I looked at hiring Objective C programmers in 2006, unless you wanted to go hang at the Apple conventions in San Francisco and troll for new hires - it was pretty hopeless. Sure, we could hire programmers and pay them to learn Objective C, or we could just develop with C++ in Qt and let the trolls port it into Mac-ese for us.
Replacement is often not an option... and if you can't displace/replace a bad manager, it's probably time to find a new place.
In my past, I have promoted past bad management, once, but that was unusual and required upper management that a) cared, and b) recognized the situation for what it was.
The more conventional solution is to shop around for another job, then jump when the jumping is good.
I keep seeing things with several regular screws and one a funky type (security torx and such), If they want to make it tamper evident, put a dot of acrylic on the screw,
Then there's clips that will snap together to make a tight fit exactly once. And of course the stupid plastic rivets.
I have no idea what devices you are seeing.
So you're claiming it is somehow cheaper to produce 10,000 desk fans with 3 phillips head screws and one security head crew epoyed in than it is to produce the same run of fans with 4 phillips screws?
You claim the parts are interchangable on the assembly line but somehow not on the repair bench?
Or are you claiming somehow that it's cheaper to have employees assemble random piles of parts in bespoke fashion than it is to have them putting the same parts in the same place every time?
On the other hand, there are plenty of LCD monitors thrown away even though a $25 CFL and 10 minutes could have it up and running if you could get the right CFL.
And don't forget that the time to go get a new whatever isn't free either. Some problems can be fixed in less time than it takes to buy a new one if it's reasonably made to be repaired.
The problem is devices that WOULD be significantly cheaper to repair if parts were more easily (and reasonably) available and if the things weren't designed to be harder to repair.
Often the repair hostile design isn't in any way cheaper to manufacture.
Reading is overrated - it is an eyesight based function that degrades with age.
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There's an insensitive clod / get off my lawn meme in this somewhere, but I can't remember how to execute it.
The trick is to grasp that at high RPMs, it's not pressure that drives the work. A light touch will make more progress.
My mid-90s Dremel kicks ass.
That's on older Boeing jets (the ones named after the noise their tires make when falling off and hitting the tarmac... )
Airbus, and I believe the new Boeings, have outward opening emergency doors - they're heavier, harder to make right, require much more maintenance (look for double, triple, and thicker skins around Airbus doors the next time you board one...) but, if you're ever seated in the exit row when it really hits the fan, you want an outward opening door.
A *NEW* use. Not the same old use but online now.
By that time there were millions of slaves in the U.S. and as you pointed out, they reproduced and even resulted in a surplus for the larger plantations. There was a lively internal slave trade at that point.
Actually, the war on poverty was working until the GOP insisted on surrendering.
And yes, businesses that mooch on the taxpayer to supplement their inadequate payroll are evil. They know damned well they are mooching off of people with a lot less than they already have.
We don't claim the car thief is blameless if you leave your keys in your car, do we?
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
