"First, the reason why products are going adhesive sealed is not to impact user-repairability (I'd be surprised if anyone really cared) but because it's easier to assemble, and it looks a lot neater. And people care about looks."
Sounds like a plan, then why do they use too thin of gorilla glass then? a double thickness would provide 4X the shatter and breakage resistance at a minimal weight gain. And most people would opt for "cant break it" over weighing a few ounces more.... Although there are a lot of weakling waifs that whine as if they were being killed in a meat grinder over something weighing a little bit.
Ipad1 had a thick as hell screen and it was rare to have broken screens on it. ipad2 they made the screen a lot thinner and it is highly common to see broken screens. (in fact ipad 2 screens flex when you push with your finger, this feeling is not there on an ipad1.)
Build one that is durable. they can make the screen thick enough to take a hammer blow, start there.
If they are hiring PHD's and MSc's then they are nutty. Any BS holder can easily know everything there is to know about water treatment. In fact most of the United states only a high school diploma and a state certification is all that is needed.
Even the high end membrane filters and UV treatment stuff is insanely easy. a PHD would be bored to hell with water microbiology.
PHD's running a water plant is like hiring the best NASA engineers to drive the Bus.
And apple not allowing scumbag app authors adding in apps on an update. I have bought a couple of apps that suddenly had ad's. the ONLY apps that should be allowed ad's are free ones.
Jailbroken and custom hosts file makes them not serve any ads. I did not agree to pay for airtime for the ad's, so Until they pay for my data plan, I'm doing what I can to block ad's on my phone.
No problem at all, we send them PDF files. What fool would send a contractor or supplier/vendor a DOC file? In fact we have less problems with all the customers and suppliers/ etc cxince we changed from MS office.
P.S. The office people LOVE that save as PDF is native unlike the substandard MS office product.
Ever since the spinoff of AMD's fabrication plants in early 2009, GlobalFoundries has been responsible for producing AMD's processors. GlobalFoundries' main microprocessor manufacturing facilities are located in Dresden, Germany. Additionally, highly integrated microprocessors are manufactured in Taiwan made by third-party manufacturers under strict license from AMD. Between 2003 and 2005, they constructed a second manufacturing plant (300 mm 90 nm process SOI) in the same complex in order to increase the number of chips they can produce, thus becoming more competitive with Intel. The new plant has been named "Fab 36", in recognition of AMD's 36 years of operation, and reached full production in mid-2007. Fab 36 has been renamed to Fab 1 during the spinoff of AMD's manufacturing business during the creation of GlobalFoundries. In July 2007, AMD announced that they completed the conversion of Fab 1 Module 1 from 90 nm to 65 nm. They then shifted their focus to the 45 nm conversion.
The company has five 200 mm fabrication plants in Singapore, and two 300 mm fabrication plants each in Germany and Singapore, as well as a new 300mm fabrication plant under construction in Saratoga County, New York in the United States.
And these are chips, something that can be highly automated and requires almost ZERO employees to assemble or even package the devices. But It seems you think ipads are no different than a microprocessor so I'll not waste the time explaining the difference. I suggest you look up what it takes to build an ipad and an iphone and how they cant automate the assembly.
Places like Foxconn are what forced Unions into existence and labor laws to come into place.
Paying rent to the company and being forced to buy from the company store IS a form of slavery, Sorry you are too uneducated to see that, or you are just plain old evil and think it's a wonderful thing. The poor conditions in the factory are because the company owners are such greedy assholes that it's cheaper to kill workers than make it a safe place to work. They have far higher profit margins that way. If we did not have the labor laws and unions here in the USA we would be still doing the same thing. AS a greedy rich scumbag asshole knows no border or nationality.
What I find entertaining is that the american public is up in arms over it. We demand low price things yet refuse to pay for things like living wages and safe workplaces for the people that make the latest shiny. The people claiming that it's only 20% of a price difference are complete morons.
To build a ipad in the USA, you will be paying $18-37 an hour. Your factory will be required to meat all OSHA and EPA standards. The manufacture cost of a single iPad will jump to at least $1100.00 add a 40% markup and now you have a 16gig ipad base model selling for $1599.00
The public would be up in arms and clamoring that it's a rip off! ZOMG! TOO EXPENSIVE!. we look the other way so we can have our slave labor cheap devices.
"My experience of firewalls and water treatment is this: that water treatment is designed and operated by some extremely professional people who know exactly what they are doing, and that this is not often the case for firewalls. "
I used to work in the world of Water Treatment. No, they are not "extremely professional people who know exactly what they are doing" I was one of those guys for over 7 years. Many times we just would crank in more Chlorine or Alum to see if it worked.
That the best you are going to get unless you have any real experience and examples of how you are highly skilled in a field that is completely unrelated to your education.
let me save you some time. Skip some. Skyrim is meh., final Fantasy 13 will anger you. Go right to ME3 after ME1. ME2 is a turd where they took all the good parts of the game away.
