But a governmental authority can file suit against Intel on behalf of itself as the soverign authority, a competitor can file suit against Intel on behalf of itself, and, on occasion, a citizen or group of citizens can file suit against Intel for their own injuries (not a European attorney, no idea whether they provide for consumer actions).
I understand all of that. My issue is that the damages awarded seems to be in line with the effects on AMD, not the average European consumer. Do you think the EU, as a whole, experienced over a billion dollars worth of economic damage because you couldn't buy specific brands of computers with an AMD processor? The EU didn't even miss out on tax revenue, they collect taxes on systems whether they have AMD or Intel chips.
So even a hundred million dollar fine I could see. A billion? That's insane.
It was the EUs market which was damaged by the actions of the company, why should anyone else get the money?
You could make an argument that the EU was indirectly affected by Intel's practices, as it did restrict competition but it didn't make it impossible to buy computers with AMD chips. They were available, just less available than Intel systems. At worst, it was inconvenient to buy an AMD based system.
AMD was DIRECTLY affected by this practice. Not being able to sell their chips to a few major computer manufacturers directly impacted their market share.
So if you measured the impact, in my opinion, the customer's damages would be, maybe, a few million dollars. What was the ultimate impact - you couldn't buy an HP laptop with an AMD processor? You had to buy a Dell or Lenovo? Does the average consumer care that much?
Now, if you are talking about a billion dollars in damages, that sounds like the effects of AMD's loss of market share. So why isn't AMD getting any of the money?
Will the fine have any impact on the market shares of any of the CPU manufacturers? Nope. Whom gets the money from the fine? AMD? Nope. ARM? Nope. Any other CPU maker - Qualcomm, Broadcomm, Atmel, Toshiba, Texas Instruments, IBM, Freescale? Nope. Any company who has been directly affected by their anti-competitive practices? Nope.
The EU gets all the money. Well that fixes everything, then. Good job, EU.
The Industrial Revolution mechanized farm work and sent farmers to factories.
People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no farm jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought factory labor was going to be big.
Improvements in manufacturing sent factory workers to clerical jobs.
People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no factory jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought office labor was going to be big.
Office automation via IT and software killed large-scale clerical work and sent those workers to the service industry.
People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no service industry jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought the service industry sector was going to be big.
Automation of the service industry sends these workers...nowhere.
I don't run a small business, but the sheer incompetence of large banks like these are why I do my banking with a credit union. Any time I've had an issue, I've been able to resolve it in under five minutes. If you get to know some of the people who work there, they'd probably nip idiotic moves like this in bud.
It's not the banks doing it, it's the federal regulatory agencies. Small banks have to report this behavior, too. It's the regulatory agencies that are ordering the banks to freeze accounts.
Also, it's apparently $10,000 per transaction, not $5000.
The US does this, too. There have been dozens of stories of small business owners having their accounts frozen for "structuring," or making multiple payments or withdraws under $5,000. Transactions over $5000 are reported to the government, so it supposedly is "shady" if you are doing multiple transactions below that limit. Problem is, some people make these types of transactions during regular business. Once frozen, it's up to the business owner to prove to the government that their transactions were legitimate, which can take months, during which time they can't access the money in their bank, which usually drives them out of business.
Only movie I've seen in the theaters this year that I cared to see at all.
Well developed plot. Good acting. Characters with backstory. Characters with motivation to do things. Well directed and scripted. Low key, not over the top action. Then there's the surrealism of seeing Kylo Ren and James Bond sneaking around a Nascar track wearing trucker hats.
Of course, it only made $19 million at the box office. So it's not just awful movies taking a beating.
Great idea. Only thing I'd change is to have an internal HDMI connector (since it's already a standard and HDMI ports are cheap) along with an internal USB port for power, or if you just want to stick a USB drive full of stuff in the back of your TV instead. I'd also require the HDMI port to have CEC so you can control the stick with your TV remote.
I bought a cheap Samsung TV after our old plasma died, as a stop-gap until the OLEDs have been out for a couple of years (and have the bugs worked out of them.)
Not impressed at all with the functionality of the built-in apps, nor the firmware upgrades. The extent of the release notes are always "Fix minor issues and enhance the performance of your TV" along with removing Twitter or some other app I wouldn't use on a TV anyways.
