That's a nice series, but hopefully there's a same-quality replacement for IPS in the works. Throwing more pixels on there won't do much good, but increasing the quality will.
That's part of why some of us have gone to IBM - where $3000 got actual build quality. Dropping things like IPS(with no like-quality replacement) is not a promising sign that Lenovo wants to continue in this tradition.
No thanks, but I'll be looking towards transplants of a T61p onto my T60p. The only reasons I have that is that it's an IPS model and has design fixes to the T4*p design.
It's one thing to have that SSD there, but is there a non-SSD option? At least mechanical/magnetic drives as we know them don't have the troubles of maximum write cycles.
As "Made in China" stops becoming synonymous with "cheap piece of crap", then you will see more and more Chinese brands, respected for themselves, rather than knock-offs. That's not likely to happen, given their continual desire not to even go towards quality.
As some wish to modbomb me into oblivion, here goes it again...
These folks would be most likely to make a deal. Free Republic LGF Michelle Malkin
A group that would probably receive some sort of funding( and a holder of the previous two ) Pajamas Media
The only problem with these is that one of them's misfired themselves off of Fox. Another has trouble carrying the message outside of their choir. As for freerepublic, their message seems to only reach the loyal and converted.
Start with the politicians, lobbyists, those favoring globalization with influence, pro-"open border" law firms(such as Grigsby and Cohen) and H1/L1/F1/* applicants who enter this nation.
But that's okay, we should unionize everyone, cap the H-1B lower, and then these companies will set up even larger facilities in India, China, etc. We can just watch CNN all day and bitch how the whole place is going down the tubes. With large exit fees, worldwide seizure of assets, and other things, they will not be able to exit. Reversing and/or repealing all the policies since 1980 would be an acceptable compromise.
If you think you're guaranteed a right to your job so you can not work very hard and spew opinion all over/. all day, then you're wrong. Some other guy will come along who's a little hungrier and wants it a little worse. You forget this thing called citizenship, and it actually meaning something.
If you think you're allowed to walk all over the citizenship of the United States of America as a business, you are wrong. The citizens are qualified, there are plenty of places within this country to start first.
It's cheaper to buy some legislation and hire marginally skilled H1-B workers who will work very hard for a rather low salary. Isn't that the problem that too many US workers are the disgruntled slashdot types, who spend all day here instead of working hard to .
Capitalism means , including for YOUR job. After removing the vitriol: Explain the existence of citizen hostile firms such as Grigsby and Cohen who do all they can to prevent a citizen from being hired. What is of note, is that those citizens were qualified in the first place.
For those who think citizens are just "entitled brats", they're wrong. You're usually the ones wanting to bend and break the law.
Personally, had no trouble finding a good paying job coming out of college, so I can't say I see foreign workers "stealing" American programmers jobs. I've worked with many H1-B's and the like, but I've never felt like they were unskilled people here taking my job for less money. Instead, companies tend to use their *very* limited supply of H1-B's to poach the top talent from the foreign workforce, and it has generally been a joy to work with these people.
People have this knee jerk reaction that "them foreigners is taking our jobs." However, this is stupid when you are talking about high tech work. Exception to the rule. They are taking them, and with the help of law firms like Grigsby and Cohen.
The other reason it makes no sense to criticize allowing more foreign workers into the country is that this is part of a larger highly successful strategy that the US has always carried out where we brain drain other countries in order to keep them from from us technologically.
It isn't that there aren't any smart people India who couldn't start their own software company. It's that all of those guys get hired by *American* companies, and end up contributing to the *American* software industry instead of the native Indian one.
Bringing the top foreign talent here, means that we have the first pick at top people that the entire *world* has to offer working for American companies, whereas everyone else has to settle for leftovers.
If anything, the criticism that I level against the H1-B program and other temporary work pograms, is that they are temporary. We should be recruiting top foreign workers for *immigration*. Highly educated people are a *boon* to our national economy, not a drag. More of a reason to take care of our own first. If it means that we have a 99.9999% citizen requirement until the objective is finished, fine. Our citizens are first, others second(if at all). It is also more of a reason to give incentives that favor citizen workers, then honest corporations. That's as far as one would want to get, but it's time to get back to improving what we already have, not accepting knockoffs of what we don't have.
As a private individual, waving a foreign bank account in front of the IRS is like a red cape to a bull. Wave a corporate charter in front of them and they'll get on their knees and kiss your (*). That's a problem fixed by removing the ability of a corporation to act like they're God.
Just declare each "tax haven" a terrorist country and get on with it. While you can't just raid enough banks and stock exchanges here in the US without someone noticing, that would come close.
