where you don't get rich being a doctor, you still have people becoming doctors.
But not the same people. I'd really like the smartest guy to be my heart surgeon, not the software developer working next to me.
If you had said "brain surgeon", I would have pointed towards Ben Carson, and the argument about smart people becoming doctors in the US to get rich would have vanished in thin air.
Don't Apple already have a range of pricey screens called iMac?:)
They sell like hotcakes.
Wasn't Dell forced to drop the price of their cheap 5k monitor (they couldn't actually ship yet) because Apple's pricey "iMac" display cost just as much as the Dell? Why yes, they did.
This isn't the sort of thing likely to bother Apple; but the major downside will be that the monitor will be stuck with whatever GPU was integrated for its entire life;
It would probably not be something Apple would do, but you could easily make that GPU replaceable.
Same was said with assembly lines and mass production over craftsmen, and farm machinery over oxes and farmhands.
Did you know almost everyone lived on a farm 200 years ago, and now just 2% of the population works one?
All you guys, 200 years ago: Oh my god! Farms only need 2% of the work force? Everyone will starve with no jobs!
Ignoring that people left their jobs a the farms for much better paid jobs in the industry, instead of losing their jobs with no alternative - but hey, they can still compete with illegal Mexicans for farm jobs, right?
And it will probably be staffed by robots, which means that there won't be many extra jobs for the local people. There will be a few jobs during construction, and then the factory will be mostly automated.
So?
Rule 1 of Law Making: If you make laws to achieve something, make fucking sure that the letter of the law says that what you want to achieve should be done. Don't write it so the invisible hand takes care of it, because that's not how it fucking works.
The same way it ended everywhere else: it was no longer economically viable.
Seriously, do think it's cheaper to pay an employee minimum wage for manual labor for 8 hours a day, or do you think it's cheaper to be responsible for your employee's, food, housing and medical care? And if you do think so, that pretty much undermines your bullshit about "living wages" doesn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery
!Modern slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually. The United Nations estimates that roughly 27 to 30 million individuals are currently caught in the slave trade industry."
I like Chromebook because they are simple, inexpensive, and are harbingers of what's to come--namely, all of our comings and goings will be on the Web.
How is an extra "nuclear has been subsidized for decades, and despite being damn profitable for the energy companies, the German citizen will have to pay a few hundred Euros each to shut the whole thing down, and we still haven't spoken about storage of the waste yet" tax fair?
The consumer pays through higher taxation. Nuclear is heavily subsidised in France isn't it. In fact the sector is almost wholly owned by the government.
Nuclear is indeed subsidized in France, just like renewable energy is in Germany
You mean "just like nuclear energy was in Germany, with costs of at least 20 billion Euros still coming just for shutting down the plants, and unknown costs for long term storage of the waste.
What's wrong with police cars being marked as police cars? Why put Google drivers at risk for no good reason?
So what makes you think that the decal isn't actually proof that Google is cooperating with the police and exchanging data about their users for information of what cars they drive?
Remember employees making iphones killing themselves,
I remember a couple of Foxconn workers killing themselves for various reasons. Some may even have worked on iPhones - but since at that Foxconn complex there were devices assembled for several dozen companies, its highly unlikely that even a majority of them did.
I appreciate that you want to turn this into an Apple vs. Android thing, but my commentary was more about the average consumer in general, and this article happened to be about iPhones, as was the comment I initially responded too. Thanks for inserting your holy war into it; however, you can probably find a more appropriate place to piss into the wind somewhere else, as no one here cares.
Also, "The only people who ask me for help with their phones have an Android" sounds like a desperate lie to support your off-topic opinion about Apple vs. Android.
Okay I take the fact back that only Android users have to ask me to fix their phones for them. How does that make you right again? Oh, yeah. NOT.
A shift of a few degrees C is nothing compared to normal seasonal variation, even adjusting the topmost temperatures doesn't mean that much difference in reality.
Yeah, just like a degree over or below 0C doesn't matter to water. Oh wait, it does.
You're being selective. The plagues during the first half of the second millennium were estimated to have killed killed from 30% to 60% of the population of Europe+Asia. You're making it sound like it killed 90% - that was the death rate from people who caught it. The rest of the population either a. weren't exposed, or b. resistant.
That count ignores people that didn't die from the plague itself, but because e.g many of the healers died, resulting in death from things otherwise easily curable. Or because their parents died and couldn't feed them. Et cetera.
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where you don't get rich being a doctor, you still have people becoming doctors.
But not the same people. I'd really like the smartest guy to be my heart surgeon, not the software developer working next to me.
If you had said "brain surgeon", I would have pointed towards Ben Carson, and the argument about smart people becoming doctors in the US to get rich would have vanished in thin air.
Especially one with soldered-only RAM like modern iMacs.
Only the 21.5" iMacs have soldered RAM.
Don't Apple already have a range of pricey screens called iMac? :)
They sell like hotcakes.
Wasn't Dell forced to drop the price of their cheap 5k monitor (they couldn't actually ship yet) because Apple's pricey "iMac" display cost just as much as the Dell? Why yes, they did.
Damn... software patents really need to go. It's ridiculous.
Prove that it is by actually telling us how many of the patents mentioned in the summary are in fact "software patents".
