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by joakleaf 13y ago
Sorry "depict historical accuracy". Seriously? It is a game, it doesn't depict anything accurately. I don't find offensive, but I can that people would; I don't think a WW2 game is particularly amusing for the peopl
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Gray area in the sense that it actually offends some people whereas most people just shake their head.
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Apple sells these products (and takes a 30% cut), so they have some responsibility for what they are selling. They don't want to offend anyone, so they made a list of rules. Their review team interprets rules literally. We may shake ou
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Eh… Goog is smaller than Aapl wrt. both market cap and cash. So if Google can, so can Apple ;-)
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Yeah, pointers are double size, but the majority of RAM for iOS apps is used by images and other resources. These do not grow in size. Most apps are not using tens of megabytes for pointer based graph-structures etc. or code. They are howev
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Sorry. No atitude! Just pointing out that it is impossible to guess, and that your last number constitutes less than 1% of the total estimated iPhone 5Ss sold.
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by joakleaf 13y ago
In that case, I stand corrected and I am sorry about that. However, it does sound like it would be really easy for the US government to convince everybody that citizens should also have their finger prints scanned to confirm their identity.
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by joakleaf 13y ago
I am sorry, but I think you are assuming a little bit too much here. You are guestimating that 4000 gold phones were sold in the stores based on a 10 per store rumored number you've heard and 400 stores. Then you guess that retail is o
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by joakleaf 13y ago
When you enter the US, you've had to give your finger prints for many years now. I've even been scanned once leaving. That means they have a database of all US and non -US citizen's who has entered the country. I am not a US
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by joakleaf 13y ago
We've seen this for a couple of weeks now... The NSA can collect your finger print from the airport among other places already with technology specifically for this purpose. How do they benefit from collecting your fingerprint from a p
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by joakleaf 13y ago
No, but Apple probably sold most of their phones via their web site and not from retail stores. Otherwise each retail store would have sold 20000 phones by the reverse of your math. So 4000 is probably not a very accurate estimate either...
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Well... yeah, but there is quite a lot of smearing. Will the quality of the finger print you can extract that way using whatever means you have be of high enough quality? It is not obvious to me that you'll be able to get something tha
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by joakleaf 13y ago
So the big question is, how hard is it to get at 2400 DPI finger print? They don't show if they can scan the finger print off the phone. I would imagine that it could be quite tricky to get that level of resolution. I would like to see
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Isn't it exactly a very useful benchmark if you are going to use the phone primarily for browsing webpages with javascript on them?
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by joakleaf 13y ago
It takes a lot to hit that RAM barrier on iOS with code. Yes 64-bit code takes up more space than 32-bit code, but the majority of memory is not used for code. It is used for images etc. -- Most apps do not use large amounts of memory for
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Every time you enter the USA they get your fingerprints! And plenty of them... They even scanned me on the way out once. They have what they need already.
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by joakleaf 13y ago
The current valuation would be very good if they sold around 60000 Model S/year: They have a Market Cap of $16B. Estimated longer term profit per Model S sold is around $15000 (as far as I remember); I think they are aiming for
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Except, if it is made in a factory you have: • Transportation costs from factory to store • Cost for additional space required to hold stock If it is sold through a store • Cost for display space in a store • Cost of a sales person selling
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by joakleaf 13y ago
No. The entire workforce was 2818000 people in 2012 according to Wikipedia ( http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbejdsstyrke ). So an additional 16000 unemployed people constitute approximately 0.5% of the workforce. I don&
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by joakleaf 13y ago
I wouldn't call a drop of 16000 in 2012 "astounding". It is 0.5% of the entire workforce. 6000 of those 16000 were from the public sector, so it was really just 10000 workplaces lost in the private sector in 2012 (Jan-Nov). I
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by joakleaf 13y ago
> I am not looking at the overall tax burden, I am looking at the margin. It is still 57% not 65%. But also still too high in my opinion. > If 1000 of salary increase brings you 350, the incentive of being "ambitious" is dra
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Do you have references regarding the "Denmark is loosing jobs at an astounding rate" statement? It doesn't seem in line with the fact that the unemployment rate has been dropping over the last couple of years, or that it is i
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by joakleaf 13y ago
It is true that you can save up the profit for next year (a rainy day as you say), but that doesn't create growth or benefit society. In a sense if you have a higher corporate tax there is a larger incentive to spend that money in the
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Germany got significant help from the US; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan Taxes are maxed at 57% for income above $70000/year. It is around 40% for income less than $70000. The initial around $10000 ar
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by joakleaf 13y ago
I agree that too many people are employed by the public sector. This number grew rapidly in the 1970s, but has continue to grow (although much less) steadily since. http://punditokraterne.dk/2012/06/22/offentl
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by joakleaf 13y ago
Good thing your post wasn't a bug-report, although you do mention that something doesn't work. You didn't describe any symptoms or argue why the Danish system no longer works or what precisely doesn't work, so it would b
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by joakleaf 13y ago
How is it Windows all over again? Windows 3.0 and 95 were built on top of DOS which already had the majority of the market. Apple never had a large portion of the world-market in the 80s and 90s. Samsung doesn't make the operating syst
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by joakleaf 13y ago
In reality this is a subset sum problem (unless I overlooked weights on the appetizers). Rather than using the GA for this, there are extremely efficient dynamic programming methods available (in pseudo-polynomial time). References on the W
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by joakleaf 13y ago
It really depends on how much functionality you want for both methods. Rasterization really doesn't require that much work, but you need to be able to do a world/view-transform, clip triangles/quads, and do perspective correc
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by joakleaf 15y ago
Please. They have always been meaningless. In the 80s we were trying to compare Amigas, PCs and Macs. Well the PC had faster scrolling in its word processors, because it used text-mode graphics (the entire screen was 4KB, so it could scroll

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