They don't even need real techs, the inspection doesn't have to be done in house... although that might make things more effective depending on the volume of returns.
I returned a router to staples the other day (It was working, I just wasn't pleased with the software on it / performance). The girl asked me what was wrong with it, and I explained that; however a co-worker said it doesn't matter what's wrong with it, it has to 'go back' anyway, just write down 'dead'. Whether 'back' is to some distribution office where knowledgeable people inspect things, or more likely, back to the manufacturer to reflash it, I don't know.
Anyway, had they just slapped it on the shelf, the next buyer would have been in trouble, seeing as the IP and password was no longer the default...
So in addition to shipping in concrete, insulation and wiring, etc, you have to bring in the gigantic robot that runs on rails(it looks like)? and power it?
There's a reason a lot of things are still done by hand, and a lot of the time, the reason is money. You can make a concrete house in BFE with only concrete, rebar, water, and humans, with some plywood for forms. Doesn't even need electricity, but that would speed it up. Seems to me that would be considerably easier to mobilize during a disaster, than a huge robot... no?
Something like this would be more suited to printing trailers in a factory (but not concrete..), or possibly a whole new subdivision, I'd think. But I'm sure the guys hanging out in front of home depot will do it cheaper.
That's Zimbabwe. SA, while experiencing considerable inflation in the 90's, is reasonably stable now, and no where near the level of inflation in zimbabwe.
1 rand used to be worth around 1 USD, IIRC (apartheid era). inflation went up with political change, and by around 2000? it was 10 or so to a dollar, and is something like 6-7 these days. So 50-100% some years, less overall, which is bad... but not hyperinflation, where prices double in days or hours, instead of years (like in zimbabwe).
The bacteria is actually the problem in this case. Humans without lactase can't digest lactose, so when it gets to the gut - the bacteria just love sugar, chow down, and make a lot of gas as waste.
You should tell her about wax. It doesn't need to be done anywhere near as often, easy, and similar in cost - probably cheaper. Less boring too
full disclosure: I've never waxed my legs... I've waxed areas which I assume are considerably more painful though, and survived. I'd think legs would be painless, or close to it.
I had interpreted their comment as meaning our govn'ts are now shit because of our lack of vigilance against them; not because our govn'ts haven't been vigilant enough.
Then I read it 3-4 more times and can no longer decide.
Hmmm, just checked the anandtech link and it's saying 20mW idle. Not sure how they managed to go from 2.6W to 20mW in a week or two? One of the stories was obviously incorrect.
In the story here a few weeks ago, they said the current design was idling at 2.6W, and 3.6W at full tilt (IIRC). It mentioned that they were hoping to get it down to 1W idle... which seems unrealistic if it's 2.6 right now, but, who knows.
If they manage to get it down to 1W, that's still more than 10x what a decent android phone uses (whole phone, idling, not just the CPU), and more like 50x what a 'modern' symbian phone uses.
So, I guess they will be making a smartphone, they just neglect to say that isn't mobile (at least not for long). Maybe there is a market for landline smartphones?
If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all.
Tax and duty are two different things. Anyone care to explain the actual situation there? Sounds like they're confused, at least.
Is there a specific semiconductor duty that doesn't apply to finished goods? (not sure that a board like this would count as 'finished' anyway, for duty purpose) If they're bitching about VAT, I don't see how that would be any different, completed unit or not.
The only difference I can see is more margin on Chinese produced version, barring there is no duty on semis, as mentioned above... Which any idiot would well know, by walking into a wal-mart.
I think it's more likely that they are just outright lying, and never intended to build it in the UK. Throw on a little BS to make it sound like they gave it an effort.
They can't possibly be that daft, can they? To just realise now that it is cheaper to do things in China?
It's been a few years since I've had anything made, but at the time Olimex in Bulgaria seemed to be the cheapest for one-off stuff. Places in North America wanted too much cash, and the Chinese outfits weren't worthwhile unless you ordered a bunch of stuff.
The one exception was.... advanced had a deal for students, not sure if that still exists. (I think it was $33 for a small double sided - normally you need to buy four, but a student could get a single). I'm not a student so it doesn't apply anyway.
