Wasn't one of the benefits of assembly line technology the fact that you could get away with using unskilled or lesser-skilled employees? Precisely because they didn't NEED to know how to assemble the entire product themselves. They just needed to know one or two steps of the whole process.
Don't you just LOVE revisionism?
Now, I'd LOVE to be able to build my own furniture. But, am I going to invest the thousands of dollars for said equipment? No. Mainly because I live in an apartment and don't have the space or necessary power available to me to support something like that. Plus, my neighbors would bitch up a storm if I ran something like a table saw in the evenings. Moreover, I wouldn't use it enough to make the investment worthwhile.
I own a drill motor and a circular saw currently. The drill sees use every couple months. The circular saw was used once, about 10 years ago, shortly after it was bought. It hasn't been touched since.
So I'm what? Going to go out and get myself a table planer? A drill press? A bandsaw? And start putting tables and chairs together?
I've never understood why people fund projects where the outcome is the establishment of some proprietary asset
Okay. I'm part owner in a tabletop gaming company.
We recently kickstarted one of our properties (quite successfully I might add, since our backers completely refunded the project in the last 24 hours of the campaign).
Had we not kicked it, this property would have been put into our normal production pipeline and been out sometime next year (if it didn't get bumped by funding needs for one of our "core" properties).
Our Kickstarter success means it goes into production NOW. It means that this is a game that people find interested and want to play now.
You can play the basic game for free already. The Kickstarter allowed us to fully fund production costs and bring in a couple of valuable properties as add-ons/expansions.
All our backers will be given access to the final form of the downloadable game rules and pieces. But over 97% of our nearly 600 backers opted for higher tiers of support where they get a full copy of the game and some of the premium Kickstarter exclusive one-offs. A huge swath of them also spent out for the add-on/expansions in excess of their basic contribution.
Do they "own" the company that built it? No. But they're getting a copy of a game they REALLY like and they're getting it THIS YEAR instead of "maybe next year...ish". And, because they're getting it this year, they're paying for this year's production costs (and kickstarters are getting a bit of a discount off the final on-box price) and not next year's (higher) costs.
This form of funding allows my company to be more agile in our releases and allows our customers to say "I want this NOW! Shut up and take my money!" instead of going "Man! Wish it was coming out now and not NEXT year!"
Does that mean we're going to kickstart everything in our product line? Nah. That's why we have our traditional funding model. But this is an additional avenue to allow us to do MORE.
probably a lot cheaper than buying a tube of thermal paste
Are you on drugs? This is SONY we're talking about. They're right up there with Apple for "We'll slap our logo on some old, shoddy crap and charge three times the going rate!"
Seriously though, I'd want to duplicate their test setup before I believe their numbers. TIM pads may have superior lifetimes, but pastes tend to have superior surface coverage.
That's great and everything. But what kind of capacitance can they get out of these? And do we have any idea about the lifespan and durability of this process?
It'd be great to get away from huge battery columns or battery blocks in the trunk/engine area, or staying with them and using this to augment them and raise the top range of the vehicles.
But until there's more specific information, this is "interesting" but not very helpful.
But, how many people are there who fit the following criteria:
* Know what a representative sample is
* Understand statistics properly
* In actual decision-making positions to actually make a difference when stupid interface changes like this are shit out, scooped up, and fed to the masses?
You know the little box you can tick that says "Send anonymous usage data to Microsoft"? It's that data. Not a focus group, but telemetry data from actual windows installs.
Oh. The thing everyone and their brother is told to NEVER check!
No wonder they got such asinine and utterly useless feedback. Because the only people giving them feedback were morons.
What she fails to realize is that, in countries employing this technique, the Internet *IS* broken. Sites that people *KNOW* are up and running properly are unreachable and provide no data on why the site isn't responding (in many cases, since a government rarely comes out and tell you they're censoring you to your face), or in a few cases where the government makes a show of being "up front" about what they're doing you get a "This page has been blocked" message.
