It is Apple's job to monitor its suppliers business practices.
I doubt you meant to type it that way, but Freud made you tell the truth anyway.
It is Apple's responsibility. Apple should understand why it's getting dirt-cheap pricing on something it couldn't make itself for three times the cost. Ignorance, especially in an industry Apple knows as well as this one, is no excuse at all.
If it's not planet-killer class, or even climate-disruptor class, and they bring it in on the right trajectory (from behind, please), to minimize the delta-v, they'd turn a wasteland into a (possibly literal) goldmine.
And there's prior art in nature. The meteor that created Meteor Crater was made of elemental iron, and the people who currently own it (yes, it's private property) are related to the people who staked the mining claim and attempted to find the meteor. Unfortunately, it spread out on impact, making it no more valuable than iron ore, and apparently worth less than charging people to stand around looking at the dent it made, or renting it out to people who want to test their space suits and planetary rovers in a spot that kinda sorta looks like it's on another planet. Silly, really. All of Earth came from space, and is still there. They could have tested that stuff in their own back yards and got the same effect...
The Shuttle was a marvelous piece of engineering and private space hasn't had anything like that capability because there was no way any private corporation could shoulder the development and testing and operational losses. Not to mention the effects of two deadly accidents on their ability to continue with the program. Especially given the way capital was distributed in the 1970s, there was no way that anyone was approaching NASA's ability to put things into space. Only now, after decades of erosion of controls on egregious profits, is any corporation wealthy enough to try something like a Shuttle program. But our wealthiest corporations would only be interested in moving asteroids around if the asteroids were made of petroleum or digital music. NASA didn't delay commercial space in any way. On the contrary it has made it possible for commercial space companies to draft off of government science, advancing commercial space by years if not decades, and making the development process enormously cheaper.
As for a 10-meter asteroid, I hardly think there would be much on it to mine. There's no data in the abstract at TFA link. No way to tell what these guys are thinking. Looks like a purely mathematical enterprise. Future prior art for some dumb company's overinvestment, no doubt.
But did MS ever EOL the XBOX and cut it to the price of the packaging just to boost market share?
And then make more of them, even though the cost of the parts is 3X the price they're asking?
HP is one fucked-up company. The only way this makes sense is if this "one more run" is to avoid an inventory sale of parts they'd have to sell by the pound as they wouldn't fit anything else. They're going to have to charge the revenue against the writeoff.
I don't see the problem with that. Facebook is making your profile private. You are allowed to control who sees what in it. Anyone who wants to see things in your profile needs your permission. If you also happen to use that to persecute people, that's your problem, not Facebook's.
Cops basically live their entire lives under suspicion of either maliciously offending the public or negligently shirking their duty. They're also responsible for evidence and accurate descriptions of what happened. The paperwork is a nightmare, and tiny errors can let real crooks go free (modulo the quality of their defense attorney).
If the API has no provision for generalized system calls or other i/o, and only allows i/o to its interface, then it should be no problem.
Or at least no more of a problem than the giant pile of un-verified code you're using to read this message and the vast number of invisible bytes it may or may not contain between its lines.
Depends on what charges the cop stands to face, or how big a dick the state's lawyer is.
If they don't appeal, the law is what this Appeals court just decided it is.
And just from reading TFA it looks like this court based its opinion on other decisions, so it's unlikely things are going to go the other way.
Expect the state to let this rest. The legislature who passed this law, and the governor who signed it*, fucked up.
* - I bet it was Romney. He seems like the sort of constipated dickhead who'd think preventing the public from telling each other about what the government is doing is a good idea.
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When 9 people get cancer in a short span of time in a small area on top of a carcinogenic plume, yes, it's serious.
It is Apple's job to monitor its suppliers business practices.
I doubt you meant to type it that way, but Freud made you tell the truth anyway.
It is Apple's responsibility. Apple should understand why it's getting dirt-cheap pricing on something it couldn't make itself for three times the cost. Ignorance, especially in an industry Apple knows as well as this one, is no excuse at all.
Apple started out selling computers based on Motorola chips.
Motorola used to dump chemicals behind its semiconductor plants, and the cleanup is still continuing today, but on the American public's dime.
The environmental-negligence portion of Apple's profit margin didn't go away, it just moved overseas along with Apple's job-creation capability.
Why don't they just crash it into the Gobi?
If it's not planet-killer class, or even climate-disruptor class, and they bring it in on the right trajectory (from behind, please), to minimize the delta-v, they'd turn a wasteland into a (possibly literal) goldmine.
