I mean, the man wrote 1,500 books in three years while at a University. He picked up a golf club in 1984 and hit a 38 with no fewer than 11 holes in one. They couldn't possibly be crazy liars, could they?
Do you pay for each phone you have in your house anymore?
Yes, I do. We cut the landline years ago, cell phones only these days.
Does the water company charge for each bathroom in your home?
Depends on how much crap you have in your family. Of course they charge per flush, as that is total water used. This analogy doesn't quite hold because only Comcast is trying to treat electrons like water or gas, and you don't really need any "special equipment" to convert said water or gas into something usable. There's no adapter you need to rent to convert the sludge in your water pipes to drinkable water, no adapter to convert gas into something flammable for cooking. With our transition to HDTV in a digital format, we introduced a need for equipment to convert the signal into something usable. Of course, the big cable companies saw it as another way to leech money from the peasants because now "this box is required." That's exactly why I like Mr. Wheeler, he sees this nonsense for what it is, and is trying to stop some of the insanity.
With enough cash reserves to lose $250M a year until 2052 before needing to call for bankruptcy... I'd say they are pretty financially smart.
Combined with the fact that most Mario games outsell Poke'mon during a given generation of games. Don't forget that Poke'mon is owned by the Pokemon Company, a consortium of three companies of which Nintendo is a part. So Nintendo won't see 100% of the profits from any of those sales.
You're also omitting some of their other heavy hitting first party titles. Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Pikmin, Animal Crossing.
Nintendo's biggest problem has been third-party developers for their consoles ever since the N64. The GameCube had a few really good titles, but nowhere near the PS2. The Wii hit it big, but again not a wide range of good titles like the PS3 and XB360. Wii U? well, we've seen how well that's been doing... Now if only they'd release that Zelda game and a Metroid or 2...
I also wish we'd wait for an agreed standard. Lightning is essentially a Apple-only standard. Lightning headsets will only ever work with Apple devices, we need a good common digital standard.
Apple has a long history of eschewing standards in favor of their own approach. Sometimes this is in the name of progress, sometimes not. I'll never spend $170 on headphones, bluetooth or otherwise. Especially when said headphones are from a company that can't even seem to get the Bluetooth spec right for any third-party stuff such as my car, headphones, or data link to a tablet.
Nevermind the developer appeal of being able to target specific processors, memory sizes, clock speeds, coprocessors, controllers, and so on. Wikipedia states the processor was developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony, which likely has some Sony-specific stuff in the chip that would limit compatibility with an everyday Intel+BSD combo. You could argue that's DRM or you could look at the fact that the PS4 is dedicated to games, not general-purpose computing, the requirements for things like context-switches and memory allocation are different. The original Xbox which had a modified x86 chip and used a lot of typical components (e.g. hard drive, optical drive if I remember right), and last I checked is still not properly emulated.
two-hour delays are certainly newsworthy for someone who has never flown American Airlines. From my own personal data of personal and business flights with AA (fitting name), I'd say they have a roughly 15% "on-time" rate, and a greater than 50% "off by 2 or more hours" rate.
For American the news would be that they only had 2 hour flight delays due to a computer glitch. Maybe British Airways is working on changing expectations.
"We're sorry, an unexpected computer glitch caused our flights to be only 2 hours late. We are working on a fix to get us back to our normally 3-8 our delayed operations"
All Apple is really doing is optimizing their overall bill. There's a balance to be made between the billions they owe in the EU versus repatriating some amount Xand paying the 35% on X. I'm no tax lawyer, but if they repatriate $10B, then they would owe ~$3.5B to the US, and presumably some smaller amount of the remaining taxes to the EU.
I realize I'm completely off base with specifics (not a lawyer). Though I personally think there should be laws specific to the country that business was conducted in and taxes should be based specifically off of that. You do business in the US? Have an office, keep track of sales and profits made in the US. Ditto for EU, Japan, Russia, China, wherever. $65B kept on $100B profit in the US is still a lot of money, especially for a company like Apple that loves its cash reserves and doesn't go blow the wallet on R&D and acquisitions like Yahoo and MSFT.
Google Maps (used to) be a big help here. "Go to edge of dock, swim across Atlantic Ocean". They revised their suggestions a bit to include sailing and jet skiing. My guess is they had a few too many people actually try to swim across the ocean.
Some call it suicide, some call it murder, others call it cleansing the shallow end of the gene pool.
OpenOffice died the moment Oracle took it over, which caused the LibreOffice fork. It's another datapoint in the eventual death of things Oracle touches.
Why even bother with that? They could have gone with a car-like naming convention.
{series}{grade}{desktop/laptop/lowpower}{overclock}{arbitraryCharacterToConfuse}
Why, they only need to say "Our top of the line is the 358DKL!, it's much higher powered than the 799PNS!"
Bonus that they could be read much like a license plate. Who wouldn't snicker at the chance to say "three-fifty-eight dickel" or "seven-ninety-nine penis"?
That's why I respect Linus so much. Not only has he helped shaped one of the most important open source projects of all time, he has done it with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of profanity.
