ask the supervisor you get along with how to fill out an engineering change request and document the time and money savings along with the description of the exact procedure.
Before you do this . . . ask yourself if anyone without extra training in repair that the average assembler probably wouldn't have can do what you have in mind. Or alternately, if your proposed procedure is so much more efficient that it's cost-effective to give assembly personnel extra training. Remember that if the change goes through, everybody will be doing it that way, to make this kind of process change worthwhile, everybody has to be able to do it that way. Alternately, there may be some very good reason you don't know for doing it the original way.
Back when I was doing electronic tech work a generation ago, there was a PCB mounting screw that was in a location it was a PITA to get to that had no discernable reason for being in that specific location, there were non-PITA locations which would have worked. It was a big enough PITA that I asked for and got the engineering change request paperwork to fix the problem once and for all.
engineering change request procedure. I was working as a e-tech quite some time ago at a company building some first-generation voice analysis products... around 68000 microprocessors to give you an idea of the time frame, and it was small enough that test techs were doing final assembly as well as testing. There was a screw that was a PITA to get to that didn't need to be there, i.e. it would have worked equally well in an accessible place.
So I found out how to do an engineering change request, did the paperwork including drawings (pre-CAD)... it went through.
So figure out how to do this yourself and sell M$ the patent. Hint: Google Android tablets are down to $105 + shipping if you can make a Chinese connection. And most contain accelerometers. Look for one with a USB port so you can hook up other sensors.
They should simply remove every single public link to any content belonging to any UK BPI member or mentioning any BPI member's label artists, with any attempt to access such content via google going to a page telling people to contact the BPI for information about just why it is that BPI label and artist content has completely disappeared from google.
carry a netbook than a laptop boat anchor... and since I am not a public school student, I do.
And you're right about a netbook making a lot more sense. Create or select the apps to run on anything that's 1.6G or faster.
As for the secret that the superintendent and his IT staff are incompetent at best and crooks at worst, 'that ship done sailed'. If for no other reason, that some of those students are probably here.
and his cronies in IT without pay and start investigating whatever sweetheart deal the superintendent made with Apple or with an Apple VAR instead, including any kickbacks paid or to be paid to the superintendent. For instance, is the guy now driving a car far more expensive than superintendents usually drive? Is he moving to a wealthy, upscale neighborhood? Basically, the only justification I can see to require parents to buy their kids Macs is either dishonesty or incompetence... while the superintendent isn't required to know anything, he is required to be able to obtain honest, competent IT advice and it's obvious he didn't even try.
I can see requiring a laptop for students in the 21st Century. It's a lot cheaper to deliver textbooks on that platform and it's easier for students to carry a dozen textbooks if they're all on a hard drive and weigh nothing over and above the weight of a laptop.
If the IT people are incapable of delivering platform-agnostic documents and applications, they're either incompetent or should be under suspicion of participating in a conspiracy with the superintendent of defrauding the taxpayers.
You've never worked in electronics manufacturing. I'd say 5% or maybe less and in the long run, prices might even drop a few percent. Human labor costs aren't all that important to a properly designed automated manufacturing process. If labor gets expensive enough, it'll be replaced with robots or hard automation. I suspect that there are lots of jobs at Foxconn like the one that committed suicide because he couldn't face hand-polishing one more iPod. I'm sure there's a Chinese engineer who could design a machine to replace him for under $20K. (then build as many as one needs) The savings would ultimately come from hiring a whole lot less people to do jobs that no humans should be doing and deleting the infrastructure required to manage them along with higher throughput.
When labor is cheap enough, people don't automate where they should because they're thinking short-term rather than solving the problem once and for all by throwing capital at it, even if it would reduce their costs in the long-run.
is getting to the point where it's going to cost the Apple Corp. stockholders money if it's allowed to continue. mean, blowing off an app that's likely to sell a few tens of thousands of iPads to the educational market? Well, I'm sure that the developer will have no trouble finding a tablet computer running Win7 or Linux that the app can be ported to.
