Right, meanwhile, Apple won't even let you use a real adblocker because of their locked in Safari browser and you're forced to deal with hell from websites that abuse the crap out of it. Granted it's not as bad as a locked-in Android phone, but it's still quite annoying.
I'll stick to my rooted phones where I can remove all the ads, remove the malware and actually have a real firewall on my phone. Also, I like being able to stream music from youtube with the screen off, where a locked Iphone or locked Android phone cannot do unless you root/jailbreak.
If and when Google wants to go to the Iphone model with their recent Android lockin BS and spying, I'll just go back to a dumb phone. I still have my old Nokia phone that can keep a charge for over a week and works great.
I find a lot of facilities that want to force me to sign NDA's are the ones that aren't following any regulations, because they don't want you to talk about how shitty their place is.
You'd be surprised how much of the manufacturing business steals from each other. Nobody goes after it because of the huge legal costs involved and nobody even bothers to care. They scare you with big lawyers, but it still goes on because none of them can prove the other didn't invent it themselves. As an engineer, I can pretty much get the gist of your place in about 5 minutes and figure out how to implement it in my facility pretty easily. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have been able to create what I've created in the first place and I'd be a broke engineer, living in a van down by the river.
Intellectual property has been stagnating the whole industry, bringing us back into the dark ages.
That makes a lot of sense to me. How are NDA's handled? I hope they're handled the same way. If you want to protect your IP because I looked at it, better pay me.
This is exactly what's stagnating the whole industry. Such ridiculous NDA's that are completely unenforceable but the legal departments sue you anyways just to waste time. They know it's unenforceable, but they don't care. I've been sued by a competitor because I hired their sales guy, their claim is that I stole all their customer lists by hiring him (It didn't matter that I was selling to their clients even before hiring him). This was mired in a 2 month lawsuit where I finally decided to hire a legal department from out of state to deal with it, because all the local guys know each other and were just milking it on both sides. Suffice to say, it was ended in a day in court.
This is also what's causing such a dry spell scenario in the whole industry and why I can't hire any sales and application engineers anymore.
Please, put your stupid NDA's in the shredder. They don't help anyone. I don't even have an NDA in my facility. If you think you can do better than me, go for it!
It wasn't exactly a stupid idea. It sold beyond their expectations. The lack of production models to sell to customers pretty much killed them. You went to the web store and you literally couldn't buy one. There was quite a lot of enthusiastic people that wanted one but couldn't get one.
It was definitely a nice replacement for Android and IOS. If they bothered to get it onto the Meizu 6 (Which everyone was waiting for), it would have been fine. It's too bad now we won't ever see it again, which sucks, because I liked it. Piss poor management pretty much killed the Ubuntu phone, not the market.
You sound like the morons in the city that forcibly removed my favorite sailplane airport. The community and city couldn't understand how an aircraft could stay in the air without an engine and thus the place had to be shut down because it was deemed to risky to have sailplanes flying over houses.
What made it worse, they were flabbergasted how 10-14 yearold kids were allowed to fly these death contraptions by themselves! The horror! The long term affect of this now we don't have natural pilots.
Don't forget all the kids going into hobby shops buying rockets for next to nothing and launching them trying to hit airplanes by the airport. Great days those were! Some people on here act as if none of this stuff was happening 30 years ago.
This is the same in the US. We have laws for breaks, lunch and vacation time. The problem is, our local government just no longer cares anymore and the people are too scared to report it.
My neighbor abuses the crap out of his employees, neglects to tell them they have 30 minute breaks and hour lunch, yells at them if they try to talk back. The funniest thing is, he made them sign an employee handbook which outlines all this and he still refuses to give them any break. He's had many incidents, accidents, and what not, OSHA does nothing, the labor board does nothing. His common theme at this plant is, lose a limb lose your job, then get called stupid.
This is a common theme in many industries. The sad part is, OSHA picks on me all the time because I'm just an easier person to deal with, zero accidents, zero incidents. I get a random plant visit from OSHA all the time (They just like visiting my plant they said), while no one even dares peak into his.
