They can't collect or use that money until they actually win the decision in court
EU will collect interest on it during the appeal period. The joint appeal by Apple and Ireland (putting its own interests above the rest of the EU) is unlikely to go in Apple's favor. You can always hope, but Apple can basically kiss that money goodbye. From here on out Apple better stop cheating on tax or things will get much worse. As far as I know there were no penalties this time. That could well change if Apple continues to act badly.
Is it really necessary for you Apple astroturfers to try to spin every little thing, no matter the facts? What do you think this behavior does to Apple's rep?
Qualcomm 845 hammers iPhone X in GPU which means Qualcomm is faster for games. Probably beats the XS too, and the Qualcomm is almost a year older. Apple spent a bunch of transistors in the wrong place.
The most recently announced flagship has the fastest processor. Because of moving to a new process node that all flagships will soon be shipping. And...?
yelling at them and telling them to "shut the fuck up" is not how you lead them
That's clear enough. Now, is there any way that Linus could have made his point about not breaking kernel interfaces, just as memorably, without saying "Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!". (By the way, Mauro is a well known and respected maintainer and educator.)
How about: "WE DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE." Indeed, not as memorable, but also not harming Linus' reputation, a net win.
Linus could surely have employed his amazing gift for language and wit to express his distress equally as clearly without crossing the line into abuse. He could have demanded that this text be added to patch submission guidelines. He could have used one of his entertaining analogies. He could have done all kinds of things besides that.
I strongly support Linus' intention to uphold a fundamental Linux design rule, but strongly disagree with how he went about it. And now it is clear the Linus agrees with that view. What other methods are available to make a point strongly and memorably? How about Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... no personal attacks there, no abuse, no cussing, and yet memorable all the same.
I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of the smart engineers (both hardware and software) are slowly leaving apple to move on to more interesting things.
They seem very content with having not just slightly but significantly slower video cards on the desktop.
Only true for obsolete single-threaded game engines. With Vulkan or DX12, Radeons generally dominate. Personally I don't care a whole lot about old broken stuff, I like shiny new.
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They can't collect or use that money until they actually win the decision in court
EU will collect interest on it during the appeal period. The joint appeal by Apple and Ireland (putting its own interests above the rest of the EU) is unlikely to go in Apple's favor. You can always hope, but Apple can basically kiss that money goodbye. From here on out Apple better stop cheating on tax or things will get much worse. As far as I know there were no penalties this time. That could well change if Apple continues to act badly.
Apple is a tax evader and got caught. Not like we haven't known this for many years. Apple is far from the only perp, just the worst one.
OK, so you know that iPhone is inferior for games. And maybe you also know that Mobile Gaming Is Now Bigger than Console and PC Gaming Combined.
So you admit that Apple no longer has that $16 billion.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Is it really necessary for you Apple astroturfers to try to spin every little thing, no matter the facts? What do you think this behavior does to Apple's rep?
Ireland's escrow account, not Apple's. I hope you understand the difference.
Ireland collects disputed Apple taxes in full ahead of appeal
Qualcomm 845 hammers iPhone X in GPU which means Qualcomm is faster for games. Probably beats the XS too, and the Qualcomm is almost a year older. Apple spent a bunch of transistors in the wrong place.
The most recently announced flagship has the fastest processor. Because of moving to a new process node that all flagships will soon be shipping. And...?
BTW, only 15% faster than Qualcomm 845 whereas TSMC says 7nm gives at least 20% speedup vs 10nm. So, lame.
You are putting words in my mouth. I disagreed with the characterization of Mauro as a "sub-par kernel engineer" which anybody can see is not true.
yelling at them and telling them to "shut the fuck up" is not how you lead them
That's clear enough. Now, is there any way that Linus could have made his point about not breaking kernel interfaces, just as memorably, without saying "Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!". (By the way, Mauro is a well known and respected maintainer and educator.)
How about: "WE DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE." Indeed, not as memorable, but also not harming Linus' reputation, a net win.
Linus could surely have employed his amazing gift for language and wit to express his distress equally as clearly without crossing the line into abuse. He could have demanded that this text be added to patch submission guidelines. He could have used one of his entertaining analogies. He could have done all kinds of things besides that.
I strongly support Linus' intention to uphold a fundamental Linux design rule, but strongly disagree with how he went about it. And now it is clear the Linus agrees with that view. What other methods are available to make a point strongly and memorably? How about Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... no personal attacks there, no abuse, no cussing, and yet memorable all the same.
Reading disability. The thread went like this:
I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing
More often than not, Linus is shouting at well known, talented and respected contributors. So what is it that you "get" again?
Your reply is a nonsequitur. Do you always do that?
I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing
More often than not, Linus is shouting at well known, talented and respected contributors. So what is it that you "get" again?
Apple's photo-processing makes the best pictures.
That seems unlikely.
So you brought your shit camera instead of your good one and you whiffed the shot. Aren't you kicking yourself.
Another way is to just unplug your Apple products, they make good paperweights. Everybody will be impressed with your Apple paperweights.
Apple products kill people.
You're an iTard.
So what's up with the shouting? Makes it sound like a lie.
I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of the smart engineers (both hardware and software) are slowly leaving apple to move on to more interesting things.
And to work in a less toxic environment.
I'm glad you're on their side.
Rather incredible that Apple didn't catch this in beta testing. Clearly, it's bad RF engineering, but why couldn't they iterate the design?
No, it's not "clearly" a dichotomy.
Somebody doesn't know what a dichotomy is.
It's a bios setting.
They seem very content with having not just slightly but significantly slower video cards on the desktop.
Only true for obsolete single-threaded game engines. With Vulkan or DX12, Radeons generally dominate. Personally I don't care a whole lot about old broken stuff, I like shiny new.