Because Iceland the country actually seems to have a vested interest in making sure their citizens can use their own country's name in business ventures. What a novel idea, a country looking out for its citizens...
The crux of this case is that Iceland The Country is saying Iceland the Supermarket are being dicks and suing or threatening Icelandic citizens and businesses for having commercial ventures with the name Iceland in the name.
To use your own example, suppose there was a US supermarket named Canada, that was threatening Canada Computers with a cease and desist and forcing them to change their name.
It's not about emotion, it's about $$$. The people doing these fake stories are doing it because they are getting paid to do it. The ones paying them to do it see an angle to either make more money by throwing dirt at Musk's ventures or are doing it to protect an existing revenue stream.
With humans it's always about power, sex or money. Frequently all three.
The problem comes when you see people in the company start to use the company as their credit card. Don't forget, according to the US Census there are 28 million small businesses in the US. What happens when the tax burden is shifted onto the owner as he takes profit? He or she might do what I've seen others do. Use the company to pay for as much as they can and take a paltry salary.
One guy I knew took a 30K a year salary as President of his own company and was quite vocal that everyone in the company got paid more than he did so they better work their asses off in appreciation. And on paper looking at his paystub that was 100% true. But he didn't tell most people that the company rented a 2 bedroom apartment in a tower downtown for "out of town" clients that he happened to live in for free, and the company vehicle was his vehicle, and the reason he would take staff out to dinner to chat was so the company would pay for dinner as a business expense, business trips to Europe coincidentally were in cities near Alps ski resorts, etc. So while he made only 30K, his out of pocket expenses were about $600 a month because the company paid for everything else.
I'm not saying the tax shift would be a bad idea, I'm just saying once it happens I would expect to see a lot of what I described above start happening.
Nah. Just make sure you're not an Apple fan that lives near a factory. All those pesky waste disposal and EPA regs will be slashed to make this a reality. Enjoy your $900 iPhones with the knowledge that you're safely outside the contamination zone.
Actually if you RTFA, it mentions they want to exempt nav apps from the blocking so that wouldn't be a problem. Of course your passenger couldn't use other apps at the same time. Unless the passenger took the driver's phone and did navigation with that and whatever else they want with their own phone.
This is a stupid way to try and fix the problem as getting around it is trivial.
Unless those people are smart enough to figure out how to swipe their finger down from the top to pull up the service menu and click off the GPS. But that's probably too involved for everyone but those hacker people...
> And apps don't use "file manager plugins", they use whatever the widget toolkit (usually GTK or QT) provides
Whatever, I'm a sysadmin not a programmer, and that's what I was looking to call it.
And it sure as hell did happen. In Evolution:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
I remember it clear as day because we were corresponding with a client endlessly going back and forth on a project and all of the project docs were on a mount on the office CentOS machine and I was absolutely pissed that I could get to the same mount using a SFTP software and pop things up to the client's server without issue but I couldn't mail them any of the files as attachments without copying them by hand because Evolution refused to even see directories that were mounted. After about the 500th time I had to move files by hand I got really angry, thought about how much time I am wasting moving files to a temp directory just so I can either mail them out or move them to a mount from my inbox and said fuck it and installed Windows 7. And you know what the hell of it was? Windows 7 works well enough for what I expect that I stayed with it.
I haven't used any desktop Linux in a while but when I played around with them I found Ubuntu's were easier to initially set up, but Fedora was more stable. There were still bizarre integration problems with applications though, like different apps using different file manager plugins so that one application works across the whole file system no problem, but another can't browse into mount points, which means you need to move files out of that mount to use them, then put them back, etc. A small mountain of little annoyances like that eventually drove me back into the arms of Redmond.
> as I write this post, it's snowing heavily outside and there's over a foot of snow on the ground.
So because it's cold somewhere, global warming doesn't exist, excellent logic. Countervailing point: When I moved to Vancouver 30 years ago nobody needed air conditioning and winters saw about 1-2 weeks of snow. The last 10 years there's been annual runs on all stores in the summer where they can't keep air conditioners in stock, and I haven't seen a single flake on the ground in 6 years.
However, as you wrote that post it is also TWENTY DEGREES warmer than it should be in the arctic.
The idea behind the Volt is how all vehicle powertrains should be built going forward. Electric motor hooked to modest battery bank and a petroleum engine to charge up the batteries once they fall past a certain threshold.
