Man I dislike the ribbon. But even more I dislike how word 2011 puts all your embedded figures and textboxes in these weird hierarchy of wrappers I find impossible to manipulate. I can't find anything that word 2011 does better than 2008 did.
When I want to lower my blood pressure I turn to apple Pages. man what a breath of fresh air. It too has a different interface than the old word, but it is very very self consistent so the learning curve is fast. unlike the ribbon which is required for some functions, the toolbar is not required for any function, it is just for convenience.
There is exactly one problem I've had with Pages that is a show stopper. The folks at Zotero have a stick up their ass about trying to make zotero compatible with apple. They say it is because it is an undocumented API. but it is just xml, easy to read, and easy to figure out how to add end notes into. Various people have shown how to do this with perl scripts. but no Zotero somehow has this apple-hate vibe.
Thus endnotes are crippled on Pages.
I wish apple would implement their own bibliography system in pages in a way like zotero.
So if comcast asks why I'm paying for one subscription but sharing my cable connection with the neighbors I can tell them, "don't worry, it's not going over your network"?
Clicker.com will automatically pull in your existing netflxi Queue and stay synced with it. This was the big deal for me. It meant I can continue using netflix as my primary but also find availability on Amazon or Hulu for the things netflix misses.
The main problem with it is that it does not differentiate between free and paid so you have to go look.
The first large distributed computing project was zilla. it predated this. It ran on the Next Computers. It is still baked into all OSX computers (it's in your sharing preferences.). Check out my sig.
no.. the 575 is supposedly the profit portion. you see, 800 is the revenue number.
but it's just one part of this clusterfuck of a "story".
Something is not right. Apple says their gross margins are about 20 to 30% so no way can they make $575 profit on an $800 phone. PLus they are not $800. you can buy an unlocked one for less than that.
It's 30 million downloads of a free app. They would be lucky if they had even 1 million regular users. this is more like $1000 a customer. And I'd bet 90% of them already use facebook.
I never used instagram because it seems like it was just a photocropping/tinting gimmic. Okay so it had "the social" too. But really what was special about instagram besides the nostaligic cropping?
There's only about 30 million downloads of instagram so there are probably about 1 million people still using it. that's 1000 a customer, for people who probably were already Facebook customers.
I think facebook bought this just to foreclose some other social netowrk from forming around this.
When they say apple "makes" 575/ handset they mean revnue not profit. If you assume all handsets cost the vendor (phone company usually) about the same then the revenue per handset is the same for android or iphone. How much of that is profit? Well it depends on the margins of Apple and samsung. Presumably samsungs margins are higher than apples (since apple contracts to samsung for parts.).
I've also used the mac sandbox. this is pretty darn cool. [...] I don't understand why every app is not in a sandbox these days.
The last time I checked, the Mac OS X sandbox allowed access to user-specified files, but there was no entitlement allowing scanning all files in a user-specified folder.
better check again. this has been there for years. From the start I think
A program that backs up your files or performs batch operations on all pictures in your camera's memory would not be able to run in such a sandbox.
So you get a dialog box requesting the permissions. You start every app in the sandbox then expand it if you need it. The concept is not unfamiliar: this is how smart phones do it.
This is also how I tailor my sandboxes. I lock everything down. Then I watch the console messages while I launch the app. I see it trying to access things and being denies. I open up those. After a while it runs in a minimal authority. Now that's pretty clumsy. You could automate this in principle.
Another useless slashvertisement. People don't use the granular permissions that exist already (e.g. ACLs), no one's going to bother with even finer grained control. The problem isn't granularity, it's a completely understandable dislike of spending time managing permissions.
Wow a succinct and insightful first post!
On my macs I always run with two user accounts one is root and one is standard. I never need to log into the root account because my user account just prompts me for root credentials whenever I'm doing something root-ish. The way the macs do this is not obnoxious so it encourages you to run a standard account.
