Actually, programming in VBA in Excel is one of the things I do regularly. Like when I developed an FEA application for magnetics modeling - I used Excel as a fast confirmation/development environment with great graphs, simple UI, exposed equations and the like. Once the engine and analysis were working in Excel, I ported it to C++ and it worked first-time out. How is writing a macro different from writing Javascript or Perl?
Well, it still might be worth it if you'd like to also pay higher corporate income tax to go along with the greater uncertainty of operating in the US...
Again, at what point do you decide that some people aren't worth participating in the general Internet economy? Considering that the founding fathers wrote into the constitution the need for the postal service, I'm endlessly amused by argument that today's equivalent of the postal service should be left strictly to what passes for market forces in that area.
Are we deciding, or are the people who VOLUNTARILY CHOOSE to live in a location with reduced wireless Internet access choosing to not be part of the general Internet economy? I know a programmer at Microsoft who specifically chooses to live near the top of Stevens Pass in WA - because he DOESN'T have Internet or cell phone access - when he goes home, he leaves his job behind him. That's his choice.
As far as the postal service, it was guaranteed delivery to LOCAL post offices - not to your house. For the first 100+ years, that's how the majority got their mail - riding into town every other week to pick up supplies and the mail. How is that different than what is happening here?
Now that we have the Captain Obvious commentary out of the way, why don't we focus on the actual problem? Namely, that Internet connectivity these days is a lot more like electricity and roads: a fundamental infrastructure whose cost is far outweighed by the network effect it promotes.
I think you need to bring in Captain Comprehension to help you - the report is about 3G and 4G access, not Internet connectivity. Most of those people at the end of those roads (and I used to live in Eastern King County, out by Skykomish) have DSL available. "High Speed" wireless? No - but Internet.
Continuing on the "wealth as book writer" theme: compared to the rich guys from Microsoft, or Wall Street, Jobs was a poor bodice-ripping schlock peddler of $0.99 paperbacks... Fabio with a typewriter, if you will.
Turbulence at the surface, micro-level actually promotes macro-level laminar flow by allowing a "buffer zone" of air to form. You end up with less total volume of air in turbulence, and more in laminar flow - less drag.
And what do you think keeps the poor people from simply killing these rich people and taking all their stuff? It's called military and police.
HINT: Police aren't paid for by Federal dollars - that's local levies, and the rich pay proportionally more based upon the value of their home.
Lots of people would happily steal from Bill Gates if there weren't any laws against it, and police to enforce those laws, and a military to prevent foreign invaders from coming in and taking whatever they want by force.
Personally, in a dog-eat-dog world, I'd rather steal from the poor-to-middle class. Chances are they're much LESS protected by private armies and the like than a Bill Gates.
Except that rich people don't spend much money inside the country. Where do you think they get those megayachts from?
No , you were talking about saving the place your currently working at a bunch with super simple fix to there production line. sounds interesting.
reminds me of that story about one place spending a bunch of money on an empty box detecter. It still missed a box here and there and someone just put a fan on the conveyor belt and solved th problem.
Ahhh... It was simply turning the mainline pressure on the air compressors up. Speaker assembly line, if one or two glue guns fired at one time everything was OK - but quite often 3 would fire at once, and the drop in mainline pressure caused all 3 speakers to have incomplete glue beads and thus fail. Took a 55% yield line to over 95% with just a twist of the regulator knob.
It's always good to know HOW to build what you're designing and selling, not just how to design and sell it...
Wow, who would have thought of that? It's not like naval battles - ships shooting at each other - never happened... Having a rail gun actually makes it a lot EASIER because the target will move a lot less between the time you shoot and the time of impact.
China has the whip hand here. If push came to shove, China could just shut down the iPad factories and even nationalize it. (Remember -- all businesses in China are essentially owned by the government, and any foreign interests have to have a local Chinese part own 51% of anything.)
Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises are alive and well in China - and private Chinese national owned companies are the norm, not the exception.
