And yet most individuals pay more income tax than Apple.
That's just because you just forget to count the billions in VAT that Apple NZ is paying the government. So if in your mind "Apple pays no taxes", in reality they pay a heck of a lot more than most companies.
You mean the VAT that's attached to the products that the person buying it pays? If you think the company pays VAT then look again. If just having VAT attached to a product is enough then why does any company that sells things have to pay?
Psycho for example tried to be redone what 3 times? Poltergeist was terrible. Star wars while not a remake but story line gets worse with each series. Even the prequels were better than Disney and I refuse to watch star trek
The remake of Night of the Living Dead was much better than the original IMHO. The Dawn remake was shit though, dunno if they ever redid Day.
They're not lazy, just relying on tried-and-true money makers. They're banking on kids with money to spend and who have not seen the older movies we've seen.
They're greedy is what it is.
Why does this picture look like a very basic computer simulation of a lump of rock, and nothing at all like a photo. How was the picture actually taken?
"NASA's Cassini probe has delivered stunning close-ups of the 35-kilometer-wide icy moon...The latest pictures were obtained as Cassini conducts its final (and riskiest) flybys past Saturn's moons and rings before it blazes into the planet's atmosphere later this year."
I would say RTFA but in this case it's exactly the same as TFS, so either will do.
The thing ain't cheap, it's not like a xanabu itablet from china's cheapest sweatshop. How many dead pixels do you usually see in modern devices? Technology type doesn't matter because that's the choice manufacturers make. Usually its zero and when it's more than that you can usually get repair instead of being told tough luck.
... I guess sort of like bad sectors are a characteristic of disk drives...
Each hard drive has bad sectors detected during the QA testing and permanently stored in drives primary defects list (PLIST) table. The visible reallocations that start from 0 and reported by S.M.A.R.T are grown defects list (GLIST), not existing during the manufacturing. So yes, bad sectors are sort of a characteristic of disk drives.
But in that sense they get hidden and the user is never aware rather than them going "nah, you can't save that properly, bad sector innit, that's just how they work now pay up and fuck off"
The best bit on the xbox, in the battery compartment on the pad and back of the console it says "hello from seattle" about half an inch from where it says "made in china"
I'm amazed that anyone cares about Xbox when most of the best games are ported to PC since it's little more than a re-skin and recompile, to get mediocre performance anyway. And since the current consoles are just a mediocre PC, a decent PC will run them fine anyway.
Maybe because they're cheap to buy, easy to run and just sit there and play the games without crying about drivers or some other compatibility issue you'll spend hours googling all while getting the lions share of the performance a top line pc would offer? Especially when most AAA games these days are designed for consoles and PC is lucky to get an optimised port but mostly its a shitty port. Unless you're into the indie scene or are only interested in pushing the absolute maximum amount of pixels there's really not much point.
I don't know why Gamestop's stock would tank by the announcement of yet another Me Too digital service when most digital services barely make a dent on the ecosystem compared to Steam - and steam is already around, selling some/many of the games being highlighted.
So steam is on consoles is it? And consoles aren't the last bastion of physical sales? Who is it who doesn't know shit?
It was actually pretty neat, you listened to a series of pitches at different volumes with each ear and it was able to tell if you had some amount of loss in one ear and calibrate sound for it.
But was it able to tell, or did you have to tell it?
It doesn't need recording in full 4K or anything. There is definitely the storage capacity available and the power, maybe not in an off the shelf solution but it's doable, or possibly use some kind of wireless tether to the car that triggers recording to start when they go out of range, why does it need to be a light weight battery? Why can't it get wired to a more substantial battery carried on their belt or something? Anyway I'm not going to start proposing device designs or specs or anything but if thats what they wanted to do it could be done. Always on or don't bother IMHO. (It wouldn't be hard to hard to put on a lens cover they can use when they go for a piss or a little button that pauses recording for 5 mins or something. Why turn it off during lunch? Do cops get a lunch hour like a regular job? Unless something actually happens then it's not going to be watched anyway and if they are not on duty then they should take their uniform off).
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And yet most individuals pay more income tax than Apple.
That's just because you just forget to count the billions in VAT that Apple NZ is paying the government. So if in your mind "Apple pays no taxes", in reality they pay a heck of a lot more than most companies.
You mean the VAT that's attached to the products that the person buying it pays? If you think the company pays VAT then look again. If just having VAT attached to a product is enough then why does any company that sells things have to pay?
Paying more than you're required is one thing. Gaming the system so you pay nothing is quite another.
"but it looks like their tax department is even more innovative than their product designers."
That's their job. Change your laws.
Yeah, criminalise apple.
Please name one remake that was good like EVER!
Psycho for example tried to be redone what 3 times? Poltergeist was terrible. Star wars while not a remake but story line gets worse with each series. Even the prequels were better than Disney and I refuse to watch star trek
The remake of Night of the Living Dead was much better than the original IMHO. The Dawn remake was shit though, dunno if they ever redid Day.
