Unless you're talking about games or other apps with high computing requirements, he's right. A cheap, modern Android phone can do everything a modern iPhone can do, even if it takes an extra second to load up the calendar.
You're missing his point. At the point of sale, states have no rights to collect taxes if it's on an out of state sale. Then, once the product is given/delivered to the end user, their home state doesn't have that information to collect the tax normally, since the seller is from another state. The end user is supposed to declare this spending and pay taxes on it, but nobody does, and it's really rough trying to figure it out from the state's point of view. They don't have access to the financials from companies located physically outside of the state, so they're SOL in figuring out that I bought a copy of some software from Amazon.
How does this relate to the GP's point? When a company declares that they bought a copy of Win7 as a deduction, then they also have to pay sales taxes on it, since the state government now has a record of the sale, so they can collect their sales/usage tax. It's the same reason why you don't get away with buying a car somewhere like New Hampshire to avoid paying sales taxes on it - you have to provide the proof of your purchase to your state government in order to register it. There's some technicalities around that, but for the most part, the loopholes aren't easy.
France isn't a theocracy. It'd take much more than one man's decree to ban things the same way Muslim countries do. On top of that, having a large group of Muslims ban things based on their beliefs isn't bad - it's only bad when it's forced upon a large group of other people. I think it's a shitty way to live, but they're more than welcome to have their own non-fun in their neck of the woods.
Whole Foods probably sells the same tomato species as Walmart, although Whole Foods will usually have more above and beyond the beefsteak.
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Except, these guys are absolutely not doing the same thing Catch did to you. First, they're announcing it months in advance. Second, they're making it cost nothing for users for the months leading up to the shutdown. Finally, they're providing an export tool well in advance.
How, exactly, does having marketing preclude it being a great product?
The product that sells in large quantities is the one with effective marketing, and the product that performs well is the one with users' support. They are not mutually exclusive.
Intel is also in the market in a strong position, with drives that are nearly speed competitive to the rest at a decent price point and higher reliability. If the sources from earlier in the comments are accurate, Intel SSDs are the lowest returned SSDs out there.
Not even just that. If you look at the last page with the top products in each category, OCZ occupies all of the top 5 spots for SSDs on all 3 of them.
He isn't passing the buck, as far as I see. He's explaining that after selling so many systems, their failure rates were terrible, and so was their OEM RMA. He's not saying "fuck the gamers, I have their money and hahahaha", he's saying "Their OEM supply was terrible, and here's why we don't use them anymore (or hate having to use them now, he's not specific as to whether they dropped OCZ)".
I don't think it's shady at all that they're asking for 1.1m. Consider Mighty No. 9, where they asked for 900k, developed by veterans of both the industry and the genre (who have insanely strong credentials, like Keiji Inafune, who was Capcom's Head of Production until 2010 and co-created Megaman).
You do have to consider that studios that go with Kickstarter tend not to be massive development studios like you see with EA-style development. Bioware, for example, has about 800 people spread across 5 studios, so in the ballpark of 160 people per studio. A budget of $1m doesn't go very far in that environment, but Cyan only has 40 employees.
You can go even further with that trend, considering the contributions from Linux users tend to be substantially higher from Linux users, and the pie chart isn't of total users, but of contributions.
I mean, really. There's absolutely no chance of him just not noticing it was disabled, or a bug in FF that disabled it without popping the notification, or someone else using the computer who ignored the notification, or a hundred other scenarios more likely than the grand conspiracy...
When I clicked the link explaining the detailed changes in ToS, I noticed 2 things that you forgot to mention. First, your quoted section actually links directly to the page where you can turn this setting off. Secondly, it's not the ToS themselves, but an explanation of the changes, which I've gotten a popup for on multiple pages through Google's services.
U of C and Texas A&M definitely aren't defense contractors. They're academic institutions.
As far as I can tell: URS is a general contractor with interests in energy production. Bechtel is a company with a focus on energy production, and specialization in nuclear power. B&W is specialized heavily into nuclear power. All are government contractors for very specialized tasks within their respective fields, all of which include nuclear power, and I don't see how that has any bearing on their interest in LLNL.
It is primarily funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and managed and operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), a partnership of the University of California, Bechtel, Babcock & Wilcox, URS, and Battelle Memorial Institute in affiliation with the Texas A&M University System.
Either Wikipedia is wrong, or you are, and I think you know which way I'm leaning right now. What defense contractors are involved with LLNS?
For the feel of the car, you don't need a dealership with hundreds of cars sitting around to make this work. Let GM open a test drive center where they have that same number of cars. You get rid of the dealerships for many miles around this location, and just use this as your "look and feel" test platform. If you want the car, you can get one through this location, but it's mainly for people to see what they're offering.
For the colors, I've found that dealerships tend not to have available all of the color options for many of their cars anyway. For example, when I went to look at the Scion FR-S I now drive, they had a single color option - black. Every other color is a custom order. They didn't have any coming into stock in any of the other colors, either, and I know because I saw the list of their upcoming inventory - mind you, this is the biggest Toyota dealership within 30 miles of where I live. This is, quite literally, a year-old model that they can't keep on the lot in any color. It's a Subaru/Toyota jointly developed, and Subaru is still has a lead time of months to get your hands one of theirs (the BRZ).
What a dipshit. At least if you're going to claim those forces can damage the body, make sure to include being in a car entirely, instead of only driving the car./facepalm
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Unless you're talking about games or other apps with high computing requirements, he's right. A cheap, modern Android phone can do everything a modern iPhone can do, even if it takes an extra second to load up the calendar.
