Lowering costs is actually exactly what they're trying and need to do, the problem is not the reduced mail volume, the problem is the Post office's obligation to up until recently deliver mail on Saturdays, and they've also got a raw deal on health insurance, all while not being as profitable in the past. This is a classic case of bureaucracy failing.
I actually happen to think the g19 has a smoother feel, I don't mind mechanical keyboards, I'd take one over a cheapie anyday, but you're right in regards to owning one and using it for an extended period of time, I wasn't impressed enough by the in-store display models to drop the money (I've played with them several times), have i mentioned the super smooth feel of the g19?
Also, I judge my keyboards by gaming, and I know there's a bit of a war in the keyboard world between game specific typing and regular office typing. I've done papers on the g19 with no problem, but ultimately I care about it's gaming performance, which in the case of mechanicals = longer key presses, and more force = slower response = a fiery death. As I've mentioned somewhere in here, I do care about backlighting, when I was buying my g19 a couple of years ago, there wasn't a SINGLE backlit offering from the mechanical keyboard world for under 300, so if logitech wants to get paid for their backlight, these mechanical OEM guys want your firstborn for it. The other thing I care about is ghosting, again all quite on mechanical front. Maybe when i start seeing anti-ghosting on mechanicals, I might make one my next keyboard, but till then I feel they're largely overpriced and miles behind what constitutes a modern keyboard.
Yea... I give a month for new releases to iron out the bugs on PC games, I've never gotten a game that didn't have substantial patching by the 1 month mark. It kind of sucks, but it seems the trend has been to make the games as simple and big as possible while leaving quality to the beta (SCII), or the community (skyrim).
There's always some quirks when integrating modules, but let me clarify, I'm talking complete failure... Joe doesn't know what he's doing and has been collecting a salary for a year. In the office, Joe not knowing what he's doing would be spotted by his co-workers / bosses relatively quickly and people would see Joe everyday and eventually single him out as the weakest link rather than take his word for it that it's going to be done correctly.
What I would argue though is that at some point you gotta have some trust in your employees at least, there's employers that believe in monitoring remote works through webcam. I think you may be right though, you gotta be able to asses who you're working with as an employee, or manager. It's just a very idealistic solution that doesn't factor in that some managers & employees have a hard time telling their left from their right. Performance metrics is just as flawed, my 10 lines of code may do more than Joe's 200.
There's departmental policies and company policies, when a problem exists across all departments, a company directive is typically what is issued. I do however completely agree, that in the perfect world, the managers should be held by the tie on this, and fired alongside their unproductive remote workers, while everybody else is left as is. Unfortunately, this can also be considered corporate culture decline. Yahoo just took a huge hit on attracting new prospects and talent.
It's beyond me why you'd buy a keyboard just to changes the switches later, especially since with a mechanical keyboard as far as marketing goes, you're paying for more expensive switches... much more.
If you're comparing a g19 to a $20 keyboard, you obviously aren't fast enough to encounter ghosting, so my needs for a keyboard are more advanced than yours.
The g19's screen is mainly for gaming, or a glorified cpu monitor, or clock.
Outside of the look and feel, I've always understood mechanical keyboards to be a lot more withstanding of time, but I've used modern keyboards for 4-5 years at a time before passing them on and never had any issues, maybe it makes more sense for somebody who wants to buy a keyboard they know they're going to use for the next 20 years or so. Keyboards are still advancing in technology, so... I'd rather check out the standard market in a few years again, than buy an 80s throwback for the next 20.
Backlight is absolutely mandatory for me so i can find my asdf's from improper form, which is anything except when I'm sitting staring directly at the computer.... the original goal however was that I couldn't find the asdf keys in the dark, also sometimes from improper form. It's been years since I've had that problem, but I actually attribute the backlighting to the muscle memory I've developed since to finding those keys.
See, you're the kind of person that allows this kind of market to thrive. I'll refrain from expressing what I think of you. I've had good and bad experiences with keyboards all across the price spectrum, and I can tell you there's no consistency, it's a matter of taste. It might even be a matter of hand size.
