> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > There was more than just "A Ford" that has spark plug nighmares, most of > > the front wheel drive v6 and v8 cars are a nightmare to get to the real > > spark plugs, some require considerable disassmebly to replace, part of > > what caused the advent of the 100k mile double platnium spark plug! > > Rod, > > Oh. Not having owned a Ford prior to my F-250 I wasn't aware of this. The > front-wheel drive vehicles I had (MG-1100, Saab-93s) were 4- and 3-cylinders > and easy to service.
Yes, those are easy to service. > > > A good place, and I am almost possitive they shall say "Only use OEM > > cartridges in your printer". But of cource that may be techncial in > > nature, I am sure they can make a case, but understand, they are a factor > > authorized center for many OEM's so saying anything different would > > probably be a violation of that authorization, and also there is the whole > > business reason, they work on a mark up percentage and the more expensive > > the part the more profit for them. > > More importantly, their reputation depends on providing customers with good > advice and products. Also true. But good advice for whom, you, themselves, or the OEM? :-) As a businessman I know customer satisfaction is important, and if I make a few extra dollars and insure that satisfaction all the better. > > Rather interesting news all around the globe on RISC-V, thanks to the > > sanctions against china who can no longer get ARM technology to make there > > wunderful devices.. guess what they are gona do? Yep, here we go... RISC-V > > is expected to make a huge splash in the phone and PDA market next year... > > and ARM is scrambling to recoup lost license fees. > > > > Google up the "Xuantie 910", Alibabi has just eclipsed everyone on the > > fastest biggest RISC-V out there... arm look out... your business model is > > circling the drain! > > Wonder where AMD sits in relation to this. The Econmist article mentioned > only Intel and Arm. AMD via Nvidia has already started to embrace RISC-V, they are using it to replace the management CPU inside the GPU's. AMD is probably in a more fluid position to adobt to what may be a game change, than Intel is. AMD as a fabless company would not and does not suffer the massive cost incurred when fabs go idle, and could probably adapt to a pardigm shift faily quickly. I am not saying x86 is going away, but its defanitly a scarry situation for Arm. -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
