Owning a car is stupid: about 50% or more of car ownership cost is tax in all Western countries.
Gas - taxed heavily Mandatory service and inspections - self explanatory Toll roads - self explanatory Parking - in case of public parking Vehicle tax - self explanatory Consumables - do you know that quite a few countries put extra tax on motor oil? Driving license renewal - in case of taking exams at public licensory
In appears that in some US states, there are laws prohibiting metered connections - and this makes no sense for me. How will any backbone network sell its service there? Only tier 1 networks with access to internet exchanges give out geniune unmetered connections
Not entirely true. Back in the days when I worked in OEM electronics industry, pretty much all big retailers were outsourcing running of their private brands to private brand operators.
We were having a meeting with guys like Amazon, and BestBuy once in two months or so, showing them catalogues of what "Cheap Chinese Shit (TM)" we can bring to North America, nicely packed, certified, and labelled with their private brand.
Their only contribution to development of such brands was them filling checkboxes in catalogues, and issuing a latter of credit.
Yes, FPGA and DSP makers will make a killing on that. Dedicated transcoding chip makers, not so (they will have to pay for license for every codec they touch (unless they are Chinese))
>As a humorous aside, in a recent meetup in Shanghai I met a guy whose job is "social media censor". Pleasant fella, speaks good English, and assured everyone that "he's a bad censor and never actually suppresses any posts":)
It might be a surprise to some, but Chinese municipalities do recruit foreigners for work in propaganda departments quite enthusiastically
I checked their Canary build... Google's "intrusive" ads are defined not per ad, but by a list of ad servers pretty much all belonging to an Eastern European ad syndicate
Yes, cost is certainly not the only thing where Chinese outcompete the West hands down: Chinese managers are raised on assembly lines, and not imported with near zero experience from Ivey league schools right after the graduation
What this is is a hard landing for "Manufacturing 4.0" advocates and dotcom monkey.
NO mater how much robots you put to screw a screw, you robots can't compete on cost with Chinese.
While labour costs in China are nowhere near being laughable as they were a decade ago, they still outcompete any Western high tech manufacturer. Western manufacturers have no trouble getting orders from DoD to make banal power converters for 10k a pop. Why would they even try competing with Chinese?
Making a top tier factory is a no joke enterprise that takes years, billions, patience, and serious people. You can't simply roll $10 billion USD and have a TSMC-level fab delivered by mail order, nobody in the world will do it for you. It is only possible for an entrepreneur who is ready to spend his life sitting butt naked on an ant pile, building a company along with its technology base - each TSMC fab is a miracle, a work of art, a creation, not something anybody in the world will teach to build or run
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Rephrasing one guy - if 90% of internet is porn, nobody forces you to watch it all
The moment they stopped making PDAs for power users, they lost. Everything is as simple as that.
Samsung and HTC were evenly paced when both pursued that market, a single misstep by HTC and plonk..., Sansung went ahead
Not to say that they had huge leverage over Google when they did so
You are so stupid. Jupiter's air density is too low for anything to float on it.
>"I could have carried two kilos of Semtex and left it on the deck..."
That must be a huuge drone
Lucky you, you must be living in a proper country
Owning a car is stupid: about 50% or more of car ownership cost is tax in all Western countries.
Gas - taxed heavily
Mandatory service and inspections - self explanatory
Toll roads - self explanatory
Parking - in case of public parking
Vehicle tax - self explanatory
Consumables - do you know that quite a few countries put extra tax on motor oil?
Driving license renewal - in case of taking exams at public licensory
Will they let us install KGB viruses again?
It appears that the same ISP is about to roll 90GB mobile plan in 2018
In appears that in some US states, there are laws prohibiting metered connections - and this makes no sense for me. How will any backbone network sell its service there? Only tier 1 networks with access to internet exchanges give out geniune unmetered connections
I have higher 4G data cap in Kazakhstan: https://m.imgur.com/xzzGSjh?r
And that for $12 per month. $4 will buy you additional 5Gb package
Not entirely true. Back in the days when I worked in OEM electronics industry, pretty much all big retailers were outsourcing running of their private brands to private brand operators.
We were having a meeting with guys like Amazon, and BestBuy once in two months or so, showing them catalogues of what "Cheap Chinese Shit (TM)" we can bring to North America, nicely packed, certified, and labelled with their private brand.
Their only contribution to development of such brands was them filling checkboxes in catalogues, and issuing a latter of credit.
LiFePO can be made crap cheat and easily last 1000 cycles
Next, struggle session@tencent
Yes, FPGA and DSP makers will make a killing on that. Dedicated transcoding chip makers, not so (they will have to pay for license for every codec they touch (unless they are Chinese))
>As a humorous aside, in a recent meetup in Shanghai I met a guy whose job is "social media censor". Pleasant fella, speaks good English, and assured everyone that "he's a bad censor and never actually suppresses any posts" :)
It might be a surprise to some, but Chinese municipalities do recruit foreigners for work in propaganda departments quite enthusiastically
>An add blocker designed by an advertising company... Does anyone else see the problem here?
Yeah, it is "bees against honey," "flies against shite," and Google against ads
I checked their Canary build... Google's "intrusive" ads are defined not per ad, but by a list of ad servers pretty much all belonging to an Eastern European ad syndicate
>Samsung Pay, the second most OEM-Pay mobile payments service (only second to Apple Pay)
That is complete bullshit. Biggest mobile payment platforms:
1. Zhifubao
2. Wechat pay
3. Whole FeliCa ecosystem if you can add it as a whole
4. Mpesa
5. Qiwi
6. Paytm
7. Yandex pay
Apple and Samsung will have problem contesting even the 8th place.
Peope in Seattle are so logical
Mikrotik
Linus tech tips: Nvidia sux
A rare pick and place machine/cnc programmer can make 30k per month, same with welders with specialty, industrial chemists, metalurgists,
Yes, cost is certainly not the only thing where Chinese outcompete the West hands down: Chinese managers are raised on assembly lines, and not imported with near zero experience from Ivey league schools right after the graduation
What this is is a hard landing for "Manufacturing 4.0" advocates and dotcom monkey.
NO mater how much robots you put to screw a screw, you robots can't compete on cost with Chinese.
While labour costs in China are nowhere near being laughable as they were a decade ago, they still outcompete any Western high tech manufacturer. Western manufacturers have no trouble getting orders from DoD to make banal power converters for 10k a pop. Why would they even try competing with Chinese?
Making a top tier factory is a no joke enterprise that takes years, billions, patience, and serious people. You can't simply roll $10 billion USD and have a TSMC-level fab delivered by mail order, nobody in the world will do it for you. It is only possible for an entrepreneur who is ready to spend his life sitting butt naked on an ant pile, building a company along with its technology base - each TSMC fab is a miracle, a work of art, a creation, not something anybody in the world will teach to build or run
They have E5 sedan and Qin hatchback. E5 is not a as big as model S, but somewhat close