FTFY.
Yes, Linus has done great things in the past ~20 years. But lets not kid ourselves that he can be a total dick about many things. Often it's for a good reason that he is passionate about. Other times not so much.
M is for their Motorsport division, who takes the base car and upgrades it - Much like Shelby will take a Mustang and turn it into a real car. The M3 is a top-tier three series that often has wider tires, wider fenders, lower stance, bigger engine, and upgraded transmission/brakes.
240 is a "2 series", and "40" used to be displacement (e.g. 4.0 L), but is now rough performance. Educated guess is the performance is similar to a naturally aspirated 4.0L engine.
X-drive is BMW's term for four wheel drive. So a 335xi would have "X-Drive", and be four-wheel.
'i' is for "fuel Injection" which was coming into vogue in their 80's models. You'll see a lot of E30 "325is" and "325ci" where 'c' is "coupe" and 's' is "sport". Here "sport" refers to a sport package, stiffer suspension and minor performance oriented upgrades like brakes... nowhere near the changes in an "M" car.
I'm sure there's some other motivation in hitting one of the big fish for this tax haven nonsense... But until Apple provides concrete evidence that they followed every law (read: tax filings and supporting documentation), then anything from Mr. Cook is just an attempt to save face.
Python isn't a "tabbed language" it merely relies on levels of indentation. Consistent type/count of whitespace in front of code is used to differentiate namespaces. It could be 'n' spaces or 'n' tabs, just prepare for pain if you mix them within a file.
Not that it's entirely bloat-free, but the Samsung Galaxy Note series are pretty nice and can sometimes be found on Woot or other such sales sites. I have the 2014 edition and use it as a small digital sketchbook and e-reader, which I picked up for $300 on Woot a while back.
Sure, it's Samsung and has some of the Samsung-specific apps, but many can be disabled and/or shoved into a "bloatware" folder and ignored. Plus the tablet takes a MicroSD card so you can greatly expand the storage space, I think up to 64GB.
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24/7/3600? Those are some really long years you have there.
I learned an old adage some years ago: "Don't fix the problem. Fix the blame."
This guy is near retirement, will likely only serve a commuted sentence due to age and good behavior, and probably have a nice golden parachute.
You've read some of the claims about dear leader, right?
I mean, the man wrote 1,500 books in three years while at a University. He picked up a golf club in 1984 and hit a 38 with no fewer than 11 holes in one. They couldn't possibly be crazy liars, could they?
You want these people to expose themselves for financial reasons, why not medical?
I for one have no interest in seeing either candidate expose themselves. Even if it is for medical reasons.
Do you pay for each phone you have in your house anymore?
Yes, I do. We cut the landline years ago, cell phones only these days.
Does the water company charge for each bathroom in your home?
Depends on how much crap you have in your family. Of course they charge per flush, as that is total water used. This analogy doesn't quite hold because only Comcast is trying to treat electrons like water or gas, and you don't really need any "special equipment" to convert said water or gas into something usable. There's no adapter you need to rent to convert the sludge in your water pipes to drinkable water, no adapter to convert gas into something flammable for cooking. With our transition to HDTV in a digital format, we introduced a need for equipment to convert the signal into something usable. Of course, the big cable companies saw it as another way to leech money from the peasants because now "this box is required." That's exactly why I like Mr. Wheeler, he sees this nonsense for what it is, and is trying to stop some of the insanity.
That depends on your perspective.
With enough cash reserves to lose $250M a year until 2052 before needing to call for bankruptcy... I'd say they are pretty financially smart.
Combined with the fact that most Mario games outsell Poke'mon during a given generation of games. Don't forget that Poke'mon is owned by the Pokemon Company, a consortium of three companies of which Nintendo is a part. So Nintendo won't see 100% of the profits from any of those sales.
You're also omitting some of their other heavy hitting first party titles. Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Pikmin, Animal Crossing.
Nintendo's biggest problem has been third-party developers for their consoles ever since the N64. The GameCube had a few really good titles, but nowhere near the PS2. The Wii hit it big, but again not a wide range of good titles like the PS3 and XB360. Wii U? well, we've seen how well that's been doing... Now if only they'd release that Zelda game and a Metroid or 2...
shhhhhh.... now the TSA will think the terrorists will be using iPhones... oh, wait...
I also wish we'd wait for an agreed standard. Lightning is essentially a Apple-only standard. Lightning headsets will only ever work with Apple devices, we need a good common digital standard.
Apple has a long history of eschewing standards in favor of their own approach. Sometimes this is in the name of progress, sometimes not. I'll never spend $170 on headphones, bluetooth or otherwise. Especially when said headphones are from a company that can't even seem to get the Bluetooth spec right for any third-party stuff such as my car, headphones, or data link to a tablet.
DRM?