(I thought it was a horrible game, but I had a friend that played it far too much)
Set in a 24th century wherein baseball team owners have grown tired of paying outrageous player salaries, they decide to replace their rosters with robots.
The same reason popcorn costs a fortune at the theatre. Artificial demand / scarcity, you can't bring in your own popcorn. And that had better be a TI-xx or you can't bring it in, either. No phones or laptops during the test, plz.
Pretty decent racket TI worked out with schools, I guess. I always preferred HP calcs anyway. RPN or death.
They shut down the reaction cleanly, sure. However, decay heat will cause the rods to melt if you don't cool them afterwards.
At shutdown, the rods put out something like 7% of full power, from decay heat. it falls to 1% after a day or so, but you need years for them to be cool enough to not require real cooling anymore.
so yeah, i'd probably just leave during the apocalypse. take a trip out to the boondocks. remember your canned goods.
Short half-life isotopes tend to release a lot of radiation during that short time. They're better long term contamination wise, sure - but saying things are benign because they have a short half-life is just wrong.
The two biggest offenders at Chernobyl were iodine-131, with a halflife of days, and Cs-137, 30 years. It's mostly the Cs now, obviously. Iodine was the biggest contributor to dose at the time of the incident, however.
Waiting a couple days to acknowledge that there was high radiation (I believe they claimed it was a 'normal' fire at first) and evacuate people was pretty pathetic.
Mind you, once they decided to act they went balls to the wall, in typical Soviet fashion... but skipped on workplace safety a wee bit, to say the least. Shitty deal for some of the liquidators, but good for everyone else I suppose.
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They don't even need real techs, the inspection doesn't have to be done in house... although that might make things more effective depending on the volume of returns.
I returned a router to staples the other day (It was working, I just wasn't pleased with the software on it / performance). The girl asked me what was wrong with it, and I explained that; however a co-worker said it doesn't matter what's wrong with it, it has to 'go back' anyway, just write down 'dead'. Whether 'back' is to some distribution office where knowledgeable people inspect things, or more likely, back to the manufacturer to reflash it, I don't know.
Anyway, had they just slapped it on the shelf, the next buyer would have been in trouble, seeing as the IP and password was no longer the default...
Still, most electronic products cannot be returned to stores.
Huh? I've never had a problem returning electronics. Software, on the other hand...
So in addition to shipping in concrete, insulation and wiring, etc, you have to bring in the gigantic robot that runs on rails(it looks like)? and power it?
There's a reason a lot of things are still done by hand, and a lot of the time, the reason is money.
You can make a concrete house in BFE with only concrete, rebar, water, and humans, with some plywood for forms. Doesn't even need electricity, but that would speed it up. Seems to me that would be considerably easier to mobilize during a disaster, than a huge robot... no?
Something like this would be more suited to printing trailers in a factory (but not concrete..), or possibly a whole new subdivision, I'd think. But I'm sure the guys hanging out in front of home depot will do it cheaper.
That's Zimbabwe. SA, while experiencing considerable inflation in the 90's, is reasonably stable now, and no where near the level of inflation in zimbabwe.
1 rand used to be worth around 1 USD, IIRC (apartheid era). inflation went up with political change, and by around 2000? it was 10 or so to a dollar, and is something like 6-7 these days. So 50-100% some years, less overall, which is bad... but not hyperinflation, where prices double in days or hours, instead of years (like in zimbabwe).
Good question, I came to post this too. Mod parent inquisitive.
AFAIK the fed can enable the higher-accuracy bit on GPS, but I don't think it is anywhere near 1/40th of an inch accurate, like TFS impies.
The bacteria is actually the problem in this case. Humans without lactase can't digest lactose, so when it gets to the gut - the bacteria just love sugar, chow down, and make a lot of gas as waste.
Have you? Some breeds don't grow horns naturally, some do. Often they're coerced into not growing at a young age, though.
RG-6 is ancient, and it has a copper-clad steel conductor.
You should tell her about wax. It doesn't need to be done anywhere near as often, easy, and similar in cost - probably cheaper. Less boring too
full disclosure: I've never waxed my legs... I've waxed areas which I assume are considerably more painful though, and survived. I'd think legs would be painless, or close to it.
Are you forgetting about Room 641A so soon? Don't remember Bush getting flak for illegal wiretaps?