I'm typing this on a keytronic that isn't fit to grace my trashcan (it's not mine obviously), it's just a little $5 keyboard, I've also typed on a little $5 HP keyboard at a previous job and absolutely loved that keyboard. My accuracy and speed were great.
I've also used something mid grade like the saitek eclipse II, which got the job done, but I wasn't very excited about it, switched to the cyborg II, which I think is a higher up model for them... hated it. I've used a g15 just because, and am currently using a g19, they're about the same, the g19 has a lower key profile &, which is advantageous to my typing speed, but that's really about it.
Again, it's all about preference, so just because cooler master's keyboard feels like a model M doesn't mean its worth $100+ instantly and that goes for all mechanical keyboards.
but why not just get the original? All that's going on here is cooler master is trying to emulate IBM's model M, which btw is still available. I've typed on the M before, and while it's not bad and has a good feel, I'll take the technology of my g19 over that any day. In fact, I almost feel like modern mechanical keyboards are being dumbed down in features and raised in price. I can't discern why besides marketing / hype.
In a properly managed system from the start, I would completely agree, but once you start slipping, sometimes the only way is to "restart", go back to the traditional model and expand from there.
My comparison is Jeans in the workplace, they're preferred by most employees and a lot of places just don't have a business need for business casual so employees wear Jeans, but when employees start showing up in faded Jeans with chains & logos, they're going to lose that privilege because at this point their dress code is interfering with the business. Same with remote workers, if they're managed properly and have clear expectations, no problem, you can actually save money through reclaimed office space, but if you have people on the payroll remotely, and you don't know what they do, that's when decisions like TFA are made. Let's be honest here, it's not like Yahoo's star was shining brightly before this change. It'll be interesting to see the results a year or two in the future.
Wait what? This dynamic changes very quickly with remote teams, when you don't see the people you're working with, you many not recognize the lame duck till the project's about to fail and take you with it. Performance metrics are a way to circumvent & try to prevent that, especially on a per milestone basis.
Simple ex. You're working with Joe on a year long project, Joe says he's going to do parts D, F, G, & X as his duties, he creates the UI and says he'll add functionality later, 1 month to finish, you find that parts D, F, G, & X don't work with the rest of the system & the project fails. In a workplace, a manager would see that Joe isn't doing what he's supposed to, remotely, not so easy.
Slashvertisement or not, I've noticed the past couple months a large decrease in the / stories i bother to read and post to, the ones that looked OK... weren't worth reading TFA for, and yet others had shitty discussions going on. It seems like i didn't post for a week and came back to a bunch of moronic posts & news stories that were biast, irrelivant, or just plain out boring. Oh well, I think this article is more or less about a technique you can implement yourselves presented as an advertisement more or less. I mean how hard is it to mimic a phishing attack FROM THE INSIDE? with admin access to the email server. On that note, the idea's not revolutionary by any means.
Not all ISPs are looking at caps in this price range, I've heard $50 for 250gb before... i get 250gb + unlimited bandwidth right now for $50, how would that be helpful again? You're underestimating corporate greed by a very large magnitude.
Nope, I sign in to google at 11 AM, my girlfriend signs into her bank account at 12 PM... not the same person. Those tracking cookies are for data mining, now if your google account starts getting bank advertisements, that's possible. But binding... TOS, or legal? Not even close to being plausible.
how about... "I am more productive from home" meaning...I don't really need 40 hours to do this 40 hour job you've proposed to me, but I'll do it better than the next schmuck you bring in, so hire me, your work will get done, I get paid, and business continues.
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Sure, why not, at least the roads would be a better place.
I don't think their water is like our water, but did anybody else think that the pictures might look like lava fissures rather than channels?
Lowering costs is actually exactly what they're trying and need to do, the problem is not the reduced mail volume, the problem is the Post office's obligation to up until recently deliver mail on Saturdays, and they've also got a raw deal on health insurance, all while not being as profitable in the past. This is a classic case of bureaucracy failing.
I right clicked > view source and copy pasted from there? ...
but then couldn't the newspaper find the content I copy pasted and come after me for theft or something? ...
what if I posted as AC? :) ...
what if AC posted it and I copied it not knowing the source?
