I agree with the message, but I find I'm less happy than those people day to day, I stare in the face of 10 years of future debt, possible economic collapses and unexpected eventualities every day, it's depressing. At the end of the day no matter how good my performance review was, I know the company will drop me like a bad habit should it become necessary, and they will run the company such that it becomes necessary if anything at all goes wrong.
Of course, I'm significantly more happy on the days when they are panicked about money. I'm not sure about the payout, although I think my kids are much, much happier than their kids on a daily basis. The trades we make.
He's of the opinion that the poor are just as irresponsible with their spending as everyone else, and after giving them the handout they will still be without the essentials. The rich person, hopefully also spent his money on too much car and too much house in a suburb far away from the poor, and will only eat at a locally owned 5 star vegan gluten free place with wifi.
but there are almost no books available outside of piracy or DRM restricted places which add spyware to your device.
I think in a backhanded sort of way you may highlight why eBooks don't rule the world. I don't care about DRM so much as the fact that Amazon (for example) gets to decide which products that I paid for I can still use.
FOUR shalt be the number of spaces thou shalt count, and the number of spaces upon hard tab shall be FOUR. Five shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou proceed to FOUR. Eight is right out.
But does anybody seriously type all those spaces? You don't just set the Tab key to expand to spaces?
Not unless you are using notepad. Everything from vim to atom.io will let you choose hard tabs or spaces, almost all of them know to use hard tabs in makefiles. All of them can auto-indent too with either hard tabs or spaces.
I worship the religion of spaces, but the religion of spaces still derives from the pantheon of indentation, we all use the tab key but will absolutely crucify anyone from the other religion.
Best part is when the public gets angry and starts asking the government what gives, the government shrugs it off and accuses them of breaking non-existent laws.
Shh you can't say that out loud, better to blame the foreign businesses for exploitation, China's mantra for almost 100 years. As every toddler learns, it's always easiest to blame someone else for your problems.
Greed, greed, human greed. Aren't Apple the company that has 150+B in the bank. Why do they need them all. Instead of working on 20% markup they are working on 400% markup. This should be outlawed. Limiting markup to 20% is the only thing communism got right.
China is theoretically communist, it is doing a bad job of protecting its employees.
Yeah I didn't set my sarcasm flags loudly enough. Clearly I do not see any of this as "useful". Our economy is based on productivity, what business leaders do is usually orthogonal to that, often directly to avoid it.
A government grant if he's going to come here to do something useful. What we definitely do not need more of is entrepreneurs, we need people who are going to work for a living, stay here and invest. We produce useless business types by the metric ton, we need to find a way to make them our chief export.
Provided your pigeon has good vision and can scan thousands of microscopic joints in a second. Maybe you can train him to run an assembly line and we can bring those jobs back to America!
When dealing with millions, nothing at all is completely reliable. The PCBs they are built on fall out, even simple resistors will not lay down flat 100% of the time. But you can reliably make a working product.
A phone in which a human checks everything carefully with test equipment would cost you more than you'd want to pay.
Seldom used, I have no idea what Apple does, but most places I work with do not use JTAG for factory test of consumer devices. The other issue is that if this was an issue that came from board flex or a bad solder joint, JTAG would not have caught it...at the time of manufacture the part was still making contact!
The only things I know of that can reliably catch weak joints are "bed of nails" probes, which are not frequently done on devices like cell phones where every pad is taking up precious space. Or x-ray can sometimes catch weak joints though it usually ends up best with broken joints, and is too expensive and time consuming for consumer designs.
They are assuming this issue was caused by flex, I am not sure that's necessarily true (or at least haven't found anyone who has a smoking gun). Often very fine pitched BGAs suffer from manufacturing issues on their own, that show up later even if the board was not flexed.
We, the hardware design community, have been working with BGAs now for well over a decade. A lot of time and energy has gone in to investigating how to design them in and get good results on a reasonably consistent basis. Still shit happens both in manufacturing and product integration.
The absolute worst description for BGAs I have ever read is this: the Touch IC chips connect to the logic board via an array of itty-bitty solder balls -- "like a plate resting on marbles,"
I understand that hobbyists do not like BGAs, it requires substantially more effort to solder them down than other packages but they are neither new nor unreliable. But in terms of products you own, everything uses them, from computer DRAM to game console components.
Yes, inspection is difficult, but then visual inspection of products like a cell phone with many parts all of which are microscopic (an 0201 resistor, for example, is large) is not practical on millions of devices. x-ray techniques can catch these issues, but again on millions of parts I am not aware of anyone who x-rays every device. Latent defects end up being the hardest things to catch.
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I agree with the message, but I find I'm less happy than those people day to day, I stare in the face of 10 years of future debt, possible economic collapses and unexpected eventualities every day, it's depressing. At the end of the day no matter how good my performance review was, I know the company will drop me like a bad habit should it become necessary, and they will run the company such that it becomes necessary if anything at all goes wrong.