I have also used the parental controls on macs at home. These are in principle a very simple subset of user limitations that are easy to adjust. Sadly it has two sucky aspects that makes it very obnoxious. first, I can't figure out how to add top level domain names as white listed. for example I want to add google.com so that all the various google services that just about every website needs these days are not blocked. but instead it barfs and tells me g7768.google.com is not allowed. I allow it and the next page refresh asks me about h774.google.com. There needs to be a syntax to just allow anything *.google.com. I think these are really just interface issues not fundamental. They might even simply be a lack of documentation. The other hickup is that a lot of evil softwares (I talking about you HP) install difficult to remove log in hooks. So at log in a whol series of "do you want to allow HP scanner.app " dialog boxes pop up. There needs to be a way to say "no, and don't ever ask me again because HP software sucks" checkbox.
I've also used the mac sandbox. this is pretty darn cool. I wish it was better documented, but you can sort of guess the right syntax from all the examples. I don't understand why every app is not in a sandbox these days. The apple sandbox is magical because you don't even realize it is there. It should be a default that when you launch any downloaded app that the first time it exceeds a tight sandbox, the OS should tell you about its requests.
My theory is that if the console makers don't change strategy that tablet gaming will replace console games. tablets will soon have enough capability to be functionally equivalent in every way that matters to the user. just add a control device like a kinect or something to interface. That will actually be good for game makers since it will expand the number of consumers in general but bad for block buster game makers that require concentration of high sales in a few expensive games.
Adding more and more features and unneeded power to consoles just drives this convergence point sooner because as soon as tablets are good enough for more people than consoles thats where the market for games will go.
The direction consoles need to go is to become cheap appliances that do a few specific jobs really well. toasters for gaming and netflix viewing. If you want them to do other things then they need to do those more conveniently than a tablet. Responding to my e-mail from across the room sitting in my chair staring at a plasma screen is not likely to ever be convenient. Even if you add a keyboard, I do don't want to look up from the keyboard at a screen far away.
When I first saw the wii U I thought that as industrial design goes it was but ugly and clumsy looking. It looks like a chubby leapster or other kiddie console. something from the old days. a flop for sure.
But since then I started to think that maybe the wii U is the right way to go if you want consoles to be useful living room appliances. You need a tablet like interface for too many things. the Wii u will give you both. and with all Nintendo stuff it's going to be less expensive than the Xbox and ps3, which makes it more useful as a low cost appliance. Something that is at the right price point to be worth getting for its reduced functionality but better suitability for specific tasks.
It still is ugly. But it is probably the right way to go.
This is a precision weapon for neutralizing things like Iranian speed boats or Yemeny boat bombs. You don't know if they are threat or not and so rather than blow up everything you disable it and if you make mistake you don't cause death or accidental wars. A laser can't fire over the horizon so it's not useful ship to ship or even ship to airplane. it's even somewhat hard to burn a spinning missile, especially if it is trying to avoid being tracked. (though it might be useful for that if they have enough juice.)
They discontinued the airborne laser program which to me makes more sense. Planes can't carry a lot of bomb weight but they have enormous power plants. Their modern mission are becoming increasingly precision oriented. With a laser can loiter and fry things as long as their fuel hold out. Plus like ships they have lots of cooling available.
Backup is only half the problem. Restore is the other half. And indeed that's where I've usually had the most problems. The third problem is validating the restore. You always worry that you are either going to overwrite something on the restore target or miss something on the restore source and end up in an inconsistent state.
Time machine is revolutionary because it is so simple and seems to be almost flawless. I've had lots of backup systems over the years including dump 0 but everyone has been plagued with issues that arose when things were off normal. I've cobbled all sorts of things like rsync and cpio but the only thing that comes close to working as flawlessly as time machine is a NetApp.
At work where I can control the remote servers securley on a closed network I am able to use time machine for a remote backup. But at home I don't have a remote server I can target for the remote backup.
