This time around we have representation. And we dare not vote the current people out of office, lest the madmen on the other side of the isle take control.
Catalogues have been collecting several state's sales taxes for years -- any state they have a business presence in. Saying that this is an "interstate sales tax" is like saying that the sales tax you paid on your factory-customized Chrysler is an international sales tax because it was shipped from Brampton, Ontario. The fact that in one case you meet someone face-to-face (the dealer) in your state that makes the deal and you don't in the other makes no difference from the perspective of your tax obligation.
With software, once the contract is signed and you have your copy (plus proper backups), you can keep distributing.
In the restricted case of the OS this isn't true, because Google need simply change the terms of the license for "Klondike Bar" or whatever. If you're an OEM not having the latest version of Android, with Google's cloud services, on Day 0 will end your business; having a really good last-years version simply doesn't cut it in the marketplace, for better or worse, and Google's services are obligatory to bring the phone's into parity with iOS devices.
Consumers don't buy the phones for the OS, they buy them for the services. And the services on an Android phone are the cloud's equivalent of Win32 -- closed source, closed implementation, and APIs that favor the publisher. You only have a "freedom phone" if you never use Google's location, search, stores, in-app purchasing, contacts and calendars, and defer all of these to a server under your control -- unfortunately Google can make it very difficult for a hardware vendor to sell such a device in volume.
If they had an Android 3 version, I probably would have chosen it over the Xoom.
That's the whole point, though. OHA members are allowed to test and customize new Android versions before they're officially released, and get input into new features, so they're first-to-market by at least six months with good, useable implementations.
Thus, you bought the Xoom. Google won, and the open development model lost.
Verizon isn't a phone manufacturer. Google's been quite clear that they don't want to compete with other location service providers, and will use access to the closed-source google mobile apps and services as a club to keep manufacturers in line.
There are a lot of AOSP devices, and Google constructs the terms of the AOSP in such a way that AOSP devices are hamstrung and can never offer realistic competition with OHA devices. That's the idea.
Yep, this time it's Android enabling every Tom, Dick and Harry to build whatever the hell they want.
As long as Tom, Dick and Harry join the Open Handset Alliance and pay dues to same, sign nondisclosure agreements forbidding them from releasing new OSs before Google, and agree to not bundle their phones with apps and services that compete with Google's.
If it works who cares? There are a lot of people who need OS X servers, but OS X servers aren't really meant for data centers. They're more for SOHO and on-site 50-100 OS X user situations where people want the the netboot, sharing and workgroup features to "just work." None of these applies to the iCloud backend. There's eating your own dogfood, but what if you all you have are cats?
Except for some awkward lurches in the first half of the decade, I've never seen Apple make the claim that OS X was a massive cloud data center operating system...
Chernobyl was a Soviet reactor, which meant that not only was it run to the benefit of the nomenklatura and the military, but that it was run by people who lived in Moscow, hundreds of miles away, and could have cared less what happened to Ukranians.
For evil capitalist reactors, see Fukushima dai ichi.
None of those things can entail headphones or bright colors -- they don't want to get into a whole litany about "you can use electronic devices without headphones, but only ebook readers and only if they don't play music, and no electronic games, but it IS okay to read a book or sleep because we have studies that show that it's easier to wake someone up than to get them to put down a videogame." Just easier to say "put away electronics."
The definition of the various electronics classes doesn't have much to do with electromagnetic radiation. They primarily are related to the physical design of the gear and how it's mechanically interfaced with the aircraft.
Class 1: Anything commercial off-the-shelf and not purpose-built for the plane is Class 1 and must be stowed during takeoff and landing, because they're loose equipment and can become a hazard in turbulence. (Even these iPads have to be put away during takeoff and landing.
Class 2: Can be off-the-shelf or purpose built, but it has to be bolted down using a certified mounting or a kneeboard. You don't have to stow a class 2 during takeoff and landing.
Class 3: Installed in the plane, subject to airworthiness certification and the hardware has to be designed for the purpose. Only class 3 EFB gear has to be tested for radio emissions.
I was working for a company that developed a tablet-like device for airline pilots back in 1996! Sure, it didn't have touch and it was 486 based and it was thicker, but it's really nothing new.
I think the innovative part is that an iPad can be had for $500 and the pilots can keep it updated without paying hundreds of dollars a year in subscription fees to Jeppesen or some service provider.
