Exactly. People forget that there was a time, not too long ago that for the majority of the world's population, the whole family worked from sun up till sun down. Individuals couldn't really survive for long on their own. And they had a LOT less than we did. I am sure they would be happy to let their kids play all day rather than earning a living from birth.
You can't mine iron much faster with more information at hand, crop yields don't increase with more information at hand. Travel times aren't reduced since several decades, and where they are indeed reduced...
Totally disagree. Not to nitpick words, but information by definition is useful data that you can understand & incorporate. So unless you got a ton of just raw useless data (ie: just a simple text file of first & last names of every person who went on site) on your We Mine Iron Inc. server then the information would certainly speed up your mining to consumer operations. Same with crop yields. Information is just as useful and many times more so as mechanical efficiencies. If one doesn't see the increase in productivity, then they don't really have useful data (no information) or they don't know how to properly measure it.
Travel times? Work from home. Video conferencing. Remote monitoring. Smart Grids. Smart Factories. Parking Reservation Systems. Online Shopping. Video Funerals! Another way to look at it is that travel time has been reduced from days & hours to 5 minutes.
Very well said. Without overtime, there is an artificial unknown resource buffer. Rather than saying there are 120-140 man hours available this week for 3 resources, it ends up being anywhere from 120-300 hours.
HOW do you do planning on a 120-300 hour variance? 120-140 you can say give them 120 hours of work and if they need to stretch a little to 140; hopefully they will. And as a PM, I MUST make sure my 120 is accurate cause if I give them 150 hours... that is not a stretch, that is OVERTIME which hurts my project budget or delivery. Both I must explain to my stakeholders. On the flip side, with more accurate costs/planning/delivery known, the customer can actually make better decisions on what they will pay for and what they won't.
With the unknown variance, people start fantasizing that they are giving 50 hours of work when its actually 100. Then the attitudes start with thinking that it WAS 50 hrs of work and its the developer's own problem for taking longer. The project plans note 50 rather than the 100. Future projects look to the past to see that something was only 50 hrs and this lazy developer on this project is taking 200 for the same thing...
With the unknown, it just makes it all unaccountable and a dangerous wildcard that prevents accurate estimates. Plus to make matters worse, the middle 10-35 hours are FAR more productive than the hours 45-100. And we wonder why project deliverables suck, aren't on time, nor on budget. And even if I stuck to proper labor estimates, my competition won't, and I won't get any contracts... Even thou I can deliver a more accurate product, closer to time, and closer to budget at a TCO very close to the competitor who will waste resources on CYA and excuses for delays and result in an inferior product.
Honestly, people are very bad at judging labor to complete a task. And without regulations, we are leaving it to our human nature to set ourselves up for failure.
If you had to maintain 100 PV installations for 1 thermal or hydro powerplant cause the losses on storage required to compensate for the higher losses and massive swings in production... then its not unusual that PV ends up being more expensive. Of course the ratio varies based on location/etc and there will be a wide sweet spot. But with hydrogen's storage losses and Denmark's low solar exposure... its probably going to lean against PV.
This is what I was thinking, and they don't need hills. A lot of Denmark is near or below sea level. They are an expert at flood control and land reclamation from the sea. They can build walls in the sea to create artificial valleys. Pump water out when they have plenty of energy and let it fall back in when they don't. They have plenty of inlets to block off for this endeavor, thou one or two is probably more than enough for the country.
Imagine a wide road that crosses an inlet. On it are wind mills (and a few more out to sea), possibly augmented by a solar roof, and below it is a Dam. The wind and solar pump out the inlet with excess power, and the electric dam lets it back in.
Assume the API is a separate file like headers in C. I think the question here is can I use your header file for my program but have the interface point toward the code I created? That is a bit tougher. In itself, it has no value, but it is a piece of work... but technically w/o an implementation, it might as well be a random string of characters.
Personally, I follow your logic, the API is equivalent to a table of contents and using it alone should fall under fair use. Even if it by itself (meaning no book or program) was copyrightable, it has no value w/o an underlying implementation. Thus even the most rudimentary implementation using it provides far more value than the standalone copyrightable work and so should fall under fair use. On the flip side, if it is copyrightable, I think the original author should be given credit for writing it first (atleast for the first 120 years or whatever current copyright law is)... which sucks. Its like adding a foot note that says "The 'Dear,' and 'Thank you,' in this letter were bought to you by....".
