The PUBLISHER made the discs that way... Not the artist.
Of course the artist "made" the albums on dozens of different pieces of individual tape per track and often multiple takes per song. A Record or CD is like selling us a "picture" of an oil painting... Not the Actual painting with all the bumps and rough spots. The "Origanal Art" is the spliced up mix that can only be listened to on original recording equipment...... Just to be specific.... Besides has AC/DC released anything since CD was INVENTED anyway?
Because if all the file type require patent licenses, no matter how trivial, then the final spec can NEVER BE FREE. That prevents Linux from taking a foothold.
If the standard allows even one truly free spec, then it forces the other players to a level field. In the case of Apple it's their media tools like iMovie that maintain their edge in looking more integrated. In Microsoft's case it's licenses for server tools to distribute these files.
Because being in a STANDARD determines winners... And big companies DON'T WANT FREE TO WIN. All the features were available at the time. The issue was not TECHNICAL it was POLITICAL Apple makes its bank off all the patents it pays to access.. Allowing "free" undermines their position because anybody can play in "their" garden.
Bingo. It was mostly ready to be "rubber-stamped" because it contained what web devs needed and what browser makers could deliver quickly...
W3C has been overtaken by committees... Big companies like Microsoft send people to manipulate the process rather than get the thing done..., so they can figure out how to beat it.
But they are all Just Actors. They say on the air, is what gets ratings. Occasionally their real opinion spills out and they get treated for the tools they are.
What people miss is that even the "liberal" personalities are selected because the "prove the Right, Right." Or money can be made from them! Really think about how contemptable they REALLY are.
But campuses have extended that idea to "student housing" ie the places students pay the school to live in... Which is kind if backwards both from a landlord-tenant view and the traditional academic view... THAT is what is unprecedented here.
We should just really be glad Apple and Google agree on SOMETHING!!! WebKit covers iOS and Android... What other browsers are relevant?
Microsoft has no market position (WP7 is dead. WP8 is not released in sufficient numbers) they should just pay Apple to implement Safari on WP8... That's how it was done in the early browsers???
Actually.using extensions in this manner is specifically the W3C method of implementing elements that are not officially approved. The idea that each company implements their own until all the versions have time to sync.
What is SUPPOSED to happen is that the most popular implementation gets "cloned" then the browser tag goes away. Obviously Microsoft isn't doing "what's everybody else is" so the specific tag stays.
This is the game. Microsoft has very bright people that sit on these "standards" committees basically to "lob bombs" into the process. Sometimes it's intentional by the delays yes, sometimes the Microsoft implementation team simply refuses to follow the spec and the delegate to the standards committee was never INTENDED to reach agreement. This is like how Adobe kept bloating the SVG spec to save Flash for almost a decade.
My opinion is that Microsoft and several other large companies should never have been invited to web standards in the first place. It was so bad for HTML5 that WebKit, Mozilla, Opera, and the coalition if web designers "took their ball home" after no progress for TEN FUCKING YEARS!!!! and the W3C had to beg them to come back.
Microsoft is NOT the leader in mobile browsers.. They are MORE THAN FREE to follow along and make their browser render like ALL THE OHER BROWSERS in the market now.
That worked for Springer, Stern, Coulter, Imas, and Limbaugh!
Right up until FOX has to step in and get the Supreme Court to declare "lying" as protected free speech... To keep them on the air.
The CONSERVATIVES RULE the airwaves for non-PC talk. Even Springer and Stern are "Right" shows because they treat their subjects as "freak of the week" while shouting "look how offensive I am!"
It's sad when NPR is the last "liberal" holdout.. As they make an honest attempt to have discussion . Even the BBC gets labeled as liberal when they are the closest thing we have to 1960's style news people remember.
I think too, that as speech becomes based on private technology, there is a movement that "free speech" has to be "earned" on each said platform. If ever there was a time "he who pays the bills" has become the mantra.
The Free Speech and debating hall in the student union has now been rented to Starbucks. After all, it's not the University's job to provide places for students to discuss stuff not related to the coursework they pay for.
There's not really a problem with drone strikes. It's a tempest in a teapot. Reagan bombed Gadaghi in Libya as a PERSONAL attack.. Far more brazen.
Bush was doing the same thing... The military commanders like Republicans so they don't run their mouths. (Note they treated Clinton the same way)
Sure, he's targeting US Citizens... That are engaged in WAR against the USA on FOREIGN soil. Obama is following precedent... You don't twist the Constitution and invent secret courts... People plot war against the USA and you blow them up where they hide. A US flag don't save you. These targets are the definition of traitors... You stand with the enemy, get blowed up with the enemy... And yes... They might be gunning for you...
