To start with, it was Nichicon's problem. By covering it up as they did, Dell made it their problem. That was a poor choice. Sooner or later, Dell would have to come clean. Why not take the high road from the start? Had they done so, this would have sucked less.
This demonstrates the extent to which US companies are at the mercy of asian component suppliers. Certainly, former domestic component vendors had design flaws or manufacturing flaws in their products from time to time. But they were here and could be dealt with easily. If needed, they could be audited. If worse came to worst, they could be sued in this country. If you get bad parts from a low cost producer on the other side of the world, it's not so easy to work with or audit your vendor. Nor is it easy to collect damages in court.
I wouldn't hold my breath. The last train left the station 2 recessions ago. The factories were shuttered, people scattered, supply chains were dismantled and we haven't been training many people to do electronics work since then. The Electrical Engineering departments at many US universities have de-emphasized circuit design in response falling demand for graduates with that skill set.
It would take a rather large, sustained price hike in electronic products to bring about any resurrection of the electronics manufacturing industry in the US. I doubt I'll live to see it.
I wonder whether the court would also accept a driver's own GPS log as exculpatory evidence.
Don't get it do you? We have leapfrogged guilty until proven innocent. Now you're guilty when charged. G traipsing in there with your GPS log and I wouldn't be surprised if they held you in contempt.
Oh yeah, been there done that. It's distracting. It's designed to intimidate people so they don't goof off.
The way to stop this is load up on beans, mexican and indian food. Cut farts that peel the paint off the wall. Maybe get a contest going with a likeminded coworker. It's biological warfare.
AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon have all discontinued their newsgroup services.
That pretty much put the quietus on USENET. That and Craigslist reduced traffic on the once busy local forsale groups to a dribble. USENET was essentially dead at that point.
This didn't stop the illicit activity. It just drove it underground.
IBM wants to make money off the US police state by setting up this big brother, pre-crime-ware and all the while they shed 5% - 8% of their US workforce each year.
Plus, don't let the RCA brand fool you into thinking this must be from a legitimate company: RCA hasn't existed as anything more then a licensed brand name for a couple of decades.
You got that right. Neutron Jack cannibalized RCA in the late 80s, selling the consumer electronics division to Thompson. About 12 years ago, they sold chinese company TCL the right to use the RCA name on TVs and other products.
They ought to replace Nipper with one of those chinese hounds with all the extra folds of skin. HIs master's voice is in chinese.
There ain't no safe, clean way to generate power in the amounts we need.
A little over a year ago, the TVA Kingston Ash Spill had everybody up in arms about coal plants.
We get most of our electrical power from coal plants. Nuclear is second. I doubt this is likely to change in my lifetime unless there's some stunning breakthru in physics.
You're spot on DrJimbo. Lots of TVs went dark in my home town. Lots of TVs went to the dump too. So much for going green. The unemployed and underemployed can't afford fancy new TVs or the expensive services.
We have POTS and DSL. It has been very reliable. I like the small, independent DSL provider we have. Capable local techs answer the phone on the rare occasion we lose connectivity and it's usually the phone company's problem anyway, not the ISP.
POTS is such a simple mature technology, there's little they can screw up. There's also not much they can overcharge for.
It's no surprise AT&T wants to do away with this so they can gouge me for lousy service and a more restrictive TOS.
Been in a McDonalds lately? I was real surprised when I went to one recently. They have better coffee than Starbucks. Their food is better. The place is clean. I had pretty much written them off. They've changed from the top down.
Many people can't afford all this new stuff. They just do without. The USA is about to be further polarized into haves and have-nots. The shift to digital TV caused lots of old TVs to be tossed. Many people no longer have TV in their homes, if they still have homes.
The shift to VoIP from circuit based telephony will make us even more vulnerable to power outages. After a major hurricane or ice storm, old timey telephones are one of the few things that work. To maintain service, everyone will have to have a damn generator.
If you want to lose weight, you must cut caloric intake. You can't just exercise it off. You will build muscle mass, which is more dense. Doing aerobic exercise can help if you also cut back caloric intake. But by itself, exercise alone may make you gain weight because it increases your appetite.
they can arrest everyone who has ever worked for Goldman Sachs or any of those other bankster firms who are now heaping lavish bonuses on their people, paid for by taxpayers who are becoming unemployed and homeless.
