For many, of course, they'll be looking to upgrade in 2 years. Between the two purchases, the income used toward a $1000 smartphone seems truly more "disposable".
It's $41.66/month (when you use the device payment programs). That's less than what people are paying for their phone plans, cable/satellite subscriptions, internet service, and all kinds of other things
Does that make a $1000 phone a smart purchase? Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on how much you plan to use it, what you plan to do with it, etc.
But when you look at the - effective - device-as-a-service that you can do now (where you can upgrade every year for usually the same price (or only a small increase)), and that monthly fee becomes a highly-affordable option for lots of people.
Effectively leasing a phone is very different from leasing a car -. you cannot reasonably expect a phone, as used by most people, to last more than 3-5 years, whereas you should reasonably expect a car to last 10-15 years with routine maintenance performed.
that $2400 camera lens can last you a lifetime. An iPhone X you probably wouldn't use more than 4 years
Odds are very good that you will not use that $2400 camera lens nearly as often as you'll use a phone. I'd wager the actual lifetime, when measured in used hours, for that camera lens is quite a bit less than the lifetime of a smartphone
I think the race is close, but the percentages are probably fixed. In short, Obama will likely win because certain groups would never not vote for him. Most women, the huge majority of blacks, Hispanics (other than Cubans) and union voters will simply vote for him because they won't vote for a Republican. The Republicans have their own base that will not budge either. There are independents, but they have probably already decided too, or are staying home.
In short, the Democratic base is likely to be slightly bigger than the Republican one, so the Democrats will win, but the actual percentages will be close in an absolute sense
Which really means it will depend on where the "majority" comes from. Remember, in this country we do NOT vote for president - we vote for electors who vote for president (the Electoral College). A "majority" does not guarantee a win.
For a Mac or Linux machine, I run a dd from/dev/urandom into a file until it crashes (that way apps are still "ok".. but a reimage is an option, too).
For Windows, I either reimage myself, or erase/uninstall everything and then run a simple script to dump 1s into a file till it crashes.
If you're really worried people are going to be poking around your laptop, don't use it for personal work. It IS a work machine, after all.
If you "need" to use the work machine for personal work, do it in a VM. You can move the VM off later, and then just overwrite that part of the disk on the host.
Thing is, in the Cayman islands you still pay taxes, just not income taxes. The people who use it as tax haven only exist there on paper so they avoid both the income taxes and the taxes involved with living there,.. though they also do not consume any resources there either.
So for people who actually live there the tax burden (and services) are pretty comparable to the US.... but all people outside the territory see is 'no income tax' and make all sorts of examples from there.
And if you're a US citizen, you're still taxed federally based on how you make and where
...Come on, they just admitted they're not very good at their actual assignment so they make something up to look good..
Or maybe, just maybe, they don't have any real work to do, and are instead worried they'll lose their cushy government gig, so they make crap up to stay employed
Though I'm not intimately familiar with the business workings of Ancient Babylon (and other civilizations), the vast majority had private enterprise (ie capitalism) in place long before the feudal system
My experience is that Windows is missing lots of features. No SSH support; no support for filesystems other than NTFS and FAT; no low level disk tools (dd); poor NFS support; doesn't come with a decent text editor.... I could carry on, but you get the idea.
fwiw, most people just do not care about what filesystem they run on. It doesn't matter to the vast majority of end-users. For that matter, it doesn't matter to an awful lot of the server world, either - if it really did, Window Server would not have the footprint in enterprise computing that it does.
While I'd love to have something like ssh for Windows standard, the fact of the matter is that Windows is a GUI environment, and ssh access to that just doesn't make sense - especially when compared to RDP (which, btw, is quite secure).
At some point, there is going to be a massive failure. Someone big is going to lose *all* of their data. I still don't trust virtualization despite it being years old. It's still nascent in the grand scheme.
Someone wake me when they invent the holodeck.
"nascent in the grand scheme"... of what, exactly?
it's been in use in computation [nearly] since the beginning
Are you sure? If you're making $60k a year, the overhead in terms of benefits, insurance, employer half of ssi, etc bring you to about a total cost of $120k. That's $20k per month.
Or do a ranking system - favorite to least favorite, and keep *every* candidate in until election day: no primaries, just an election.
You get the number of points as you position on the list, lowest score wins.
So, with ten candidates, you can get from 1-10 points from any given voter. If you have a tie after round one, you take the lowest three point getters and go again.
Seriously, it's Iowa, the only thing this one's good for is showing who definitely should not run, and even that's questionable.
They really should run all the caucuses in just a few days. There's no good reason, other than lots of opportunities to bribe, err, donate to your favorite candidate, that these should run more than a day or two for all 50 states. But, that would go against the political machine and those that keep it greased purposes.
I've never understood why caucuses and primaries aren't run all on the same day across the country... splitting it up the way they do makes for a very lopsided outcome
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Ah, yes the Lysine Contingency
You mean AI hasn't been writing /. headlines for years already?
Remember when you could use Code Warrior on your PowerBook to compile code for an alien supercomputer?
It's $41.66/month (when you use the device payment programs). That's less than what people are paying for their phone plans, cable/satellite subscriptions, internet service, and all kinds of other things
Does that make a $1000 phone a smart purchase? Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on how much you plan to use it, what you plan to do with it, etc.