But that's not true. Corporate income tax is on what's left after all the expenses are paid. So the CONSUMER and employees see taxes built into the EBDITA side. That would be gas tax, social security, etc. Income tax comes off the after EBDITA money... This is why companies will "owe" offshore accounts money, or in the case of Bain Capital, they ratchet up fixed debts to soak up all the taxable portion... Good ole Hollywood accounting.
Fundamentally, the product isn't made in the country it's sold in. Effectively Apple Importers wants to sell to Apple Stores so that the Apple store has minimum profit.. Maybe $20 to cover wages of employees. The Apple Importer is based in a tax haven nd they buy the devices from Foxconn. That is where the "profits" go.
Except this money was never IN the USA. Apple sent blueprints to Foxconn, then Foxconn bought the parts in Asia and assembled iThings. Apple then has the products delivered directly from China to each country wher they are sold via "Apple of here".
So where did the USA have any jurisdiction to collect taxes? The parent Apple USA only collects the profits. While on paper they get to claim them all, they don't actually move the money to any one bank account. Corporations are a type of fealty where they have independant accounts that are "sworn" but not owned by the parent. This is necessary to navigate all the local laws, but the profit issues are a secondary issue.
That's true. My company uses IBM BladeCenter servers bundled into a VM cluster. The bang-for-buck at the Time were the 4-core Opterons... That easily scaled to 4-cPUS for 16-cores.. (That could probably be higher now). The beauty of AMD. Moving into this space is that the blades could be swappable with the current hardware.
But rather than rowed of boxes, VM is the better way to go.
He did solve those efficiency problems... Something called Alternating Current. It's gonna be big!
Of course without Tesla's work on wireless power, we wouldn't have "radio" (and various technologies) either. Marconi's famous radio patent used more than 20 Tesla patents...
I think Steve was even backing off the "streamlined" approach. With all these changes, you have to give regular folk a crutch to keep up. In many cases Apple is pushing things people haven't done on devices before.
I have some apps that attempt to be "super-minimal". I have to say, with do much going on, they are just too hard to jog the brain. In particular compare "Weather Dial" to the default Weather app. Weather Dial would look beautiful lined up on a row of iPhones as steam punk controls. But as a single app, the weather app default looks more like your daily TV news weather report. Sure, it's more splashy, but it flips your mental context faster.
I'm a big fan of LCARS. But in this debate it's sort of the projection of where the "device-less" computer interface can head. Abstract too much out and giving people a command line is almost better. We've reached the point if people have to "learn the interface" than you've abstracted TOO MUCH away. I don't really look forward to people reinventing address books without careful consideration... Especially just "removing stuff people don't need"
Along the lines of "people don't need" I see several problems with Steve's new yacht. It is missing the visual cues people expect. It's darn pretty! But when people need to board you, or inspect you for proper functions they won't know where to look. There's a reason those ugly little Tug Boats are plastered with colors and stripes and labels... The captain and crew of ANOTHER boat can tell what that little tug is gonna do from 200-300 yards away and be ready with lines in their hands on cue. The same is true of OSes... That's one reason people are disliking Windows 8 for throwing away TOO much of what people expect.
Wonder if he's going to hang out within JLG and work on something? In a lot of ways, it sounds like he suffered from being "junior" too long. Being perpetually the "favorite kid" without the others seeing why.
He needs a chance to do his own thing. He was good enough to lead the iOS team in "skunkworks" mode... But at the same time, Steve's secrecy basically screwed him over. Give the guy a few months off and he can get pretty much any project and any VC money he wants.
In all fairness it was GOOGLE refusing Apple to use the Turn-by-Turn results in the App that Apple made for Maps and paid money to Google on behalf of users. GOOGLE wanted "more control".. Read it what you will, but they obviously wanted more information from/ about users than Apple was willing to share (on top of money).
Google rocked the boat FIRST by WITHHOLDING features from iOS versions while Apple was a PAYING CUSTOMER of the service. (To give its own pony an advantage) Apple did what any of US would do. Find another vendor ASAP.
Um yeah... Now that you mention it. The USA hasn't built ANY NEW reactors in 30 years. So the root cause of management rot and decades past design life still apply.
So sure, we can fear-monger not to build NEW reactors based on what we've learned in 40 years since the last ones were built. We could all be driving 1957 Cadillacs that are "deathtraps" compared to a SMART built now.
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THAT is what SOX was all about. At some point RESPONSIBILITY kicks in... So who did HP write the Check to???
THAT Executive is gonna have his butt in a sling. Because part of SOX is making the top execs KNOW what is going on.
The PUBLISHER made the discs that way... Not the artist.
Of course the artist "made" the albums on dozens of different pieces of individual tape per track and often multiple takes per song. A Record or CD is like selling us a "picture" of an oil painting... Not the Actual painting with all the bumps and rough spots. The "Origanal Art" is the spliced up mix that can only be listened to on original recording equipment... ... Just to be specific.... Besides has AC/DC released anything since CD was INVENTED anyway?
