That much is true, but I dare say that not a single sale of an iPhone will be lost due to this.
Assuming they sell the iPhones, rather than parting them out, there's now ~17 iPhones Apple will not be able to sell because the people who would have purchased them purchased the stolen phones instead.
This is basic pizza-nomics: someone steals a pizza, you buy it at a discount and eat it; now you are full, and therefore you do not buy a pizza.
For those complaining about cost... if you watched the video, you'll see that the concrete slabs are being shipped from Germany.
It's a clever way to "repatriate" a bunch of money by buying concrete and shipping with it, without the money ever landing in the U.S. tax system, don't you think?
I may be wrong but I suspect there will be a lot of time wasted by people having to regularly walk long distances to meetings.
At a circumference of a mile, the radius is one mile divided by 2 pi.
So about 840 feet, or just over 250 meters.
Even if you double that for the longest distance, the diameter, you are likely not moving more that 1680 feet, or under a third of a mile. Or 500 meters/half a kilometer if you walk metrically.
The big hint is that there's more than one door inside the circle.
In terms of routing, it's using the same trick as the Cray 1 used to get shortest point-to-point signal paths.
P.S.: Most time spent walking to meetings (or in them) is wasted...;^)
Disclaimer: I am an athiest, verging on being anti-theist.
I think you mean the threat of extremism. Islam is not the problem, a bunch of nutjobs claiming to represent it is.
Extremism is not the problem.
If you hold a parade, and you allow a bunch of nutjobs to notice the parade, and then walk in front of it as if they are leading it, then when the cameras show up, you let them speak for you, while you stand mutely behind them... those people *ARE* your leaders.
And just to be fair about things:
(1) This is exactly what happened with the Tea Party, when Sarah Palin decided to run home and get her baton and majorette uniform, and march in front of their parade (looking back periodically, to ensure she was still going in going in the right direction, and they hadn't turned down another street instead of still being behind her.
(2) This is exactly what happened with the recent Occupy movement protest degenerating into fires and looting in Oakland, where the people who just enjoyed smashing things figured out that all they had to do was wait around for an Occupy march/protest, join the crowd, and pull their bandana's up over their faces and start throwing bricks through windows.
If you let them stand in front: they *ARE* your leaders, even if you would prefer that they just *go away*.
Im pretty sure the party they mostly like is the prohibition on countries demanding data for their citizens be stored in the respective country so that the local militarized police can go in and demand access to it at any time. A lot of the other things they are not so happy about, but are willing to swallow a lot of bad things in order to get that in as a binding provision. Most people don't want to have to be building data centers all over the planet which can then be seized the next time a local politician thinks it would be neat to own a supercomputer. They also want to be able to migrate and replicate data outside the country in question to avoid downtime.
Well, he's currently paying the penalty of * Being in exile * Totally going to be arrested if he comes back "home" * Risking being abducted by agents if he moves
He's not hurting in Russia; and since the U.S. didn't throw him out, it's technically not "exile". He appears to actually be living rather well.
He can't come back home even if he wanted to; the U.S. revoked his passport, so he's pretty much stuck in Russia until the U.S. gets their heads out of their asses. The can demand he "come back and stand trial", but if they want that, they're going to have to reactivate his passport, or they are simply talking out of their asses trying to make him look bad because they know for a fact he can't cross international borders right now.
Yeah, the abduction risk is sadly likely real, given the lengths to which they've gone to try and get Assange into a position where he can be easily abducted.
Doesn't job sharing help dodge the ACA mandate (e.g. two 20 hour per week employees won't trigger mandatory health insurance coverage, but one 40 hour per week one would, oversimplifying away rules regarding number of employees overall)? I'm surprised this hasn't caught on just so cheap-ass businesses can get away without providing health coverage to their employees.
No, you have to push them under 20 to avoid the overhead, and since you need a safety margin in case someone screws up by an hour (e.g. daylight savings time, or whatever), the normal number you push part time employees down to is 18.5 hours or less.
At that point they aren't "job sharing", they are "part time employees".
You also have to be talking about fungible workers, in order to get there; jobs which require minimal training, such as the one week you get before being put to work at McDonalds, or the type of job you'd call in a temp agency to fill, if you had someone out sick.
4@30 instead of 2@60 or 3@40, is still more full time employees. You have to push it down a lot further, so that's 7+ employees to push them to part time status.
And yes: you bet your ass that the increase in minimum wages has resulted in more people being pushed to be part time (or out, if the won't tolerate part time), and that the ACA has resulted in the same.