Ignoring the insults in your post... You still provided the far more expensive emergency medical care to the former group in the old system. What has changed? Now you know you are doing it?
True if you ignore the 10 million that the old systems didn't cover but we all provided more expensive emergency care anyway and the new system does cover.
I would assume so. These devices are 200 to 400 dollars each. That is still a lot of money. People would have returned them or at least posted very negative reviews if they got something unexpected. But it seems even with 1000 reviews these devices have very good 4 to 5 star ratings. So I would say they are valid purchases.
1) US prints money and invests in China 2) China builds stuff 3) US buys stuff. 4) China buys US stocks/bonds/securities. 5) US invests in China - stock GOTO #2
Profits are somewhere in there. Eventually the banks will figure out that you can just bounce between #4 & #5. Profits come with bailouts.
Assuming that society takes the moral hit and people buy into the concept by not hiding their infections from testing (basically society as a whole accepts self-sacrifice based on a test)...
Most infectious type of people are not discovered till it is too late. This is a very slow virus. You could be a carrier for months to years and be a vector without showing up positive in a test. Killing off an AIDS victim is kind of pointless, for the virus, the host is well past the diminishing returns curve. Even one that has tested positive for HIV.
Even if you do find and kill off every HIV patient, it won't kill off the virus. Its origins are from other mammals (this version being chimps). Unless you intend to kill everything that has this virus or a potential parent of it. At which point you would also start targeting other currently non-lethal immune system attacking viruses.
So the road above is fairly stupid, comes primarily from ignorance & fear, and in the end, doesn't work. If people don't commit to killing themselves based on a test, the above will actually make the HIV/AIDS situation worse as it will go underground.
The better solution is to let the people live and use them to find a cure. This way, we not only solve the current situation, but also similar mutations in the future. By letting people live, we have already discovered some folks who are immune to AIDS!
Somebody had to take the fall, and I guess they found the one group who didn't do the proper amount of CYA. Actually enumerating the failures and irresponsiblities of the various parties involved from the politicians down to the subcontractors... would have been too much work.
I guess they will just fire 1-2 guys and move the rest to other projects like "Heathcare.gov support" and file this report some where the sun never shines.
Personally, I prefer Skype for video and WhatApp for chat, even thou the former is a battery hog. Google hangouts isn't as polished as Skype. Maybe in 2-3 years and Google stops changing things, it will be on par with Skype. Then it would bug me a bit if they integrate it too much with Google+, but if it is better than Skype, I would still switch. But by that time, I expect Microsoft to make some nice integration leaps with Skype.
However I wouldn't push either on the "It just needs to work" crowd. Reality is people don't want to learn what they consider is IT. They just want to do their thing they want. FaceTime integration with the phone app, AppleID, and overall interface is just easier. Also, the software & hardware is fairly standard across the user base. The whole ecosystem plug&play integration and Apple's focus on the 70% results in just a nicer overall package.
Sadly, I think Microsoft will catch up to that ecosystem & integration concept sooner than Android. I have given up on HTC and Motorola. HTC could have been king and they messed it up by market fragmentation. That leaves Samsung and Sony. The former is aiming for market share (I hope) and thus isn't focused on standardization & simplicity yet. The latter's road maps and napkin notes look amazing for a social collective, but sucks at execution. Amazon is too focused on... Amazon. And all of them want to build individual ecosystems and social networks. They have neither the social brand value nor unified market share to succeed at it. Wish Google would rein them in under the Android logo.
Also, Apple has cellular partners all over the world who focus on making Apple products work well within their network. Android vendors have only generic Android support and only Verizon does anything serious for Droid here in the US.
Sound integration systems actually do it via a very simple cradle in the Apple ecosystem. My buddy's apartment complex has a community area with multiple wall & flat table ports that accept iPhones. You just pop it in, and that zone (or more) now has your library playing in it. You can simply redirect the audio to a different zone like the gym, pool, bbq, or sky deck with a single button. The wall ports also have enough space to just store an Android that just hooks to an audio cable. And this is in addition to the mobile wireless integration. The flat screens have Apple TVs that you can swipe in audio & video to/from the iPads or iPhones.
I have seen Samsung & use a LG SmartTV interface, they are ok but less intuitive than the Apple ecosystem. Also, the level of 3rd party hardware integrators for the Apple ecosystem it is far better than the SmartTVs. The Apple ecosystem is just more stable than the SmartTV ecosystem and less difficult to setup and manage. Of course there is a price here but it isn't that much higher than a full audio/video integration system. And the difference is hardly noticed in Healthcare field budgets.