I have problems giving GM much credit for their handling of the Volt though because it's like they launched it, did a few modest commercials for it and then ignored it. They also didn't produce enough of them to meet initial demands and were slow catching up to that demand so a lot of people lost interest. In my city I actually see more Teslas than Volts on the street.
If you don't think what Verhoeven did with ST was deliberate, then you didn't really get the point. The novel puts a positive-ish spin on society adopting fascist concepts, the movie is a primer of why that's a bad idea.
> But, this isn't a high end desktop replacement gaming laptop, is it?!
No, it's not. But what *is* it trying to be with that sort of mediocre graphics capability? Is it looking to appeal to the multi monitor crowd? If so, why buy a portable computer for that? Most people would go with a workstation for that type of use instead.
It just seems weird they're selling a more powerful GPU but not actually looking to target it to be useful for gaming, which is the market for most people who would drop extra money on a GPU in a laptop. Or a desktop for that matter.. If I'm not going to use this enhanced GPU for gaming, and I'm not going to use it with 3+ monitors, what does it bring to the table that the base model doesn't have?
Yep, a good outcome isn't headline news. I use this very point whenever a conversation steers towards someone mentioning that they don't want to fly because it's "unsafe" based on crash reports in the news. I ask people if they still drive, despite hearing about 10+ accidents every morning and another 10+ in the evening on the radio traffic reports and they say sure. Then ask how often a plane crash makes the news. Certainly not every day, right? Then, if possible I show them this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7_yzypm5w
Which shows a timelapse of every major flight on the planet from a day in 2009. Most people are astounded that there are *that many* flights and generally flying seems a lot safer once they consider that.
They're not even top selling machines! The Surface Book? It's selling 5% of the volume of the Surface Pro 3 and 4. That Asus Chromebook isn't in the top 5 of Chromebooks.
Plus the sample size of 13000 sales is pathetically small.
And not to mention this is apples to pineapples and bananas and peaches. They're saying the "competiton" for the new Macbook Pro is:
- Microsoft's white elephant Surface Book which is super spiffy and if I ever won the lottery I'm sure I'd buy one, but not before then - A $350 Chromebook - A Dell 2 in 1 that is a "budget enthusiast" class laptop with a $700 price - The Lenovo Yoga 900 which is probably the closest competition of the 4 to the MacBook Pro but still not quite in the same class.
If they're counting revenue, the only one that costs more than the Macbook is the Surface Book that everyone admires but agrees is way too costly. The others are selling sub $1000 and on razor thin profit margins, especially for the Chromebook.
The whole article is bullshit fanboyism torturing stats to make them say something positive.
Horseshit. This is textbook manufacturing stats. They literally picked 4 laptops at random as it's "competition", INCLUDING A $350 CHROMEBOOK and said "they sold more than these 4 models who they compete against. They're winning everything!!!1!1!"
I guess Fiat's winning the worldwide vehicle sales because they've sold more Pandas than Lamborghini has sold Murchilagos and Caterpillar has sold GT011 road graders!
> So yes, if you only count the group that axiomatically needs to make money, that group needs to make money
That's the group I was talking about yes. I forgot that/. is packed to the gills with pedants who take a general piece of advice and look for every possible exception to start an argument. All I was warning people about is if some company is giving you a product or service, don't be surprised when it turns out that they're doing something extremely shady with your usage of it to make a buck.
Examples? If there are "thousands" surely it would be pretty easy to rattle off a few well known ones. Ubuntu? Oh wait.. Mozilla? Nope, they love that Google money way too much. MySQL AB, oh maybe not... Google? Facebook? Twitter? (favorite webmail service) ? (favorite hosting service) ?
If you're talking about GPL projects or similar then yes. WOT was NEVER that. Quit being a dick.
That's the great thing about arguing on the internet, you can twist someone's original statement to make yourself look clever. As I mentioned elsewhere I was talking about companies, not foundations or OSS projects. That said, being a foundation didn't stop Mozilla from selling default search engine placement to Google for a billion dollars over 3 years, now did it? Some may make the argument that would constitute them "selling out their users".
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Because Iceland the country actually seems to have a vested interest in making sure their citizens can use their own country's name in business ventures. What a novel idea, a country looking out for its citizens...
The crux of this case is that Iceland The Country is saying Iceland the Supermarket are being dicks and suing or threatening Icelandic citizens and businesses for having commercial ventures with the name Iceland in the name.