These IBM/intel guys are small potatoes. Make Geithner and Paulson do the perp walk.
The police show up in force at the G-20 meeting with all the latest riot gear and outnumber the protesters 3 to 1. Yet, there are none at these town hall meetings where angry mobs shout down politicians, protesting changes to the health care system.
Some kid asks John Kerry questions out of turn a couple years ago and gets tasered.
Are the firefox developers just looking for ways to ruin it? Or are these someone's pet projects? resume padding? Why not just branch the code and call the new, bloated browser something else?
The industry is seizing this chance to move out of the shadow of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and show that it has solved the three big problems that have long dogged it: cost, safety and waste.
.. and into the shadow of an entirely new disaster.
Regardless of whether they've solved those problems, they're not likely get around the unlimited liability of potential accidents. And even if they do, we have plants operating way beyond their projected lifespans. So the chickens haven't yet come home to roost on all the earlier plants that were in the shadow of TMI and Chernobyl.
This cannon is very similar in design to the classic "Napolean" 12 pounder. Guns like this are not primarily intended to "use comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories with a steep angle of descent". That's what a mortar is for. These kinds of cannons were aimed straight at the target.
R. Lee Ermey has a wonderful new series on the History channel called Lock 'n Load. One episode deals with field artillery. They fire a Napolean, among other guns. They also fire a mortar of the civil war era.
I saw quite a few complaints about this behavior early on. The response was essentially that's tough, take it or leave it. Apparently a number of users left it.
He thinks that because he can sit in a meeting and halfway listen to what is being said while reading emails on his blackberry, he is multitasking. And therefore, those who work for him should be able to handle several large, high pressure projects at once.
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To start with, it was Nichicon's problem. By covering it up as they did, Dell made it their problem. That was a poor choice. Sooner or later, Dell would have to come clean. Why not take the high road from the start? Had they done so, this would have sucked less.
This demonstrates the extent to which US companies are at the mercy of asian component suppliers. Certainly, former domestic component vendors had design flaws or manufacturing flaws in their products from time to time. But they were here and could be dealt with easily. If needed, they could be audited. If worse came to worst, they could be sued in this country. If you get bad parts from a low cost producer on the other side of the world, it's not so easy to work with or audit your vendor. Nor is it easy to collect damages in court.
The damage is done. No sense in stopping now.
Imposing a drilling moratorium now is like shutting the barn door after the horse has run off.
I wouldn't hold my breath. The last train left the station 2 recessions ago. The factories were shuttered, people scattered, supply chains were dismantled and we haven't been training many people to do electronics work since then. The Electrical Engineering departments at many US universities have de-emphasized circuit design in response falling demand for graduates with that skill set.
It would take a rather large, sustained price hike in electronic products to bring about any resurrection of the electronics manufacturing industry in the US. I doubt I'll live to see it.
I wonder whether the court would also accept a driver's own GPS log as exculpatory evidence.
Don't get it do you? We have leapfrogged guilty until proven innocent. Now you're guilty when charged. G traipsing in there with your GPS log and I wouldn't be surprised if they held you in contempt.
Our government is now totally corrupt.
Oh yeah, been there done that. It's distracting. It's designed to intimidate people so they don't goof off.
The way to stop this is load up on beans, mexican and indian food. Cut farts that peel the paint off the wall. Maybe get a contest going with a likeminded coworker. It's biological warfare.
AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon have all discontinued their newsgroup services.
That pretty much put the quietus on USENET. That and Craigslist reduced traffic on the once busy local forsale groups to a dribble. USENET was essentially dead at that point.
This didn't stop the illicit activity. It just drove it underground.
IBM wants to make money off the US police state by setting up this big brother, pre-crime-ware and all the while they shed 5% - 8% of their US workforce each year.
Plus, don't let the RCA brand fool you into thinking this must be from a legitimate company: RCA hasn't existed as anything more then a licensed brand name for a couple of decades.
You got that right. Neutron Jack cannibalized RCA in the late 80s, selling the consumer electronics division to Thompson. About 12 years ago, they sold chinese company TCL the right to use the RCA name on TVs and other products.