Jobs reallly should spend several hours watching this video looped which illustrates an entirely different attitude towards developers... and even for a Linux user, it's kind of a sad day when it's obvious that Apple needs to catch a clue FROM MICROSOFT.
needed color after somebody showed him an Atari ST with a Mac EPROM adaptor showing the Apple desktop in living color on a computer his company had nothing to do with.
a very large part of the brainpower behind the early years of the US space program could have been just as productive if the South had sunk into the ocean and they'd had to work from the West Coast. A rocket doesn't care where it's launcher is.
Leaving out the fact that tablets predate the iPad by quite a bit, the netbook has essentially the same electronics as a tablet requires in different packaging, the main differences being losing the keyboard, adding touchscreen, a slower processor, and a smaller battery.
A typical netbook could probably be hacked into a tablet in a couple of days, and there are probably several dozen of those hacks being floated around Asus and Toshiba and Dell and other places being used as software development platforms as I type this. If you absolutely can't wait for this kind of tablet, but a netbook and look for conversion how-tos and videos around the Net.
As for production, this isn't a full on design from scratch, one starts with a netbook schematic that already exists and put a mechanical engineer on new case design. If one wants it to be a phone, add one as a dongle if the netbook doesn't already have built-in 3G. If one wants the tablet to be a superphone, try downloading Google Android.
Apple's function here is to provide the ad budgets and the leverage to "legitimize" the tablet form factor to the point where one can find it in computer stores. And their environment as a whole for lovers of walled gardens as 'protection' against a scary world.
once. It was a Kawasaki 350 like mine, a couple of years older and parked next to my bike. With apparently, an identical lock cylinder. I was in the process of starting it when I looked down and saw that the shape of the instrument cluster had changed. At that point, I noticed I was starting the wrong motorcycle, stopped, moved to my own bike and took off.
I figured it was simply a 1 in several thousand chance and was mildly amused.
What's the value-add that makes their device worth $1000 when wintel tablets that can run a Linux netbook distro can be found for
In a modern hardware context, a tablet's just a repackaged netbook, Apple's package has what appears to be a slow CPU and a smaller battery. Where's the rocket science here?
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief "Research" and "Strategy" Officer really ought to try getting his ownR&D shop under control.
Maybe he should be back in Redmond trying to fix his company's joke of an R&D process (ZUNE!!!) rather than pontificate at Davos to VIPs who actually might mistake him for somebody with a clue about technology.
Baen Books sells most of its backlist (the part it doesn't give away free) for $5-6 per DRM-free book. I regard that price as reasonable and probably have spent $150 on their product in the last year, which I might read on my netbook or PDA or even my desktop. That's what DRM-free means, no happy horseshit involving proprietary DRM software locked to a single machine in a time when most likely customers are going to want to read or listen on more than one device. IOW, readily available, decently priced, and oddly enough, they make money for the publisher as well as saving it for the reader.
I don't have a lot of use for "walled garden" setups, whether they're Apple's or Amazon's.
experimenting with this. So far, it's only being done with a few "problem" families on welfare, but that's how it always starts. If one wants to restrict civil liberties, the public test case is always an unpopular minority... but it never stops there.
The researchers suggest these problems can be overcome by situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen -- essential algae nutrients that otherwise need to come from petroleum."
WTF? I suspect that biofuel researchers aren't going to flock to read a paper written by researchers who appear unaware that the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. If any of the researchers read this, I recommend googling on just what is in our atmosphere and follow up by googling on "nitrogen fixation".
he and his family need to move to a country that values science over superstition and is in general, more sanely run than the USA.
The principal and vice-principal of this allegedly "technical" high school should be fired and blacklisted, of course, but they'll probably get promoted instead.
I'm running Kubuntu Karmic, and I upgraded in place from Kubuntu Jaunty, I did not do a fresh install.
Seems to work better with ATI drivers, I've got the proprietary driver working for the first time since I bought this A780GM integrated motherboard. Nice to see the good old spinning cube desktop change running here again.
