Inside Dell’s manufacturing mecca
You must realize that Dell is so big that when you finished eating a cookie [comparison with food always work, eh 
], they have had at least 10 new PCs ready to be sold. This is indeed a very cool report.
A must read for techies.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas–Two thousand, three hundred fifty. That’s the number of desktops Dell was trying to produce per hour in the Mort Topfer Manufacturing Center here earlier this month. Put another way, that’s roughly 1 PC every 1.5 seconds, 40 a minute, or 23,500 per shift.
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Indian tech grads bring parents to work
* GRIN *
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Call it equivalent of a parent-teacher meeting for the global economy.
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Hebert noted that arranged marriages are common among young people in Hyderabad, where Sierra Atlantic has its Indian offices. The company intends to hire about 400 people over the next year. “If they have arranged marriages, why can’t they have arranged careers?” Hebert said.
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* GRIN (again) *
Saved, and enslaved, by the cell
Interesting report on (yet another) side-effect of technological advance …
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cell phone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own, even when the answers are right in front of us.
According to Christine Rosen, a senior editor at the journal New Atlantis and the author of “Our Cell phones, Ourselves,” a recent article exploring the social effects of the mobile phone, the ease of obtaining instant advice encourages cell phone users to respond to any uncertainty, crucial or trivial, by dialing instead of deciding. The green sweater or the blue, pizza or Chinese, the bridge or the tunnel - why take responsibility for making up your own mind when you can convene a meeting in a minute? [ … ]
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And at least I have a friend who still resists on having a mobile phone… guess he doesn’t want to be enslaved (instead of saved) by the cell .. a wise choice probably 
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