To use your own example, suppose there was a US supermarket named Canada, that was threatening Canada Computers with a cease and desist and forcing them to change their name.
It's not about emotion, it's about $$$. The people doing these fake stories are doing it because they are getting paid to do it. The ones paying them to do it see an angle to either make more money by throwing dirt at Musk's ventures or are doing it to protect an existing revenue stream.
With humans it's always about power, sex or money. Frequently all three.
The problem comes when you see people in the company start to use the company as their credit card. Don't forget, according to the US Census there are 28 million small businesses in the US. What happens when the tax burden is shifted onto the owner as he takes profit? He or she might do what I've seen others do. Use the company to pay for as much as they can and take a paltry salary.
One guy I knew took a 30K a year salary as President of his own company and was quite vocal that everyone in the company got paid more than he did so they better work their asses off in appreciation. And on paper looking at his paystub that was 100% true. But he didn't tell most people that the company rented a 2 bedroom apartment in a tower downtown for "out of town" clients that he happened to live in for free, and the company vehicle was his vehicle, and the reason he would take staff out to dinner to chat was so the company would pay for dinner as a business expense, business trips to Europe coincidentally were in cities near Alps ski resorts, etc. So while he made only 30K, his out of pocket expenses were about $600 a month because the company paid for everything else.
I'm not saying the tax shift would be a bad idea, I'm just saying once it happens I would expect to see a lot of what I described above start happening.
Nah. Just make sure you're not an Apple fan that lives near a factory. All those pesky waste disposal and EPA regs will be slashed to make this a reality. Enjoy your $900 iPhones with the knowledge that you're safely outside the contamination zone.
Actually if you RTFA, it mentions they want to exempt nav apps from the blocking so that wouldn't be a problem. Of course your passenger couldn't use other apps at the same time. Unless the passenger took the driver's phone and did navigation with that and whatever else they want with their own phone.
This is a stupid way to try and fix the problem as getting around it is trivial.
Unless those people are smart enough to figure out how to swipe their finger down from the top to pull up the service menu and click off the GPS. But that's probably too involved for everyone but those hacker people...
> And apps don't use "file manager plugins", they use whatever the widget toolkit (usually GTK or QT) provides
Whatever, I'm a sysadmin not a programmer, and that's what I was looking to call it.
And it sure as hell did happen. In Evolution:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
I remember it clear as day because we were corresponding with a client endlessly going back and forth on a project and all of the project docs were on a mount on the office CentOS machine and I was absolutely pissed that I could get to the same mount using a SFTP software and pop things up to the client's server without issue but I couldn't mail them any of the files as attachments without copying them by hand because Evolution refused to even see directories that were mounted. After about the 500th time I had to move files by hand I got really angry, thought about how much time I am wasting moving files to a temp directory just so I can either mail them out or move them to a mount from my inbox and said fuck it and installed Windows 7. And you know what the hell of it was? Windows 7 works well enough for what I expect that I stayed with it.
I haven't used any desktop Linux in a while but when I played around with them I found Ubuntu's were easier to initially set up, but Fedora was more stable. There were still bizarre integration problems with applications though, like different apps using different file manager plugins so that one application works across the whole file system no problem, but another can't browse into mount points, which means you need to move files out of that mount to use them, then put them back, etc. A small mountain of little annoyances like that eventually drove me back into the arms of Redmond.
"What is my purpose?"
"You fold shirts"
"Oh My God."
> as I write this post, it's snowing heavily outside and there's over a foot of snow on the ground.
So because it's cold somewhere, global warming doesn't exist, excellent logic. Countervailing point: When I moved to Vancouver 30 years ago nobody needed air conditioning and winters saw about 1-2 weeks of snow. The last 10 years there's been annual runs on all stores in the summer where they can't keep air conditioners in stock, and I haven't seen a single flake on the ground in 6 years.
However, as you wrote that post it is also TWENTY DEGREES warmer than it should be in the arctic.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/north-pole-20-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends
Note, that's also the National Post, the right wing rag of Canada, so if THEY are publishing it, there must be some fire behind that smoke.
"We destroyed the planet sure, but for a brief beautiful moment there we were really creating value for the shareholders"
The idea behind the Volt is how all vehicle powertrains should be built going forward. Electric motor hooked to modest battery bank and a petroleum engine to charge up the batteries once they fall past a certain threshold.
