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#13
Can't abide NAI
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Been doing this for a year on my little Android EVO. Download the PDF's from Flight Ops pages.
It always amazes me when Apple users get so excited about stuff other platforms have been doing forever.
Apple designs cool products, but it may be the epitome of marketing over substance.
It always amazes me when Apple users get so excited about stuff other platforms have been doing forever.
Apple designs cool products, but it may be the epitome of marketing over substance.
#14
Been doing this for a year on my little Android EVO. Download the PDF's from Flight Ops pages.
It always amazes me when Apple users get so excited about stuff other platforms have been doing forever.
Apple designs cool products, but it may be the epitome of marketing over substance.
It always amazes me when Apple users get so excited about stuff other platforms have been doing forever.
Apple designs cool products, but it may be the epitome of marketing over substance.
#15
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jul 2010
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From: window seat
Apple certainlly isn't afraid to get into whizing contests with sacred little empires like Flash, etc, and sometimes that translates into consumer limitations, although in almost every case either an equivalent or a work around is feasable.
One thing that I do respect them for is the quality of construction and overall ergonomics. They are second to none. Every time someone breaks out an iClone or Padwannabe, you can tell its always a slightly inferior design in several ways. You would think that with every company in the universe building every consumer good in China, they would take at least some of their massive savings from slave labor working 16 hours a day with no bathroom break, zero enviromental regulations, hardly any taxes, little if any possibility of litigation and almost no regulation of any kind and at least put some of that back into the product. Nope, most manufacturers save all that money making things in the zero overhead boiler rooms that would make the robber barons of our industrial revolution blush yet they STILL mostly make junky products.
At least Apple makes high quality works of art with a small part of their "savings" from agressively avoiding American workers. Gotta give them credit for that.
One thing that I do respect them for is the quality of construction and overall ergonomics. They are second to none. Every time someone breaks out an iClone or Padwannabe, you can tell its always a slightly inferior design in several ways. You would think that with every company in the universe building every consumer good in China, they would take at least some of their massive savings from slave labor working 16 hours a day with no bathroom break, zero enviromental regulations, hardly any taxes, little if any possibility of litigation and almost no regulation of any kind and at least put some of that back into the product. Nope, most manufacturers save all that money making things in the zero overhead boiler rooms that would make the robber barons of our industrial revolution blush yet they STILL mostly make junky products.
At least Apple makes high quality works of art with a small part of their "savings" from agressively avoiding American workers. Gotta give them credit for that.
#16
Can't abide NAI
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Here you go ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD...ayer_embedded#!
#17
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jul 2010
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From: window seat
Any kid with start up capital from mom and dad for a lemonade stand has more cash reserves than the US government. When you have negative 14 trillion going to negative 16 trillion going to negative 24(+?) trillion in 10 years (assuming rosey predictions economically and no more additional trillion dollar wars or social schemes by then) with unfunded long term obligation far in excess of 100 trillion and interest on all that already exceeding some Reagan defense budgets and Apple actually running a profitable company making things people want in a very difficult economy, is it any wonder?
While we could follow the invention chain all the way back to fire and the wheel, there is no doubt that Apple has been a game changer. They don't invent everything from a complete vaccum, but they do bring products to market that absolutely blow away anything and everything that has come before them, plus add aesthetics and ergonomics far beyond their competitive field set. Look at the tablets. The entire industry couldn't make those things work. Fail after epic fail with the occasional "meh" and yet Apple comes along and with their first try not only dominated the entire market but of course spurs wave after wave of competitive wanna be's that still can't match them. Were they first with "smart phones"? Not even close. Yet even after multipile global powerhouses had very long head starts, on their first time out they flat out dominated the entire competitive field set. Oh but they don't have the mythical "4G yet" LOL!
(not to mention: 4G is a myth (and a confusing mess) - Dec. 1, 2010 but don't tell the 4g fanboys that! lol!)
The cell phone wouldn't be here without the "bag phone" which wouldn't be here without the "car phone" etc. It all comes from somewhere else. But that's OK:
Everything is a Remix Part 3 - YouTube
While we could follow the invention chain all the way back to fire and the wheel, there is no doubt that Apple has been a game changer. They don't invent everything from a complete vaccum, but they do bring products to market that absolutely blow away anything and everything that has come before them, plus add aesthetics and ergonomics far beyond their competitive field set. Look at the tablets. The entire industry couldn't make those things work. Fail after epic fail with the occasional "meh" and yet Apple comes along and with their first try not only dominated the entire market but of course spurs wave after wave of competitive wanna be's that still can't match them. Were they first with "smart phones"? Not even close. Yet even after multipile global powerhouses had very long head starts, on their first time out they flat out dominated the entire competitive field set. Oh but they don't have the mythical "4G yet" LOL!
(not to mention: 4G is a myth (and a confusing mess) - Dec. 1, 2010 but don't tell the 4g fanboys that! lol!)
The cell phone wouldn't be here without the "bag phone" which wouldn't be here without the "car phone" etc. It all comes from somewhere else. But that's OK:
Everything is a Remix Part 3 - YouTube
#19
Although I do find it annoying how information at Delta is spread between manuals in sometimes a very incoherent manner such that in order to handle one procedure you need to reference 4 manuals.
The game of "where can you find [xyz]..." is not amusing. It's fundamentally backwards.
Different subject though.
The game of "where can you find [xyz]..." is not amusing. It's fundamentally backwards.
Different subject though.
#20
Although I do find it annoying how information at Delta is spread between manuals in sometimes a very incoherent manner such that in order to handle one procedure you need to reference 4 manuals.
The game of "where can you find [xyz]..." is not amusing. It's fundamentally backwards.
Different subject though.
The game of "where can you find [xyz]..." is not amusing. It's fundamentally backwards.
Different subject though.
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