I mean, I didn't know anybody who died or read about very many who did. I got pretty sick with flu like symptoms during that time but they told me they wouldn't even test me for H1N1.
...paint the outside of a display phone with honey, and then the next person to pick it up would have honey all over their hands. That would be funny too!
All for spin control. The real question is how good is this facility compared to other manufacturers. I'll bet Motorola has similar if not better facilities.
I read a lot of posts with the attitude of "screw the customer, quarterly profits are all that matter." It is so much more complicated than that it is clear that these posters are not and never were in any kind of positions of power to analyze and make decisions of this nature.
Every division of every company is hanging on by a very thin thread. There are competitors around every corner if their products are overly profitable, not to mention the foreign knockoffs. If customers are unhappy they vote with their feet. They are busting their asses to figure out how to stay in the game, and then they get smacked with some sub supplier who decided to ship a load of crappy parts that they didn't test for. Then they decide how to balance the need to stay afloat with the need to "do the right thing." Sometimes they get it right and it turns out to be nothing, sometimes they get it wrong and get smacked around by the press and the public.
Anyone who outsources manufacturing of any kind has faced this problem. Component suppliers provide defective parts to factories, and when the first parts that contain a defect not seen before arrive, incoming QC hasn't seen the defect yet and so might not test for it. The parts are then used, and if the defect allows the product to pass inspections and burn in, you now have your supply chain infected with product containing the bad part. The consequences of the bad part range from outright consumer danger (e.g. exploding batteries), to shortened product life resulting in expensive warranty repairs and a damaged brand reputation, to very little impact resulting in just a few consumers experiencing annoying problems.
Once you learn of the bad part and the consequences, you're like the CDC (center for disease control). You have to find out how bad the outbreak is, what the return rate is, how much of the supply chain is infected, what the consequences of the failure are, and then decide what should be done about it.
If the failure rate is below, say, 10% and the consequences non-life-threatening, you will likely do nothing and deal with it in the repair channels, and make a running change to your incoming QC processes and manufacturing lines. If there is extreme personal risk you might have to do a recall, and you probably have to suspend your entire supply chain until the root cause is found and everything from raw materials to subassemblies to product in transit to store inventories to consumer's products is fixed.
In this case, Michael Dell was more than likely in the CDC meeting, and data was probably presented that pointed to the fact that a recall wasn't necessary. However, it looks worse than that, and Dell is being painted as a greedy tyrant who shipped bad parts knowing full well he did so.
I guarantee this is NOT the whole story, and there was some serious gray area involved at Dell as to what to do about this issue. More than likely, this was a calculated risk that the problem would not turn out as big as it is.
I thought articles and comedy bits that were clearly satirical were protected under the first amendment. They aren't trying to make money with the white meat phrase except to add to the humor of the article, so what would the damages be?
There must be a way to get the location services you want, like finding the local Krispy-Kreme, without broadcasting your location to the service in question. Like a blocked phone number.
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Mod parent up, if only for the "literally" reference. I'm frustrated by this too!
I mean, I didn't know anybody who died or read about very many who did. I got pretty sick with flu like symptoms during that time but they told me they wouldn't even test me for H1N1.
I guess not!
Flamebait?
Humans are inherently flawed in their driving skills. Widespread autonomy won't be deployed until after 2020.
Unless you are going to build a tank, this is a marketing dream, kind of like Elon Musk retiring to Mars.
Perhaps if you built the whole car out of the material they build the black box of the plane out of...
That's how close we're watching costs these days?
...paint the outside of a display phone with honey, and then the next person to pick it up would have honey all over their hands. That would be funny too!
A new kind of security threat? Needs a shrink to solve?
OMG, when will the Apple spin machine take a fricking rest? Secretive "black labs?" Sure they aren't killer canines?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/2321230/The-Ignominious-Fall-of-Dell
So who cares what they ship?
Or are they not so dead after all?
...would love to see what his writing staff does with this!
Could I be chased by an old Commodore 64?
And so I say - spin control. We didn't see this article before the release of the IP4 because they had other PR priorities.
All for spin control. The real question is how good is this facility compared to other manufacturers. I'll bet Motorola has similar if not better facilities.
...it was a Russian plot.
That's what this idea is.
Do we know of any long term consequences of these ill-advised tests?
lol
Exactly the two things that come to mind with I think of F/OSS...
...the presenters can't advance their PowerPoint slides...
I read a lot of posts with the attitude of "screw the customer, quarterly profits are all that matter." It is so much more complicated than that it is clear that these posters are not and never were in any kind of positions of power to analyze and make decisions of this nature.
Every division of every company is hanging on by a very thin thread. There are competitors around every corner if their products are overly profitable, not to mention the foreign knockoffs. If customers are unhappy they vote with their feet. They are busting their asses to figure out how to stay in the game, and then they get smacked with some sub supplier who decided to ship a load of crappy parts that they didn't test for. Then they decide how to balance the need to stay afloat with the need to "do the right thing." Sometimes they get it right and it turns out to be nothing, sometimes they get it wrong and get smacked around by the press and the public.
It would be bulletproof...
Anyone who outsources manufacturing of any kind has faced this problem. Component suppliers provide defective parts to factories, and when the first parts that contain a defect not seen before arrive, incoming QC hasn't seen the defect yet and so might not test for it. The parts are then used, and if the defect allows the product to pass inspections and burn in, you now have your supply chain infected with product containing the bad part. The consequences of the bad part range from outright consumer danger (e.g. exploding batteries), to shortened product life resulting in expensive warranty repairs and a damaged brand reputation, to very little impact resulting in just a few consumers experiencing annoying problems.
Once you learn of the bad part and the consequences, you're like the CDC (center for disease control). You have to find out how bad the outbreak is, what the return rate is, how much of the supply chain is infected, what the consequences of the failure are, and then decide what should be done about it.
If the failure rate is below, say, 10% and the consequences non-life-threatening, you will likely do nothing and deal with it in the repair channels, and make a running change to your incoming QC processes and manufacturing lines. If there is extreme personal risk you might have to do a recall, and you probably have to suspend your entire supply chain until the root cause is found and everything from raw materials to subassemblies to product in transit to store inventories to consumer's products is fixed.
In this case, Michael Dell was more than likely in the CDC meeting, and data was probably presented that pointed to the fact that a recall wasn't necessary. However, it looks worse than that, and Dell is being painted as a greedy tyrant who shipped bad parts knowing full well he did so.
I guarantee this is NOT the whole story, and there was some serious gray area involved at Dell as to what to do about this issue. More than likely, this was a calculated risk that the problem would not turn out as big as it is.
I thought articles and comedy bits that were clearly satirical were protected under the first amendment. They aren't trying to make money with the white meat phrase except to add to the humor of the article, so what would the damages be?
There must be a way to get the location services you want, like finding the local Krispy-Kreme, without broadcasting your location to the service in question. Like a blocked phone number.