If what I read a while back is true, not only the $7.50 per chip, they then have to pay a larger royalty/percentage if they charge more for the phone in question... So, they can be selling a 6S and pay the $7.50... for a $400 phone, but then Qualcomm can charge them MORE if they put the exact same chip, doing the same thing into an iPhone XRPlus (That sells for $1200) or whatever, with the bigger screen an triple the memory... I think it's this that Apple had a problem with. So Qualcomm is saying using their chips grants them a license to gain a percentage of Apple's margin without contributing to the technology or costs involved in the higher-end model? Fuck that. And yeah, I'd say the same thing about Apple doing it via their App store in any similar manner.
The number of updates downloaded, the MAC addresses of all the BB8's associated with those downloads, maybe the UIN's for the tablets/phones... Pretty easy for them to get the information on how many are still in use without disclosing all your private information. I sure as hell don't want it sending back my local network information or much else, but I don't see a problem with the number of impacts registered by the accelerometer when the speed slider is set to maximum being a problem. I can think of a few metrics the toys could send back home to make them work/act better or be more responsive without compromising your privacy.
Why on earth would they willingly leave so much money on the table? Those idiots running the kiosks in the malls with the bootleg emulators with every damn game ever made installed on them are doing *just fine* at $40-$60 apiece. And THEY have to pay around $1200/month in rent.
Does it change if there is an intermediary? They legally committed fraud if they scammed through the dating sites, which would have required both parties to be adults. (No, not suggesting the dating site get sued. Just wondering if the act of fraud changes anything)
This is simply a "throw them a bone" move from Pai to an incoming Democratic-controlled house of reps. An attempt to not have them call him in an crawl up his ass like they did Zuckerberg.
If you read the comments and information on his video the batteries actually had the apple logo on them because they were refurb'd or recovered from otherwise dead macbooks. The sellers USUALLY BLACK OUT the Apple logo so they won't be flagged as counterfeited logos/products. This shipment, they forgot.
It's a fair bet Apple is behind the seizure at least semi-directly. There is a form to complain about a particular individual/company doing the importing on the CBP website. I think it's linked via the video Rossman made about this issue.
True all that. I remember putting it on a Power Macintosh 8600 or 7500 I had access to and watching the windows redraw and play video files while moving them around on the screen was mind-boggling. The same task on Windows and Mac OS 8 or 9 at the time was enough to drop the machine to its knees. It was amazing.
So the lawful purchases they made should be taken away and then they should be charged again to keep it? That's not justice. That's right up there with the RIAA policy/opinion that if I have my house burglarized, I'm legally obligated to delete the legal MP3's I have in my itunes library just because the physical CD's were stolen.
You kinda made my point for me. The telcos are known to have squandered the subsidy money from the government and not upgraded the networks out there in good faith. Now we trust them to do the same thing again? No thanks. And even if we do, we end up paying more to upgrade sparsely populated areas.
Just to avoid getting kicked in the face for agreeing with anything he says, at all...: I hate Pai. I'd stand in a line just to WATCH him get punched in the face, but 25/3 to meet the requirements of the term 'broadband' for these rural areas with shitty wiring and terrible population density is plenty. 25Mbps downstream is *multiple* 720p or better video streams down and at least 1-2 up. Considering the percentage of Internet traffic that is youtube and facebook and netflix, that's fair math. Yeah, of course I want my price to go down, but that's NEVER going to happen with any provider, regardless what the FCC declares "broadband" to be. The last thing I want is to subsidize rural areas getting 1Gbps for 1 house per square mile across the whole country. Let the WISPS do it.
This should be tattoo'd backwards across the foreheads of people like Les Moonves for CBS All-Access, and Bob Iger for Disney's pending streaming service. And I'm sure a few more. I could forgive Netflix and Amazon Prime video.
I'm not bitter about it because I learned a lesson.. HF did not "screw" me over in that they did, in fact, pay out when my minimum amount/balance of BTC was met... I did lose 80% of my investment, though.
My fault for not completely understanding the difficulty increases and how that would affect the ROI. TBH, I probably didn't read the contract closely enough, because I ended up relieved that they weren't trying to charge me out-of-pocket for the maintenance fees on the contract. Instead, they simply charged the btc balance on the account.
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The Impossible Mission Force answers to no one!
You just wanted the free publicity from the inevitable Alex Jones and Drudge Report freak-outs
> I'm guessing there are a lot fewer iPads regularly hovering over water.
That's what the hydrophobic coating is for.
What's the difference? They've started denying travel to people with too low a score, anyway
But they make the best goddamn buggy whips you've ever seen!
(Other People's Money - good movie!)
Yeah, not only patented, but not for sale. Only available on some kind of licensed lease/rental deal on the machines.
