I can't call them "layoffs" because that term is reserved for employees who are welcomed back at some point. Meg and her cronies also drastically reduced HPE's contribution toward benefits, particularly for the NewCorp spinoff people - meanwhile, the plans offered have become more expensive as well, with prescription copays as much as $50 for 30 day supplies. It's effectively a huge pay cut. They are daring the remaining employees to quit, by bringing morale to an all-time low with employee-hostile policies.
Meg actually had the nerve to cheerfully tell the people watching/attending an all-employee town hall how great it was that they were moving so many jobs from high cost countries (i.e. US, Canada and Europe) to low cost countries. Sociopath much?
According to a lot of posters I've seen recently, many companies want Rock Stars as interns... and Jimmy Johns wants to hire Rock Stars, so maybe they are "Freaky fast"
I don't know, but I would like to think you have to have some other qualifications, especially with retarded "rock" like that screamo crap that was so popular a few years ago. I'd prefer it if my sandwiches weren't delivered by somebody with the ability to make a pig squealing noises that ruin an otherwise listenable tune.
The Samsung 830 drives had 44k hours just before I built my latest system and they are still "Good health". One of the OCZ Vertex drives from that original RAID Array finally died after being repurposed in a Linux media server. Out of some 20+ SSDs I've personally purchased and installed since those OCZ Vertex drives.
Honestly, HDDs, in my experience, have a much higher failure rate.
I built my first PC system in 1987. Yes, in my experience, too, people don't do a lot of backups, but there are ways to help the situation - and beyond that - HDDs fail too, as I stated, at a higher rate than SSDs in my experience. Viruses infect systems with HDDs. All the same issues that make you fear SSDs exist, more so, for systems with HDDs. Platter drives are susceptible to heat, mechanical wear and tear, material failure (I've had drives seize up due to this particular problem)
I'm pretty comfortable that SSDs are the more reliable technology. You might want to have a more open mind about things, rather than stubbornly steeping yourself in dogma.
Wow, my first SSD RAID-0 was I think 2008, with two 60GB OCZ Vertex SSDs. I have yet to have a failure, evolving from that to two 256GB Samsung 830 SSDs, and my system now boots with two 512GB Plextor M8pe NVMe sticks on my Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5 motherboard. 3+GB/sec, boots in 6 seconds from power button to desktop, apps appear instantly. My data drive is now comprised of two Sandisk Ultra II 960GB SSDs which get around 880MB/sec.
RAID doesn't always scale the speed (bottlenecks in the RAID hardware/software and sheer limitations in the chipsets), but IOPs do.
Just maintain backups of stuff that's important to you, or use cloud-based solutions when possible (like Evernote).
Well, HPE, and not for much longer (going out on my terms)... anyway - we used to get ink for free, before the split last November, but honestly, I stopped using my HP printer about a year before that. The scanner functionality didn't work right over the network and after getting a Dell (the horror) color laser, there was no reason to print on an inkjet anyway. Now I have an All-in-one that prints great color and scans, all over the network - even does AirPrint and an app to print over Android devices, too.
Regardless of my feeling toward Meg Whitman and destruction of HP, I'd still recommend never buying HP Inkjets - same as I recommend not buying Epson (had those for years, then they put in a self-destruct after 3000 prints that just printed garbage on your media, dumb and expensive to the user).
The tactics of these companies are reprehensible, and should not be supported by anybody. It's not like HP cares about its customers any more, anyway. It's all about stock prices so they can sell it all off to hedge funds (and devalue the middle class' pension funds to line their own pockets) just before it finally collapses.
Cord-cutting. My live sports is less-than-legit, but honestly, it is worth about $20/mo for sports, and nobody wants to offer me a decent legit alternative at that price. Worse, NHL Center Ice blacks out my favorite team's games in favor of cable coverage.
Otherwise, we went all last summer without turning on the cable box... why pay for it? We can't stand being tied to TV schedules, either.
I don't know about the EcoTank, but Epson PhotoSmart printers (at least at one time) had a self-destruct counter that caused them to print terrible after so many prints. For a short while, there was a reset that "fixed" the printing issue, but Epson put a stop to that.
I won't buy Epson, having seen this first hand, and honestly, I've given up on inkjets entirely. Color Lasers are cheap enough these days.
Sour grapes from a former vendor. Mobileye would sell cameras to blind people if they could. Vendors are not leading any auto program in the industry... 2nd and 3rd tier vendors are even worse, and require constant attention, or they will deliver poor quality and unsafe products.
More likely they raised their prices and Tesla balked at the price and moved to another vendor.
Seagate bought their hard drive business, and apparently shut it down, rather than use Samsung's superior tech and facilities, to keep churning out crappy drives based on Maxtor tech and dirt floor factories. I have yet to have a Samsung drive fail, some of my drives have over 40000 hours.
