"Skill" is the differentiation between those who work for minimum wage and those who do not.
My son was raised in a protective environment by his mother in a condo. Never given responsibility. Never allowed to pursue interests. Constantly monitored. He will have difficulty getting a fast food job due to his lack of simple people skills.
At his age, I had already worked at a grocery store (a bagger) earning more than minimum wage. I sought electronics as a hobby and later got a job repairing TVs. Later, I worked for a consultant while attending college. All much above minimum wage. In the end, I put myself through school on the cheap (community college then state university) and became an electronics engineer for a long career.
My son finally moved in with me a few months ago but he's totally unprepared for simple employment. Now, I get to try to kick start his skills, creativity and drive. Something I tried to do as a "every other weekend father" but really couldn't do with so little time with him.
I wish him the best but it's not going to be easy.
Again, skill makes the difference when a wage is paid. Those with little skill hand out fries.
Now that minimum wage is headed upward, companies are circumventing the basic labor need with machines.
My active noise canceling shooting headphones work sort of like this. They get rid of fast attack sounds yet let in ambient sounds. I can adjust the ambient and it makes it so I can hear a pin drop but it screens out a shotgun sound. Really quite nice.
Agreed. I don't ever stream music from Youtube. Now and then, if I want to show someone what an obscure song is, I google it and if they have a Youtube link to the song, I'll play it but who the hell needs video to listen to music? Perhaps with a performance but not just listening to something off an album.
My music regimen is to stream an obscure station that I like, run it to bluetooth and broadcast it using low power over FM to my living area/outdoors. If I hear something I like, I download it and it goes on my iPod (I don't use the Apple store because it doesn't download.mp3, I use Amazon instead so I can put it on a flash drive for my car.
If I don't like what's playing on the streaming station, I move to Pandora.
I do use Youtube but I use it purposely for video, not listening to music throughout the day.
People want to read their news on Facebook as long as reading that dull news tells us what to think.
News shouldn't take too long to read (maybe 10 seconds or so) because I need to get my latte at Starbucks and when I'm waiting in line, my attention span is short. It must have a headline starting with "your jaw will drop...." and have some ditz with big boobs or a deck of credit cards fanned out.
Eventually, one reaches diminishing returns WRT thin-ness.
Battery issues and rigidity are on top of the problems.
What's the point? Apple likes to play this game but it's getting so it just doesn't make sense.
Koreans are great "copiers" when it comes to technology, be it cars, phones and the rest. The do make some good shit now but as my M.E. friend calls their cars... "they're throwaway, nothing one would keep for decades".
I watched this gang go through our documentation department when my company "partnered" with them. It was rather humorous.
The $150 price tag of a refurb. laptop that I previously-mentioned is hard to beat. For extra battery life, they have an external pack that mounts underneath.
I'm writing this on the machine right now.
I run it daily and really like it (even over a Win7 version of the same hardware).
I also have this one as a dual boot system (Windows) but I haven't used Windows on this laptop for over a year. No need to do it.
How can they determine "cause" when the battery burned to the point where physical evidence was likely impossible to analyze?
In my past life, I looked at similar failures. When something becomes incendiary, more often than not, all one has is a pile of severely-oxidized material.
It's most-often not possible to determine root cause of such failures.
People. The problem is the moronic CEOs of late just don't get that idea. We are seeing that with HP for example. They've gutted the people that were the innovation of the company from myopic "management" that can't invent anything. It's not limited to HP but that is a good indication of things gone wrong.
The MBA's solution is to procure a company instead of inventing technology but in the end, someone has to actually invent something new. Those things are called "people" (as I whack myself in the forehead with the palm of my hand).
I live about 6 miles from an urban area that has fibre, cable and DSL. My only choice is HughesNet Satellite (10 GB data cap/month) or a pretty slow (1 Mb/sec) wireless link.
No DSL (too far from a C.O.), no cable.
Both of the above choices are rather limited (the 1Mb link failed for about 6 hours this AM) there is no other choice.
I pay a little over $100/month for both services. I need two providers because both are unreliable.