Per-employee overhead, primarily due to unfunded government mandates, and government "head taxes", such as disability, and so on. Although there is also the matter of "flooring", if work spaces are not shared serially between employees as well, since you need per employee equipment, desks, etc., otherwise.
Until it costs me the same amount to hire workers so that 2 @ 60 = 3 @ 40 = 4 @ 30 = 5 @ 24 = 6 @ 20... there will be no incentive for an employer to participate in job sharing programs, and a huge financial burden, should they choose to do so.
I suspect that the marginal additional costs associated with training and employee management could be eaten as a cost in exchange for coverage, since losing an employee for a period of time, say in the 5 @ 24 case, means a 20% drop in productivity, compare to a 50% drop in productivity, as things sit today.
But until it costs mostly the same, the people who want to deal with the lack of job availability through a reduced workweek and job sharing, can "pretty much go screw themselves" (I'm quoting here -- don't shoot the messenger).
I don't know the investments he's trying to rescue... but Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities has been predicting OLED and AMOLED displays for Apple products the last 3 releases, and Apple has not been stupid enough to oblige him with a product containing one.
Also, I can not see Jony Ive putting a different looking bar at the top where the functions keys normally go, and breaking up the overall design into three zones that end up looking so incredibly different from each other, and certainly, not to draw a display down where it ends up taking up attention from the main display. That just totally violates the design principles he espouses when you talk to him about it.
But I'm sure a lot of people clicked that link, which I guess is the point...
Your ISPs dictate whether or not you get charged against your bandwidth cap for content from Netflix vs. not getting charged against the cap for content from them
What is this "bandwidth cap" of which you speak? That does not exist in France (outside mobile).
How long until computers don't exist outside mobile?
I'd say that the ratio of people using mobile devices to access content has been going up, andit's only going to go up further. If you are not concerned about data caps on mobile now, you will be.
So my local ISP curates which content they distribute via Netflix?
That's odd. I thought Netflix curated the content. They're just a portal, through which whatever content there is happens to pass?
Your ISPs dictate whether or not you get charged against your bandwidth cap for content from Netflix vs. not getting charged against the cap for content from them (think Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon).
Your ISPs also decide whether or not they will peer with Netflix's hosting provider, given that all the data tend to move from that peer, into their network, and not vice versa.
Your ISPs distribute the packets.
Yes, Netflix curates the content, which is why the hell I said they were a *content portal*.
They are certainly *NOT* the ones responsible for sending the packets to your device.
Businesses aren't the ones demanding the source for VB6.
Exactly! What cashflow strapped small business with 15 employees running on Windows XP with a hardware firewall between them and the net, with a huge amount of Microsoft and third party components, all glued together with VB6, wouldn't want to:
* Upgrade 15 old machines so they could install a 16th machine * Have to have someone "upgrade" their entire business IT infrastructure to.NET (hope it works!) * Re-buy all the components they were using * For the components they were using that aren't available on.NET, pay someone to rewrite them from scratch * Convert all their historical data * Replace all their old printers, since old printers never have drivers in new OS's * Retrain all their employees on the new stuff * Hope there aren't any business-ending "quirks" in the new code
All content distributors have to reserve quotas on their catalog, that goes for TV Stations, cable companies or IPTV, VoD platforms, video stores, etc.
Netflix is a content portal.
The ISP you connect your phone or computer to is the content distributor.
As far as I can tell: in France, they are all French.
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What can you actually do with a stolen iphone at this point?
Or you could buy one for cash some place, and then return the stolen one in its place. It's not like Best Buy looks at anything but the SKU.
Or You could just put on Khakis, a blue shirt, and a nametag, and trade out your stone iPhones for Best Buy "clean" ones.
Or if you had a buddy who worked at Best Buy, the buddy could "launder" the iPhones for you.
Lots of possibilities...
That much is true, but I dare say that not a single sale of an iPhone will be lost due to this.
Assuming they sell the iPhones, rather than parting them out, there's now ~17 iPhones Apple will not be able to sell because the people who would have purchased them purchased the stolen phones instead.
This is basic pizza-nomics: someone steals a pizza, you buy it at a discount and eat it; now you are full, and therefore you do not buy a pizza.
They are out the lost sales as well.
More RAM less battery life
Not with effective power management. Unused RAM can be powered down.
It is. RAM which is never installed in a device is, by definition, "powered down".
For those complaining about cost... if you watched the video, you'll see that the concrete slabs are being shipped from Germany.
It's a clever way to "repatriate" a bunch of money by buying concrete and shipping with it, without the money ever landing in the U.S. tax system, don't you think?
