Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday 24 May 2015 12:32:40 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote:
> > > What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo
> > > manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on
> > > the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process,
> > > we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever
> > > breaks.
> > 
> > Permit me a little quibble: we're not doing QA but QC (control). Not at
> > all
> > the same thing. QA is defined in the ISO9000 series of international
> > standards.
> 
> You're absolutely right of course:  I meant, but didn't express it so, that
> we have to compensate for lack of adequate QA and poor QC.  However,
> thinking about it, I am probably wrong altogether.  Said manufacturers may
> have both processes in place, but implemented with comparatively low
> acceptance thresholds for what we expect.  Ahh!  The joys of globalisation.
>  :-(

Oh, well - thanks for not taking offence!

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Rgds
Peter