I used to handle OEMs for a large monitor supplier, and Dell was the worst buyer on the entire list. Dell can hollow out a supplier like no other company I've seen before or since.
"...and not being able to write the music to CD or a portable player"
I just took a look over @ VegasBigBoard, & the odds of that remaining a true statement for more than one month are level; less than one month is holding at 16:1; less than one week just moved up from 4:1 to 6 1/2.
I considered waiting and coming in when one week hit double-digits, but decided on a hedge and dropped some now, just to make it entertaining...
"Current business models which depend on Chinese (or other offshore) manufacturing to cut costs have no lasting ability. I give them another 3-5 years."
A generally accurate summation, but I would suggest longer, say as much as ten years.
As I currently live and work as part of the 'current business model' we speak, I too have posed the same problem, and it seems the Chinese at the higher levels are aware of this issue, and are at least attempting to plan for it now.
One method of defense is the practice of having foreign companines create permenant R & D facilities that can remain in use once the factories are shuttered. Another is to gain favor with as many 3rd world countries as possible so that when the time comes to find another LCC, their will at least be some options.
As for what those options are, if the same business model is to live on...North Korea has a decent HR pool, at least in rough terms - and there are only two countries that can ever take advantage. One is China and the other is South Korea.
Actually, I see a combined Asia, along the lines of the EU, coming into place long before ten years has passed and the LCC business model becomes an issue. We can expect micro-factories replacing the mega, such as the 200,000 worker Foxconn facility behind the current iPod flap.
If there is one thing the Japanese know how to do, it is gather information. And with a few thousand years of weather logs to work from, they became quite handy at accurate short range weather prediction years ago, with nothing more than an abacus.
What we have here is the 'bullet-train syndrome' at work, where they don't just move from weeks to months, or months to years...they jump to decades. Hubris aside, this is very typical of the Japanese culture and a natural 'next step', actually.
Not when you understand the process. 'ramp up' is your phrase, not theirs, and the use therin intimates something in place later where little or nothing was before.
In this case, the manufacturing ability to pump out 2 mil/mo is in place now, however, the first runs will be throtted back, simply as a shrewd process monitoring precaution, until things are felt to have smoothed out, at which time the 'full speed ahead' signal is sent to the line(s) and the spigot is then opened up all the way.
Tora! Tora! Tora! or perhaps better said as 'girigiri...'
So many people are forgetting the lessons of history - look at the facts
More like forgetting history itself and ignoring the true facts, since MS 'purchased' market control/share when it bought most of the so called 'leaders' you list and made more than its' share of mistakes...need examples? VISIO for one. CRM for another...
The point(?) you try to make is based on selective filtering simply to skew towards a positive spin for MS - the failure of Xbox in Japan, the total lack of any type of corportate CRM software, the fact that by selling more Xboxs' really means MS leaks more red ink than Sony per console and, of course, Longhorn and now the off-delayed Vista. Point is, with a little effort, the spin can go either way, in which case the 'juggernaut' label could just as easily be 'Titanic'.
Why is there an option to adjust view incidence of Apple, but not MS? I would love to be able to have the option to push MS out to the horizon, please?
"...but it's a bit of a sloppy release by Microsoft"
C'mon, please...a piece of meat, frozen solid...? Again, not something normally associated with frostbite. Freezer burn maybe:) How does that fit with anything I said? (rhetorical, so...)
Nice try and thanks for taking a run @ me - better luck next time.
At the point where water freezes, cells rupture from the ice crystals forming within.
Actually, cell rupture from the result of sharp-edged crystal formation occurs during the post-warming cycle, not during cool down. This is why rescuers prefer to bring avalanche victims back to normal body temp in as much of a controlled process as possible, in order to avoid as much crystal formation as possible. The most common result is frostbite, of course. In addition, after it happens once, you are best advised to not subject the same body part to another incident, as tissue durability in regards to a repeat is lost.
1.) Announce problem...place blame on shoulders of nearest competitor in need of demonizing
2.) Request new budget to deal with problem
3.) Call architect about new weekend home in the mountains...
I don't care if it is the local Highway Patrol or Congress, you can bet the only 'problem' these wonks always have is figuring a way to line their pockets.
Original definition: 'carnage' or 'bloodshed' as a result of fighting within a group. Today, it is used more to mean 'internal struggle', in which case it is clearly redundant. But if we consider that today's politics routinely prompt carnage by promoting battles in far away places, then we have our answer regardless of the decade.
Please turn in your Pundit card and step to the end of the line...
I'm telling you... I was entering turn 3, off the throttle for just a 1/1000th of a second, and when I tried to bring the revs back up, the damn car just stopped.
Ok, Mr. Schumacher, please sit tight and give us a moment to check the logs....
...moment later..
