Or, it turns out that the throw away culture is universally more profitable for manufacturers so that's what they do. That is, we've hit a false minimum in the process of optimizing the system using the drunkards walk.
In other words, even if the consumer would happily pay $10 more now for a phone that can be repaired, the manufacturer knows they will fork over $800 more in three years if it can't be repaired.
Speaking of not knowing what one is talking about, do you REALLY think industrial screw guns have a little robot hand to pick individual screws up out of a bag or something? It's a long solved problem, and certainly no more expensive than shooting glue through a nozzle (complete with clogs, heating element failures, calibrating the exact amount of glue etc.). Whatever the price difference may be for the screw gun, amortize it over millions of units produced.
It really isn't that expensive to screw the back of an LCD TV on, nor is it expensive to use common off-the-shelf cold cathode tubes that can be easily changed out. For an example.
It's also funny how the expensive products are the ones that go with ultrasonic welding or glued together cases first while the cheap products still have screws. It's almost like they didn't save any money using glue.
I'll see your anecdote and call. I doubled the usable lifetime of my phone which I use as a grown-up tool for communication by replacing the battery when it crapped out.
And for people who use them as social plumage instead, wouldn't it be nice if you could put a new battery in and get some resale value out of that phone that's "so last week"? You could use that to buy an even more prestigious phone.
That's because more often than not, the $20 widget turns out to be the $10 widget in a more expensive looking case. Having been burned over and over by that, the consumer now buys the cheap one to limit the loss.
Sorry, wrong. Machines placing screws is a long ago solved problem. The last funny screw that was in any way mechanically better was the torx. The funky pentalobe and anti-tamper torx, etc are just the manufacturer being an asshole.
Absolute 100% pure bull shit. It does NOT triple the cost of a device to make the most common causes of failure repairable. As for infrastructure, you mean a website for ordering parts from the same source the manufacturer uses (or just sell through Amazon)?
I guess when the manufacturers offered the cool aid, you went back for thirds.
The thing is, we are really good at getting people through the physical withdrawal when we want to be. It can even be accomplished painlessly while the patient is in deep sedation if necessary. It's only done that way for people who can afford private clinics mostly because our society has a real punitive bloodlust just below the surface.
The psychological aspects are harder. That's the part that causes the now-clean addict to shoot up again anyway. Social connection and having the sort of life one looks forward to helps that part a great deal.
“But the plans were on display”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
The problem in your American scenario is that Bob and Alice came to a mutual agreement (a meeting of minds) to have Cherles arbitrate.
To match the situation in TFA, Alice has killed literally every other developer out there. She writes in the arbitration clause naming her cousin Charles as the arbitrator and tells Bob "sign it or pound sand meathead!".
I don't know about AC, but I can name a few reasons. First, systemd is the noob, it's up to it to fit in with existing systems which may already have user names it doesn't like. Or it should at least not create an accident waiting to happen (that is, at least fail clean).
Second, any software should be liberal in what it accepts and strict in it's output. I suppose that's an argument that it be fixed in systemd AND the other utilities. Robust systems should deal in a reasonable way with illegal but not actually impossible situations.Surely system init should be robust.
Read your link all the way through. It simply suggests that heel striking may not be Cthulhu level evil and that there's more to a good gait than just shifting to the forefoot. It also suggested that over-stride may be more important to correct.
They absolutely are still breaking the law. Unfortunately, prosecutors break their necks looking the other way and judjes break their backs from bending backwards. Blackmail may be involved.
Everything about them promotes heel striking as a running style. Humans are supposed to land on the balls of their feet so the calf can act as a spring.
The NSA. It pooped it's pants right there in the public square. And rather than trying to clean up, it just stands there yelling "MY SHIT DON'T STINK!" while continuing to make squeaky farts..
This is probably go to a new school next year level public humiliation, but they apparently have no shame.
If you should see someone who works for the NSA, hand them a roll of toilet paper.
When the app makers are busy apping their app apps, they tend to forget that the entire network doesn't look like it does in their offices and that there might be places where there is no signal at all. Others are somewhat aware and tell their children scary stories about people who go to those places and aren't heard from for minutes at a time!
It makes perfect sense to re-issue the fines if the source camera is found to have never been infected. That doesn't involve extensive testing. But if the camera was infected, better to let it go than spend millions certifying they operate correctly under a condition everyone hopes they will never be in again.
Since the camera is actually using radar, it will depend on precision components behaving with precision. It is not at all unusual for such devices to need at least a short time to come to stable operation. Flipping power on and off frequently (as rebooting can do to peripherals) is not a good way to achieve that.
Without manufacturer certification for accuracy under those conditions, it might as well read "for novelty use only" on the side.
It's way above cosmic rays as a probability. It's a system that may or may not be doing a normal initialization and that is certainly doing so more frequently than it should. It's a system depending on stable oscillators when the temperature is swinging widely.
Perhaps more to the point, It's a condition that the manufacturer is unlikely to certify accuracy for.
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Or, it turns out that the throw away culture is universally more profitable for manufacturers so that's what they do. That is, we've hit a false minimum in the process of optimizing the system using the drunkards walk.
In other words, even if the consumer would happily pay $10 more now for a phone that can be repaired, the manufacturer knows they will fork over $800 more in three years if it can't be repaired.
