mass-assemble PCs using standardization and volume to bring costs down
Dell's bread and butter was that each computer was special built per customer specifications. That got dropped a little after Micheal retired and that is when the company started going down. They started to copy Compaq, which was the worst thing they could do.
When I worked at Dell in shipping the head of logistics forwarded on the following editorial.
Dell's argument was that AMD could not supply enough processors, which was true.
Now if Dell had said that they would be happy to sell those processors if AMD could make enough then AMD could have received funding to build the fabs that they needed.
If Dell had done that though they would have had to pay 30% more for Intel processors than they were at the time and Intel could supply enough for Dells demands.
Oh and Intel pays pretty well for advertising, all those Dell ads that push Intel are partially paid for by Intel.
A flying wing is an excellent design and very energy efficient until you start putting cargo in it, especially cargo that requires headroom when standing up, at that point a traditional wing + tube shape body works much better. A wing that is 10 foot high creates a lot more drag than what is needed for lift. I stand by that and hey check some of the other comments, someone who knows what they are talking about agreed with me.
There is a reason things are done the way they are, and besides you would never fit a flying wing passenger jet on the runway, it would be just too damn wide. Airports would have to be redesigned before we could use the design, and you know that ain't happening.
One way to improve things would be to have staggered shifts. Having everyone arrive at the same time along with everyone leaving at the same time creates traffic jams.
Now in a place that makes things that gets difficult, but not impossible. You just need a reasonable amount of shift overlap with different departments starting/ending their shift at different times than other departments.
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The turbulence above a forest fire would not be kind to a balloon.
Company I work for only gives out cost of living increases, across the board from top to bottom.
The cost of living went down last year.
Good luck getting your 45nm quad cores to work reliably in space
I was under the impression that there are a lot of laptops on the ISS running experiments.
I imagine the robots are heavily dependent on those rare earth metals.
Possum, the only marsupial to live outside of Australia. One of natures greatest survivors.
Had to kill one in my house once, skewered it and it crawled off the skewer. Poking a few more holes in it solved the problem, but still.
Importing possums to kill off rats is like importing cockroaches to kill off ants. It won't work and now you'll have another problem to deal with.
Or remotely autonomous?
The Slashdot moderation system does work, mod me up.
Casino's refer to high-rollers as whales, I believe that is where the term comes from.
mass-assemble PCs using standardization and volume to bring costs down
Dell's bread and butter was that each computer was special built per customer specifications. That got dropped a little after Micheal retired and that is when the company started going down. They started to copy Compaq, which was the worst thing they could do.
When I worked at Dell in shipping the head of logistics forwarded on the following editorial.
http://www.forbes.com/1999/04/21/feat2.html
Wasn't that the argument for keeping Jack Thompson around?
He's been disbarred and shamed, no one has taken his place yet.
They are under obligation to provide bandwidth and customer service, it is part of the contract you sign with them.
What you are suggesting is that they should be able to ignore it when they oversell their bandwidth and don't provide adequate customer support.
You do not want business accounts to have the same tech support as residential anyway, they handle completely different aspects of customer support.
So when will they put a halt to all IVF treatments that destroy embryos?
The fact that this can be applied very very broadly is a reason to worry, and hope.
I agree with you, but I think perhaps "it asks the question" might be a bit better?
Sometimes I think stupid shit is posted just for us to poop on.
Hemp was replaced by manila long before nylon was introduced.
The only reason for "Hemp for Victory" was because the Philippines were occupied cutting off our supply of manila.
Obligatory pictures are not obligatory here.
Care to make an ASCI version?
Also, if a publisher purchases a title from another publisher it gets a new ISBN with the new publisher even though it is the same book.
Hydrogen explodes only after it has been well mixed with oxygen.
The fire triangle; fuel, oxidizer, and ignition source. You need all three.
Dell's argument was that AMD could not supply enough processors, which was true.
Now if Dell had said that they would be happy to sell those processors if AMD could make enough then AMD could have received funding to build the fabs that they needed.
If Dell had done that though they would have had to pay 30% more for Intel processors than they were at the time and Intel could supply enough for Dells demands.
Oh and Intel pays pretty well for advertising, all those Dell ads that push Intel are partially paid for by Intel.
We even have bones made out of a metal!
kinda...
A flying wing is an excellent design and very energy efficient until you start putting cargo in it, especially cargo that requires headroom when standing up, at that point a traditional wing + tube shape body works much better. A wing that is 10 foot high creates a lot more drag than what is needed for lift. I stand by that and hey check some of the other comments, someone who knows what they are talking about agreed with me.
There is a reason things are done the way they are, and besides you would never fit a flying wing passenger jet on the runway, it would be just too damn wide. Airports would have to be redesigned before we could use the design, and you know that ain't happening.
One way to improve things would be to have staggered shifts. Having everyone arrive at the same time along with everyone leaving at the same time creates traffic jams.
Now in a place that makes things that gets difficult, but not impossible. You just need a reasonable amount of shift overlap with different departments starting/ending their shift at different times than other departments.
So you are worried about a bus collapse?
No it was what I was talking about. It was pretty clear, but somehow you missed it.
If true then the lobbyists should have no problems changing the regulations.
Since it hasn't been done either it is not that simple of an issue, or no one has put forth the money to have the regulation changed.
I'm sure once an aerospace firm has a design in testing the regulations will be changed.