If you use ESXi as your Operating System you do wait for Dell or HP or whomever to release the brand specific Update package or risk losing support for some of the hardware. For example, PERC6 RAID card or NICs.
I recently purchased a MotoX Pure Edition and MotoG Third generation and most of the is is still true. The MotoE is reported to be a pretty good entry-level android phone.
- Shipping fairly high-end kit, though perhaps not always the latest and greatest
- Very good power efficiency (for Android)
- A lack of the excessive amount of crapware you get on most phones; only the bare minimum the carrier forces on you
- A close-to-vanilla Android experience
- Great build quality and premium feel
- Reasonable prices - they were never the most expensive in the marketplace
- Generous battery capacity -- which, when combined with the power efficiency of their tuned SoCs, led to awesome battery life without any external batteries or extended batteries
Hopefully Lenovo doesn't go the route they did with the Thinkpad line and totally ruin the quality.
Take a look at the water pollution and air pollution associated with that manufacturing, then take a look at the environmental regulations in the USA versus China.
Now you have your answer why.
Cost of labor isn't the only reason that manufacturing has moved to the third world. One of the big reasons that the rivers and air in the USA is cleaner now than in the 50s and 60s is the migration of dirty manufacturing plants out of the USA.
Logitech discontinued their Bluetooth desktop keyboards and mice too, All their desktop keyboards and mice now use the Unity dongle, who knows about the encryption on those. They still sell a couple of tablet oriented bluetooth keyboards but those are chicklet key and flat.
My MX 5500 Revolution is now dying and there is no decent and affordable bluetooth replacement. Someone on Amazon is asking $700 for a new in the box MX 5500, not sure if they have sold any for that amount.
I have exactly one provider, CenturyLink, $60 a month for DSL 7/1 service, no cable available. CenturyLink bought the local phone company and mothballed all the work they were doing to improve service, to include laying residential fiber and now says no to any upgrades in the foreseeable future.
Granted I live on the Eastern Plains but it just shows what competition can do to prices and service. Since the military stationed me here moving is not an option.
Facebook, a non-governmental corporation, can't influence its trending items in a liberal fashion but it's OK for Fox News to continually spout the conservative company line.
FYI the truth doesn't always lie in the middle it is possible that one side is telling the whole truth and the other side has chosen a self-serving lie. Happens much more often than you would think. Be forewarned.
And you prove GPs point. If they had the government funding that some people think they wouldn't need to partner with HBO to fund a popular show like Sesame Street.
Same goes for CBC/BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In fact the incumbent governments of each nation are attempting to cut funding because they don't report the government line.
Your first line mentioned union shenanigans then as an afterthought added changing food tastes, nothing to do with management malefesance or VCs raiding the retirement accounts of said retirees or how they heavily leveraged every thing they could during Chapter 11 resulting in a Chapter 7 liquidation. If management had reacted to the changing diets, Kind of their job or the VCs had really intended to restructure instead of using Hostess as a cash cow a Chapter 11 reorganization might just have worked. The union had already made concessions but got tired of it when the VCs continued to just raid the shell of the company.
Whatever you mention in the first line will be what people remember. Kind of how a headline works.
Said about pretty every generation ever. Spend some time with the younger generation, I have, Air Force Airmen and let me tell you they are good at what they do, it is different from what we did but that doesn't make it useless.
A multitude of problems took down Hostess, bad union contracts, management not adapting to the changing American diet, VC team that took Hostess private saddled it with debt during Chapter 11 resulting in the Chapter 7 liquidation. Plenty of blame to go around.
But US labor law requires that unpaid vacation be paid to any employee that leaves the job. The only exception is if you are dismissed for breaking a law that directly affects the company, ie steal company property. Oh, and if you contest it they have to prove it in court. How do I know, when I quit my last job they tried to withhold 300 hours of vacation pay, my lawyer sent them a polite note and I got my money. Little did they know, that lawyer was my brother using a letterhead he invented.
Sick leave does not have to be paid but vacation does. Now you know why so many companies have separate buckets for sick and vacation leave, different accounting rules.
I am referring to "jratcliffe's" attitude expressed in the above posting.
According to him a government computer should only be used for government business and nothing else. He would probably to you taking that few minutes to go out to the car to check your personal phone.
Unions for everyone would be the first step to making this happen. The vast majority of labor laws that favor the employee have started as union initiatives. 40hr work week, overtime pay, 5 day work week, workers comp.
But IT workers won't support unions because they are such special snowflakes always thinking they are so much better than the rest and that the union will drag them down to the average. I got news for you, as a group we are all average because that's what average means.
Nothing says the work day has to be eight to five. If you are working with an overseas team your work day shifts to noon to nine or whatever is appropriate. Basically the rule will be if you are not on the clock you cannot be expected to be checking your e-mail, sounds reasonable to me. My boss already knows I won't be checking my e-mail from 6PM to 6AM. If he needs something urgent then call.
