Why the hell are people still planting almonds in California ? 1.1 gallons of water to grow 1 nut FFS!
Full disclosure: I was an Apple Core OS kernel team member at the time. I stole 7% of the kernel that runs on the things from Mach and BSD.
FTFY
Given that I also wrote much of the init.c in FreeBSD, you probably failed to fix that for me.
I heard GW Bush claim Saddam had WMDs too, and that didn't happen did it?
Actually, that one did. It resulted in both "Gulf War Syndrome", and a pretty big scandal where Monsanto brokered the deal to sell the machines to manufacture chemical weapons to them from a German company, said deal routed through France. But nice try.
PS: Plus we sold them the Sarin the used against their Kurdish separatists directly, so we knew they had it at one time, and were just hoping they hadn't used it all up so we could say "Aha! Stockpiles!".
Maybe robots could build desalination plants?
It's pretty damn sure that humans never will...
We're well on our way to getting one built in Carlsbad, near San Diego. I hope there are more to follow.
"It will produce 50 million gallons of water per day and will provide 7% of the potable water needs for the San Diego region."
Cool. Now you only need to build another 14 of them to satisfy the water needs of the area...
Maybe robots could build desalination plants?
It''s pretty damn sure that humans never will; they'll plan them, and then shelve the plans, over and over. At least robots are single-minded enough to actually do the work.
Ohh FFS -- that was at the initial launch and not done as a fuck you but simply because they were more interested in just getting the new product and OS out the door.
It was definitely a "fuck you, this is a phone; this is not another fucking Newton".
Full disclosure: I was an Apple Core OS kernel team member at the time. I wrote 7% of the kernel that runs on the things.
IIRC FAR 103 doesn't allow flying over cities.
That's a misdemeanor.
No, it is made very clear that Pearson was a subcontractor to Apple. The total contract was Apples, so the fault/responsibility is Apples.
If they had simply sold the ipads and said 'go look for some software' it would be very different.. but they did not.
When someone preloads software that you request be preloaded on a device, that does *NOT* make the software vendor of that software a "subcontractor".
Unless, you know, (1) there was a contract between Apple and Pearson relating to contract line items, and (2) There was *no* contract between LA Unified and Pearson, and (3) LA Unified did not specify the curriculum software to use, and (4) Apple was acting as a slaes agent, rather than as an intermediary.
The breakdown they (LA Unified) gave was:
Special Case ($80);
3-year Apple Care warranty ($150);
Pre-loaded apps ($13-$21);
Pearson curriculum ($150-$300);
PD ($20); and
Buffer Pool ($20).
So it's pretty clear that they meet none of the criteria for subcontractor under the contract.
"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