They ought to replace Nipper with one of those chinese hounds with all the extra folds of skin. HIs master's voice is in chinese.
There ain't no safe, clean way to generate power in the amounts we need.
A little over a year ago, the TVA Kingston Ash Spill had everybody up in arms about coal plants.
We get most of our electrical power from coal plants. Nuclear is second. I doubt this is likely to change in my lifetime unless there's some stunning breakthru in physics.
You're spot on DrJimbo. Lots of TVs went dark in my home town. Lots of TVs went to the dump too. So much for going green. The unemployed and underemployed can't afford fancy new TVs or the expensive services.
We have POTS and DSL. It has been very reliable. I like the small, independent DSL provider we have. Capable local techs answer the phone on the rare occasion we lose connectivity and it's usually the phone company's problem anyway, not the ISP.
POTS is such a simple mature technology, there's little they can screw up. There's also not much they can overcharge for.
It's no surprise AT&T wants to do away with this so they can gouge me for lousy service and a more restrictive TOS.
Been in a McDonalds lately? I was real surprised when I went to one recently. They have better coffee than Starbucks. Their food is better. The place is clean. I had pretty much written them off. They've changed from the top down.
Many people can't afford all this new stuff. They just do without. The USA is about to be further polarized into haves and have-nots. The shift to digital TV caused lots of old TVs to be tossed. Many people no longer have TV in their homes, if they still have homes.
The shift to VoIP from circuit based telephony will make us even more vulnerable to power outages. After a major hurricane or ice storm, old timey telephones are one of the few things that work. To maintain service, everyone will have to have a damn generator.
If you want to lose weight, you must cut caloric intake. You can't just exercise it off. You will build muscle mass, which is more dense. Doing aerobic exercise can help if you also cut back caloric intake. But by itself, exercise alone may make you gain weight because it increases your appetite.
I took the infamous swine flu shot of 1976. I'll never take another.
they can arrest everyone who has ever worked for Goldman Sachs or any of those other bankster firms who are now heaping lavish bonuses on their people, paid for by taxpayers who are becoming unemployed and homeless.
These IBM/intel guys are small potatoes. Make Geithner and Paulson do the perp walk.
Performing is not "creating music". All of the "creation" is
being done by the guy that wrote the original bit of sheet
music.
Don't listen to much jazz, do you?
... and they can make me secretary of the pussy.
The police show up in force at the G-20 meeting with all the latest riot gear and outnumber the protesters 3 to 1. Yet, there are none at these town hall meetings where angry mobs shout down politicians, protesting changes to the health care system.
Some kid asks John Kerry questions out of turn a couple years ago and gets tasered.
Exactly. I'm not exactly sure what weaponry would be able to hit a target at 20,000 feet but it's a big, slow-moving target.
That would be a Led Zeppelin moment ...
Are the firefox developers just looking for ways to ruin it? Or are these someone's pet projects? resume padding? Why not just branch the code and call the new, bloated browser something else?
The industry is seizing this chance to move out of the shadow of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and show that it has solved the three big problems that have long dogged it: cost, safety and waste.
.. and into the shadow of an entirely new disaster.
Regardless of whether they've solved those problems, they're not likely get around the unlimited liability of potential accidents. And even if they do, we have plants operating way beyond their projected lifespans. So the chickens haven't yet come home to roost on all the earlier plants that were in the shadow of TMI and Chernobyl.
This cannon is very similar in design to the classic "Napolean" 12 pounder. Guns like this are not primarily intended to "use comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories with a steep angle of descent". That's what a mortar is for. These kinds of cannons were aimed straight at the target.
R. Lee Ermey has a wonderful new series on the History channel called Lock 'n Load. One episode deals with field artillery. They fire a Napolean, among other guns. They also fire a mortar of the civil war era.
I saw quite a few complaints about this behavior early on. The response was essentially that's tough, take it or leave it. Apparently a number of users left it.
He thinks that because he can sit in a meeting and halfway listen to what is being said while reading emails on his blackberry, he is multitasking. And therefore, those who work for him should be able to handle several large, high pressure projects at once.