If what I read a while back is true, not only the $7.50 per chip, they then have to pay a larger royalty/percentage if they charge more for the phone in question... So, they can be selling a 6S and pay the $7.50... for a $400 phone, but then Qualcomm can charge them MORE if they put the exact same chip, doing the same thing into an iPhone XRPlus (That sells for $1200) or whatever, with the bigger screen an triple the memory... I think it's this that Apple had a problem with. So Qualcomm is saying using their chips grants them a license to gain a percentage of Apple's margin without contributing to the technology or costs involved in the higher-end model? Fuck that. And yeah, I'd say the same thing about Apple doing it via their App store in any similar manner.
The number of updates downloaded, the MAC addresses of all the BB8's associated with those downloads, maybe the UIN's for the tablets/phones... Pretty easy for them to get the information on how many are still in use without disclosing all your private information. I sure as hell don't want it sending back my local network information or much else, but I don't see a problem with the number of impacts registered by the accelerometer when the speed slider is set to maximum being a problem. I can think of a few metrics the toys could send back home to make them work/act better or be more responsive without compromising your privacy.
Why on earth would they willingly leave so much money on the table? Those idiots running the kiosks in the malls with the bootleg emulators with every damn game ever made installed on them are doing *just fine* at $40-$60 apiece. And THEY have to pay around $1200/month in rent.
Does it change if there is an intermediary? They legally committed fraud if they scammed through the dating sites, which would have required both parties to be adults. (No, not suggesting the dating site get sued. Just wondering if the act of fraud changes anything)
This is simply a "throw them a bone" move from Pai to an incoming Democratic-controlled house of reps. An attempt to not have them call him in an crawl up his ass like they did Zuckerberg.
If you read the comments and information on his video the batteries actually had the apple logo on them because they were refurb'd or recovered from otherwise dead macbooks. The sellers USUALLY BLACK OUT the Apple logo so they won't be flagged as counterfeited logos/products. This shipment, they forgot.
It's a fair bet Apple is behind the seizure at least semi-directly. There is a form to complain about a particular individual/company doing the importing on the CBP website. I think it's linked via the video Rossman made about this issue.
My Armani will be representing itself, thank you very much.
Every time I read something like this, I can't help but think of Frasier.
I was confused with the description of the results of this experiment before they even did it.
No no no no.... This thing melts, and he knows it!
True all that. I remember putting it on a Power Macintosh 8600 or 7500 I had access to and watching the windows redraw and play video files while moving them around on the screen was mind-boggling. The same task on Windows and Mac OS 8 or 9 at the time was enough to drop the machine to its knees. It was amazing.
So the lawful purchases they made should be taken away and then they should be charged again to keep it? That's not justice. That's right up there with the RIAA policy/opinion that if I have my house burglarized, I'm legally obligated to delete the legal MP3's I have in my itunes library just because the physical CD's were stolen.
You kinda made my point for me. The telcos are known to have squandered the subsidy money from the government and not upgraded the networks out there in good faith. Now we trust them to do the same thing again? No thanks. And even if we do, we end up paying more to upgrade sparsely populated areas.
haha. never. Come on, did you not want to punch him purely on the basis of that f'ing lame net neutrality video he did? That's ALL the reason I need.
Just to avoid getting kicked in the face for agreeing with anything he says, at all...: I hate Pai.
I'd stand in a line just to WATCH him get punched in the face, but 25/3 to meet the requirements of the term 'broadband' for these rural areas with shitty wiring and terrible population density is plenty. 25Mbps downstream is *multiple* 720p or better video streams down and at least 1-2 up. Considering the percentage of Internet traffic that is youtube and facebook and netflix, that's fair math.
Yeah, of course I want my price to go down, but that's NEVER going to happen with any provider, regardless what the FCC declares "broadband" to be. The last thing I want is to subsidize rural areas getting 1Gbps for 1 house per square mile across the whole country. Let the WISPS do it.
This should be tattoo'd backwards across the foreheads of people like Les Moonves for CBS All-Access, and Bob Iger for Disney's pending streaming service. And I'm sure a few more. I could forgive Netflix and Amazon Prime video.
The Santa Barbara Straw ban was only a proposal, too... a few months ago.
I'm not bitter about it because I learned a lesson.. HF did not "screw" me over in that they did, in fact, pay out when my minimum amount/balance of BTC was met... I did lose 80% of my investment, though.
My fault for not completely understanding the difficulty increases and how that would affect the ROI. TBH, I probably didn't read the contract closely enough, because I ended up relieved that they weren't trying to charge me out-of-pocket for the maintenance fees on the contract. Instead, they simply charged the btc balance on the account.