We think we've located the issue, Sir. Since you crashed the A car during practice, you're in the backup car. We cloned the race configuration from the computer off the A car to the B car, but we neglected to refresh the hardware/software credentials.
Yes....and...
...and when WGA's routine credential check ran, it determined that the software was illegal per contract and shut everything down.
...and...
And...you want we should kick Massa out of his ride so you can finish the qualifying session?
Actually....no. I think I'll just sit here and block the track so nobody else can get in a run:)
Microsoft owns what, 95+% of the global desktop OS market?
Back the truck, up, Chuck....
When it suits the argument, MS is credited with 'owning', however - another day and another argument and 45% of those 95%+ desktops are said to be unliscensed. Blow the dust out of that thing you call a brain and do a quick reality check, please.
Yes, you can say "Sorry, you can't do business here" - it's easy, since there the only 'business' is funny and being done on the wrong side of the law to begin with. Two wrongs don't make a right.
If they can use those few weeks to move south and capture a department store or two, they will be able to replenish and repeat the effort. I've always said they would stop when the hit the first dept. store anyhow, since the pickings would be so juicy the entire force would go awol just so they could eat fresh mangos and sit in overstuffed recliners..
The larger tank used to be painted white, until they thought about how heavy that extra coat of paint was, and how the primer color could be used to help heat the main tank on the ground. Now, calculate how much weight 'a bit of rain' would add to an already dew moistened tank and how that would require an immediate recalibration of many main systems. On the surface, it does seem as if NASA overthinks something as simple as punching a hole in the clouds, but the very nature of this particular roman candle is such that there are a myriad of complex issues and sub-systems all demanding attention. Ignore one and what looked simple while at rest can quickly become an unharmonious rage by the ghost in the machine...
I think the only ones that have any idea the cost in lives paid at Balkinor are the families left without sons/brothers/fathers/husbands/uncles.
Last week it was the trumped up claim that the iPod factory in Shenzhen is a hell-hole, which it isn't -- this week it is foggy data giving stockholders the creeps, and we all know that in the end, stockholders listen to their gut. Anyone suspect a trend? What/who is in the background trying to weaken Apple's public reputation?
Mass.....ejections....ahhhh ----- Oh, wait - e-J-E....-ctions - damn, and here I thought we had dutifully wandered back onto the subject of female ejaculations & I've got a paper due on just that very pertinent topic by tomorrow this time and.... urrggg nevermindddddd::::::
What is it, something along the lines of 8+ minutes for CME effects to flood our area post clip...? Not much time for adjustments if the predict fails.
"...whereas Bill hasn't been a programmer for a number of years."
Years....got it. Lots & lots of years. Agreed, but when you say 'years' is that, like, say, dog years, or light years or long, hard years - as in.... never?
Too bad it wasn't 'Lokia & Siemens' tho, then it would be LSN and right in line in front of MSN in the yellow pages:)
http://www.nsn.com/ - ouch...maybe http://www.nsn.mobi/ - nope, that one is up for grabs...can't believe they spent all that money and let the perfect url slip away. Not a very auspicious start boys.
nearly 100% during Late Nov/all Dec) is personal shopping
'Cake & eat it too' kind of Sheriff you are, eh?
There is a reason you're only a filter nazi and the school admin is an admin...
Most employers know that their employees shop online via their work computer - and most don't break a sweat of it, because it is either allow it or face having them absent an entire afternoon just to drop by Border's. Shopping online for 30 minutes can take the place of driving around, looking for parking, cruising the mega-mall on foot and standing in long queues just to pay for one pair of ear rings....all of which can take up the better part of an afternoon.
What the district give up in active hours is made up for in spades simply by having the teacher at their desk. Take the ability to shop away and see how fast they all head for the exit. Besides, when they stop using the computers, and there is no longer a need to filter the hell out of 'em, you no longer have a job.
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I used to handle OEMs for a large monitor supplier, and Dell was the worst buyer on the entire list. Dell can hollow out a supplier like no other company I've seen before or since.
Goes around...comes around, eh, Michael...?
"...and not being able to write the music to CD or a portable player"
I just took a look over @ VegasBigBoard, & the odds of that remaining a true statement for more than one month are level; less than one month is holding at 16:1; less than one week just moved up from 4:1 to 6 1/2.
I considered waiting and coming in when one week hit double-digits, but decided on a hedge and dropped some now, just to make it entertaining...
...where the hell is Mel Brooks when you need him?
...and, yes, the new ones are funny - keep 'em coming! :)
"Sorry about the 'up yours, PC!'"
"Current business models which depend on Chinese (or other offshore) manufacturing to cut costs have no lasting ability. I give them another 3-5 years."
A generally accurate summation, but I would suggest longer, say as much as ten years.
