The good news is that the people working at the new place will be paying taxes, and the money they spend in the local economy will end up being taxed too. So the state still gets revenue based on the increased economic activity, rather than getting jack shit because the company can't afford to open up a $7B factory there.
Sounds like a winner, and I'll bet that roughly 50/50 states would offer a deal.
Because while that factory is running, and the people working there are making and spending money, tax revenues come back to the state and local governments.
Or did you forget about that part when writing your anti-corporate screed? And why do you think that a company would spend $7B to build a factory just to shut it down "in a few years"? That might be one of the dumbest things I've heard today, and it's been a pretty stupid day.
Hate to say it, but that sounds a whole lot like the anti-Obama Republicans.
Not saying it's right because "they did it first" or whatever - it was bullshit when they did it too. Ideas should stand or fall based on merit, and we should all be hoping for success, because if Trump succeeds at this, we all win. If he fails, we all take it right in the ass. Just like with Obama.
Yeah, if they were run by "thinking people" they would purposefully and publicly stick their finger in the eye of the new President in his first full week in office, when he's a man that is known for excoriating people publicly and also seeking retribution.
I don't think you are operating with the same definition of "thinking people" that the rest of us probably are. This is a company that wants to do business with this country, and will probably have representatives meeting people from both the administration, and the Congress.
Don't quit your day job and go into politics, or executive management.
I don't know how many times I've had to tell developers that source code is not the place for credentials to be stored. They give me some whiner line or another, and that's when I ask them if they know exactly who has access to read their code once they push their commit, and how they are going to answer to the SOX auditors (and company executives) because I'm not going to cover their ass after specifically setting up infrastructure for dealing with securing credentials that they are too lazy to use.
Strangely, they see the light and start doing it the right way. And then I rotate the password that they had already put into git, since it would still be in the commit history./sigh
First, fuck your own face for calling me an idiot, when you don't know anything about me.
Second, right now it is the left that is being divisive. That's not to say that the right hasn't had a whole shitload of time of their own to be at fault for this too - but to fix it, people need to fucking stop already. Both parties, and all of their respective sycophants.
That includes you. You are part of the problem, right now, with that fucking incendiary partisan post.
No, he won because the Democratic Party is too busy tripping over their hypocritical statements and actions. You know, the party of inclusion that can't wait to have 60+ sitting congresspersons "boycott" the inauguration of the president that they now have to work with. Their candidate for president was even there, and tweeting about working together. Yet these petty and petulant asshats can't see that the inauguration is a celebration of the institution, and not of the man being sworn in.
The divisiveness only continues to get worse as long as these douchebags can't see that they are the ones perpetuating the problem.
Ever wonder why you can't find a HDMI-to-DisplayPort adapter? Because the petulant HDMI consortium won't allow it, and actively sues to block it. There is no way to plug a DisplayPort monitor into an HDMI port, for no technical reason. It's purely petty legal nonsense.
Your HDMI to DVI-D cable is using a DVI-D signal. It definitely won't do a non-RGB color space, which HDMI will.
DisplayPort offers all the features of HDMI, without any of the encumbrances. It is an open spec, controlled by VESA - the Mini-DisplayPort connector that practically everybody uses now was originally Apple's, and they gave it to VESA royalty free. DisplayPort supports chaining of displays, HDMI doesn't. DisplayPort 1.3 supported up to two 4k displays @ 60fps in 2014, and also includes the HDMI 2.0 spec.
There is so much more going on than just "cable cost."
I finally had enough of Time Warner and fired them for video delivery. Fuck them and their abuse of CCI "CopyOnce" flagging that amounts to rent-seeking by eliminating all non-rented choices for a DVR system except for Windows Media Center (EOL) and TiVo (not really your own).
I now have faster internet speeds, and Sling TV for $40/month cheaper, with all the same channels. And I recycled the box I was using for Windows Media Center into an Ubuntu 16 / MythTV box for recording OTA HD programming at far better quality than anything coming over Time Warner, and I have the ability to scan and auto-extract commercials from the recordings.
Time Warner / Charter / Spectrum can go chug raw sewage. Only way I ever go back is with a deep price cut, and the elimination of CCI flag abuse that allows me to continue using MythTV or the like.
The real irony is that you still don't understand the difference between standards essential patents and design patents after all this time.
If you lobby to include your tech patents into a global communications standard under the premise that those patents would be licensed under Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms (which are conditions for inclusion in the standard), and then start asking for unfair, unreasonable, and highly discriminatory licensing terms from certain licensors, then you are a fuckhead company and there will be legal action.