Not just secure spaces, many Air Force buildings prohibit bringing any person computing devices, including personal phones.
True you can receive a call on your desk phone from a spouse but don't you think the GP might object to that base on his rant about not using non-personal devices for personal business.
By the way these days that desk phone is really a dedicated computer using VIOP software and I have personally participated in meetings where it has been discussed eliminating stand-alone phones on AF desks and just using VOIP software and a microphone on the standard desktop computer. What do you think the GP would think of using the company computer now for phone calls?
So when you are at work your significant other can't send you an e-mail to your company address with a grocery list or asking you to pick up the kids? You only use your phone to get these kinds of e-mail.
BTW in many government facilities you can't bring in personal computing devices (including your phone0 so you use your government e-mail for this kind of communication or you use a webmail provider.
Why on Earth they would be using Yahoo accounts while on the job is a mystery without a responsible answer.
Because in the infinite wisdom of taxpayers and Congress government employees are not supposed to use the Government maintained e-mail to conduct personal business so they resort to webmail products. Also anything on the Government servers is subject to FOIA requests so they use a.COM server instead.
FOIA is one of the biggest reasons that executive branch personnel (AKA Hillary, Condoleeza, and Colin Powell all had there own private e-mail servers.
The paper maps are used to get a general lay of the land and to determine what the route should be in case the GPS or Google Maps has erroneous information, AKA trying to route you over a summer mountain road in the dead of winter. Dedicated GPS because it only requires power work, if I am out exploring and intend to use the GPS only to get home or back to the hotel (great fun way to explore new areas), I don't need to have a data connection of remember to download maps before beginning my adventure and the dedicated GPS tends to have a screen that is more readable in the sunlight.
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If you use ESXi as your Operating System you do wait for Dell or HP or whomever to release the brand specific Update package or risk losing support for some of the hardware. For example, PERC6 RAID card or NICs.
Same for my 1st gen MotoG. Bought directly from Motorola (AKA Google at the time) and still receiving O/S and security updates.
I recently purchased a MotoX Pure Edition and MotoG Third generation and most of the is is still true. The MotoE is reported to be a pretty good entry-level android phone.
- Shipping fairly high-end kit, though perhaps not always the latest and greatest
- Very good power efficiency (for Android)
- A lack of the excessive amount of crapware you get on most phones; only the bare minimum the carrier forces on you
- A close-to-vanilla Android experience
- Great build quality and premium feel
- Reasonable prices - they were never the most expensive in the marketplace
- Generous battery capacity -- which, when combined with the power efficiency of their tuned SoCs, led to awesome battery life without any external batteries or extended batteries
Hopefully Lenovo doesn't go the route they did with the Thinkpad line and totally ruin the quality.
Take a look at the water pollution and air pollution associated with that manufacturing, then take a look at the environmental regulations in the USA versus China.
Now you have your answer why.
Cost of labor isn't the only reason that manufacturing has moved to the third world. One of the big reasons that the rivers and air in the USA is cleaner now than in the 50s and 60s is the migration of dirty manufacturing plants out of the USA.
Decide for yourself if that is good or bad.
Logitech discontinued their Bluetooth desktop keyboards and mice too, All their desktop keyboards and mice now use the Unity dongle, who knows about the encryption on those. They still sell a couple of tablet oriented bluetooth keyboards but those are chicklet key and flat.
My MX 5500 Revolution is now dying and there is no decent and affordable bluetooth replacement. Someone on Amazon is asking $700 for a new in the box MX 5500, not sure if they have sold any for that amount.
I have exactly one provider, CenturyLink, $60 a month for DSL 7/1 service, no cable available. CenturyLink bought the local phone company and mothballed all the work they were doing to improve service, to include laying residential fiber and now says no to any upgrades in the foreseeable future.
Granted I live on the Eastern Plains but it just shows what competition can do to prices and service. Since the military stationed me here moving is not an option.
Facebook, a non-governmental corporation, can't influence its trending items in a liberal fashion but it's OK for Fox News to continually spout the conservative company line.
Just checking.
AKA the Argument to moderation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
FYI the truth doesn't always lie in the middle it is possible that one side is telling the whole truth and the other side has chosen a self-serving lie. Happens much more often than you would think. Be forewarned.
Motorola G and X series both have working FM chips if not purchased through a carrier. Some of the carriers disable the FM chip.
I currently have a Moto G third edition and my daughter has a Moto X Pure Edition purchased directly from Motorola with working FM chips.
IMO they are the best deal for the money when it comes to mid-range (Moto G) and flagship (Moto X) phones purchased outside of a contract.
GSM phones working with ATT network.