As for the memory... WTF happened there? For a while, the best, cheapest 4GB DDR3 modules on the planet, and then.... poof.... they ended production and have never made that sort of impact on the market since.
An improved turd is still a turd. Not trusting Seagate... they once had a good reputation, then they bought Maxtor and apparently ditched all the Seagate side of the drive engineering and manufacturing in favor of Maxtor, because that was the exact moment their products went to complete shit.
I have purchased quite a few Seagate drives in the past 6 years, and all of them are now dead - most before they were online for 3 years. The first couple I figured were flukes... and there were always decent deals on Seagate externals; but no deal is worth it, not with these crap drives.
This scandal goes all the way up. The cheat crossed over to other badges, which are calibrated by entirely different teams. At the very least, some director who sits above all the badge bosses was involved in perpetrating this fraud.
Calibration engineers had to work on, and test, two sets of calibrations - the "cheat mode" values and the standard values. Somebody had to direct them to do this. This isn't just a Degiorgio being lazy and signing off on crap parts to clear his worklog - this is a systematic effort to spread the "cheat device" software across ALL of the brands. Tagging Liang as the primary perpetrator is like saying some Air Force Captain somehow managed to cause the Air Force, Navy, and Army to launch a nuclear war - Liang simply doesn't have the power to get that software calibrated on the other badges.
I'm guessing the engineer's family is being either well taken care of, or worse, threatened, to make him take responsibility.
So it's collusion when an auto manufacturer stops selling older model cars? It's collusion when you can't buy the 2010 version of tax software?
Microsoft isn't interested in selling you Windows 7, and you can't compel them to. Of course, the offered you (and really, they still do) the free upgrade path to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.x. Consumers aren't being injured, except by their own paranoia.
They don't want older versions installed on new hardware, and they are using their status as a 900lb gorilla to enforce it. As long as they don't prevent Linux, BSD, or other alternative operating systems from running on intel and AMD chips/chipsets, there is no collusion and no injury to consumers. I'm sure it rubs you the wrong way, but then again, if you still won't run Windows 10, it's probably likely anything Microsoft does will rub you the wrong way.
This isn't locking out any competition - Linux and MacOS will still run on the newer processors.
Honestly, Slashdotters seem to be growing into old men yelling at clouds, lamenting passing of the days when you would wear an onion on your belt and memory was measured in hog's ears.
I'd say "in before" but I see "this will be the death of Microsoft!" and "Hello Linux" already posted, as they get posted on every Microsoft story since 1998. Keep shaking those impotent, tiny, Trump-like fists.
Female brains are hardwired to care for a baby in need. All these robotic babies do is trigger those responses quicker. It's basic biology.
Yes, some women will decide babies aren't for them.. some out of practicality, but most out of an inability to process those biological imperatives nature has embedded into mammalian female brains.
Basically this. It's more about the sluggish speed of Google's rollouts - they give competition plenty of time to cut prices and increase speeds before Google's available, and most people won't switch if they can just stick with their existing service and get, what many consider, the same thing.
They should have been far more aggressive in getting their service in as many places as possible.
I still believe Google will make it to my city... sometime in the year 2546, if my calculations are correct.
microdoses of LSD... it's supposed to be MICRODOSES help you focus and be more creative. Taking several regular doses might make the day go by easier, but it won't help you write comprehensible shopping lists, let alone article summaries.
Trumpnuts love to post knee jerk reactions, but lack the guts to post anything but anonymously./FTR: I dislike both candidates, both will happily increase H1-B Visas for their friends, but Trump will laugh at his Trumpnuts while doing so.
Corporations laugh at the regulations that are never enforced unless there is some sort of massive publicity. Even then... Our congress is bought and paid for.
I'm amazed at all the idiots who think a billionaire who has gone bankrupt (yet somehow still has billions) many times with failed businesses is going to change that.
Fair use is fair use. It has nothing to do with competing. The lawyer is confusing that with trademark law, and probably should be disbarred for being either completely obtuse and ignorant of the law she claims to know, or disbarred for being a majorly disingenuous douchebag and outright lying.
...that somebody viewed the information I let everybody view on a site that is intended to make such information viewable by as many people as possible?
Yeah, I realize there are "other tools" but ComboFix was simple, and NEVER burned any PCs I applied it to. It did a very good job of scrubbing those machines clean of the worst, scum-of-the-earth malware imaginable.
I donates to sUBs back in the day, and I'd contribute more if they'd release a version that worked on the Win 10 and Win 8.1
Slashdot Mirror
So close...
I can't call them "layoffs" because that term is reserved for employees who are welcomed back at some point. Meg and her cronies also drastically reduced HPE's contribution toward benefits, particularly for the NewCorp spinoff people - meanwhile, the plans offered have become more expensive as well, with prescription copays as much as $50 for 30 day supplies. It's effectively a huge pay cut. They are daring the remaining employees to quit, by bringing morale to an all-time low with employee-hostile policies.