There are absolutely zero design patents that are "standards essential", so Apple can choose to license (or not) on any terms they want. And if these design patents are so damn hard to get around, why is it only Samsung that has been found guilty of violation? LG, HTC, Google, Motorola, etc. are all doing just fine.
Get over it already. Samsung is a proven bad actor. Qualcomm may also be a bad actor - we'll have to wait to see on that one.
Except when it comes to convenience, where a phone wins every time.
He says he has a 3 year old - 3 year olds aren't very good at holding a pose or extending a moment while you run around looking for your camera, turn it on, realize the battery is dead so you have to go get another one to put in it, find a memory card because there's never one in the camera, then wait for the auto-focus and take the picture.
Photography on phones is a huge thing because of the convenience - you always have it, it's charged and turned on already. Storage is there already.
Touch screens in cars are the dumbest fucking idea that has ever been. There is no tactile feedback, so you have to take your eyes off the road to use the fucking thing. Every time.
I have no idea how they are legal, other than the stupid message that comes up every time you start the car that basically says "don't use this unless you are pulled over and parked." Which nobody does.
BMW spent over a decade to get their iDrive (now ConnectedDrive) system to be what it is today, and it's probably the best-of-breed. Big screen for showing information, and a knob / bump controller / touchpad thing on the center console that you can use with one hand to do practically everything, with your eyes still on the road. And it has shortcut buttons for the most accessed functions, which you can find by feel alone.
It's the way it should be, so that you aren't fiddle-fucking around with a touchscreen instead of paying attention to that idiot in a huge bro-truck that isn't checking his blind spot, and entering your lane.
Because if they don't, then they don't get a standard. Nobody is going to go through the R&D spend without some guarantee of licensing revenues.
Standards bodies deal with this by requiring the patent holder to agree to Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory licensing (FRAND) to get it included in the standard, or they can go pound it. Meaning, you get to charge $0.25 per radio, and everyone that makes a device based on that standard pays the same. Fair, Reasonable, and without discrimination. Not this bullshit where all manufacturers except that one who has patents we want access to, but those patents aren't included in any FRAND standard so we will try to fuck them into a cross-licensing agreement instead of the agreed upon FRAND price, like we've seen of late.
In fact, that's probably what this FTC lawsuit is about!
To be fair, he said "carriers", not handset makers.
LTE isn't everywhere, no matter what the carrier marketing says. If you buy a Verizon phone, it has to be able to talk CDMA2000. If you buy AT&T / Sprint / T-mobile, it has to be able to talk GSM. Some handset manufacturers have gone dual-radio to get around this shit, in addition to the idea that a Verizon smartphone shouldn't be a useless lump in other countries not named the United States.
We just saw in another story that AT&T is switching off their UMTS service that the original iPhone used - how long until CDMA goes away and Verizon can recycle that spectrum?
I just grepped the summary for 'iOS' and it didn't find a single mention.
You know that Safari is a browser on macOS too, right? And that there is even an iMac shipping with a display better than 4K? To say nothing about plugging 4K displays into Macs that have sufficient hardware to drive them?
I don't care what engine it is - if you're dealing with large data sets, and large reports that return large data sets, it will be RAM hungry.
Our developers routinely work with databases that have hundreds of millions of rows of scrubbed data to create financial reports for the business. Their development goes far faster if they have that database local to their laptop running as either a native service, or in a VM. Spending a few hundred bucks on extra RAM pays itself off hundreds of time over through the useful life of the laptop with these guys, in the form of them not twiddling their thumbs waiting for queries to return while testing.
And, transferring via Wi-Fi is slow as shit, because it's large data sizes and usually limited to 802.11g, which has a maximum of 54Mbps that you will never see, because of the 2.4Ghz ISM band being flooded with signals from every damn thing.
Some of this is the fault of HDMI - the HDMI consortium demands that all HDMI cables should have male ends and that's it. And I believe they demand that you can't convert HDMI into anything else.
It makes it a huge pain in the ass. HDMI should just be quarantined to home video, and computing should move ahead with DisplayPort. It's better in just about every way, as well as being an open standard.
Not buying a new SLR just because you (or Apple) say so. To even suggest it makes you a fucking idiot.
And no phone is "just as good" as practically any SLR, because physics. Yeah, the megapixel count might be there, but basically nothing else is. Fucking idiot confirmed.
Depends on what you're developing. If you are developing an application that works with a database, you may have a database engine running on your laptop (or in a VM).
I hear that databases and VMs might require a bit of RAM.
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There's a big gap between "looks promising" and exciting the electrons in high voltage wiring. Like 20+ years of R&D and engineering.
"They did it first" is not sufficient reasoning or justification to be a complete asshole. Just like it wasn't when "they" did it.
