Yet he turned a few millions from his father into Billions. His father was never worth as much as he is. If that's a failure or someone else's success, I'll take that any day.
If Trump took the few millions and put them into an S&P500 index fund on Day 1 and never worked another day in his life, he would've ended up with a networth more than TWICE larger than what he has now. Not exactly a good example of "success".
Intel gpus have not been inadequate for non-gaming desktop use for a very very long time now, they have no problems driving HIDPI retina monitors. But vendors selling new computers in the year 2017 without an SSD just make me sigh.
At my level, I could probably make five or more times what I make over here in Europe in the US. Easily. Trouble is, I don't even need the money I make here, so why bother?
But here I get 25 days paid vacation plus sick days on top of that (no, they don't count as vacation days here), perfect healthcare, unemployment benefit should I for some reason get unemployed (not bloody likely unless I want to, but in that case it pays, too), retirement plan, worker's protection (law commands I MUST NOT work more than 50 hours a week and even that only for a very short time, with no more than 45 hours a week on average during the year. Oh, and no more than 10 hours a day).
Try to beat that, US.
You almost had me until the "perfect healthcare" part. Good one!
BBC tells FB that there are inappropriate child images on FB and FB turns around and reports the BBC to the police that BBC is distributing these images?
I take it FB is unfamiliar with the Streisand effect.
You almost made it sound like somebody at the scale of influence of Facebook gave 2 shits about "streisand effect".
You got things backwards: the whole reason why goverments exist to begin with is "being a security blanket". There are literally few to none other reasons for a goverment to exist at all.
You seem confused. The electoral college is working precisely as intended: to prevent very few states with very high relative population from dominating the politics of the entire country via a simple majority.
This is the real tragedy actually. There is no market for a "manufacturer of quality PCs". Unless your name is Apple, you are slave to the magical pricepoints that the consumers care about and that's all there is to it. If you can't match them, you go out of business. Large vendors do have good individual product lines, yes, but nobody could actually survive on making and selling those alone.
Sure, and that 56% accounts for 30% of device revenue, 20% of app sales, and only 10% of devices with the newest OS installed.
You're looking at this ass backwards. The huge profit margin and the planned obsolescence that is at the core of Apple business model is the exact reason why they are losing their grip on the market.
Sounds like somebody needs a reality check. Planned obsolescence? I can only dream Android manufacturers were as good as Apple at this planned obsolescence thing, considering no Android vendor comes even close to supporting their hardware for so long.
Sadly, you are very wrong. One of the biggest problems ot the scientific fields of today is precisely that debunking existing theories achieves literally nothing for the people doing the debunking.
Scientist careers today live and die by citations - how often their published work is cited by others. The problem is that published works that debunk an existing theory get cited several orders of magnitute LESS than the work they are trying to debunk. Worse yet, among people who actually read the "works of disproval", the majority only slightly change their opinion of the work being criticized.
So no, in the current environment it is highly improfitable and illogical for a scientist to engage in anything but original work (or work that at least looks original).
Therein lies the biggest problem with current US free speech legislation. When a bunch of private entities like Google and Facebook hold a near-monopoly on the flow of information, who gives two shits about whether the goverment can censor you? It's the near-monopoly private entities I am most concerned about.
I'm curious how this will butt heads with the First Amendment in the United States as this will inevitably be a system that will censor information that is embarrassing or uncomfortable to the chosen few who will decide what is "extremist".
This won't butt heads with the First Amendment in the slightest, because the limitations it applies only applies to government entities, not private ones. You have no right to free speech on somebody else's private platform. They decide the rules and you are free to not use their service.
...was making the assumption that public at large has the skills or the interest to make their own 3D models. The average person gets confused by their web browser and email client and 3D printer vendors expected them to master 3D modelling packages.
When you make it so that after somebody has spent a year looking for a job (might be 6 months now, actually) and then give up is no longer considered unemployed (you need to be both in the labor market AND unemployed AND actively looking for a job to qualify as officially "unemployed"), your unemployment statustics become utterly meaningless. Now if you look at the "labor market participation rate", which is at it's lowest point in many decades (if not ever), an entirely different picture presents itself...
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What alternate reality do you live in where institutions buying/leasing devices by the thousands repair or upgrade ANYTHING?
Yet, cover bands in most (all?) countries do not have to pay royalties.
Yet he turned a few millions from his father into Billions. His father was never worth as much as he is. If that's a failure or someone else's success, I'll take that any day.
If Trump took the few millions and put them into an S&P500 index fund on Day 1 and never worked another day in his life, he would've ended up with a networth more than TWICE larger than what he has now. Not exactly a good example of "success".
Intel gpus have not been inadequate for non-gaming desktop use for a very very long time now, they have no problems driving HIDPI retina monitors. But vendors selling new computers in the year 2017 without an SSD just make me sigh.
