If what you said is true, that corporations signing "exclusionary contracts" with Microsoft getting huge discounts, in exchange for letting Microsoft to come into their daily IT operation to do spot checks for any so-called "violation", that will be a can of worm right there !!
No corporation, and I mean, no self-respecting corporation, whether or not they are in the Fortune list, should allow any outsider to intrude into their internal operation in carrying out spot checks !!
Whoever signed those type of contract with Microsoft, and all their superiors, must bear full responsibility in any loses, whether in financial or in trade secret, incurred during those "spot checks"
The rack frame itself is 24 inches in width, but, for some stupid reason, the rack was confined to 19 inches
Plus, all the components, like HD, mobo, and so on, had to had their own PSU
Air flow was seriously constricted, and heat built up
Now that they change the spec to 21 inches, and leave the power supply to the frame, just like what they were doing in the blade servers, much improvement will be had in this new design
As for the entrenched interest - HP and Dell are the two biggest OEM, and if they do not want to play, well, the Taiwanese ODMs will be more than happy to move in and fill the gap
And do not discount the biggest elephant in the room, Foxconn - if Foxconn decides to join in the game, the whole scene will change drastically
Why pour funds into schools of an already developed country while hundreds of millions of under-privileged school kids from not-yet-developed countries all over the world don't get nothing?
What kind of "Good Will" Google hopes to get by doing so?
I would LOVE to see a judge walk out, call the CEOs to the bench, grab them both by the ear and yell "PLAY NICE OR I'LL TAKE BOTH YOUR TOYS AWAY" and then dismiss these ridiculous lawsuits.
Dismissal? What the judge should do is take away both set of patents!
While the world media headlines are blaring "Apple sues Samsung" or "Samsung sues Apple", Apples is providing Samsung more one billion U. S. dollars to keep Samsung's Austin, Texas fab in operation
... but I get this feeling that under the current administration America is actually going backwards on a lot of things
Ever from the start of the so-called "Information Hiway" the users had fought hard to get the flat-rate package from ISP
It has been that way for decades and suddenly officials from the Obama administration supporting the metering of Net usage
It is also under Obama administration that the MAFIAA tried (and fortunately failed) to push their SOPA bill - and if my memory served me right, the Obama administration was supporting the bill, and only after stern objection from millions of Net users that the Obama administration changed their mind
I am afraid to think what will happen i4 years from now if this administration is to win the upcoming election
Wages are a small part of the cost of an iPhone. They could be made in the US for something like $60 more per phone.
If you search for "build iphone in america", you find lots of articles with the same quote:
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhoneâ(TM)s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the companyâ(TM)s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
âoeThe speed and flexibility is breathtaking,â the executive said. âoeThereâ(TM)s no American plant that can match that.â
No, I will argue that wage IS the determinant factor
It's much more than the $60.00 more per iPhone
Can you try to imagine Apple does what they did in China in a factory inside the US of A - getting 8,000 workers back to work the production line, in the middle of the night, with just a biscuit and a cup of tea??
1. No worker in America will work for a biscuit and a cup of tea in the middle of the night
2. If they do, the American workers will demand HUGE INCREASE IN WAGE BONUS - much more than the $60 that you quoted
That is why Apple is not making their devices in the USA - the workers in the US/Europe are way to spoilt !
There's another way. Stop this suicidal race to the bottom.
Unfortunately there is no way to stop this blind rush to the bottom
How much are you willing to pay for your next iPAD? $7,999.00 or $499.00 ?
How much are you willing to pay for your next iTV? $18,999.00 or $999.00 ?
You are the consumer, you vote with your wallet. and get to decide where your next purchase will be made
If you want your next gadget to be made in the US of A, be prepared to pay more, much more than what you are currently willing to pay
Do not blame the CEO, the "Top 1%", for the outsourcing of jobs
It's YOU and ME, the consumers, who have told corporations such as Apple, LOUDLY, with our collective wallets, that we want our next gadget to be CHEAP - and the corporations oblige, by seeking out the place where they can make the gadget with the lowest cost possible, namely the Far East
Seriously....we now are putting in laws that make murder worse if a white guy kills a black guy because he's black. It is much worse that if he killed another white guy for any other reason. WFT? A death is a death....? At least...it used to be?