I'm happier with it than I was with Jaunty.
Minor rough edges. Workarounds mentioned not guaranteed to work for everyone.
1. USB ports after hub not recognized. Workaround - unplug, replug, enjoy your peripherals.
2. Suspend (pm-suspend - mine is set up with uswsusp) only works when you push power button, not from keyboard. Since it works on wake-on-LAN, it would be nice to see it fixed, but I'm in no hurry. However, if you want this to work consistently, you need to find a place to put (as root) ethtool -s eth0 wol g - best way to do that is to add it as a pm-suspend quirk so it'll get run during machine shutdown.
3. Sun Virtualbox does not print from WinXP with Kubuntu Karmic host. Presumably, you've already enabled yourself as a member of the vboxusers group. Add yourself to the lp group as well.
4. Network management applet still does not work properly. This may be because I manually edited a few files to deal with the same problem in Jaunty.
5. Proprietary driver manager (access via Hardware Drivers from menu) does nothing when you click activate button. Workaround - install envy-ng from repository and run it, if it won't run from the menus, use sudo envyng-t from terminal to run in text mode... and it's easy once you do this.
Presumably, people who adopt Karmic a few weeks from now will find all or most of these problems solved out of the box.
No horror story, no drama. Just another routine upgrade that leaves things running better and looking cooler.
I've been running it on my Linux desktop for years... with first, a Windows 98SE guest in Win4Lin, now WinXP and Win7 guests in Sun Virtualbox. The only reason why I don't have an OSX guest is that Apple won't sell one to me that'll run without hacking. This tech works exactly as advertised for me. I can run Linux and Windows apps against my datapool easily without having to keep two or more machines running to do this.
YMMV, especially if you're using something other than Virtualbox.
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ask the supervisor you get along with how to fill out an engineering change request and document the time and money savings along with the description of the exact procedure.
Before you do this . . . ask yourself if anyone without extra training in repair that the average assembler probably wouldn't have can do what you have in mind. Or alternately, if your proposed procedure is so much more efficient that it's cost-effective to give assembly personnel extra training. Remember that if the change goes through, everybody will be doing it that way, to make this kind of process change worthwhile, everybody has to be able to do it that way. Alternately, there may be some very good reason you don't know for doing it the original way.
Back when I was doing electronic tech work a generation ago, there was a PCB mounting screw that was in a location it was a PITA to get to that had no discernable reason for being in that specific location, there were non-PITA locations which would have worked. It was a big enough PITA that I asked for and got the engineering change request paperwork to fix the problem once and for all.
"$100mil machines that require expensive experts may be a new phenomena to them."
in a country with which has had quite a few Class One wafer fabs for quite some time? I doubt it.
engineering change request procedure. I was working as a e-tech quite some time ago at a company building some first-generation voice analysis products ... around 68000 microprocessors to give you an idea of the time frame, and it was small enough that test techs were doing final assembly as well as testing. There was a screw that was a PITA to get to that didn't need to be there, i.e. it would have worked equally well in an accessible place.
... it went through.
So I found out how to do an engineering change request, did the paperwork including drawings (pre-CAD)
So figure out how to do this yourself and sell M$ the patent. Hint: Google Android tablets are down to $105 + shipping if you can make a Chinese connection. And most contain accelerometers. Look for one with a USB port so you can hook up other sensors.
They should simply remove every single public link to any content belonging to any UK BPI member or mentioning any BPI member's label artists, with any attempt to access such content via google going to a page telling people to contact the BPI for information about just why it is that BPI label and artist content has completely disappeared from google.
carry a netbook than a laptop boat anchor... and since I am not a public school student, I do.
And you're right about a netbook making a lot more sense. Create or select the apps to run on anything that's 1.6G or faster.