I didn't; I was working in the flight data recorder group at the time. But the GroundProx group was in the same building, and was quite revolutionary for the time. Too bad you prefer to just troll, rather than learn a bit of history!
Sorry, it was developed by Sundstrand Data Control back in the 80s, when I was working there. Later bought by AlliedSignal, then merged with Honeywell. Honeywell had basically zero to do with the development of GPD systems.
Yes, we old engineers are so greedy and lazy... I mean, I just hired on with a new company just 3 months ago, a grizzled 25 year veteran of consumer electronics design - and I demanded (and got) well beyond the $150K. Of course, in the first 2 months I've also identified a firm $2.5 million in annual savings, with a very small, zero-cost change to the production line. So yeah - some begrudge the high salary I command - but my new employer gladly pays it because I've already turned back 10X the savings.
Chances are the new grads skills are fresher, but not as applicable as someone who's been in the field actively working. Hands-on experience is worth a lot...
Actually, we have a very good idea, in the exact same factories covered in the articles, are Dell production lines, and Nokia production lines... We know exactly what the conditions are like, because they all use the exact same giant factories.
Precisely. Of course, Dell and Nokia aren't making record-shattering profits on those same lines - they're not literally stuffing their wallets beyond overflowing with the labor of those same factories. Apple (and it's legion of fans) love crowing about "owning all the profit" in a market, and pulling in $13 billion in profit in a quarter. Apple could HALVE its profit, still out-pace all its competition, and easily pay its workers (on its lines) 4 times their wages.
But Apple - no matter what it says - puts profits and cash as job number one. They do it well - but they also deserve the castigation and focus of calls for equitable distribution of profits.
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Actually, programming in VBA in Excel is one of the things I do regularly. Like when I developed an FEA application for magnetics modeling - I used Excel as a fast confirmation/development environment with great graphs, simple UI, exposed equations and the like. Once the engine and analysis were working in Excel, I ported it to C++ and it worked first-time out. How is writing a macro different from writing Javascript or Perl?
Well, it still might be worth it if you'd like to also pay higher corporate income tax to go along with the greater uncertainty of operating in the US...
WHOA.
260 DPI is pretty darn near the limits of human visual acuity. Apple's made up "Retina Display" notwithstanding.
Must mean I didn't have a "retina display" a year before the iPhone 4 was released... My HTC Touch Pro2 never existed...
Actually it involves computers and Angelina Jolie. Unless you're more on the "make new stuff" side of hacking, in which case creating Kelly LeBrock is in the mix.
Again, at what point do you decide that some people aren't worth participating in the general Internet economy? Considering that the founding fathers wrote into the constitution the need for the postal service, I'm endlessly amused by argument that today's equivalent of the postal service should be left strictly to what passes for market forces in that area.
Are we deciding, or are the people who VOLUNTARILY CHOOSE to live in a location with reduced wireless Internet access choosing to not be part of the general Internet economy? I know a programmer at Microsoft who specifically chooses to live near the top of Stevens Pass in WA - because he DOESN'T have Internet or cell phone access - when he goes home, he leaves his job behind him. That's his choice.
As far as the postal service, it was guaranteed delivery to LOCAL post offices - not to your house. For the first 100+ years, that's how the majority got their mail - riding into town every other week to pick up supplies and the mail. How is that different than what is happening here?
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Now that we have the Captain Obvious commentary out of the way, why don't we focus on the actual problem? Namely, that Internet connectivity these days is a lot more like electricity and roads: a fundamental infrastructure whose cost is far outweighed by the network effect it promotes.
I think you need to bring in Captain Comprehension to help you - the report is about 3G and 4G access, not Internet connectivity. Most of those people at the end of those roads (and I used to live in Eastern King County, out by Skykomish) have DSL available. "High Speed" wireless? No - but Internet.
Continuing on the "wealth as book writer" theme: compared to the rich guys from Microsoft, or Wall Street, Jobs was a poor bodice-ripping schlock peddler of $0.99 paperbacks... Fabio with a typewriter, if you will.