But when you look at the - effective - device-as-a-service that you can do now (where you can upgrade every year for usually the same price (or only a small increase)), and that monthly fee becomes a highly-affordable option for lots of people.
Effectively leasing a phone is very different from leasing a car -. you cannot reasonably expect a phone, as used by most people, to last more than 3-5 years, whereas you should reasonably expect a car to last 10-15 years with routine maintenance performed.
Odds are very good that you will not use that $2400 camera lens nearly as often as you'll use a phone. I'd wager the actual lifetime, when measured in used hours, for that camera lens is quite a bit less than the lifetime of a smartphone
Sounds like Disclosure or Jurassic Park Who wants to browse the web visually?
You want the hair, too, eh?
Isn't this, more or less, the concept of the movie Surrogates?
I think the race is close, but the percentages are probably fixed. In short, Obama will likely win because certain groups would never not vote for him. Most women, the huge majority of blacks, Hispanics (other than Cubans) and union voters will simply vote for him because they won't vote for a Republican. The Republicans have their own base that will not budge either. There are independents, but they have probably already decided too, or are staying home.
In short, the Democratic base is likely to be slightly bigger than the Republican one, so the Democrats will win, but the actual percentages will be close in an absolute sense
Which really means it will depend on where the "majority" comes from. Remember, in this country we do NOT vote for president - we vote for electors who vote for president (the Electoral College). A "majority" does not guarantee a win.
That is correct - when reimaging is not an option, it's a [close] second
For Windows, I either reimage myself, or erase/uninstall everything and then run a simple script to dump 1s into a file till it crashes.
If you're really worried people are going to be poking around your laptop, don't use it for personal work. It IS a work machine, after all.
If you "need" to use the work machine for personal work, do it in a VM. You can move the VM off later, and then just overwrite that part of the disk on the host.
travel in a speed of over 100 knots per hour
That's a heluvan acceleration! Knots == nautical miles per hour
Thing is, in the Cayman islands you still pay taxes, just not income taxes. The people who use it as tax haven only exist there on paper so they avoid both the income taxes and the taxes involved with living there,.. though they also do not consume any resources there either. So for people who actually live there the tax burden (and services) are pretty comparable to the US.... but all people outside the territory see is 'no income tax' and make all sorts of examples from there.
And if you're a US citizen, you're still taxed federally based on how you make and where
...Come on, they just admitted they're not very good at their actual assignment so they make something up to look good..
Or maybe, just maybe, they don't have any real work to do, and are instead worried they'll lose their cushy government gig, so they make crap up to stay employed
Though I'm not intimately familiar with the business workings of Ancient Babylon (and other civilizations), the vast majority had private enterprise (ie capitalism) in place long before the feudal system
Saw a great film about this in college, too
What is this about a bee's cicadian rhythms? Bees are nothing at all like cicadas!
I try to never "thrust the US government" anywhere, myself - they tend to 'thrust' back
So - is this a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? Or is it just an observation?
My experience is that Windows is missing lots of features. No SSH support; no support for filesystems other than NTFS and FAT; no low level disk tools (dd); poor NFS support; doesn't come with a decent text editor.... I could carry on, but you get the idea.
fwiw, most people just do not care about what filesystem they run on. It doesn't matter to the vast majority of end-users. For that matter, it doesn't matter to an awful lot of the server world, either - if it really did, Window Server would not have the footprint in enterprise computing that it does.
While I'd love to have something like ssh for Windows standard, the fact of the matter is that Windows is a GUI environment, and ssh access to that just doesn't make sense - especially when compared to RDP (which, btw, is quite secure).
At some point, there is going to be a massive failure. Someone big is going to lose *all* of their data. I still don't trust virtualization despite it being years old. It's still nascent in the grand scheme.
Someone wake me when they invent the holodeck.
"nascent in the grand scheme" ... of what, exactly?
it's been in use in computation [nearly] since the beginning
Of course, it only works in parts of the world that get a lot of sunshine, so for example it would be a non-starter in northern Ohio.
I think the fact that Ohio is not near any source of saltwater would be the real non-starter.
Love how you excised the OP's context-clarifying statement that said, "Not that we need desalination in Ohio"
Still pretty darn funny, though
I'd like to be worth $20K/month, but I'm not
Are you sure ? If you're making $60k a year, the overhead in terms of benefits, insurance, employer half of ssi, etc bring you to about a total cost of $120k. That's $20k per month.
Shut it down for a week and you'll be able to almost hear the roar of a billion college students having their term papers failed!
A billion college students? Since when did 1/7 people go to college around the world?
Or do a ranking system - favorite to least favorite, and keep *every* candidate in until election day: no primaries, just an election. You get the number of points as you position on the list, lowest score wins. So, with ten candidates, you can get from 1-10 points from any given voter. If you have a tie after round one, you take the lowest three point getters and go again.
Seriously, it's Iowa, the only thing this one's good for is showing who definitely should not run, and even that's questionable.
They really should run all the caucuses in just a few days. There's no good reason, other than lots of opportunities to bribe, err, donate to your favorite candidate, that these should run more than a day or two for all 50 states. But, that would go against the political machine and those that keep it greased purposes.
I've never understood why caucuses and primaries aren't run all on the same day across the country ... splitting it up the way they do makes for a very lopsided outcome