No it's not. If you live in certain countries (or certain U.S. states) then you already pay sales tax on iTunes purchases. It's the same thing.
No; in that case you are buying something, and Apple has physical stores in your area, so they have to collect the local taxes, as part of their obligations resulting from having a physical presence in your state, and conducting the sale of goods there.
The earth orbits where the sun is right now. It takes light about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth.
No. It also takes 8 minutes for changes in the gravitational field to travel from the sun to the earth.
The earth orbits, where the Sun appears to be; as the Sun appears to move, the gravitational field changes.
These changes are delayed by 8 minutes.
The constant 'c' from special relativity is not just the speed of light in a vacuum -- it is also the highest possible
speed for any physical interaction within nature, and the conversion factor from changing units of time into units of space.
Gravitational waves, Gluons, Photons, and other massless particles travel at a maximum speed of c.
It is impossible to convey information at a speed faster than c.
There are cases where a wave can propagate faster than c, but no information can be conveyed faster than light.
I do... Youtube's not a French company. The idea that any country in the world can levy a tax on you
if you're an internet company, would be crippling.
How about a "Mohamed" tax from muslim countries, on any depiction of Mohamed in a video?
The tax amount? $1 Million dollars, per viewer of each such video.
So who is it who is to decide which persons get better treatment than others?
Politicians, the courts, or public opinion.
Equal treatment under the law is the cornerstone of our "way of life".
No it's not. Unicorns and fairies are more real than "equal treatment under the law" ever was.
There is, has always been, and always will be inequal treatment under the law; the rich and powerful almost always get better treatment (or worse treatment) depending on the circumstances.
The inequality is just more cleverly disguised in some places, than others --- "Equality" is purely illusory, and not required for justice, anyways.
If they want to pardon Turing for committing the crime of Homosexuality then they have to pardon everybody of the same crime.
They are free to pardon Turing for that crime, and they absolutely are not required to pardon everybody.
That begs that you have enterprise level everything else, including dual psu's and or a UPS.
Those are all single points of failure.
You should have dual power supplies, and each power supply should be plugged into separate power busses.
Each of your power busses should be protected by a separate UPS, so that a single UPS component failure will not shut off power to both power supplies.
Each power circuit feeding the UPS supply side should be backed up by a separate standby generator on a separate automatic transfer switch, fed by two utility entrances (preferably from separate feeds, so a pole down on one side of the street wouldn't cause a power outage at the other entrance.)
It looks like all the SSDs the author was testing are low-end models, that obviously don't have
Enterprise features such as high-end fault protection circuits / super capacitor in the design.
Are you rational? If you are, why would you rationally make a poor decision? The short answer (for the most common case) is that someone else pushed a belief upon you that modified your parameters to irrational ones. That's child abuse
Even rational people can make some judgement errors and technical mistakes, or give into temptation and rationally take a course that isn't optimal in the long term.
They are allowed to decide how much their product costs. They can sell it to the carrier at whatever wholesale price they desire. They have no right to tell the carrier what to do with their property once they've purchased it though.
Apple can require you to adhere to their price list to be an authorized Apple reseller.
Apple can also refuse to supply their product to retailers who are not authorized Apple resellers.
Plenty of manufacturers do this.
Did Ford or Honda have to approve how much you sold your car on Craigslist for?
No, but the vehicle you purchased was not subject to additional conditions on your right to sell or otherwise dispose of your product in the future.
The dealer didn't make you sign a "not for resale" or "resale only at price X" agreement.
What if a Philosopher's Stone required 100KwH per ounce of gold produced?
That would actually be economical; if it only took 100KwH worth ~$20 to produce ~$1200 US worth of gold...... currently the only way to produce gold from other metals is to perform the conversion in a nuclear reactor. And it takes many thousands of terra watt hours to produce less than 0.1 of an ounce.
The point of this statement is to remind people that digital currencies are still currencies. You don't get to escape the rules and risks of reality by using quatloos instead of dollars.