They are called hate crimes, and there is a very clear reason why they should give extra punishment.
Since we are talking about HATE CRIME, how can you say that when a White kills a Black, it's HATE CRIME when the reverse happen - when a Black kills a White, it's ***NOT*** considered as HATE CRIME ?
How do you know that when that Black killed that White, that Black guy did NOT do it because of HATRED ???
Case in point - 2 students from China were brutally murdered by two Blacks in California
Does that qualify as a HATE CRIME ?
If you say it's not a HATE CRIME, is it because the killers are Blacks ?
If that's the case, then the society might as well award the Blacks with special rights so that they can kill _anyone_ they wish, _anywhere_, _any time_ !!!
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The guy got voted in because he promised "Change"
If that's the "Change", I rather have the whole buck
Why did you have ANY doubt before?
Maybe I'm just old fashion
I prefer to give people benefit of the doubt
Jumping into conclusion just isn't my cup of tea :)
When I read Forbes naming Ballmer one of the 5 worst CEO, I had some doubt
After reading TFA, the doubt is gone
Indeed, Ballmer is utterly clueless on how to run Microsoft !
If what you said is true, that corporations signing "exclusionary contracts" with Microsoft getting huge discounts, in exchange for letting Microsoft to come into their daily IT operation to do spot checks for any so-called "violation", that will be a can of worm right there !!
No corporation, and I mean, no self-respecting corporation, whether or not they are in the Fortune list, should allow any outsider to intrude into their internal operation in carrying out spot checks !!
Whoever signed those type of contract with Microsoft, and all their superiors, must bear full responsibility in any loses, whether in financial or in trade secret, incurred during those "spot checks"
The rack frame itself is 24 inches in width, but, for some stupid reason, the rack was confined to 19 inches
Plus, all the components, like HD, mobo, and so on, had to had their own PSU
Air flow was seriously constricted, and heat built up
Now that they change the spec to 21 inches, and leave the power supply to the frame, just like what they were doing in the blade servers, much improvement will be had in this new design
As for the entrenched interest - HP and Dell are the two biggest OEM, and if they do not want to play, well, the Taiwanese ODMs will be more than happy to move in and fill the gap
And do not discount the biggest elephant in the room, Foxconn - if Foxconn decides to join in the game, the whole scene will change drastically
Why should UK get all?
How about school kids from other countries?
Isn't UK still considered a developed country?
Why pour funds into schools of an already developed country while hundreds of millions of under-privileged school kids from not-yet-developed countries all over the world don't get nothing?
What kind of "Good Will" Google hopes to get by doing so?
The good astronomer has a point
There have been too many dumb funding which often end up wasting the precious financial resources that could have been used for something else
But then ... who's the ultimate judge in determining the level of "intelligence" of a given project?
Yeah, that butt ugly thing is gone !
Thanks !!
Help, I fucked up !!
I installed that "yahoo browser" while browsing on Chrome
Now I got a butt ugly shitty thing floating at the lower left hand corner on my screen !!
How do I get rid of that "yahoo browser" ???
HELP !!!
When I clicked on the yellow "Get it now! DESKTOP" icon at the upper right hand site, yahoo sent me to a null pointer
http://axis.yahoo.com/null
I would LOVE to see a judge walk out, call the CEOs to the bench, grab them both by the ear and yell "PLAY NICE OR I'LL TAKE BOTH YOUR TOYS AWAY" and then dismiss these ridiculous lawsuits.
Dismissal? What the judge should do is take away both set of patents!
If I have mod points, I would mod you up !!
While the world media headlines are blaring "Apple sues Samsung" or "Samsung sues Apple", Apples is providing Samsung more one billion U. S. dollars to keep Samsung's Austin, Texas fab in operation
There is more than meets the eyes
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical
I did read that article before I post
And if you read it, you will notice one thing - the twins started 100% identical.
Somehow the more they age, their respective copy of DNA undergoes slight mutation, and the more "different" their DNAs become
Well ...
Taking this a step further --- if identical twins' DNA can change, so can our DNA !
That is, my DNA sample taken 20 years ago may not be exactly match the DNA that I am having now
Think about it !!
