I can "make up figures" because I am at least, unlike you, a little familiar with the third party repair industry.
A $10/hour tech can make the repairs but can only diagnose a limited amount of problems. If you are working exclusively with one brand of computer and only fixing the simple problems then sure. Anything more advanced than the 10 most common component failures is gonna require someone who knows how to actually diagnose a problem that may not have been encountered before or 4 hours of a $10/h techs time. It should be noted that I deliberately did not talk about wage, my numbers were total cost.
Take a look at a motherboard, most of the components are resistors, capacitors and diodes. Those are pennies each. Many of the chips are
So sure, go ahead and tell someone who knows more about something than you that they are wrong.
it's just not worth the cost to do those kind of repairs vs. just replacing the whole board.
Lets say a laptop motherboard of a laptop costs $600 and the swapping costs another $100.
Cost of a replacement part $20
Time to diagnose problem 1 hour
Time to do repair 1 hour
Cost per hour for technician $10,
Cost of equipment to diagnose and repair $15000 (over two years of full time work that is about $90 an hour).
Money saved: $300 the customer and repair shop split that.
Even using extreme numbers I come up with a significant amount of savings.
In a realistic scenario the savings are even more than $300, a technician can easily do many different component level motherboard repairs in 20 minutes total with equipment costing less than $5000, for a labor cost of under $60/h, with a part cost of $2, on a motherboard that would cost $1000 to replace. Money saved: over $950 to be split between the repair shop and customer.
You shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about.
Manufactures will sell more phones if they use their kill switches.
People will no longer have the option to buy a stolen phone which means they buy a new phone.
A killed phone will mean that one more phone is sold and has to be built.
Stealing a phone just changes the owner it doesn't take it out of use, killing a phone does.
Where I am there is no tower hopping protocol implemented for Wi-Max the tech rep said that if I were driving through traffic I might be lucky to connect 30 seconds before I am out of range.
What your saying reminds be of the thoughts that came to mind during the most recent presidential inauguration in the USA. It looked more like a coronation of a successor (by personal relationship) to a monarchy than the inauguration of a freely elected leader.
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You learned from your mistakes that it is okay to steal if you don't get caught?
So, Russia was not involved but if there was a treaty they would not have been involved and they would not have done the hacking they did not do.
I can "make up figures" because I am at least, unlike you, a little familiar with the third party repair industry.
A $10/hour tech can make the repairs but can only diagnose a limited amount of problems. If you are working exclusively with one brand of computer and only fixing the simple problems then sure. Anything more advanced than the 10 most common component failures is gonna require someone who knows how to actually diagnose a problem that may not have been encountered before or 4 hours of a $10/h techs time. It should be noted that I deliberately did not talk about wage, my numbers were total cost.
Take a look at a motherboard, most of the components are resistors, capacitors and diodes. Those are pennies each. Many of the chips are
So sure, go ahead and tell someone who knows more about something than you that they are wrong.
it's just not worth the cost to do those kind of repairs vs. just replacing the whole board.
Lets say a laptop motherboard of a laptop costs $600 and the swapping costs another $100.
Cost of a replacement part $20
Time to diagnose problem 1 hour
Time to do repair 1 hour
Cost per hour for technician $10,
Cost of equipment to diagnose and repair $15000 (over two years of full time work that is about $90 an hour).
Money saved: $300 the customer and repair shop split that.
Even using extreme numbers I come up with a significant amount of savings.
In a realistic scenario the savings are even more than $300, a technician can easily do many different component level motherboard repairs in 20 minutes total with equipment costing less than $5000, for a labor cost of under $60/h, with a part cost of $2, on a motherboard that would cost $1000 to replace. Money saved: over $950 to be split between the repair shop and customer.
You shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about.
Manufactures will sell more phones if they use their kill switches. People will no longer have the option to buy a stolen phone which means they buy a new phone. A killed phone will mean that one more phone is sold and has to be built. Stealing a phone just changes the owner it doesn't take it out of use, killing a phone does.
IMO MS needs to make windows 8 a great product to succeed as a corporation in the coming years. I don't think they get that.
There, that should be an easy comparison.
YEAH! There are hardly enough 6DoF games out there!
People don't spend less money because they get something that they would have payed for for free, they just spend it on something else.
Where I am there is no tower hopping protocol implemented for Wi-Max the tech rep said that if I were driving through traffic I might be lucky to connect 30 seconds before I am out of range.
What your saying reminds be of the thoughts that came to mind during the most recent presidential inauguration in the USA. It looked more like a coronation of a successor (by personal relationship) to a monarchy than the inauguration of a freely elected leader.
Security by obscurity could work no?
And the entire internet!