I think this is a first, and the whole industry is going to learn from it.
There's SWTOR, though the space sim is a joke...
In regards to the 80s and 90s, you must've been under a rock during the whole "The Sims" fag... i mean fad craze.
I actually happen to think the g19 has a smoother feel, I don't mind mechanical keyboards, I'd take one over a cheapie anyday, but you're right in regards to owning one and using it for an extended period of time, I wasn't impressed enough by the in-store display models to drop the money (I've played with them several times), have i mentioned the super smooth feel of the g19?
Also, I judge my keyboards by gaming, and I know there's a bit of a war in the keyboard world between game specific typing and regular office typing. I've done papers on the g19 with no problem, but ultimately I care about it's gaming performance, which in the case of mechanicals = longer key presses, and more force = slower response = a fiery death. As I've mentioned somewhere in here, I do care about backlighting, when I was buying my g19 a couple of years ago, there wasn't a SINGLE backlit offering from the mechanical keyboard world for under 300, so if logitech wants to get paid for their backlight, these mechanical OEM guys want your firstborn for it. The other thing I care about is ghosting, again all quite on mechanical front. Maybe when i start seeing anti-ghosting on mechanicals, I might make one my next keyboard, but till then I feel they're largely overpriced and miles behind what constitutes a modern keyboard.
Yea... I give a month for new releases to iron out the bugs on PC games, I've never gotten a game that didn't have substantial patching by the 1 month mark. It kind of sucks, but it seems the trend has been to make the games as simple and big as possible while leaving quality to the beta (SCII), or the community (skyrim).
Now if baulder's gate III was kickstarted.... :)
There's always some quirks when integrating modules, but let me clarify, I'm talking complete failure... Joe doesn't know what he's doing and has been collecting a salary for a year. In the office, Joe not knowing what he's doing would be spotted by his co-workers / bosses relatively quickly and people would see Joe everyday and eventually single him out as the weakest link rather than take his word for it that it's going to be done correctly.
What I would argue though is that at some point you gotta have some trust in your employees at least, there's employers that believe in monitoring remote works through webcam. I think you may be right though, you gotta be able to asses who you're working with as an employee, or manager. It's just a very idealistic solution that doesn't factor in that some managers & employees have a hard time telling their left from their right. Performance metrics is just as flawed, my 10 lines of code may do more than Joe's 200.
Nope, I don't get the appeals of mechanical, besides seeing high price tags for low features on modern models. Take a look: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007651&IsNodeId=1&Description=MECHANICAL&Tpk=mechanical%20keyboards
Most of these look like the $5 HP model I mentioned somewhere in this discussion.
There's departmental policies and company policies, when a problem exists across all departments, a company directive is typically what is issued. I do however completely agree, that in the perfect world, the managers should be held by the tie on this, and fired alongside their unproductive remote workers, while everybody else is left as is. Unfortunately, this can also be considered corporate culture decline. Yahoo just took a huge hit on attracting new prospects and talent.
It's beyond me why you'd buy a keyboard just to changes the switches later, especially since with a mechanical keyboard as far as marketing goes, you're paying for more expensive switches... much more.
If you're comparing a g19 to a $20 keyboard, you obviously aren't fast enough to encounter ghosting, so my needs for a keyboard are more advanced than yours.
The g19's screen is mainly for gaming, or a glorified cpu monitor, or clock.
Outside of the look and feel, I've always understood mechanical keyboards to be a lot more withstanding of time, but I've used modern keyboards for 4-5 years at a time before passing them on and never had any issues, maybe it makes more sense for somebody who wants to buy a keyboard they know they're going to use for the next 20 years or so. Keyboards are still advancing in technology, so... I'd rather check out the standard market in a few years again, than buy an 80s throwback for the next 20.
Backlight is absolutely mandatory for me so i can find my asdf's from improper form, which is anything except when I'm sitting staring directly at the computer.... the original goal however was that I couldn't find the asdf keys in the dark, also sometimes from improper form. It's been years since I've had that problem, but I actually attribute the backlighting to the muscle memory I've developed since to finding those keys.
