The only "Apple" manufacturing site left is the facility in Cork, Ireland! "Manufacturing" is a bit of a misnomer, as all the do is assembly parts from Asia! Mostly iMacs and Desktops with some xServes as well. The two reasons they left Cork intact is that Ireland have a low tax rate, and they can fill cto orders for the European market within a few days. They also have a large call center there as well.
Just quit my job yesterday, walked out the door, great feeling! Don't think I'll be getting another:-) Life's too short. Now if i could quit reading/........
The trade group, the Telecommunications Industry Association, had lobbied for the law and the follow-up report and issued a positive statement regarding the nearly $1 billion cost estimate released by the government this week. "Proceeds of commercial spectrum auctions to fund the relocation costs of federal incumbents helps all segments of the wireless industry, creating a win-win situation for both government and industry."
When you hear a lobby/trade group say it's a win-win situation you know you will be screwed someway in the deal!
As for the notion that the USA is the "Land of the Free" Hahaha. Can you go out and buy an anonomonus pre paid mobile phone with cash for around 60 ($75) that comes with 90 ($110) call credit!
HInt: To avoid being tracked, REMOVE the battery to the phone when not in use, it's no good just turning it off!
Ireland - It doesn't matter what laws are passed, we just ignore most of them!
Hell, I'm amazed anyone is actually planning on buying ANY Apple hardware based on the obsolete PowerPC architecture.
Hell no! My bet is that you have this the wrong way round, tell me any mac head who would not sell his mother to get his hands on a G5^4@2.5!! That a few 100,s worth of sales at least!
Don't forget that the G5 desktop is for the PRo market. My guess is that sales to this sector will be significant. Many may feel that this is the time to upgrade there work machines to maybe the ultimate PowerPC Mac ever!
Don't forget that the move to intel will not be without issues. I think that people will be slow to make the switch and are more likely to invest serious money now.
June 19790 - Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Independent studies of NASA's shuttle ordered. Nation: USA. The new NASA Administrator, James Fletcher, had found that the NASA internal estimates of the cost to develop and operate the space shuttle were treated by the Office of Management of the Budget with great scepticism. Therefore he authorised several independent studies. Lockheed was to report on how the shuttle could reduce payload costs. Aerospace Corporation was to make an independent estimate of the cost of developing and operating the shuttle. Mathematica was to use these studies to make a definitive report comparing the cost of the shuttle with that of using existing expendable boosters.
The Mathematica study would become notorious, for it forecast enormous savings in the use of the shuttle. It became very influential in government and congressional circles in shifting opinion to support the project. This, as NASA Administrator Low would dryly comment later, was 'unfortunate'. All earlier studies for the USAF and NASA, notably a RAND study in 1970, showed no cost advantage for reusable boosters when research and development costs were taken into account. RAND had concluded that a manned space station supported by expendable boosters would be cheaper, and more flexible and useful.
Fletcher also directed NASA to take US Air Force requirements for the shuttle into account. The US Defence Department's requirements included the ability to carry 18 m long payloads, and deliver a mass of 18,000 kg to a polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, or 30,000 kg to a low earth orbit from Cape Canaveral. The 4.5 m diameter for the payload bay was a NASA requirement, established by the planned diameter of future space station modules. 18 m x 4.5 m also corresponded to the dimensions of a liquid hydrogen tank with a mass of 30,000 kg, the lowest-density payload imaginable. The USAF also wanted an 1800 to 2400 km cross range on re-entry, and an initial operational capability of December 1977.
The Aerospace Corporation study of NASA Phase A proposals concluded that the weight of a shuttle's thermal protection system would vary in relation to the fourth root of the required cross range. Aerospace also believed that sequential ignition of the booster and orbiter was a better approach than the triamese-type all-engines running at lift-off. It also declared that the USAF's desired operational date was unrealistic -- the earliest a shuttle could be available was mid to late 1979.
For my space related news I link to feed://www.universetoday.com/universetoday.xml in safari and find that if its worth reporting Fraser will have the details.
To me a search engine is like a "real" relationship.
One catches you eye, you try it out, it gives you what you want, and life is good!
But after a while you start to see faults, you no longer click on "I feel Lucky" but browse on down a few links. Then you start to question you partners honesty and start to click on "Cached"
Your blue eyed, blonde goddess has developed a few defects! Your eye starts to wonder, and you may feel like playing away from home once in a while, but you soon realise that despite her faults she still is the best girl in town.