TO do a remote bakcup at home I use Crashplan. I looked a lot of competitors like Mosy but settled on crashplan for two killer reasons. The giant problem with all these commercial backups is that while the incremental backups are simple over the net, the restore of a whole hard disk cannot be done over the net. You have to pay them to burn DVDs and send them to you. ANd that assumes you know what time period you want to recover.
UNlike all the other methods crashplan lets you pick a buddy who runs crash plan and then you can back up your disks to each others computer. If you need to to a massive restore you just drive over to your buddy's house and pick up the drive, bring it home, and restore locally. This also solves the problem of the first dump being too large to send over the net as well. You do it locally then drop the drive off to your buddy.
Brilliant!! plus with crash plan you pay for the app once not monthly.
I've used it for years now and it works very well and it very easy to set up. All your files are encrypted so buddies can't read each other's drives.
The only flaw with crashplan is that it runs in java so you have this instance of java running 24/7 and not to put to fine a point on it: java sucks. I don't know if it is crashplan or other things that run in the JAVA VM but over the week it bloats up to 600MB to 800MB. THe workaround solution is to kill the java VM every few days. Empirically crashplan is robust enough to survive this and restart. But that's a really awful solution.
A report from China Business News (via MIC Gadget) profiled Foxconn worker and iPad assembler Wang Xiaoqiao (who opted to hide his real name). According to Wang, iPad line workers are beginning to work fewer hours and get more days off as supply meets demand. Wang said iPad production was ramped up in March, bringing assembly time from 10 hours a day down to 8 hours. However, he is not happy about working less. Wang explained:
“The new iPad production started earlier this year, with one class of workers at each assembly line. Nearly 1,000 units will be mass-produced in a standard shift of 8 hours, plus 2 hours of overtime work. 150 – 180 units were produced during a peak iPad production run in February. However, in March, iPad employees worked fewer hours, and sometimes regular weekday shifts could not be archived My base pay is 2,350 yuan, and I need to pay 190 yuan for social security tax, 120 yuan for housing fund, 110 yuan for accommodation fee, and some money on having meals. I’m going through a difficult time for this month,” While this might sound like a positive thing for a company often accused of making its employees work excessive hours, Wang said he is not happy about making less money and the lack of bonuses for overtime:
Wang is actually upset about it, since working fewer hours means no bonus pay. Last month, Wang worked six days a week, and got a day off. Today, he gets 3 days off, and work for only 4 days in a week. He was planning to buy new furniture by doing overtime work for more pay, but that seems to be impossible now.
And what's wrong with China subsidizing panels? WE subsidize our products (hybrid cars, corn, sugar, banks, mortgage companies, solar companies like Solyndra, etc) . So it's wrong when China does it, but okay when the EU/US do it? Hypocrites.
Nothing is WRONG with a govt subsidizing an industry per se. But the appropriate response is to apply tarrifs.
If you subsidize an industry this may make sense inside the country where the subsidies reside. There it is a level playing field because all companies have access. It may be good for the country because they want to build up that industry and overcome an economic hump, meet a national strategy like oil security, create employment, or just to satisty internal political harmony.
But when you sell the products internationally it hurts companies outside. The remedy is tarrifs.
Other countries should fee free to (and do) apply tarrifs to goods from outside that harm domestic industry.
There's no Hypocrisy at all. It's exactly the right thing to do. However 5% is too low.
The only reason this does not happen more is that tarrifs can launch a cycle of retribution when thought punitive. It's easier to let it slide usually. The places you care about dumping are in rapidly growing industries. There the early mover advantage can be too big to ignore.
The US gives money to people who buy solar panels, while adding an import tariff on the same solar panels that will be tacked on to the end user price. What was the point of the exercise?
The point is plainly obvious: Equalize the manufacturing playfield. Solar panel production is not a static industry. It is a growth industry.
Subsidizing production in one nation hurts development of the industry in another. In contract, subsidizing use in one country helps production in all countries.
However if you subsize production in one, then a use subsidiy amplifies the problem.
Boy the EU seems to be run by magical thinking. Why not pass a law outlawing death? you can't just wave your wand and say products must now be problem free.
