Yeah there is already Use Tax where your home state charges you for stuff you buy outside of the state.
Use taxes are constitutional because they place the burden equally on everyone in the state as opposed to sales tax which would put an unconstitutionally undue burden on the out of state seller (according to the Commerce clause).
I get that the US is up there, France & Germany have a surprising amount of requests, but I'm pretty sure at least France is a firewall country. But Turkey... what? They have 11k legit internet users?
They are right up there w the states at 11k, there is no reference to Turkey anywhere in my knowledge of IT and how it applies to the world, so why would they have so many requests.
I found that curious as well. It may be related to the fact that Turkey has a lot of "laws that limit speech deemed insulting to Turkishness, and expressions of political extremism". They are fairly heavy into Internet censorship as well and even blocked all of YouTube for a long time. There are a lot of topics that aren't allowed to report about and they have ongoing legal proceedings against lots of online journalists.
It would be nice if Evernote's local database was in an open format - if it is, it's not obvious (there is an API, but I haven't investigated to see if there's a way to use it should the cloud side of the service go AWOL tomorrow). It's easy enough to export all of the notes into HTML, though, and doing that from time to time as a backup is probably a good idea.
The Evernote client already has a feature to export all the data from the locally stored notebooks/databases to HTML or to an Evernote XML file (which isn't that hard to parse). This is independent of the cloud export features. It includes notes and attachments. If that isn't enough, it looks like the local database is really just some SQLite DB's, so it wouldn't be that hard to write something to pull the data out directly.
Foxconn just assembles things that Apple designs and ships the parts to them.
I don't think you understand why everyone manufactures in China.
When Foxconn needs parts, they put in an order to a company down the street
Foxconn's factories are company towns, inside a city made of companies.
Literally, the entire supply chain is there.
While this is partially true, most of the major components (processor, memory, drives, some display screens) are not fabbed in China or at least not mainland China, but Taiwan, Korea and even the US, so the entire supply chain is certainly not there.
Though Apple is exceptionally good at balancing nice and cost.
No, Foxconn is. Sweatshops tend to do that.
Foxconn just assembles things that Apple designs and ships the parts to them. They are close to the last step (maybe *the* last step) in a long supply chain. Apple is exceptionally good at designing products that people want and maximizing their profit on those items. Sometimes that means leaving off a few features but it always means very effective management of their supply chain. I don't think there are many companies in the world with Apple's skills in acquiring and locking up its component supplies. It helps having 10's of billions+ of dollars to throw around. Samsung is also pretty good and getting better.
Apple had plenty of opportunities to improve their navigation app without Google's help. For starters, they could have made it so that the phone wouldn't lock itself when in navigation mode. I can't count the number of seconds I had to take my eyes off of the road to enter my password. Apple: people use this app while operating a vehicle that weighs thousands of pounds - I thought you were the guys that put thought into the user experience of your software. I hope for everyone's safety that this "feature" has been fixed.
The ios6 maps does display and allow navigation while locked. Apple could not implement the turn by turn system without approval from Google as they were under contract. Yes, they could have made some concessions to get Google to do it, but they must have found the concessions unpalatable.
And finally, I'm not trying to troll here, but I can't help but wonder how all of this would be playing out if Google had patented every trivial feature of their map and navigation software like Apple does for all of its apps. That would certainly have made this scenario a hell of a lot more interesting.
There is pretty much zero chance of that as Google hasn't done anything patentable or really original with their mobile navigation app. Nokia had most of these features long before Google and mostly patented them already... and I believe included some of these in their suit against Apple that was already settled and included a cross-license deal.
Eventually, iOS users who don't want to wait for Apple-Google parity will be able to download native a native version of Google's maps
You mean an application that duplicates the functionality of a built-in app?
You really think Apple is going to allow this in the iOS store?
I'm not sure how you got modded up so highly.
Apple now allows apps with duplicate functionality. There are dozens of map apps already in the App Store: Bing, Mapquest, TomTom, AT&T Navigator, TeleNav OpenStreetMap apps even.
Much like there is also a multitude of calendar, mail, note, and calculator apps etc.
If Google wrote the original Maps app for iOS and Apple is going to let them publish a map app, why didn't they just publish the original app? Or, supposing that they for some reason licensed the source to Apple, why didn't they create a new app from scratch? It wouldn't have been hard and they have had plenty of time. Either they don't want to, or Apple won't let them. Apple did refuse to let them publish apps in the past, and only allowed them to publish apps after they received heavy scrutiny from the FTC. What makes you think that the leopard (or mountain lion if you prefer), has changed its spots?
1. Google didn't write the previous IOS maps app. Apple did, they just used Google data.
2. There are many other map applications in the App Store already including ones with turn-by-turn (Bing, TomTom, Mapquest, etc).
