If found guilty of breaching EU rules, it could be penalised up to $7.4 billion or 10 percent of its global revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.
Doesn't sound like it's the sales in the EU, unless there is a new definition of "global".
Excuse me for not living in the EU, and finding that the EU can levy fines based on sales outside it's jurisdiction, and based on sales of parent companies that have no assets or does business within the EU. See EU VS Microsoft.
IANAL, however, it was my understanding that you are incorrect. It is only illegal and trial worthy in the US, *IF* the sole (or was it primary) reason for the trip was to have sex with kids under (some age).
If you were on a business trip (with no prior knowledge or intention of doing anything), and on that trip you did, it wouldn't be prosecutable, but I could be wrong. I suspect the same is true with Cuban cigars.
Apparently AC's don't understand the word or concept of "retroactively".
No, thats like saying you can a conviction for driving without a license after you've been found guilty if you get a license at a later date.
Actually, you can have a case thrown out for driving without a license, if you file to have a case that caused you to lose your license and have it overturned or changed to a supervision -- in the US. I can't claim anything in other countries.
Oh, and just for an idea, I often copy data (not just simple test bytes for zero) around on my computer from multiple drives to other drives on my system at a much higher rate that that -- physical drives, not ram disks or the like. Granted, they are raid arrays hanging off of different disk controllers and go through the CPU to do so and still uses next to nothing CPU wise.
Putting into perspective just how fast 10gbps is from the perspective of a single user, in the time it takes the fastest Intel-architecture AMD64 CPU money can buy today to test a single byte already in a register and determine whether its value is zero or nonzero, an entire byte or more would fly by on the 10gbps wire.
I think you lost something in conversion there. 10gbps is 1.25GBps. Today's fastest Intel Desktop processors have 12 threads all running at 4GHz+ (My desktop is running 4.5GHz). Assuming you aren't using any of the fancy (faster) SIMD instructions and doing a simple test r,0 instruction at the byte level (actually it can do 4 bytes/32-bit words at a time, but I'm not counting that), Sandy Bridge processors can cache, decode, issue, execute, complete and sustain 3 of those per cycle per thread. Reference: http://gmplib.org/~tege/x86-timing.pdf
4.5(GHz)*3*12/1.25(GBps)=129.6. Desktop processors are capable of doing this 129.6 times faster than needed to do what you supposed, not even using the faster SIMD/SSE/AVX instruction sets which optimized for such things. No fancy logarithms needed either.
Since when does "less than half" == "about the same range?"
And my point is that if you are going to compare the roadster to another car for range, then it should be one in the same class as the roadster. That includes number of seats, style, size, and performance. Torque and HP being the performance part of it. One could easily make the opposite, and say boy, gas engines suck! There isn't a single gas powered production car capable of doing 0-60 in under 3.7 seconds AND have a range of 260 miles on a single "fill up". By that metric, all gas powered cars are already obsolete, and it's just as valid.
Personally, I will never own a car that can do 0-60 in less than 5.0 seconds, and I'd prefer it under 4. For that range, tesla's range is right in the ballpark or better than the others.
"There are many instances in which people are this is not true." should have read "There are many instances in which this is not true". Copy/Paste for the lose.
There are many ignorant Americans that believe "free speech" means you can say what ever you want, when ever you want, where ever you want and you can't get punished.
The ones who actually bothered to read the constitution and it's amendments (which is required for graduating 8th grade, and 12 grade.. at least it was), know that isn't true. 1) The first amendment does not protect the speaker from any ramifications or legal issues arising from what is said. 2) It is only about what GOVERNMENT may or may not (mostly may not) censor. 3) It does not say you can say what ever you want, when ever you want, and where ever you want. There are many instances in which people are this is not true. 4) It's original intent was about political speeches. This has been expanded over time, but the original amendment was never meant to include them, so if you are going to demand your right to say something non-political, it doesn't come from here.
Your example of shouting fire in a crowded theater does not apply for many reasons: 1) A theater is private property. 2) The first amendment does not protect you from being charged with inciting a riot, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, along with probably a long list of other crimes as well as being sued into oblivion for any and all damages that it may cause. 3) Shouting fire is not a political statement. 4) It is questionable if this would be viewed as an action of the government censoring speech -- IANAL.
I put the roadster which is a sports car up against another sports car, it just happens that I had the actual gas mileage of that particular one on hand since I own it.
Just as a side note, the tesla roadster was one of the cars I was looking at to replace it. Along with the corvette, the Camero ZL1, Mercedes AMG, Lotus Elise/Evora, and a few others. Not everyone may classify them all in the same class, but as I was looking at each as replacement, I obviously do. The exceptions being the TransAm/Camero having 4 seats instead of 2. All of them are high performance sports cars capable of doing 0-60 in under 5 seconds, with good handling. Of course the Lotus Elise and Tesla Roadsters have abysmal top end speeds.
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If found guilty of breaching EU rules, it could be penalised up to $7.4 billion or 10 percent of its global revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.
Doesn't sound like it's the sales in the EU, unless there is a new definition of "global".
Thanks for the correction. Learn something every day.
Excuse me for not living in the EU, and finding that the EU can levy fines based on sales outside it's jurisdiction, and based on sales of parent companies that have no assets or does business within the EU. See EU VS Microsoft.
IANAL, however, it was my understanding that you are incorrect. It is only illegal and trial worthy in the US, *IF* the sole (or was it primary) reason for the trip was to have sex with kids under (some age).
If you were on a business trip (with no prior knowledge or intention of doing anything), and on that trip you did, it wouldn't be prosecutable, but I could be wrong. I suspect the same is true with Cuban cigars.
Apparently AC's don't understand the word or concept of "retroactively".