Speaking of not knowing what one is talking about, do you REALLY think industrial screw guns have a little robot hand to pick individual screws up out of a bag or something? It's a long solved problem, and certainly no more expensive than shooting glue through a nozzle (complete with clogs, heating element failures, calibrating the exact amount of glue etc.). Whatever the price difference may be for the screw gun, amortize it over millions of units produced.
It really isn't that expensive to screw the back of an LCD TV on, nor is it expensive to use common off-the-shelf cold cathode tubes that can be easily changed out. For an example.
It's also funny how the expensive products are the ones that go with ultrasonic welding or glued together cases first while the cheap products still have screws. It's almost like they didn't save any money using glue.
Pointless since we already have torx.
I'll see your anecdote and call. I doubled the usable lifetime of my phone which I use as a grown-up tool for communication by replacing the battery when it crapped out.
And for people who use them as social plumage instead, wouldn't it be nice if you could put a new battery in and get some resale value out of that phone that's "so last week"? You could use that to buy an even more prestigious phone.
So greed coupled with a belief that the market doesn't work?
In some cases, it is clear that the manufacturer spent many tens of thousands of dollars on making the product less repairable.
That's because more often than not, the $20 widget turns out to be the $10 widget in a more expensive looking case. Having been burned over and over by that, the consumer now buys the cheap one to limit the loss.
Sorry, wrong. Machines placing screws is a long ago solved problem. The last funny screw that was in any way mechanically better was the torx. The funky pentalobe and anti-tamper torx, etc are just the manufacturer being an asshole.
Absolute 100% pure bull shit. It does NOT triple the cost of a device to make the most common causes of failure repairable. As for infrastructure, you mean a website for ordering parts from the same source the manufacturer uses (or just sell through Amazon)?
I guess when the manufacturers offered the cool aid, you went back for thirds.
The thing is, we are really good at getting people through the physical withdrawal when we want to be. It can even be accomplished painlessly while the patient is in deep sedation if necessary. It's only done that way for people who can afford private clinics mostly because our society has a real punitive bloodlust just below the surface.
The psychological aspects are harder. That's the part that causes the now-clean addict to shoot up again anyway. Social connection and having the sort of life one looks forward to helps that part a great deal.
Probably because you could buy 4 or more good ARM boards for the cost of a single Intel board.
Intel discovered that nobody is going to pay the Intel surcharge in a field without a pile of legacy software.
I'll counter with:
“But the plans were on display”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
The problem in your American scenario is that Bob and Alice came to a mutual agreement (a meeting of minds) to have Cherles arbitrate.
To match the situation in TFA, Alice has killed literally every other developer out there. She writes in the arbitration clause naming her cousin Charles as the arbitrator and tells Bob "sign it or pound sand meathead!".
I don't know about AC, but I can name a few reasons. First, systemd is the noob, it's up to it to fit in with existing systems which may already have user names it doesn't like. Or it should at least not create an accident waiting to happen (that is, at least fail clean).
Second, any software should be liberal in what it accepts and strict in it's output. I suppose that's an argument that it be fixed in systemd AND the other utilities. Robust systems should deal in a reasonable way with illegal but not actually impossible situations.Surely system init should be robust.
Most people believe the flu sucks, but it remains "popular".
Read your link all the way through. It simply suggests that heel striking may not be Cthulhu level evil and that there's more to a good gait than just shifting to the forefoot. It also suggested that over-stride may be more important to correct.
I have no issue with any of those statements.
It would certainly make the CEO find a way to pay people better, now wouldn't it?
They absolutely are still breaking the law. Unfortunately, prosecutors break their necks looking the other way and judjes break their backs from bending backwards. Blackmail may be involved.
Everything about them promotes heel striking as a running style. Humans are supposed to land on the balls of their feet so the calf can act as a spring.
I think the homophones are those supposedly strait guys who keep looking at your junk in the bathroom to decide if you should be in there or not.
The NSA. It pooped it's pants right there in the public square. And rather than trying to clean up, it just stands there yelling "MY SHIT DON'T STINK!" while continuing to make squeaky farts..
This is probably go to a new school next year level public humiliation, but they apparently have no shame.
If you should see someone who works for the NSA, hand them a roll of toilet paper.
When the app makers are busy apping their app apps, they tend to forget that the entire network doesn't look like it does in their offices and that there might be places where there is no signal at all. Others are somewhat aware and tell their children scary stories about people who go to those places and aren't heard from for minutes at a time!
It makes perfect sense to re-issue the fines if the source camera is found to have never been infected. That doesn't involve extensive testing. But if the camera was infected, better to let it go than spend millions certifying they operate correctly under a condition everyone hopes they will never be in again.
Since the camera is actually using radar, it will depend on precision components behaving with precision. It is not at all unusual for such devices to need at least a short time to come to stable operation. Flipping power on and off frequently (as rebooting can do to peripherals) is not a good way to achieve that.
Without manufacturer certification for accuracy under those conditions, it might as well read "for novelty use only" on the side.
It's way above cosmic rays as a probability. It's a system that may or may not be doing a normal initialization and that is certainly doing so more frequently than it should. It's a system depending on stable oscillators when the temperature is swinging widely.
Perhaps more to the point, It's a condition that the manufacturer is unlikely to certify accuracy for.