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  • Apple Store workers are starting to unionize, citing stagnating wages

    nadrielnadriel
    I'm all for people on lower end unionising to gain leverage in discussions. Having a decent wage keeps a worker more motivated to do their job too. I guess it's store managers that get the 30$ or more and basic seller gets the minimum.

    I like my job and what I do, but if my compensation lags and leaves me unsatisfied that it covers my efforts I'd start looking for better options. Taking care of workers just makes them more loyal.

    That being said, unionising is not necessarily a trouble-free option. 

    PS: the mathematician in me cringes every time the short million system is used. It's billiard $ not trillion $. :)
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  • PC component manufacturer clones new Mac Pro case

    nadrielnadriel
    AppleZulu said:
    DuhSesame said:
    AppleZulu said:
    bigtds said:
    Soli said:
    So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility.  Exhibit A:

    What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
    The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.

    Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
    I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
    I'm betting there are quite a few patented design features (including the blowers inside) in the Mac Pro box that yield significant cooling performance that are not legally available to "anyone with proper CNC knowledge" to just copy.

    Again, you can make a thing that sort of looks like another thing, but when the other thing was created as a result of scads of engineering in its design, "sort of looks like" isn't going to yield the same result. You could stack some giant cylinders so that they look a lot like a Saturn V rocket and then fill it with kerosene, but lighting it up probably won't get you to the moon.

    P.S. If "Dune Case" was as careful in making their Mac Pro case copy as they were in making their Mac Pro webpage copy, it is definitely a crappy "sort of looks like" knockoff. Just go to their site and read the text to find some amateur grammatical errors. 
    It’s a chassis to a expensive computer, not a super car or a rocket. It’s not breakthrough technology nor anything too different from what other case manufacturers do nor what Apple has done before. I don’t understand the reason to get worked up on that some folk don’t find it that impressive. It’s a nice looking case.