No, thats like saying you can a conviction for driving without a license after you've been found guilty if you get a license at a later date.
Actually, you can have a case thrown out for driving without a license, if you file to have a case that caused you to lose your license and have it overturned or changed to a supervision -- in the US. I can't claim anything in other countries.
Can a EU commission base a fine on sales made outside it's jurisdiction?
Apparently.
Depends on the game, and the publisher. I can run Company of Heroes directly without having to go through steam if I wanted to.
Oh, and just for an idea, I often copy data (not just simple test bytes for zero) around on my computer from multiple drives to other drives on my system at a much higher rate that that -- physical drives, not ram disks or the like. Granted, they are raid arrays hanging off of different disk controllers and go through the CPU to do so and still uses next to nothing CPU wise.
Putting into perspective just how fast 10gbps is from the perspective of a single user, in the time it takes the fastest Intel-architecture AMD64 CPU money can buy today to test a single byte already in a register and determine whether its value is zero or nonzero, an entire byte or more would fly by on the 10gbps wire.
I think you lost something in conversion there. 10gbps is 1.25GBps. Today's fastest Intel Desktop processors have 12 threads all running at 4GHz+ (My desktop is running 4.5GHz). Assuming you aren't using any of the fancy (faster) SIMD instructions and doing a simple test r,0 instruction at the byte level (actually it can do 4 bytes/32-bit words at a time, but I'm not counting that), Sandy Bridge processors can cache, decode, issue, execute, complete and sustain 3 of those per cycle per thread. Reference: http://gmplib.org/~tege/x86-timing.pdf
4.5(GHz)*3*12/1.25(GBps)=129.6. Desktop processors are capable of doing this 129.6 times faster than needed to do what you supposed, not even using the faster SIMD/SSE/AVX instruction sets which optimized for such things. No fancy logarithms needed either.
If performance is that big of an issue, you are not going to trust your information with TCP/IP over a twisted pare cable.
And I suppose no one will ever need more than 640k of RAM. Why would you make such a silly statement?
SANs, NASs, transferring large video files?
If it will cost say 4 times greater per bit to implement Terabit with current technology do you still want it?
Yes, easily. Some of us pay that now by bonding multiple channels of "current tech" together and at much worse cost/bps.
Using data pulled out of my butt, I can with 100% accuracy predict a users home town within 21Mm.
Considering how quickly it decays, I suggest Seppukuium.
2012 Tesla Roadster EPA estimated range (Per Wikipedia): 244 mi/charge
2012 VW Jetta TDI EPA estimated range (Per MotorTrend): 493 mi/tank
Since when does "less than half" == "about the same range?"
And my point is that if you are going to compare the roadster to another car for range, then it should be one in the same class as the roadster. That includes number of seats, style, size, and performance. Torque and HP being the performance part of it. One could easily make the opposite, and say boy, gas engines suck! There isn't a single gas powered production car capable of doing 0-60 in under 3.7 seconds AND have a range of 260 miles on a single "fill up". By that metric, all gas powered cars are already obsolete, and it's just as valid.
Personally, I will never own a car that can do 0-60 in less than 5.0 seconds, and I'd prefer it under 4. For that range, tesla's range is right in the ballpark or better than the others.
More than likely, you'll pay higher insurance premiums based on the quality of the AI and it's history of accidents.
No, the question is: is it better for OTHER people to have them than let them drive?
"There are many instances in which people are this is not true." should have read "There are many instances in which this is not true".
Copy/Paste for the lose.
There are many ignorant Americans that believe "free speech" means you can say what ever you want, when ever you want, where ever you want and you can't get punished.
The ones who actually bothered to read the constitution and it's amendments (which is required for graduating 8th grade, and 12 grade.. at least it was), know that isn't true.
1) The first amendment does not protect the speaker from any ramifications or legal issues arising from what is said.
2) It is only about what GOVERNMENT may or may not (mostly may not) censor.
3) It does not say you can say what ever you want, when ever you want, and where ever you want. There are many instances in which people are this is not true.
4) It's original intent was about political speeches. This has been expanded over time, but the original amendment was never meant to include them, so if you are going to demand your right to say something non-political, it doesn't come from here.
Your example of shouting fire in a crowded theater does not apply for many reasons:
1) A theater is private property.
2) The first amendment does not protect you from being charged with inciting a riot, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, along with probably a long list of other crimes as well as being sued into oblivion for any and all damages that it may cause.
3) Shouting fire is not a political statement.
4) It is questionable if this would be viewed as an action of the government censoring speech -- IANAL.
Visual Studio isn't a compiler.
Yes. And solar too.
Yes, I was referring to using torque as a measurement to compare the relative ability of each car to accelerate.
HP to weight ratio doesn't capture that. Something pretty important to people looking for a sports car.
I don't think HP is a good measurement for electric cars. I am not a mechanic, but wouldn't torque be a better comparison.
I put the roadster which is a sports car up against another sports car, it just happens that I had the actual gas mileage of that particular one on hand since I own it.
Just as a side note, the tesla roadster was one of the cars I was looking at to replace it. Along with the corvette, the Camero ZL1, Mercedes AMG, Lotus Elise/Evora, and a few others. Not everyone may classify them all in the same class, but as I was looking at each as replacement, I obviously do. The exceptions being the TransAm/Camero having 4 seats instead of 2. All of them are high performance sports cars capable of doing 0-60 in under 5 seconds, with good handling. Of course the Lotus Elise and Tesla Roadsters have abysmal top end speeds.
FICA taxes are capped at $110,100 annual income, so someone making $200K is paying half the rate that someone making $100K is paying.
They also get capped in the benefits they receive from SS when they retire as well. So what is your point?