limits the type of legacy thing the OS no longer needs to support.
That's the beauty about standardization, there are much fewer compromises. We are not talking embedded software on a custom chip a-la PS1 and Saturn (and newer consoles to some extent). We are talking the x86 instruction set as it has evolved over the years. Mac OS and Windows don't differ here. The only difference is custom drivers, which Windows pushes to third parties and Linux has managed to do fairly well for years.
So, Apple never supported the lame parallel port because it was, well lame. When firewire became useful, SCSI, which was incredible useful and fast, was pushed out the door. It was possible to transition between processor families because the old stuff could go away.
Except the old stuff never really went away. People hold on to their Mac's for years. I know someone that finally went to OSX 3 years ago. Prior to that he had held on to a macbook running OS 9 that had all his photos and apps he needed. He only upgraded because it was getting hard to find replacement parts. They also haven't updated their underlying hardware in macbooks in 3 years, powermacs even longer.
Remember that the need to support legacy products pretty much meant the MS Windows could not really take full advantage of the new chips, so the x86 Intel and AMD development were basically starved because the gamers and few HPC customers could not support development. It was Apple's move to Intel that gave it the funds to progress.
Umm... what? It was only recently that Intel finally decided "enough of the old crap" and removed some of the old instructions that were no longer actively used. Apples move to Intel was due to stagnation of the PowerPC. Jobs stated they weren't impressed with the development of the architecture. 2003 was also when AMD moved to their Athlon line and Intel released the Pentium 4. Apple was nowhere near the top 5 PC manufacturers of 2003. The market also grew 27.6% that year, maybe some part of that was Apple, but they certainly didn't top Acer.
In reality if you can figure out how to get the OS to run on cheaper hardware, Apple really does not do anything t stop the private consumer. I have never seen a lawsuit where Apple has sued an end user for using it's OS on unsanctioned hardware. What Apple is not going to do it support its use because there is no upside or profit in it. People who want cheap hardware are not going to spend any money, and not going to support the advanced technology that Apple represents.
Apple has made a name for itself as a premium brand and they do spend a fair amount of time making sure the whole system is well integrated. I would never call them "advanced technology" though. As mentioned many times in many threads, they haven't updated their Desktop or Laptop lines in years prior to 2017. Asus has been engineering thin gamer laptops powered by the latest hardware a few months after retail release of those parts. What's Apples excuse? Too much money not enough engineers? The iPhone is continually playing catch-up with features of premium android phones. It's been out for how many years and just now gets a respectable, non-obfuscated file system with file manager? How hard was that to do from the beginning?
If my playing of Oregon Trail is historically accurate, 98% died of dysentery.