So it won't fly if you don't upgrade the firmware. That isn't the same as "bricked."
Bricked is when it won't do anything. As in, it's a brick. Won't boot / communicate / etc... Usually recovering something that's bricked involves re-flashing firmware offline somehow, or running some sort of emergency recovery utility and spoon-feeding it a bootloader over USB/serial/I2C/whatever.
DJI set up the app so it won't let the drone take off.
It's as if there's one person who writes how characters talk about computers in most TV shows, and that person wrote this article.
Because they have a VAT AND a relatively high corporate income tax. The Scandinavian countries, which generally don't have this problem, have a corporate income tax in the mid 20% range. France, which DOES have this problem, has a corporate income tax rate of 33%. For comparison, the top US corporate income tax rate is 39%.
Kinda sorta. There is a fairly sizable community behind Foobar2000, which I consider to be the successor to Winamp (super configurable, hackable, and plugins to play anything you want) There is also quite a bit of support for JRiver Media Player. In both cases it's usually people with more esoteric media collections, or those who don't like the way streaming media sounds, or audiophiles who want to manage their ripped media collection.
How about this, charge corporate tax at the point of use instead of the point of production, which can be moved nearly anywhere. This is, essentially, what VAT is. A lot of people don't like it but it's really the only way to prevent these kinds of shenanigans. Get rid of corporate and personal income tax, do a reverse income tax for the poor, and slap a VAT on everything sold. It would be a pain to set up, but once done it would be *far* easier to maintain than the convoluted mess we have now.
Potential Failure Mode: Battery overcharges Effects: Car catches fire Secondary: Possibly killing people or setting structures on fire Cause: Replacing lost vehicle key Severity: Catastrophic Risk: Unacceptable Mitigation: Never replace lost car key
The bug had to do with the revisions, IIRC (this was ~12 years ago), was particular to the Windows port, whichever one I was using (mingw or cygwin I can't remember) and only showed up when upgrading from one specific version to another, as the internal versioning structures had changed. I probably ran a cleanup after the delete, which nuked the (now) un-versioned files from the filesystem.
To be fair, I was using an old version of subversion, and issued a delete to a particular project branch I was working on. I deleted the project from that branch, and every other branch, along with every version. From everywhere. Not what I wanted. Not even what I asked. Turns out it was a bug triggered from upgrading the app on the specific platform I was on (I think it was Cygwin?)
I had another machine with an old trunk that I recovered from, but still, crap like that happens even with source control.
I think it's hilarious that all the self-styled "libertarians" here are freaking out about private businesses choosing not to host material they see as potentially harmful to their bottom line.
Say what you want about his politics, he has mastered a method of killing off scalpers:
1. Announce show date 2. Tickets sell out 3. Announce added show date
Repeat steps 3 & 2 until tickets stop selling out. He keeps his tickets cheap, too - the expensive seats are usually the same price as the cheapest seats at most other concerts. His fans know the drill, so they don't go rushing to buy out tickets as they know more will go on sale. Scalpers know the drill, too, and they don't bother. Bruce Springsteen does the same thing, I hear.
Kinda funny, but this is *basic economics* Demand is fixed, so to lower prices, you increase supply.
I wonder if this has something to do with the infant mortality breakthroughs that started roughly 20 years ago. There was an article, I think in the WSJ, a few weeks ago about how mortality of 20 year olds has spiked because of the advances in neonatal care that would have normally killed them as small children.
What happens is you get an infant with a replacement heart valve, or kidney transplant, who grows up fine, but once they switch to a regular doctor, that doctor is inexperienced dealing with patients that young with those sorts of conditions. For example, usually someone with a replacement heart valve is in their 50's or 60's and is relatively inactive, or engages in light exercise. Now you have a 20 year old with a replacement heart valve and they are going out scuba diving or running marathons. Is that safe or risky behavior? Should they try to take it easy, or is that worse than remaining active? There's no data to make a good judgement.
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But a governmental authority can file suit against Intel on behalf of itself as the soverign authority, a competitor can file suit against Intel on behalf of itself, and, on occasion, a citizen or group of citizens can file suit against Intel for their own injuries (not a European attorney, no idea whether they provide for consumer actions).
