Flextronics, Bartlett, TN (Before they moved to off of Shelby Drive in Memphis, TN.) Even then the G3 and G4 laptop batteries were like $12 while Apple charged $120 for a replacement. I handled the OS imaging for the east coast schools, with those utterly shit district-locked versions of OSx 10.2.x and would only accept those operating system versions, never to upgrade. That means I had identical hardware which could not run the latest 10.2.x updates, I had about 18 system images to choose from (none of which were labeled by district, and every terminal had a different order for the images, with no means of separation. That means I had to deal with memorizing four different OS imaging stations and each of their actual menu configs. Oh but those were laptops, too, and sometimes they got switched around because some tech needed a quick system to double-check an external device that got sent in, like a firewire drive. Great, now I have to figure it out all over again, meanwhile constantly failing to install the proper OS onto the goddamned laptops because of this.
And the shipments of logic boards from Guadalajara. fucking sand in them. We were having to send 1/3 of the repairs right back to the beginning because the logic boards were fucked. Thanks for outsourcing assembly to Mexico, Steve!
Looks like similar QA standards still happen at Apple today, with the same cheap labor and same cheap-ass parts.
Hey, did you guys ever get rid of that shit Cashmere testing suite?
Thank god my MIL-SPEC phone can run at 100% because it's got a weirdly usable thermally-conductive plastic heat sink built into its tank body. And it can charge at very high rates of speed as well thanks to said construction.
"With Bitcoin having actual value as opposed to fiat currencies"
That's a fat lie, which is why you posted as AC. Bitcoin appeared out of nothing. Fiat currencies at least have something backing them, be it gold, oil, or some other usable tradeable commodity.
"Maybe Apple started slowing down phones with diminished batteries because they realized that their customers, on average, prefer a phone that lasts 20 hours with diminished performance, than one that operates at peak performance but is dead after they've been out of the house for four hours? And I can see where having a phone that doesn't die midday would cause you to keep using your current phone for LONGER!"
Actually, you can fuck right off. When you sell me a product, you sell me a product that works at 100% capacity AT ALL TIMES. Anything else is outright fraud and apologist shills like you should have your right to vote revoked for your utter stupidity.
Detailed replay is nothing more than recording player movements, which is easily-compressed data. Even detailed replays of races in Gran Turismo didn't need that much space.
The specific problem with pre-paid cards is that there is no recourse on them unlike credit and debit cards, oh ye who has never held a job and wouldn't know how these things work.
Actually, as a matter of policy, many porno shops do not accept pre-paid cards, because of the potential for fraud. Caught plenty of people that worked at places selling gift cards, 'loading' the card with money, and buying stuff from my old shop, only to have the card declined a few weeks after the fact because it was determined fraudulent by the CC when they went over transactions.
It actually does work that way. I've worked the restaurant industry starting at 15 years old. I've seen it happen plenty of times. McDonalds, no matter how you try to spin it, is not a sit-down restaurant.
Man you know nothing of retail business. Many people pay cash-only because they don't want their spouses to know what they're doing. Try working the retail side of the porno industry some time.
No, the misunderstanding is 'debt.' If you walk up to a register with an item, they can refuse the cash as no debt has incurred. At most sit-down restaurants you eat before paying, thus incurring a debt. They are obligated to accept that legal tender if presented, because there is an existing debt. If they do not accept the tender, their recourse would be to take it to court, where a judge most likely will wipe the debt and go "Why didn't you take the cash when presented?"
You clearly know nothing of available cryptocurrencies if you think one cannot do mining at home. Have a peep at zcash. Extremely memory-hard, favors GPU mining and even then you're only getting a few hundred hashes per second with the best GPUs currently available. Look at Ethereum, still GPU dominated because of its memory-hard algo. Sure, ether mining profitability is dropping, but still there and doable on consumer hardware when you join a pool.
Solo mining might be out of the question for ASIC-riddled shit like bitcoin.
" It is a tiny, tiny part of all data center electricity use."
We're not talking data center power usage here. We're talking the actual fucking power of every piece of bitcoin mining equipment, most of which lies in consumer hands and operates at home. Then to boot there are plenty of other cryptocurrencies being mined which are more intensive on energy usage. Way to hand-wave away something you so clearly do not understand, Jonathan Koomey.