As I currently live and work as part of the 'current business model' we speak, I too have posed the same problem, and it seems the Chinese at the higher levels are aware of this issue, and are at least attempting to plan for it now.
One method of defense is the practice of having foreign companines create permenant R & D facilities that can remain in use once the factories are shuttered. Another is to gain favor with as many 3rd world countries as possible so that when the time comes to find another LCC, their will at least be some options.
As for what those options are, if the same business model is to live on...North Korea has a decent HR pool, at least in rough terms - and there are only two countries that can ever take advantage. One is China and the other is South Korea.
Actually, I see a combined Asia, along the lines of the EU, coming into place long before ten years has passed and the LCC business model becomes an issue. We can expect micro-factories replacing the mega, such as the 200,000 worker Foxconn facility behind the current iPod flap.
"...fastest self-powered predatory strike..."
So, you've met my x-wife and lived to tell about it, eh?
If there is one thing the Japanese know how to do, it is gather information. And with a few thousand years of weather logs to work from, they became quite handy at accurate short range weather prediction years ago, with nothing more than an abacus.
What we have here is the 'bullet-train syndrome' at work, where they don't just move from weeks to months, or months to years...they jump to decades. Hubris aside, this is very typical of the Japanese culture and a natural 'next step', actually.
...sounds just a bit unbelievable to me
Not when you understand the process. 'ramp up' is your phrase, not theirs, and the use therin intimates something in place later where little or nothing was before.
In this case, the manufacturing ability to pump out 2 mil/mo is in place now, however, the first runs will be throtted back, simply as a shrewd process monitoring precaution, until things are felt to have smoothed out, at which time the 'full speed ahead' signal is sent to the line(s) and the spigot is then opened up all the way.
Tora! Tora! Tora! or perhaps better said as 'girigiri...'
So many people are forgetting the lessons of history - look at the facts
More like forgetting history itself and ignoring the true facts, since MS 'purchased' market control/share when it bought most of the so called 'leaders' you list and made more than its' share of mistakes...need examples? VISIO for one. CRM for another...
The point(?) you try to make is based on selective filtering simply to skew towards a positive spin for MS - the failure of Xbox in Japan, the total lack of any type of corportate CRM software, the fact that by selling more Xboxs' really means MS leaks more red ink than Sony per console and, of course, Longhorn and now the off-delayed Vista. Point is, with a little effort, the spin can go either way, in which case the 'juggernaut' label could just as easily be 'Titanic'.
Why is there an option to adjust view incidence of Apple, but not MS? I would love to be able to have the option to push MS out to the horizon, please?
"...but it's a bit of a sloppy release by Microsoft"
Hate it when that happens...
"Could this binary search feature also be used to exploit Google and trick users into downloading malware?"
OK, who disabled my CbN filter?
'Could an empty coke can can be used to exploit hungry bears and trick them into drinking week old urine?'
And please stop telling the idiot that it is ok to look, act, talk and otherwise communicate like an idiot in public...
Are you suggesting that people survive being buried under avalanches until literally frozen (i.e sub-zero body-temperature?)
:)
:) How does that fit with anything I said? (rhetorical, so...)
Not me.... that particular and rather simplistic association is all yours
Are you saying that being an avalanche victim and frostbite are not commonly associated? Seems so, and there's the nonsense. [Medical aspects of avalanche accidents: hypothermia and frostbite]
Core temps...?
C'mon, please...a piece of meat, frozen solid...? Again, not something normally associated with frostbite. Freezer burn maybe
Nice try and thanks for taking a run @ me - better luck next time.
At the point where water freezes, cells rupture from the ice crystals forming within.
Actually, cell rupture from the result of sharp-edged crystal formation occurs during the post-warming cycle, not during cool down. This is why rescuers prefer to bring avalanche victims back to normal body temp in as much of a controlled process as possible, in order to avoid as much crystal formation as possible. The most common result is frostbite, of course. In addition, after it happens once, you are best advised to not subject the same body part to another incident, as tissue durability in regards to a repeat is lost.
1.) Announce problem...place blame on shoulders of nearest competitor in need of demonizing
2.) Request new budget to deal with problem
3.) Call architect about new weekend home in the mountains...
I don't care if it is the local Highway Patrol or Congress, you can bet the only 'problem' these wonks always have is figuring a way to line their pockets.
'Props' aren't going to get them very far, what with the thin air they will have to deal with very soon following lift-off.
...props...I don't believe it.
Now, on the other hand, some damn good curry, packed real tight into that shiny 1.8 meter cylinder just might be the ticket...
"who...?"
"Props, man, open up!"
"Props ain't here man!"
"No, man! I'M PROPS, lemme in, man, I got the stuff!!"
...'internecine feuding' is nearly redundant.