I may be wrong but I suspect there will be a lot of time wasted by people having to regularly walk long distances to meetings.
At a circumference of a mile, the radius is one mile divided by 2 pi.
So about 840 feet, or just over 250 meters.
Even if you double that for the longest distance, the diameter, you are likely not moving more that 1680 feet, or under a third of a mile. Or 500 meters/half a kilometer if you walk metrically.
The big hint is that there's more than one door inside the circle.
In terms of routing, it's using the same trick as the Cray 1 used to get shortest point-to-point signal paths.
P.S.: Most time spent walking to meetings (or in them) is wasted... ;^)
Disclaimer: I am an athiest, verging on being anti-theist.
I think you mean the threat of extremism. Islam is not the problem, a bunch of nutjobs claiming to represent it is.
Extremism is not the problem.
If you hold a parade, and you allow a bunch of nutjobs to notice the parade, and then walk in front of it as if they are leading it, then when the cameras show up, you let them speak for you, while you stand mutely behind them... those people *ARE* your leaders.
And just to be fair about things:
(1) This is exactly what happened with the Tea Party, when Sarah Palin decided to run home and get her baton and majorette uniform, and march in front of their parade (looking back periodically, to ensure she was still going in going in the right direction, and they hadn't turned down another street instead of still being behind her.
(2) This is exactly what happened with the recent Occupy movement protest degenerating into fires and looting in Oakland, where the people who just enjoyed smashing things figured out that all they had to do was wait around for an Occupy march/protest, join the crowd, and pull their bandana's up over their faces and start throwing bricks through windows.
If you let them stand in front: they *ARE* your leaders, even if you would prefer that they just *go away*.
So? You made the decision to use Microsoft technologies. Full stop.
15% of the *customers* are using IE8.
What exactly is he supposed to do?
Use an IE8 exploit to do a drive-by download of Chrome and force it to be the default browser?
Im pretty sure the party they mostly like is the prohibition on countries demanding data for their citizens be stored in the respective country so that the local militarized police can go in and demand access to it at any time. A lot of the other things they are not so happy about, but are willing to swallow a lot of bad things in order to get that in as a binding provision. Most people don't want to have to be building data centers all over the planet which can then be seized the next time a local politician thinks it would be neat to own a supercomputer. They also want to be able to migrate and replicate data outside the country in question to avoid downtime.
Sorry; I was lacking a sammich. I SQL nerded out.
Do you actually have to JOIN the cult?
Or can you issue a SELECT COALESCE and use a subquery instead?
It's "summary".
So you're saying it's not like an early Meg Ryan or a more recent and artsy Zooey Deschanel movie?
Republicans won't buy inferior cars without the government forcing them to, so the is a good thing.
Republicans in Norway?
President Gerald Fjord was a Republican; I hear Norway is 50% Fjords... at least that's what Slartibartfast was claiming...
Of course, the electricity will come from renewable energy, from a country that's one of the leading hydroelectric-powered countries in the world.
Here, fixed that for you. What kind of idiot would burn an export article for expensive electricity in Norway?
What, you've never seen "Jurassic Park"? Dinosaurs *are* renewable.
What's the advantage of having a dedicated monitor instead of using a TV as monitor?
Good lord. Do you have a day?
Televisions make piss poor computer monitors. Start with chroma and expand to pixel blend, and then go on from there.
If you're color blind, or you have Retinitis Pigmentosa, I will overlook the question.
Well, he's currently paying the penalty of
* Being in exile
* Totally going to be arrested if he comes back "home"
* Risking being abducted by agents if he moves
He's not hurting in Russia; and since the U.S. didn't throw him out, it's technically not "exile". He appears to actually be living rather well.
He can't come back home even if he wanted to; the U.S. revoked his passport, so he's pretty much stuck in Russia until the U.S. gets their heads out of their asses. The can demand he "come back and stand trial", but if they want that, they're going to have to reactivate his passport, or they are simply talking out of their asses trying to make him look bad because they know for a fact he can't cross international borders right now.
Yeah, the abduction risk is sadly likely real, given the lengths to which they've gone to try and get Assange into a position where he can be easily abducted.
"...but still must pay a penalty..."
Er... Holder is aware that Snowden is in Russia, and damn well *doesn't* have to pay a penalty, right?
Doesn't job sharing help dodge the ACA mandate (e.g. two 20 hour per week employees won't trigger mandatory health insurance coverage, but one 40 hour per week one would, oversimplifying away rules regarding number of employees overall)? I'm surprised this hasn't caught on just so cheap-ass businesses can get away without providing health coverage to their employees.