And there's prior art in nature. The meteor that created Meteor Crater was made of elemental iron, and the people who currently own it (yes, it's private property) are related to the people who staked the mining claim and attempted to find the meteor. Unfortunately, it spread out on impact, making it no more valuable than iron ore, and apparently worth less than charging people to stand around looking at the dent it made, or renting it out to people who want to test their space suits and planetary rovers in a spot that kinda sorta looks like it's on another planet. Silly, really. All of Earth came from space, and is still there. They could have tested that stuff in their own back yards and got the same effect...
The Shuttle was a marvelous piece of engineering and private space hasn't had anything like that capability because there was no way any private corporation could shoulder the development and testing and operational losses. Not to mention the effects of two deadly accidents on their ability to continue with the program. Especially given the way capital was distributed in the 1970s, there was no way that anyone was approaching NASA's ability to put things into space. Only now, after decades of erosion of controls on egregious profits, is any corporation wealthy enough to try something like a Shuttle program. But our wealthiest corporations would only be interested in moving asteroids around if the asteroids were made of petroleum or digital music. NASA didn't delay commercial space in any way. On the contrary it has made it possible for commercial space companies to draft off of government science, advancing commercial space by years if not decades, and making the development process enormously cheaper.
As for a 10-meter asteroid, I hardly think there would be much on it to mine. There's no data in the abstract at TFA link. No way to tell what these guys are thinking. Looks like a purely mathematical enterprise. Future prior art for some dumb company's overinvestment, no doubt.
Your comparison of the Chinese government to black people or the Jews is offensive to black people and the Jews.
Smeg offfff!
fun, fun, fun....
But did MS ever EOL the XBOX and cut it to the price of the packaging just to boost market share?
And then make more of them, even though the cost of the parts is 3X the price they're asking?
HP is one fucked-up company. The only way this makes sense is if this "one more run" is to avoid an inventory sale of parts they'd have to sell by the pound as they wouldn't fit anything else. They're going to have to charge the revenue against the writeoff.
No need to remember anything anymore. Sorry, Phil.
You've made two claims there that you have no evidence for.
1. That they're doing this voluntarily. Acquiescing to coercion and deprivation is not volition, no matter how much the abuser wants it to be.
2. That they agree to the salary. Ask people if they think their pay is fair. Most will say it is not, but what choice do they have?
I don't see the problem with that. Facebook is making your profile private. You are allowed to control who sees what in it. Anyone who wants to see things in your profile needs your permission. If you also happen to use that to persecute people, that's your problem, not Facebook's.
It was all a dream.
And Billy, for that matter.
Do you own a Guy Fawkes mask, or have an opinion of Anonymous' activities?
Cops basically live their entire lives under suspicion of either maliciously offending the public or negligently shirking their duty. They're also responsible for evidence and accurate descriptions of what happened. The paperwork is a nightmare, and tiny errors can let real crooks go free (modulo the quality of their defense attorney).
Why would the DA punish one of his own thugs?
DA's are elected. Cops aren't.
Except it uses HTML5 instead of running through another box full of rendering.
Could be much more interesting from an interactivity standpoint.
NaCl...Pepper...get it?
They should've called the API "Lime," but maybe that's just me (and about 10,000 hot chicks in bikinis at spring break...)
if the CPU is behaving according to it's specifications
Oops. I haven't seen one do that yet.
Depends on what "sandbox" means to them.
If the API has no provision for generalized system calls or other i/o, and only allows i/o to its interface, then it should be no problem.
Or at least no more of a problem than the giant pile of un-verified code you're using to read this message and the vast number of invisible bytes it may or may not contain between its lines.
when is the arresting officer going to be charged with violating the civil rights of the videographer?
When the videographer gets around to it.
and we hire the lobbyists.
stop buying gasoline if you don't like them.
or at least stop buying so much gasoline
Depends on what charges the cop stands to face, or how big a dick the state's lawyer is.
If they don't appeal, the law is what this Appeals court just decided it is.
And just from reading TFA it looks like this court based its opinion on other decisions, so it's unlikely things are going to go the other way.
Expect the state to let this rest. The legislature who passed this law, and the governor who signed it*, fucked up.
* - I bet it was Romney. He seems like the sort of constipated dickhead who'd think preventing the public from telling each other about what the government is doing is a good idea.
Not if you're lucky.