Only 19? Someone doesn't know how to leverage a real motherboard. I can pop 36 in a triple-crossfire mobo using a 16x breakout down to individual 1x slots, then get the riser adapters. 1200W PSUs are the run of the mill cheap server PSUs, you want 2400W PSUs for any real power draw.
Sounds like you and your affiliate asshole friend need to go back to school and learn how to do real hardware builds.
https://i.imgur.com/YFg4yf0.pn... - hi, look at my first month bill of service. No, there are not multiple lines. No, I paid for the phone outright. No, no tethering, no jetpack modem, nada except the basic 'unlimited' package.
I know exactly what QA Apple does, I used to do their repairs when working at Flextronics back in the G3 and G4 days. Logic boards shipped in from guadalajara with sand in the bottom of the boxes. Apple does almost nil QA to start with. That doesn't excuse incredibly bad electronics design when the problem of voltage spikes got solved when smart manufacturers moved to parallel power delivery instead of series power delivery, reducing voltage drop by limiting the voltage that would ever be drawn and using boost circuits at the end of each power delivery line to get a correct operative voltage for the devices inside.
Coinbase effectively stopped trading Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, and a couple others. They suspect insider trading has happened. This is the most likely reason for the drop, trust in exchanges has been damaged.
If it turns out to be insider trading, ouch for Coinbase, and the market. Maybe good for future investors as they can get a lower price now than what they've seen recently. If it doesn't turn out to be insider trading, then faith in the market will resume and the irrational bubble will inflate again.
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Flextronics, Bartlett, TN (Before they moved to off of Shelby Drive in Memphis, TN.) Even then the G3 and G4 laptop batteries were like $12 while Apple charged $120 for a replacement. I handled the OS imaging for the east coast schools, with those utterly shit district-locked versions of OSx 10.2.x and would only accept those operating system versions, never to upgrade. That means I had identical hardware which could not run the latest 10.2.x updates, I had about 18 system images to choose from (none of which were labeled by district, and every terminal had a different order for the images, with no means of separation. That means I had to deal with memorizing four different OS imaging stations and each of their actual menu configs. Oh but those were laptops, too, and sometimes they got switched around because some tech needed a quick system to double-check an external device that got sent in, like a firewire drive. Great, now I have to figure it out all over again, meanwhile constantly failing to install the proper OS onto the goddamned laptops because of this.
And the shipments of logic boards from Guadalajara. fucking sand in them. We were having to send 1/3 of the repairs right back to the beginning because the logic boards were fucked. Thanks for outsourcing assembly to Mexico, Steve!
Looks like similar QA standards still happen at Apple today, with the same cheap labor and same cheap-ass parts.
Hey, did you guys ever get rid of that shit Cashmere testing suite?
Thank god my MIL-SPEC phone can run at 100% because it's got a weirdly usable thermally-conductive plastic heat sink built into its tank body. And it can charge at very high rates of speed as well thanks to said construction.
That's still not shit, just repeat inputs. That's nothing to record.
"With Bitcoin having actual value as opposed to fiat currencies"
That's a fat lie, which is why you posted as AC. Bitcoin appeared out of nothing. Fiat currencies at least have something backing them, be it gold, oil, or some other usable tradeable commodity.
The iOS update itself is the cause.
"Maybe Apple started slowing down phones with diminished batteries because they realized that their customers, on average, prefer a phone that lasts 20 hours with diminished performance, than one that operates at peak performance but is dead after they've been out of the house for four hours? And I can see where having a phone that doesn't die midday would cause you to keep using your current phone for LONGER!"
Actually, you can fuck right off. When you sell me a product, you sell me a product that works at 100% capacity AT ALL TIMES. Anything else is outright fraud and apologist shills like you should have your right to vote revoked for your utter stupidity.
Simple real-world math: Apple pays about $5 for the battery itself. There's a $24 profit margin.
Why, yes the BOM on the battery is pretty easy to get if you just Google the fucking numbers on the cells.
Someone ban this dipshit fuckwit already.
Spoken like a true idiot that doesn't know Apple uses the exact same $4 'knock-off' batteries.
Come back when you've actually worked the repair lines like I have, you fuckwit.
Detailed replay is nothing more than recording player movements, which is easily-compressed data. Even detailed replays of races in Gran Turismo didn't need that much space.