I understand all of that. My issue is that the damages awarded seems to be in line with the effects on AMD, not the average European consumer. Do you think the EU, as a whole, experienced over a billion dollars worth of economic damage because you couldn't buy specific brands of computers with an AMD processor? The EU didn't even miss out on tax revenue, they collect taxes on systems whether they have AMD or Intel chips.
So even a hundred million dollar fine I could see. A billion? That's insane.
It was the EUs market which was damaged by the actions of the company, why should anyone else get the money?
You could make an argument that the EU was indirectly affected by Intel's practices, as it did restrict competition but it didn't make it impossible to buy computers with AMD chips. They were available, just less available than Intel systems. At worst, it was inconvenient to buy an AMD based system.
AMD was DIRECTLY affected by this practice. Not being able to sell their chips to a few major computer manufacturers directly impacted their market share.
So if you measured the impact, in my opinion, the customer's damages would be, maybe, a few million dollars. What was the ultimate impact - you couldn't buy an HP laptop with an AMD processor? You had to buy a Dell or Lenovo? Does the average consumer care that much?
Now, if you are talking about a billion dollars in damages, that sounds like the effects of AMD's loss of market share. So why isn't AMD getting any of the money?
Will the fine have any impact on the market shares of any of the CPU manufacturers? Nope. Whom gets the money from the fine? AMD? Nope. ARM? Nope. Any other CPU maker - Qualcomm, Broadcomm, Atmel, Toshiba, Texas Instruments, IBM, Freescale? Nope. Any company who has been directly affected by their anti-competitive practices? Nope.
The EU gets all the money. Well that fixes everything, then. Good job, EU.
The Industrial Revolution mechanized farm work and sent farmers to factories.
People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no farm jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought factory labor was going to be big.
Improvements in manufacturing sent factory workers to clerical jobs.
People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no factory jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought office labor was going to be big.
Office automation via IT and software killed large-scale clerical work and sent those workers to the service industry.
People were thinking the exact same thing at the time. If there are no service industry jobs, then where will people work? Nobody thought the service industry sector was going to be big.
Automation of the service industry sends these workers...nowhere.
And here we are today.
I don't run a small business, but the sheer incompetence of large banks like these are why I do my banking with a credit union. Any time I've had an issue, I've been able to resolve it in under five minutes. If you get to know some of the people who work there, they'd probably nip idiotic moves like this in bud.
It's not the banks doing it, it's the federal regulatory agencies. Small banks have to report this behavior, too. It's the regulatory agencies that are ordering the banks to freeze accounts.
Also, it's apparently $10,000 per transaction, not $5000.
The US does this, too. There have been dozens of stories of small business owners having their accounts frozen for "structuring," or making multiple payments or withdraws under $5,000. Transactions over $5000 are reported to the government, so it supposedly is "shady" if you are doing multiple transactions below that limit. Problem is, some people make these types of transactions during regular business. Once frozen, it's up to the business owner to prove to the government that their transactions were legitimate, which can take months, during which time they can't access the money in their bank, which usually drives them out of business.
Had his ashes shot out of a canon at his funeral.
Top that :)
You're supposed to smoke weed before watching movies, NOT DMT. Makes it hard to follow the plot.
Which part of it was political propaganda?
Only movie I've seen in the theaters this year that I cared to see at all.
Well developed plot. Good acting. Characters with backstory. Characters with motivation to do things. Well directed and scripted. Low key, not over the top action. Then there's the surrealism of seeing Kylo Ren and James Bond sneaking around a Nascar track wearing trucker hats.
Of course, it only made $19 million at the box office. So it's not just awful movies taking a beating.
Great idea. Only thing I'd change is to have an internal HDMI connector (since it's already a standard and HDMI ports are cheap) along with an internal USB port for power, or if you just want to stick a USB drive full of stuff in the back of your TV instead. I'd also require the HDMI port to have CEC so you can control the stick with your TV remote.
I bought a cheap Samsung TV after our old plasma died, as a stop-gap until the OLEDs have been out for a couple of years (and have the bugs worked out of them.)
Not impressed at all with the functionality of the built-in apps, nor the firmware upgrades. The extent of the release notes are always "Fix minor issues and enhance the performance of your TV" along with removing Twitter or some other app I wouldn't use on a TV anyways.
So it won't fly if you don't upgrade the firmware. That isn't the same as "bricked."