I get pleasantly surprised by this that I ended up sending notices to my employees they can take time off if they want. I don't want burned out people. Sometimes I even ask them to take a break as I have some employees that just want to do too much good for me.
Management in the US has so many people scared of taking any time off or even ask for it.
What you're looking at is an organized group that is being funded to change peoples opinions. These companies are now popping up all over the place and they don't even hide what they do anymore. Some of them are already becoming affordable for even peons to use. Soon I'm sure my competitors will try to use them against me and this will be the norm in dealing with anything in real life.
Basically a pay for your own propaganda machine, they don't care who they hurt and they don't care who you support as long as you give them money. Some people think they're bots, I think they're actually real people they hire, plenty of people that will do it. The sad part is, these companies are growing really well because of it and they try to justify their existence with fancy videos at how benevolent they are.
Management sees the price tag of doing so and they say "whoooooaaaa, no way". And that's that. And we have what we have. Even though the costs of doing so is negligible, other than doubling your material costs, that's about it. I've done it, I have my PLC's on a separate dedicated network from everything else. I have my video system on a separate network. I have my PC's all on a separate network. I even have my management computers all on a separate network. It's not really hard to do, especially when you have all your ports and wires neatly numbered.
You'd be surprised how many industrial computers or commercial type computers which run displays (For airline displays, trains, etc), still use XP. Some have moved to Windows 7, but that's like a small percentage. Then you'd be surprised how many of these mission critical PC's are connected to the Internet without any sense of security. Of course none of them patched. It was a disaster waiting to happen and many here predicted for years was going to happen.
So, no surprise that someone finally exploited this situation.
Industry itself. Name me one place in the US where you have everything at your finger tips, literally without taking a huge dent in logistical and operating costs. This is why I operate in California and this is why so many still operate in California. I've heard stories of those that moved to Henderson, NV and it's not all roses over there either, especially when your logistical costs sky rocket and the huge labor shortage is preventing you from operating (Amazon in Las Vegas didn't last long, did it?).
And this is where California and its ridiculous taxation is quite well calculated. Not too much to force your hand and just below the level, as annoying as it is.
I've had the inverse experience with hiring women and I've been hiring them on purpose for supervisor roles in my plant. Why? Because they complain! They complain about something not being fixed and they constantly remind everyone about something not getting done. This also has the affect of stopping some of my people from doing mickey mouse stuff, which is a big plus for me to keep the place clean and safe all the time. They even complain about me for not doing something or doing some mickey mouse thing.
It's now beyond affirmative action. These people are now being hired because of the wages or salaries they will work for. Massive incompetence is now the norm in the industry, simply because the boss is just as incompetent, but expects them to work like highly experienced engineers but also work ridiculous hours, for lousy pay.
The problem is worse than that. Almost every damn ROM wants to include it. The more I use an Android device, the more I hate it. If it's not Samsung wanting to spy on me, it's some asshole that does when I want to root my phone. Switching to an Iphone just seems like the same problems exist there. Thing makes me feel like I'm using Windows 98 with all these applications that don't ever want to close and run in the background now, applications that seemingly seem innocent but probably are not.
There is some truth to that. I'm one of the few businesses that is actually able to keep managers and maintenance personnel for longer than a damn year. I don't over work them and I seem to have no problem dealing with my competitors where on average I pay a lot more than they do their own. To many places I deal with is now a carousel of new workers.
My neighbors business on the other hand, who thinks hiring low wage unskilled workers for minimum wage is giving him the competitive edge. They're over worked and work overtime everyday, even Saturday. Machines breaking down constantly, new work force every year, and no prospect of career advancement and the boss expects an illegal highschool drop out to have the knowledge level of a 20 year experienced engineer. Somehow I doubt they're being more productive than, say, a German worker doing the same thing for less hours and more pay (Where I get my ideas from).
So I'm definitely in agreement, we produce less and produce a lot of waste of time, spending more hours for nothing, that is actually hurting us more than anything.
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Right, meanwhile, Apple won't even let you use a real adblocker because of their locked in Safari browser and you're forced to deal with hell from websites that abuse the crap out of it. Granted it's not as bad as a locked-in Android phone, but it's still quite annoying.