The reason we don't have cable is because the area is semi-rural and the distance between homes is about 1/8 to 1/4 mile.
" The lead objectors to the proposal were mostly Southern senators and conservatives from small states, both Democrats and Republicans, who argued abolishing the Electoral College would reduce their states' political influence."
"Robots" don't really manufacture cellphones. SMT (Surface Mount Technology) pick and place machines load the printed circuit boards. Soldering is done in a convection oven. Humans are used for things like installing the PC board, the battery and connecting the flex cables. Also with testing the devices to some extent (although some of that can be automated).
There's very little human labor involved in assembling the phones.
FWIW, very few (if any) SMT pick and place equipment manufacturers make their equipment in the US and it wouldn't be cost effective to start up such an equipment manufacturer here due to the low volume sales and high expense of the equipment.
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You are correct but no one wants to admit it.
"Skill" is the differentiation between those who work for minimum wage and those who do not.
My son was raised in a protective environment by his mother in a condo. Never given responsibility. Never allowed to pursue interests. Constantly monitored. He will have difficulty getting a fast food job due to his lack of simple people skills.
At his age, I had already worked at a grocery store (a bagger) earning more than minimum wage. I sought electronics as a hobby and later got a job repairing TVs. Later, I worked for a consultant while attending college. All much above minimum wage. In the end, I put myself through school on the cheap (community college then state university) and became an electronics engineer for a long career.
My son finally moved in with me a few months ago but he's totally unprepared for simple employment. Now, I get to try to kick start his skills, creativity and drive. Something I tried to do as a "every other weekend father" but really couldn't do with so little time with him.
I wish him the best but it's not going to be easy.
Again, skill makes the difference when a wage is paid. Those with little skill hand out fries.
Now that minimum wage is headed upward, companies are circumventing the basic labor need with machines.
Be careful what you ask for.
No one has to eat at a place that makes food with robots.
Frankly, I prefer a hand-smashed burger and a baked on the spot bun.
I do business with these places because they produce a superior product.
My active noise canceling shooting headphones work sort of like this. They get rid of fast attack sounds yet let in ambient sounds. I can adjust the ambient and it makes it so I can hear a pin drop but it screens out a shotgun sound. Really quite nice.
Bought a Bose Soundlink speaker. Failed in about 3 weeks (Bluetooth crapped out). Over accentuated bass.
Ended up replacing it with a Sony product. After 2 years it's working flawlessly and sounds a whole lot better.
I did like the small size of the Bose but it just didn't work.
$25 to $50 is way too much. Especially if it's a marginal quality movie.
Some movies are better on a big screen. For others, I'll wait and watch it at home (the not so good ones).
I tend to go to theaters on "off times" to avoid crowds and noisy patrons.
Agreed. I don't ever stream music from Youtube. Now and then, if I want to show someone what an obscure song is, I google it and if they have a Youtube link to the song, I'll play it but who the hell needs video to listen to music? Perhaps with a performance but not just listening to something off an album.
My music regimen is to stream an obscure station that I like, run it to bluetooth and broadcast it using low power over FM to my living area/outdoors. If I hear something I like, I download it and it goes on my iPod (I don't use the Apple store because it doesn't download .mp3, I use Amazon instead so I can put it on a flash drive for my car.
If I don't like what's playing on the streaming station, I move to Pandora.
I do use Youtube but I use it purposely for video, not listening to music throughout the day.
As you say, it's a non-comparable business model.
People want Brawndo!
People want to read their news on Facebook as long as reading that dull news tells us what to think.
News shouldn't take too long to read (maybe 10 seconds or so) because I need to get my latte at Starbucks and when I'm waiting in line, my attention span is short. ...." and have some ditz with big boobs or a deck of credit cards fanned out.
It must have a headline starting with "your jaw will drop
Walter Cronkite would have wanted it that way.
Agreed. Do they wish to stifle free speech?
I see people ragging Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC et. al.
Fuck 'em. I can (and they can) say whatever they wish. This isn't China or Afghanistan.
Good point.