So ther you are, still waiting for something better comes along!
Slashdot Mirror
reddit user "exFoxconninsider"
then what do you call this that I use to browse the web?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atomic-web-browser-full-screen/id347929410?mt=8
134.43 Methods of marking specific articles.
(1) Assembled in (country of final assembly);
(2) Assembled in (country of final assembly) from components of (name of country or countries of origin of all components); or
(3) Made in, or product of, (country of final assembly).
That will buff out!
Here you go then!
http://irishexaminer.ie/breakingnews/world/wikileaks-founder-arrested-by-uk-police-484689.html
Ye right!
You mean like this ....
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Apple_releases_program_to_limit_iPod_volume
What food can't you bring thru' security? The last time I flew I brought some nice roast beef sandwiches with me :-)
Of course. You can't just use a simple flat touchscreen in a vehicle dashboard. It would be impossible for a blind person to find the controls.
and this is bad? I'm all for stopping blind people from controlling vehicles. See enough of them on the roads in Ireland already ;-)
Here in Ireland the man has just announced to pick 3's 3G(HSDPA)to meet their requirements for universal broadband by 2009!
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1125/broadband.html
WTF! How can you say 3G is broadband! Just check out the problems people in Ireland have been having with 3's service http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055115306
I'm lucky to have fixed wireless here in North Cork, but have friends who have no broadband access at all.
The only "Apple" manufacturing site left is the facility in Cork, Ireland!
"Manufacturing" is a bit of a misnomer, as all the do is assembly parts from Asia!
Mostly iMacs and Desktops with some xServes as well.
The two reasons they left Cork intact is that Ireland have a low tax rate,
and they can fill cto orders for the European market within a few days.
They also have a large call center there as well.
Just quit my job yesterday, walked out the door, great feeling! :-) /. .......
Don't think I'll be getting another
Life's too short.
Now if i could quit reading
it would not be on the feline kind ;-)
If you what I mean?
explains slashdot articles!
Hope the got that dupe bug fixed
Is digital photo editing finally getting both powerful and easy?"
And it wasn't before?
When you hear a lobby/trade group say it's a win-win situation you know you will be screwed someway in the deal!
As for the notion that the USA is the "Land of the Free" Hahaha.
Can you go out and buy an anonomonus pre paid mobile phone with cash for
around 60 ($75) that comes with 90 ($110) call credit!
HInt: To avoid being tracked, REMOVE the battery to the phone when not
in use, it's no good just turning it off!
Ireland - It doesn't matter what laws are passed, we just ignore most of them!
Hell, I'm amazed anyone is actually planning on buying ANY Apple hardware based on the obsolete PowerPC architecture.
Hell no! My bet is that you have this the wrong way round, tell me any mac head who would not sell his mother to get his hands on a G5^4@2.5!! That a few 100,s worth of sales at least!
Don't forget that the G5 desktop is for the PRo market. My guess is that sales to this sector will be significant.
Many may feel that this is the time to upgrade there work machines to maybe the ultimate PowerPC Mac ever!
Don't forget that the move to intel will not be without issues. I think that people will be slow to make the switch and are more likely to invest serious money now.
Not that I'm into starting a conspiracy, but ;-)
maybe you finally got a hit
http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/html/mdalink.html
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/shuttle.htm
As far back as 1970 cost was an issue
Duds, you must stop linking to space.com!
;-P
Its one of the ugliest sites in the world
For my space related news I link to
feed://www.universetoday.com/universetoday.xml
in safari and find that if its worth reporting Fraser will
have the details.
To me a search engine is like a "real" relationship.
One catches you eye, you try it out, it gives you what you want, and life is good!
But after a while you start to see faults, you no longer click on "I feel Lucky" but browse on down a few links.
Then you start to question you partners honesty and start to click on "Cached"
Your blue eyed, blonde goddess has developed a few defects!
Your eye starts to wonder, and you may feel like playing away from home once in a while, but you soon realise that despite her faults
she still is the best girl in town.
So ther you are, still waiting for something better comes along!
Yes, you are probably right, precision may not be needed, ;-)
t ric.02/
but conversion between imperial and metric is
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.me
I don't know where the article got their conversions from but I sure hope it wasn't from NASA!
6km is approx 3.7 miles not 3.5 and
60km is 37 miles and not 35