Except WE ALREADY HAD this debate... You know, back when the Anerican British Colonies were "corporate employees" of British companies.
RIGHTS like Free Speech don't go away just because you "pay rent" to somebody else for housing or utilities... That's WHY they're called RIGHTS.
Because if all the file type require patent licenses, no matter how trivial, then the final spec can NEVER BE FREE. That prevents Linux from taking a foothold.
If the standard allows even one truly free spec, then it forces the other players to a level field. In the case of Apple it's their media tools like iMovie that maintain their edge in looking more integrated. In Microsoft's case it's licenses for server tools to distribute these files.
Because being in a STANDARD determines winners... And big companies DON'T WANT FREE TO WIN. All the features were available at the time. The issue was not TECHNICAL it was POLITICAL Apple makes its bank off all the patents it pays to access.. Allowing "free" undermines their position because anybody can play in "their" garden.
Bingo.
It was mostly ready to be "rubber-stamped" because it contained what web devs needed and what browser makers could deliver quickly...
W3C has been overtaken by committees... Big companies like Microsoft send people to manipulate the process rather than get the thing done..., so they can figure out how to beat it.
But they are all Just Actors. They say on the air, is what gets ratings. Occasionally their real opinion spills out and they get treated for the tools they are.
What people miss is that even the "liberal" personalities are selected because the "prove the Right, Right." Or money can be made from them! Really think about how contemptable they REALLY are.
But campuses have extended that idea to "student housing" ie the places students pay the school to live in... Which is kind if backwards both from a landlord-tenant view and the traditional academic view... THAT is what is unprecedented here.
We should just really be glad Apple and Google agree on SOMETHING!!! WebKit covers iOS and Android... What other browsers are relevant?
Microsoft has no market position (WP7 is dead. WP8 is not released in sufficient numbers) they should just pay Apple to implement Safari on WP8... That's how it was done in the early browsers???
HTML5 has been finished when W3C got it... And on the table for ratification 3-4 years at least.
Actually.using extensions in this manner is specifically the W3C method of implementing elements that are not officially approved. The idea that each company implements their own until all the versions have time to sync.
What is SUPPOSED to happen is that the most popular implementation gets "cloned" then the browser tag goes away. Obviously Microsoft isn't doing "what's everybody else is" so the specific tag stays.
This is the game. Microsoft has very bright people that sit on these "standards" committees basically to "lob bombs" into the process. Sometimes it's intentional by the delays yes, sometimes the Microsoft implementation team simply refuses to follow the spec and the delegate to the standards committee was never INTENDED to reach agreement. This is like how Adobe kept bloating the SVG spec to save Flash for almost a decade.
My opinion is that Microsoft and several other large companies should never have been invited to web standards in the first place. It was so bad for HTML5 that WebKit, Mozilla, Opera, and the coalition if web designers "took their ball home" after no progress for TEN FUCKING YEARS!!!! and the W3C had to beg them to come back.
Microsoft is NOT the leader in mobile browsers.. They are MORE THAN FREE to follow along and make their browser render like ALL THE OHER BROWSERS in the market now.
That worked for Springer, Stern, Coulter, Imas, and Limbaugh!
Right up until FOX has to step in and get the Supreme Court to declare "lying" as protected free speech... To keep them on the air.
The CONSERVATIVES RULE the airwaves for non-PC talk. Even Springer and Stern are "Right" shows because they treat their subjects as "freak of the week" while shouting "look how offensive I am!"
It's sad when NPR is the last "liberal" holdout.. As they make an honest attempt to have discussion . Even the BBC gets labeled as liberal when they are the closest thing we have to 1960's style news people remember.
I think too, that as speech becomes based on private technology, there is a movement that "free speech" has to be "earned" on each said platform. If ever there was a time "he who pays the bills" has become the mantra.
The Free Speech and debating hall in the student union has now been rented to Starbucks. After all, it's not the University's job to provide places for students to discuss stuff not related to the coursework they pay for.
There's not really a problem with drone strikes. It's a tempest in a teapot. Reagan bombed Gadaghi in Libya as a PERSONAL attack.. Far more brazen.
Bush was doing the same thing... The military commanders like Republicans so they don't run their mouths. (Note they treated Clinton the same way)
Sure, he's targeting US Citizens... That are engaged in WAR against the USA on FOREIGN soil. Obama is following precedent... You don't twist the Constitution and invent secret courts... People plot war against the USA and you blow them up where they hide. A US flag don't save you. These targets are the definition of traitors... You stand with the enemy, get blowed up with the enemy... And yes... They might be gunning for you...