They may have gotten Spitzer, but Wall Streeters (no, that doesnt include pension/mutual funds) need to know about the rules. When they violate said rules, they should feel something large enough not to pass on, and something they must face directly as those of Main Street face. That must have annoyed somebody with a business bent. If it takes someone like him to get the job done, then our regulations are not in need of removal, but of refinement.
Not to worry... with the Dollar declining in global value, suddenly those foreign workers aren't so cheap anymore. Cheap Chinese-made consumer goods aren't so cheap anymore either. One happy side effect of the falling Dollar is that the USA is actually on its way to being globally again.
Chinese made goods are still junk quality, just as they were in 1980. They exist as constant reminders that the US needs not to gut manufacturing where it is being gutted.
If you want to worry about the American workforce being displaced, worry about it being displaced by illegal immigrants, not H1-B's. By all means, have the largest Border Control project - a fully armed, monitored, and protected border rivalling Israel. That would be a project that would be able to employ full citizens at every level from manufacturing to IT.
Well we have PLENTY of citizens, but they do not like to do computer programming. Last time I checked, the only people that came here to the USA involuntarily were African Americans. The rest of us are ancestors of some "driving down the wages to citizens and giving them to foreigners that are just sending home is not helping matters..." There is a procedure for immigration and it must be followed. If they have to be sent home, fine. Do not use firms like Grigsby and Cohen to make endruns around citizens via immigration programs.
As for the folks passing through Ellis Island, they had to pass strict checks to ensure they were fit to be allowed entry.
Family is an 'American' value. Remember? Justification for helping your own citizens first. Especially if your family is all over the nation.
These people want to work, value family, and want to be Americans. But if you want to do so illegally, I believe this quote applies:"Illegal is illegal no matter where they come from." -Michelle Malkin.
Immigration is probably the only thing keeping your job here in the US. I wouldn't complain. Think about it from a corporations point of view. You have an international corporation that simply wants the work done and are truly indifferent to where it is done. When deciding where to do the bulk of their programming, the US is not exactly the most inviting place. We have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world, we have the highest wages in the world, and in general there is a very high cost of doing business here. I do, and keep on seeing the Zorin twins. Something about hard-working people who were arbitrarily killed off - and that the twins get away with it.
Stringent immigration policies NEVER result in great economic booms that nationalist promise. Israel. You lose.
There are good reasons to do work in the US. Guaranteed quality, accountability, human rights respected, greater respect for the worker(although we're going to need to remove the Reaganists to get this back to its former glory).
If you want to complain about education, then make it impossible to deny any citizen admission to a first class university. Nor should attempt to weed them out as a end-run.
It's a shame that nobody has been able to use the Patriot Act on Grigsby and Cohen (and others like them who gut our nation). It'd be nice to see them frogmarched and sent to Guantanamo asking them why they haven't done so. You wouldnt even need torture.
In the future as more traditional companies begin to exploit this in the manner that Google has (Google recognizes talent, is willing to pay for it, and is enormously successful as a result..) an employee's total benefit of working for a company (which includes salary, happiness, intellectual stimulation, pride of work, etc.) will more accurately follow talent and subsequently the Dead Sea Effect will subside. One would hope that Google removes its Stanford-styled arrogance that it still has. Have any talent but happen to not share their brand of arrogance? You're gone.
Google is just smoke and mirrors for their success.
All the power and quality without the problem of questionable manufacturing(yes, that means you, Asus). Another thing of note is that you have a standard screen size and easy maintenance (for the rare times needed).
If you're bent on having it thin, there still are plenty of X series out there.
Should something get enacted that doesn't throw undocumented workers out of the country, we are looking at a whole new world of labor in the US as more and more cheap labor floods in. In 1986 there was a promise of "never again". You see how long that lasted. I live in Phoenix, AZ and jobs are getting cheaper here all the time, even with the new state employer sanctions law. That's odd. Then that trail that's heading back to Mexico just doesn't exist?
Jobs are going to go to the lowest bidder, and as an employer I get to choose, you don't. There are laws about employment discrimination that make it illegal to use just about any form of constructive "discrimination", like choosing to only hire native-born Americans. Thankfully that's coming to an end. This time, the exits are all being watched.
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That's a nice series, but hopefully there's a same-quality replacement for IPS in the works. Throwing more pixels on there won't do much good, but increasing the quality will.
That's part of why some of us have gone to IBM - where $3000 got actual build quality. Dropping things like IPS(with no like-quality replacement) is not a promising sign that Lenovo wants to continue in this tradition.
No thanks, but I'll be looking towards transplants of a T61p onto my T60p. The only reasons I have that is that it's an IPS model and has design fixes to the T4*p design.