Meg actually had the nerve to cheerfully tell the people watching/attending an all-employee town hall how great it was that they were moving so many jobs from high cost countries (i.e. US, Canada and Europe) to low cost countries. Sociopath much?
According to a lot of posters I've seen recently, many companies want Rock Stars as interns... and Jimmy Johns wants to hire Rock Stars, so maybe they are "Freaky fast"
I don't know, but I would like to think you have to have some other qualifications, especially with retarded "rock" like that screamo crap that was so popular a few years ago. I'd prefer it if my sandwiches weren't delivered by somebody with the ability to make a pig squealing noises that ruin an otherwise listenable tune.
The Samsung 830 drives had 44k hours just before I built my latest system and they are still "Good health". One of the OCZ Vertex drives from that original RAID Array finally died after being repurposed in a Linux media server. Out of some 20+ SSDs I've personally purchased and installed since those OCZ Vertex drives.
Honestly, HDDs, in my experience, have a much higher failure rate.
I built my first PC system in 1987. Yes, in my experience, too, people don't do a lot of backups, but there are ways to help the situation - and beyond that - HDDs fail too, as I stated, at a higher rate than SSDs in my experience. Viruses infect systems with HDDs. All the same issues that make you fear SSDs exist, more so, for systems with HDDs. Platter drives are susceptible to heat, mechanical wear and tear, material failure (I've had drives seize up due to this particular problem)
I'm pretty comfortable that SSDs are the more reliable technology. You might want to have a more open mind about things, rather than stubbornly steeping yourself in dogma.
Wow, my first SSD RAID-0 was I think 2008, with two 60GB OCZ Vertex SSDs. I have yet to have a failure, evolving from that to two 256GB Samsung 830 SSDs, and my system now boots with two 512GB Plextor M8pe NVMe sticks on my Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5 motherboard. 3+GB/sec, boots in 6 seconds from power button to desktop, apps appear instantly. My data drive is now comprised of two Sandisk Ultra II 960GB SSDs which get around 880MB/sec.
RAID doesn't always scale the speed (bottlenecks in the RAID hardware/software and sheer limitations in the chipsets), but IOPs do.
Just maintain backups of stuff that's important to you, or use cloud-based solutions when possible (like Evernote).
Well, HPE, and not for much longer (going out on my terms)... anyway - we used to get ink for free, before the split last November, but honestly, I stopped using my HP printer about a year before that. The scanner functionality didn't work right over the network and after getting a Dell (the horror) color laser, there was no reason to print on an inkjet anyway. Now I have an All-in-one that prints great color and scans, all over the network - even does AirPrint and an app to print over Android devices, too.
Regardless of my feeling toward Meg Whitman and destruction of HP, I'd still recommend never buying HP Inkjets - same as I recommend not buying Epson (had those for years, then they put in a self-destruct after 3000 prints that just printed garbage on your media, dumb and expensive to the user).
The tactics of these companies are reprehensible, and should not be supported by anybody. It's not like HP cares about its customers any more, anyway. It's all about stock prices so they can sell it all off to hedge funds (and devalue the middle class' pension funds to line their own pockets) just before it finally collapses.
Cord-cutting. My live sports is less-than-legit, but honestly, it is worth about $20/mo for sports, and nobody wants to offer me a decent legit alternative at that price. Worse, NHL Center Ice blacks out my favorite team's games in favor of cable coverage.
Otherwise, we went all last summer without turning on the cable box... why pay for it? We can't stand being tied to TV schedules, either.
I don't know about the EcoTank, but Epson PhotoSmart printers (at least at one time) had a self-destruct counter that caused them to print terrible after so many prints. For a short while, there was a reset that "fixed" the printing issue, but Epson put a stop to that.
I won't buy Epson, having seen this first hand, and honestly, I've given up on inkjets entirely. Color Lasers are cheap enough these days.
Sour grapes from a former vendor. Mobileye would sell cameras to blind people if they could. Vendors are not leading any auto program in the industry... 2nd and 3rd tier vendors are even worse, and require constant attention, or they will deliver poor quality and unsafe products.
More likely they raised their prices and Tesla balked at the price and moved to another vendor.
Seagate bought their hard drive business, and apparently shut it down, rather than use Samsung's superior tech and facilities, to keep churning out crappy drives based on Maxtor tech and dirt floor factories. I have yet to have a Samsung drive fail, some of my drives have over 40000 hours.
As for the memory... WTF happened there? For a while, the best, cheapest 4GB DDR3 modules on the planet, and then.... poof.... they ended production and have never made that sort of impact on the market since.