As for the secret that the superintendent and his IT staff are incompetent at best and crooks at worst, 'that ship done sailed'. If for no other reason, that some of those students are probably here.
and his cronies in IT without pay and start investigating whatever sweetheart deal the superintendent made with Apple or with an Apple VAR instead, including any kickbacks paid or to be paid to the superintendent. For instance, is the guy now driving a car far more expensive than superintendents usually drive? Is he moving to a wealthy, upscale neighborhood? Basically, the only justification I can see to require parents to buy their kids Macs is either dishonesty or incompetence... while the superintendent isn't required to know anything, he is required to be able to obtain honest, competent IT advice and it's obvious he didn't even try.
I can see requiring a laptop for students in the 21st Century. It's a lot cheaper to deliver textbooks on that platform and it's easier for students to carry a dozen textbooks if they're all on a hard drive and weigh nothing over and above the weight of a laptop.
If the IT people are incapable of delivering platform-agnostic documents and applications, they're either incompetent or should be under suspicion of participating in a conspiracy with the superintendent of defrauding the taxpayers.
You've never worked in electronics manufacturing. I'd say 5% or maybe less and in the long run, prices might even drop a few percent. Human labor costs aren't all that important to a properly designed automated manufacturing process. If labor gets expensive enough, it'll be replaced with robots or hard automation. I suspect that there are lots of jobs at Foxconn like the one that committed suicide because he couldn't face hand-polishing one more iPod. I'm sure there's a Chinese engineer who could design a machine to replace him for under $20K. (then build as many as one needs) The savings would ultimately come from hiring a whole lot less people to do jobs that no humans should be doing and deleting the infrastructure required to manage them along with higher throughput.
When labor is cheap enough, people don't automate where they should because they're thinking short-term rather than solving the problem once and for all by throwing capital at it, even if it would reduce their costs in the long-run.
is getting to the point where it's going to cost the Apple Corp. stockholders money if it's allowed to continue. mean, blowing off an app that's likely to sell a few tens of thousands of iPads to the educational market? Well, I'm sure that the developer will have no trouble finding a tablet computer running Win7 or Linux that the app can be ported to.
Jobs reallly should spend several hours watching this video looped which illustrates an entirely different attitude towards developers... and even for a Linux user, it's kind of a sad day when it's obvious that Apple needs to catch a clue FROM MICROSOFT.
needed color after somebody showed him an Atari ST with a Mac EPROM adaptor showing the Apple desktop in living color on a computer his company had nothing to do with.
a very large part of the brainpower behind the early years of the US space program could have been just as productive if the South had sunk into the ocean and they'd had to work from the West Coast. A rocket doesn't care where it's launcher is.
Leaving out the fact that tablets predate the iPad by quite a bit, the netbook has essentially the same electronics as a tablet requires in different packaging, the main differences being losing the keyboard, adding touchscreen, a slower processor, and a smaller battery.
A typical netbook could probably be hacked into a tablet in a couple of days, and there are probably several dozen of those hacks being floated around Asus and Toshiba and Dell and other places being used as software development platforms as I type this. If you absolutely can't wait for this kind of tablet, but a netbook and look for conversion how-tos and videos around the Net.
As for production, this isn't a full on design from scratch, one starts with a netbook schematic that already exists and put a mechanical engineer on new case design. If one wants it to be a phone, add one as a dongle if the netbook doesn't already have built-in 3G. If one wants the tablet to be a superphone, try downloading Google Android.
Apple's function here is to provide the ad budgets and the leverage to "legitimize" the tablet form factor to the point where one can find it in computer stores. And their environment as a whole for lovers of walled gardens as 'protection' against a scary world.
once. It was a Kawasaki 350 like mine, a couple of years older and parked next to my bike. With apparently, an identical lock cylinder. I was in the process of starting it when I looked down and saw that the shape of the instrument cluster had changed. At that point, I noticed I was starting the wrong motorcycle, stopped, moved to my own bike and took off.
I figured it was simply a 1 in several thousand chance and was mildly amused.
What's the value-add that makes their device worth $1000 when wintel tablets that can run a Linux netbook distro can be found for
In a modern hardware context, a tablet's just a repackaged netbook, Apple's package has what appears to be a slow CPU and a smaller battery. Where's the rocket science here?