So explain why I have to shut off my non-wi-fi-capable ebook reader during take-off and landing?
If the plane has a bird strike and has to ditch in the Hudson, they don't want you to miss announcements because you're busy flinging Angry Birds. It's not about the electronics, it's about them having your attention during the two parts of flight where all the crashes happen.
They had SOME hard data-- even though the plane was not on radar and the pilots never gave a radio message, the aircraft was still sending status messages via satellite to Air France's maintenance network. These messages were the last thing the plane sent, and they knew (1) there were polling disagreements between the pilot's and copilot's air data computers (their airspeed didn't match and this indicated pitot freezing), and (2) the flight control system was switched into alternate laws, because without indicated airspeed the automatic flight control system couldn't fly the plane, and (3) that the cabin altitude underwent rapid descent. All of these were pinged by satellite from the ship's automatic fault reporting system.
They were aware of the pitot failure mode and it had threatened other Airbus flights.
They have paid out a lot of dividends, but as was widely reported when IBM exceeded MS's market cap, if you'd bought $100,000 in MS stock 10 years ago, today you'd have about $68,000. The divs just haven't covered the capital losses.
If people make a thing for a decade and never even try to sell it, and then one day you sell it and millions of people benefit, you're innovating.
Sometimes I wonder if people use the word "innovate" around here as a kind of moral codeword, or a boobie prize, for people who invent cool things but are too clay-footed and inept to actually put the thing in the hands of normal human beings.
Apple, MS and Google don't invent many things, but they deserve a lot of credit for the innovative idea that "normal people can use X, and X need not be a toy for geeks." Squeezing tech products into an anybody-can-use box requires a lot of new ideas and original solutions.
The "Apple never innovates" argument usually requires that you accept that a dozen or more companies over the past decade were sitting on goldmines of profit, and that they let it all slip away because maybe they invented something amazing, but they didn't patent it, didn't actually know what they had, and they had no vision for how people could use it. I just find this scenario very unlikely.
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Sales tax isn't applied to residents, it's applied to the buying party of a transaction.
You make a cromulent point, sir.
This time around we have representation. And we dare not vote the current people out of office, lest the madmen on the other side of the isle take control.
Catalogues have been collecting several state's sales taxes for years -- any state they have a business presence in. Saying that this is an "interstate sales tax" is like saying that the sales tax you paid on your factory-customized Chrysler is an international sales tax because it was shipped from Brampton, Ontario. The fact that in one case you meet someone face-to-face (the dealer) in your state that makes the deal and you don't in the other makes no difference from the perspective of your tax obligation.
In the restricted case of the OS this isn't true, because Google need simply change the terms of the license for "Klondike Bar" or whatever. If you're an OEM not having the latest version of Android, with Google's cloud services, on Day 0 will end your business; having a really good last-years version simply doesn't cut it in the marketplace, for better or worse, and Google's services are obligatory to bring the phone's into parity with iOS devices.
Consumers don't buy the phones for the OS, they buy them for the services. And the services on an Android phone are the cloud's equivalent of Win32 -- closed source, closed implementation, and APIs that favor the publisher. You only have a "freedom phone" if you never use Google's location, search, stores, in-app purchasing, contacts and calendars, and defer all of these to a server under your control -- unfortunately Google can make it very difficult for a hardware vendor to sell such a device in volume.
That's the whole point, though. OHA members are allowed to test and customize new Android versions before they're officially released, and get input into new features, so they're first-to-market by at least six months with good, useable implementations.
Thus, you bought the Xoom. Google won, and the open development model lost.
Verizon isn't a phone manufacturer. Google's been quite clear that they don't want to compete with other location service providers, and will use access to the closed-source google mobile apps and services as a club to keep manufacturers in line.
There are a lot of AOSP devices, and Google constructs the terms of the AOSP in such a way that AOSP devices are hamstrung and can never offer realistic competition with OHA devices. That's the idea.
Manufacturers of Android phones are single-sourcing their OS, all of the Google mobile apps and services (which aren't OSS and must be licensed btw), the phone's location service, the phone's internet search -- Google forbids hardware vendors from using non-Google internet and location services. Why do you think Motorola has begun developing their own mobile OS as a backup?
