Most Apple profits don't stay in or even touch the US. Their money goes to tax havens and then get laundered so they never have to pay tax. Apple would sell your children to dog pounds for dag food if it made a profit and they could get away with it.
Anyone who knows anything about India would be sceptical about using Indian tech workers. There are good Indian engineers and programmers but there are also a heck of a lot of bad ones. India also has a massive fraud and quality problem in its universities on a scale that is truly breath-taking. Degrees for sale, outright fake degrees, exam systems that are rigged on an industrial scale.. If you think the US has a crime problem... By choosing Indian workers they are pretty much guaranteeing low quality second rate work. Pay chickenfeed and get chickens to run your organization critical IT program - great plan..
Wrong. The Tesla X uses a 400 V DC battery - touching any exposed wire in the HV system can be instantly lethal. That's directly from the Tesla first responders safety manual.
Yes but its relatively easy to shut mains down in an emergency. If you have no other method just spray water into the consumer unit and the short circuit will immediately blow the main house fuse or local grid breaker. The problem with battery fires is that there is no fuse that can stop a short circuit inside a battery.
".. If software vendors* would aim for "sustainable" more than "clever", 90% of Microsoft's problematic patches wouldn't have been problems..."
Shakes head. The reason that so many Microsoft patches have problems ultimately resolves to the fact that most of their competent programmers have reached retirement and most of what they have left are half arsed incompetents, most of them working on Win10. Why aren't they hiring better programmers? - incompetent ones are cheaper and much easier to find. Would you want to work at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Apple? Microsoft stopped caring about the product and as a company are now simply waiting to die. Once the customer becomes the product everything tends (strongly) to turn to shit.
If you apply IQ derating then about 90% of all people are below 'average' intelligence. (Derating reduces the peak value produced by IQ tests by 10 to 20 points putting the average man as having a general IQ of 80 - moron level.)
God I wish I could give it up. Every month it seems Microsoft/Windows are becoming more and more like a disease. I'm stuck with too much software that simply doesn't run on anything else.. A huge amount of money to throw away.. a choice between Linux and OSX in the near future maybe.. Used Linus years ago at uni - gritting my teeth already.:)
That's just my point. There are people living in places like Africa and South America - a nuclear war wouldn't even have touched them - and many of them would have been ideally placed to survive a nuclear winter. Now a nuclear war probably would have killed you if you were living in New York or London or Moscow - but big cities are not the whole world. -The basic thing with the Earth is that it is actually quite large - in fact much bigger than most people can even imagine - that is the real reason that a nuclear war couldn't really destroy humanity - not even close.
Yes but a nuclear war would not have come anywhere close to really destroying us. Those people who talked about humanity being wiped out basically didn't know what they were talking about - or rather were just edging up the fear for propaganda reasons. The only real near 'existential' threat from a nuclear war was from the absolute worst case & extremely improbable scenarios from a large scale centuries long global nuclear winter. The actual projections of a maximum scale nuclear war were about 1.5 to 2 billion dead, out of a population of 5 billion. 5 billion - 2 billion = 3 billion, not zero! In comparison climate change might kill some 3 to 5 billion people. 10 billion - 5 billion = 5 billion..So in the worst case climate change will kill more people - but will still leave more alive.
Others believe in this thing called evolution, and genetics. Evolution does have a problem at the first cell but that problem isn't unique to Earth and is identical wherever it happens. If life did start out there - which I would put at 1 in 100 - then there is about a 98% probability that it only came from Mars.
Our genetics by the way show pretty much beyond doubt that we are closely related to all the other life on Earth - we all share the same basic DNA coding.
The two are incomparable. The V2 was a power beast, fuelled by ethanol/water and liquid oxygen, it flew far higher and much further while at the same time carrying a heavy payload.
(V2 verses Future Heavy - lateral range 350 Km verses maybe 5 Km, altitude ceiling 200 Km verses 3 Km, Payload 1 ton (1000 Kg) verses maybe 20 Kg)
The two are incomparable. The V2 was a power beast, fuelled by ethanol/water and liquid oxygen, it flew far higher and much further while at the same time carrying a heavy payload.
(V2 verses Future Heavy - lateral range 350 Km verses maybe 5 Km, altitude ceiling 200 Km verses 3 Km, Payload 1 ton (1000 Kg) verses maybe 20 Kg)
I wouldn't recommend trying to build anything that involves circles using that notation. Not unless you allow an extra 0.141 'overlap' on each axial piece. BTW the numbering system should not affect the value of pie. There basically is no (sane) way to make pie rational.
"How many 'metric degrees' do you think there are in a circle?"
