I've got plenty of relatively cheap things in my house, including a few from Ikea, that are perfectly good for what I use them for. And I've also bought things like relatively high-end small appliances that crapped out in short order.
And it's often very hard to tell which is which in advance--and it may very well be the luck of the draw in any case.
Even an obviously cheaper Ikea dresser I have in my bedroom. Yeah, it's cheaply made and was sort of a pain to assemble. But it looks and works fine and I'm not sure I could have even gotten a hardwood dresser that cost 5x as much into the space.
True, but if you research lots of sources and still emit significant blocks of verbatim text without attribution, it’s still plagiarism. At least that’s how human authors are judged.
This is a reductionist take. Maybe it's not illegal per se where you live, but it always have ramifications, and these ramifications affect your future a whole lot.
> Not being able to work offline at all seems like somewhat of an issue.
I agree. If it's intended to be a web-based system, why not have it running as a webserver on your local machine?
Also, the intention is to have a GUI, or rather 4 or 5 seeparate GUIs:
> Grace will have a native GUI app for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. (And probably Linux.)
But if you're having a web UI, why have a GUI as well? It is just extra work, and it is quite likely that the UI for these tools won't be the same, potentially making them harder to learn.
The intention is that they'll be identical, because they'll be written using Avalonia.
And I hate Electron. I hate it so much. I hate the web pages that I'm being told are "apps". I hate the lack of keyboard shortcut support. I hate the bad performance. I hate how it's not stick-to-your-finger fast. I hate owning unbelievably powerful computers and mobile devices and not taking advantage of their power and capabilities, and just reducing them to surfaces for fake "apps".
I'm not a fan of it either. When I say have a web UI, I don't mean electron, I mean the program runs as a web server on some port your local machine and you point you web browser at it.
I don't think electron should exist.
> I hate the lack of keyboard shortcut support
And I hate the existence of keyboard shortcuts, or at least hard-to-discover ones. On a daily basis I accidentally press keys (I've no idea which ones) that make my windows misbehave.
I also don't think I should have to learn keyboard shortcuts -- interfaces should be discoverable and not require you to memorise stuff.
> I hate the bad performance.
Then use a text UI not a GUI. Back in the day, Borland made extensive use of these for Turbo Pascal and they worked well and looked good. As a bonus (like a web app) they can run easily on an external machine.
> I hate how it's not stick-to-your-finger fast.
I've used git for years and before it other source control systems. I don't remember a single instance where the slowness of the source control system was ever a factor.
Are you serious? Wheelchairs are not mobility scooters. I don't know much about them, but I can point out some obvious likely differences:
1)The chair has to be comfortable enough to be in almost constantly - for someone whose body may not be shaped the same as most other people's. It may need to be designed in a way that makes it easier for the user to get in and out of, unassisted. That means a substantial part of it is customized to each user, probably in consultation with medical professionals. It may need to carry medical devices/equipment.
2)The chair has to be navigable in indoor spaces with a fine degree of control, by someone who may have lower motor skills and range of motion than others. So it may need customizable response time, input smoothing, and acceleration.
3)The chair cannot, under any circumstances, make an un-commanded motion - which could easily kill the occupant (ie going into traffic, or down a steep hill, or off into water.) That has implications for the physical controls, the electronic controls, and mechanical drives (I'm guessing many chairs have electrical locking, and can use the motors for braking.) Similarly, the chair has to be very reliable, or that could kill the occupant (say, a fire or other emergency where they are) or otherwise be a major inconvenience. If you're unable to move much from your chair and, say, your cell phone is in another room - you're varying levels of screwed.
4)It has to be designed such that fire would be a very low risk.
Are they probably more expensive than they need to be? Yeah. But I'm sure it's nowhere near an order of magnitude, and your comment is pretty ignorant.
> It's interesting to question, however, if U.S.-made labels have at all contributed to the company's success.
The article did follow up the total sales number with this caveat though. It seems reasonable that the products could have accounted for more than $3.18M in sales, though we really don't know total sales of the falsely labeled products or what percent of those sales only happened due to the Made in the USA label.
I feel like that was the weakest part of the article. I don’t particularly find that to be an interesting question in this context because it’s a bit irrelevant if it works. What matters is whether they think it works, and whether it’s a worthwhile exchange for them to lie to increase sales with the hope/knowledge that it will be profitable in the long term.
MIUSA is a good marker of quality for many products—not because US workers or processes are exceptional in ways that those in poorer countries can’t be, but because US manufacturing has high labor costs, so it doesn’t make sense to cut corners that it might in other countries, because you’re already not able to chase the very-price-sensitive market.
For example, it’s rare to see shoes made in the US (or other rich countries, for that matter) that are made with anything worse than mid-tier full grain leather, because what’s the point? If you use US manufacturing to make crappy bonded or corrected leather shoes, you’re just going to have the most-expensive crappy shoes on the market, so why bother?
From William-Sonoma specifically? No, I haven't. In general, absolutely though in those instances I end up always buying from a smaller company as well that actually produces the product.
I'll buy USA-made jeans from Round House for example, but it wouldn't make a difference to me if I saw a sticker in a big chain store selling jeans.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted for that. It was part of Walmart's early success that they sold products made in America, and there was a long time that people griped about it no longer being true. Clearly people care.
The question may have come off as implying that people do not made buying decisions based on the country of origin label. I imagine that many people’s own buying habits show them that the label does have an impact.
What, you don’t think the postal court run by the Post Office will rule against the Post Office? Come on, there’s only a small chance of being sent to Rwanda in a crate if you file a case against them, hardly worth worrying about.
As I type my keyboard is sitting on an Ikea desk. It's cheap, it's simple, it does the job and I'm happy with it.
Cheap stuff is not the problem. Crappy cheap stuff (and crappy expensive stuff!!!) is.
For example, I have two radios in my house that I don't use? Why because the crappy power leads have frayed and I can only use them with batteries.
Or again, I bought a kettle 2 years ago that stopped working after 6 months.
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