You do when those quatloos turn out to be worthless.... the government doesn't care how many worthless quatloos you trade with your friends.
Only if they actually become or turn out to be valuable, will it really wind up mattering
I love that Dogecoin is apparently a big enough thing now to be mentioned in the same breath as Bitcoin and Litecoin.
Bitcoin is the only one that really matters.
The others are posers/copycats, trying to piggyback on whatever fame Bitcoin gets; since significant amounts of Bitcoin can't easily be mined anymore.
The only real advantage of Litecoin/Dogecoin is the group of proprietors who started them and started mining them early have a lot to gain, if Bitcoin's success can blow any extra wind in their sails.
The trouble is; Facebook built a cage around privacy, all except a small sample jar, so even if the horse wants some, (s)he's going to have great trouble contorting around the bars of the cage, just to successfully get a small sip at most.
But there are plenty of other applications that won't really benefit from the enlarged address space - would a word processor benefit?
Basically most server-side applications will benefit and use large memory address spaces already; especially.NET and Java-based applications; Mail servers, DB Servers, storage servers of various kinds.
Microsoft Word? Definitely.
But Word processors, and most desktop applications these days are web-based -- with a greater and greater portion "moving to the cloud" and becoming web-only day by day. Web browsers need large memory address space to cache rendering information about increasingly complex web pages; many users also open a number of simultaneous windows (or tabs) and expect fast instantaneous switching between them --- requiring yet even more cache; 4GB of RAM cache is a paltry amount by today's standards.
I'm talking about the kind of people that you are constantly learning from - new ideas, new approaches, excitement and passion for what they are doing. I firmly believe that a good (A-player) techie is worth at least 3 average ones
I think you have totally confused a certain personality type, with a certain quality of worker.
There are people who frequently express new ideas, excitement, passion, and are constantly overtly enthusiastic.
It is orthogonal to the quality of the work, in actually doing their job though -- in many cases.
The proper jobs for these folks are in sales, strategy, or marketing.
Depending on your own personality; these people are either a pleasure to work with, or a real annoyance to work with.....
Netflix isn't the first business to put all the weight on the players while ignoring the game. It doesn't matter how many A players you hire if your organization has deep structural problems. Microsoft would be a prime example.
You need your managers and official leaders to be "A Players".
You can't have 100% A-players; it won't scale, and your org will go broke.
If you have a manager that really thinks they can maintain a staff of only A players in a large company;
then the manager is kind of dense (definitely not an A Player)
The exec managers are the people who definitely must be A players; vital to the success of a company
Ergo, in that case, the current manager who thinks they can have "Only A Players" should be re-assigned to non-management
or dismissed.
This kind of law has other negative side effects.
An italian company can't buy an ad sponsorship slot on a blog in a different country;
because the blogger is not a multi-national entity --- they won't have a company registered in Italy.
The potential advertising options for Italian companies just became very limited......
The very files he needs and should be entitled to for the purpose of his defence, also necessarily give him control over the bitcoins....there is no separation between the two.
Those files would probably be readily subject to an order providing that only the defense legal counsel can review them, until the case is concluded, they would not be allowed to use or disclose the full content of the files or any of the private keys to the defendant or any third party.
The defense has a right to inspect that data --- in many cases, it may be sealed from the public eye, and even from the defendant himself or herself
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You would be buying something from YouTube as well, and Google has a sales office in your area, so this is different from Apple, how?
I can pretty much guarantee Google has no sales office in my area.
When I click a link and watch a Youtube video, there is also: no sale taking place.
No it's not. If you live in certain countries (or certain U.S. states) then you already pay sales tax on iTunes purchases. It's the same thing.
No; in that case you are buying something, and Apple has physical stores in your area, so they have to collect the local taxes, as part of their obligations resulting from having a physical presence in your state, and conducting the sale of goods there.
The earth orbits where the sun is right now. It takes light about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth.
No. It also takes 8 minutes for changes in the gravitational field to travel from the sun to the earth.
The earth orbits, where the Sun appears to be; as the Sun appears to move, the gravitational field changes.
