In the aspect you mention, Flash may be good but the intrusive ads spilling out onto your desktop and the terribly annoying and distracting animated ones (which you cannot stop) show the real hook (as in hook line and sinker) of Flash as a medium.
Before Flash spread they slyly made loads of games and a "shockwave player" and such to get people to download the plug in and thus spread their user base. Now it's all pervasive and invasive.
I'm afraid you're looking in the wrong places. Subpar quality in the Big Three has less to do with unions and more to do with management cutting corners at every turn to save a few pennies.
Those union workers are just that: workers, no different from Toyota's workers or Honda's workers or Nissan's workers in the U.S./North America.
If the workers you've seen "aren't there fore quality" then it has absolutely nothing to do with unions and everything to do with the fact that...They're not managed for quality.
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I agree. I've read most of the posts on this story and most are ignorant accusations that Lenovo will bring down the quality of IBM products....because OMG! they're a CHINESE company.
Yet, if most of these posters took a look under and inside their laptops and even PCs (even the ones with "IBM" stamped on them) they'll likely find big fat "Made in China" stickers.
Folks, China is already the "factory of the world" and for far more than just toys and cloths. Update your mental databases. It's no longer 1980. Toys, apliances, electronics, PCs, car parts, partially assembled automotive units (i.e. suspension) and a host of things you use are made in China and will increasingly be so. In fact, it won't be long (if not already) before many of the cars you drive are entirely built there.
Being that most people who rant about Chinese quality tend to be 'Merkuns it's rather ironic considering the track record of U.S. manufacturing quality (particularly large corporations). Even Korea's Hyundai has surpassed the big 3 automakers in quality. Remember Hyundai?
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Reading descriptions of it's bobbing up and down behavior, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to give the ornithoptor four wings rather than two. As one pair move up, the other pair moves down, thus negating the wasted energy of lifting the machine vertically and instead putting it all into forward thrust.
Yep, exactly. Of course it means you take a pay cut. That's exactly what they point out in the writeup: Pay is low but housing, taxi rides to work and such are free.
Good point. Might I add that the vast majority of people live in urban and suburban areas, accounting of course, for the vast number of cars on the roads.
Yes you are guilty and the'd very likely have your personal info and data about which gun you were assigned. A hack would be a whole other issue though.
The article said workers would retrieve the animals people shot and the first thing I thought was that it was just an accident waiting to happen.
My next thought was having remote controlled guns (at least airguns) in the house. When someone breaks in the system links to your PHS or cell phone and you can send the burgler running with pellets and your voice saying "get out!".
You're joking but I have a professor who says that because methane is X times more of a green house gas than CO2 we should use all the oil up beefore we shift to nuclear and other alternatives.
Your joke makes more sense than his serious assertion which lacks any logic or basis.
"slave labor" and "corrupt government"? And exactly who's corporations (and by extention government) do you think they are slaving for the most? Who do you think started the trend and profits most from that "slave labor"? (clue: that country between Canada and Mexico)
The first thing comming to mind, knowing how the U.S. works is automated weaponry (isn't just about every significant discovery either for military use or tailored for it eventually?).
The problem with this is, your bio-"computers" will have not just computer "viruses" to worry about but bio-viruses too.
Yep. In one case, if I remember correctly the knob for setting the altitude in autopilot also served as input for a seperate function. For this reason it didn't show the actual number (for the altitude setting function) but one a 10x smaller. This caused the pilots to mess up and fly 10x lower than they intended and caused disaster.
From the FEMA link:F5 IncredibleStrong framed houses are lifted from foundations. Reinforced concrete structures are damaged. Automobile sized missiles become airborn. Trees are completely debrked.
If one of these beasties is bearing down on you, underground is the only way to go.
Yep, but that's where skillfulness is needed in wording the reply. If you do mind, just say "You look fine just as you are" followed by a list of problems that come with implants. If you'd don't mind or would like her to do it you could say "I think you look fine just as you are but if you really want to do it then its your decision."
"Yahoo! News has a story about a robot built to walk on water, much like small insects, bugs, and of course, Jesus. The current robot is only a prototype, but more 'useful' robots are already being imagined."
Think of it this way: You invent and build (develop) a flying car in your garage but you don't have the money to mass produce it. You decide to sell your invention and prototype to XYZ Company who sets up factories to mass produce it.
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In the aspect you mention, Flash may be good but the intrusive ads spilling out onto your desktop and the terribly annoying and distracting animated ones (which you cannot stop) show the real hook (as in hook line and sinker) of Flash as a medium.
Before Flash spread they slyly made loads of games and a "shockwave player" and such to get people to download the plug in and thus spread their user base. Now it's all pervasive and invasive.
I'm afraid you're looking in the wrong places. Subpar quality in the Big Three has less to do with unions and more to do with management cutting corners at every turn to save a few pennies.