Apple spent 7.8 billion dollars on Samsung parts in 2011. Since both its Mac and iOS sales are only increasing that figure likely increased. So for Samsung even a billion dollar loss only amounts to about a 12.5% discount on all gear they sold Apple for a year.
Unfortunately for Samsung, I don't think they see the same profit margins on the component parts as Apple does on the finished product. They might be taking a big loss with that discount.
When Apple really, really doesn't like you - they have no qualms just shutting you out. See also the replacement of Google Maps, the removal of YouTube app pre-install, the long delay in approving Google Voice (Siri 'competitor').
Samsung's electronics division doesn't make anything that is unique enough that Apple couldn't just jump ship on.
None of the things you cite really had much to do with screwing a competitor. Samsung is still producing displays for other devices and likely future ones. Google Maps is better off as a separate app, Google will actually be able to produce their own (remember, Apple wrote the previous maps app and just used Google for the map data). The preinstalled you-tube app sucked and most people used the web based one anyway as you could get better quality. Google is better off producing their own you-tube app. Google voice was never a competitor to Siri as it has nothing to do with Voice control but calls and messaging.
You can press win+left or win+right to move+resize your window to half the screen. I can't remember how you do with mouse, and the mouse equivalent doesn't work on multiple screens afaik.
With a mouse just drag the window to the left or right edge of the screen and it will take up half the screen automatically, making it easy to work with two windows at the same time. You are right though, not sure if it works with multiple desktops (I usually run Windows in a VM window these days).
...likely be motivated to come out and vote against him.
I hope so. Reading some of the comments on The Washington Post is disturbing. There seems to be a vocal group that thinks president Obama can now just cruise to victory. That's the kind of complacency that loses elections.
We should direct them to the comment section of the articles linked from the Drudge Report. I'm sure the right wing nut job circle jerk over Ryan will rile them up.
The SIG716 is not an "assault rifle" and you won't be "mowing" anything down with it. It is a conventional semi-automatic rifle that can be legally owned just about everywhere. Also, it is in a large caliber that makes it better suited for hunting than for rapid fire.
Everywhere perhaps, with exceptions including the District of Columbia, where the guy lives. He couldn't even transport it to a UPS store for return without committing a felony. That's why he called the police, who luckily for him, just took it into custody and didn't arrest him.
Oh, it has my vote as well. Pretty much our entire planet/civilization and way of life were obliterated in one clean strike. Plus, I loved the little details and the sort of twist at the end where the alien life wasn't even in control, but was controlled by their own technology.
As I posted below, I don't think these ads are for Apple's current customers.
Did you figure that out all by yourself? Why would Apple advertise to people who are already buying their crap? They're trying to sell their crap to people who aren't buying it, like every other business ever.
Ignoring the condescension... Businesses often advertise focusing on existing customers as well as new ones. That's how they let them know there are new products/new versions/next-greatest-thing etc. These commercials don't appear to be like that.
That's true, but it doesn't make them any less weird. They aren't funny like their Mac vs PC commercials were or impressive through subtlety like their iPod/iPhone/iPad commercials usually are. They seemed kind of pointless...almost like Microsoft commercials, except with more obviousness.
As I posted below, I don't think these ads are for Apple's current customers. They are designed to reassure users thinking about switching to the Mac that they will have support. If Apple wants to expand their market share (in Mac sales), it can only come from PC/Windows users.
Apple customers need help for even the simplest thing on their Apple computer.
Apple customers lack common sense.
Apple customers don't even know what an Apple computer is.
The ads aren't for Apple's current customers. They are designed to reassure users thinking about switching to the Mac that they will have support. If Apple wants to expand their market share, it can only come from PC/Windows users.
Indeed. Unfortunately, power hungry people who are actually not good at real world things jump into politics instead. In other words, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes running our nation. What a bunch of fuckers.
Does every customer want the exact form factor that Apple provides and only that form factor?
Point was that form factor is a consideration people make when valuing something. That you can build something with better specs but different (much larger) form factor is not necessarily an equivalent value.
And why is that worthy of putting in a sig? I mean congratulations on your accomplishment. I'm sure I could custom build an i-7 equipped PC for cheaper than whatever one you bought.
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Yeah there is already Use Tax where your home state charges you for stuff you buy outside of the state.
Use taxes are constitutional because they place the burden equally on everyone in the state as opposed to sales tax which would put an unconstitutionally undue burden on the out of state seller (according to the Commerce clause).
I get that the US is up there, France & Germany have a surprising amount of requests, but I'm pretty sure at least France is a firewall country. But Turkey... what? They have 11k legit internet users?
They are right up there w the states at 11k, there is no reference to Turkey anywhere in my knowledge of IT and how it applies to the world, so why would they have so many requests.