It's one thing to have that SSD there, but is there a non-SSD option? At least mechanical/magnetic drives as we know them don't have the troubles of maximum write cycles.
A lot of those nations are small enough to easily take over. Some nations would even thank us for finding some of their cheats in their territories.
Others would just need the right strings pulled, and you'd be 1) going back or 2) wanting to go back, possibly with a large RICO/terrorism charge.
Or you could be honest for once in ~30 years.
Yes, I take offense at this bill. However, tax evasion(by any means including offshoring) is never warranted.
...is the same sound of the Party of Reagan(and its policies) fading into irrelevance.
How about running them on a platform that doesn't require a waitlist or an invite system (and with the same scale).
Oh, wait...
Free Republic
LGF
Michelle Malkin
A group that would probably receive some sort of funding( and a holder of the previous two )
Pajamas Media
The only problem with these is that one of them's misfired themselves off of Fox. Another has trouble carrying the message outside of their choir. As for freerepublic, their message seems to only reach the loyal and converted.
As long as they aren't spying on her, she'll probably not care.
Start with the politicians, lobbyists, those favoring globalization with influence, pro-"open border" law firms(such as Grigsby and Cohen) and H1/L1/F1/* applicants who enter this nation.
Then post the results to the citizens.
If you think you're allowed to walk all over the citizenship of the United States of America as a business, you are wrong. The citizens are qualified, there are plenty of places within this country to start first.
Capitalism means , including for YOUR job. After removing the vitriol:
Explain the existence of citizen hostile firms such as Grigsby and Cohen who do all they can to prevent a citizen from being hired. What is of note, is that those citizens were qualified in the first place.
For those who think citizens are just "entitled brats", they're wrong. You're usually the ones wanting to bend and break the law.
With the right knowledge that something better that could be manufactured, you'd revolt.
People have this knee jerk reaction that "them foreigners is taking our jobs." However, this is stupid when you are talking about high tech work. Exception to the rule. They are taking them, and with the help of law firms like Grigsby and Cohen. The other reason it makes no sense to criticize allowing more foreign workers into the country is that this is part of a larger highly successful strategy that the US has always carried out where we brain drain other countries in order to keep them from from us technologically.
It isn't that there aren't any smart people India who couldn't start their own software company. It's that all of those guys get hired by *American* companies, and end up contributing to the *American* software industry instead of the native Indian one.
Bringing the top foreign talent here, means that we have the first pick at top people that the entire *world* has to offer working for American companies, whereas everyone else has to settle for leftovers.
If anything, the criticism that I level against the H1-B program and other temporary work pograms, is that they are temporary. We should be recruiting top foreign workers for *immigration*. Highly educated people are a *boon* to our national economy, not a drag. More of a reason to take care of our own first. If it means that we have a 99.9999% citizen requirement until the objective is finished, fine. Our citizens are first, others second(if at all).
It is also more of a reason to give incentives that favor citizen workers, then honest corporations. That's as far as one would want to get, but it's time to get back to improving what we already have, not accepting knockoffs of what we don't have.
Citizenship shall not be a penalty.
Only if you keep on redefining it to make it impossible to have a citizen comply. Otherwise they do on the larger scale.
They may have gotten Spitzer, but Wall Streeters (no, that doesnt include pension/mutual funds) need to know about the rules. When they violate said rules, they should feel something large enough not to pass on, and something they must face directly as those of Main Street face. That must have annoyed somebody with a business bent. If it takes someone like him to get the job done, then our regulations are not in need of removal, but of refinement.
As for the folks passing through Ellis Island, they had to pass strict checks to ensure they were fit to be allowed entry. Family is an 'American' value. Remember? Justification for helping your own citizens first. Especially if your family is all over the nation. These people want to work, value family, and want to be Americans. But if you want to do so illegally, I believe this quote applies:"Illegal is illegal no matter where they come from." -Michelle Malkin.
If you want to complain about education, then make it impossible to deny any citizen admission to a first class university. Nor should attempt to weed them out as a end-run.
It's a shame that nobody has been able to use the Patriot Act on Grigsby and Cohen (and others like them who gut our nation). It'd be nice to see them frogmarched and sent to Guantanamo asking them why they haven't done so. You wouldnt even need torture.
Google is just smoke and mirrors for their success.
All the power and quality without the problem of questionable manufacturing(yes, that means you, Asus). Another thing of note is that you have a standard screen size and easy maintenance (for the rare times needed).
If you're bent on having it thin, there still are plenty of X series out there.
You can't make the voice sound any better.
Mod parent flamebait/troll.