More and more models are appearing from more and more manufacturers including no-names so the prices are going to head south. So will the quality, after going through more than a few knockoff DVD players.
Except actually doing something to kill NAFTA and the like would do something good for the US. We would be able to get back on our own feet, then consider trade.
And so what? The Eee PC is specifically designed to be a cheap commodity item made of other cheap commodity items with no significant value add. And there's no real race to the bottom because the commoditization of one thing makes adding value easier up the chain. We are only just starting to see the beginning of what can be done with the Eee. Killing technologies like S-IPS(get one with it, you won't want to switch back to TN) doesn't help. Neither does it help when the options upward just add gloss and no quality(See Dell, Asus, HP, Toshiba, pre/post-merger Lenovo, Sony, Fujitsu). Service that has dropped dramatically for practically all but one brand, is strike three.
One thing that might come out of this though is that the laptops just above its price range will have to add significant functionality in order to sell. As I understand it, they do. No thanks, but eroding the quality up top is what these are doing. They aren't adding anything at all, but subtracting it.
Unfortunately, you're opening up the real and demonstrated possibility of defining skilled as someone who isnt a citizen. This can be done by fitting the criteria to each citizen applicant so that there is always something that will drop them, but not the H1B.
Just put a moratorium on the entire practice by including all foreign assets in taxes. As a failsafe, collect by seizure of any imported(including domestic divisions, complete kit disassembly products) product. End moratorium when citizens need not worry about education(when provided on a basis to citizens that is all but inclusive of them at all levels, and does not suffer for quality).
Make any continued attempts to cheat in this manner punishable by a federal level version of the Business Death Penalty - which means that said business license would be forefit (as well as the permanent disbarment of any firms/people retained by said company) and that all worldwide assets would be ordered frozen and seized.
While it would be nice to use that qualifier, businesses will take that as a green light to cheat out citizens who have said skills.
Fortunately, you can get that effect w/o the S30/S31 should you go with Colorware. Unfortunately that means going with a T60/p or a T61/p - but they arent that bad at thinness.
Been there three times over, and haven't had that kind of problem - found them to be quite fast to check in, even if marked for secondary screening. Of course, that means you actually have to know which part you're supposed to check into first.
As someone who's had similar issues with a t42p, the later revisions of the board seem to have dealt with this issue. The only problem seems to come from those who still have their original board that has said flaw in it and are nearing the end of their warranty.
On a good note, the T60p has taken care of this and has the often-wanted Flexview screen. Combine that with another thread talking about putting a 14" T61p's board in, you have a laptop that will have a very long lifetime.
...and unlike the Dell laptops, Thinkpads will still be rolling along long after the Dells break down. To go for a post-offshore Dell is much like gambling on support - you're hoping they'll understand you and 2) have enough intelligence to know what the problem is. With a Thinkpad, you're more likely to get a Denver/Atlanta call center on the line without having a business account. To have to go directly to the top on Dell is a mistake by doing so, for IBM/Lenovo it is a line of last resort that solves the problem.
Thinkpads are there for people who want quality, not price. Even after the takeover, people still get quality.
...it'd be employees of Microsoft in that part of the world that need fear this takeover. Of course, when you let Wall Street rule the world, human rights gets thrown out of the window and into the next county.
it makes them interdependant, and exposes them to better systems. In the case of the Far East, it's just enabled quicker and more effective means of oppression.
Just look at China - they are by no means perfect, but exposure to the free market has changed them drastically. They still make the same low-quality junk and still oppress their own, just by the hand of business. This is nearly 30 years later - and they flood our schools, forcibly devalue their currency, pull regular cook-booking stunts on larger orders than Enron, and cant seem to act more than a degraded copying machine. Same oppression, different system, higher scale.
Then you wonder why a large sizable chunk wants to "bash" them? Their concerns are quite credible, and not hard to address in a satisfactory (to them) manner. Addressing them however will annoy a few economists.
At least they wont be occupied with vitriol at the taxpayer's expense. Should they come up with a countermeasure, reward those who find and report the countermeasures, then deal with those too.
Short of a nuclear doomsday, robotic armies are our only hope to defeat countries with massive populations, such as china, in a war. At least with the nuclear option, it removes China off the map permanently. Now should there be a design that takes a lot of the fallout's danger away, then it's less of a "doomsday".
But this is a giant catch 22, because who else are we going to pay to manufacture their parts? We can and we will be able to pay to do it the US-only way. Have the specifications to require no parts from hostile countries (India, China, *FTA nations, hostile parts of Europe/Middle East, etc.) with a strong preference towards US-only from the ground up. I'm sure those contractors can come up with such a design that (upon carrying it out) will be able to do the job. Get that out there, require audits of the origin as part of the contract (with stiff penalties for violations). You'll have your robot army worthy of killing the likes of any PLA member that dares cross the path of the US.
Your post is a fine demonstration a pure ad-hominem attack. You haven't addressed any of my points or any of the question raised by the site (and the BBC, even). Of particular interest is the spurious Mohammand-porn distribution contrived by imams[1] and the fanciful myth that it was always forbidden to depict the Prophet Mohammad[2]. Except that the source itself has an interest that is contradictory to showing Islam in a good light. Highlighting that interest as well as the interests on the other end of their comments yields a clearer picture. They would rather look for examples of the extreme and state that as the accepted norm on their site. This does well to explain their view on events(such as this one) related to their field of interest- there is quite a large amount of data from which to draw.
That's so incredibly corny. It sounds just like "The Poles suck anti-semitism in with their mother's milk." Well, if not for the truth to it. That's only scratching the surface, but I see a ton of material that has them "looking for a fight" regularly with Islam. Should you point the heat in the other direction(Israel)- sarcasm may not even save you.
