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Comment Re:Define 'Harm' (Score 1) 356

Yeah, I *could* ride my bike to work and help my boss make flour or smith useful things for the local populace. I guess I wouldn't actually have a bike in that situation though... So say walk out the front door and start picking weeds out of the crops I have planted... Dreaming of the day I could buy a plow horse. But I would need some property. Yeah, free! No picking weeds for the local lord for a farthing. Right out I'd say, and mean it. Something like that. Luxury compared to my 20 min commute across the bridge to design stuff on a computer.

Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 539

The Apple magic sure has worked for most of you here. I can't believe all the half-excuses for an Apple-employed Chinese company treating their workers so bad. Did you see the videos? Are you (still) a bunch self-righteous douchebags after all these years?

Comment Re:Apple. (Score 1) 539

Wow, you are are in a sad state. Sorry. I had 5 W-2s to file last year because I was laid off from my 'good job' the year before. I immediately restarted at the bottom with temp jobs, shopped around, and am now enjoying my current job. It's full time staff in electronics at a university & a lot more enjoyable than the the one I had a year ago with the same pay. I'll probably stay here for a while.

Comment Re:Chemistry teaching in Britain (Score 1) 418

I work in a microfab facility that has some dangerous solutions that I need to use, like HF, H2SO4 96% and Silane gases for wafer fab.

My worst experience back in my organic chem days was with fuming nitric acid. I blew out the bottom of a couple pieces of glassware because I was careless & left a drop or two of rinse water in them :/

Comment Re:Doomed (Score 1) 271

I'd seriously like to see Agilent make calculators. They could make $150 48GX that would probably sell well bundled with the $700 function generator or the $40,000 network analyzer. I wonder why they haven't even tried...

Comment Re:Battery life (Score 1) 553

"Processor performance and power requirements were the problem. Now they're not." Now the display is the problem? People have not been waiting for longer battery life, they want...something sold to them. What do millions of people need? I can't see anyone I work with using a tablet for anything useful. Phone & Laptop is it. We need more inputdev to make it happen.

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