Original definition: 'carnage' or 'bloodshed' as a result of fighting within a group. Today, it is used more to mean 'internal struggle', in which case it is clearly redundant. But if we consider that today's politics routinely prompt carnage by promoting battles in far away places, then we have our answer regardless of the decade.
Please turn in your Pundit card and step to the end of the line...
What do you mean it just stopped?
...moment later..
...and when WGA's routine credential check ran, it determined that the software was illegal per contract and shut everything down.
...and...
:)
I'm telling you... I was entering turn 3, off the throttle for just a 1/1000th of a second, and when I tried to bring the revs back up, the damn car just stopped.
Ok, Mr. Schumacher, please sit tight and give us a moment to check the logs....
We think we've located the issue, Sir. Since you crashed the A car during practice, you're in the backup car. We cloned the race configuration from the computer off the A car to the B car, but we neglected to refresh the hardware/software credentials.
Yes....and...
And...you want we should kick Massa out of his ride so you can finish the qualifying session?
Actually....no. I think I'll just sit here and block the track so nobody else can get in a run
Microsoft owns what, 95+% of the global desktop OS market?
Back the truck, up, Chuck....
When it suits the argument, MS is credited with 'owning', however - another day and another argument and 45% of those 95%+ desktops are said to be unliscensed. Blow the dust out of that thing you call a brain and do a quick reality check, please.
Yes, you can say "Sorry, you can't do business here" - it's easy, since there the only 'business' is funny and being done on the wrong side of the law to begin with. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I know it is a holiday, but is this type of word usage necessary...?
...found himself in the front line in the wake of...
'front line' means just that...front...way out in front...
'wake', in the context seemingly indicated here, means 'behind'...'following'...'trailing'...the activity resulting from some other activity.
At least try "..in the wake of the recent xyz, JimBob finds himself on the front lines of having to deal with..."
If they can use those few weeks to move south and capture a department store or two, they will be able to replenish and repeat the effort. I've always said they would stop when the hit the first dept. store anyhow, since the pickings would be so juicy the entire force would go awol just so they could eat fresh mangos and sit in overstuffed recliners..
>...a bit of rain...
The larger tank used to be painted white, until they thought about how heavy that extra coat of paint was, and how the primer color could be used to help heat the main tank on the ground. Now, calculate how much weight 'a bit of rain' would add to an already dew moistened tank and how that would require an immediate recalibration of many main systems. On the surface, it does seem as if NASA overthinks something as simple as punching a hole in the clouds, but the very nature of this particular roman candle is such that there are a myriad of complex issues and sub-systems all demanding attention. Ignore one and what looked simple while at rest can quickly become an unharmonious rage by the ghost in the machine...
I think the only ones that have any idea the cost in lives paid at Balkinor are the families left without sons/brothers/fathers/husbands/uncles.
Last week it was the trumped up claim that the iPod factory in Shenzhen is a hell-hole, which it isn't -- this week it is foggy data giving stockholders the creeps, and we all know that in the end, stockholders listen to their gut. Anyone suspect a trend? What/who is in the background trying to weaken Apple's public reputation?
Mass.....ejections....ahhhh ----- Oh, wait - e-J-E....-ctions - damn, and here I thought we had dutifully wandered back onto the subject of female ejaculations & I've got a paper due on just that very pertinent topic by tomorrow this time and.... urrggg nevermindddddd::::::
What is it, something along the lines of 8+ minutes for CME effects to flood our area post clip...? Not much time for adjustments if the predict fails.
"...whereas Bill hasn't been a programmer for a number of years."
Years....got it. Lots & lots of years. Agreed, but when you say 'years' is that, like, say, dog years, or light years or long, hard years - as in.... never?
NSN...
:)
...maybe http://www.nsn.mobi/ - nope, that one is up for grabs...can't believe they spent all that money and let the perfect url slip away. Not a very auspicious start boys.
Too bad it wasn't 'Lokia & Siemens' tho, then it would be LSN and right in line in front of MSN in the yellow pages
http://www.nsn.com/ - ouch
nearly 100% during Late Nov/all Dec) is personal shopping
'Cake & eat it too' kind of Sheriff you are, eh?
There is a reason you're only a filter nazi and the school admin is an admin...
Most employers know that their employees shop online via their work computer - and most don't break a sweat of it, because it is either allow it or face having them absent an entire afternoon just to drop by Border's. Shopping online for 30 minutes can take the place of driving around, looking for parking, cruising the mega-mall on foot and standing in long queues just to pay for one pair of ear rings....all of which can take up the better part of an afternoon.
What the district give up in active hours is made up for in spades simply by having the teacher at their desk. Take the ability to shop away and see how fast they all head for the exit. Besides, when they stop using the computers, and there is no longer a need to filter the hell out of 'em, you no longer have a job.