You're stupid, "tap to remove item from list" is an invaluable feature when grocery shopping.
"Nicely played" as in "committed a felony"?
The same number you dial to hail a public transit bus, moron.
This, a billion times this.
At my level, I could probably make five or more times what I make over here in Europe in the US. Easily. Trouble is, I don't even need the money I make here, so why bother?
But here I get 25 days paid vacation plus sick days on top of that (no, they don't count as vacation days here), perfect healthcare, unemployment benefit should I for some reason get unemployed (not bloody likely unless I want to, but in that case it pays, too), retirement plan, worker's protection (law commands I MUST NOT work more than 50 hours a week and even that only for a very short time, with no more than 45 hours a week on average during the year. Oh, and no more than 10 hours a day).
Try to beat that, US.
You almost had me until the "perfect healthcare" part. Good one!
So you've been awake for the past couple of years?
BBC tells FB that there are inappropriate child images on FB and FB turns around and reports the BBC to the police that BBC is distributing these images?
I take it FB is unfamiliar with the Streisand effect.
You almost made it sound like somebody at the scale of influence of Facebook gave 2 shits about "streisand effect".
That's not how border security works. They don't need a warrant. The courts have decided this.
There was nothing illegal that happened here.
Even if you're a returning US citizen?
This word "freedom". I don't think you (or most of the USA) knows what it means even though you spend your entire lives repeating it.
Yes, even if you are a US citizen and yes, the "border" means up to 100km from actual border.
So, basically, you are delusional. The minimum wage was never ever ment to be a "comfortable living wage upon which one could support a family".
You got things backwards: the whole reason why goverments exist to begin with is "being a security blanket". There are literally few to none other reasons for a goverment to exist at all.
Because if you located in say, Iran, Apple cannot process any of your payments and as a result, you are locked out ot accessing any and all paid apps.
Turns out most people out there DO NOT WANT a "personal computer" in the way you and I understand it. They consider it too much trouble and effort.
You seem confused. The electoral college is working precisely as intended: to prevent very few states with very high relative population from dominating the politics of the entire country via a simple majority.
This is the real tragedy actually. There is no market for a "manufacturer of quality PCs". Unless your name is Apple, you are slave to the magical pricepoints that the consumers care about and that's all there is to it. If you can't match them, you go out of business. Large vendors do have good individual product lines, yes, but nobody could actually survive on making and selling those alone.
Sure, and that 56% accounts for 30% of device revenue, 20% of app sales, and only 10% of devices with the newest OS installed.
You're looking at this ass backwards. The huge profit margin and the planned obsolescence that is at the core of Apple business model is the exact reason why they are losing their grip on the market.
Sounds like somebody needs a reality check. Planned obsolescence? I can only dream Android manufacturers were as good as Apple at this planned obsolescence thing, considering no Android vendor comes even close to supporting their hardware for so long.
is that since it's not an up-front purchase, but an in-game one, you cannot use Family Sharing with it.
They had how many studios against the backdrop of having how many money-making projects? What did anyone expect to happen?
Sadly, you are very wrong. One of the biggest problems ot the scientific fields of today is precisely that debunking existing theories achieves literally nothing for the people doing the debunking.
Scientist careers today live and die by citations - how often their published work is cited by others. The problem is that published works that debunk an existing theory get cited several orders of magnitute LESS than the work they are trying to debunk. Worse yet, among people who actually read the "works of disproval", the majority only slightly change their opinion of the work being criticized.
So no, in the current environment it is highly improfitable and illogical for a scientist to engage in anything but original work (or work that at least looks original).
Therein lies the biggest problem with current US free speech legislation. When a bunch of private entities like Google and Facebook hold a near-monopoly on the flow of information, who gives two shits about whether the goverment can censor you? It's the near-monopoly private entities I am most concerned about.
I'm curious how this will butt heads with the First Amendment in the United States as this will inevitably be a system that will censor information that is embarrassing or uncomfortable to the chosen few who will decide what is "extremist".
This won't butt heads with the First Amendment in the slightest, because the limitations it applies only applies to government entities, not private ones. You have no right to free speech on somebody else's private platform. They decide the rules and you are free to not use their service.
...was making the assumption that public at large has the skills or the interest to make their own 3D models. The average person gets confused by their web browser and email client and 3D printer vendors expected them to master 3D modelling packages.
When you make it so that after somebody has spent a year looking for a job (might be 6 months now, actually) and then give up is no longer considered unemployed (you need to be both in the labor market AND unemployed AND actively looking for a job to qualify as officially "unemployed"), your unemployment statustics become utterly meaningless. Now if you look at the "labor market participation rate", which is at it's lowest point in many decades (if not ever), an entirely different picture presents itself...