Nevermind the developer appeal of being able to target specific processors, memory sizes, clock speeds, coprocessors, controllers, and so on. Wikipedia states the processor was developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony, which likely has some Sony-specific stuff in the chip that would limit compatibility with an everyday Intel+BSD combo. You could argue that's DRM or you could look at the fact that the PS4 is dedicated to games, not general-purpose computing, the requirements for things like context-switches and memory allocation are different. The original Xbox which had a modified x86 chip and used a lot of typical components (e.g. hard drive, optical drive if I remember right), and last I checked is still not properly emulated.
And now I see the business model for Oxygen bars. What a way to spend a Friday evening out with the guys...
two-hour delays are certainly newsworthy for someone who has never flown American Airlines. From my own personal data of personal and business flights with AA (fitting name), I'd say they have a roughly 15% "on-time" rate, and a greater than 50% "off by 2 or more hours" rate.
For American the news would be that they only had 2 hour flight delays due to a computer glitch. Maybe British Airways is working on changing expectations.
"We're sorry, an unexpected computer glitch caused our flights to be only 2 hours late. We are working on a fix to get us back to our normally 3-8 our delayed operations"
If you can't be a shining example, at least you can be a horrible warning.
All Apple is really doing is optimizing their overall bill. There's a balance to be made between the billions they owe in the EU versus repatriating some amount Xand paying the 35% on X. I'm no tax lawyer, but if they repatriate $10B, then they would owe ~$3.5B to the US, and presumably some smaller amount of the remaining taxes to the EU.
I realize I'm completely off base with specifics (not a lawyer). Though I personally think there should be laws specific to the country that business was conducted in and taxes should be based specifically off of that. You do business in the US? Have an office, keep track of sales and profits made in the US. Ditto for EU, Japan, Russia, China, wherever. $65B kept on $100B profit in the US is still a lot of money, especially for a company like Apple that loves its cash reserves and doesn't go blow the wallet on R&D and acquisitions like Yahoo and MSFT.
Google Maps (used to) be a big help here. "Go to edge of dock, swim across Atlantic Ocean". They revised their suggestions a bit to include sailing and jet skiing. My guess is they had a few too many people actually try to swim across the ocean.
Some call it suicide, some call it murder, others call it cleansing the shallow end of the gene pool.
OpenOffice died the moment Oracle took it over, which caused the LibreOffice fork. It's another datapoint in the eventual death of things Oracle touches.
Why even bother with that? They could have gone with a car-like naming convention.
{series}{grade}{desktop/laptop/lowpower}{overclock}{arbitraryCharacterToConfuse}
Why, they only need to say "Our top of the line is the 358DKL!, it's much higher powered than the 799PNS!"
Bonus that they could be read much like a license plate. Who wouldn't snicker at the chance to say "three-fifty-eight dickel" or "seven-ninety-nine penis"?
It's been my experience that the iPhone crowd tends to be the Kanye West of humble.
That's why I respect Linus so much. Not only has he helped shaped one of the most important open source projects of all time, he has done it with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of profanity.
FTFY.
Yes, Linus has done great things in the past ~20 years. But lets not kid ourselves that he can be a total dick about many things. Often it's for a good reason that he is passionate about. Other times not so much.
M is for their Motorsport division, who takes the base car and upgrades it - Much like Shelby will take a Mustang and turn it into a real car. The M3 is a top-tier three series that often has wider tires, wider fenders, lower stance, bigger engine, and upgraded transmission/brakes.
240 is a "2 series", and "40" used to be displacement (e.g. 4.0 L), but is now rough performance. Educated guess is the performance is similar to a naturally aspirated 4.0L engine.
X-drive is BMW's term for four wheel drive. So a 335xi would have "X-Drive", and be four-wheel.
'i' is for "fuel Injection" which was coming into vogue in their 80's models. You'll see a lot of E30 "325is" and "325ci" where 'c' is "coupe" and 's' is "sport". Here "sport" refers to a sport package, stiffer suspension and minor performance oriented upgrades like brakes... nowhere near the changes in an "M" car.
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Be sure to make a video and post to facebook when it does catch fire. Just whip out your phone and.. oh... wait...
I'm sure there's some other motivation in hitting one of the big fish for this tax haven nonsense... But until Apple provides concrete evidence that they followed every law (read: tax filings and supporting documentation), then anything from Mr. Cook is just an attempt to save face.
Python isn't a "tabbed language" it merely relies on levels of indentation. Consistent type/count of whitespace in front of code is used to differentiate namespaces. It could be 'n' spaces or 'n' tabs, just prepare for pain if you mix them within a file.
Just saying, I wouldn't need a bag over her head to finish the job.
Uh-huh. What about a bag over yours?
Mr. Carlin? Is that you?
Not that it's entirely bloat-free, but the Samsung Galaxy Note series are pretty nice and can sometimes be found on Woot or other such sales sites. I have the 2014 edition and use it as a small digital sketchbook and e-reader, which I picked up for $300 on Woot a while back.
Sure, it's Samsung and has some of the Samsung-specific apps, but many can be disabled and/or shoved into a "bloatware" folder and ignored. Plus the tablet takes a MicroSD card so you can greatly expand the storage space, I think up to 64GB.