So Apple paid no tax to the US on money not made in the US (which isn't entirely accurate, since they pay US tax on all revenues made in the Americas, which includes Canada, Central and South America), and not transferred back to the US. They also paid Ireland exactly the amount that the Irish government is owed according to their tax laws.
What a bunch of assholes, following the laws as they were written, passed, and upheld.
From this, it looks like Apple Retail people are paid somewhere in the $10/hr to $18/hr range depending on if they are sales, a "specialist" or a "genius."
So if they're median retail salary is above Costco, does that mean that Costco is the bad guy evil profit-hoarding destroying-the-world corporation around here now? I know, bringing data into an emotional conversation is never a good idea, but still...
DisplayPort 1.2 has way more bandwidth than necessary for 4K video in HBR2 mode - 17.28Gb/sec. DTS-HD Master Audio is 7.1 lossless, and uses up to 24.5Mb/sec. That leaves over 17 Gbps for video, so let's do the math:
4096 x 2160 x 32bpp = 283,115,520 bits per frame. 283,115,520 x 60Hz = 16,986,931,200 bps = 15.82 Gb/sec
They'll be fine with DisplayPort 1.2, which is available on hardware from a year or two ago.
And the drive hardware doesn't exist yet. They could use multiple laser assemblies to read and buffer (like multiple heads on the hard disks of way back when); and obviously if the disc has the same area, then the aerial density is much greater, meaning that far more bits are moving past the laser per revolution.
Short version: wait and see what they kick out the door (if anything).
"2:3 pulldown" has been used to interpolate a frame in-between two source frames (mostly) in order to convert 23.976 fps to the standard NTSC 29.97 fps. This has been done for years at studios for VHS sources, and then done on the digital player in your home for DVD.
When you use Handbrake to convert a DVD that has the source material in 23.976 and don't tell it to use the telecine filter, you'll get jittery video if you play it on some devices that don't properly perform this technique. Most media playback software will do this automatically on computers, since the frame rate of the display is nominally 60Hz+ these days.
The delay of flying cars is a good thing. When someone loses control of their rolling car, it goes into a ditch, or maybe someone's lawn. If you lose control of a flying car, it goes into some kid's bedroom on the 2nd floor.
Well, your comprehension skills seem to have gone wrong, since they're talking about putting it in lunar orbit. Smash an asteroid into the moon on accident? Oh well, there's another crater to go with the several thousand that are already there. Miss, and send a small asteroid chunk off into space? Well, that's where it came from anyway.
They'd have to be amazingly stupid to try to do a lunar orbit injection where any failure could mathematically become a trans-earth trajectory.
a.22LR will go right through a frying pan at 200 yards. Sure, a.22LR doesn't have a lot of mass, but it makes up for it with energy. You put it in the right place, it will do a significant amount of damage. If it hits a bone, it's going to rattle around inside the body like a pinball.
Who's to say that the next Nexus phone starts picking up all the current Galaxy customers, because they put a feature on it that Samsung's customers can't get from Samsung?
You aren't wrong. That means he learned about them about Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, which was a good 5+ years after their first breakout hit of Warcraft.
Wholeheartedly agree. Especially in light of Shadowrun Returns launching yesterday, where it's $40 to get the engine and the campaign made by the game producer, and all the tools and editors necessary to make and share your own campaigns on Steam Workshop.
A great game based in a fantastic universe with over 20 years of development behind it. Funded by Kickstarter.
Much of the last two expansions have been rehashed content that has already been played. In fact, one of the expansions literally WAS content that had already been played, but that they refreshed up to current max level difficulty.
Players recognize when they are being given the same crap with a different spoon, and take their money elsewhere.
Google may have nothing to fear from Samsung, but Samsung probably isn't happy with having to compete with their OS vendor for hardware sales (Motorola Mobility). Google wins either way - it's a set of eyes looking at Google advertising. Samsung only gets paid if the device the eyes are looking at says "Samsung" on the bezel.
Windows PC manufacturers almost had the same problem from Microsoft with Surface, except that Microsoft's offering was (is) so botched from the beginning that it was only an issue until the first non-NDA non-shill review was published.
Well shit, if it's going to be hard and take a long time, we better just do nothing and continue spewing coal ash and carbon by the gigaton into the air.
I'd rather they work towards something than shrug and go with the status quo, myself.
So are commercial uranium-fired plants, unless you use a ridiculously (and incredibly uneconomical) short fuel cycle. Pu-239 (the stuff they make bombs with) doesn't just stop capturing neutrons once it is there, and Pu-240 and Pu-241 is undesirable for weapons use due to spontaneous fissions.
The physics packages of the US arsenal was created in purpose-specific reactors for breeding Pu-239, not as waste from commercial power.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've used an optical drive in the last 3 years. Software is delivered as disk images now, if not straight up installer packages. People don't burn backups any more, and they don't burn custom mix CDs anymore in the age of bluetooth and smartphones.
The only thing optical drives are used regularly for anymore are for converting movies from an optical disc, so that you don't have to use the optical disc anymore.
Apple was the first to bin the floppy drive and legacy device connectors too, and people made the same tired arguments then. Where's are the floppy drives and serial ports now?
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Hipsters don't drive BMW. They drive Subaru.
As for douchebag, well, that's mostly accurate.
Really? For only $22k more? What a deal!
$22k more turns a BMW 335 into an M3.
$22k more turns a pair of Nike shoes into a Hyundai or a Kia.
$22k more turns an apartment lease agreement into a home mortgage.
And if you're really worried, you can double it's capacity with one of these.
That's another 200 miles of range!
So Apple paid no tax to the US on money not made in the US (which isn't entirely accurate, since they pay US tax on all revenues made in the Americas, which includes Canada, Central and South America), and not transferred back to the US. They also paid Ireland exactly the amount that the Irish government is owed according to their tax laws.