These changes are delayed by 8 minutes.
The constant 'c' from special relativity is not just the speed of light in a vacuum -- it is also the highest possible speed for any physical interaction within nature, and the conversion factor from changing units of time into units of space.
Gravitational waves, Gluons, Photons, and other massless particles travel at a maximum speed of c.
It is impossible to convey information at a speed faster than c.
There are cases where a wave can propagate faster than c, but no information can be conveyed faster than light.
Huh? Oh, okay! So...what command should we type to check it?
dir C:\
I don't see a problem with the YouTube tax
I do... Youtube's not a French company. The idea that any country in the world can levy a tax on you if you're an internet company, would be crippling.
How about a "Mohamed" tax from muslim countries, on any depiction of Mohamed in a video? The tax amount? $1 Million dollars, per viewer of each such video.
So who is it who is to decide which persons get better treatment than others?
Politicians, the courts, or public opinion.
Equal treatment under the law is the cornerstone of our "way of life".
No it's not. Unicorns and fairies are more real than "equal treatment under the law" ever was. There is, has always been, and always will be inequal treatment under the law; the rich and powerful almost always get better treatment (or worse treatment) depending on the circumstances.
The inequality is just more cleverly disguised in some places, than others --- "Equality" is purely illusory, and not required for justice, anyways.
If they want to pardon Turing for committing the crime of Homosexuality then they have to pardon everybody of the same crime.
They are free to pardon Turing for that crime, and they absolutely are not required to pardon everybody.
That begs that you have enterprise level everything else, including dual psu's and or a UPS.
Those are all single points of failure.
You should have dual power supplies, and each power supply should be plugged into separate power busses.
Each of your power busses should be protected by a separate UPS, so that a single UPS component failure will not shut off power to both power supplies.
Each power circuit feeding the UPS supply side should be backed up by a separate standby generator on a separate automatic transfer switch, fed by two utility entrances (preferably from separate feeds, so a pole down on one side of the street wouldn't cause a power outage at the other entrance.)
It looks like all the SSDs the author was testing are low-end models, that obviously don't have Enterprise features such as high-end fault protection circuits / super capacitor in the design.
Are you rational? If you are, why would you rationally make a poor decision? The short answer (for the most common case) is that someone else pushed a belief upon you that modified your parameters to irrational ones. That's child abuse
Even rational people can make some judgement errors and technical mistakes, or give into temptation and rationally take a course that isn't optimal in the long term.
It's called "life".
They are allowed to decide how much their product costs. They can sell it to the carrier at whatever wholesale price they desire. They have no right to tell the carrier what to do with their property once they've purchased it though.
Apple can require you to adhere to their price list to be an authorized Apple reseller. Apple can also refuse to supply their product to retailers who are not authorized Apple resellers.
Plenty of manufacturers do this.
Did Ford or Honda have to approve how much you sold your car on Craigslist for?
No, but the vehicle you purchased was not subject to additional conditions on your right to sell or otherwise dispose of your product in the future.
The dealer didn't make you sign a "not for resale" or "resale only at price X" agreement.
What if a Philosopher's Stone required 100KwH per ounce of gold produced?
That would actually be economical; if it only took 100KwH worth ~$20 to produce ~$1200 US worth of gold...... currently the only way to produce gold from other metals is to perform the conversion in a nuclear reactor. And it takes many thousands of terra watt hours to produce less than 0.1 of an ounce.
the dollar is backed by "the full faith and credit of the united states government"
Which means; that if they need to settle their debts, they can just go to the presses and print many more dollars if that's what they gotta do.
The point of this statement is to remind people that digital currencies are still currencies. You don't get to escape the rules and risks of reality by using quatloos instead of dollars.
You do when those quatloos turn out to be worthless.... the government doesn't care how many worthless quatloos you trade with your friends.
Only if they actually become or turn out to be valuable, will it really wind up mattering
I love that Dogecoin is apparently a big enough thing now to be mentioned in the same breath as Bitcoin and Litecoin.