Personally, I have a Plex+linux+home theater+LG+Android+iOS+Windows+Insteon integration in my house. I like the flexibility it offers. But its not a system I would give my parents, the office, or even my semi-techie sibling. The formers will never get it no matter how many times I teach them. The later doesn't see the value of the complexity.
Right... cause everyone HAS to hold an iPad to use it. Cause iPads can't be plugged in like TVs. Cause iPads can't integrate into a sound system. Cause Alzheimers patients far enough along to require assisted living will remember how to undo any channel changes or plug cords that get pulled.
Personally, I don't integrate into Apple products in my house or my families'. I have a mix of Androids, Cromecast, Windows, and Apple. However, I have seen the pure iPhone side and when you see the requirements of the submitter, there really is no solution that fits it better than Apple. The submitter doesn't need the flexibility, features, and cost savings at the cost of complexity that the other solutions offer.
Is the iPad the perfect solution, no. But for what the submitter wants, it is far better than anything else on the market. Overall, from a simplistic ecosystem view point, Apple just does it better. Shit just works. There really is no close challenger. Samsung has no focus in this direction, and Microsoft is probably 4-5 years away.
An iPad with FaceTime. Sorry, but this is really the simplest one out there. Setup an MDM on it for remote management.
Create an app that posts family pictures that with a click will call them. Or it can hook into the fingerprint reader and call the right family. Or, get a personal iPad for each patient and set it up in their room and have the MDM only allow Facetime to the family.
If you are talking about hundreds of iPads, then even Apple will help you setup all this.
Separate company or not, controlling interest is with Microsoft USA. This isn't the US demanding Iresoft, an independent Irish company with no US presence, turn over data. It is the US demanding something of a US company's subsidiary.
Most of the US doesn't have "flat rate" options (most medium to big cities do). But this is primarily due to regulations or lack of on the residential prices. The end user prices here are allowed to fluctuate more than most countries while keeping the margins very low and little assistance from the federal government for utilities. This makes it harder for companies to take on the risk of fluctuating billing and covering the end user with a stable energy bill.
So the result is that bills vary. It can go from $30/month to $150/month in summer vs winter for natural gas and reversed for electricity. So most utilities don't do automated billing (variance will kill customer bank accounts). But majority do electronic billing either from the bank side or via an ACH transfer from the utility side. The former is setup through your bank, and the later is setup through the utility's website. Few have autopay. Neither really involve people.
NO, most countries that don't have a consumer credit system have it FAR worse. They have "family debt" and "blood money". You are just fortunate enough not to need to use or need them. They have the equivalent of the worst possible loan sharks in the US. In most countries, debt doesn't exist at the individual level, it exists at the family level. If your father couldn't pay for it, you would. If you can't pay for it, the interest may be covered by your wife or daughter.
You been in collections several times, and you walked away with all your fingers and toes. Try that in a country without a proper credit system. Dude, you were able to get into & out of collections many times... that's just not possible in many countries.
On the flipside, your are right, there aren't a lot of people who are in debt in the rest of the world (not that we would know cause it isn't recorded or reported). But that's mostly cause debt is a horrible business for the lender and the costs are too high for the user. In the US, the worst that happens is that you are labeled as untrustworthy with money (ie: poor credit score) and some of your assets are taken. But at least with a little time, you can retry. At least it doesn't pass onto your children or wife.
We are a pretty globally gigantic company w/ a couple of IT vendors. All are Microsoft heavy. We got MS everything. None are really looking at the Surface Pro. Primarily cause we don't want to be the first testers* and the price point is about 2x higher than we would like. We are looking at very light weight laptops and the users want shiny iPads.
If MS would drop the price to the iPad, integrate the MDM, policy, cellular, vpn, and office network systems, and provided a stable roadmap... I think business would look at it. But that's going to be atleast 4th or 5th gen at this point... with the business world buying the 5th or 6th gen.
* = This is the 3rd, but the first two are different enough that you can say that they were abandonware.
How does something that operates based on a Earth's weak magnetic field prevent interference? They put "quantum" in the sentence, did they mean gravitation field?
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Water problems don't appear overnight either. See Georgia, they have known about their water issue for over 10 years and didn't do anything about it.