There are throngs of retards that are buying their little children delicate, easy to break ipads at $500.00. and they are selling better than anything else. I think the $500.00 price point will work just fine.
A new console? are you kidding us? WE have idiots lined up buying this old turd, people that bought several units because of design flaws, and we are milking this for all it's worth. Hell we get people to pay us $60.00 a year to play online! Can you believe it? Come out with a new console... Yeah right!"
I have heard some albums mastered by Ian Shepherd. Several sound like crap with all the life compressed out of them. Pros that know what they are doing did stuff like you find on Mobile fidelity Gold masters. use ALL the dynamic range of the CD and make a recording that is BETTER than the Album. I have a copy of Supertramp crime of the century that will show anyone how good a CD can sound and how it can sound BETTER than an album. I have listened to raw tracks at studios on protools in the studio monitors that were incredible before they mashed them down.
99% of all CD's mastered in the past 20 years are utter crap with compression and dynamic range stomed so hard on them that the blood and soul was left on the floor of the sound booth.
Yeah, this man is no "expert" at anything but making a CD sound like shit. Otherwise he and his other "master" sound guys would tell the suits to shove things up their ass and make sure the dynamic range and life of the music was kept intact. Instead they say "yes sir, want me to turn up the autotune on the vocals and final mixdown compressor to 11?"
" Paypal is the only company out there if you want to accept random credit card payments."
Square has already been doing this. I can accept random credit card payments on my phone, swipe the card, or key in number. I am not a company I am a person.
Yes I have to be offering a "service" but paypal requires that as well. Try to send a gift payment to someone and use a credit card.
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"First, the reason why products are going adhesive sealed is not to impact user-repairability (I'd be surprised if anyone really cared) but because it's easier to assemble, and it looks a lot neater. And people care about looks."
Sounds like a plan, then why do they use too thin of gorilla glass then? a double thickness would provide 4X the shatter and breakage resistance at a minimal weight gain. And most people would opt for "cant break it" over weighing a few ounces more.... Although there are a lot of weakling waifs that whine as if they were being killed in a meat grinder over something weighing a little bit.
Ipad1 had a thick as hell screen and it was rare to have broken screens on it. ipad2 they made the screen a lot thinner and it is highly common to see broken screens. (in fact ipad 2 screens flex when you push with your finger, this feeling is not there on an ipad1.)
Build one that is durable. they can make the screen thick enough to take a hammer blow, start there.
If they are hiring PHD's and MSc's then they are nutty. Any BS holder can easily know everything there is to know about water treatment. In fact most of the United states only a high school diploma and a state certification is all that is needed.
Even the high end membrane filters and UV treatment stuff is insanely easy. a PHD would be bored to hell with water microbiology.
PHD's running a water plant is like hiring the best NASA engineers to drive the Bus.
And apple not allowing scumbag app authors adding in apps on an update. I have bought a couple of apps that suddenly had ad's. the ONLY apps that should be allowed ad's are free ones.
Jailbroken and custom hosts file makes them not serve any ads. I did not agree to pay for airtime for the ad's, so Until they pay for my data plan, I'm doing what I can to block ad's on my phone.
No problem at all, we send them PDF files. What fool would send a contractor or supplier/vendor a DOC file? In fact we have less problems with all the customers and suppliers/ etc cxince we changed from MS office.
P.S. The office people LOVE that save as PDF is native unlike the substandard MS office product.
Ever since the spinoff of AMD's fabrication plants in early 2009, GlobalFoundries has been responsible for producing AMD's processors.
GlobalFoundries' main microprocessor manufacturing facilities are located in Dresden, Germany. Additionally, highly integrated microprocessors are manufactured in Taiwan made by third-party manufacturers under strict license from AMD. Between 2003 and 2005, they constructed a second manufacturing plant (300 mm 90 nm process SOI) in the same complex in order to increase the number of chips they can produce, thus becoming more competitive with Intel. The new plant has been named "Fab 36", in recognition of AMD's 36 years of operation, and reached full production in mid-2007. Fab 36 has been renamed to Fab 1 during the spinoff of AMD's manufacturing business during the creation of GlobalFoundries. In July 2007, AMD announced that they completed the conversion of Fab 1 Module 1 from 90 nm to 65 nm. They then shifted their focus to the 45 nm conversion.
The company has five 200 mm fabrication plants in Singapore, and two 300 mm fabrication plants each in Germany and Singapore, as well as a new 300mm fabrication plant under construction in Saratoga County, New York in the United States.
And these are chips, something that can be highly automated and requires almost ZERO employees to assemble or even package the devices. But It seems you think ipads are no different than a microprocessor so I'll not waste the time explaining the difference. I suggest you look up what it takes to build an ipad and an iphone and how they cant automate the assembly.