Turbulence at the surface, micro-level actually promotes macro-level laminar flow by allowing a "buffer zone" of air to form. You end up with less total volume of air in turbulence, and more in laminar flow - less drag.
And what do you think keeps the poor people from simply killing these rich people and taking all their stuff? It's called military and police.
HINT: Police aren't paid for by Federal dollars - that's local levies, and the rich pay proportionally more based upon the value of their home.
Lots of people would happily steal from Bill Gates if there weren't any laws against it, and police to enforce those laws, and a military to prevent foreign invaders from coming in and taking whatever they want by force.
Personally, in a dog-eat-dog world, I'd rather steal from the poor-to-middle class. Chances are they're much LESS protected by private armies and the like than a Bill Gates.
Except that rich people don't spend much money inside the country. Where do you think they get those megayachts from?
Import duties - I think you should look them up.
No , you were talking about saving the place your currently working at a bunch with super simple fix to there production line. sounds interesting.
reminds me of that story about one place spending a bunch of money on an empty box detecter. It still missed a box here and there and someone just put a fan on the conveyor belt and solved th problem.
Ahhh... It was simply turning the mainline pressure on the air compressors up. Speaker assembly line, if one or two glue guns fired at one time everything was OK - but quite often 3 would fire at once, and the drop in mainline pressure caused all 3 speakers to have incomplete glue beads and thus fail. Took a 55% yield line to over 95% with just a twist of the regulator knob.
It's always good to know HOW to build what you're designing and selling, not just how to design and sell it...
Wow, who would have thought of that? It's not like naval battles - ships shooting at each other - never happened... Having a rail gun actually makes it a lot EASIER because the target will move a lot less between the time you shoot and the time of impact.
You think the "speed" referred to is velocity? It's drugs I tell you - high rates of uppers pumped directly in!
China has the whip hand here. If push came to shove, China could just shut down the iPad factories and even nationalize it. (Remember -- all businesses in China are essentially owned by the government, and any foreign interests have to have a local Chinese part own 51% of anything.)
Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises are alive and well in China - and private Chinese national owned companies are the norm, not the exception.
I didn't; I was working in the flight data recorder group at the time. But the GroundProx group was in the same building, and was quite revolutionary for the time. Too bad you prefer to just troll, rather than learn a bit of history!
Sorry, it was developed by Sundstrand Data Control back in the 80s, when I was working there. Later bought by AlliedSignal, then merged with Honeywell. Honeywell had basically zero to do with the development of GPD systems.
Che? Is that you?
Yes, we old engineers are so greedy and lazy... I mean, I just hired on with a new company just 3 months ago, a grizzled 25 year veteran of consumer electronics design - and I demanded (and got) well beyond the $150K. Of course, in the first 2 months I've also identified a firm $2.5 million in annual savings, with a very small, zero-cost change to the production line. So yeah - some begrudge the high salary I command - but my new employer gladly pays it because I've already turned back 10X the savings.
Chances are the new grads skills are fresher, but not as applicable as someone who's been in the field actively working. Hands-on experience is worth a lot...
The Evo 3D has an HDMI output as well as a USB port. You can connect a display and a hub with mouse and keyboard if you like.
Get an HTC Evo 3D - it can run Android, Windows 95, Windows XP, or Linux. You can't run iOS, but that's because Apple refuses to make it available.
Too late anyway, I'm already selling them.
Actually, we have a very good idea, in the exact same factories covered in the articles, are Dell production lines, and Nokia production lines... We know exactly what the conditions are like, because they all use the exact same giant factories.
Precisely. Of course, Dell and Nokia aren't making record-shattering profits on those same lines - they're not literally stuffing their wallets beyond overflowing with the labor of those same factories. Apple (and it's legion of fans) love crowing about "owning all the profit" in a market, and pulling in $13 billion in profit in a quarter. Apple could HALVE its profit, still out-pace all its competition, and easily pay its workers (on its lines) 4 times their wages.
But Apple - no matter what it says - puts profits and cash as job number one. They do it well - but they also deserve the castigation and focus of calls for equitable distribution of profits.