The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world. I guess we "outsourced" our industry to become number 2? No, service is UP - but we really didn't lose much industry, enough to more than triple that of Germany (the tops in the EU).
US emissions are down whilst EU - and China, and India - emissions are up. I'm sure this will get down-modded since it doesn't pay homage to the proper models, but facts are facts: and when facts and beliefs/models collide - facts win.
Don't worry, they are working on a new iLightning connector, too - that will replace all connectors on that Macbook, and require a dongle that will only change the iLightning to regular Lightning. Then you can use the already-existing dongles to change to what you really want to do. You like dongles, don't you?
Then you went to a poor university. At my university (where I earned my BSEE), I had to have 20 credit hours of philosophy, 20 credit hours of English (10 of that was classical literature and analysis), 10 hours of art, 10 hours of history, and 10 hours of other humanities (including business, foreign language, or others). Of the 206 credit hours needed to graduate, 35% were for humanities/liberal arts. In other words, we received a universal education background. As was expected in classical universities.
Engineering should have taught you how to think critically, not just logically. Critical thinking understands there are dozens, hundreds - perhaps an infinite - number of solutions to any problem, and to weigh tradeoffs outside the simple logical constraints of cost, size, complexity. Engineering is, in fact, art. It is as artistic an exercise as composing music or sculpting or painting. It is just expressed with numbers, equations, and drawings.
If all you got out of your engineering degree was logical thinking, then your program failed you. Critical thinking is codified, structured, process-oriented problem solving that looks at more than just the base requirements of the product.
I love seeing the billboard in South SF that says "cyber artificial intelligence". Like WTF is NON-cyber artificial intelligence? Probably written by a liberal arts major...
More importantly, the author fails to realize that science is, effectively, codified and structured critical thinking. You are bathed in logic and reason and process from the first class forward. If the author really wants more critical thinkers, then they should push for even MORE STEM degrees, and ensure those degrees are accompanied with a healthy dose of humanities.
Yep - China should have had it's favored/"emerging market" classification yanked a good decade ago. Good thing President Trump is actively pushing China via tariffs and other trade pressure - hopefully the rest of the world will follow on and start treating China as a 1st world trading partner, not a 3rd world emerging market.
Saskatchewan alone reaps nearly $370 million annually in farm subsidies. Quite a bit more than your claim? At least that's what I found in the Canadian media.
On the other hand are the subsidies that America has. How much government money is given to farmers?
US farmers received about $172 billion in 2010. The EU is considering cutting its subsidies down, by 2027, to $438 billion. Right now, it's about 3 times the US farm subsidies - and may "only" be 2.5 times that amount, in another 9 years.
With America it's like the playing field is never tilted enough in their favour.
Because it usually isn't. Your own request about farm subsidies shows as much.
I build full in-ear headphones (which qualify for Made in the USA, given the sourcing of amount of materials in the US and the fact all assembly is done in the US), and Canadian clients always pay import duties on them. Even though NAFTA.
Actually, it comes close to that sometimes. For a prototype/engineering development headphone I did in May, I paid exactly $0 on a $7800 import price from South Korea (Model Solutions is a great source for rapid one-off prototyping of an entire system). I checked it out, then forwarded it - with the EXACT same classification as it was received in - to my client in France. Who was immediately hit with a 2800 Euro import duty, even though it was clearly marked as a prototype. The shipment was reversed (for $1100 US) and then re-shipped with a declared value (and insurance) of $7800 as originally done, but as $950 - and was not subjected to any duties.
How does one end up in a private prison except by the Government decreeing that you must go to one? That is the point - corporations can ONLY enforce "their will" on you if given that power by Government.
So which countries subsidize less than the US? And as far as spending goes - I personally would LOVE a constitutional amendment that mandated a balanced budget at the Federal level, and that receipts collected above the spending limits are to be dedicated to retiring the national debt, until such time the debt is eliminated - and the excess funds are returned to taxpayers at the same rate at which they paid. I believe most of our big issues result from Federal over-reach, and that is only possible by the vast tax-and-spend powers currently enjoyed.