As long as Tom, Dick and Harry join the Open Handset Alliance and pay dues to same, sign nondisclosure agreements forbidding them from releasing new OSs before Google, and agree to not bundle their phones with apps and services that compete with Google's.
Google also imposes limits on the kinds of partners hardware manufacturers can have. This is completely normal.
If it works who cares? There are a lot of people who need OS X servers, but OS X servers aren't really meant for data centers. They're more for SOHO and on-site 50-100 OS X user situations where people want the the netboot, sharing and workgroup features to "just work." None of these applies to the iCloud backend. There's eating your own dogfood, but what if you all you have are cats?
Except for some awkward lurches in the first half of the decade, I've never seen Apple make the claim that OS X was a massive cloud data center operating system...
Chernobyl was a Soviet reactor, which meant that not only was it run to the benefit of the nomenklatura and the military, but that it was run by people who lived in Moscow, hundreds of miles away, and could have cared less what happened to Ukranians.
For evil capitalist reactors, see Fukushima dai ichi.
The soldiers on the Malabar Front have it much worse than you.
When has that ever happened before, homeslice?
Don't you mean "Moons over My Hammy"?
None of those things can entail headphones or bright colors -- they don't want to get into a whole litany about "you can use electronic devices without headphones, but only ebook readers and only if they don't play music, and no electronic games, but it IS okay to read a book or sleep because we have studies that show that it's easier to wake someone up than to get them to put down a videogame." Just easier to say "put away electronics."
The definition of the various electronics classes doesn't have much to do with electromagnetic radiation. They primarily are related to the physical design of the gear and how it's mechanically interfaced with the aircraft.
Class 1: Anything commercial off-the-shelf and not purpose-built for the plane is Class 1 and must be stowed during takeoff and landing, because they're loose equipment and can become a hazard in turbulence. (Even these iPads have to be put away during takeoff and landing.
Class 2: Can be off-the-shelf or purpose built, but it has to be bolted down using a certified mounting or a kneeboard. You don't have to stow a class 2 during takeoff and landing.
Class 3: Installed in the plane, subject to airworthiness certification and the hardware has to be designed for the purpose. Only class 3 EFB gear has to be tested for radio emissions.
I think the innovative part is that an iPad can be had for $500 and the pilots can keep it updated without paying hundreds of dollars a year in subscription fees to Jeppesen or some service provider.
If the plane has a bird strike and has to ditch in the Hudson, they don't want you to miss announcements because you're busy flinging Angry Birds. It's not about the electronics, it's about them having your attention during the two parts of flight where all the crashes happen.
They had SOME hard data-- even though the plane was not on radar and the pilots never gave a radio message, the aircraft was still sending status messages via satellite to Air France's maintenance network. These messages were the last thing the plane sent, and they knew (1) there were polling disagreements between the pilot's and copilot's air data computers (their airspeed didn't match and this indicated pitot freezing), and (2) the flight control system was switched into alternate laws, because without indicated airspeed the automatic flight control system couldn't fly the plane, and (3) that the cabin altitude underwent rapid descent. All of these were pinged by satellite from the ship's automatic fault reporting system.
They were aware of the pitot failure mode and it had threatened other Airbus flights.
I've been doing this for years, which is why I'm a vegetarian.
They have paid out a lot of dividends, but as was widely reported when IBM exceeded MS's market cap, if you'd bought $100,000 in MS stock 10 years ago, today you'd have about $68,000. The divs just haven't covered the capital losses.
If people make a thing for a decade and never even try to sell it, and then one day you sell it and millions of people benefit, you're innovating.
Sometimes I wonder if people use the word "innovate" around here as a kind of moral codeword, or a boobie prize, for people who invent cool things but are too clay-footed and inept to actually put the thing in the hands of normal human beings.
Apple, MS and Google don't invent many things, but they deserve a lot of credit for the innovative idea that "normal people can use X, and X need not be a toy for geeks." Squeezing tech products into an anybody-can-use box requires a lot of new ideas and original solutions.
The "Apple never innovates" argument usually requires that you accept that a dozen or more companies over the past decade were sitting on goldmines of profit, and that they let it all slip away because maybe they invented something amazing, but they didn't patent it, didn't actually know what they had, and they had no vision for how people could use it. I just find this scenario very unlikely.