One might want to counter argue that is apple can afford to sell a 2 year warrantee then they could afford to bundle that into the original price. That is to make everyone pay extra even if they don't want to pay extra for a 2 year warrantee.
Moreover if apple were just making products for the EU perhaps they might adjust their products a bit to accomodate that. Use less advanced components, derate processor speeds, use faster lourde fans. But they are making products for the world and also selling those in the EU.
Man, people think the US is arrogant but they sure don't have a sense of entitlement like the Europeans seem to. I bet the EU has outlawed raaaain on your wedding day.
Uh the article the post links to supports AC more than DC in case no one noticed. The article is about DC being hyped beyond the facts and that AC is claimed to be just as good. Sort of reverses the whole discussion here making it AD, alternating discussion. Edison gets the carbonite filament..
Inventor of Dynamite and the conscience easing Nobel Peace prize. Virtually every weapon is built upon something invented for peace. Forged metal works for plowshares and well as swords. You can't expect a promise like "do no evil" to assure that the future fate of developments made under that banner won't turn evil when sold. Dynamite was revolutionary to safe mining. And at the time it was thought might even end war since the prospect was so terrifying.
But I think the real prize here is neither of the options. that is to say Yahoo won't land a killer blow. All it needs to do is win even a token amount.
Then they can sell this "technology" to Google+. This will allow Google+ to be indemnified as it encroaches on Facebook, and also for google to shut out other competitors from apple or amazon that crop up.
Tat outcome would be good in the sense it would provide competition for Facebook. THat's good for everyone. But it's bad from a general competition point of view
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Man I dislike the ribbon. But even more I dislike how word 2011 puts all your embedded figures and textboxes in these weird hierarchy of wrappers I find impossible to manipulate. I can't find anything that word 2011 does better than 2008 did.
When I want to lower my blood pressure I turn to apple Pages. man what a breath of fresh air. It too has a different interface than the old word, but it is very very self consistent so the learning curve is fast. unlike the ribbon which is required for some functions, the toolbar is not required for any function, it is just for convenience.
There is exactly one problem I've had with Pages that is a show stopper. The folks at Zotero have a stick up their ass about trying to make zotero compatible with apple. They say it is because it is an undocumented API. but it is just xml, easy to read, and easy to figure out how to add end notes into. Various people have shown how to do this with perl scripts. but no Zotero somehow has this apple-hate vibe.
Thus endnotes are crippled on Pages.
I wish apple would implement their own bibliography system in pages in a way like zotero.
No No TROFF on a daisywheel printer is the only way to produce goodlooking documents fools! it has been down hill from there.
So if comcast asks why I'm paying for one subscription but sharing my cable connection with the neighbors I can tell them, "don't worry, it's not going over your network"?
Clicker.com will automatically pull in your existing netflxi Queue and stay synced with it. This was the big deal for me. It meant I can continue using netflix as my primary but also find availability on Amazon or Hulu for the things netflix misses.
The main problem with it is that it does not differentiate between free and paid so you have to go look.
The first large distributed computing project was zilla. it predated this. It ran on the Next Computers. It is still baked into all OSX computers (it's in your sharing preferences.). Check out my sig.
canadigit.
no.. the 575 is supposedly the profit portion. you see, 800 is the revenue number.
but it's just one part of this clusterfuck of a "story".
Something is not right. Apple says their gross margins are about 20 to 30% so no way can they make $575 profit on an $800 phone. PLus they are not $800. you can buy an unlocked one for less than that.
Doesn't $33 per user seem a bit excessive to you?
It's 30 million downloads of a free app. They would be lucky if they had even 1 million regular users. this is more like $1000 a customer. And I'd bet 90% of them already use facebook.
SO that would be $10,000 per new customer.
I never used instagram because it seems like it was just a photocropping/tinting gimmic. Okay so it had "the social" too. But really what was special about instagram besides the nostaligic cropping?