Did you really want to ask that? The answer of course is:- 2 x pie, or 6.283185..etc. The specific SI unit is the radian, a full circle = 2 x pie radians.. Of course 360 degrees is also an acceptable SI unit, so its a bit of a redundant question.:)
I think the whole problem is that Microsoft have lost most of the talented intelligent people they used to have, and are now indeed run by morons.. As businesses age this seems to happen as a kind of 'natural' process. - Just look at Sony, once practically the premier, most respected, and most profitable electronics company in the world. Their incompetent management finished all that. The biggest rot started when Sony became a vendor of movies and then betrayed their primary customer base in trying to protect that empire through DRM and crippleware. The other old Japanese 'dinosaur' companies followed them. Today they are all just burnt remnants of what they used to be and the video/PVR market is virtually finished..
Maybe you are right but if they try it Microsoft are just dooming themselves. Steam is too big, has too many users, and each user already has too much invested in the system through their library of games. I can see a future where Steam or someone else puts the money in to build a complete new OS that replaces Windows. They definitely have access to the technical expertise and money and people to do it. Given the choice today post Windows 8 and Windows 10 and their corporate shimmying who would choose Microsoft over Steam? They start to loose Windows then they also lose half of their corporate markets as well. How many businesses still using XP, Vista, or Windows 7 would just love to switch to a non-Microsoft product if they could as their next upgrade. If anything a lot of businesses are even more paranoid about an OS vendor that might be using its privileged position to spy on them than ordinary users are..
I believe Tesla's long term plan with the Gigafactory is to become the dominant player in the whole car battery market. From that they would likely supply most EV companies with batteries, including Apple.
Yes but.. have you forgotten the iPod? Apple were a late entry to the mp3 market and a few years later they were practically the only player that was left.. For EV self drive vehicles imagine the Apple car comes out in 5 or 6 years, that will probably put them at exactly the right point just as the market is starting to mature.. There's some pretty stiff competition out there though with Google and Tesla just as a start. Then there's the traditional auto makers who should not be dismissed in this.. I would love to see an Apple car just for competitions sake.. I would put Tesla out in front at the moment, especially with the upcoming Gigafactory. That factory gives them a unique position that potentially allows them to become the battery supplier of choice for the whole market.. Interesting times.
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Most Apple profits don't stay in or even touch the US. Their money goes to tax havens and then get laundered so they never have to pay tax. Apple would sell your children to dog pounds for dag food if it made a profit and they could get away with it.
Anyone who knows anything about India would be sceptical about using Indian tech workers. There are good Indian engineers and programmers but there are also a heck of a lot of bad ones. India also has a massive fraud and quality problem in its universities on a scale that is truly breath-taking. Degrees for sale, outright fake degrees, exam systems that are rigged on an industrial scale.. If you think the US has a crime problem... By choosing Indian workers they are pretty much guaranteeing low quality second rate work.
Pay chickenfeed and get chickens to run your organization critical IT program - great plan..
And do you want some golden flying pigs with that? :)
The true fanboys will buy back their own turds if they have a shiny Apple logo put on them.
If they had a couple of years warning it would make a perfect target for mining - relatively small mas, close proximity, nice low delta V..
Wrong. The Tesla X uses a 400 V DC battery - touching any exposed wire in the HV system can be instantly lethal. That's directly from the Tesla first responders safety manual.
Yes but its relatively easy to shut mains down in an emergency. If you have no other method just spray water into the consumer unit and the short circuit will immediately blow the main house fuse or local grid breaker. The problem with battery fires is that there is no fuse that can stop a short circuit inside a battery.
".. If software vendors* would aim for "sustainable" more than "clever", 90% of Microsoft's problematic patches wouldn't have been problems. .."
Shakes head. The reason that so many Microsoft patches have problems ultimately resolves to the fact that most of their competent programmers have reached retirement and most of what they have left are half arsed incompetents, most of them working on Win10. Why aren't they hiring better programmers? - incompetent ones are cheaper and much easier to find. Would you want to work at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Apple? Microsoft stopped caring about the product and as a company are now simply waiting to die. Once the customer becomes the product everything tends (strongly) to turn to shit.
If you apply IQ derating then about 90% of all people are below 'average' intelligence. (Derating reduces the peak value produced by IQ tests by 10 to 20 points putting the average man as having a general IQ of 80 - moron level.)
Yes but most of this only happened after Balmer left.. Assholes that totally don't respect the user-base and want to turn PC's into phones.
God I wish I could give it up. Every month it seems Microsoft/Windows are becoming more and more like a disease. I'm stuck with too much software that simply doesn't run on anything else.. A huge amount of money to throw away .. a choice between Linux and OSX in the near future maybe.. Used Linus years ago at uni - gritting my teeth already. :)
That's just my point. There are people living in places like Africa and South America - a nuclear war wouldn't even have touched them - and many of them would have been ideally placed to survive a nuclear winter.
Now a nuclear war probably would have killed you if you were living in New York or London or Moscow - but big cities are not the whole world. -The basic thing with the Earth is that it is actually quite large - in fact much bigger than most people can even imagine - that is the real reason that a nuclear war couldn't really destroy humanity - not even close.
