I was asked a few months ago to help out researching the Zeitgeist movement, but really have not come up with much more than the author already mentions in that link. Anybody have anything interesting? Thank you!
If you guessed those mean old Germans you are pretty far off, but they were some of the first students of the Russian system:
I don't like the assumptions they're making.
Ditto! I could mess up soldering a 0 gauge wire to a car battery terminal, but I should be free to do so and waste my own funds doing it!
Since when does deleting destroy data?
I've been an A&P for over 35 years and I've seen worse.
(by pilots and mechanics)
In Chuck Yeager's biography he talked about an assembly mechanic who was installing a bolt the wrong way, even though his instructions said the right way to do it. Resulted in numerous fighter plane crashes and almost killed Yeager when he was test flying one of the planes to see what was causing the crashes.
If all they are asking is for Google to optimize its network usage, as the article seems to imply, go all out.
If its telling Google to try and control the amount of bandwidth the users decide to use, well, I think they are going to have a little trouble getting that done.
I do not necessarily advocate this, but can't they detect individual users and throttle(?) or filter those control signals? If that takes more resources than just letting Androids bog down the system, I withdraw my question.
Let's say a Chinese worker gets $1.50/hr ($17 for an 11.3 hr day).
Let's say "US like wages" are 10x - $15/hr. So, $170 in wages or $153 more per day.
That's just a little more than TWO iPads that cost $70 each, more, to produce. This implies a worker only makes 2.2 iPads a day? Something doesn't add up. I know there is more than one worker needed - just a WAG, let's say there are 100 workers on an assembly line - surly you get more than 220 iPads out the end of the line per day, no?
The article indicates a lot more factors than just that.
But where will you find 100,000 Americans within 30 minutes of a mega-factory that can hold 100,000 people on an assembly line?
Where those Americans are willing to work 60 hour weeks on a shift basis doing extremely repetitive assembly work?
Detroit?
It has a different name there. something along the lines of "The date it happened-Riots" and isn't seen in the same light
Not from the people I meet. It is totally unknown.
The Economist ran an article about China's balance of trade last week which included a breakdown of the value (price) of an iPad. Just over 50% was costs, the rest was profit, of which 30% to Apple (the rest to others in the supply chain). Chinese labour costs were minimal at 2%. They could perhaps reduce their profits to redistribute wealth from their execs/shareholders to the workers.
That is more what I was thinking, instead of adding to the price. If those #Occupy people practiced what they preached, Apple stores would be under siege instead of being mobbed by weeping customers at the loss of Dear Leader.
This sounds like they are taking the wrong lessons from Red China. Younger people who come to the US for school from China never heard of Tienanmen Square! Thai people seem more informed, but not for long.
$17 a day? http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?nid=20006559&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-37 suggests salary is about $170 per month so more like $5 a day, and how many hours do they work? 100 hours a week would not be unusual for Chinese factory labor. So hourly rate is many times less than US equivalent.
Posted a link on this thread from a NYT article. It quoted an Apple executive for the $17 number and that iPods built paying US wages would only be $68 more.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