Of course, I'm significantly more happy on the days when they are panicked about money. I'm not sure about the payout, although I think my kids are much, much happier than their kids on a daily basis. The trades we make.
He's of the opinion that the poor are just as irresponsible with their spending as everyone else, and after giving them the handout they will still be without the essentials. The rich person, hopefully also spent his money on too much car and too much house in a suburb far away from the poor, and will only eat at a locally owned 5 star vegan gluten free place with wifi.
They mean infinitely more money than should have spent on the topic, but someone found a barrel that needed some pork.
but there are almost no books available outside of piracy or DRM restricted places which add spyware to your device.
I think in a backhanded sort of way you may highlight why eBooks don't rule the world. I don't care about DRM so much as the fact that Amazon (for example) gets to decide which products that I paid for I can still use.
Clearly your hands are too large.
BLASPHEME!
FOUR shalt be the number of spaces thou shalt count, and the number of spaces upon hard tab shall be FOUR. Five shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou proceed to FOUR. Eight is right out.
I bet you're not even vegan!
But does anybody seriously type all those spaces? You don't just set the Tab key to expand to spaces?
Not unless you are using notepad. Everything from vim to atom.io will let you choose hard tabs or spaces, almost all of them know to use hard tabs in makefiles. All of them can auto-indent too with either hard tabs or spaces.
I worship the religion of spaces, but the religion of spaces still derives from the pantheon of indentation, we all use the tab key but will absolutely crucify anyone from the other religion.
Best part is when the public gets angry and starts asking the government what gives, the government shrugs it off and accuses them of breaking non-existent laws.
Or finding ways to internet w/o their smartphone.
-- the idea that they have coverage laughable.
ftfy
If Apple builds it, they will come.
Well then I'm going to wear a raincoat on September 7.
Shh you can't say that out loud, better to blame the foreign businesses for exploitation, China's mantra for almost 100 years. As every toddler learns, it's always easiest to blame someone else for your problems.
Greed, greed, human greed. Aren't Apple the company that has 150+B in the bank. Why do they need them all. Instead of working on 20% markup they are working on 400% markup. This should be outlawed. Limiting markup to 20% is the only thing communism got right.
China is theoretically communist, it is doing a bad job of protecting its employees.
Yeah I didn't set my sarcasm flags loudly enough. Clearly I do not see any of this as "useful". Our economy is based on productivity, what business leaders do is usually orthogonal to that, often directly to avoid it.
A government grant if he's going to come here to do something useful. What we definitely do not need more of is entrepreneurs, we need people who are going to work for a living, stay here and invest. We produce useless business types by the metric ton, we need to find a way to make them our chief export.
There's a reason psychology isn't science, and a reason we shouldn't try to use the output of psychologists in practice.
What do you want?
Building these things that are at the mercy of the elements is a bad idea.
This is the set of all things.
Now get out of my cave.
Provided your pigeon has good vision and can scan thousands of microscopic joints in a second. Maybe you can train him to run an assembly line and we can bring those jobs back to America!
When dealing with millions, nothing at all is completely reliable. The PCBs they are built on fall out, even simple resistors will not lay down flat 100% of the time. But you can reliably make a working product.
A phone in which a human checks everything carefully with test equipment would cost you more than you'd want to pay.
That what JTAG boundary scan is for.
Seldom used, I have no idea what Apple does, but most places I work with do not use JTAG for factory test of consumer devices. The other issue is that if this was an issue that came from board flex or a bad solder joint, JTAG would not have caught it...at the time of manufacture the part was still making contact!
The only things I know of that can reliably catch weak joints are "bed of nails" probes, which are not frequently done on devices like cell phones where every pad is taking up precious space. Or x-ray can sometimes catch weak joints though it usually ends up best with broken joints, and is too expensive and time consuming for consumer designs.
They are assuming this issue was caused by flex, I am not sure that's necessarily true (or at least haven't found anyone who has a smoking gun). Often very fine pitched BGAs suffer from manufacturing issues on their own, that show up later even if the board was not flexed.
We, the hardware design community, have been working with BGAs now for well over a decade. A lot of time and energy has gone in to investigating how to design them in and get good results on a reasonably consistent basis. Still shit happens both in manufacturing and product integration.
The absolute worst description for BGAs I have ever read is this:
the Touch IC chips connect to the logic board via an array of itty-bitty solder balls -- "like a plate resting on marbles,"
I understand that hobbyists do not like BGAs, it requires substantially more effort to solder them down than other packages but they are neither new nor unreliable. But in terms of products you own, everything uses them, from computer DRAM to game console components.
Yes, inspection is difficult, but then visual inspection of products like a cell phone with many parts all of which are microscopic (an 0201 resistor, for example, is large) is not practical on millions of devices. x-ray techniques can catch these issues, but again on millions of parts I am not aware of anyone who x-rays every device. Latent defects end up being the hardest things to catch.
Don't get too excited, even when they do "bury" it, pieces of it usually stick up.
A concerned German
And card carrying member of the National Socialist German Grammar Party