I'm sorry, government-mandated censorship of the Internet is NOT OKAY. PERIOD! The only censorship that should be happening is what one imposes upon oneself and one's children. Anything else it totally unacceptable.
But his example highlights why socialism doesn't work on actual implementation.
It's an ideal situation (where everyone would help one another on general principal) with no sense of self interest (enlightened or otherwise) and no avarice.
It's a perfect government for social insects. For higher forms of social fauna, it's basically an ideal that cannot ever be reached.
Whoever has the guts to say that "There's nothing inherently "superior" about ARM or PPC instruction sets.", he just shows that he has minimal or no knowledge about the instruction sets of Intel, ARM & PPC and he certainly has no significant experience in trying to optimize a program for any of those architectures.
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Basically it's the perfect armor.
Some 500 pound guy in a thong is so horrific that you simply can't look at it long enough to aim and shoot.
That and the whole Cthulu-esque "I stared into madness and madness stared back" aspect.
Yet we're talking about big manufacturing in the US.
Bob McAmishguy aside...
And have you actually built anything more than a rough wooden box with hand tools?
Even with a full woodshop ad your disposal, fabrication takes time.
Unless you just don't care, and wanna throw together any rickety POS that'll fall apart as soon as the glue cracks and the nails heave.
Cordless drill?
Uh. No. Drill motor.
Granted, I need to plug into a wall to get it to run, but I don't have to dink with batteries.
We could only be so lucky.
If it could take Twitter with it to the grave, so much the better!
Additionally, this doesn't take into account that some people just should NOT be trusted with power tools.
My uncle for instance. Took a thumb off in his table saw.
Needless to say, my father and I completed his home remodeling for him.
And he took the other off a few years later in a minivan door.
Or another uncle, who took HIS thumb off in a hedge trimmer.
Uhm. What?
Wasn't one of the benefits of assembly line technology the fact that you could get away with using unskilled or lesser-skilled employees? Precisely because they didn't NEED to know how to assemble the entire product themselves. They just needed to know one or two steps of the whole process.
Don't you just LOVE revisionism?
Now, I'd LOVE to be able to build my own furniture. But, am I going to invest the thousands of dollars for said equipment?
No.
Mainly because I live in an apartment and don't have the space or necessary power available to me to support something like that.
Plus, my neighbors would bitch up a storm if I ran something like a table saw in the evenings.
Moreover, I wouldn't use it enough to make the investment worthwhile.
I own a drill motor and a circular saw currently. The drill sees use every couple months. The circular saw was used once, about 10 years ago, shortly after it was bought. It hasn't been touched since.
So I'm what? Going to go out and get myself a table planer? A drill press? A bandsaw? And start putting tables and chairs together?
Amiright?
Dude, everyone's going to Hell. Didn't you get the memo?
There's only like three people in Heaven. Sitting around all day on a cloud singing songs?
BO-RING!
Come on down and party in Hell!
Sure, you're dancing on a coal! But at least you're dancing!
Seems like less than an hour
Posted by Unknown Lamer on 12:30 PM July 19th, 2012
from the car-piracy-for-fun-and-profit dept.
Posted by Roblimo on 12:48 PM July 19th, 2012
from the today-3D-tomorrow-4D-with-5D-the-day-after dept.
I dunno Rob. To me that *IS* less than an hour. Hell, it's 18 minutes.
Why not try for a bit of accuracy in your pseudojournalism?
I'd be interested to know which product you're talking about (especially since you say you can play the basic game for free)...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/450703636/the-duke?ref=live
Yes, but if you have public documentation of "No this product doesn't infringe on ours" on their website...
I wonder what this'll do for other cases where Apple is bending Samsung over for the same exact thing.
I've never understood why people fund projects where the outcome is the establishment of some proprietary asset
Okay. I'm part owner in a tabletop gaming company.
We recently kickstarted one of our properties (quite successfully I might add, since our backers completely refunded the project in the last 24 hours of the campaign).
Had we not kicked it, this property would have been put into our normal production pipeline and been out sometime next year (if it didn't get bumped by funding needs for one of our "core" properties).