No, you have to push them under 20 to avoid the overhead, and since you need a safety margin in case someone screws up by an hour (e.g. daylight savings time, or whatever), the normal number you push part time employees down to is 18.5 hours or less.
At that point they aren't "job sharing", they are "part time employees".
You also have to be talking about fungible workers, in order to get there; jobs which require minimal training, such as the one week you get before being put to work at McDonalds, or the type of job you'd call in a temp agency to fill, if you had someone out sick.
4@30 instead of 2@60 or 3@40, is still more full time employees. You have to push it down a lot further, so that's 7+ employees to push them to part time status.
And yes: you bet your ass that the increase in minimum wages has resulted in more people being pushed to be part time (or out, if the won't tolerate part time), and that the ACA has resulted in the same.
I really wonder why job sharing is missed?
Per-employee overhead, primarily due to unfunded government mandates, and government "head taxes", such as disability, and so on. Although there is also the matter of "flooring", if work spaces are not shared serially between employees as well, since you need per employee equipment, desks, etc., otherwise.
Until it costs me the same amount to hire workers so that 2 @ 60 = 3 @ 40 = 4 @ 30 = 5 @ 24 = 6 @ 20... there will be no incentive for an employer to participate in job sharing programs, and a huge financial burden, should they choose to do so.
I suspect that the marginal additional costs associated with training and employee management could be eaten as a cost in exchange for coverage, since losing an employee for a period of time, say in the 5 @ 24 case, means a 20% drop in productivity, compare to a 50% drop in productivity, as things sit today.
But until it costs mostly the same, the people who want to deal with the lack of job availability through a reduced workweek and job sharing, can "pretty much go screw themselves" (I'm quoting here -- don't shoot the messenger).
I don't know the investments he's trying to rescue... but Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities has been predicting OLED and AMOLED displays for Apple products the last 3 releases, and Apple has not been stupid enough to oblige him with a product containing one.
Also, I can not see Jony Ive putting a different looking bar at the top where the functions keys normally go, and breaking up the overall design into three zones that end up looking so incredibly different from each other, and certainly, not to draw a display down where it ends up taking up attention from the main display. That just totally violates the design principles he espouses when you talk to him about it.
But I'm sure a lot of people clicked that link, which I guess is the point...
Your ISPs dictate whether or not you get charged against your bandwidth cap for content from Netflix vs. not getting charged against the cap for content from them
What is this "bandwidth cap" of which you speak? That does not exist in France (outside mobile).
How long until computers don't exist outside mobile?
I'd say that the ratio of people using mobile devices to access content has been going up, andit's only going to go up further. If you are not concerned about data caps on mobile now, you will be.
Because they don't want to pay their fair share, we've been over this before.
It's fair to tax money where it's earned. It's not fair to tax it some place else.
So my local ISP curates which content they distribute via Netflix?
That's odd. I thought Netflix curated the content. They're just a portal, through which whatever content there is happens to pass?
Your ISPs dictate whether or not you get charged against your bandwidth cap for content from Netflix vs. not getting charged against the cap for content from them (think Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon).
Your ISPs also decide whether or not they will peer with Netflix's hosting provider, given that all the data tend to move from that peer, into their network, and not vice versa.
Your ISPs distribute the packets.
Yes, Netflix curates the content, which is why the hell I said they were a *content portal*.
They are certainly *NOT* the ones responsible for sending the packets to your device.
Businesses aren't the ones demanding the source for VB6.
Exactly! What cashflow strapped small business with 15 employees running on Windows XP with a hardware firewall between them and the net, with a huge amount of Microsoft and third party components, all glued together with VB6, wouldn't want to:
* Upgrade 15 old machines so they could install a 16th machine .NET (hope it works!) .NET, pay someone to rewrite them from scratch
* Have to have someone "upgrade" their entire business IT infrastructure to
* Re-buy all the components they were using
* For the components they were using that aren't available on
* Convert all their historical data
* Replace all their old printers, since old printers never have drivers in new OS's
* Retrain all their employees on the new stuff
* Hope there aren't any business-ending "quirks" in the new code
I mean who wouldn't love that?!?!?
DONE! "...reserve at least 20per cent share..."
Feel free to get off your asses and fill that reserved-but-currently-empty space with content.
XOXO
-- Netflix
All content distributors have to reserve quotas on their catalog, that goes for TV Stations, cable companies or IPTV, VoD platforms, video stores, etc.
Netflix is a content portal.
The ISP you connect your phone or computer to is the content distributor.
As far as I can tell: in France, they are all French.