Mind that the iPad has IPS, proving that small IPS panels can be built profitably. The iPad might be a non-general-purpose device, but it puts Lenovo's arguments against it to shame.
As for the Thinkpad (X201/etc.) panels, is that just for tablet models, or is it for all of them?
No thanks, but I'll wait for when it can be done as a replacement for TN screens of larger sizes (14", 15", (17"?)) and proves to be better at quality than *-IPS panels.
Netbooks might be a proof-of-concept, but notebooks of larger sizes and higher quality would be a better application.
Your core business. At least that's what's purported to be the case. The reality is that you've dumped the accountability in the process.
I'm betting that you're also aware of Toyota Tsusho, and their Myanmar / China operations - as well as the Chinese immigrants that make those Japanese cars(in Japan, of all places).
If they enforced it to the letter and did so strictly(given the various means for which it is ignored or circumvented), then it wouldn't be the exception to hear of good conditions and living critics.
...a bad choice is not made any better if you have no alternatives.
The age wouldn't be an issue if critics didn't end up dying, and those who worked there didn't resemble the output end of a meat grinder. That's not condescending at all to ask that critics be allowed to live, and those whom work there have some actual choice in the matter.
Not supporting such government-business relationships is not condescending at all. In a way, it is doing them a favor by providing the right incentives to end it by cutting outside support.
They aren't going to use robotics if those extra set of hands keeps them from political pursuits. That is, political pursuits that bring an already unstable country to a ill-timed(for them, well-timed for the US) regime collapse.
Except that reporting a safety violation at a McDonalds in the First World isn't an implied death sentence. It's more likely to have the violation corrected.
The problem is that the countries that still have it as a problem also have a government-business relationship that is "too friendly". Those factories could willfully ignore law and kill their critics.
Just because it may be their only practical choice does not invalidate that it is a bad one. Rewarding those businesses for pursuing that government policy is not going to make it any better.
That is, does one expect them to actually follow the rules? No. The ASCC is a whitewash given that it has no real ability to exact meaningful punishments.
Those are about 133,000 jobs on the wrong side of the US and Western Europe - where they might actually respect the law for once.
The search giant yesterday announced plans to build a gigabit fibre broadband network in the US. The test network will see Google deliver fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connections to up to half a million US homes.
...all outside of flyover country as usual. By the time it reaches flyover country, the provider ends up acting like Comcast on you.
shmG writes to share that according to a recent study on the impact of laws banning the use of cell phones during driving, there appears to be no reduction in accidents as a result. "The HLDI compared collisions of 100 insured vehicles per year in New York, Washington D.C., Connecticut, and California -- all states with currently enacted roadway text bans. Despite those laws, monthly fluctuations in crash rates didn't change after bans were enacted, all though there were less people using devices while driving. An earlier study conducted by the HLDI reported that cellphone use was directly linked to four-fold increases in crash injuries. Also independent studies done by universities have shown correlation between driving while using a phone and crashes."
On some phone platforms, crashes occur regardless of whether you're driving a car or not.
That's the only positive I have for it. If it uses a standard panel interface, just find yourself an inverter and a board to convert the signal into something useful.
Use the panel, sell the rest of the parts on Ebay.
While Apple may prove that it is indeed possible to put a better-than-TN LCD panel in a small (laptop-like) form factor, MSI would do well to follow the lead on quality.
That might provoke Lenovo to bring something back to their laptops that has been missing for a while.
IBM/Lenovo's Thinkpads will most likely undercut this tablet and exceed it in quality. That, and they're straightforward with you, unlike Apple who overpromises and purposefully under-delivers until the final generation.
That, and they usually have no trouble running whatever OSX that gets cooked up, whether it be a thin x300 or a do-it-all w700ds.
Not only will those developing countries use them, they'll also spend 12+ hours a day making them. Then some Audi-driving party boss(or his equivalent in the Third World) enslaves the very people that were meant to be freed by this technology.
At that cost, you've just added a slave labor incentive to the mix. How about just cut to the chase if all you're going to get is slave labor in a Third World country?
. If there is any single market in the world that's worth it, it's the United States of America.
FIFY.
Other industry has been there, done that. Car manufacturers all knew after the initial surprises that if they open a factory in China, their blueprints will be copied and another chinese factory somewhere else will produce the same cars for a cheaper price. Some stayed out of China for that reason.
Good reason to stay out of a Second(Russia) World or Third World country(China/India/Brazil) and manufacture in a First World(US/UK/Pre-Expansion EU) one.
Besides, you're selling largely to party bosses anyway. The rest are just junk-grade copies.
Frankly, ten years from now, game developers will probably wonder whether it's worth the trouble anymore translating their games for the US market.
They will translate for the US and it won't be a second-rate job. End of story.
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Mind that the iPad has IPS, proving that small IPS panels can be built profitably. The iPad might be a non-general-purpose device, but it puts Lenovo's arguments against it to shame.
As for the Thinkpad (X201/etc.) panels, is that just for tablet models, or is it for all of them?
No thanks, but I'll wait for when it can be done as a replacement for TN screens of larger sizes (14", 15", (17"?)) and proves to be better at quality than *-IPS panels.
