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New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 07:37:43 2012

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Ouch!!

New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

The new iPad runs considerably hotter than its predecessor, tests have shown - making it perfect for reading in bed, perhaps, but alarming some users.

According to Consumer Reports, it gets as warm as 116 degrees Farenheit, warmer than human skin, especially when playing graphics-intensive games.

"When unplugged, the back of the new iPad reached temperatures as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit. It was only when plugged in that it hit 116 degrees. The hottest areas weren't evenly distributed throughout the iPad's back, but were concentrated near one corner of the display," says Consumer Reports' Donna Tapellini.

"During our tests, I held the new iPad in my hands. When it was at its hottest, it felt very warm but not especially uncomfortable if held for a brief period."

The new version is a good twelve degrees Farenheit hotter than the iPad 2, says Consumer Reports. It's stopped short of saying that the high temperature is actually dangerous, but said users should be careful.

However, according to Apple, it's all part of the plan - the company says the device is running within thermal specifications. It does, though, recommend that it shouldn't be used in temperatures of 95 degrees or above.

Users on the Apple support forum seem to be having mixed experiences, with some saying the device is pleasantly warm, but others concerned - one felt it was too hot for a child to use safely, for example.

However, use by children might end up being a moot point, if too many people are using their iPads on their lap. In studies, even cooler-running laptops have been associated with 'scrotal hyperthermia', potentially reducing male fertility.

Ergonomists have already been urging tablet users not to use their devices on their laps - this latest news might persuade them, where fear of a bit of neck-ache hasn't.






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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 08:49:20 2012, in response to New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 07:37:43 2012.

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This bit of non-news brought to you by the developers of the prehistoric Android cellphone operating system....Android the folks who haven't learned that they should stick to cellphones.

Apple iOS is the future, make no mistake about it.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 09:57:21 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 08:49:20 2012.

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Enjoy the fruits of slave labor.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 12:00:35 2012, in response to New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 07:37:43 2012.

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It's a tablet computer and a contraceptive device! Cool! Or rather, not cool! :-)

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 12:01:42 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 08:49:20 2012.

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Did ya get one yet?

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 12:33:17 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 09:57:21 2012.

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I might, if I owned anything that was.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 12:34:13 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 12:00:35 2012.

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Oops. That means they've lost the Right-wing market.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by WillD on Wed Mar 21 12:55:50 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 08:49:20 2012.

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Prehistoric? Don't you have to pay for an app which allows you to access limited segments of the onboard storage like a thumb drive? You may have the useless parrot, Siri, but Android 2.3 has native support for object coded Smart Actions to, say, put your phone on vibrate as you arrive at work. I'd rather my phone efficiently do what I need without asking than talk back to me. Oh, and this thing hums along at 20mb/s.

Don't get me wrong, I'm more likely to purchase an iPad (probably the iPad2 than the self immolating iPad: The Sequel) as opposed to an Android tablet just because it'd provide access to those apps which have foolishly not made it to the Google Market. But the fruit's phones simply aren't on the same level as the latest offerings from Samsung, Motorola, and HTC.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 13:12:20 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by WillD on Wed Mar 21 12:55:50 2012.

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Don't you have to pay for an app which allows you to access limited segments of the onboard storage like a thumb drive?

No, it can be jailbroken for free. But even then, I have no interest in accessing the file system like it was still the 80s and we're still marveling over the ability to group things into folders. The ability to store things into folders just makes it a pain in the ass for novice users who don't remember where they put their file.

Siri, but Android 2.3 has native support for object coded Smart Actions to, say, put your phone on vibrate as you arrive at work.

Actually, that is cool. I've had that on a non-smart phone I used in the mid 00s.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Mar 21 13:18:07 2012, in response to New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 07:37:43 2012.

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And that's why I'm considering a Samsung Galaxy Tab instead.

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Posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 13:19:44 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 09:57:21 2012.

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Like he said, it's the future. 8-)


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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 13:45:41 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 12:33:17 2012.

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HEH

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 13:46:21 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 12:01:42 2012.

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not yet...

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:04:53 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Mar 21 08:49:20 2012.