Those are just the things we know about, surely there are more.
I had interpreted their comment as meaning our govn'ts are now shit because of our lack of vigilance against them; not because our govn'ts haven't been vigilant enough.
Then I read it 3-4 more times and can no longer decide.
Hmmm, just checked the anandtech link and it's saying 20mW idle. Not sure how they managed to go from 2.6W to 20mW in a week or two? One of the stories was obviously incorrect.
In the story here a few weeks ago, they said the current design was idling at 2.6W, and 3.6W at full tilt (IIRC). It mentioned that they were hoping to get it down to 1W idle... which seems unrealistic if it's 2.6 right now, but, who knows.
If they manage to get it down to 1W, that's still more than 10x what a decent android phone uses (whole phone, idling, not just the CPU), and more like 50x what a 'modern' symbian phone uses.
So, I guess they will be making a smartphone, they just neglect to say that isn't mobile (at least not for long). Maybe there is a market for landline smartphones?
I always just wipe drives and use dm-crypt / luks.
Chances are good that whatever included encryption doesn't bloody work, anyway.
If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all.
Tax and duty are two different things. Anyone care to explain the actual situation there? Sounds like they're confused, at least.
Is there a specific semiconductor duty that doesn't apply to finished goods? (not sure that a board like this would count as 'finished' anyway, for duty purpose)
If they're bitching about VAT, I don't see how that would be any different, completed unit or not.
The only difference I can see is more margin on Chinese produced version, barring there is no duty on semis, as mentioned above... Which any idiot would well know, by walking into a wal-mart.
So long as it runs facebook and porn, most users won't notice.
I think it's more likely that they are just outright lying, and never intended to build it in the UK. Throw on a little BS to make it sound like they gave it an effort.
They can't possibly be that daft, can they? To just realise now that it is cheaper to do things in China?
It's been a few years since I've had anything made, but at the time Olimex in Bulgaria seemed to be the cheapest for one-off stuff.
Places in North America wanted too much cash, and the Chinese outfits weren't worthwhile unless you ordered a bunch of stuff.
The one exception was.... advanced had a deal for students, not sure if that still exists. (I think it was $33 for a small double sided - normally you need to buy four, but a student could get a single). I'm not a student so it doesn't apply anyway.
Anti-labour propaganda has been fed to Americans for so long, a lot of them have grown to accept it as truth.
Sure unions have flaws, but a balance of power between workers and corporate rulers is a positive.
First thing that came to mind: Base Wars
(I thought it was a horrible game, but I had a friend that played it far too much)
Set in a 24th century wherein baseball team owners have grown tired of paying outrageous player salaries, they decide to replace their rosters with robots.
Not a bad idea, really...
The same reason popcorn costs a fortune at the theatre. Artificial demand / scarcity, you can't bring in your own popcorn. And that had better be a TI-xx or you can't bring it in, either. No phones or laptops during the test, plz.
Pretty decent racket TI worked out with schools, I guess. I always preferred HP calcs anyway. RPN or death.
They shut down the reaction cleanly, sure. However, decay heat will cause the rods to melt if you don't cool them afterwards.
At shutdown, the rods put out something like 7% of full power, from decay heat. it falls to 1% after a day or so, but you need years for them to be cool enough to not require real cooling anymore.
so yeah, i'd probably just leave during the apocalypse. take a trip out to the boondocks. remember your canned goods.
Short half-life isotopes tend to release a lot of radiation during that short time. They're better long term contamination wise, sure - but saying things are benign because they have a short half-life is just wrong.
The two biggest offenders at Chernobyl were iodine-131, with a halflife of days, and Cs-137, 30 years. It's mostly the Cs now, obviously. Iodine was the biggest contributor to dose at the time of the incident, however.
Nuclear Energy Institute? Isn't that sort of like tobacco health studies from Phillip Morris?
Waiting a couple days to acknowledge that there was high radiation (I believe they claimed it was a 'normal' fire at first) and evacuate people was pretty pathetic.
Mind you, once they decided to act they went balls to the wall, in typical Soviet fashion... but skipped on workplace safety a wee bit, to say the least. Shitty deal for some of the liquidators, but good for everyone else I suppose.