The good news is that the people working at the new place will be paying taxes, and the money they spend in the local economy will end up being taxed too. So the state still gets revenue based on the increased economic activity, rather than getting jack shit because the company can't afford to open up a $7B factory there.
Sounds like a winner, and I'll bet that roughly 50/50 states would offer a deal.
Because while that factory is running, and the people working there are making and spending money, tax revenues come back to the state and local governments.
Or did you forget about that part when writing your anti-corporate screed? And why do you think that a company would spend $7B to build a factory just to shut it down "in a few years"? That might be one of the dumbest things I've heard today, and it's been a pretty stupid day.
Hate to say it, but that sounds a whole lot like the anti-Obama Republicans.
Not saying it's right because "they did it first" or whatever - it was bullshit when they did it too. Ideas should stand or fall based on merit, and we should all be hoping for success, because if Trump succeeds at this, we all win. If he fails, we all take it right in the ass. Just like with Obama.
Time to grow up and govern.
Yeah, if they were run by "thinking people" they would purposefully and publicly stick their finger in the eye of the new President in his first full week in office, when he's a man that is known for excoriating people publicly and also seeking retribution.
I don't think you are operating with the same definition of "thinking people" that the rest of us probably are. This is a company that wants to do business with this country, and will probably have representatives meeting people from both the administration, and the Congress.
Don't quit your day job and go into politics, or executive management.
I don't know how many times I've had to tell developers that source code is not the place for credentials to be stored. They give me some whiner line or another, and that's when I ask them if they know exactly who has access to read their code once they push their commit, and how they are going to answer to the SOX auditors (and company executives) because I'm not going to cover their ass after specifically setting up infrastructure for dealing with securing credentials that they are too lazy to use.
Strangely, they see the light and start doing it the right way. And then I rotate the password that they had already put into git, since it would still be in the commit history. /sigh
First, fuck your own face for calling me an idiot, when you don't know anything about me.
Second, right now it is the left that is being divisive. That's not to say that the right hasn't had a whole shitload of time of their own to be at fault for this too - but to fix it, people need to fucking stop already. Both parties, and all of their respective sycophants.
That includes you. You are part of the problem, right now, with that fucking incendiary partisan post.
No, he won because the Democratic Party is too busy tripping over their hypocritical statements and actions. You know, the party of inclusion that can't wait to have 60+ sitting congresspersons "boycott" the inauguration of the president that they now have to work with. Their candidate for president was even there, and tweeting about working together. Yet these petty and petulant asshats can't see that the inauguration is a celebration of the institution, and not of the man being sworn in.
The divisiveness only continues to get worse as long as these douchebags can't see that they are the ones perpetuating the problem.
I guess it depends on your definition of "largest."
When talking about a system of government, geographically largest doesn't really make any sense. Population, however, makes a whole lot of sense.
Nope. See: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...
Ever wonder why you can't find a HDMI-to-DisplayPort adapter? Because the petulant HDMI consortium won't allow it, and actively sues to block it. There is no way to plug a DisplayPort monitor into an HDMI port, for no technical reason. It's purely petty legal nonsense.
Your HDMI to DVI-D cable is using a DVI-D signal. It definitely won't do a non-RGB color space, which HDMI will.
DisplayPort offers all the features of HDMI, without any of the encumbrances. It is an open spec, controlled by VESA - the Mini-DisplayPort connector that practically everybody uses now was originally Apple's, and they gave it to VESA royalty free. DisplayPort supports chaining of displays, HDMI doesn't. DisplayPort 1.3 supported up to two 4k displays @ 60fps in 2014, and also includes the HDMI 2.0 spec.
There is so much more going on than just "cable cost."
Just don't configure the networking.
That was hard.
I finally had enough of Time Warner and fired them for video delivery. Fuck them and their abuse of CCI "CopyOnce" flagging that amounts to rent-seeking by eliminating all non-rented choices for a DVR system except for Windows Media Center (EOL) and TiVo (not really your own).
I now have faster internet speeds, and Sling TV for $40/month cheaper, with all the same channels. And I recycled the box I was using for Windows Media Center into an Ubuntu 16 / MythTV box for recording OTA HD programming at far better quality than anything coming over Time Warner, and I have the ability to scan and auto-extract commercials from the recordings.
Time Warner / Charter / Spectrum can go chug raw sewage. Only way I ever go back is with a deep price cut, and the elimination of CCI flag abuse that allows me to continue using MythTV or the like.
The real irony is that you still don't understand the difference between standards essential patents and design patents after all this time.
If you lobby to include your tech patents into a global communications standard under the premise that those patents would be licensed under Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms (which are conditions for inclusion in the standard), and then start asking for unfair, unreasonable, and highly discriminatory licensing terms from certain licensors, then you are a fuckhead company and there will be legal action.