How do you figure? The Force Awakens was a pretty blatent remake of A New Hope.
That they kept going on about starkiller in the new one is what confused me.
They're not lazy, just relying on tried-and-true money makers. They're banking on kids with money to spend and who have not seen the older movies we've seen. They're greedy is what it is.
Can we just agree you're both right.
What the fuck is an empanade.
Some kind of cute bear that hugs you when you're down?
Why does this picture look like a very basic computer simulation of a lump of rock, and nothing at all like a photo. How was the picture actually taken?
"NASA's Cassini probe has delivered stunning close-ups of the 35-kilometer-wide icy moon...The latest pictures were obtained as Cassini conducts its final (and riskiest) flybys past Saturn's moons and rings before it blazes into the planet's atmosphere later this year."
I would say RTFA but in this case it's exactly the same as TFS, so either will do.
As far as I'm concerned, the EU can't explode soon enough.
You'd be better waiting for betelgeuse to explode.
I can just imagine the huge tomacco plantations on Mars... ;)
It's the only place the wildlife won't eat it all.
Outside of the US, most people prefer mayonaise with their fries. We need to raise chickens on Mars.
In Holland maybe, not too sure about elsewhere. Outside the US is a big place.
plants grow out of water alone, it's obviously easy.
Water? Like out of the toilet?
The thing ain't cheap, it's not like a xanabu itablet from china's cheapest sweatshop. How many dead pixels do you usually see in modern devices? Technology type doesn't matter because that's the choice manufacturers make. Usually its zero and when it's more than that you can usually get repair instead of being told tough luck.
Nintendo switch price £279.99
Xbox One price £199.95
PS4 price £169.99
Yeah. I'd say its premium, and thats before you get into the silliness of the pad situation.
Well, premium in price anyway, quality is questionable.
... I guess sort of like bad sectors are a characteristic of disk drives ...
Each hard drive has bad sectors detected during the QA testing and permanently stored in drives primary defects list (PLIST) table. The visible reallocations that start from 0 and reported by S.M.A.R.T are grown defects list (GLIST), not existing during the manufacturing. So yes, bad sectors are sort of a characteristic of disk drives.
But in that sense they get hidden and the user is never aware rather than them going "nah, you can't save that properly, bad sector innit, that's just how they work now pay up and fuck off"
Made in Japan .... at our facilities in China.
Just like the iPhone, then.
The best bit on the xbox, in the battery compartment on the pad and back of the console it says "hello from seattle" about half an inch from where it says "made in china"
The manufacturer configures the maximum number of acceptable dead pixels in the software.
For a premium machine from a company like nintendo that number should be 0
Not on xbox they're not.
I'm amazed that anyone cares about Xbox when most of the best games are ported to PC since it's little more than a re-skin and recompile, to get mediocre performance anyway. And since the current consoles are just a mediocre PC, a decent PC will run them fine anyway.
Maybe because they're cheap to buy, easy to run and just sit there and play the games without crying about drivers or some other compatibility issue you'll spend hours googling all while getting the lions share of the performance a top line pc would offer? Especially when most AAA games these days are designed for consoles and PC is lucky to get an optimised port but mostly its a shitty port. Unless you're into the indie scene or are only interested in pushing the absolute maximum amount of pixels there's really not much point.
I don't know why Gamestop's stock would tank by the announcement of yet another Me Too digital service when most digital services barely make a dent on the ecosystem compared to Steam - and steam is already around, selling some/many of the games being highlighted.
So steam is on consoles is it? And consoles aren't the last bastion of physical sales? Who is it who doesn't know shit?
I'm amazed that anyone cares at all about either GameStop or Microsoft's store when Steam, GoG and Humble Store are around.
Not on xbox they're not.
Their entire business model is predicated on not offering a fair deal, to customers or the majority of employees or the people who make the games.
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And they'll somehow manage to sell it as a revolutionary invention when they bring it back too.
iPhone Classic
Does anyone honestly think that Apple cares whether other companies drop the headphone jack on their phones?
Probably not about the individual issue but you know they won't like not being blindly followed.
It was actually pretty neat, you listened to a series of pitches at different volumes with each ear and it was able to tell if you had some amount of loss in one ear and calibrate sound for it.
But was it able to tell, or did you have to tell it?
It doesn't need recording in full 4K or anything. There is definitely the storage capacity available and the power, maybe not in an off the shelf solution but it's doable, or possibly use some kind of wireless tether to the car that triggers recording to start when they go out of range, why does it need to be a light weight battery? Why can't it get wired to a more substantial battery carried on their belt or something? Anyway I'm not going to start proposing device designs or specs or anything but if thats what they wanted to do it could be done. Always on or don't bother IMHO. (It wouldn't be hard to hard to put on a lens cover they can use when they go for a piss or a little button that pauses recording for 5 mins or something. Why turn it off during lunch? Do cops get a lunch hour like a regular job? Unless something actually happens then it's not going to be watched anyway and if they are not on duty then they should take their uniform off).