7 minutes ago, Ace of Pop said:

Cheap labour never fails.Lucky they didnt have to invent them. Anyway id sooner go Walkabout with A fistfull of USand GBP than something that the folks ask "what the .... are these things n dont have exchange rates.?


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Bit like the Scottish notes. 

Have been to a good few countries for holidays taken Thai Bht never had any problems exchanging them.

Edited August 22, 20179 yr by jeab1980

 

WD and Seagate are Thai companies now?

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On 8/15/2017 at 2:14 PM, Kwasaki said:

It's gone down to 43 again for £ l know why, my pension is due this week. 

 

Your pension is shrinking and so are a lot of us.

4 hours ago, JaseTheBass said:

WD and Seagate are Thai companies now?
 

YES, they are! the company that produces Seagate harddrives in Thailand is Seagate Technology Thailand Limited

Quote

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=5478261

and the company that produces WD drives in Thailand is Western Digital Company Thailand Limited.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=38276665

 

 

 
 

I meant in reality, not just to make use of Thailand's cheap, barely skilled labour.

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1 minute ago, JaseTheBass said:

I meant in reality, not just to make use of Thailand's cheap, barely skilled labour.
 

both companies are not a fiction and are real Thai companies. and if you think it only take barely skilled labour to assemble a harddrive i suggest you open an old one and check its components. the read/write head has to float above the turning platter without touching it at a distance of 2-4 nanometers (i.e. ~3 billionth of a meter!) and it has to move most of the time similar distances sideways in nanoseconds to write or write data.

 

this lesson sent by my Commodore 64 is free of charge 

2 minutes ago, Naam said:

both companies are not a fiction and are real Thai companies. and if you think it only take barely skilled labour to assemble a harddrive i suggest you open an old one and check its components. the read/write head has to float above the turning platter without touching it at a distance of 2-4 nanometers (i.e. ~3 billionth of a meter!) and it has to move most of the time similar distances sideways in nanoseconds to write or write data.

 

this lesson sent by my Commodore 64 is free of charge 

An IBM engineer once described this as being equivalent to flying a Boeing 747 one millimeter above the ground.

both companies are not a fiction and are real Thai companies. and if you think it only take barely skilled labour to assemble a harddrive i suggest you open an old one and check its components. the read/write head has to float above the turning platter without touching it at a distance of 2-4 nanometers (i.e. ~3 billionth of a meter!) and it has to move most of the time similar distances sideways in nanoseconds to write or write data.
 
this lesson sent by my Commodore 64 is free of charge  [emoji2]

I know exactly how unskilled the bulk the labour are there.

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4 hours ago, timendres said:

An IBM engineer once described this as being equivalent to flying a Boeing 747 one millimeter above the ground.

an excellent comparison!

6 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

Your pension is shrinking and so are a lot of us.

No worries looked history before retire here l can still be OK at 15 baht to £ at this moment..

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

No worries looked history before retire here l can still be OK at 15 baht to £ at this moment..

as long as 1 kilo equals 2 metric pounds i'm OK even if 1 Pound buys just 1 Baht

As long as a Litre equals two imperial pints I'll be OK even if a pound only buys 0.1 thb lol 

9 hours ago, Naam said:

as long as 1 kilo equals 2 metric pounds i'm OK even if 1 Pound buys just 1 Baht

I think that makes you 15 times luckier than me. 

l hope l don't ever need my tin cup.

11 hours ago, speedtripler said:

As long as a Litre equals two imperial pints I'll be OK even if a pound only buys 0.1 thb lol 

pubs which serve one liter of beer and claim it equals two pints are cheating!

2 hours ago, Naam said:

pubs which serve one liter of beer and claim it equals two pints are cheating!

 

Too true.

 

1 litre = 1,000 ml

1 pint =  568.261 ml

 

On 07/06/2017 at 9:23 AM, Kwasaki said:

You may as well ask what came first the chicken or the egg. 

I've set my budget for the foreseeable future @  between 43 & 45. 