There are absolutely zero design patents that are "standards essential", so Apple can choose to license (or not) on any terms they want. And if these design patents are so damn hard to get around, why is it only Samsung that has been found guilty of violation? LG, HTC, Google, Motorola, etc. are all doing just fine.
Get over it already. Samsung is a proven bad actor. Qualcomm may also be a bad actor - we'll have to wait to see on that one.
Except when it comes to convenience, where a phone wins every time.
He says he has a 3 year old - 3 year olds aren't very good at holding a pose or extending a moment while you run around looking for your camera, turn it on, realize the battery is dead so you have to go get another one to put in it, find a memory card because there's never one in the camera, then wait for the auto-focus and take the picture.
Photography on phones is a huge thing because of the convenience - you always have it, it's charged and turned on already. Storage is there already.
Someone needs a nap.
Touch screens in cars are the dumbest fucking idea that has ever been. There is no tactile feedback, so you have to take your eyes off the road to use the fucking thing. Every time.
I have no idea how they are legal, other than the stupid message that comes up every time you start the car that basically says "don't use this unless you are pulled over and parked." Which nobody does.
BMW spent over a decade to get their iDrive (now ConnectedDrive) system to be what it is today, and it's probably the best-of-breed. Big screen for showing information, and a knob / bump controller / touchpad thing on the center console that you can use with one hand to do practically everything, with your eyes still on the road. And it has shortcut buttons for the most accessed functions, which you can find by feel alone.
It's the way it should be, so that you aren't fiddle-fucking around with a touchscreen instead of paying attention to that idiot in a huge bro-truck that isn't checking his blind spot, and entering your lane.
Because if they don't, then they don't get a standard. Nobody is going to go through the R&D spend without some guarantee of licensing revenues.
Standards bodies deal with this by requiring the patent holder to agree to Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory licensing (FRAND) to get it included in the standard, or they can go pound it. Meaning, you get to charge $0.25 per radio, and everyone that makes a device based on that standard pays the same. Fair, Reasonable, and without discrimination. Not this bullshit where all manufacturers except that one who has patents we want access to, but those patents aren't included in any FRAND standard so we will try to fuck them into a cross-licensing agreement instead of the agreed upon FRAND price, like we've seen of late.
In fact, that's probably what this FTC lawsuit is about!
To be fair, he said "carriers", not handset makers.
LTE isn't everywhere, no matter what the carrier marketing says. If you buy a Verizon phone, it has to be able to talk CDMA2000. If you buy AT&T / Sprint / T-mobile, it has to be able to talk GSM. Some handset manufacturers have gone dual-radio to get around this shit, in addition to the idea that a Verizon smartphone shouldn't be a useless lump in other countries not named the United States.
We just saw in another story that AT&T is switching off their UMTS service that the original iPhone used - how long until CDMA goes away and Verizon can recycle that spectrum?
I just grepped the summary for 'iOS' and it didn't find a single mention.
You know that Safari is a browser on macOS too, right? And that there is even an iMac shipping with a display better than 4K? To say nothing about plugging 4K displays into Macs that have sufficient hardware to drive them?
I don't care what engine it is - if you're dealing with large data sets, and large reports that return large data sets, it will be RAM hungry.
Our developers routinely work with databases that have hundreds of millions of rows of scrubbed data to create financial reports for the business. Their development goes far faster if they have that database local to their laptop running as either a native service, or in a VM. Spending a few hundred bucks on extra RAM pays itself off hundreds of time over through the useful life of the laptop with these guys, in the form of them not twiddling their thumbs waiting for queries to return while testing.
And, transferring via Wi-Fi is slow as shit, because it's large data sizes and usually limited to 802.11g, which has a maximum of 54Mbps that you will never see, because of the 2.4Ghz ISM band being flooded with signals from every damn thing.
Some of this is the fault of HDMI - the HDMI consortium demands that all HDMI cables should have male ends and that's it. And I believe they demand that you can't convert HDMI into anything else.
It makes it a huge pain in the ass. HDMI should just be quarantined to home video, and computing should move ahead with DisplayPort. It's better in just about every way, as well as being an open standard.
Not buying a new SLR just because you (or Apple) say so. To even suggest it makes you a fucking idiot.
And no phone is "just as good" as practically any SLR, because physics. Yeah, the megapixel count might be there, but basically nothing else is. Fucking idiot confirmed.
Depends on what you're developing. If you are developing an application that works with a database, you may have a database engine running on your laptop (or in a VM).
I hear that databases and VMs might require a bit of RAM.