Exactly. People forget that there was a time, not too long ago that for the majority of the world's population, the whole family worked from sun up till sun down. Individuals couldn't really survive for long on their own. And they had a LOT less than we did. I am sure they would be happy to let their kids play all day rather than earning a living from birth.
You can't mine iron much faster with more information at hand, crop yields don't increase with more information at hand. Travel times aren't reduced since several decades, and where they are indeed reduced...
Totally disagree. Not to nitpick words, but information by definition is useful data that you can understand & incorporate. So unless you got a ton of just raw useless data (ie: just a simple text file of first & last names of every person who went on site) on your We Mine Iron Inc. server then the information would certainly speed up your mining to consumer operations. Same with crop yields. Information is just as useful and many times more so as mechanical efficiencies. If one doesn't see the increase in productivity, then they don't really have useful data (no information) or they don't know how to properly measure it.
Travel times? Work from home. Video conferencing. Remote monitoring. Smart Grids. Smart Factories. Parking Reservation Systems. Online Shopping. Video Funerals! Another way to look at it is that travel time has been reduced from days & hours to 5 minutes.
Very well said. Without overtime, there is an artificial unknown resource buffer. Rather than saying there are 120-140 man hours available this week for 3 resources, it ends up being anywhere from 120-300 hours.
HOW do you do planning on a 120-300 hour variance? 120-140 you can say give them 120 hours of work and if they need to stretch a little to 140; hopefully they will. And as a PM, I MUST make sure my 120 is accurate cause if I give them 150 hours... that is not a stretch, that is OVERTIME which hurts my project budget or delivery. Both I must explain to my stakeholders. On the flip side, with more accurate costs/planning/delivery known, the customer can actually make better decisions on what they will pay for and what they won't.
With the unknown variance, people start fantasizing that they are giving 50 hours of work when its actually 100. Then the attitudes start with thinking that it WAS 50 hrs of work and its the developer's own problem for taking longer. The project plans note 50 rather than the 100. Future projects look to the past to see that something was only 50 hrs and this lazy developer on this project is taking 200 for the same thing...
With the unknown, it just makes it all unaccountable and a dangerous wildcard that prevents accurate estimates. Plus to make matters worse, the middle 10-35 hours are FAR more productive than the hours 45-100. And we wonder why project deliverables suck, aren't on time, nor on budget. And even if I stuck to proper labor estimates, my competition won't, and I won't get any contracts... Even thou I can deliver a more accurate product, closer to time, and closer to budget at a TCO very close to the competitor who will waste resources on CYA and excuses for delays and result in an inferior product.
Honestly, people are very bad at judging labor to complete a task. And without regulations, we are leaving it to our human nature to set ourselves up for failure.
If you had to maintain 100 PV installations for 1 thermal or hydro powerplant cause the losses on storage required to compensate for the higher losses and massive swings in production... then its not unusual that PV ends up being more expensive. Of course the ratio varies based on location/etc and there will be a wide sweet spot. But with hydrogen's storage losses and Denmark's low solar exposure... its probably going to lean against PV.
This is what I was thinking, and they don't need hills. A lot of Denmark is near or below sea level. They are an expert at flood control and land reclamation from the sea. They can build walls in the sea to create artificial valleys. Pump water out when they have plenty of energy and let it fall back in when they don't. They have plenty of inlets to block off for this endeavor, thou one or two is probably more than enough for the country.
Imagine a wide road that crosses an inlet. On it are wind mills (and a few more out to sea), possibly augmented by a solar roof, and below it is a Dam. The wind and solar pump out the inlet with excess power, and the electric dam lets it back in.
Assume the API is a separate file like headers in C. I think the question here is can I use your header file for my program but have the interface point toward the code I created? That is a bit tougher. In itself, it has no value, but it is a piece of work... but technically w/o an implementation, it might as well be a random string of characters.
Personally, I follow your logic, the API is equivalent to a table of contents and using it alone should fall under fair use. Even if it by itself (meaning no book or program) was copyrightable, it has no value w/o an underlying implementation. Thus even the most rudimentary implementation using it provides far more value than the standalone copyrightable work and so should fall under fair use. On the flip side, if it is copyrightable, I think the original author should be given credit for writing it first (atleast for the first 120 years or whatever current copyright law is)... which sucks. Its like adding a foot note that says "The 'Dear,' and 'Thank you,' in this letter were bought to you by ....".
Ignoring the insults in your post... You still provided the far more expensive emergency medical care to the former group in the old system. What has changed? Now you know you are doing it?