You're missing his point. At the point of sale, states have no rights to collect taxes if it's on an out of state sale. Then, once the product is given/delivered to the end user, their home state doesn't have that information to collect the tax normally, since the seller is from another state. The end user is supposed to declare this spending and pay taxes on it, but nobody does, and it's really rough trying to figure it out from the state's point of view. They don't have access to the financials from companies located physically outside of the state, so they're SOL in figuring out that I bought a copy of some software from Amazon.
How does this relate to the GP's point? When a company declares that they bought a copy of Win7 as a deduction, then they also have to pay sales taxes on it, since the state government now has a record of the sale, so they can collect their sales/usage tax. It's the same reason why you don't get away with buying a car somewhere like New Hampshire to avoid paying sales taxes on it - you have to provide the proof of your purchase to your state government in order to register it. There's some technicalities around that, but for the most part, the loopholes aren't easy.
Ok, so let's not be proactive, since we can be reactive instead.
I posted while derp, I meant varieties, even though it should have been somewhat clear since I mentioned beefsteak tomatoes.
France isn't a theocracy. It'd take much more than one man's decree to ban things the same way Muslim countries do. On top of that, having a large group of Muslims ban things based on their beliefs isn't bad - it's only bad when it's forced upon a large group of other people. I think it's a shitty way to live, but they're more than welcome to have their own non-fun in their neck of the woods.
"Most liberalist" does not mean "most libertarian".
Yes, at least until the rest of the world follows suit.
Whole Foods probably sells the same tomato species as Walmart, although Whole Foods will usually have more above and beyond the beefsteak.
Except, these guys are absolutely not doing the same thing Catch did to you. First, they're announcing it months in advance. Second, they're making it cost nothing for users for the months leading up to the shutdown. Finally, they're providing an export tool well in advance.
How, exactly, does having marketing preclude it being a great product?
The product that sells in large quantities is the one with effective marketing, and the product that performs well is the one with users' support. They are not mutually exclusive.
Oh yeah. I was just pointing out Intel because you left them at stagnation, when really they've recovered from that period quite well.
Intel is also in the market in a strong position, with drives that are nearly speed competitive to the rest at a decent price point and higher reliability. If the sources from earlier in the comments are accurate, Intel SSDs are the lowest returned SSDs out there.
How can a firmware update void your warranty if it's done under the company's direct instructions?
Not even just that. If you look at the last page with the top products in each category, OCZ occupies all of the top 5 spots for SSDs on all 3 of them.
He isn't passing the buck, as far as I see. He's explaining that after selling so many systems, their failure rates were terrible, and so was their OEM RMA. He's not saying "fuck the gamers, I have their money and hahahaha", he's saying "Their OEM supply was terrible, and here's why we don't use them anymore (or hate having to use them now, he's not specific as to whether they dropped OCZ)".
I don't think it's shady at all that they're asking for 1.1m. Consider Mighty No. 9, where they asked for 900k, developed by veterans of both the industry and the genre (who have insanely strong credentials, like Keiji Inafune, who was Capcom's Head of Production until 2010 and co-created Megaman).
You do have to consider that studios that go with Kickstarter tend not to be massive development studios like you see with EA-style development. Bioware, for example, has about 800 people spread across 5 studios, so in the ballpark of 160 people per studio. A budget of $1m doesn't go very far in that environment, but Cyan only has 40 employees.
You can go even further with that trend, considering the contributions from Linux users tend to be substantially higher from Linux users, and the pie chart isn't of total users, but of contributions.
but he's not trying to cram it down anyone's throat.
Reading /. and not going to outside research on the guy would give the impression that he is - articles from/about him are very regular and frequent.
I mean, really. There's absolutely no chance of him just not noticing it was disabled, or a bug in FF that disabled it without popping the notification, or someone else using the computer who ignored the notification, or a hundred other scenarios more likely than the grand conspiracy...
When I clicked the link explaining the detailed changes in ToS, I noticed 2 things that you forgot to mention. First, your quoted section actually links directly to the page where you can turn this setting off. Secondly, it's not the ToS themselves, but an explanation of the changes, which I've gotten a popup for on multiple pages through Google's services.
U of C and Texas A&M definitely aren't defense contractors. They're academic institutions.
As far as I can tell: URS is a general contractor with interests in energy production. Bechtel is a company with a focus on energy production, and specialization in nuclear power. B&W is specialized heavily into nuclear power. All are government contractors for very specialized tasks within their respective fields, all of which include nuclear power, and I don't see how that has any bearing on their interest in LLNL.
It is primarily funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and managed and operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), a partnership of the University of California, Bechtel, Babcock & Wilcox, URS, and Battelle Memorial Institute in affiliation with the Texas A&M University System.
Either Wikipedia is wrong, or you are, and I think you know which way I'm leaning right now. What defense contractors are involved with LLNS?
For the feel of the car, you don't need a dealership with hundreds of cars sitting around to make this work. Let GM open a test drive center where they have that same number of cars. You get rid of the dealerships for many miles around this location, and just use this as your "look and feel" test platform. If you want the car, you can get one through this location, but it's mainly for people to see what they're offering.
For the colors, I've found that dealerships tend not to have available all of the color options for many of their cars anyway. For example, when I went to look at the Scion FR-S I now drive, they had a single color option - black. Every other color is a custom order. They didn't have any coming into stock in any of the other colors, either, and I know because I saw the list of their upcoming inventory - mind you, this is the biggest Toyota dealership within 30 miles of where I live. This is, quite literally, a year-old model that they can't keep on the lot in any color. It's a Subaru/Toyota jointly developed, and Subaru is still has a lead time of months to get your hands one of theirs (the BRZ).
Do you have a source for the non-government waivers? Genuinely curious.
What a dipshit. At least if you're going to claim those forces can damage the body, make sure to include being in a car entirely, instead of only driving the car. /facepalm