Statement #1 - They haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management Statement #2 - Those on top are starting to notice
When performance and availability reach the horrible levels that you describe, even a child could articulate the changes needed to upper management. So which is it? Is upper management taking notice or just ignoring your IT staff?
Uh.. Yeah, I think that's kind of harsh. Besides, there weren't any complaints about the pilots being blinded by the lasers but rather, consern that the laser could represent someone aiming at the plain with a gun.
Uh, what? They didn't buy a PC, they bought a whole PC Business. Unless you mean the clone makers are also cheaper, but that doesn't make much sense either - Gateway's brand name is nothing compared to IBM's.
Yup, that's right. Sun didn't service their own hardware out in the field at all. Then they hired a bunch of the employees from Kodak.
What I don't know, is whether Kodak still services Sun equipment and if their service agreement could have influenced their settlement.
Inquiring minds want to know...
Did you not see where I mention that we addressed corrosion in the discussion?
The point I was trying to make is that people think liquid + electronics + power = smoke (in all cases). I have found over the years that this just doesn't happen in low voltage devices.
I have yet to see the conductive path of a liquid exceed the fanout of components such that they smoke. You can give me all the theories you want, I am speaking from experience.
I used to build ceramic tube-type linear amplifiers that used a plate voltage over 2000vdc and over 300ma. I wouldn't want to see what would happen if a liquid were dropped into one of those while it was running... arc city baby!
I was working as a technician at a large NW newspaper. It was common that reporters were spill coffee onto their laptops. A fellow technician was about to trash a nice HP Omnibook because this had happened when I stopped him.
I urged him not to throw it away as I believed strongly that it is a wives tale that liquids destroy electronics. I qualified that piezzo buzzers, speakers and any other mechanical parts (like the keyboard) are an exception, and that the dc-to-dc converter that runs the screen could fry since it may be as high as 300 volts, but the screen clearly worked.
Anyway, he got so angry at my insistence that he started screaming at me. "I have been repairing electronics for 10 years, blah, blah, blah..". "Water destroys Electronics, blah, blah, blah".
When he was finished screaming at me, he threw the laptop away and left. I promptly grabbed the laptop, cleaned all of the boards with alcohol and replaced the keyboard. He came in the next morning to a nice little Omni-Book running on his desk.
BTW: I know liquid causes corrosion, that was discussed as well...
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Statement #1 - They haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management
Statement #2 - Those on top are starting to notice
When performance and availability reach the horrible levels that you describe, even a child could articulate the changes needed to upper management. So which is it? Is upper management taking notice or just ignoring your IT staff?
Uh .. Yeah, I think that's kind of harsh. Besides, there weren't any complaints about the pilots being blinded by the lasers but rather, consern that the laser could represent someone aiming at the plain with a gun.
Uh, what? They didn't buy a PC, they bought a whole PC Business. Unless you mean the clone makers are also cheaper, but that doesn't make much sense either - Gateway's brand name is nothing compared to IBM's.
... he was just joking.
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Yup, that's right. Sun didn't service their own hardware out in the field at all. Then they hired a bunch of the employees from Kodak. What I don't know, is whether Kodak still services Sun equipment and if their service agreement could have influenced their settlement. Inquiring minds want to know ...
Did you not see where I mention that we addressed corrosion in the discussion? The point I was trying to make is that people think liquid + electronics + power = smoke (in all cases). I have found over the years that this just doesn't happen in low voltage devices. I have yet to see the conductive path of a liquid exceed the fanout of components such that they smoke. You can give me all the theories you want, I am speaking from experience. I used to build ceramic tube-type linear amplifiers that used a plate voltage over 2000vdc and over 300ma. I wouldn't want to see what would happen if a liquid were dropped into one of those while it was running ... arc city baby!
I was working as a technician at a large NW newspaper. It was common that reporters were spill coffee onto their laptops. A fellow technician was about to trash a nice HP Omnibook because this had happened when I stopped him. I urged him not to throw it away as I believed strongly that it is a wives tale that liquids destroy electronics. I qualified that piezzo buzzers, speakers and any other mechanical parts (like the keyboard) are an exception, and that the dc-to-dc converter that runs the screen could fry since it may be as high as 300 volts, but the screen clearly worked. Anyway, he got so angry at my insistence that he started screaming at me. "I have been repairing electronics for 10 years, blah, blah, blah ..". "Water destroys Electronics, blah, blah, blah".
When he was finished screaming at me, he threw the laptop away and left. I promptly grabbed the laptop, cleaned all of the boards with alcohol and replaced the keyboard. He came in the next morning to a nice little Omni-Book running on his desk.
BTW: I know liquid causes corrosion, that was discussed as well ...