Our Kickstarter success means it goes into production NOW. It means that this is a game that people find interested and want to play now.
You can play the basic game for free already. The Kickstarter allowed us to fully fund production costs and bring in a couple of valuable properties as add-ons/expansions.
All our backers will be given access to the final form of the downloadable game rules and pieces. But over 97% of our nearly 600 backers opted for higher tiers of support where they get a full copy of the game and some of the premium Kickstarter exclusive one-offs. A huge swath of them also spent out for the add-on/expansions in excess of their basic contribution.
Do they "own" the company that built it?
No.
But they're getting a copy of a game they REALLY like and they're getting it THIS YEAR instead of "maybe next year...ish". And, because they're getting it this year, they're paying for this year's production costs (and kickstarters are getting a bit of a discount off the final on-box price) and not next year's (higher) costs.
This form of funding allows my company to be more agile in our releases and allows our customers to say "I want this NOW! Shut up and take my money!" instead of going "Man! Wish it was coming out now and not NEXT year!"
Does that mean we're going to kickstart everything in our product line? Nah. That's why we have our traditional funding model. But this is an additional avenue to allow us to do MORE.
probably a lot cheaper than buying a tube of thermal paste
Are you on drugs? This is SONY we're talking about. They're right up there with Apple for "We'll slap our logo on some old, shoddy crap and charge three times the going rate!"
Seriously though, I'd want to duplicate their test setup before I believe their numbers. TIM pads may have superior lifetimes, but pastes tend to have superior surface coverage.
Which technicians were cut?
The most emo ones. They volunteered to do it themselves.
I basically see a lot of this happening right now.
That's great and everything. But what kind of capacitance can they get out of these? And do we have any idea about the lifespan and durability of this process?
It'd be great to get away from huge battery columns or battery blocks in the trunk/engine area, or staying with them and using this to augment them and raise the top range of the vehicles.
But until there's more specific information, this is "interesting" but not very helpful.
I didn't say that.
But, how many people are there who fit the following criteria:
You know the little box you can tick that says "Send anonymous usage data to Microsoft"? It's that data. Not a focus group, but telemetry data from actual windows installs.
Oh. The thing everyone and their brother is told to NEVER check!
No wonder they got such asinine and utterly useless feedback. Because the only people giving them feedback were morons.
So we can see beaners kicking the crap out of cops, tossing them over the border into Mexico, then turning to anyone watching and go "No ticket!"
Right?
What she fails to realize is that, in countries employing this technique, the Internet *IS* broken. Sites that people *KNOW* are up and running properly are unreachable and provide no data on why the site isn't responding (in many cases, since a government rarely comes out and tell you they're censoring you to your face), or in a few cases where the government makes a show of being "up front" about what they're doing you get a "This page has been blocked" message.
I'm sorry, government-mandated censorship of the Internet is NOT OKAY. PERIOD!
The only censorship that should be happening is what one imposes upon oneself and one's children.
Anything else it totally unacceptable.
The Playbook is essentially useless to anyone who doesn't own a Crackberry, since the Playbook requires a Blackberry phone for network connectivity.
As someone else said, they could be GIVING these away and I'd still have no interest.
But his example highlights why socialism doesn't work on actual implementation.
It's an ideal situation (where everyone would help one another on general principal) with no sense of self interest (enlightened or otherwise) and no avarice.
It's a perfect government for social insects. For higher forms of social fauna, it's basically an ideal that cannot ever be reached.
Whoever has the guts to say that "There's nothing inherently "superior" about ARM or PPC instruction sets.", he just shows that he has minimal or no knowledge about the instruction sets of Intel, ARM & PPC and he certainly has no significant experience in trying to optimize a program for any of those architectures.
33 years of experience is laughing at this quote.
He was pointing out that to say "CISC won" is only true...
And I'm saying CISC didn't win.
And neither did RISC.
Both platforms hybridized. So the distinction in modern processors is pointless.