And you prove GPs point. If they had the government funding that some people think they wouldn't need to partner with HBO to fund a popular show like Sesame Street.
Same goes for CBC/BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In fact the incumbent governments of each nation are attempting to cut funding because they don't report the government line.
Your first line mentioned union shenanigans then as an afterthought added changing food tastes, nothing to do with management malefesance or VCs raiding the retirement accounts of said retirees or how they heavily leveraged every thing they could during Chapter 11 resulting in a Chapter 7 liquidation. If management had reacted to the changing diets, Kind of their job or the VCs had really intended to restructure instead of using Hostess as a cash cow a Chapter 11 reorganization might just have worked. The union had already made concessions but got tired of it when the VCs continued to just raid the shell of the company.
Whatever you mention in the first line will be what people remember. Kind of how a headline works.
Too many grasshoppers amongst the youth today.
Said about pretty every generation ever. Spend some time with the younger generation, I have, Air Force Airmen and let me tell you they are good at what they do, it is different from what we did but that doesn't make it useless.
I'm guessing they meant Hostess? Which went bankrupt a few years ago do to Union shenanigans.
Read this and get back to me on that http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...
A multitude of problems took down Hostess, bad union contracts, management not adapting to the changing American diet, VC team that took Hostess private saddled it with debt during Chapter 11 resulting in the Chapter 7 liquidation. Plenty of blame to go around.
Your 5-digit ID says you are not new to Slashdot but that reasonable response says you're new to Slashdot. So which is it?
Working outside standard hours is one thing, I do it. Working 20hrs a day is another, I don't do it.
Life is too short to spend it at the beck and call of an asshole boss.
But US labor law requires that unpaid vacation be paid to any employee that leaves the job. The only exception is if you are dismissed for breaking a law that directly affects the company, ie steal company property. Oh, and if you contest it they have to prove it in court. How do I know, when I quit my last job they tried to withhold 300 hours of vacation pay, my lawyer sent them a polite note and I got my money. Little did they know, that lawyer was my brother using a letterhead he invented.
Sick leave does not have to be paid but vacation does. Now you know why so many companies have separate buckets for sick and vacation leave, different accounting rules.
I am referring to "jratcliffe's" attitude expressed in the above posting.
According to him a government computer should only be used for government business and nothing else. He would probably to you taking that few minutes to go out to the car to check your personal phone.
Unions for everyone would be the first step to making this happen. The vast majority of labor laws that favor the employee have started as union initiatives. 40hr work week, overtime pay, 5 day work week, workers comp.
But IT workers won't support unions because they are such special snowflakes always thinking they are so much better than the rest and that the union will drag them down to the average. I got news for you, as a group we are all average because that's what average means.
Nothing says the work day has to be eight to five. If you are working with an overseas team your work day shifts to noon to nine or whatever is appropriate. Basically the rule will be if you are not on the clock you cannot be expected to be checking your e-mail, sounds reasonable to me. My boss already knows I won't be checking my e-mail from 6PM to 6AM. If he needs something urgent then call.
Not just secure spaces, many Air Force buildings prohibit bringing any person computing devices, including personal phones.
True you can receive a call on your desk phone from a spouse but don't you think the GP might object to that base on his rant about not using non-personal devices for personal business.
By the way these days that desk phone is really a dedicated computer using VIOP software and I have personally participated in meetings where it has been discussed eliminating stand-alone phones on AF desks and just using VOIP software and a microphone on the standard desktop computer. What do you think the GP would think of using the company computer now for phone calls?
The GP is suggesting that no government or corporate computer or account should ever be used for personal business.
So when you are at work your significant other can't send you an e-mail to your company address with a grocery list or asking you to pick up the kids? You only use your phone to get these kinds of e-mail.
BTW in many government facilities you can't bring in personal computing devices (including your phone0 so you use your government e-mail for this kind of communication or you use a webmail provider.
Why on Earth they would be using Yahoo accounts while on the job is a mystery without a responsible answer.
Because in the infinite wisdom of taxpayers and Congress government employees are not supposed to use the Government maintained e-mail to conduct personal business so they resort to webmail products. Also anything on the Government servers is subject to FOIA requests so they use a .COM server instead.
FOIA is one of the biggest reasons that executive branch personnel (AKA Hillary, Condoleeza, and Colin Powell all had there own private e-mail servers.
Hell, Cisco brought that to the enterprise years ago and it still sucks.
The paper maps are used to get a general lay of the land and to determine what the route should be in case the GPS or Google Maps has erroneous information, AKA trying to route you over a summer mountain road in the dead of winter. Dedicated GPS because it only requires power work, if I am out exploring and intend to use the GPS only to get home or back to the hotel (great fun way to explore new areas), I don't need to have a data connection of remember to download maps before beginning my adventure and the dedicated GPS tends to have a screen that is more readable in the sunlight.