True if you ignore the 10 million that the old systems didn't cover but we all provided more expensive emergency care anyway and the new system does cover.
I would assume so. These devices are 200 to 400 dollars each. That is still a lot of money. People would have returned them or at least posted very negative reviews if they got something unexpected. But it seems even with 1000 reviews these devices have very good 4 to 5 star ratings. So I would say they are valid purchases.
1) US prints money and invests in China
2) China builds stuff
3) US buys stuff.
4) China buys US stocks/bonds/securities.
5) US invests in China - stock
GOTO #2
Profits are somewhere in there. Eventually the banks will figure out that you can just bounce between #4 & #5. Profits come with bailouts.
You can test for HIV, but the patient becomes a vector for infection prior to the test working.
Assuming that society takes the moral hit and people buy into the concept by not hiding their infections from testing (basically society as a whole accepts self-sacrifice based on a test)...
Most infectious type of people are not discovered till it is too late. This is a very slow virus. You could be a carrier for months to years and be a vector without showing up positive in a test. Killing off an AIDS victim is kind of pointless, for the virus, the host is well past the diminishing returns curve. Even one that has tested positive for HIV.
Even if you do find and kill off every HIV patient, it won't kill off the virus. Its origins are from other mammals (this version being chimps). Unless you intend to kill everything that has this virus or a potential parent of it. At which point you would also start targeting other currently non-lethal immune system attacking viruses.
So the road above is fairly stupid, comes primarily from ignorance & fear, and in the end, doesn't work. If people don't commit to killing themselves based on a test, the above will actually make the HIV/AIDS situation worse as it will go underground.
The better solution is to let the people live and use them to find a cure. This way, we not only solve the current situation, but also similar mutations in the future. By letting people live, we have already discovered some folks who are immune to AIDS!
Somebody had to take the fall, and I guess they found the one group who didn't do the proper amount of CYA. Actually enumerating the failures and irresponsiblities of the various parties involved from the politicians down to the subcontractors... would have been too much work.
I guess they will just fire 1-2 guys and move the rest to other projects like "Heathcare.gov support" and file this report some where the sun never shines.
Personally, I prefer Skype for video and WhatApp for chat, even thou the former is a battery hog. Google hangouts isn't as polished as Skype. Maybe in 2-3 years and Google stops changing things, it will be on par with Skype. Then it would bug me a bit if they integrate it too much with Google+, but if it is better than Skype, I would still switch. But by that time, I expect Microsoft to make some nice integration leaps with Skype.
However I wouldn't push either on the "It just needs to work" crowd. Reality is people don't want to learn what they consider is IT. They just want to do their thing they want. FaceTime integration with the phone app, AppleID, and overall interface is just easier. Also, the software & hardware is fairly standard across the user base. The whole ecosystem plug&play integration and Apple's focus on the 70% results in just a nicer overall package.
Sadly, I think Microsoft will catch up to that ecosystem & integration concept sooner than Android. I have given up on HTC and Motorola. HTC could have been king and they messed it up by market fragmentation. That leaves Samsung and Sony. The former is aiming for market share (I hope) and thus isn't focused on standardization & simplicity yet. The latter's road maps and napkin notes look amazing for a social collective, but sucks at execution. Amazon is too focused on... Amazon. And all of them want to build individual ecosystems and social networks. They have neither the social brand value nor unified market share to succeed at it. Wish Google would rein them in under the Android logo.
Also, Apple has cellular partners all over the world who focus on making Apple products work well within their network. Android vendors have only generic Android support and only Verizon does anything serious for Droid here in the US.
Sound integration systems actually do it via a very simple cradle in the Apple ecosystem. My buddy's apartment complex has a community area with multiple wall & flat table ports that accept iPhones. You just pop it in, and that zone (or more) now has your library playing in it. You can simply redirect the audio to a different zone like the gym, pool, bbq, or sky deck with a single button. The wall ports also have enough space to just store an Android that just hooks to an audio cable. And this is in addition to the mobile wireless integration. The flat screens have Apple TVs that you can swipe in audio & video to/from the iPads or iPhones.
I have seen Samsung & use a LG SmartTV interface, they are ok but less intuitive than the Apple ecosystem. Also, the level of 3rd party hardware integrators for the Apple ecosystem it is far better than the SmartTVs. The Apple ecosystem is just more stable than the SmartTV ecosystem and less difficult to setup and manage. Of course there is a price here but it isn't that much higher than a full audio/video integration system. And the difference is hardly noticed in Healthcare field budgets.
