Ditto with many manufacturing components, where price is only one factor, alongside quality and reliability, that drives purchasing decisions.
The prospect, therefore, after some tortuous post-election horse-trading, is for a fragile coalition, with its many components pulling in different directions.
The latest victim happens to be Google's recently announced Nexus 7, which has achieved a "repairability score" of 7 out of 10 (the Kindle Fire squeaked one notch past with an 8), with many accessible components including a replaceable battery and standard Phillips screws.
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The latest Rolls-Royce models share many components with BMW models, such as the 7-series, but cost more than twice as much.
Then I discovered that they were wrestling with the allocation of equipment and components to many sites geographically dispersed, with the problems of infant mortality and on site failures.
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One of the reasons for this consolidation was that with the transition of so many of its components to the new Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury no longer warranted two IGs.
Unadvertised fact: The expensive car will share a chassis and many of its high-cost components with next year's Malibu--and also with the forthcoming Pontiac Grand Am, a new Saturn model and likely a Buick.
The team of hackers that calls themselves the evad3rs say they actually had a full exploit capable of removing all the security restrictions on iOS 6.1 devices working more than a month ago, but chose not to release it until they could replace many of the components of the hack with less valuable exploits, reserving the more powerful techniques for future projects.
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It allows access to hundreds of radio stations around the world in conjunction with PCs and audio components that already exist in so many people's homes, he said.
We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.
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Many factors go into the cost of producing a product, and in the past many companies became enamored with the cheap prices they could have parts and components produced, completely ignoring the total cost calculation.
Many mega data centers have engineers developing optimized platforms with the minimum set of components for specific workloads.
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Many other companies would simply outsource the same components to China or South Korea, both nations with abundant skills in machining precision hydraulic components.
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