Yes but a nuclear war would not have come anywhere close to really destroying us. Those people who talked about humanity being wiped out basically didn't know what they were talking about - or rather were just edging up the fear for propaganda reasons. The only real near 'existential' threat from a nuclear war was from the absolute worst case & extremely improbable scenarios from a large scale centuries long global nuclear winter. .So in the worst case climate change will kill more people - but will still leave more alive.
The actual projections of a maximum scale nuclear war were about 1.5 to 2 billion dead, out of a population of 5 billion. 5 billion - 2 billion = 3 billion, not zero!
In comparison climate change might kill some 3 to 5 billion people. 10 billion - 5 billion = 5 billion.
Others believe in this thing called evolution, and genetics. Evolution does have a problem at the first cell but that problem isn't unique to Earth and is identical wherever it happens. If life did start out there - which I would put at 1 in 100 - then there is about a 98% probability that it only came from Mars.
Our genetics by the way show pretty much beyond doubt that we are closely related to all the other life on Earth - we all share the same basic DNA coding.
That method only works because your company is small beer. If you were running an internet based business it would be totally useless.
The two are incomparable. The V2 was a power beast, fuelled by ethanol/water and liquid oxygen, it flew far higher and much further while at the same time carrying a heavy payload.
(V2 verses Future Heavy - lateral range 350 Km verses maybe 5 Km, altitude ceiling 200 Km verses 3 Km, Payload 1 ton (1000 Kg) verses maybe 20 Kg)
(Posted in wrong place before!)
The two are incomparable. The V2 was a power beast, fuelled by ethanol/water and liquid oxygen, it flew far higher and much further while at the same time carrying a heavy payload.
(V2 verses Future Heavy - lateral range 350 Km verses maybe 5 Km, altitude ceiling 200 Km verses 3 Km, Payload 1 ton (1000 Kg) verses maybe 20 Kg)
I wouldn't recommend trying to build anything that involves circles using that notation. Not unless you allow an extra 0.141 'overlap' on each axial piece.
BTW the numbering system should not affect the value of pie. There basically is no (sane) way to make pie rational.
"How many 'metric degrees' do you think there are in a circle?"
Did you really want to ask that? The answer of course is :- 2 x pie, or 6.283185..etc. The specific SI unit is the radian, a full circle = 2 x pie radians.. :)
Of course 360 degrees is also an acceptable SI unit, so its a bit of a redundant question.
I think the whole problem is that Microsoft have lost most of the talented intelligent people they used to have, and are now indeed run by morons..
As businesses age this seems to happen as a kind of 'natural' process. - Just look at Sony, once practically the premier, most respected, and most profitable electronics company in the world. Their incompetent management finished all that. The biggest rot started when Sony became a vendor of movies and then betrayed their primary customer base in trying to protect that empire through DRM and crippleware. The other old Japanese 'dinosaur' companies followed them. Today they are all just burnt remnants of what they used to be and the video/PVR market is virtually finished..
Lets face it, Microsoft today is looking a lot like a dinosaur looking for a tar pit.
Maybe you are right but if they try it Microsoft are just dooming themselves. Steam is too big, has too many users, and each user already has too much invested in the system through their library of games. I can see a future where Steam or someone else puts the money in to build a complete new OS that replaces Windows. They definitely have access to the technical expertise and money and people to do it.
Given the choice today post Windows 8 and Windows 10 and their corporate shimmying who would choose Microsoft over Steam? They start to loose Windows then they also lose half of their corporate markets as well. How many businesses still using XP, Vista, or Windows 7 would just love to switch to a non-Microsoft product if they could as their next upgrade. If anything a lot of businesses are even more paranoid about an OS vendor that might be using its privileged position to spy on them than ordinary users are..
I believe Tesla's long term plan with the Gigafactory is to become the dominant player in the whole car battery market. From that they would likely supply most EV companies with batteries, including Apple.
Yes but .. have you forgotten the iPod? Apple were a late entry to the mp3 market and a few years later they were practically the only player that was left.. For EV self drive vehicles imagine the Apple car comes out in 5 or 6 years, that will probably put them at exactly the right point just as the market is starting to mature.. There's some pretty stiff competition out there though with Google and Tesla just as a start. Then there's the traditional auto makers who should not be dismissed in this.. I would love to see an Apple car just for competitions sake..
I would put Tesla out in front at the moment, especially with the upcoming Gigafactory. That factory gives them a unique position that potentially allows them to become the battery supplier of choice for the whole market..
Interesting times.
The flock of chickens runs one way one day, and the other the next day. Share dealers are mindless panicky animals, it takes very little to send them in a run for the next tasty titbit or the smallest noise or movement to send them running in the opposite direction..