There's only about 30 million downloads of instagram so there are probably about 1 million people still using it. that's 1000 a customer, for people who probably were already Facebook customers.
I think facebook bought this just to foreclose some other social netowrk from forming around this.
When they say apple "makes" 575/ handset they mean revnue not profit. If you assume all handsets cost the vendor (phone company usually) about the same then the revenue per handset is the same for android or iphone. How much of that is profit? Well it depends on the margins of Apple and samsung. Presumably samsungs margins are higher than apples (since apple contracts to samsung for parts.).
I've also used the mac sandbox. this is pretty darn cool. [...] I don't understand why every app is not in a sandbox these days.
The last time I checked, the Mac OS X sandbox allowed access to user-specified files, but there was no entitlement allowing scanning all files in a user-specified folder.
better check again. this has been there for years. From the start I think
A program that backs up your files or performs batch operations on all pictures in your camera's memory would not be able to run in such a sandbox.
So you get a dialog box requesting the permissions. You start every app in the sandbox then expand it if you need it. The concept is not unfamiliar: this is how smart phones do it.
This is also how I tailor my sandboxes. I lock everything down. Then I watch the console messages while I launch the app. I see it trying to access things and being denies. I open up those. After a while it runs in a minimal authority. Now that's pretty clumsy. You could automate this in principle.
Another useless slashvertisement. People don't use the granular permissions that exist already (e.g. ACLs), no one's going to bother with even finer grained control. The problem isn't granularity, it's a completely understandable dislike of spending time managing permissions.
Wow a succinct and insightful first post!
On my macs I always run with two user accounts one is root and one is standard. I never need to log into the root account because my user account just prompts me for root credentials whenever I'm doing something root-ish. The way the macs do this is not obnoxious so it encourages you to run a standard account.
I have also used the parental controls on macs at home. These are in principle a very simple subset of user limitations that are easy to adjust. Sadly it has two sucky aspects that makes it very obnoxious. first, I can't figure out how to add top level domain names as white listed. for example I want to add google.com so that all the various google services that just about every website needs these days are not blocked. but instead it barfs and tells me g7768.google.com is not allowed. I allow it and the next page refresh asks me about h774.google.com. There needs to be a syntax to just allow anything *.google.com. I think these are really just interface issues not fundamental. They might even simply be a lack of documentation. The other hickup is that a lot of evil softwares (I talking about you HP) install difficult to remove log in hooks. So at log in a whol series of "do you want to allow HP scanner.app " dialog boxes pop up. There needs to be a way to say "no, and don't ever ask me again because HP software sucks" checkbox.
I've also used the mac sandbox. this is pretty darn cool. I wish it was better documented, but you can sort of guess the right syntax from all the examples. I don't understand why every app is not in a sandbox these days. The apple sandbox is magical because you don't even realize it is there. It should be a default that when you launch any downloaded app that the first time it exceeds a tight sandbox, the OS should tell you about its requests.
My theory is that if the console makers don't change strategy that tablet gaming will replace console games. tablets will soon have enough capability to be functionally equivalent in every way that matters to the user. just add a control device like a kinect or something to interface. That will actually be good for game makers since it will expand the number of consumers in general but bad for block buster game makers that require concentration of high sales in a few expensive games.
Adding more and more features and unneeded power to consoles just drives this convergence point sooner because as soon as tablets are good enough for more people than consoles thats where the market for games will go.
The direction consoles need to go is to become cheap appliances that do a few specific jobs really well. toasters for gaming and netflix viewing. If you want them to do other things then they need to do those more conveniently than a tablet. Responding to my e-mail from across the room sitting in my chair staring at a plasma screen is not likely to ever be convenient. Even if you add a keyboard, I do don't want to look up from the keyboard at a screen far away.
When I first saw the wii U I thought that as industrial design goes it was but ugly and clumsy looking. It looks like a chubby leapster or other kiddie console. something from the old days. a flop for sure.
