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Quote: Originally Posted by bugsnw How has our entitlement society created better workers? Is the point of our culture to create the best workers, or to provide the best life? Quote: Originally Posted by bugsnw There are so many variab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum In the voice of Foghorn Leghorn... Da's a whole lotta' pontificatin' goin' on out dare... You need a very, very long spoon when you dine with the devil.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer The cheap labor will meet their doom with the next generation of Robotics that is coming and you'll will see the bulk of manufacturing be done in shifts by drones of robots and only small groups of engineer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jason98 I do not really get the problem. Aren't phone assembly lines supposed to be fully automated? Or do they still require manual labor? Do these 100000 Foxconn workers really use screwdrivers? Yes, except where …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp Well, they're already packed in dorms but we call them public housing projects here don't we. Why not produce some work in order to get that check every month instead of sitting on the stoop watching the world g…
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Flexibility, speed, savings, jobs? perfection. Is that what this is about? This is a red pill/blue pill moment: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...-apple-factory We can face Mike Daisey's visit to Foxconn, or we can turn away. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MaroonMushroom This is why we can't have nice things. More than any other single characteristic, American culture is marked by an irrational, overweening sense of entitlement. Wherever did you people get the notion…
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This is a fine summary of what was essentially a press release, but is summarizing a press release journalism? Aside from the fact that corporations love few things as much as people repeating their hype for free and would therefore never use the w…
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I'd give up all that and more just to have some of the glaring bugs and idiocies which Lion introduced into the Finder corrected.
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I always think people who're convinced there is a "correct" pronunciation or accent are parochial at best, bigots at worst. The malleability of language is the major part of its beauty and strength. Each generation creates it anew out of available…
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Having gotten caught in the rain on the way him from the gym last month, I just tossed my shorts in the dryer. Having taken a bath towel to the greasy screen of my iPhone last week, I slipped up and tossed it into 18" of water in the tub. St…
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Jobs is dead; Sculley might as well be. What sort of necrophiliac could actually care about a sour grapes post mortem of some ancient boardroom pissing match? The only thing more distasteful than Jobs' hagiography is Sculley's attempt to rewrite c…
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This is of course a good thing. But I can't help but note that the most valuable corporation on earth is reduced to crowing about having reduced the number of children it exploits. It's just not enough to define good as reducing the amount of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Steve was all about making the best possible products, but Tim is unfocused: he wants to make a better world too. So far he has instituted charitable gift matching, turned the Apple Store logos red in the name of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zorinlynx How about making the USB dock cables less flimsy? I have a couple from 2005-2006 (back when they had locking plugs) that are still in great shape after years of use and abuse. Yet the newer ones that came …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Andysol I wish more companies would take this approach. It's also smart that Apple throws how green they are in your face at every turn. If they're gonna be green, they might as well get the advertisement for it (I…
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Lawyers do very well off attempts to legislate taste. The rest of the world, not so good. This battle was lost long ago. Once we assigned a price tag to everything, we became incapable of recognizing the value of anything. Having turned the wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alphajack7 Bought from their paper catalogs all the time. Cute girl always on the cover. Pavlov's dog much?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sierrajeff I don't hate the new design, but as my earlier posts show I'm not a huge fan either; I think Apple could have done something a lot better. But in the end it's Apple's land and Apple's money. Regardless, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) I ike the additional walking paths but think they still need more to utilize the open space. 2) I wonder if the move from a white roof to a grey roof is for thermal water-heating and/or solar paneling.…