Bitcoin is the only one that really matters.
The others are posers/copycats, trying to piggyback on whatever fame Bitcoin gets; since significant amounts of Bitcoin can't easily be mined anymore.
The only real advantage of Litecoin/Dogecoin is the group of proprietors who started them and started mining them early have a lot to gain, if Bitcoin's success can blow any extra wind in their sails.
The horse has to actually want that themselves.
No... you can lead them to privacy; no problem.
The trouble is; Facebook built a cage around privacy, all except a small sample jar, so even if the horse wants some, (s)he's going to have great trouble contorting around the bars of the cage, just to successfully get a small sip at most.
He's in debt to the courts for millions, fails to show up for his court appearances and has repeatedly returned to a life of crime.
Because he posted bail on the criminal contempt charge.
Very few games benefit from more than 4GB of RAM. Most do just fine with 2GB or less.
Most games these days are Flash games; or Javascript/HTML5. Those that are native are largely GPU-bound.
Flash games and such don't benefit from x32 or shorter pointers, either.
Games are not written for CPU performance. You are not optimizing for games, by using shorter pointers.
But there are plenty of other applications that won't really benefit from the enlarged address space - would a word processor benefit?
Basically most server-side applications will benefit and use large memory address spaces already; especially .NET and Java-based applications; Mail servers, DB Servers, storage servers of various kinds.
Microsoft Word? Definitely.
But Word processors, and most desktop applications these days are web-based -- with a greater and greater portion "moving to the cloud" and becoming web-only day by day. Web browsers need large memory address space to cache rendering information about increasingly complex web pages; many users also open a number of simultaneous windows (or tabs) and expect fast instantaneous switching between them --- requiring yet even more cache; 4GB of RAM cache is a paltry amount by today's standards.
Now that this disassociation from ones work is being instituted in law I expect economic catastrophe just around the corner.
What? Care to elaborate?
I'm talking about the kind of people that you are constantly learning from - new ideas, new approaches, excitement and passion for what they are doing. I firmly believe that a good (A-player) techie is worth at least 3 average ones
I think you have totally confused a certain personality type, with a certain quality of worker.
There are people who frequently express new ideas, excitement, passion, and are constantly overtly enthusiastic. It is orthogonal to the quality of the work, in actually doing their job though -- in many cases.
The proper jobs for these folks are in sales, strategy, or marketing.
Depending on your own personality; these people are either a pleasure to work with, or a real annoyance to work with.....
They are like Yahoo used to be. Seemingly the best at what they do, but actually quite primitive and likely to be replaced by something better soon.
The trouble is legal barriers to competition; required license arrangements to stream media.
Netflix isn't the first business to put all the weight on the players while ignoring the game. It doesn't matter how many A players you hire if your organization has deep structural problems. Microsoft would be a prime example.
You need your managers and official leaders to be "A Players".
You can't have 100% A-players; it won't scale, and your org will go broke.
If you have a manager that really thinks they can maintain a staff of only A players in a large company; then the manager is kind of dense (definitely not an A Player)
The exec managers are the people who definitely must be A players; vital to the success of a company
Ergo, in that case, the current manager who thinks they can have "Only A Players" should be re-assigned to non-management or dismissed.
$10k. is still a pretty sum.... after income taxes, you can almost afford a trip to disneyworld with it.
This kind of law has other negative side effects. An italian company can't buy an ad sponsorship slot on a blog in a different country; because the blogger is not a multi-national entity --- they won't have a company registered in Italy.
The potential advertising options for Italian companies just became very limited......
The very files he needs and should be entitled to for the purpose of his defence, also necessarily give him control over the bitcoins....there is no separation between the two.
Those files would probably be readily subject to an order providing that only the defense legal counsel can review them, until the case is concluded, they would not be allowed to use or disclose the full content of the files or any of the private keys to the defendant or any third party.
The defense has a right to inspect that data --- in many cases, it may be sealed from the public eye, and even from the defendant himself or herself