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Heh. But the apostles of the fruity church STILL got to call it "pleasantly warm" as though it's a sacrament. Heh. Most laptops tend to blow off 118 to 130 from THEIR regulators out the air duct, so still doing good. Warm balls are happy balls ... what can I say? :)

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:06:08 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 09:57:21 2012.

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Got droid? Foxconn makes most of those too. And HP, and Dell, and Asus and ...

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Posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 17:07:34 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:04:53 2012.

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Think of it like flying in the "good old days".....Warm nuts?

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:08:47 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 12:34:13 2012.

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They never had it anyway. Righties have nightmares of hipsters bearing fruits. :)

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:09:40 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 17:07:34 2012.

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No thanks. I'll have the Allegheny omelette please. With sweet roll. :)

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:10:13 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:06:08 2012.

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Foxconn's factory conditions are comparable to those of Western factories.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:13:27 2012, in response to New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 07:37:43 2012.

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I have an article coming up in CSO Magazine with my partner in crime Taylor Armerding (yes, THAT Taylor, the musician) about droids and nasties. Should publish tomorrow. Not good news for droid owners.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:15:00 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:10:13 2012.

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While not as bad as some have claimed, they're not as good as you're claiming either. High suicide rates, 16 hour days 7 days a week and shit pay. Then again thanks to the "right wing/libertarian" mindset, that kind of life is coming to America already.

Foxconn is NOT something to be emulated.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:27:03 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:15:00 2012.

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The suicide rate is actually no higher than elsewhere in that area.

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Posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 17:36:54 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:27:03 2012.

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The hours still suck, though.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:42:44 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 17:36:54 2012.

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And so do the wages.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:48:47 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 17:36:54 2012.

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Correct, but many of the workers prefer that to the farm work they would inevitably do if those factories didn't exist.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:49:19 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:42:44 2012.

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Compared to other employment in China?

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:49:56 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 21 12:01:42 2012.

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I just ordered one this evening!

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:55:20 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:48:47 2012.

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I know people who have worked there, they're now coders for hire in the world of BSD. They go there full of hope, told that they can be rich working there. They can support their families who are destitute back in the farm country. And they arrive. In droves.

Once in though, they're held captive in the dormitories which work just like the old coal towns of the Appalachians. They're worked like prisoners. And they're not allowed to leave unless they get fired and kicked off the property. True, it's better than eating dirt but not all that much better.

Would it amuse you to know that many of the folks who work in those halls of assembly have never seen what they make finished and working, much less able to own one?

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:57:56 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:49:19 2012.

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Foxconn does the final assembly of components. There are numerous other small operations surrounding the Foxconn factories where conditions are far worse. But there are many other companies all over China that do in fact pay their people better, and treat them better than Foxconn.

I'm not spouting the usual anti-Foxconn claptrap - I know people who worked there and while it's not as bad as many human rights groups are claiming, it's nowhere near as much of a panacea as Apple and other companies are claiming either.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:58:50 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 17:49:56 2012.

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Don't forget to purchase the "ball cooler" accessory. :)

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 18:33:16 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:55:20 2012.

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Would it amuse you to know that many of the folks who work in those halls of assembly have never seen what they make finished and working, much less able to own one?

So?

Like I said, it's not much worse than a Western factory. Many people from the hick states move to cities like NY or LA wanting to "make it big," but end up becoming crack whores. It's sad. At least here they get honest work. The dormitories are provided because these cities are developing quickly and there aren't many places to live that aren't slums and shantytowns.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 18:34:50 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 17:57:56 2012.

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Nobody's claiming it's a "panacea" or even a more valid word to describe it. My claim is that the conditions are not bad for what it is. It's a factory and not a country club.

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Posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 18:37:04 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 18:34:50 2012.

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Uh, the stories about the toxic chemical cleaner and the aluminum dust makes it pretty bad, since those are known safety violations (i.e., the hazards are not even in question).

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 18:38:23 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 18:37:04 2012.

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Everyone makes mistakes.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 19:40:31 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 18:33:16 2012.

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No, the dormitories are to enforce the ownership of Foxconn. You have to EARN the right to leave the company town once a year to visit your family and not many make the grade. Three folks who worked there are on our payroll, and four more of them work directly for the BSD foundation. They've noticed the difference.