What a bunch of assholes, following the laws as they were written, passed, and upheld.
From this, it looks like Apple Retail people are paid somewhere in the $10/hr to $18/hr range depending on if they are sales, a "specialist" or a "genius."
So if they're median retail salary is above Costco, does that mean that Costco is the bad guy evil profit-hoarding destroying-the-world corporation around here now? I know, bringing data into an emotional conversation is never a good idea, but still...
DisplayPort 1.2 has way more bandwidth than necessary for 4K video in HBR2 mode - 17.28Gb/sec. DTS-HD Master Audio is 7.1 lossless, and uses up to 24.5Mb/sec. That leaves over 17 Gbps for video, so let's do the math:
4096 x 2160 x 32bpp = 283,115,520 bits per frame.
283,115,520 x 60Hz = 16,986,931,200 bps = 15.82 Gb/sec
They'll be fine with DisplayPort 1.2, which is available on hardware from a year or two ago.
And the drive hardware doesn't exist yet. They could use multiple laser assemblies to read and buffer (like multiple heads on the hard disks of way back when); and obviously if the disc has the same area, then the aerial density is much greater, meaning that far more bits are moving past the laser per revolution.
Short version: wait and see what they kick out the door (if anything).
Yes and no.
"2:3 pulldown" has been used to interpolate a frame in-between two source frames (mostly) in order to convert 23.976 fps to the standard NTSC 29.97 fps. This has been done for years at studios for VHS sources, and then done on the digital player in your home for DVD.
When you use Handbrake to convert a DVD that has the source material in 23.976 and don't tell it to use the telecine filter, you'll get jittery video if you play it on some devices that don't properly perform this technique. Most media playback software will do this automatically on computers, since the frame rate of the display is nominally 60Hz+ these days.
The intended customers are Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount / Viacom, Vivendi NBC Universal, HBO, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
This new storage tech allows them to issue the same content with slightly uprated quality, again, for another $30.
The delay of flying cars is a good thing. When someone loses control of their rolling car, it goes into a ditch, or maybe someone's lawn. If you lose control of a flying car, it goes into some kid's bedroom on the 2nd floor.
Well, your comprehension skills seem to have gone wrong, since they're talking about putting it in lunar orbit. Smash an asteroid into the moon on accident? Oh well, there's another crater to go with the several thousand that are already there. Miss, and send a small asteroid chunk off into space? Well, that's where it came from anyway.
They'd have to be amazingly stupid to try to do a lunar orbit injection where any failure could mathematically become a trans-earth trajectory.
So the diameter is about .003 different. So what.
Just look at the rounds, and you'll know they are completely different from each other. Diameter is only one piece of information in the equation.
Not only are the pressures higher, but the design needs to retain the pressure for a longer period of time, as the barrel is at a minimum 2x as long.
a .22LR will go right through a frying pan at 200 yards. Sure, a .22LR doesn't have a lot of mass, but it makes up for it with energy. You put it in the right place, it will do a significant amount of damage. If it hits a bone, it's going to rattle around inside the body like a pinball.
That's the state of things now.
Who's to say that the next Nexus phone starts picking up all the current Galaxy customers, because they put a feature on it that Samsung's customers can't get from Samsung?
(Insert patent violation joke here)
You aren't wrong. That means he learned about them about Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, which was a good 5+ years after their first breakout hit of Warcraft.
Wholeheartedly agree. Especially in light of Shadowrun Returns launching yesterday, where it's $40 to get the engine and the campaign made by the game producer, and all the tools and editors necessary to make and share your own campaigns on Steam Workshop.
A great game based in a fantastic universe with over 20 years of development behind it. Funded by Kickstarter.
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It's the content. Or lack of new content.
Much of the last two expansions have been rehashed content that has already been played. In fact, one of the expansions literally WAS content that had already been played, but that they refreshed up to current max level difficulty.
Players recognize when they are being given the same crap with a different spoon, and take their money elsewhere.
Google may have nothing to fear from Samsung, but Samsung probably isn't happy with having to compete with their OS vendor for hardware sales (Motorola Mobility). Google wins either way - it's a set of eyes looking at Google advertising. Samsung only gets paid if the device the eyes are looking at says "Samsung" on the bezel.
Windows PC manufacturers almost had the same problem from Microsoft with Surface, except that Microsoft's offering was (is) so botched from the beginning that it was only an issue until the first non-NDA non-shill review was published.
iPad can do HDMI as well, it just requires a ridiculously priced adapter.
Well shit, if it's going to be hard and take a long time, we better just do nothing and continue spewing coal ash and carbon by the gigaton into the air.
I'd rather they work towards something than shrug and go with the status quo, myself.
So are commercial uranium-fired plants, unless you use a ridiculously (and incredibly uneconomical) short fuel cycle. Pu-239 (the stuff they make bombs with) doesn't just stop capturing neutrons once it is there, and Pu-240 and Pu-241 is undesirable for weapons use due to spontaneous fissions.
The physics packages of the US arsenal was created in purpose-specific reactors for breeding Pu-239, not as waste from commercial power.
And the higher end houses will get a Thunderbolt fiber channel HBA and still have connectivity to exabytes of SAN disk on their "ultrabook" laptop.
Let's see the MacBook Air competition do that as well.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've used an optical drive in the last 3 years. Software is delivered as disk images now, if not straight up installer packages. People don't burn backups any more, and they don't burn custom mix CDs anymore in the age of bluetooth and smartphones.
The only thing optical drives are used regularly for anymore are for converting movies from an optical disc, so that you don't have to use the optical disc anymore.
Apple was the first to bin the floppy drive and legacy device connectors too, and people made the same tired arguments then. Where's are the floppy drives and serial ports now?