An improved turd is still a turd. Not trusting Seagate... they once had a good reputation, then they bought Maxtor and apparently ditched all the Seagate side of the drive engineering and manufacturing in favor of Maxtor, because that was the exact moment their products went to complete shit.
I have purchased quite a few Seagate drives in the past 6 years, and all of them are now dead - most before they were online for 3 years. The first couple I figured were flukes... and there were always decent deals on Seagate externals; but no deal is worth it, not with these crap drives.
This scandal goes all the way up. The cheat crossed over to other badges, which are calibrated by entirely different teams. At the very least, some director who sits above all the badge bosses was involved in perpetrating this fraud.
Calibration engineers had to work on, and test, two sets of calibrations - the "cheat mode" values and the standard values. Somebody had to direct them to do this. This isn't just a Degiorgio being lazy and signing off on crap parts to clear his worklog - this is a systematic effort to spread the "cheat device" software across ALL of the brands. Tagging Liang as the primary perpetrator is like saying some Air Force Captain somehow managed to cause the Air Force, Navy, and Army to launch a nuclear war - Liang simply doesn't have the power to get that software calibrated on the other badges.
I'm guessing the engineer's family is being either well taken care of, or worse, threatened, to make him take responsibility.
So it's collusion when an auto manufacturer stops selling older model cars? It's collusion when you can't buy the 2010 version of tax software?
Microsoft isn't interested in selling you Windows 7, and you can't compel them to. Of course, the offered you (and really, they still do) the free upgrade path to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.x. Consumers aren't being injured, except by their own paranoia.
They don't want older versions installed on new hardware, and they are using their status as a 900lb gorilla to enforce it. As long as they don't prevent Linux, BSD, or other alternative operating systems from running on intel and AMD chips/chipsets, there is no collusion and no injury to consumers. I'm sure it rubs you the wrong way, but then again, if you still won't run Windows 10, it's probably likely anything Microsoft does will rub you the wrong way.
Collusion against who? Microsoft circa 2014?
This isn't locking out any competition - Linux and MacOS will still run on the newer processors.
Honestly, Slashdotters seem to be growing into old men yelling at clouds, lamenting passing of the days when you would wear an onion on your belt and memory was measured in hog's ears.
I'd say "in before" but I see "this will be the death of Microsoft!" and "Hello Linux" already posted, as they get posted on every Microsoft story since 1998. Keep shaking those impotent, tiny, Trump-like fists.
Where can I get something like this to heat my pool water?
Female brains are hardwired to care for a baby in need. All these robotic babies do is trigger those responses quicker. It's basic biology.
Yes, some women will decide babies aren't for them.. some out of practicality, but most out of an inability to process those biological imperatives nature has embedded into mammalian female brains.
Basically this. It's more about the sluggish speed of Google's rollouts - they give competition plenty of time to cut prices and increase speeds before Google's available, and most people won't switch if they can just stick with their existing service and get, what many consider, the same thing.
They should have been far more aggressive in getting their service in as many places as possible.
I still believe Google will make it to my city... sometime in the year 2546, if my calculations are correct.
microdoses of LSD... it's supposed to be MICRODOSES help you focus and be more creative. Taking several regular doses might make the day go by easier, but it won't help you write comprehensible shopping lists, let alone article summaries.
Trumpnuts love to post knee jerk reactions, but lack the guts to post anything but anonymously. /FTR: I dislike both candidates, both will happily increase H1-B Visas for their friends, but Trump will laugh at his Trumpnuts while doing so.
Corporations laugh at the regulations that are never enforced unless there is some sort of massive publicity. Even then... Our congress is bought and paid for.
I'm amazed at all the idiots who think a billionaire who has gone bankrupt (yet somehow still has billions) many times with failed businesses is going to change that.
It's been a while since I had AMD on my main PC.... I got tired of their processors suddenly surging in heat.
Simply put: I don't trust AMD.
It's not a bad reason.
In this case, however, for being too much of a lawyer.
...facts in a case.
Fair use is fair use. It has nothing to do with competing. The lawyer is confusing that with trademark law, and probably should be disbarred for being either completely obtuse and ignorant of the law she claims to know, or disbarred for being a majorly disingenuous douchebag and outright lying.
...that somebody viewed the information I let everybody view on a site that is intended to make such information viewable by as many people as possible?
STOP THE PRESSES!!!! NEWSFLASH!!!!
(and this isn't even an EditorDavid story!)
I just want a Windows 10 version of ComboFix.
Yeah, I realize there are "other tools" but ComboFix was simple, and NEVER burned any PCs I applied it to. It did a very good job of scrubbing those machines clean of the worst, scum-of-the-earth malware imaginable.
I donates to sUBs back in the day, and I'd contribute more if they'd release a version that worked on the Win 10 and Win 8.1