My Kindle Fires have ads on them. Of course I got a pretty sweet 8" full HD tablet for $59, so I guess that's the price I pay - ads on the lock screen.
China hires people because that's how you make money. For every employee you employ (provided your employment is flat or increases), you will get a direct cash rebate from the Government (National, Provincial, and often city/municipality). It's how China keeps low employment - they don't have unemployment insurance, they just pay companies to keep people employed. So it's not just the cost of labor that you have to overcome - it's the cash bonus you get for hiring those people.
REAL Senators know that you simply hire foreign spies to work for you for a few decades. E-mail hacks are for those shiftless layabouts in Oregon, in California we go straight to putting spies on the payroll!
You had type? Coddled, pansy-ass wimps the lot of ya! We were still dreaming of a day for a written language, having to stamp figures into the mud on the bank of the river and wait for it to dry while dodging lions and ostriches trying to eat us. And we were happy about it!
Yes, read the statement again carefully. Does the phone include a headphone jack? No? Then your only other way to get audio out is low quality wireless audio. Oh, you can always BUY an additional equipment to get higher quality (not high resolution) audio from it - but that's not the phone, is it? That is the phone and some other device as well.
No, it is correct. The iPhone does not include a headphone jack. You can buy an external jack/adapter for it, but it does not have a jack. And it does not support any Bluetooth other than SBC and AAC - neither of which is more than 320 kbps, and are decidedly NOT high quality wireless audio. The comment is perfectly valid.
Unless your contention is that there IS a headphone jack on the iPhone, or that 320 kbps audio is high quality?
Tesla fans love to talk about gross margin - and completely ignore the mandatory costs such as sales and general administration costs REQUIRED to make those sales (yeah, we sold 40K cars! We're not going to count the cost of sales people, or showrooms, or delivery of vehicles in those costs - just the money coming in and the cost of the build of the car!)
Or even servicing the debt (even if just interest) on the money borrowed to make those cars. Never mind they borrowed billions of dollars to make those vehicles in the first place, they don't want to count the interest on that money as part of the cost of production of the cars.
It all stemps from pre-IPO Tesla using non-GAAP for all its reporting. Fake, Enron-esque numbers.
It's TRIVIAL to make big gross margin; it's hard to make net margin. And that's really what matters. When they HAVE to increase costs of the vehicles because they are running out of cash, AND the Government is no longer giving the buyer $7500 to purchase the car, we'll see what their sales really are. My guess is, when a Tesla buyer has to fork over another $25,000 to buy that car (the $35K mythical M3 becomes a $60K car), their sales will dry up like an Otter pop in a parking lot in Barstow in the summer.
Now I know why Android is the choice of dogs buying smartphones.
Weird how you pivoted from a lengthy discussion on Bluetooth into a discussion on iOS APIs.
Why not? iOS does not support any high quality Bluetooth stack, flat out. And then it was brought up about how iOS doesn't support high res audio - which I've given information to support. Don't see where things were pivoted by me.
Almost seems like you forgot that you can still plug headphones into an iPhone.
You can? Oh, you mean with an extra little dongle? The one you have to buy now? And still be limited to low-res/standard-res audio files digitally?
ALAC. It's Apple's perversion of FLAC - and it's limited to CD resolution (16 bit/44.1 kHz). FLAC would have supported resolution to 32 bit/384 kHz, but ALAC doesn't do that. With a WIFI system, it seems a no-brainer to do FLAC or a higher-than-CD resolution, where lossless compression gets you around 700 kbps. No need for saving a Mbps of bandwidth when you have a WIFI system.
iOS supports MP3, AAC, ALAC, WAV, and AIFF. WAV tops out at 24 bit/48 kHz. No DSD, FLAC, or high resolution WAV files for iOS without a lot of work and effort. Android, meanwhile, supports all those right out of the box!
Financial reports! Take a look. Check the revenue minus COGM minus the selling costs (SG&A). Already negative. That doesn't include interest on debt required to build those cars, either. They lose money on each unit - before any R&D or other expenditures. Cold, hard facts from Tesla's own financial reports.
Timothy Jost, emeritus professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, told us that "the basic statement that hundreds were adopted is wrong."
Because it's true? What Bluetooth CODEC supports bandwidth, SNR, and dynamic range of a CD, let alone high-res audio? There are two that come close: AptX HD and LDAC. AptX HD (in fact, the entire AptX family) is not available on iOS because CSR is not supported on iOS. And Sony created LDAC and it's only been ported to a few CSR chips and Microchip options - so no iOS support there, either.
It is pretty easy to compete if you don't have to make a profit. Ford turns a nice profit and a nice 6.5% dividend on top of it. Tesla loses thousands (nearly $18,000) on every vehicle it sells. EVs really don't compete on range (most modern cars can go 350+ miles on a single tank), on cost (well, only if they give them away at a loss AND get a fat Government subsidy added in), and most can't compete on performance (yes, there is "ludicrous" mode, but you will permanently lower the capacity of your car with a few too many hard launches), take hours to charge versus a few minutes, and unless you really dig the "iPad in the dash" or a Maserati-esque styling, just aren't cool.
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My Kindle Fires have ads on them. Of course I got a pretty sweet 8" full HD tablet for $59, so I guess that's the price I pay - ads on the lock screen.
China hires people because that's how you make money. For every employee you employ (provided your employment is flat or increases), you will get a direct cash rebate from the Government (National, Provincial, and often city/municipality). It's how China keeps low employment - they don't have unemployment insurance, they just pay companies to keep people employed. So it's not just the cost of labor that you have to overcome - it's the cash bonus you get for hiring those people.
Real wages are slowly moving up. And college tuition and fees are up, but not that bad - it's when you factor in room-and-board on-campus that things have really exploded.