Netbooks might be a proof-of-concept, but notebooks of larger sizes and higher quality would be a better application.
The chaebols/jaebols aren't much better in that regard. The underlying problem still exists, except that they have an actual choice in the matter.
Your core business. At least that's what's purported to be the case. The reality is that you've dumped the accountability in the process.
I'm betting that you're also aware of Toyota Tsusho, and their Myanmar / China operations - as well as the Chinese immigrants that make those Japanese cars(in Japan, of all places).
(yes, I know the sarcasm)
Robots.
They'll shine them faster, better, and you don't have to kill them(since they really don't complain). They'll pay for themselves in a short time.
Save your guns for the critics outside.
Since there's no Reply All in slashcode:
If they enforced it to the letter and did so strictly(given the various means for which it is ignored or circumvented), then it wouldn't be the exception to hear of good conditions and living critics.
...a bad choice is not made any better if you have no alternatives.
The age wouldn't be an issue if critics didn't end up dying, and those who worked there didn't resemble the output end of a meat grinder. That's not condescending at all to ask that critics be allowed to live, and those whom work there have some actual choice in the matter.
Not supporting such government-business relationships is not condescending at all. In a way, it is doing them a favor by providing the right incentives to end it by cutting outside support.
They aren't going to use robotics if those extra set of hands keeps them from political pursuits. That is, political pursuits that bring an already unstable country to a ill-timed(for them, well-timed for the US) regime collapse.
Except that reporting a safety violation at a McDonalds in the First World isn't an implied death sentence. It's more likely to have the violation corrected.
The problem is that the countries that still have it as a problem also have a government-business relationship that is "too friendly". Those factories could willfully ignore law and kill their critics.
Just because it may be their only practical choice does not invalidate that it is a bad one. Rewarding those businesses for pursuing that government policy is not going to make it any better.
That is, does one expect them to actually follow the rules? No. The ASCC is a whitewash given that it has no real ability to exact meaningful punishments.
Those are about 133,000 jobs on the wrong side of the US and Western Europe - where they might actually respect the law for once.
Given Google's initial eagerness to China, it wouldn't be a problem.
Given their Google's eagerness to China, it wouldn't be a problem.
The search giant yesterday announced plans to build a gigabit fibre broadband network in the US. The test network will see Google deliver fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connections to up to half a million US homes.
...all outside of flyover country as usual. By the time it reaches flyover country, the provider ends up acting like Comcast on you.
Removing it is fine until an update/reinstall brings it back. Telling the browser to not trust that entity at all is what I'm talking about.
...is there a straightforward way to mark CNNIC as untrusted?
shmG writes to share that according to a recent study on the impact of laws banning the use of cell phones during driving, there appears to be no reduction in accidents as a result.
"The HLDI compared collisions of 100 insured vehicles per year in New York, Washington D.C., Connecticut, and California -- all states with currently enacted roadway text bans. Despite those laws, monthly fluctuations in crash rates didn't change after bans were enacted, all though there were less people using devices while driving. An earlier study conducted by the HLDI reported that cellphone use was directly linked to four-fold increases in crash injuries. Also independent studies done by universities have shown correlation between driving while using a phone and crashes."
On some phone platforms, crashes occur regardless of whether you're driving a car or not.
That's the only positive I have for it. If it uses a standard panel interface, just find yourself an inverter and a board to convert the signal into something useful.
Use the panel, sell the rest of the parts on Ebay.
While Apple may prove that it is indeed possible to put a better-than-TN LCD panel in a small (laptop-like) form factor, MSI would do well to follow the lead on quality.
That might provoke Lenovo to bring something back to their laptops that has been missing for a while.
IBM/Lenovo's Thinkpads will most likely undercut this tablet and exceed it in quality. That, and they're straightforward with you, unlike Apple who overpromises and purposefully under-delivers until the final generation.
That, and they usually have no trouble running whatever OSX that gets cooked up, whether it be a thin x300 or a do-it-all w700ds.
Not only will those developing countries use them, they'll also spend 12+ hours a day making them. Then some Audi-driving party boss(or his equivalent in the Third World) enslaves the very people that were meant to be freed by this technology.
At that cost, you've just added a slave labor incentive to the mix. How about just cut to the chase if all you're going to get is slave labor in a Third World country?
It's in a usable form right now, just not a stable port to that platform yet.
. If there is any single market in the world that's worth it, it's the United States of America.
FIFY.
Other industry has been there, done that. Car manufacturers all knew after the initial surprises that if they open a factory in China, their blueprints will be copied and another chinese factory somewhere else will produce the same cars for a cheaper price. Some stayed out of China for that reason.
Good reason to stay out of a Second(Russia) World or Third World country(China/India/Brazil) and manufacture in a First World(US/UK/Pre-Expansion EU) one.
Besides, you're selling largely to party bosses anyway. The rest are just junk-grade copies.
Frankly, ten years from now, game developers will probably wonder whether it's worth the trouble anymore translating their games for the US market.
They will translate for the US and it won't be a second-rate job. End of story.
...none of those regulations apply to their goldfarming services targeted to large First World markets.
N/T.