So in other words, you have nothing useful to contribute, but wikiable factoids.
Don't fucking respond. It would be better for everyone involved if the thread died, than if I wasted my time trying to cajole information out of people that clearly know no more than I do.
This entire thread was me taking a shot in the dark to see if any experienced EEs/industrial engineers/etc. had any interesting insight to give on the subject. Stroking your dick at your amateur understanding of manufacturing processes serves no-one but yourself.
I understand this is a hard impulse for people like you to overcome, but you don't have to respond to every post you see. Next time, try shutting the fuck up when someone asks a question that you can't respond to. I don't know everything, and I don't pretend to know everything, so I don't condescend towards people unless I know I have a world-class understanding of a topic.
I would rather have my score at -50 and be forced to create another account, than argue with people that have NOTHING to contribute but want to give me shit for asking questions that their pea brains aren't equipped to answer.
EDIT: Wish I could have had a real conversation with you on a site where that isn't fucking impossible due to "rate restrictions" for wrongthinkers. I really thought we could have gotten along, even after your second shithead reply that I tried to draw something constructive out of.
I understand that EEs create countless prototypes over the course of the development of a product, and that development PCBs need not (especially for debugging purposes) bear any physical resemblance to the finished product.
What is impressive to me is that Toshiba could:
Redesign and test a PCB
Set up a manufacturing process for pick and place etc
Create an injection-molded case
Put it all together
Deliver all of this, on a whim, to a customer in the single digit quantities
And apparently do so to similar standards as their mass-produced machines
Did they just eat the cost of the most expensive PCB masks and injection molds, or is there something more interesting going on behind the scenes? That's what I want to know.
EDIT: I tripped the (whatever the fuck random sequence of characters you need to bypass the filters) filter and now I can't post any more for a few hours, otherwise I'd happily call all of you out as the ignorant yuppie douchebags you are... no, worse, the 19 year old CS majors pretending to be ignorant adult yuppie douchebags.
tl;dr I just wanted the chance to hear from experienced engineers. Please fuck off if you don't know what you're talking about, for the sake of anyone that wants to ask a remotely relevant question on this braindead hellhole.
So how is/was Fujitsu's laptop manufacturing tailored toward flexibility? I want the details. If all you can do is passive aggressively repeat vague ideas that were printed in mainstream management and manufacturing texts decades ago, don't respond at all. Nobody cares about or wants your input.
I too have heard of Kanban and JIT from my fellow arrogant valley douches. I would like to understand the specific manufacturing processes that make one-off products of production quality viable.
In order to create a prototype with a port in a different location, they would need, at the very least, to produce a one-off motherboard PCB, and a one-off injection molded case. That they could justify doing so to produce near production quality results for a small order either indicates impressive manufacturing flexibility, or an inefficient manufacturing process.
Not paying a few contractors that didn't uphold their end of the bargain is not quite the same as committing treason, actively participating and indulging in the child sex slave trade, selling billions of dollars of weapons to middle eastern terrorists, signing 20% of our Uranium away to Russia, engaging in horrific Satanic rituals, and completely subverting the world's greatest superpower, from the highest echelons of the state department to this meek forum owned by humble Bilderberger pawns, to cover it all up.
But ok. Donald Drumpf is an evil racist sexist white male because John Oliver told me so.
None of those statements about the Clintons give you pause or merit a response? Are you really ok with any of that?
>The only ridiculous false allegations in your comment are the ones against George Soros.
That is far too deep a rabbit hole to get into in an HN comment, but for starters, he is both one of Hillary's largest donors, and he owns the companies that make our voting machines. The very same voting machines that have already in early voting experienced a high frequency of "glitches" flipping votes from straight-ticket conservative ballots to Hillary.
>The allegations against Trump are neither (provably) false nor ridiculous... Donald Trump is just as involved with Epstein as Bill Clinton is.
He flew on his plane once when he needed to get from (IIRC) Florida to NYC quickly. Eye witnesses confirmed that there weren't any young girls on the flight, let alone females. The media doesn't push Trump + Epstein because they know they have nothing and that it would only backfire on the Clintons.
Here's a bit from Wikipedia to me about the Trump child assault allegations. Unless you have your head in the sand and want to hate Trump, they sure sound like bullshit to me.