YOU! Stop with the facts! We have xeno-climatology to do, and figure out how to blame aliens driving SUVs for the high temperatures!
Ahh, so San Bernardino, Orlando, Rothschild, San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, the Bronx, Antioch, and many more were all angry white alt-right guys? Thanks! Wasn't aware of that... Maybe I should ask you about the dozens of mass shootings in Chicago every year, alt-right angry white guys too?
UNLESS we're talking a phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range. Then they are perfectly acceptable.
The FBI and CIA (you know, the "intelligence community"?) has been saying it, the Democrats have been repeating it.
Because politics NEVER entered the leadership of the FBI and the CIA, amirite?
REAL Senators know that you simply hire foreign spies to work for you for a few decades. E-mail hacks are for those shiftless layabouts in Oregon, in California we go straight to putting spies on the payroll!
Where is the audio jack on the iPhone?
We're lazy - we need AI to take over...
You had type? Coddled, pansy-ass wimps the lot of ya! We were still dreaming of a day for a written language, having to stamp figures into the mud on the bank of the river and wait for it to dry while dodging lions and ostriches trying to eat us. And we were happy about it!
Yes, read the statement again carefully. Does the phone include a headphone jack? No? Then your only other way to get audio out is low quality wireless audio. Oh, you can always BUY an additional equipment to get higher quality (not high resolution) audio from it - but that's not the phone, is it? That is the phone and some other device as well.
No, it is correct. The iPhone does not include a headphone jack. You can buy an external jack/adapter for it, but it does not have a jack. And it does not support any Bluetooth other than SBC and AAC - neither of which is more than 320 kbps, and are decidedly NOT high quality wireless audio. The comment is perfectly valid.
Unless your contention is that there IS a headphone jack on the iPhone, or that 320 kbps audio is high quality?
Tesla fans love to talk about gross margin - and completely ignore the mandatory costs such as sales and general administration costs REQUIRED to make those sales (yeah, we sold 40K cars! We're not going to count the cost of sales people, or showrooms, or delivery of vehicles in those costs - just the money coming in and the cost of the build of the car!)
Or even servicing the debt (even if just interest) on the money borrowed to make those cars. Never mind they borrowed billions of dollars to make those vehicles in the first place, they don't want to count the interest on that money as part of the cost of production of the cars. It all stemps from pre-IPO Tesla using non-GAAP for all its reporting. Fake, Enron-esque numbers.
It's TRIVIAL to make big gross margin; it's hard to make net margin. And that's really what matters. When they HAVE to increase costs of the vehicles because they are running out of cash, AND the Government is no longer giving the buyer $7500 to purchase the car, we'll see what their sales really are. My guess is, when a Tesla buyer has to fork over another $25,000 to buy that car (the $35K mythical M3 becomes a $60K car), their sales will dry up like an Otter pop in a parking lot in Barstow in the summer.
Now I know why Android is the choice of dogs buying smartphones.
Weird how you pivoted from a lengthy discussion on Bluetooth into a discussion on iOS APIs.
Why not? iOS does not support any high quality Bluetooth stack, flat out. And then it was brought up about how iOS doesn't support high res audio - which I've given information to support. Don't see where things were pivoted by me.
Almost seems like you forgot that you can still plug headphones into an iPhone.
You can? Oh, you mean with an extra little dongle? The one you have to buy now? And still be limited to low-res/standard-res audio files digitally?
ALAC. It's Apple's perversion of FLAC - and it's limited to CD resolution (16 bit/44.1 kHz). FLAC would have supported resolution to 32 bit/384 kHz, but ALAC doesn't do that. With a WIFI system, it seems a no-brainer to do FLAC or a higher-than-CD resolution, where lossless compression gets you around 700 kbps. No need for saving a Mbps of bandwidth when you have a WIFI system.
iOS supports MP3, AAC, ALAC, WAV, and AIFF. WAV tops out at 24 bit/48 kHz. No DSD, FLAC, or high resolution WAV files for iOS without a lot of work and effort. Android, meanwhile, supports all those right out of the box!
Financial reports! Take a look. Check the revenue minus COGM minus the selling costs (SG&A). Already negative. That doesn't include interest on debt required to build those cars, either. They lose money on each unit - before any R&D or other expenditures. Cold, hard facts from Tesla's own financial reports.
Timothy Jost, emeritus professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, told us that "the basic statement that hundreds were adopted is wrong."
iOS does not support high-res audio files. Sorry!
Because it's true? What Bluetooth CODEC supports bandwidth, SNR, and dynamic range of a CD, let alone high-res audio? There are two that come close: AptX HD and LDAC. AptX HD (in fact, the entire AptX family) is not available on iOS because CSR is not supported on iOS. And Sony created LDAC and it's only been ported to a few CSR chips and Microchip options - so no iOS support there, either.
It is pretty easy to compete if you don't have to make a profit. Ford turns a nice profit and a nice 6.5% dividend on top of it. Tesla loses thousands (nearly $18,000) on every vehicle it sells. EVs really don't compete on range (most modern cars can go 350+ miles on a single tank), on cost (well, only if they give them away at a loss AND get a fat Government subsidy added in), and most can't compete on performance (yes, there is "ludicrous" mode, but you will permanently lower the capacity of your car with a few too many hard launches), take hours to charge versus a few minutes, and unless you really dig the "iPad in the dash" or a Maserati-esque styling, just aren't cool.
He was going on about "love is the answer" and other vapid, meaningless shit.
Maybe he is just a big fan of Todd Rundgren? Aww, who am I kidding - NO ONE is a fan of Todd Rundgren...
And you know that - how?
Not a single Republican amendment or proposal was included. You're lying.