I'll stick to my rooted phones where I can remove all the ads, remove the malware and actually have a real firewall on my phone. Also, I like being able to stream music from youtube with the screen off, where a locked Iphone or locked Android phone cannot do unless you root/jailbreak.
If and when Google wants to go to the Iphone model with their recent Android lockin BS and spying, I'll just go back to a dumb phone. I still have my old Nokia phone that can keep a charge for over a week and works great.
I find a lot of facilities that want to force me to sign NDA's are the ones that aren't following any regulations, because they don't want you to talk about how shitty their place is.
You'd be surprised how much of the manufacturing business steals from each other. Nobody goes after it because of the huge legal costs involved and nobody even bothers to care. They scare you with big lawyers, but it still goes on because none of them can prove the other didn't invent it themselves. As an engineer, I can pretty much get the gist of your place in about 5 minutes and figure out how to implement it in my facility pretty easily. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have been able to create what I've created in the first place and I'd be a broke engineer, living in a van down by the river.
Intellectual property has been stagnating the whole industry, bringing us back into the dark ages.
That makes a lot of sense to me. How are NDA's handled? I hope they're handled the same way. If you want to protect your IP because I looked at it, better pay me.
Yes, they do. They also do their own sheeting and printing.
This is exactly what's stagnating the whole industry. Such ridiculous NDA's that are completely unenforceable but the legal departments sue you anyways just to waste time. They know it's unenforceable, but they don't care. I've been sued by a competitor because I hired their sales guy, their claim is that I stole all their customer lists by hiring him (It didn't matter that I was selling to their clients even before hiring him). This was mired in a 2 month lawsuit where I finally decided to hire a legal department from out of state to deal with it, because all the local guys know each other and were just milking it on both sides. Suffice to say, it was ended in a day in court.
This is also what's causing such a dry spell scenario in the whole industry and why I can't hire any sales and application engineers anymore.
Please, put your stupid NDA's in the shredder. They don't help anyone. I don't even have an NDA in my facility. If you think you can do better than me, go for it!
It wasn't exactly a stupid idea. It sold beyond their expectations. The lack of production models to sell to customers pretty much killed them. You went to the web store and you literally couldn't buy one. There was quite a lot of enthusiastic people that wanted one but couldn't get one.
It was definitely a nice replacement for Android and IOS. If they bothered to get it onto the Meizu 6 (Which everyone was waiting for), it would have been fine. It's too bad now we won't ever see it again, which sucks, because I liked it. Piss poor management pretty much killed the Ubuntu phone, not the market.
I'm done with this place. Slashdot is just terrible.
You sound like the morons in the city that forcibly removed my favorite sailplane airport. The community and city couldn't understand how an aircraft could stay in the air without an engine and thus the place had to be shut down because it was deemed to risky to have sailplanes flying over houses.
What made it worse, they were flabbergasted how 10-14 yearold kids were allowed to fly these death contraptions by themselves! The horror! The long term affect of this now we don't have natural pilots.
Don't forget all the kids going into hobby shops buying rockets for next to nothing and launching them trying to hit airplanes by the airport. Great days those were! Some people on here act as if none of this stuff was happening 30 years ago.
This is the same in the US. We have laws for breaks, lunch and vacation time. The problem is, our local government just no longer cares anymore and the people are too scared to report it.
My neighbor abuses the crap out of his employees, neglects to tell them they have 30 minute breaks and hour lunch, yells at them if they try to talk back. The funniest thing is, he made them sign an employee handbook which outlines all this and he still refuses to give them any break. He's had many incidents, accidents, and what not, OSHA does nothing, the labor board does nothing. His common theme at this plant is, lose a limb lose your job, then get called stupid.
This is a common theme in many industries. The sad part is, OSHA picks on me all the time because I'm just an easier person to deal with, zero accidents, zero incidents. I get a random plant visit from OSHA all the time (They just like visiting my plant they said), while no one even dares peak into his.
I get pleasantly surprised by this that I ended up sending notices to my employees they can take time off if they want. I don't want burned out people. Sometimes I even ask them to take a break as I have some employees that just want to do too much good for me.
Management in the US has so many people scared of taking any time off or even ask for it.
