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Comment Re:Suicide?...well they do acknowledge it finally. (Score 1) 785

by rbunker on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @01:23PM (#26281839) Attached to: Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide

zune service status

Status:

Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. Weâ(TM)re aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!

Comment Re:MPG is an obsolete measurement (Score 1) 380

by rbunker on Friday October 24, 2008 @01:58PM (#25500685) Attached to: 1000-mph Car Planned

As JFK once put it very succinctly...

"We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"

If all we ever do is the easy stuff, nothing ever changes.

And for all the people saying this is easy, why don't you give it a try then? It isn't just the money, this stuff takes serious engineering and real talent on the part of the driver/pilot.

What amazing stuff have you done in your life?

Hmmm. I thought the Apollo program was a way to get funding for development of ICBM technology. Perhaps I am just cynical.

Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories 249

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 06, 2008 @11:17AM from the dude-you're-getting-a-new-business-model dept.

Anti-Globalism sends us to a Wall Street Journal for a report that Dell plans to sell its factories in an effort to revamp its production model. Quoting: "Dell's plants are still regarded as efficient at churning out desktop PCs. But within the industry, company-owned factories aren't considered the least expensive way to produce laptops, which have been the main driver of growth lately and are complex and labor-intensive to assemble. Rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. years ago shifted to contract manufacturers -- companies that provide production services to others -- to build their portable computers. H-P builds "less than half" of its PCs in facilities it owns, wrote Tony Prophet, H-P's senior vice president for PC supply chain, in an e-mail. Contract manufacturers can generally produce computers more cheaply because their entire operations are narrowly focused on finding efficiencies in manufacturing, as opposed to large firms like Dell, which must also balance marketing and other considerations."

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