But since then I started to think that maybe the wii U is the right way to go if you want consoles to be useful living room appliances. You need a tablet like interface for too many things. the Wii u will give you both. and with all Nintendo stuff it's going to be less expensive than the Xbox and ps3, which makes it more useful as a low cost appliance. Something that is at the right price point to be worth getting for its reduced functionality but better suitability for specific tasks.
It still is ugly. But it is probably the right way to go.
I was hoping for Charlie Sheen for the win.
This is a precision weapon for neutralizing things like Iranian speed boats or Yemeny boat bombs. You don't know if they are threat or not and so rather than blow up everything you disable it and if you make mistake you don't cause death or accidental wars. A laser can't fire over the horizon so it's not useful ship to ship or even ship to airplane. it's even somewhat hard to burn a spinning missile, especially if it is trying to avoid being tracked. (though it might be useful for that if they have enough juice.)
They discontinued the airborne laser program which to me makes more sense. Planes can't carry a lot of bomb weight but they have enormous power plants. Their modern mission are becoming increasingly precision oriented. With a laser can loiter and fry things as long as their fuel hold out. Plus like ships they have lots of cooling available.
Backup is only half the problem. Restore is the other half. And indeed that's where I've usually had the most problems. The third problem is validating the restore. You always worry that you are either going to overwrite something on the restore target or miss something on the restore source and end up in an inconsistent state.
Time machine is revolutionary because it is so simple and seems to be almost flawless. I've had lots of backup systems over the years including dump 0 but everyone has been plagued with issues that arose when things were off normal. I've cobbled all sorts of things like rsync and cpio but the only thing that comes close to working as flawlessly as time machine is a NetApp.
At work where I can control the remote servers securley on a closed network I am able to use time machine for a remote backup. But at home I don't have a remote server I can target for the remote backup.
TO do a remote bakcup at home I use Crashplan. I looked a lot of competitors like Mosy but settled on crashplan for two killer reasons. The giant problem with all these commercial backups is that while the incremental backups are simple over the net, the restore of a whole hard disk cannot be done over the net. You have to pay them to burn DVDs and send them to you. ANd that assumes you know what time period you want to recover.
UNlike all the other methods crashplan lets you pick a buddy who runs crash plan and then you can back up your disks to each others computer. If you need to to a massive restore you just drive over to your buddy's house and pick up the drive, bring it home, and restore locally. This also solves the problem of the first dump being too large to send over the net as well. You do it locally then drop the drive off to your buddy.
Brilliant!! plus with crash plan you pay for the app once not monthly.
I've used it for years now and it works very well and it very easy to set up. All your files are encrypted so buddies can't read each other's drives.
The only flaw with crashplan is that it runs in java so you have this instance of java running 24/7 and not to put to fine a point on it: java sucks. I don't know if it is crashplan or other things that run in the JAVA VM but over the week it bloats up to 600MB to 800MB. THe workaround solution is to kill the java VM every few days. Empirically crashplan is robust enough to survive this and restart. But that's a really awful solution.
A report from China Business News (via MIC Gadget) profiled Foxconn worker and iPad assembler Wang Xiaoqiao (who opted to hide his real name). According to Wang, iPad line workers are beginning to work fewer hours and get more days off as supply meets demand. Wang said iPad production was ramped up in March, bringing assembly time from 10 hours a day down to 8 hours. However, he is not happy about working less. Wang explained:
“The new iPad production started earlier this year, with one class of workers at each assembly line. Nearly 1,000 units will be mass-produced in a standard shift of 8 hours, plus 2 hours of overtime work. 150 – 180 units were produced during a peak iPad production run in February. However, in March, iPad employees worked fewer hours, and sometimes regular weekday shifts could not be archived My base pay is 2,350 yuan, and I need to pay 190 yuan for social security tax, 120 yuan for housing fund, 110 yuan for accommodation fee, and some money on having meals. I’m going through a difficult time for this month,”
While this might sound like a positive thing for a company often accused of making its employees work excessive hours, Wang said he is not happy about making less money and the lack of bonuses for overtime:
Wang is actually upset about it, since working fewer hours means no bonus pay. Last month, Wang worked six days a week, and got a day off. Today, he gets 3 days off, and work for only 4 days in a week. He was planning to buy new furniture by doing overtime work for more pay, but that seems to be impossible now.
http://9to5mac.com/2012/03/28/as-supply-meets-demand-ipad-line-workers-get-more-days-off-but-are-they-happy/
What's mildly amusing about this is that some of those worker complaints we heard about were the worker's demand for more overtime.