Eventually, one reaches diminishing returns WRT thin-ness.
Battery issues and rigidity are on top of the problems.
What's the point? Apple likes to play this game but it's getting so it just doesn't make sense.
Koreans are great "copiers" when it comes to technology, be it cars, phones and the rest. The do make some good shit now but as my M.E. friend calls their cars... "they're throwaway, nothing one would keep for decades".
I watched this gang go through our documentation department when my company "partnered" with them. It was rather humorous.
The $150 price tag of a refurb. laptop that I previously-mentioned is hard to beat. For extra battery life, they have an external pack that mounts underneath.
I'm writing this on the machine right now.
I run it daily and really like it (even over a Win7 version of the same hardware).
I also have this one as a dual boot system (Windows) but I haven't used Windows on this laptop for over a year. No need to do it.
How can they determine "cause" when the battery burned to the point where physical evidence was likely impossible to analyze?
In my past life, I looked at similar failures. When something becomes incendiary, more often than not, all one has is a pile of severely-oxidized material.
It's most-often not possible to determine root cause of such failures.
So tell me, where does "technology" come from?
(Drum roll)
People. The problem is the moronic CEOs of late just don't get that idea. We are seeing that with HP for example. They've gutted the people that were the innovation of the company from myopic "management" that can't invent anything. It's not limited to HP but that is a good indication of things gone wrong.
The MBA's solution is to procure a company instead of inventing technology but in the end, someone has to actually invent something new. Those things are called "people" (as I whack myself in the forehead with the palm of my hand).
I live about 6 miles from an urban area that has fibre, cable and DSL. My only choice is HughesNet Satellite (10 GB data cap/month) or a pretty slow (1 Mb/sec) wireless link.
No DSL (too far from a C.O.), no cable.
Both of the above choices are rather limited (the 1Mb link failed for about 6 hours this AM) there is no other choice.
I pay a little over $100/month for both services. I need two providers because both are unreliable.
The reason we don't have cable is because the area is semi-rural and the distance between homes is about 1/8 to 1/4 mile.
I use an old HP laptop (NC6400) to run Linux Mint. No problems at all.
Stay away from their consumer grade laptops. They're unreliable crap.
Will Twitter ban hateful anti Trump rants?
"You hacked" is rather broken English so I'd suspect it's out of our sphere of influence.
Already tried (and failed).
The Bayh-Celler Amendment in 1970.
" The lead objectors to the proposal were mostly Southern senators and conservatives from small states, both Democrats and Republicans, who argued abolishing the Electoral College would reduce their states' political influence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Saw this claim before about 20 years ago.
A drug called "Placonaril" by Viropharma.
Failed the FDA trial.
I hope this bunch does better.
The irony here is Hillary pursued the "superdelegates" so she could have an Electoral College advantage.
Now we find Trump came out ahead with the E.C. votes and lost the popular vote.
The poetic justice is that Hillary was beat at the game she originally pursued (attempting to stack the E.C. in her favor).
Ya just gotta love it.
It's on the San Francisco Chronicle website (sfgate.com) right now.
Imagine that. A liberal rag doing the same thing as Fox News.
The link: http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...
That's "Retro Entabulator", bubb.
(as I adjust my girdle spring and marzelpham)
Our fake news said Hillary had a 99% chance of winning the election.
We don't need Russians for fake news. The US can do pretty well making its own.
HP requires its employees to encrypt the HDDs on their PCs.
Wouder what wrong here.
"Robots" don't really manufacture cellphones. SMT (Surface Mount Technology) pick and place machines load the printed circuit boards. Soldering is done in a convection oven. Humans are used for things like installing the PC board, the battery and connecting the flex cables. Also with testing the devices to some extent (although some of that can be automated).
There's very little human labor involved in assembling the phones.
FWIW, very few (if any) SMT pick and place equipment manufacturers make their equipment in the US and it wouldn't be cost effective to start up such an equipment manufacturer here due to the low volume sales and high expense of the equipment.
My company (a very large computer manufacturer) eliminated it's retirement package and health insurance for most retirees and all future retires.