Those union workers are just that: workers, no different from Toyota's workers or Honda's workers or Nissan's workers in the U.S./North America.
If the workers you've seen "aren't there fore quality" then it has absolutely nothing to do with unions and everything to do with the fact that...They're not managed for quality.
[rant] I agree. I've read most of the posts on this story and most are ignorant accusations that Lenovo will bring down the quality of IBM products....because OMG! they're a CHINESE company.
Yet, if most of these posters took a look under and inside their laptops and even PCs (even the ones with "IBM" stamped on them) they'll likely find big fat "Made in China" stickers.
Folks, China is already the "factory of the world" and for far more than just toys and cloths. Update your mental databases. It's no longer 1980. Toys, apliances, electronics, PCs, car parts, partially assembled automotive units (i.e. suspension) and a host of things you use are made in China and will increasingly be so. In fact, it won't be long (if not already) before many of the cars you drive are entirely built there.
Being that most people who rant about Chinese quality tend to be 'Merkuns it's rather ironic considering the track record of U.S. manufacturing quality (particularly large corporations). Even Korea's Hyundai has surpassed the big 3 automakers in quality. Remember Hyundai? [/rant]
and plants, etc from Earth can be forced to grow on Mars, isn't it a given that things from mars can survive here? It's a two way street.
This little bugger
Reading descriptions of it's bobbing up and down behavior, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to give the ornithoptor four wings rather than two. As one pair move up, the other pair moves down, thus negating the wasted energy of lifting the machine vertically and instead putting it all into forward thrust.
Yep, exactly. Of course it means you take a pay cut. That's exactly what they point out in the writeup: Pay is low but housing, taxi rides to work and such are free.
Oh the humanity of the Ford Pinto and '80s GM light trucks.
It's all of the above.
Good point. Might I add that the vast majority of people live in urban and suburban areas, accounting of course, for the vast number of cars on the roads.
Yes you are guilty and the'd very likely have your personal info and data about which gun you were assigned. A hack would be a whole other issue though.
The article said workers would retrieve the animals people shot and the first thing I thought was that it was just an accident waiting to happen.
My next thought was having remote controlled guns (at least airguns) in the house. When someone breaks in the system links to your PHS or cell phone and you can send the burgler running with pellets and your voice saying "get out!".
You're joking but I have a professor who says that because methane is X times more of a green house gas than CO2 we should use all the oil up beefore we shift to nuclear and other alternatives.
Your joke makes more sense than his serious assertion which lacks any logic or basis.
Is the first bridge over a river the one that sinks deepest into the riverbed?
"slave labor" and "corrupt government"? And exactly who's corporations (and by extention government) do you think they are slaving for the most? Who do you think started the trend and profits most from that "slave labor"? (clue: that country between Canada and Mexico)
Heh? Kids don't know how to think for themselves yet? How about adults, are they supposed to be fully in control or something?
The first thing comming to mind, knowing how the U.S. works is automated weaponry (isn't just about every significant discovery either for military use or tailored for it eventually?).
The problem with this is, your bio-"computers" will have not just computer "viruses" to worry about but bio-viruses too.
Uh huh... I live in Japan. Here we don't have "love hotels" all over the place. Neither do we have countless brothels disguised as "massage outlets". Furthermore, we don't have porn mags on the shelves of convenience and book stoors right out there with all the other mags without restrictions on who can see or buy them... Nope, it's all squeaky clean here. It's not like there's any increasing danger from the spread of HIV or anything either.
(read the "Changing epidemic" part specifically from the last link.)
Yep. In one case, if I remember correctly the knob for setting the altitude in autopilot also served as input for a seperate function. For this reason it didn't show the actual number (for the altitude setting function) but one a 10x smaller. This caused the pilots to mess up and fly 10x lower than they intended and caused disaster.
You can, via mechanical swimming devices called Airplanes.
From the FEMA link: F5 IncredibleStrong framed houses are lifted from foundations. Reinforced concrete structures are damaged. Automobile sized missiles become airborn. Trees are completely debrked.
If one of these beasties is bearing down on you, underground is the only way to go.
Yep, but that's where skillfulness is needed in wording the reply. If you do mind, just say "You look fine just as you are" followed by a list of problems that come with implants. If you'd don't mind or would like her to do it you could say "I think you look fine just as you are but if you really want to do it then its your decision."
"Yahoo! News has a story about a robot built to walk on water, much like small insects, bugs, and of course, Jesus. The current robot is only a prototype, but more 'useful' robots are already being imagined."
I've never met a bug that wasn't an insect.
I'm willing to bet that Japanese is even easier...except for the hyper-polite/hyper-subordinate forms used on occasion.
See the difference?
To do what the designer/programmer/operator tells them to do.