 

And now that it is falling below 43?

On 23/08/2017 at 1:13 PM, Naam said:

YES, they are! the company that produces Seagate harddrives in Thailand is Seagate Technology Thailand Limited

and the company that produces WD drives in Thailand is Western Digital Company Thailand Limited.

 

 

 

Shame they make outdated low sized hard drives that's will be obselete within the next year or two and have failed to invest anything in R&D, they just bought the old tech, they dont develop anything, utterly useless.

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That was my link to Bangkok post soz.

The link pointed out that every Asian currency has gone down because of the nuclear threat from N Korea.......except the thai baht which has gone up ...? Work that one out because I can't . 

Edited August 29, 20179 yr by goldenbrwn1

On 8/28/2017 at 8:19 PM, Kieran00001 said:

 

Shame they make outdated low sized hard drives that's will be obselete within the next year or two and have failed to invest anything in R&D, they just bought the old tech, they dont develop anything, utterly useless.

the shareholders of Western Digital who doubled their investment within the last year think some people spread utterly useless drivel. and the shareholders of Seagate are quite happy with an 8.06% dividend yield.

 

 

Edited August 29, 20179 yr by Naam

14 minutes ago, goldenbrwn1 said:

The link pointed out that every Asian currency has gone down

versus what currency???

2 minutes ago, Naam said:

the shareholders of Western Digital who doubled their investment within the last year think some people spread utterly useless drivel. and the shareholders of Seagate are quite happy with an 8.06% dividend yield.

 

 

 

Hillarious, you think you can predict the long term by the very recent gains, they just invested 15 billion baht and increase sales by 45%, but what they did not do was invest in r&d, do you know what that means?  That means that Malaysia and other competitors who have thought to invest in r&d and are already producing SSD's will continue to make sales into the future while these companies producing HDD's will see business dry up pretty soon when HDD's become an obsolete technology, it really is not far away.

On 24/08/2017 at 8:36 AM, Naam said:

pubs which serve one liter of beer and claim it equals two pints are cheating!

 

On 24/08/2017 at 11:30 AM, billd766 said:

 

Too true.

 

1 litre = 1,000 ml

1 pint =  568.261 ml

 

 

In that case I'll have a yard of ale.

28 minutes ago, Naam said:

versus what currency???

Soz dollar. Which tbh was pretty obvious mate.

2 hours ago, goldenbrwn1 said:

Soz dollar. Which tbh was pretty obvious mate.

who or what is a "Soz" Dollar?

2 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

Hillarious, you think you can predict the long term by the very recent gains, they just invested 15 billion baht and increase sales by 45%, but what they did not do was invest in r&d, do you know what that means?  That means that Malaysia and other competitors who have thought to invest in r&d and are already producing SSD's will continue to make sales into the future while these companies producing HDD's will see business dry up pretty soon when HDD's become an obsolete technology, it really is not far away.

why don't you offer your consultancy services to these companies?

1 minute ago, Naam said:

why don't you offer your consultancy services to these companies?

 

There have been several studies done which have warned them to develop but they don't listen.

3 hours ago, Naam said:

who or what is a "Soz" Dollar?

3 hours ago, Naam said:

who or what is a "Soz" Dollar?

Soz is an abbreviation for sorry.  Soz for my terrible punctuation. Yes against the dollar, all Asian currencies went down after the N Korean missile test  ..... except the almighty Thai Baht ..? 

 

The Thai baht is the topic here right?

Edited August 29, 20179 yr by goldenbrwn1

15 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

 

 

In that case I'll have a yard of ale.

 

A yard of ale or yard glass is a very tall beer glass used for drinking around 2 1⁄2 imperial pints (1.4 L) of beer, depending upon the diameter.

The glass is approximately 1 yard (90 cm) long, shaped with a bulb at the bottom, and a widening shaft, which constitutes most of the height.

 

I used to have a yard glass in a different life, though somewhere I have a half yard glass in a box, cupboard whatever.