Bricked is when it won't do anything. As in, it's a brick. Won't boot / communicate / etc... Usually recovering something that's bricked involves re-flashing firmware offline somehow, or running some sort of emergency recovery utility and spoon-feeding it a bootloader over USB/serial/I2C/whatever.
DJI set up the app so it won't let the drone take off.
It's as if there's one person who writes how characters talk about computers in most TV shows, and that person wrote this article.
Because they have a VAT AND a relatively high corporate income tax. The Scandinavian countries, which generally don't have this problem, have a corporate income tax in the mid 20% range. France, which DOES have this problem, has a corporate income tax rate of 33%. For comparison, the top US corporate income tax rate is 39%.
Kinda sorta. There is a fairly sizable community behind Foobar2000, which I consider to be the successor to Winamp (super configurable, hackable, and plugins to play anything you want) There is also quite a bit of support for JRiver Media Player. In both cases it's usually people with more esoteric media collections, or those who don't like the way streaming media sounds, or audiophiles who want to manage their ripped media collection.
How about this, charge corporate tax at the point of use instead of the point of production, which can be moved nearly anywhere. This is, essentially, what VAT is. A lot of people don't like it but it's really the only way to prevent these kinds of shenanigans. Get rid of corporate and personal income tax, do a reverse income tax for the poor, and slap a VAT on everything sold. It would be a pain to set up, but once done it would be *far* easier to maintain than the convoluted mess we have now.
Potential Failure Mode: Battery overcharges
Effects: Car catches fire
Secondary: Possibly killing people or setting structures on fire
Cause: Replacing lost vehicle key
Severity: Catastrophic
Risk: Unacceptable
Mitigation: Never replace lost car key
Yeah something here isn't adding up
The bug had to do with the revisions, IIRC (this was ~12 years ago), was particular to the Windows port, whichever one I was using (mingw or cygwin I can't remember) and only showed up when upgrading from one specific version to another, as the internal versioning structures had changed. I probably ran a cleanup after the delete, which nuked the (now) un-versioned files from the filesystem.
To be fair, I was using an old version of subversion, and issued a delete to a particular project branch I was working on. I deleted the project from that branch, and every other branch, along with every version. From everywhere. Not what I wanted. Not even what I asked. Turns out it was a bug triggered from upgrading the app on the specific platform I was on (I think it was Cygwin?)
I had another machine with an old trunk that I recovered from, but still, crap like that happens even with source control.
That works with police. It doesn't work with the courts, apparently.
It looks like only BeauHD and msmash showed up for work today. Only so much interesting content you can dig up per day.
Slashdot is a ghost of it's former self.
I think it's hilarious that all the self-styled "libertarians" here are freaking out about private businesses choosing not to host material they see as potentially harmful to their bottom line.
What in the sam hill are you talking about?
http://reason.com/blog/2017/08...
Say what you want about his politics, he has mastered a method of killing off scalpers:
1. Announce show date
2. Tickets sell out
3. Announce added show date
Repeat steps 3 & 2 until tickets stop selling out. He keeps his tickets cheap, too - the expensive seats are usually the same price as the cheapest seats at most other concerts. His fans know the drill, so they don't go rushing to buy out tickets as they know more will go on sale. Scalpers know the drill, too, and they don't bother. Bruce Springsteen does the same thing, I hear.
Kinda funny, but this is *basic economics* Demand is fixed, so to lower prices, you increase supply.
Are you talking about the difference between white noise (true randomness) and pink noise (evenly distributed randomness)?
I wonder if this has something to do with the infant mortality breakthroughs that started roughly 20 years ago. There was an article, I think in the WSJ, a few weeks ago about how mortality of 20 year olds has spiked because of the advances in neonatal care that would have normally killed them as small children.
What happens is you get an infant with a replacement heart valve, or kidney transplant, who grows up fine, but once they switch to a regular doctor, that doctor is inexperienced dealing with patients that young with those sorts of conditions. For example, usually someone with a replacement heart valve is in their 50's or 60's and is relatively inactive, or engages in light exercise. Now you have a 20 year old with a replacement heart valve and they are going out scuba diving or running marathons. Is that safe or risky behavior? Should they try to take it easy, or is that worse than remaining active? There's no data to make a good judgement.