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Comment: Re:Did they break any laws? (Score 5, Insightful) 696

by telchine (#43780203) Attached to: Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds

If what they did is legal, so what? I take every tax deduction I can legally find, why shouldn't Apple?

Because the world is changing and it's no longer socially acceptable to just pay what's legal, it's considered inappropriate to pay less than what people would consider to be a fair amount. If you're paying $1 of tax on $1000 of earnings because you've cleverly nested your business assets overseas in a complex web of tax avoidance schemes, then most people would consider that unfair, even if it is legal.

Tax avoidance (NB not the same thing as tax evasion) was once considered socially acceptable. Of late there's been a swing the other way and national governments are now putting pressure on organisations to pay their fair share of tax (as opposed to just their legal obligation). Companies that don't conform get "outed" in the media. This bad publicity can cause the companies involved to suffer a punishment of a loss in revenue - the public are less likely to do business with companies they see as not paying their fare share of tax.

Sort of like an extortion racket, except it's okay because it's the government doing it :p

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AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's 147

Posted by timothy
from the hari-seldon dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In a 15-way graphics card comparison on Linux of both the open and closed-source drivers, it was found that the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver is much faster than the open-source NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 13.04. The open-source NVIDIA driver is developed entirely by the community via reverse-engineering, but for Linux desktop users, is this enough? The big issue for the open-source 'Nouveau' driver is that it doesn't yet fully support re-clocking the graphics processor so that the hardware can actually run at its rated speeds. With the closed-source AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce results, the drivers were substantially faster than their respective open-source driver. Between NVIDIA and AMD on Linux, the NVIDIA closed-source driver was generally doing better than AMD Catalyst."

Comment: Re:HTML isn't anymore (Score 5, Funny) 302

by telchine (#43537097) Attached to: Stop Standardizing HTML

HTML needs an active companion language, an actual programming language, one that will replace the disparate third-party technologies in use today. Just eliminating Flash and Javascript for example would eliminate a vast majority of the world's browsing headaches.

I agree!

I shall call this new language "Jscript"!

-Bill

Comment: Re:A quick death from a dying market. (Score 3, Informative) 202

by telchine (#43499593) Attached to: IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo

A quick buck, or a quick death in a dying market?

Well said! IBM might not be the giants they once were but they're still pretty clued up. They sold off Thinkpad to Leveno and it's pretty clear now that the PC* market is dying.

The server market may well be about to choke it with cloud servers becoming so popular (AWS and whatnort). It doesn't seem sensible for a company of IBM's size to hold on to a market that is fast becoming a niece market.

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*I use "PC market" to mean "desktop/laptop market"... I hate it how Apple commandeered the term PC as if it somehow doesn't apply to Macs

For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz.

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