I found that curious as well. It may be related to the fact that Turkey has a lot of "laws that limit speech deemed insulting to Turkishness, and expressions of political extremism". They are fairly heavy into Internet censorship as well and even blocked all of YouTube for a long time. There are a lot of topics that aren't allowed to report about and they have ongoing legal proceedings against lots of online journalists.
It would be nice if Evernote's local database was in an open format - if it is, it's not obvious (there is an API, but I haven't investigated to see if there's a way to use it should the cloud side of the service go AWOL tomorrow). It's easy enough to export all of the notes into HTML, though, and doing that from time to time as a backup is probably a good idea.
The Evernote client already has a feature to export all the data from the locally stored notebooks/databases to HTML or to an Evernote XML file (which isn't that hard to parse). This is independent of the cloud export features. It includes notes and attachments. If that isn't enough, it looks like the local database is really just some SQLite DB's, so it wouldn't be that hard to write something to pull the data out directly.
Maybe he meant we still have a limited ability in the sense that we will eventually run out of them.
Foxconn just assembles things that Apple designs and ships the parts to them.
I don't think you understand why everyone manufactures in China. When Foxconn needs parts, they put in an order to a company down the street
Foxconn's factories are company towns, inside a city made of companies. Literally, the entire supply chain is there.
While this is partially true, most of the major components (processor, memory, drives, some display screens) are not fabbed in China or at least not mainland China, but Taiwan, Korea and even the US, so the entire supply chain is certainly not there.
Though Apple is exceptionally good at balancing nice and cost.
No, Foxconn is. Sweatshops tend to do that.
Foxconn just assembles things that Apple designs and ships the parts to them. They are close to the last step (maybe *the* last step) in a long supply chain. Apple is exceptionally good at designing products that people want and maximizing their profit on those items. Sometimes that means leaving off a few features but it always means very effective management of their supply chain. I don't think there are many companies in the world with Apple's skills in acquiring and locking up its component supplies. It helps having 10's of billions+ of dollars to throw around. Samsung is also pretty good and getting better.
I think he was going for the inverse to Occam's razor.
Apple had plenty of opportunities to improve their navigation app without Google's help. For starters, they could have made it so that the phone wouldn't lock itself when in navigation mode. I can't count the number of seconds I had to take my eyes off of the road to enter my password. Apple: people use this app while operating a vehicle that weighs thousands of pounds - I thought you were the guys that put thought into the user experience of your software. I hope for everyone's safety that this "feature" has been fixed.
The ios6 maps does display and allow navigation while locked. Apple could not implement the turn by turn system without approval from Google as they were under contract. Yes, they could have made some concessions to get Google to do it, but they must have found the concessions unpalatable.
And finally, I'm not trying to troll here, but I can't help but wonder how all of this would be playing out if Google had patented every trivial feature of their map and navigation software like Apple does for all of its apps. That would certainly have made this scenario a hell of a lot more interesting.
There is pretty much zero chance of that as Google hasn't done anything patentable or really original with their mobile navigation app. Nokia had most of these features long before Google and mostly patented them already... and I believe included some of these in their suit against Apple that was already settled and included a cross-license deal.
Eventually, iOS users who don't want to wait for Apple-Google parity will be able to download native a native version of Google's maps
You mean an application that duplicates the functionality of a built-in app?
You really think Apple is going to allow this in the iOS store?
I'm not sure how you got modded up so highly.
Apple now allows apps with duplicate functionality. There are dozens of map apps already in the App Store: Bing, Mapquest, TomTom, AT&T Navigator, TeleNav OpenStreetMap apps even.
Much like there is also a multitude of calendar, mail, note, and calculator apps etc.
If Google wrote the original Maps app for iOS and Apple is going to let them publish a map app, why didn't they just publish the original app? Or, supposing that they for some reason licensed the source to Apple, why didn't they create a new app from scratch? It wouldn't have been hard and they have had plenty of time. Either they don't want to, or Apple won't let them. Apple did refuse to let them publish apps in the past, and only allowed them to publish apps after they received heavy scrutiny from the FTC. What makes you think that the leopard (or mountain lion if you prefer), has changed its spots?
1. Google didn't write the previous IOS maps app. Apple did, they just used Google data.
2. There are many other map applications in the App Store already including ones with turn-by-turn (Bing, TomTom, Mapquest, etc).
Sorry I didn't mean "three hours" I meant "three miles". Being in Portland, OR I have a metric ton of coffee places within three hours of my house...
That's what you get for typing your post from your iPad ;)
Apple spent 7.8 billion dollars on Samsung parts in 2011. Since both its Mac and iOS sales are only increasing that figure likely increased. So for Samsung even a billion dollar loss only amounts to about a 12.5% discount on all gear they sold Apple for a year.
