> - e-ink displays are incredibly fragile.
hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.
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hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.
Please allow me to change your opinion on this. The comparison being made there is the ( number of suicides at Foxconn / number of Foxconn employees ) vs number of suicides in China / population of China. At first glance, this looks like a valid comparison. But it is not. It is actually comparing apples to oranges. The real comparison is against number of employees who choose to commit suicide at their employers premise / number of employees. A useful way to paraphrase this is:
Lets say Google has 100,000 employees. How many Google employees commit suicide at the Googleplex per year? Not how many google employees commit suicide overall.
When phrased this way, it becomes clear that other companies have much lower suicide rates than Foxconn.
That's what is critical to compare. It turns out Foxconn's suicide rate is massively higher than equivalent Chinese employers and the inference is the alleged egregious mistreatment of Foxconn laborers by Foxconn is the cause.
The British aggressively codified, intensified and encouraged increased enforcement of the caste system in India in order to facilitate their divide-and-conquer strategy. Did you really not know that?
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=101...
The link you gave does not substantiate that claim at all.
> is known to have a bit of an axe to grind where the Raj was concerned.
I would not be surprised that someone who is a victim has an axe to grind with a genocidal expropriative regime. What is surprising is that there are colonial apologists still around and pushing typical justifications for slavery, genocide and other crimes against humanity.
At the time of the plundering, the countries that the East India Company plundered were not the third world. They were literally wealthy self-sufficient countries that had not seen famine or serious poverty. It is not an exaggeration that the EIC brought those countries to their knee.
Eg:
"A country that was the world leader in at least three industries- textiles, steel and ship building. A country that had everything... And after 200 years of exploitation, expropriation and clean outright looting, this country was reduced to one of the poorest countries in the world by the time the British left in 1947," he said.
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/12/21/poverty-was-unknown...
Not true. Limestone suitable for mining is a limited resource. That's why cement companies like Lafarge pay millions for mining rights in South East Asia. They clear out entire mountain ranges to turn into cement.
In South East Asia, limestone quarrying and mining has destroyed the habitat of many species. There are dozens of species that are extinct, or are going extinct due to limestone mining. They clear entire limestone mountain ranges and turn them into cement.
What? Most of the signboards you see on the road are LED signboards. You know the ones we have in freezing winter or in blazing summer! So not only is it possible, it's what's commonly done.
> The important thing here is that this first production outdoor deployment
There's very little data provided in the article, no real accurate data on what kind of environmental conditions were experienced by the devices. Seems like a puff piece.
You're also the poster of the article which is an ad from your company.
> In many applications, it can also prove to be as much as four times more reliable than LCD.
That's a really vague answer. Are you saying your solar powered road side display panels are 4 times more reliable than the LCD panels used with everything else? Could you share some data with us?
Lets not forget that all Australians except for Aboriginal people are technically immigrants.
Population India in 2013 : 1.3 billion
Number of Indians in the technology sector = ?
Lets be generous and say that all Indians in the USA work in the tech sector. That would be 2 million. Then lets be even more generous and add the entire population of Bangalore, 4 million as tech workers. 6E6/1.3E9 = 0.4 percent.
That's a simple standard showing that you are a minority and under-represented on a global level.
As the 2016 market has shown, "need" is perhaps too strong a word for a smart watch.
Given what has come out so far, is the charge of criminally misrepresenting the efficacy of the product really dubious?
Sadly, the Ian (Ian Murdock) in Debian did pass away (death had something to do with police). http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-mu...
https://books.google.com.my/books?id=dlvNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA287&l...
Of note, many have forgotten, but rice suffered from a pandemic blight in the 1980s that was saved only because a particular species of wild rice, coincidentally found in South India, happened to have disease resistant genes.
"Beijing might be of historical importance for the creative forces often associated with Silicon Valley"
I note he never explained that sentence. No data was given to further that statement. Instead he makes points about cheaper engineers and cheap housing and food.
" it offered us cheap housing and food, a network of experienced mentors that were happy to take the time to help, steady access to some of the world's greatest engineering talent at a sixth of the cost of a junior engineer in Silicon Valley "
He also says: "Beijing seems to attract large numbers of truly driven, creative and interesting people". Yes, people here are truly driven. But creative? Nope, I didn't experience that. I won't mention how the drive people exhibit here is typically negative. In the US, negotiations are rarely zero-sum, in BJ/SZ it was always Walmart style: are we screwing the partner/customer/supplier to the max.
"Beijing is a city with its eye on the future and a place that you can help shape."
The whole of China is controlled by a small (percentage wise) elite. They and they alone decide the whole future. If you're not part of the future they determine would benefit "their" China then you're out. If they decide suddenly that whatever you've built is something they want, and they can get away with it, they'll take it. Creative people don't thrive here. Ask 100 creative people in China if they'd like to move to Silicon Valley, and you'll likely get an 75% migration rate. That's even higher than the percentage of rich Chinese who want to leave. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/15/almost-half-of...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It has been repeatedly criticised for its cost (€57.8 billion in 2014)[1] and its environmental and humanitarian effects, including raising food prices and stalling development in poorer countries by preventing them from exporting food to the EU.
Recently, Apple bought the Taiwan fab plant where the old mirasol displays were made, which had been transferred to AU Optronics. But a fab is a fab is a fab so it doesn't mean they're making mirasol displays there.
Liquavista is another crapshoot, spun off in 2006, made huge pronouncements at shows, told us they would be production ready in 8-12 months back in 2010 and then shuttered in Dec 2010. Then layoffs, then Samsung, now Amazon. No clue what their real status is now.
In other words, doing demos is doing demos. Commercially available production ready product is a different story completely.
> Sorry: this is not based on any real experience or references, just the overall assessment of how India stands currently.
Jeez, you didn't have time to search but had time to fantasize like a Hollywood script writer hashing out more 3rd world stereotypes? Perhaps we should look at the treatment and hepatitis morbidity rate in our prison system and wonder whether your stereotype may more accurately fit our own prisons rather than Indian ones.
Here: [1] http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/lib_centraljail/Cent...
[2] http://www.legalservicesindia.com/articles/pri.htm
[3] http://defensewiki.ibj.org/index.php/Right_to_Medical_Care_i...
Delhi Prisons have set up an Integrated Counseling and Testing Centre (ICTC) on 10.06.08 in Central Jail Hospital for detecting HIV positive inmates. Targeted intervention for HIV detection in inmates like injecting drug abusers / sexually promiscuous, inmates suffering from STD and inmates suffering from multiple / opportunistic infections. Total number of such inmates, tested for HIV positive test at ICTC from January,2010 to October'2010 were 1399, out of which 27 were tested HIV positive .Further 2254 inmates were tested for HBsAG and out of which 66 were found to be +ve for Hepatitis B.
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_diseases_within_Ame...
While the majority of HCV infections occur outside of prison, the disease is still widespread within the prison system as a result of drug injection.[15] According to one Rhode Island prison study, HCV infection was found in 23.1% of the male prison population.[16] HCV prevention proved to be more challenging than HIV prevention because inmates partake in high-risk behaviors such as “front loading” and sharing spoons to prepare drugs like cocaine.[4] The prevalence of these diseases within prisons is a concern because they pose a potential public health risk.