... but I get this feeling that under the current administration America is actually going backwards on a lot of things
Ever from the start of the so-called "Information Hiway" the users had fought hard to get the flat-rate package from ISP
It has been that way for decades and suddenly officials from the Obama administration supporting the metering of Net usage
It is also under Obama administration that the MAFIAA tried (and fortunately failed) to push their SOPA bill - and if my memory served me right, the Obama administration was supporting the bill, and only after stern objection from millions of Net users that the Obama administration changed their mind
I am afraid to think what will happen i4 years from now if this administration is to win the upcoming election
The researchers then set the students a second set of unusual-uses tasks and found those that had ...
First of all, thousands of apologies for being dense
Read and re-read TFA multiple times but still couldn't figure out what the fuck is that " unusual-uses tasks " as quoted above
Anyone cares to elaborate ?
How about the identical twins, triplets, quadruplets?
Normal DNA tests won't be able to identify which one is which
Linux does run on VIA's nano chips
I mean, the folks who are posting on /.
Are we _that_ depressed ?
Meanwhile, the non-depressed folks supposed to play shoot-'em-up while cursing like a seaman (apologies to seamen everywhere)
The malware genome points to Java ?
Wages are a small part of the cost of an iPhone. They could be made in the US for something like $60 more per phone.
If you search for "build iphone in america", you find lots of articles with the same quote:
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhoneâ(TM)s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the companyâ(TM)s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
âoeThe speed and flexibility is breathtaking,â the executive said. âoeThereâ(TM)s no American plant that can match that.â
No, I will argue that wage IS the determinant factor
It's much more than the $60.00 more per iPhone
Can you try to imagine Apple does what they did in China in a factory inside the US of A - getting 8,000 workers back to work the production line, in the middle of the night, with just a biscuit and a cup of tea??
1. No worker in America will work for a biscuit and a cup of tea in the middle of the night
2. If they do, the American workers will demand HUGE INCREASE IN WAGE BONUS - much more than the $60 that you quoted
That is why Apple is not making their devices in the USA - the workers in the US/Europe are way to spoilt !
But, then again, why let the truth get in the way of your obvious racism.
So, are you saying that those two Black guys in California who killed the 2 students from China are no racist, just because they happen to be Blacks?
Wooohooo !!
What if it was two students from China killing two Black guys in California?
Was the crime caused by racism?
C'mon! Let's get to 100% PEOPLE!
That'll be just for the attitude of those bastards. ;-)
Actually BSA thinks that all the PC users are pirates - but they are scared that if they tell the truth as it is, they'll look like loons
There's another way. Stop this suicidal race to the bottom.
Unfortunately there is no way to stop this blind rush to the bottom
How much are you willing to pay for your next iPAD? $7,999.00 or $499.00 ?
How much are you willing to pay for your next iTV? $18,999.00 or $999.00 ?
You are the consumer, you vote with your wallet. and get to decide where your next purchase will be made
If you want your next gadget to be made in the US of A, be prepared to pay more, much more than what you are currently willing to pay
Do not blame the CEO, the "Top 1%", for the outsourcing of jobs
It's YOU and ME, the consumers, who have told corporations such as Apple, LOUDLY, with our collective wallets, that we want our next gadget to be CHEAP - and the corporations oblige, by seeking out the place where they can make the gadget with the lowest cost possible, namely the Far East
Pray tell, of how many millions of homosexual that you get one Alan Turing ?
Or are you saying that all the homosexuals are as bright as Alan Turing ??
Seriously....we now are putting in laws that make murder worse if a white guy kills a black guy because he's black. It is much worse that if he killed another white guy for any other reason. WFT? A death is a death....? At least...it used to be?
They are called hate crimes, and there is a very clear reason why they should give extra punishment.
Since we are talking about HATE CRIME, how can you say that when a White kills a Black, it's HATE CRIME when the reverse happen - when a Black kills a White, it's ***NOT*** considered as HATE CRIME ?
How do you know that when that Black killed that White, that Black guy did NOT do it because of HATRED ???
Case in point - 2 students from China were brutally murdered by two Blacks in California
Does that qualify as a HATE CRIME ?
If you say it's not a HATE CRIME, is it because the killers are Blacks ?
If that's the case, then the society might as well award the Blacks with special rights so that they can kill _anyone_ they wish, _anywhere_, _any time_ !!!