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6 hours ago, Ray7 wrote

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The tax is applied when the money is repatriated, which Apple would need to do to pay the shareholders. 

because dividends are something paid by the corporate entity, which is Apple.  AOI can keep its money off shore because it is another corporate entity?  Which raises the question to me of why not move the entire Apple corp off shore? That way the corp could distribute its non US earnings without paying US taxes at all.

A Samsung has a big advantage over a US based corporation in this regard. It can have research facilities in the US, but its global earnings are likely taxed at a much lower rate than the US company with the same degree of US based research and production.

I don't follow why the foreign holding company that has all of the Apple money can't just send the money direct to Apple shareholders, avoiding the need to pay American taxes on money transferred to Apple America.  The thinking of conservatives is corporations should not have to pay any income tax. Just as with partnerships, taxes on profits should be paid by shareholders when the profits are distributed via dividends.

$8 per device is not very much. And the patents last for 17 years, correct?  Many windows patents must date back a decade or more, right?

So I am seeing that in Java the CLASSPATH is the path of the directory that contains the Java classes your app is running. How is it that Java has a classpath and .net does not?  In .NET all the assemblies are copied to the bin directory of the .exe file. There is the GAC, but how commonly is the GAC used for user written applications? 

So why doesn't Java do the same thing?  Even the PATH environment variable that is so important in Java and Unix, not so in Windows. Is the difference because Windows apps copy all the binaries into the bin directory?

I kind of like the CLASSPATH and PATH approach if it enables me to keep from having multiple copies of assemblies across the system. But maybe that convenience breaks down as each app is built against a different version of the same named assembly.

Interested to know the official rational for Java having a classpath but not .NET.

3 hours ago, evildictait​or wrote

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Revenues have nearly tripled from $25.3bn (£16.6bn) in 2001 to $74.3bn in 2012, and operating income has risen from $11.7bn to $25.3bn.

Ballmer has not grown the scope of the business.  Media center has gone nowhere in terms of integrating with the cable box.  My windows phone has nothing from the user perspective that makes it stand out.  A windows tablet should have been to market before the iPad. A windows mobile should be running on any phone with a cpu. And now MSFT is nowhere with robots.

1 hour ago, GoddersUK wrote

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ROFLMAOCOPTERLOLS

Unless the "other investors" are planning to do that anyway they'll need a lot more than 1% and if they're planning to do it anyway I'm not sure that 1% will make a whole lot of difference.

you don't invest $1 Billion unless you have a plan. Maybe the investor has reason to believe other non Bill / non Ballmer shareholders are ready to push Ballmer out.  It is not like the current management team has shown any ability to grow the business.

12 hours ago, felix9 wrote

IE11 has a very intereting F12 tools,

Large part of it is written in TypeScript, and it support TypeScript debugging natively.

And it looks Modern

IE10 has an "install new versions automatically" checkbox.  Would that mean IE11 would be automatically installed?  Which is what chrome does, no ?

11 hours ago, felix9 wrote

But the most interesting part of Blue is FileManager, desktop is not needed anymore

will FIleManager have namespace extensions?

That is really neat to know. Thank you. So what am I missing? Why is Script# not a big deal? And what does Dart provide ( other than the Dart VM ) that Script# does not?

@vesuvius: to monetize a web language have hooks to azure and bing.

Dart, as I understand it, compiles to .js which then runs in the browser. Would C# be able to do the same?

I see Dart is not statically typed ( guessing ) . Is that a requirement of a DOM language? Maybe have it statically typed where all the HTML5 attributes are pre defined. And if you introduce new attributes to the HTML tags you have to declare them somehow to the classes the language uses to represent the DOM objects?