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief "Research" and "Strategy" Officer really ought to try getting his own R&D shop under control.
Maybe he should be back in Redmond trying to fix his company's joke of an R&D process (ZUNE!!!) rather than pontificate at Davos to VIPs who actually might mistake him for somebody with a clue about technology.
Baen Books sells most of its backlist (the part it doesn't give away free) for $5-6 per DRM-free book. I regard that price as reasonable and probably have spent $150 on their product in the last year, which I might read on my netbook or PDA or even my desktop. That's what DRM-free means, no happy horseshit involving proprietary DRM software locked to a single machine in a time when most likely customers are going to want to read or listen on more than one device. IOW, readily available, decently priced, and oddly enough, they make money for the publisher as well as saving it for the reader.
I don't have a lot of use for "walled garden" setups, whether they're Apple's or Amazon's.
Needless to say, I don't read e-books on Kindle.
experimenting with this. So far, it's only being done with a few "problem" families on welfare, but that's how it always starts. If one wants to restrict civil liberties, the public test case is always an unpopular minority... but it never stops there.
I dumped PayPal years ago. AFAIK, the kind of horror stories that are common with PayPal don't appear to be happening yet with Google Checkouts.
WTF? I suspect that biofuel researchers aren't going to flock to read a paper written by researchers who appear unaware that the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. If any of the researchers read this, I recommend googling on just what is in our atmosphere and follow up by googling on "nitrogen fixation".
he and his family need to move to a country that values science over superstition and is in general, more sanely run than the USA.
The principal and vice-principal of this allegedly "technical" high school should be fired and blacklisted, of course, but they'll probably get promoted instead.
for the insurgents. As soon as this analysis becomes part of DOD operational planning, they can choose to attack in ways that don't match the pattern.
PEBKAC means "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair". Like quite a few thousand other people, I've used OO for years without difficulty.
I switched to Kubuntu to avoid the problems I had with Debian and drivers.
Worked, too.
I'm running Kubuntu Karmic, and I upgraded in place from Kubuntu Jaunty, I did not do a fresh install.
... and it's easy once you do this.
Seems to work better with ATI drivers, I've got the proprietary driver working for the first time since I bought this A780GM integrated motherboard. Nice to see the good old spinning cube desktop change running here again.
I'm happier with it than I was with Jaunty.
Minor rough edges. Workarounds mentioned not guaranteed to work for everyone.
1. USB ports after hub not recognized. Workaround - unplug, replug, enjoy your peripherals.
2. Suspend (pm-suspend - mine is set up with uswsusp) only works when you push power button, not from keyboard. Since it works on wake-on-LAN, it would be nice to see it fixed, but I'm in no hurry. However, if you want this to work consistently, you need to find a place to put (as root) ethtool -s eth0 wol g - best way to do that is to add it as a pm-suspend quirk so it'll get run during machine shutdown.
3. Sun Virtualbox does not print from WinXP with Kubuntu Karmic host. Presumably, you've already enabled yourself as a member of the vboxusers group. Add yourself to the lp group as well.
4. Network management applet still does not work properly. This may be because I manually edited a few files to deal with the same problem in Jaunty.
5. Proprietary driver manager (access via Hardware Drivers from menu) does nothing when you click activate button. Workaround - install envy-ng from repository and run it, if it won't run from the menus, use sudo envyng-t from terminal to run in text mode
Presumably, people who adopt Karmic a few weeks from now will find all or most of these problems solved out of the box.
No horror story, no drama. Just another routine upgrade that leaves things running better and looking cooler.
I've been running it on my Linux desktop for years... with first, a Windows 98SE guest in Win4Lin, now WinXP and Win7 guests in Sun Virtualbox. The only reason why I don't have an OSX guest is that Apple won't sell one to me that'll run without hacking. This tech works exactly as advertised for me. I can run Linux and Windows apps against my datapool easily without having to keep two or more machines running to do this.
YMMV, especially if you're using something other than Virtualbox.