See, you're the kind of person that allows this kind of market to thrive. I'll refrain from expressing what I think of you. I've had good and bad experiences with keyboards all across the price spectrum, and I can tell you there's no consistency, it's a matter of taste. It might even be a matter of hand size.
I'm typing this on a keytronic that isn't fit to grace my trashcan (it's not mine obviously), it's just a little $5 keyboard, I've also typed on a little $5 HP keyboard at a previous job and absolutely loved that keyboard. My accuracy and speed were great.
I've also used something mid grade like the saitek eclipse II, which got the job done, but I wasn't very excited about it, switched to the cyborg II, which I think is a higher up model for them... hated it. I've used a g15 just because, and am currently using a g19, they're about the same, the g19 has a lower key profile &, which is advantageous to my typing speed, but that's really about it.
Again, it's all about preference, so just because cooler master's keyboard feels like a model M doesn't mean its worth $100+ instantly and that goes for all mechanical keyboards.
but why not just get the original? All that's going on here is cooler master is trying to emulate IBM's model M, which btw is still available. I've typed on the M before, and while it's not bad and has a good feel, I'll take the technology of my g19 over that any day. In fact, I almost feel like modern mechanical keyboards are being dumbed down in features and raised in price. I can't discern why besides marketing / hype.
We're trying to emulate keyboards from the 80s now?
In a properly managed system from the start, I would completely agree, but once you start slipping, sometimes the only way is to "restart", go back to the traditional model and expand from there.
My comparison is Jeans in the workplace, they're preferred by most employees and a lot of places just don't have a business need for business casual so employees wear Jeans, but when employees start showing up in faded Jeans with chains & logos, they're going to lose that privilege because at this point their dress code is interfering with the business. Same with remote workers, if they're managed properly and have clear expectations, no problem, you can actually save money through reclaimed office space, but if you have people on the payroll remotely, and you don't know what they do, that's when decisions like TFA are made. Let's be honest here, it's not like Yahoo's star was shining brightly before this change. It'll be interesting to see the results a year or two in the future.
Wait what? This dynamic changes very quickly with remote teams, when you don't see the people you're working with, you many not recognize the lame duck till the project's about to fail and take you with it. Performance metrics are a way to circumvent & try to prevent that, especially on a per milestone basis.
Simple ex. You're working with Joe on a year long project, Joe says he's going to do parts D, F, G, & X as his duties, he creates the UI and says he'll add functionality later, 1 month to finish, you find that parts D, F, G, & X don't work with the rest of the system & the project fails. In a workplace, a manager would see that Joe isn't doing what he's supposed to, remotely, not so easy.
See definition #1
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unlimited
I'll have a hero.
Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can be transmitted over a fixed period of time.
Now why don't you make yourself useful by contributing to the discussion... or make me a sandwich!
Slashvertisement or not, I've noticed the past couple months a large decrease in the / stories i bother to read and post to, the ones that looked OK... weren't worth reading TFA for, and yet others had shitty discussions going on. It seems like i didn't post for a week and came back to a bunch of moronic posts & news stories that were biast, irrelivant, or just plain out boring. Oh well, I think this article is more or less about a technique you can implement yourselves presented as an advertisement more or less. I mean how hard is it to mimic a phishing attack FROM THE INSIDE? with admin access to the email server. On that note, the idea's not revolutionary by any means.
Not all ISPs are looking at caps in this price range, I've heard $50 for 250gb before... i get 250gb + unlimited bandwidth right now for $50, how would that be helpful again? You're underestimating corporate greed by a very large magnitude.
Nope, I sign in to google at 11 AM, my girlfriend signs into her bank account at 12 PM... not the same person. Those tracking cookies are for data mining, now if your google account starts getting bank advertisements, that's possible. But binding... TOS, or legal? Not even close to being plausible.
how about... "I am more productive from home" meaning...I don't really need 40 hours to do this 40 hour job you've proposed to me, but I'll do it better than the next schmuck you bring in, so hire me, your work will get done, I get paid, and business continues.