No problem, I'm just going to wait for the refurbed refurb returns and buy those for even cheaper.
And what's wrong with China subsidizing panels? WE subsidize our products (hybrid cars, corn, sugar, banks, mortgage companies, solar companies like Solyndra, etc) . So it's wrong when China does it, but okay when the EU/US do it? Hypocrites.
Nothing is WRONG with a govt subsidizing an industry per se. But the appropriate response is to apply tarrifs.
If you subsidize an industry this may make sense inside the country where the subsidies reside. There it is a level playing field because all companies have access. It may be good for the country because they want to build up that industry and overcome an economic hump, meet a national strategy like oil security, create employment, or just to satisty internal political harmony.
But when you sell the products internationally it hurts companies outside. The remedy is tarrifs.
Other countries should fee free to (and do) apply tarrifs to goods from outside that harm domestic industry.
There's no Hypocrisy at all. It's exactly the right thing to do. However 5% is too low.
The only reason this does not happen more is that tarrifs can launch a cycle of retribution when thought punitive. It's easier to let it slide usually. The places you care about dumping are in rapidly growing industries. There the early mover advantage can be too big to ignore.
The US gives money to people who buy solar panels, while adding an import tariff on the same solar panels that will be tacked on to the end user price. What was the point of the exercise?
The point is plainly obvious: Equalize the manufacturing playfield. Solar panel production is not a static industry. It is a growth industry.
Subsidizing production in one nation hurts development of the industry in another. In contract, subsidizing use in one country helps production in all countries.
However if you subsize production in one, then a use subsidiy amplifies the problem.
The US just fixed that.
Boy the EU seems to be run by magical thinking. Why not pass a law outlawing death? you can't just wave your wand and say products must now be problem free.
One might want to counter argue that is apple can afford to sell a 2 year warrantee then they could afford to bundle that into the original price. That is to make everyone pay extra even if they don't want to pay extra for a 2 year warrantee.
Moreover if apple were just making products for the EU perhaps they might adjust their products a bit to accomodate that. Use less advanced components, derate processor speeds, use faster lourde fans. But they are making products for the world and also selling those in the EU.
Man, people think the US is arrogant but they sure don't have a sense of entitlement like the Europeans seem to. I bet the EU has outlawed raaaain on your wedding day.
does not have the electrolytes data centers crave.
Unless they are running puppy linux. My dogs love the big white drinking fountain.
Uh the article the post links to supports AC more than DC in case no one noticed. The article is about DC being hyped beyond the facts and that AC is claimed to be just as good. Sort of reverses the whole discussion here making it AD, alternating discussion. Edison gets the carbonite filament..
Inventor of Dynamite and the conscience easing Nobel Peace prize. Virtually every weapon is built upon something invented for peace. Forged metal works for plowshares and well as swords. You can't expect a promise like "do no evil" to assure that the future fate of developments made under that banner won't turn evil when sold. Dynamite was revolutionary to safe mining. And at the time it was thought might even end war since the prospect was so terrifying.
But I think the real prize here is neither of the options. that is to say Yahoo won't land a killer blow. All it needs to do is win even a token amount.
Then they can sell this "technology" to Google+. This will allow Google+ to be indemnified as it encroaches on Facebook, and also for google to shut out other competitors from apple or amazon that crop up.
Tat outcome would be good in the sense it would provide competition for Facebook. THat's good for everyone. But it's bad from a general competition point of view