But that's not true. Corporate income tax is on what's left after all the expenses are paid. So the CONSUMER and employees see taxes built into the EBDITA side. That would be gas tax, social security, etc. Income tax comes off the after EBDITA money... This is why companies will "owe" offshore accounts money, or in the case of Bain Capital, they ratchet up fixed debts to soak up all the taxable portion... Good ole Hollywood accounting.
Fundamentally, the product isn't made in the country it's sold in. Effectively Apple Importers wants to sell to Apple Stores so that the Apple store has minimum profit.. Maybe $20 to cover wages of employees. The Apple Importer is based in a tax haven nd they buy the devices from Foxconn. That is where the "profits" go.
Except this money was never IN the USA. Apple sent blueprints to Foxconn, then Foxconn bought the parts in Asia and assembled iThings. Apple then has the products delivered directly from China to each country wher they are sold via "Apple of here".
So where did the USA have any jurisdiction to collect taxes? The parent Apple USA only collects the profits. While on paper they get to claim them all, they don't actually move the money to any one bank account. Corporations are a type of fealty where they have independant accounts that are "sworn" but not owned by the parent. This is necessary to navigate all the local laws, but the profit issues are a secondary issue.
That's true. My company uses IBM BladeCenter servers bundled into a VM cluster. The bang-for-buck at the Time were the 4-core Opterons... That easily scaled to 4-cPUS for 16-cores.. (That could probably be higher now). The beauty of AMD. Moving into this space is that the blades could be swappable with the current hardware.
But rather than rowed of boxes, VM is the better way to go.
He did solve those efficiency problems... Something called Alternating Current. It's gonna be big!
Of course without Tesla's work on wireless power, we wouldn't have "radio" (and various technologies) either. Marconi's famous radio patent used more than 20 Tesla patents...
I think Steve was even backing off the "streamlined" approach. With all these changes, you have to give regular folk a crutch to keep up. In many cases Apple is pushing things people haven't done on devices before.
I have some apps that attempt to be "super-minimal". I have to say, with do much going on, they are just too hard to jog the brain. In particular compare "Weather Dial" to the default Weather app. Weather Dial would look beautiful lined up on a row of iPhones as steam punk controls. But as a single app, the weather app default looks more like your daily TV news weather report. Sure, it's more splashy, but it flips your mental context faster.
I'm a big fan of LCARS. But in this debate it's sort of the projection of where the "device-less" computer interface can head. Abstract too much out and giving people a command line is almost better. We've reached the point if people have to "learn the interface" than you've abstracted TOO MUCH away. I don't really look forward to people reinventing address books without careful consideration... Especially just "removing stuff people don't need"
Along the lines of "people don't need" I see several problems with Steve's new yacht. It is missing the visual cues people expect. It's darn pretty! But when people need to board you, or inspect you for proper functions they won't know where to look. There's a reason those ugly little Tug Boats are plastered with colors and stripes and labels... The captain and crew of ANOTHER boat can tell what that little tug is gonna do from 200-300 yards away and be ready with lines in their hands on cue. The same is true of OSes... That's one reason people are disliking Windows 8 for throwing away TOO much of what people expect.
Wonder if he's going to hang out within JLG and work on something? In a lot of ways, it sounds like he suffered from being "junior" too long. Being perpetually the "favorite kid" without the others seeing why.
He needs a chance to do his own thing. He was good enough to lead the iOS team in "skunkworks" mode... But at the same time, Steve's secrecy basically screwed him over. Give the guy a few months off and he can get pretty much any project and any VC money he wants.
In all fairness it was GOOGLE refusing Apple to use the Turn-by-Turn results in the App that Apple made for Maps and paid money to Google on behalf of users. GOOGLE wanted "more control".. Read it what you will, but they obviously wanted more information from/ about users than Apple was willing to share (on top of money).
Google rocked the boat FIRST by WITHHOLDING features from iOS versions while Apple was a PAYING CUSTOMER of the service. (To give its own pony an advantage) Apple did what any of US would do. Find another vendor ASAP.
They still have Washington DC... Atomic Wasteland couldn't be much worse?
Um yeah... Now that you mention it. The USA hasn't built ANY NEW reactors in 30 years. So the root cause of management rot and decades past design life still apply.
So sure, we can fear-monger not to build NEW reactors based on what we've learned in 40 years since the last ones were built. We could all be driving 1957 Cadillacs that are "deathtraps" compared to a SMART built now.
Y'all got that Stephen King guy trying to steal your souls....
That's why wage earners will always be chumps. You paid 35% on that... If it was investment money you only would have paid 15%.
Side note: that's why sports and entertainment stars have so many tax problems.. It's all "bad of money" on 1099 with "creative accounting"
Can you imagine the tax mess if you got 2011 paycheck.. On April 16 2012?