Unfortunately for Samsung, I don't think they see the same profit margins on the component parts as Apple does on the finished product. They might be taking a big loss with that discount.
For now - it's rumored that the new iPhone (which I do hope they'll just call iPhone 5 instead of 'New iPhone') will be using an LG display (with the capacitive touch sensor bits integrated into the display tech). http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/22/lg-display-starts-volume-production-of-in-cell-touch-screens/
When Apple really, really doesn't like you - they have no qualms just shutting you out. See also the replacement of Google Maps, the removal of YouTube app pre-install, the long delay in approving Google Voice (Siri 'competitor').
Samsung's electronics division doesn't make anything that is unique enough that Apple couldn't just jump ship on.
None of the things you cite really had much to do with screwing a competitor. Samsung is still producing displays for other devices and likely future ones. Google Maps is better off as a separate app, Google will actually be able to produce their own (remember, Apple wrote the previous maps app and just used Google for the map data). The preinstalled you-tube app sucked and most people used the web based one anyway as you could get better quality. Google is better off producing their own you-tube app. Google voice was never a competitor to Siri as it has nothing to do with Voice control but calls and messaging.
But, I agree with your sentiment.
You can press win+left or win+right to move+resize your window to half the screen. I can't remember how you do with mouse, and the mouse equivalent doesn't work on multiple screens afaik.
With a mouse just drag the window to the left or right edge of the screen and it will take up half the screen automatically, making it easy to work with two windows at the same time. You are right though, not sure if it works with multiple desktops (I usually run Windows in a VM window these days).
Spare a thought for all those poor people at Comedy Central who have to watch Fox News all day in search of comedy material for Jon Stewart.
At least they have a never ending source of material.
...likely be motivated to come out and vote against him.
I hope so. Reading some of the comments on The Washington Post is disturbing. There seems to be a vocal group that thinks president Obama can now just cruise to victory. That's the kind of complacency that loses elections.
We should direct them to the comment section of the articles linked from the Drudge Report. I'm sure the right wing nut job circle jerk over Ryan will rile them up.
If it weren't for their disqualifying views on abortion, I think Romney might well have gone for someone like Lingle.
The crazy so-called "birthers" might take objection to her since she confirmed Obama's birth certificate was valid.
The SIG716 is not an "assault rifle" and you won't be "mowing" anything down with it. It is a conventional semi-automatic rifle that can be legally owned just about everywhere. Also, it is in a large caliber that makes it better suited for hunting than for rapid fire.
Everywhere perhaps, with exceptions including the District of Columbia, where the guy lives. He couldn't even transport it to a UPS store for return without committing a felony. That's why he called the police, who luckily for him, just took it into custody and didn't arrest him.
Oh, it has my vote as well. Pretty much our entire planet/civilization and way of life were obliterated in one clean strike. Plus, I loved the little details and the sort of twist at the end where the alien life wasn't even in control, but was controlled by their own technology.
As I posted below, I don't think these ads are for Apple's current customers.
Did you figure that out all by yourself? Why would Apple advertise to people who are already buying their crap? They're trying to sell their crap to people who aren't buying it, like every other business ever.
Ignoring the condescension... Businesses often advertise focusing on existing customers as well as new ones. That's how they let them know there are new products/new versions/next-greatest-thing etc. These commercials don't appear to be like that.
That's true, but it doesn't make them any less weird. They aren't funny like their Mac vs PC commercials were or impressive through subtlety like their iPod/iPhone/iPad commercials usually are. They seemed kind of pointless...almost like Microsoft commercials, except with more obviousness.
As I posted below, I don't think these ads are for Apple's current customers. They are designed to reassure users thinking about switching to the Mac that they will have support. If Apple wants to expand their market share (in Mac sales), it can only come from PC/Windows users.
Apple customers need help for even the simplest thing on their Apple computer. Apple customers lack common sense. Apple customers don't even know what an Apple computer is.
The ads aren't for Apple's current customers. They are designed to reassure users thinking about switching to the Mac that they will have support. If Apple wants to expand their market share, it can only come from PC/Windows users.
Indeed. Unfortunately, power hungry people who are actually not good at real world things jump into politics instead. In other words, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes running our nation. What a bunch of fuckers.
So power hungry people need to understand powers!
Was it the same form factor?
Does every customer want the exact form factor that Apple provides and only that form factor?
Point was that form factor is a consideration people make when valuing something. That you can build something with better specs but different (much larger) form factor is not necessarily an equivalent value.
>>>Apple products are way over-priced
Indeed. Look at my sig:
Was it the same form factor?
And why is that worthy of putting in a sig? I mean congratulations on your accomplishment. I'm sure I could custom build an i-7 equipped PC for cheaper than whatever one you bought.