"Another woman, identified as Katie Johnson, filed a lawsuit in California on April 26, 2016, accusing Epstein and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of raping her in 1994, when she was 13 years old.[52][53][54] Judges Ronnie Abrams and James C. Francis IV presided over the case against Epstein and Trump.[55] The suit was dismissed after it was determined that the address listed for "Katie Johnson" was a foreclosed abandoned home whose resident had died and the provided telephone contact information was also not a functioning contact.[52] A new lawsuit was filed in June 2016, this time in a Manhattan federal court, and without some of the initial accusations made in the initial lawsuit, including claims by the plaintiff that Trump threw money for an abortion at Johnson and that he called Epstein a "Jew bastard".[56] The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in September. Her lawyer stated that she would re-file the lawsuit and would provide an additional witness to substantiate the claims.[57] On September 30, 2016, a woman identified as "Jane Doe" (the same person previously identified as "Katie Johnson" in the California lawsuit) filed a new lawsuit in New York, with an additional witness identified by the pseudonym "Joan Doe".[58][59] There is no further information on these allegations outside the claims made anonymously by "Katie Johnson" and "Joan Doe".[52] Civil rights lawyer and legal analyst Lisa Bloom wrote in June 2016 that the claims by the anonymous individuals were credible.[54] However, journalist Jon Swaine reported in The Guardian in July 2016 that the "Katie Johnson" lawsuits appeared to be orchestrated by Norm Lubow, a former producer on the The Jerry Springer Show, whom he described as "an eccentric anti-Trump campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities".[60]"
Where is the coverage of the content of the Wikileaks emails? The Project Veritas undercover investigations of Clinton pseudo-PACs paid to cause violence at rallies? Huma's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and Omar Naseef that funded Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden? That the Clintons were involved with child sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, or that Bill flew to his child rape resort island over 20 times, often refusing Secret Service accompaniment? That Hillary has been involved with child trafficker Laura Silsby for at least 15 years and personally got her off the hook during the Haiti crisis? Any mention of George Soros?
It's all completely, intentionally ignored, in favor of ridiculous false allegations against Trump. You cannot name a particularly egregious sycophant for Hillary because her handlers own the media.
The Democratic Party and the pre-Trump GOP were, once you looked past the social signals each sent to pander to certain vocal minorities, practically identical. It's no coincidence that the Bushes endorsed Hillary after Jeb! dropped out.
I don't expect anyone here to believe it, but ironically Trump's GOP is pretty close to being a real moderate party. Dispensing with the astroturfed tribal warfare by supporting gays, not making abortion into a big-ticket issue, reaching out to minorities, and so on, he has drawn in record numbers of supporters from across the line. "We're all Americans" and "America first" are the creeds of him and his supporters. An openly gay man spoke at the RNC to genuine applause, as did Trump holding a rainbow "LGBTQs for Trump" flag at a rally. The barriers once thought concrete are rapidly deteriorating for the ordinary citizens that have successfully pried their eyes away from the propaganda machine.
>First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service.
>Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs.
>Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists.
>Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
>Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections.
>There is another major announcement I am going to make today as part of our pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If I am elected President, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
>Decades of failure in Washington, and decades of special interest dealing, must come to an end. We have to break the cycle of corruption, and we have to give new voices a chance to go into government service. The time for Congressional term limits has arrived.
If you wanted to actually do something about corruption in Washington instead of just talking about it, you should have voted Trump.
Don't fucking respond. It would be better for everyone involved if the thread died, than if I wasted my time trying to cajole information out of people that clearly know no more than I do.
This entire thread was me taking a shot in the dark to see if any experienced EEs/industrial engineers/etc. had any interesting insight to give on the subject. Stroking your dick at your amateur understanding of manufacturing processes serves no-one but yourself.
I understand this is a hard impulse for people like you to overcome, but you don't have to respond to every post you see. Next time, try shutting the fuck up when someone asks a question that you can't respond to. I don't know everything, and I don't pretend to know everything, so I don't condescend towards people unless I know I have a world-class understanding of a topic.
I would rather have my score at -50 and be forced to create another account, than argue with people that have NOTHING to contribute but want to give me shit for asking questions that their pea brains aren't equipped to answer.
EDIT: Wish I could have had a real conversation with you on a site where that isn't fucking impossible due to "rate restrictions" for wrongthinkers. I really thought we could have gotten along, even after your second shithead reply that I tried to draw something constructive out of.
EDIT EDIT: Who are you voting for, wannabee EE?