The only real leverage the US has with other Governments - other than military might - is economic. So far, President Trump seems to be quite successful in bringing pressure to bear to open up markets (level the playing field) and get bullies to come to the table (sanctions). I'd much rather him use tariffs and trade negotiations to grow the economy and push for fair trade, than either give away hundreds of billions of dollars in cash or start another war.
Anyone who "sees parallels" between the deregulation and push for expanded trade and employment in the US relative to the nationalization, currency controls, and Government-economic-stranglehold of Venezuela is simply insane. The economic policies put forth by the Trump Administration are pretty much diametrically opposed to those of Maduro.
More people who can start moving towards renting their own place - but there simply aren't enough places. The cost of housing has skyrocketed to a point where it is difficult to live near where you work. With rent in Santa Monica and San Francisco pushing past $4000 per month for a 500 sq. ft. apartment, most low-mid wage jobs simply do not pay enough.
The audio coming out of the Lightning adapter will always be the same. Apple mandates than ANY analog audio adapter for the Lightning connector must use the Lightning Audio Module (LAM), that is designed and built and sourced only from Apple. You must also include the iAP2 chip, and the appropriate licensing. And then it must be built at only an Apple-approved manufacturer. Meaning - you're always going to have the same audio quality AND the same manufacturing quality (and the ~$13 minimum price paid for the LAM, iAP2, and licensing - that's the "Apple Tax" for making a wired headphone adapter for the Lightning port).
The way around it is to use a Lightning camera adapter, that turns the Lightning port into a "generic" USB port. THEN you can use external USB DACs like those from Audioquest (the Dragonfly red is pretty sweet). Of course, now instead of just a dongle, you are carrying a dongle AND a DAC. But hey - it's Apple.
If you want a really good audio platform, consider the LG V30. That thing sounds - and measures - phenomenally when you turn on the built-in quad DACs and high-current output amplifier. As good as most $1000 digital audio players. And it will play all high res formats as well as MQA - unlike any iOS device.
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The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world. I guess we "outsourced" our industry to become number 2? No, service is UP - but we really didn't lose much industry, enough to more than triple that of Germany (the tops in the EU).
US emissions are down whilst EU - and China, and India - emissions are up. I'm sure this will get down-modded since it doesn't pay homage to the proper models, but facts are facts: and when facts and beliefs/models collide - facts win.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I believe in mentoring and getting a junior engineer to senior-level operation in 3-4 years... My bad!
They are just waiting for the next generation of iPad Pros to be able to run the compiler toolchain. Then they are free of macOS altogether.
Don't worry, they are working on a new iLightning connector, too - that will replace all connectors on that Macbook, and require a dongle that will only change the iLightning to regular Lightning. Then you can use the already-existing dongles to change to what you really want to do. You like dongles, don't you?
You only need, like, 30 keys or so - for the 30 most-common emojis. What's a computer? What's an alphabet?
There's a reason Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot went after the STEM people first...
Then you went to a poor university. At my university (where I earned my BSEE), I had to have 20 credit hours of philosophy, 20 credit hours of English (10 of that was classical literature and analysis), 10 hours of art, 10 hours of history, and 10 hours of other humanities (including business, foreign language, or others). Of the 206 credit hours needed to graduate, 35% were for humanities/liberal arts. In other words, we received a universal education background. As was expected in classical universities.
There are two types of people in this world:
Engineers and support staff.
Engineering should have taught you how to think critically, not just logically. Critical thinking understands there are dozens, hundreds - perhaps an infinite - number of solutions to any problem, and to weigh tradeoffs outside the simple logical constraints of cost, size, complexity. Engineering is, in fact, art. It is as artistic an exercise as composing music or sculpting or painting. It is just expressed with numbers, equations, and drawings.
If all you got out of your engineering degree was logical thinking, then your program failed you. Critical thinking is codified, structured, process-oriented problem solving that looks at more than just the base requirements of the product.
I love seeing the billboard in South SF that says "cyber artificial intelligence". Like WTF is NON-cyber artificial intelligence? Probably written by a liberal arts major...
More importantly, the author fails to realize that science is, effectively, codified and structured critical thinking. You are bathed in logic and reason and process from the first class forward. If the author really wants more critical thinkers, then they should push for even MORE STEM degrees, and ensure those degrees are accompanied with a healthy dose of humanities.