I have problems giving GM much credit for their handling of the Volt though because it's like they launched it, did a few modest commercials for it and then ignored it. They also didn't produce enough of them to meet initial demands and were slow catching up to that demand so a lot of people lost interest. In my city I actually see more Teslas than Volts on the street.
And it was exciting and fun... for about a week? Then everyone got bored of tying physical achievement to in-game tracking?
If you don't think what Verhoeven did with ST was deliberate, then you didn't really get the point. The novel puts a positive-ish spin on society adopting fascist concepts, the movie is a primer of why that's a bad idea.
Sell it?! I thought the Mac upgrade path was pick up old laptop, deposit in trash, open box, set new laptop on desk.
> But, this isn't a high end desktop replacement gaming laptop, is it?!
No, it's not. But what *is* it trying to be with that sort of mediocre graphics capability? Is it looking to appeal to the multi monitor crowd? If so, why buy a portable computer for that? Most people would go with a workstation for that type of use instead.
It just seems weird they're selling a more powerful GPU but not actually looking to target it to be useful for gaming, which is the market for most people who would drop extra money on a GPU in a laptop. Or a desktop for that matter.. If I'm not going to use this enhanced GPU for gaming, and I'm not going to use it with 3+ monitors, what does it bring to the table that the base model doesn't have?
Yep, a good outcome isn't headline news. I use this very point whenever a conversation steers towards someone mentioning that they don't want to fly because it's "unsafe" based on crash reports in the news. I ask people if they still drive, despite hearing about 10+ accidents every morning and another 10+ in the evening on the radio traffic reports and they say sure. Then ask how often a plane crash makes the news. Certainly not every day, right? Then, if possible I show them this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7_yzypm5w
Which shows a timelapse of every major flight on the planet from a day in 2009. Most people are astounded that there are *that many* flights and generally flying seems a lot safer once they consider that.
DUH! The ones with oil or strategic locations that won't fight back too much.
They're not even top selling machines! The Surface Book? It's selling 5% of the volume of the Surface Pro 3 and 4. That Asus Chromebook isn't in the top 5 of Chromebooks.
Plus the sample size of 13000 sales is pathetically small.
And not to mention this is apples to pineapples and bananas and peaches. They're saying the "competiton" for the new Macbook Pro is:
- Microsoft's white elephant Surface Book which is super spiffy and if I ever won the lottery I'm sure I'd buy one, but not before then
- A $350 Chromebook
- A Dell 2 in 1 that is a "budget enthusiast" class laptop with a $700 price
- The Lenovo Yoga 900 which is probably the closest competition of the 4 to the MacBook Pro but still not quite in the same class.
If they're counting revenue, the only one that costs more than the Macbook is the Surface Book that everyone admires but agrees is way too costly. The others are selling sub $1000 and on razor thin profit margins, especially for the Chromebook.
The whole article is bullshit fanboyism torturing stats to make them say something positive.
Horseshit. This is textbook manufacturing stats. They literally picked 4 laptops at random as it's "competition", INCLUDING A $350 CHROMEBOOK and said "they sold more than these 4 models who they compete against. They're winning everything!!!1!1!"
I guess Fiat's winning the worldwide vehicle sales because they've sold more Pandas than Lamborghini has sold Murchilagos and Caterpillar has sold GT011 road graders!
> So yes, if you only count the group that axiomatically needs to make money, that group needs to make money
That's the group I was talking about yes. I forgot that /. is packed to the gills with pedants who take a general piece of advice and look for every possible exception to start an argument. All I was warning people about is if some company is giving you a product or service, don't be surprised when it turns out that they're doing something extremely shady with your usage of it to make a buck.
Examples? If there are "thousands" surely it would be pretty easy to rattle off a few well known ones. Ubuntu? Oh wait.. Mozilla? Nope, they love that Google money way too much. MySQL AB, oh maybe not... Google? Facebook? Twitter? (favorite webmail service) ? (favorite hosting service) ?
If you're talking about GPL projects or similar then yes. WOT was NEVER that. Quit being a dick.
That's the great thing about arguing on the internet, you can twist someone's original statement to make yourself look clever. As I mentioned elsewhere I was talking about companies, not foundations or OSS projects. That said, being a foundation didn't stop Mozilla from selling default search engine placement to Google for a billion dollars over 3 years, now did it? Some may make the argument that would constitute them "selling out their users".
I'm talking about for-profit companies, not foundations.
Jesus.