Look into "company town" in the days of coal. That's what Foxconn is doing, right down to the commissary that you'll never get out of debt with.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 19:42:21 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by 3-9 on Wed Mar 21 18:37:04 2012.

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While Foxconn's record is pretty bad, they're actually a lot better than many of the other companies there. You can thank MICROSOFT for getting after them two years ago, and now Apple's finally getting on their case about it too.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 19:45:34 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 19:40:31 2012.

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One advantage of the system is that allows them to spin up operations at a moment's notice by just waking up the employees and getting them to work within a short period of time.

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Posted by orange blossom special on Wed Mar 21 19:57:19 2012, in response to New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 21 07:37:43 2012.

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Doesn't bother me, I'm not in the 1% who can afford such things. :)

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 19:58:16 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 19:45:34 2012.

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Better quality management can plan ahead so that it's orderly. The boat still takes 10 to 14 days to get to Cali.

China's major manufacturing advantage isn't actually that, though that's the fable that's sold. They learned from what America USED to do. Have your suppliers right down the street so that you can change things quickly and not have to wait days for "Just In Time" ... JIT is perhaps the biggest disaster in American manufacturing. Cuts cost at the expense of "whoops - your truck overturned, you can shut down now."

Meanwhile in China, you need more, you can walk down the street and throw more on the cart. Your factory stays in production. "Clustering" is what makes it work, not rousting whipped out people two hours after they hit the pillow.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 19:59:47 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 19:58:16 2012.

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When I bought my Mac in 2009 and iPhone 4S in 2011 they were flown overnight from Shanghai and Shenzhen respectively.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 20:13:52 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 19:59:47 2012.

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That's not how it usually goes, and rest assured that nobody got rousted the night before except perhaps the pilots. :)

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 20:46:05 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 20:13:52 2012.

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The iPhone 4S was ordered on the day it went on sale, but the MacBook was out for a while and was not on backorder at all.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 21:11:10 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 20:46:05 2012.

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They mighta been bullshirting then about the book coming over on hot jet. Like the first day of Beaujolais Nouveau, they may fly in stuff for their first day, but the rest of it comes by boat. That stuff gets mighty expensive and Apple watches every penny. :)

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 21:35:14 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 21:11:10 2012.

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This was FedEx tracking.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 21:45:04 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 21:35:14 2012.

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I had no doubts ... but it IS unusual for them to do that. Musta had a disruption in supply at the time. That's all I'm saying - that it isn't normal for them to do that ...

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 21:52:42 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 21:45:04 2012.

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We'll see what happens when my new ball heater iPad ships.

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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 22:28:34 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 21:52:42 2012.

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Heh. It's very nice so I hear. The one thing that absolutely pisses me off though about those and the fruitphone is that I love to stream movies and Apple absolutely sucks at that. You have to copy the damned files onto the device if you want to see something and that means dealing with the bloat of Itombs.

There are no viable apps (that actually work) for either device and for me, being able to stream from the video server so I have my entire screen available for work would be nice. I can understand Steve hating Flash and all, but the crippled VLC thing available has FFMPEG codecs with it and you can transcode from FLV to MP4 with no trouble if only they'd even allow that much.

For watching streams, fruit toys SUCK. But it's a really great phone, and flipping birds is fun on the big screen. Pity it can't stream. Then I'd be really happy, but that's not going to happen. :(

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by JayMan on Thu Mar 22 08:11:37 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Mar 21 19:45:34 2012.

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One advantage of the system is that allows them to spin up operations at a moment's notice by just waking up the employees and getting them to work within a short period of time.

There are tons of advantages to screwing your workers; that's why businesses do it, when they can get away with it. One cannot defend a business practice for that reason alone.

Your point in that it is as good or better than the alternatives is taken, though.

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Mar 22 08:23:55 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 21 19:40:31 2012.

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"I owe my soul to the company store..."

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Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Mar 22 11:24:17 2012, in response to Re: New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps, posted by JayMan on Thu Mar 22 08:11:37 2012.

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One can defend the business practice if one does not consider it "screwing your workers." I don't consider it that. Provided, of course that the accommodations are adequate. It appears that they are in this case.

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