Yep - China should have had it's favored/"emerging market" classification yanked a good decade ago. Good thing President Trump is actively pushing China via tariffs and other trade pressure - hopefully the rest of the world will follow on and start treating China as a 1st world trading partner, not a 3rd world emerging market.
Saskatchewan alone reaps nearly $370 million annually in farm subsidies. Quite a bit more than your claim? At least that's what I found in the Canadian media.
Yeah, NAFTA sucks. It was a terrible deal. it's great that President Trump is trying to redo the whole thing...
On the other hand are the subsidies that America has. How much government money is given to farmers?
US farmers received about $172 billion in 2010. The EU is considering cutting its subsidies down, by 2027, to $438 billion. Right now, it's about 3 times the US farm subsidies - and may "only" be 2.5 times that amount, in another 9 years.
With America it's like the playing field is never tilted enough in their favour.
Because it usually isn't. Your own request about farm subsidies shows as much.
I build full in-ear headphones (which qualify for Made in the USA, given the sourcing of amount of materials in the US and the fact all assembly is done in the US), and Canadian clients always pay import duties on them. Even though NAFTA.
Actually, it comes close to that sometimes. For a prototype/engineering development headphone I did in May, I paid exactly $0 on a $7800 import price from South Korea (Model Solutions is a great source for rapid one-off prototyping of an entire system). I checked it out, then forwarded it - with the EXACT same classification as it was received in - to my client in France. Who was immediately hit with a 2800 Euro import duty, even though it was clearly marked as a prototype. The shipment was reversed (for $1100 US) and then re-shipped with a declared value (and insurance) of $7800 as originally done, but as $950 - and was not subjected to any duties.
How does one end up in a private prison except by the Government decreeing that you must go to one? That is the point - corporations can ONLY enforce "their will" on you if given that power by Government.
So which countries subsidize less than the US? And as far as spending goes - I personally would LOVE a constitutional amendment that mandated a balanced budget at the Federal level, and that receipts collected above the spending limits are to be dedicated to retiring the national debt, until such time the debt is eliminated - and the excess funds are returned to taxpayers at the same rate at which they paid. I believe most of our big issues result from Federal over-reach, and that is only possible by the vast tax-and-spend powers currently enjoyed.
The only real leverage the US has with other Governments - other than military might - is economic. So far, President Trump seems to be quite successful in bringing pressure to bear to open up markets (level the playing field) and get bullies to come to the table (sanctions). I'd much rather him use tariffs and trade negotiations to grow the economy and push for fair trade, than either give away hundreds of billions of dollars in cash or start another war.
Anyone who "sees parallels" between the deregulation and push for expanded trade and employment in the US relative to the nationalization, currency controls, and Government-economic-stranglehold of Venezuela is simply insane. The economic policies put forth by the Trump Administration are pretty much diametrically opposed to those of Maduro.
More people who can start moving towards renting their own place - but there simply aren't enough places. The cost of housing has skyrocketed to a point where it is difficult to live near where you work. With rent in Santa Monica and San Francisco pushing past $4000 per month for a 500 sq. ft. apartment, most low-mid wage jobs simply do not pay enough.
Well, don't overlook the crappy sound quality, that has to count for something!
The audio coming out of the Lightning adapter will always be the same. Apple mandates than ANY analog audio adapter for the Lightning connector must use the Lightning Audio Module (LAM), that is designed and built and sourced only from Apple. You must also include the iAP2 chip, and the appropriate licensing. And then it must be built at only an Apple-approved manufacturer. Meaning - you're always going to have the same audio quality AND the same manufacturing quality (and the ~$13 minimum price paid for the LAM, iAP2, and licensing - that's the "Apple Tax" for making a wired headphone adapter for the Lightning port).
The way around it is to use a Lightning camera adapter, that turns the Lightning port into a "generic" USB port. THEN you can use external USB DACs like those from Audioquest (the Dragonfly red is pretty sweet). Of course, now instead of just a dongle, you are carrying a dongle AND a DAC. But hey - it's Apple.
If you want a really good audio platform, consider the LG V30. That thing sounds - and measures - phenomenally when you turn on the built-in quad DACs and high-current output amplifier. As good as most $1000 digital audio players. And it will play all high res formats as well as MQA - unlike any iOS device.