What you're looking at is an organized group that is being funded to change peoples opinions. These companies are now popping up all over the place and they don't even hide what they do anymore. Some of them are already becoming affordable for even peons to use. Soon I'm sure my competitors will try to use them against me and this will be the norm in dealing with anything in real life.
Basically a pay for your own propaganda machine, they don't care who they hurt and they don't care who you support as long as you give them money. Some people think they're bots, I think they're actually real people they hire, plenty of people that will do it. The sad part is, these companies are growing really well because of it and they try to justify their existence with fancy videos at how benevolent they are.
But they're still going to pay their incompetent staff and contractors. So they are paying off someone in the end.
This is a prime example of massive incompetence that's prevailing in every industry. Simple as that.
Welcome to the real world. People will resort to things like this just to get stuff to work. Unfortunately this is just human nature.
Management sees the price tag of doing so and they say "whoooooaaaa, no way". And that's that. And we have what we have. Even though the costs of doing so is negligible, other than doubling your material costs, that's about it. I've done it, I have my PLC's on a separate dedicated network from everything else. I have my video system on a separate network. I have my PC's all on a separate network. I even have my management computers all on a separate network. It's not really hard to do, especially when you have all your ports and wires neatly numbered.
You'd be surprised how many industrial computers or commercial type computers which run displays (For airline displays, trains, etc), still use XP. Some have moved to Windows 7, but that's like a small percentage. Then you'd be surprised how many of these mission critical PC's are connected to the Internet without any sense of security. Of course none of them patched. It was a disaster waiting to happen and many here predicted for years was going to happen.
So, no surprise that someone finally exploited this situation.
Industry itself. Name me one place in the US where you have everything at your finger tips, literally without taking a huge dent in logistical and operating costs. This is why I operate in California and this is why so many still operate in California. I've heard stories of those that moved to Henderson, NV and it's not all roses over there either, especially when your logistical costs sky rocket and the huge labor shortage is preventing you from operating (Amazon in Las Vegas didn't last long, did it?).
And this is where California and its ridiculous taxation is quite well calculated. Not too much to force your hand and just below the level, as annoying as it is.
A big chunk of those advertisers advertise on porn sites and don't seem to have a problem with it either.
Burned through 120 million dollars in 18 months at practically zero operating costs?
I've had the inverse experience with hiring women and I've been hiring them on purpose for supervisor roles in my plant. Why? Because they complain! They complain about something not being fixed and they constantly remind everyone about something not getting done. This also has the affect of stopping some of my people from doing mickey mouse stuff, which is a big plus for me to keep the place clean and safe all the time. They even complain about me for not doing something or doing some mickey mouse thing.
It's now beyond affirmative action. These people are now being hired because of the wages or salaries they will work for. Massive incompetence is now the norm in the industry, simply because the boss is just as incompetent, but expects them to work like highly experienced engineers but also work ridiculous hours, for lousy pay.
The problem is worse than that. Almost every damn ROM wants to include it. The more I use an Android device, the more I hate it. If it's not Samsung wanting to spy on me, it's some asshole that does when I want to root my phone. Switching to an Iphone just seems like the same problems exist there. Thing makes me feel like I'm using Windows 98 with all these applications that don't ever want to close and run in the background now, applications that seemingly seem innocent but probably are not.
There is some truth to that. I'm one of the few businesses that is actually able to keep managers and maintenance personnel for longer than a damn year. I don't over work them and I seem to have no problem dealing with my competitors where on average I pay a lot more than they do their own. To many places I deal with is now a carousel of new workers.
My neighbors business on the other hand, who thinks hiring low wage unskilled workers for minimum wage is giving him the competitive edge. They're over worked and work overtime everyday, even Saturday. Machines breaking down constantly, new work force every year, and no prospect of career advancement and the boss expects an illegal highschool drop out to have the knowledge level of a 20 year experienced engineer. Somehow I doubt they're being more productive than, say, a German worker doing the same thing for less hours and more pay (Where I get my ideas from).
So I'm definitely in agreement, we produce less and produce a lot of waste of time, spending more hours for nothing, that is actually hurting us more than anything.