[1] You'd think being all priestly and well-studied in the Quaran would mean the imams would be imbued with a capacity for moral reasoning and a desire for righteousness. Instead the imams proved to be as morally decrepit as Ann Coulter or some of the most infamous Catholic popes. What hope, then, do the millions of Pudding Muslims have of benefiting from the supposed glory of the Quran? Human imperfection.
[2] So which bunch of Muslims are to be sent to Islamic Hell? The ones who drew all those pictures of Mohammed, or the ones who commit the deadly sin of idolatry by making up a spurious or derivative religious law? Should that judgment call be made, it will be made by the appropriate party. Said party does not have (human) imperfection and does not go by only one name.
Tagged this one as lgfbait, as well as !streisandeffect !religionofpeace !dontlookatit
It seems that if you mention anything (usually positive to Islam) connected to the Muslim faith, it seems to attract LGF members/(blind) supporters like moths to a flame. The irony is that place can't even find a good word to say on that subject. Perhaps a corollary to Godwin's law would be in order.
I wouldn't be looking at a LGF supporter/member or their works as a source - they're just as bad with handling Islam.
It is an instinct of theirs to (rabidly) disparage Islam. To view them in any good light ranks up with heresy/untruth/terroristic beliefs at worst, "appeasment" at best. Searchingtheir site on the subject seems not to come up with much thought to the existence of Islam that is not fanatical(much like themselves).
I can only hope that you enjoy the vitriol over there. There is plenty of it, and little of anything else.
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Just keep this thing out of Charlie Johnson's hands, or practically anyone who's part of that Pajama Media network.
Except actually doing something to kill NAFTA and the like would do something good for the US. We would be able to get back on our own feet, then consider trade.
You forgot the venom of the Charlie "LGF" Johnson variety, which consumes anything in its path, but is easily neutralized by open air.
It hasn't. See the lack of IPS being thrown out for an example of the blunders.
Unfortunately, you're opening up the real and demonstrated possibility of defining skilled as someone who isnt a citizen. This can be done by fitting the criteria to each citizen applicant so that there is always something that will drop them, but not the H1B.
Just put a moratorium on the entire practice by including all foreign assets in taxes. As a failsafe, collect by seizure of any imported(including domestic divisions, complete kit disassembly products) product. End moratorium when citizens need not worry about education(when provided on a basis to citizens that is all but inclusive of them at all levels, and does not suffer for quality).
Make any continued attempts to cheat in this manner punishable by a federal level version of the Business Death Penalty - which means that said business license would be forefit (as well as the permanent disbarment of any firms/people retained by said company) and that all worldwide assets would be ordered frozen and seized.
While it would be nice to use that qualifier, businesses will take that as a green light to cheat out citizens who have said skills.
...as it's hard to measure nothing. Ask those who insist on printing unsound money.N/T
Here's the link you requested.
See here.
Fortunately, you can get that effect w/o the S30/S31 should you go with Colorware. Unfortunately that means going with a T60/p or a T61/p - but they arent that bad at thinness.
Been there three times over, and haven't had that kind of problem - found them to be quite fast to check in, even if marked for secondary screening. Of course, that means you actually have to know which part you're supposed to check into first.
As someone who's had similar issues with a t42p, the later revisions of the board seem to have dealt with this issue. The only problem seems to come from those who still have their original board that has said flaw in it and are nearing the end of their warranty.
On a good note, the T60p has taken care of this and has the often-wanted Flexview screen. Combine that with another thread talking about putting a 14" T61p's board in, you have a laptop that will have a very long lifetime.
...and unlike the Dell laptops, Thinkpads will still be rolling along long after the Dells break down. To go for a post-offshore Dell is much like gambling on support - you're hoping they'll understand you and 2) have enough intelligence to know what the problem is. With a Thinkpad, you're more likely to get a Denver/Atlanta call center on the line without having a business account. To have to go directly to the top on Dell is a mistake by doing so, for IBM/Lenovo it is a line of last resort that solves the problem.
Thinkpads are there for people who want quality, not price. Even after the takeover, people still get quality.
...it'd be employees of Microsoft in that part of the world that need fear this takeover. Of course, when you let Wall Street rule the world, human rights gets thrown out of the window and into the next county.
The question is if China is running counterfeit gear themselves, or if there were "assurances" that it'd be Cisco sanctioned.
Then you wonder why a large sizable chunk wants to "bash" them? Their concerns are quite credible, and not hard to address in a satisfactory (to them) manner. Addressing them however will annoy a few economists.
That's why we have places like what exists on Pajamas Media (the vitriolic LGF and the like).
At least they wont be occupied with vitriol at the taxpayer's expense. Should they come up with a countermeasure, reward those who find and report the countermeasures, then deal with those too.
...Nvidia is unavailable for comment.
Tagged this one as lgfbait, as well as !streisandeffect !religionofpeace !dontlookatit
It seems that if you mention anything (usually positive to Islam) connected to the Muslim faith, it seems to attract LGF members/(blind) supporters like moths to a flame. The irony is that place can't even find a good word to say on that subject. Perhaps a corollary to Godwin's law would be in order.
I wouldn't be looking at a LGF supporter/member or their works as a source - they're just as bad with handling Islam.
It is an instinct of theirs to (rabidly) disparage Islam. To view them in any good light ranks up with heresy/untruth/terroristic beliefs at worst, "appeasment" at best. Searching their site on the subject seems not to come up with much thought to the existence of Islam that is not fanatical(much like themselves).
I can only hope that you enjoy the vitriol over there. There is plenty of it, and little of anything else.