Capt'n Midnight wrote: » John Deere. Or John extremely dear if you want to get your tractor or combine looked at. Because it's full software lockdown.
Sultan of Bling wrote: » Dacia all the way.
Adyx wrote: » It's an aluminium stand. You could get any mechanical engineering student in the country to knock one out for under €100. And the only other option besides this stand is a $200 VESA mount which again, most monitors come with or have for reasonable price. The monitor itself is top class for sure, but there's plenty of other manufacturers producing similar quality monitors and even the ones costing several grand at least include a fcking stand. :rolleyes:
lsjmhar wrote: » What's agood european car?
secondrowgal wrote: » And of course, Dunkin Donuts! It isn’t as if there isn’t the most fab donoughts to be had on O’Connell Street (or at least there used to be?? That kiosk near Cleary’s.
lsjmhar wrote: What's agood european car?
Littlehorny wrote: » BMW, Mercedes and Audi basically all the German "premium" car range. All style over substance, unreliable, horrendously hard to work on and mortgage level repair bill when something goes wrong. Even standard German makes are overrated as well - Opel (pure muck) and VW (about the best of a bad lot granted)
jetsonx wrote: » The relationship between the Irish consumer and Nandos is still in the honeymoon phase. During this phase their flash frozen food still seems "exotic" in the same way those first branches of Subway did 15 years ago. Give it time though, and consumers will realise there is nothing exotic about seasoned mass produced chicken from a freezer.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Name one.
secondrowgal wrote: » 9 pages and no one has mentioned Nandos? Dry, tasteless, ****e of the highest degree.
Muahahaha wrote: » Thanks for the detailed explanation. Regards the outsourcing- did that go to American companies or across to Asia. In regard to them ceasing to exist I read somewhere before that the US govt. considers them to be critical infrastructure and therefore 'too big to fail'. I'd imagine they will have the begging bowl out to Trump in the coming months.
Gael23 wrote: » All very true. However I still won’t be without Fairy/Jif for some reason
L1011 wrote: » McDonnell (Douglas were fine) management took over with their policies of milking existing designs to the death. x McDD never designed a single new aircraft after the McDonnell - Douglas merger; they just twiddled the DC9 and DC10 designs over and over again. Boeing have basically just done the same, but even worse. Latest twiddle of the 1960s 737max dives out of the sky killing everyone on board; latest twiddle of the 1990s 777X explodes during testing. Somehow manages to force the US government to accept a twiddle of the early 80s 767 as their new tanker but can't deliver the damn thing properly. Boeing would willingly replace life-expired designs pre-merger; McDonnell management doesn't understand the idea of something being life expired. Also, the outsourcing began in earnest under them, which manipulated headcount figures and balance sheet numbers to boost the stock prices. Outsourcing is a major factor in why the 787 used to go on fire. And they also moved to McDonnell's really dodgy (but legal) programme accounting practices that hide losses in future years, which let them raise the stock price and pay dividends when the 787 was really bleeding so much money the company was at risk. If Boeing cease to exist it will be no loss and entirely their own fault.
Kevin Irving wrote: » Gotta disagree to some extent with both. There certainly is a level of quality with Apple products that you don't tend to get in cheaper alternatives. I don't include Samsung in that. I took apart a MacBook a few years ago. The entire lower body had been milled from a single billet of aluminium, and the keyboard secured with around 60 screws, so that each key felt exactly the same when pressed. That level of engineering, is rarely equalled by any other manufacturer. As a mechanical engineer, I was shocked at the lengths they had gone to. That level of quality doesn't come cheap, so if you're prepared to pay for it, then fair enough. Will most people notice the difference? Probably not.
L1011 wrote: » You've a lovely set of mental hoops there to convince yourself that Apple kit isn't made by the same Chinese outsourcers in the first place. They're a Foxconn rebadger, same as others
Greyfox wrote: » Or if you prefer an android device you just buy that, the best ones are just as good as the latest iPhone. I think most people who buy the latest version of a companies new phone straight away are idiots, anybody who queues up for a piece of tech is a fool. But the biggest clowns of all are those who think most of the food in dunnes/super valu is far superior to Lidl/Aldi, these people need to start using their common sense.
JL555 wrote: » Does it really need to be excused? There are people who will buy that gear and there are people who won't.
Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: » The whole Apple vs Android thing is extremely tedious. If you cannot afford an Apple device then you buy an Android, and fool yourself into believing that your €250 Chinese import phone has the same features, camera quality, and build as something that costs a multiple of it. It's the same sort of delusion that has people believing the food they buy in Aldi is of comparable quality to that which you'll find in an artisan grocer, or even a Supervalu/Dunnes.
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