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  • Microsoft hammered with $29 billion back-tax bill

    darkvaderdarkvader
    This is theft. 

    The government wants money. Solution? Just retroactively “adjust” someone’s taxes from years ago! A good solid decade ought to do it. 

    Pure evil. If there was ac actual issue all this years ago, the IRS WOULD HAVE NOTIFIED THEM AND THEY COULD PAY WHAT WAS OWED. this isn’t that. This is an extortionist government. 

    Microsoft didn’t do anything illegal. They took advantage of the way the tax systems were set up, like any smart company would do. 
    The only theft is what Micro$oft did.  And the sad part is that a company with $136 billion in profits in 2022 only has to pay $29 billion in penalties for their decade of theft.
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  • Steve Jobs wanted Macintosh design to be like the early Beatles

    darkvaderdarkvader
    baconstang said:
    macxpress said:
    Is this like, make the iMac look like a sunflower and we got the iMac G4 which BTW was a very cool and great looking Mac but overall was a poor iMac. The arm mechanism was a failure point on many of those. 
    I had a G4 iMac for years, the arm was never a problem.  I guess YMMV.
    Accessing the inside WAS a problem...
    I still have one.  The arm is fine.  (Doesn't get moved much these days though, it's mostly a static display.)

    Never really had much trouble accessing the inside, having to redo the thermal paste every time I opened one was a bit annoying.

    I only remember ever replacing one arm, they were pretty reliable.
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  • Steve Jobs wanted Macintosh design to be like the early Beatles

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Weird.

    That article has words in it, but they make absolutely no sense.
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  • Apple releases iOS 17.0.3 & iPadOS 17.0.3 with overheating fixes

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Remember when I said "This is on Apple" and people here were like "nO iTs Teh aPP dEvelOPers!"?

    This was on Apple.
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  • 2014 to 2023: Apple Car has been in the works for almost a decade

    darkvaderdarkvader
    That's a lot of words to say "Apple has been playing with somebody's pet projects that will never lead to a product for a decade."

    There is no Apple car.  There isn't going to be an Apple car.

    If Apple got serious about wanting to become a car company today (and they are absolutely NOT serious about it now) it would take at least a decade for them to release a car, and given how bad Apple (and to be fair all software companies) are about fixing bugs and introducing new ones, probably never be safe to drive.

    An oldie but goodie:

    At a recent computer exposition, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If General Motors had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

    In response to Bill’s comments, GM issued a press release stating: “If General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

    1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
    2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
    3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this.
    4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
    5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive – but would run on only five percent of the roads.
    6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “General Protection Fault” warning light.
    7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.
    8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
    9. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
    10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.

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