This isn't the sort of thing likely to bother Apple; but the major downside will be that the monitor will be stuck with whatever GPU was integrated for its entire life;
It would probably not be something Apple would do, but you could easily make that GPU replaceable.
Same was said with assembly lines and mass production over craftsmen, and farm machinery over oxes and farmhands.
Did you know almost everyone lived on a farm 200 years ago, and now just 2% of the population works one?
All you guys, 200 years ago: Oh my god! Farms only need 2% of the work force? Everyone will starve with no jobs!
Ignoring that people left their jobs a the farms for much better paid jobs in the industry, instead of losing their jobs with no alternative - but hey, they can still compete with illegal Mexicans for farm jobs, right?
And it will probably be staffed by robots, which means that there won't be many extra jobs for the local people. There will be a few jobs during construction, and then the factory will be mostly automated.
So?
Rule 1 of Law Making: If you make laws to achieve something, make fucking sure that the letter of the law says that what you want to achieve should be done. Don't write it so the invisible hand takes care of it, because that's not how it fucking works.
Like at least Microsoft can blame a wide range of devices. How many iPads can their possibly be?
Over 300 million.
Ohh, you mean how many iPad models. Considering that not all but just a few units of a single model are affected - what's your point exactly?
http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/09/foxconn-india-iphone-manufacturing/
The same way it ended everywhere else: it was no longer economically viable.
Seriously, do think it's cheaper to pay an employee minimum wage for manual labor for 8 hours a day, or do you think it's cheaper to be responsible for your employee's, food, housing and medical care? And if you do think so, that pretty much undermines your bullshit about "living wages" doesn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery !Modern slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually. The United Nations estimates that roughly 27 to 30 million individuals are currently caught in the slave trade industry."
Economically viable, shmeconomically shmiable.
They built their entire business on patent infringement.
Yes, Samsung did. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war
Are you saying the phone calls I've been making on my iPhone are really just voices in my head?
Yes. Apple actually has telepathy enabling technology in their iPhones, that "phone" stuff is just a ruse.
I like Chromebook because they are simple, inexpensive, and are harbingers of what's to come--namely, all of our comings and goings will be on the Web.
IOW it's a Network Computer.
RAM: you can get 4GB Chromebooks if you want them.
Sure you can. And that adds about 25% to the price of the same model with 2GB.
How is an extra "nuclear has been subsidized for decades, and despite being damn profitable for the energy companies, the German citizen will have to pay a few hundred Euros each to shut the whole thing down, and we still haven't spoken about storage of the waste yet" tax fair?
The consumer pays through higher taxation. Nuclear is heavily subsidised in France isn't it. In fact the sector is almost wholly owned by the government.
Nuclear is indeed subsidized in France, just like renewable energy is in Germany
You mean "just like nuclear energy was in Germany, with costs of at least 20 billion Euros still coming just for shutting down the plants, and unknown costs for long term storage of the waste.
Lets just call it even and let Google Maps roll around in police squad cars.. fair is fair :P
Funny, a German once told me the Google Street View cars tried hard to look like German police cars so people wouldn't attack them.
What's wrong with police cars being marked as police cars? Why put Google drivers at risk for no good reason?
So what makes you think that the decal isn't actually proof that Google is cooperating with the police and exchanging data about their users for information of what cars they drive?
Remember employees making iphones killing themselves,
I remember a couple of Foxconn workers killing themselves for various reasons. Some may even have worked on iPhones - but since at that Foxconn complex there were devices assembled for several dozen companies, its highly unlikely that even a majority of them did.
I appreciate that you want to turn this into an Apple vs. Android thing, but my commentary was more about the average consumer in general, and this article happened to be about iPhones, as was the comment I initially responded too. Thanks for inserting your holy war into it; however, you can probably find a more appropriate place to piss into the wind somewhere else, as no one here cares.
Also, "The only people who ask me for help with their phones have an Android" sounds like a desperate lie to support your off-topic opinion about Apple vs. Android.
Okay I take the fact back that only Android users have to ask me to fix their phones for them. How does that make you right again? Oh, yeah. NOT.
But thanks for diverting from that little issue.
Look at the seasonal variation of temperatures in Bahgdad.
A shift of a few degrees C is nothing compared to normal seasonal variation, even adjusting the topmost temperatures doesn't mean that much difference in reality.
Yeah, just like a degree over or below 0C doesn't matter to water. Oh wait, it does.
My Alaskan friends don't seem to have any problem with global warming; they think it's a GOOD thing! I don't know why...
Because they are morons? Bet they elected Palin.
How many of those weren't simply dodging the draft?
The draft itself and the reasons why it was instated were not politics? Horribly stupid politics resulting in far more damage than good?
You're being selective. The plagues during the first half of the second millennium were estimated to have killed killed from 30% to 60% of the population of Europe+Asia. You're making it sound like it killed 90% - that was the death rate from people who caught it. The rest of the population either a. weren't exposed, or b. resistant.
That count ignores people that didn't die from the plague itself, but because e.g many of the healers died, resulting in death from things otherwise easily curable. Or because their parents died and couldn't feed them. Et cetera.
Alcohol. Beer and wine allowed the common man to breed without judgement...
like the other mammals.
While beer is the harbinger of civilisation, it isn't a "gadget".