Posts by Eddy Ito

It's things like this

It helps to know which Senators have a clue and this type of proposed legislation is key in pointing out those who are, shall we say, lumen impaired.

No! Seriously...

"A ban on Apple products would certainly hurt the company, and quite possibly the US economy"

Come now, that's a bit of a stretch don't you think? According to Google Finance they have 34,300 employees and a bit over $10 billion cash in pocket, so it isn't likely they would rush to lay anyone off, at least for a few days. While I'm sure it would cost them a few dollars, they are hardly on the brink and even if they were, they aren't that important regardless of what some people might think.

The problem exactly

"... or the twice the loss suffered by victims."

But the "authorities" have not the vaguest clue as to who the victims really are or what their losses might be.

"HP, Apple, Dell all victimised"

Exactly the problem, how do you determine how they were hurt? By counting the number of lost sales, meaning guess, due to the forced inflation of prices. Do you also include the loss to consumers who did pay the higher price and include in the accounting the lower per unit profit made by the corporate "victims" based on consistent margins or does the margin need adjusting? Indeed, do they just slide up and down the elusive supply/demand curves and pick a point they "feel in their gut" to be right? Yeah, I thought so too, $100m it is then.

Simply awe-some!

Sweet Jezebel, I'll gladly throw a C1 into the glove box of each car plus another one in the first aid kits in the boat and the kitchen. Hells bells, for a few quid more than an emergency radio and a flashlight, they're tossing in a mobile! Add prepaid SIMs and press play!

mass-market?

"... the planned four-seater, $50k Model S, intended for mass-market customers."

And which mass market would that be? For $50k, you can buy two mass-market cars or one mass-market car and enough petrol to run it a decade.

I hate that too

Me thinks Señor Jobs doesn't like the Hermano Mayor style competition. Could it be Jobs is, in secret, Winston Smith? I'm feeling faint, mas tequila camarera!

lovely

You have to admire technology that can clear its own LZ.

Cart before horse?

When the US was really an agrarian nation, people didn't have trucks or cars. They had these things called horses which pulled various carts, carriages and the occasional sleigh. It wasn't until this little thing called the industrial revolution was well underway, if not finished, when people really got cars or trucks. Besides, the whole truck fad in the US was due to government largess handed to the big three in the form of a 25% tariff on the foreign competition. Before that trucks were, by and large, spartan work vehicles with stiff suspensions but now they are fairly car like with plush interiors that you really don't want to get dirty much less clean with a hose the way we used to.

Grad school students!?

WTF were they thinking? Grad school courses are singularly focused and the books are ones the student is more likely to keep for reference after graduation. Go after the books they are going to ditch at the end of semester from subjects of no real interest and are usually found in undergrad degrees. Still going to need the highlighter and jotting functions though.

Want

Where is the queue for development kits? As an aside, I suppose the trolls will be off to patent every application they can imagine.

FaceBook Idiots

The new FBI

Pointless

Will they also institute a Ministry of Yielding Adequate and Recondite System of Encryption? Someone must be tasked with ensuring "password", "1234", and "qwert[y,z]" are banned.

Don't forget boats...

Does this mean boats will get the Dock from a Mac?