The specific problem with pre-paid cards is that there is no recourse on them unlike credit and debit cards, oh ye who has never held a job and wouldn't know how these things work.
You can look at mining pools and clearly see home miners all over the place. You clearly know nothing about the Gold rush, do you?
Actually, as a matter of policy, many porno shops do not accept pre-paid cards, because of the potential for fraud. Caught plenty of people that worked at places selling gift cards, 'loading' the card with money, and buying stuff from my old shop, only to have the card declined a few weeks after the fact because it was determined fraudulent by the CC when they went over transactions.
It actually does work that way. I've worked the restaurant industry starting at 15 years old. I've seen it happen plenty of times. McDonalds, no matter how you try to spin it, is not a sit-down restaurant.
Man you know nothing of retail business. Many people pay cash-only because they don't want their spouses to know what they're doing. Try working the retail side of the porno industry some time.
No, the misunderstanding is 'debt.' If you walk up to a register with an item, they can refuse the cash as no debt has incurred. At most sit-down restaurants you eat before paying, thus incurring a debt. They are obligated to accept that legal tender if presented, because there is an existing debt. If they do not accept the tender, their recourse would be to take it to court, where a judge most likely will wipe the debt and go "Why didn't you take the cash when presented?"
You clearly know nothing of available cryptocurrencies if you think one cannot do mining at home. Have a peep at zcash. Extremely memory-hard, favors GPU mining and even then you're only getting a few hundred hashes per second with the best GPUs currently available. Look at Ethereum, still GPU dominated because of its memory-hard algo. Sure, ether mining profitability is dropping, but still there and doable on consumer hardware when you join a pool.
Solo mining might be out of the question for ASIC-riddled shit like bitcoin.
" It is a tiny, tiny part of all data center electricity use."
We're not talking data center power usage here. We're talking the actual fucking power of every piece of bitcoin mining equipment, most of which lies in consumer hands and operates at home. Then to boot there are plenty of other cryptocurrencies being mined which are more intensive on energy usage. Way to hand-wave away something you so clearly do not understand, Jonathan Koomey.
Only 19? Someone doesn't know how to leverage a real motherboard. I can pop 36 in a triple-crossfire mobo using a 16x breakout down to individual 1x slots, then get the riser adapters. 1200W PSUs are the run of the mill cheap server PSUs, you want 2400W PSUs for any real power draw.
Sounds like you and your affiliate asshole friend need to go back to school and learn how to do real hardware builds.
...right about the time my penis becomes the standard replacement for women's vibrators.
IOW, never.
Next topic.
There is everything wrong with the proposal.
https://i.imgur.com/YFg4yf0.pn... - hi, look at my first month bill of service. No, there are not multiple lines. No, I paid for the phone outright. No, no tethering, no jetpack modem, nada except the basic 'unlimited' package.
Welcome to your new world of pay-for fast lanes.
"SJW/politics board!?"
This isn't 4chan, Reddit, Fark, or SoylentNews. I don't think you belong here.
My recent vacation I took SouthWest. Their shit tried to usurp my browser almost instantly and all I was doing was checking the flight status.
The security on their wi-fi is incredibly weak. Don't trust their wi-fi.
I know exactly what QA Apple does, I used to do their repairs when working at Flextronics back in the G3 and G4 days. Logic boards shipped in from guadalajara with sand in the bottom of the boxes. Apple does almost nil QA to start with. That doesn't excuse incredibly bad electronics design when the problem of voltage spikes got solved when smart manufacturers moved to parallel power delivery instead of series power delivery, reducing voltage drop by limiting the voltage that would ever be drawn and using boost circuits at the end of each power delivery line to get a correct operative voltage for the devices inside.
Do you not know how parallel wiring jobs work for distributing power? Do you not know about voltage boosting circuits?
You probably shouldn't be in this discussion if you do not understand basic electrical theory.
Coinbase effectively stopped trading Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, and a couple others. They suspect insider trading has happened. This is the most likely reason for the drop, trust in exchanges has been damaged.
If it turns out to be insider trading, ouch for Coinbase, and the market. Maybe good for future investors as they can get a lower price now than what they've seen recently. If it doesn't turn out to be insider trading, then faith in the market will resume and the irrational bubble will inflate again.