Personally, I have a Plex+linux+home theater+LG+Android+iOS+Windows+Insteon integration in my house. I like the flexibility it offers. But its not a system I would give my parents, the office, or even my semi-techie sibling. The formers will never get it no matter how many times I teach them. The later doesn't see the value of the complexity.
Right... cause everyone HAS to hold an iPad to use it. Cause iPads can't be plugged in like TVs. Cause iPads can't integrate into a sound system. Cause Alzheimers patients far enough along to require assisted living will remember how to undo any channel changes or plug cords that get pulled.
Personally, I don't integrate into Apple products in my house or my families'. I have a mix of Androids, Cromecast, Windows, and Apple. However, I have seen the pure iPhone side and when you see the requirements of the submitter, there really is no solution that fits it better than Apple. The submitter doesn't need the flexibility, features, and cost savings at the cost of complexity that the other solutions offer.
Is the iPad the perfect solution, no. But for what the submitter wants, it is far better than anything else on the market. Overall, from a simplistic ecosystem view point, Apple just does it better. Shit just works. There really is no close challenger. Samsung has no focus in this direction, and Microsoft is probably 4-5 years away.
An iPad with FaceTime. Sorry, but this is really the simplest one out there. Setup an MDM on it for remote management.
Create an app that posts family pictures that with a click will call them. Or it can hook into the fingerprint reader and call the right family. Or, get a personal iPad for each patient and set it up in their room and have the MDM only allow Facetime to the family.
If you are talking about hundreds of iPads, then even Apple will help you setup all this.
Separate company or not, controlling interest is with Microsoft USA. This isn't the US demanding Iresoft, an independent Irish company with no US presence, turn over data. It is the US demanding something of a US company's subsidiary.
Most of the US doesn't have "flat rate" options (most medium to big cities do). But this is primarily due to regulations or lack of on the residential prices. The end user prices here are allowed to fluctuate more than most countries while keeping the margins very low and little assistance from the federal government for utilities. This makes it harder for companies to take on the risk of fluctuating billing and covering the end user with a stable energy bill.
So the result is that bills vary. It can go from $30/month to $150/month in summer vs winter for natural gas and reversed for electricity. So most utilities don't do automated billing (variance will kill customer bank accounts). But majority do electronic billing either from the bank side or via an ACH transfer from the utility side. The former is setup through your bank, and the later is setup through the utility's website. Few have autopay. Neither really involve people.
Assessment of "Ability to pay" is how the economy currently works. Did you instead mean "beyond the cash on hand"?
NO, most countries that don't have a consumer credit system have it FAR worse. They have "family debt" and "blood money". You are just fortunate enough not to need to use or need them. They have the equivalent of the worst possible loan sharks in the US. In most countries, debt doesn't exist at the individual level, it exists at the family level. If your father couldn't pay for it, you would. If you can't pay for it, the interest may be covered by your wife or daughter.
You been in collections several times, and you walked away with all your fingers and toes. Try that in a country without a proper credit system. Dude, you were able to get into & out of collections many times... that's just not possible in many countries.
On the flipside, your are right, there aren't a lot of people who are in debt in the rest of the world (not that we would know cause it isn't recorded or reported). But that's mostly cause debt is a horrible business for the lender and the costs are too high for the user. In the US, the worst that happens is that you are labeled as untrustworthy with money (ie: poor credit score) and some of your assets are taken. But at least with a little time, you can retry. At least it doesn't pass onto your children or wife.
Might want to check your numbers. Dodge Ram = 70% USA. Toyota Tundra = 80%. And I am sure the sub-components are actually foreign.
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We are a pretty globally gigantic company w/ a couple of IT vendors. All are Microsoft heavy. We got MS everything. None are really looking at the Surface Pro. Primarily cause we don't want to be the first testers* and the price point is about 2x higher than we would like. We are looking at very light weight laptops and the users want shiny iPads.
If MS would drop the price to the iPad, integrate the MDM, policy, cellular, vpn, and office network systems, and provided a stable roadmap... I think business would look at it. But that's going to be atleast 4th or 5th gen at this point... with the business world buying the 5th or 6th gen.
* = This is the 3rd, but the first two are different enough that you can say that they were abandonware.
How does something that operates based on a Earth's weak magnetic field prevent interference? They put "quantum" in the sentence, did they mean gravitation field?