"there are international treaties against murder of innocent civilians"
Define innocent.
Because with the current state of US laws, almost nobody is innocent. And the few that are, politicians are working hard to fix that loophole.
":Or haven't you noticed that the Raspberry PI doesn't, erm, fly?"
You are not throwing it hard enough.
Places like Foxconn are what forced Unions into existence and labor laws to come into place.
Paying rent to the company and being forced to buy from the company store IS a form of slavery, Sorry you are too uneducated to see that, or you are just plain old evil and think it's a wonderful thing. The poor conditions in the factory are because the company owners are such greedy assholes that it's cheaper to kill workers than make it a safe place to work. They have far higher profit margins that way. If we did not have the labor laws and unions here in the USA we would be still doing the same thing. AS a greedy rich scumbag asshole knows no border or nationality.
What I find entertaining is that the american public is up in arms over it. We demand low price things yet refuse to pay for things like living wages and safe workplaces for the people that make the latest shiny. The people claiming that it's only 20% of a price difference are complete morons.
To build a ipad in the USA, you will be paying $18-37 an hour. Your factory will be required to meat all OSHA and EPA standards. The manufacture cost of a single iPad will jump to at least $1100.00 add a 40% markup and now you have a 16gig ipad base model selling for $1599.00
The public would be up in arms and clamoring that it's a rip off! ZOMG! TOO EXPENSIVE!. we look the other way so we can have our slave labor cheap devices.
Which I love they do. IT helps me push Libre office.
Not only does it have Lower TCO, but it also has ZERO training for the users.
Allowed us to avoid the MSFT Office tax cince 2005.
"My experience of firewalls and water treatment is this: that water treatment is designed and operated by some extremely professional people who know exactly what they are doing, and that this is not often the case for firewalls. "
I used to work in the world of Water Treatment. No, they are not "extremely professional people who know exactly what they are doing" I was one of those guys for over 7 years. Many times we just would crank in more Chlorine or Alum to see if it worked.
" water gets pumped through them and all the muck gets extracted, not the sort of filters that IT people know about. "
No that's pretty close to how firewalls work.
They need to stop the free soda and lemonade bar.
"useful idiots"
There is no such thing as a useful idiot unless that idiot is a fountain of money.
The SEO scumbags have been polluting search sites everywhere.
When I can search for 4 different unrelated terms and have the same site show up in each, you know that SEO is only a scumbags game.
That the best you are going to get unless you have any real experience and examples of how you are highly skilled in a field that is completely unrelated to your education.
let me save you some time. Skip some. Skyrim is meh., final Fantasy 13 will anger you. Go right to ME3 after ME1. ME2 is a turd where they took all the good parts of the game away.
There are throngs of retards that are buying their little children delicate, easy to break ipads at $500.00. and they are selling better than anything else. I think the $500.00 price point will work just fine.
Microsofts response.
A new console? are you kidding us? WE have idiots lined up buying this old turd, people that bought several units because of design flaws, and we are milking this for all it's worth. Hell we get people to pay us $60.00 a year to play online! Can you believe it? Come out with a new console... Yeah right!"
I have heard some albums mastered by Ian Shepherd. Several sound like crap with all the life compressed out of them. Pros that know what they are doing did stuff like you find on Mobile fidelity Gold masters. use ALL the dynamic range of the CD and make a recording that is BETTER than the Album. I have a copy of Supertramp crime of the century that will show anyone how good a CD can sound and how it can sound BETTER than an album. I have listened to raw tracks at studios on protools in the studio monitors that were incredible before they mashed them down.
99% of all CD's mastered in the past 20 years are utter crap with compression and dynamic range stomed so hard on them that the blood and soul was left on the floor of the sound booth.
Yeah, this man is no "expert" at anything but making a CD sound like shit. Otherwise he and his other "master" sound guys would tell the suits to shove things up their ass and make sure the dynamic range and life of the music was kept intact. Instead they say "yes sir, want me to turn up the autotune on the vocals and final mixdown compressor to 11?"
" Paypal is the only company out there if you want to accept random credit card payments."
Square has already been doing this. I can accept random credit card payments on my phone, swipe the card, or key in number. I am not a company I am a person.
Yes I have to be offering a "service" but paypal requires that as well. Try to send a gift payment to someone and use a credit card.
In the USA banks profit from credit card theft. So they refuse to switch to smartcards that eliminate card skimming.
Glad you feel that way, I'll be by to set up a few webcams to broadcast in your home.
Yes, a lot of people do this all the time. I have been using SQUARE on my iphone for a year now to do this for my small business.
To compete with Square? They are already established and don't have a reputation for taking everything that someone has in their account on a whim.
The internet is full of "paypal stole all my money" stories.