Android is a deal breaker though for many people. For example, I don't want to worry about whether I have Ice Cream Cookie, Yogurtland, Lolly Pop, etc. I don't want to have to run Norton Antivirus on it. In fact, I don't want to be forced to think about security at all. I want an app store with trusted apps, not hackers.
While all the points you mention do bear some credence, I think the biggest argument for iOS tablets over Android is the lack of first party tablet app support on Android. I;m not saying there are no tablet apps, just they're a lot less common vs iPad apps, which often are a lot more than just scaled up iphone apps.
Where is the exact problem there?
I never came upon an app that would cause a problem on my Android tablet because it's not a "first party tablet app".
Especially nothing that would justify the immense cost of an iPad.
I guess it's a question of convenience, if all you're getting is a big phone app, it's not always gonna work very well, I'm not sure what you mean by "would cause a problem" but I've often come upon apps that simply aren't nearly as easy to use on a tablet compared to a phone.
For me, it's not a convenience problem, it's a trust problem. After all the bad press I've read, I can never trust my family's data to Android. The premium I pay for Apple products lets me sleep at night.
A Chromebook has a great advantage for creation when used for things like Google Docs. Many kids become prolific writers, especially since they are teaching typing in 3rd grade. It's amazing to see your kid bang out a story for fun.
Personally, I have privacy issues with Google as well. With Apple, I don’t have a fear that their 3d grade story will end up used to target them for advertising later. I don’t feel comfortable having my kids’ academic life stored on Google servers.
It's one more thing to lug around. No one is saying that a mouse is hard to use, the point is that touch screens are even more intuitive. I have heard anecdotal evidence of very young babies, like 9 months - 1 year, using ABC apps. They just "get it" and for them, "it just works".
This is a real shame. Our family has really enjoyed our iPad Minis. They have lasted so long that it makes more sense for the kids to get MacBooks next ( in addition to needing iPhones anyway ). But otherwise I would have happily refreshed them by purchasing the latest model. The form factor is ideal for kids.
That's how I read it. I had to go back and re-read it to see it says "butter" actually. I guess I've successfully installed anti-autocorrect in my brain.
Did you ever have to stand outside in the winter, in ice and show, with the hood propped open, spraying starting fluid into the carburetor, and manually holding the throttle open, so that your engine could get to the proper temperature?
Did you ever floor a car and have the engine shut off because there was too much fuel?
I had that happen once. I rebuilt my Rochester Quadrajet and it purred like a kitten for a decade. I eventually gave that car to my friends that had a similar model to use for parts, but it was the best car I ever had. Chevy Caprice Classic, former undercover cop car with a 350 and a shift kit.
I certainly miss those days. Working on my current vehicle is a PITA. The fuel rails, coils and plugs take hours to change. On my old car, I could do that in 15 minutes even if the engine was hot. I can't even imagine how proprietary the components on a Tesla must be or how difficult it will be to fix myself.
I don't think we have to go back to carbs with manual chokes (not that it was all that bad anyways), but frankly an electronic TBI like GM put on the very last generation I small block Chevy engines (with wasted spark ignitions instead of a distributor) would have been a good place to stop (as they're dead simple to work on and program unlike a lot of newer FI setups, and overcome the major problems with carbs like needing altitude and temperature compensation).
Or fiddle with the manual choke to find a setting where the engine would sort of idle. Or wish you had a manual choke, when the automatic choke wouldn't go on -- or off.
Isn't the point of inspection so that you can perform a REJECT, based on some rejection rate parameter ( which is chosen by business economic reality )
If your QA is only doing inspections, they're only doing a fraction of the job. Rejecting the work and performing rework or starting over does not address the causal factors in the system of the rejection in the first place.
You will always have some product that needs to be reworked or rejected. The goal is to ensure quality at every stage in order to reduce the amount of rework. You don't want to go the way of the old US car companies who had to suffer major setbacks in the market because they were spending gross amounts of time reworking defective cars before they could ship them. I do not have a copy of it in front of me, but one of Womack's books had some numbers. Double digit percentage of time for a car's production was spent reworking the car after it had been made to make it suitable for sale.
Now, a premise of Agile (and Lean) is to improve the feedback loop. This is where testing and other inspections come into play. By doing them more often (run unit tests on check in, reject if any formerly passing tests start failing, for instance) you can address some quality concerns earlier.
But you still have to address the cause of the rejections. If Stage 10 of production consistently requires rework, it's great that you're catching, addressing, and doing the rework right then. At least it's better than after Stage 20. But management has to work with QA to not just inspect and accept/reject, they have to address the systemic causes of the failure.
Dim Sum: Joy Luck Palace (Sunnyvale). LA, the one that’s very good is Five Star Seafood (SGV off of Del Mar). 888 in Valley a little east of that place. Don’t go to Elite, Ocean Star, or mission, IMO. They are kind of on par with Jou Luck Palace. Koi Palace(Daly City) and Flower Lounge(Millbrae), Mayflower(Milpitas) I would stay away from.
Seafood: Newport Seafood(SGV). The restaurants listed above are decent for the Bay Area with Mayflower a notch or two below.
Best Taiwanese street food: Sin Ba La (Arcadia).
Southland Flavor Cafe(Cupertino)
Lastly, in LA, the 626 Night Market is lots of crazy street food.
I assume you did not mean it like that, but 13 months in prison is nothing to get snarky about.
If I had to go to prison for 13 months - even if it was for something as silly as this example -, I'd most likely be out of a job and have a prior on my record, which would probably make it very hard to find a new job equivalent to the one I hold now.
13 months in prison can easily destroy somebody's professional existence, not to mention, if applicable, marriage/relationship and family.
