While tax policy might provide an easy out if one of the states involved is California, replace it with a state not so far off the chart. The governments of these business-sycophantic states cannot create new businesses on their own but rely on other states to create and grow them. The mentality in these states is that if you do not own a business, you must be denied freedom.
When a state government actively pursues businesses, they not only remove jobs from a state (usually with as much stealth as possible as to not alarm the public and block it then and there), they fail to generate the promised jobs in the new state, and most importantly fail to promote to workers that the new state is worth moving to for the long term (aside from few exceptions). This applies to any state that puts its living-in-the-flesh constitutents in a lower priority than those created of legal fictions.
Individuals at fault? Not really. Governments to blame? Definitely.
It only accelerates the speed of cattle rustling of businesses to Texas(sans workers unfortunately) while making sure it is too expensive for regular people to use it.
Unlike flash, you have to actually try to break the disk before you get those kinds of failures. Flash only requires a steady stream of writes along with deletions in the wrong places. That's the price you pay for a faster disk.
Not only do you show the textbook example of why independent contract labor has too many things wrong with it, you also show that such arrangements favor corner-cutting that gets too close to do the job right.
Get a decent job that will stand by its equipment, buy as high as you can go, and make it last for a long time. Not only will you not have to follow trends as much, the hardware will last, the hardware will be protected, and that your job will be more stable than Fukushima after the tsunami.
Whether it is write limits, disk fragmentation, or controllers going berserk, mechanicals still have flash(SSD's) beat on functionality.
Sounds like they want an excuse since they dont provide any actual evidence to back it up(read: is their 99% just a terminating cliche just to shut people up?). The Thai floods just wont cut it, and I doubt that the existing drives are that unreliable.
That said, I have one of their 7200 RPM models(ST9750420AS) in a W520 and would gladly replace it with another SSD-free drive. It beats all the other "alternatives" such as USB drives and if I need extra battery life, I can always slap on a slice battery. That and if its horribly fragmented, I dont have the overhead associated with SSD's.
The US didnt make a point of shoving the Valdez incident down the memory hole nor was the invasion of Panama(which unlike Hong Kong is with the British, is relatively friendly with the US). However, not only did China disappear people and memories of the incident, they made sure that the job would be done by getting their equivalent of "country bumpkins" to fight the military in the city.
They still live in a feudal serfdom - where the nobility consists of multinationals seeking cheap[er] labor and the Party apparatus. Getting "dealt with" there (read: disappeared) takes a lot less effort in the People's Republic of China than it does in the United States (much less the First World) - you dont have to commit an actual crime, but just be in the wrong family at the wrong time when doing something.
Unless someone is of the urbanized part exposed to the world, nothing has really changed. In addition, that government will continue to keep it that way through the hukou system. With that, someone out in the countryside is not likely to see much if any of the benefits through such enforced isolation.
They had the choice in 1989 to be a country that just manages slave labor in a way that multinationals like, or that they could be a country that allowed greater choice for the non-nobility. Unfortunately they have chosen the former, being content with the fear of saying the wrong word, getting the wrong academic test score, or being in the wrong family.
You overlooked their attempt on June 4, 1989, which resulted in the Tiananmen Massacre. People were disappeared and history revised to disappear any memory of the conscious choice of the country to choose individual freedom - instead of just being content with letting multinationals keep their workers occupied while giving the people a few economic distractions.
A few trinkets wont change the general lack of freedom that the People's Republic of China maintains. The country's face will have to be ripped clean off with a change to a more Western-friendly government that grants freedom to people of all levels of prosperity and status- much like Taiwan and British Hong Kong before each got invaded by pro-mainland sentiment.
Bring enough of the developed world in with its standards and you bypass this nasty and unnecessary part of "industrialization" - especially if it uses the displaced to help enforce it.
The problem is that they're still despotic junk pushers and not being punished for it.
How about being willing to protect our own and not selling our country's sovereignty to the highest bidder? Then again you would try to split the audience and pit it against our country by using the word consumer. In another era, McCarthy would have made it living hell for businesses to deal with Asia as closely as you wish.
Those aren't "neighbors" to be trusted given their attempts to take over First World companies and enslavement of their own people - or to otherwise slight the US.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre sealed China's fate as a forever-despotic country. Other countries just use the cover of offshoring by multinational companies to further their whitewashed despotism.
Those arent neighbors that you want, but neighbors you want to remove.
Given the general low quality from the Asia-specific machines(aside from Japan home-market-only hardware if you want to count them as such), this means attention to hardware quality goes out the window. It will be made with no attention to First World concepts such as quality or performance.
That and expect more Engrish in GB2312 to accompany that junk - since we couldnt pursue a national security exception when this started with IBM's spinoff with their PC division.
While there might be a good use for something like SecureBoot, answering to a manufacturer (whether it be Microsoft or anyone else) only makes avoidance or removal the only good decisions.
The most likely occasion is that this just repeats with a nominally different supplier. Just cut to the chase and cut out the areas that pull this stuff.
Sounds like FDR knew of this kind of threat well before business even thought of it as an opportunity:
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
China not only has hundreds of millions of such necessitous men, they also have women and children of that variety as well. That, and they have the dictatorship as far as the workers are concerned - where critics disappear or get smeared (in the case of Apple & Foxconn wrt First World-side critics).
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Not only do both have the proper feel, they'll be more likely to outlast the Coolermaster boards despite both being well over 15 years old.
If I really want programmable macros or USB, microcontrollers can provide those.
While tax policy might provide an easy out if one of the states involved is California, replace it with a state not so far off the chart. The governments of these business-sycophantic states cannot create new businesses on their own but rely on other states to create and grow them. The mentality in these states is that if you do not own a business, you must be denied freedom.
When a state government actively pursues businesses, they not only remove jobs from a state (usually with as much stealth as possible as to not alarm the public and block it then and there), they fail to generate the promised jobs in the new state, and most importantly fail to promote to workers that the new state is worth moving to for the long term (aside from few exceptions). This applies to any state that puts its living-in-the-flesh constitutents in a lower priority than those created of legal fictions.
Individuals at fault? Not really.
Governments to blame? Definitely.
It only accelerates the speed of cattle rustling of businesses to Texas(sans workers unfortunately) while making sure it is too expensive for regular people to use it.
That, and it's not theft only if you're a business and bring it to Texas.
Since it's for the few and does not cater to the many, it's just cronyism done in the traditional Texas way.
It'll be faster than the hybrid drive when the flash fails, so you'll have something on these slower drives.
Given the relative ease of failure for flash memory compared to mechanical, the Momentus XT 7200's will end up winning on the long term.
Unlike flash, you have to actually try to break the disk before you get those kinds of failures. Flash only requires a steady stream of writes along with deletions in the wrong places. That's the price you pay for a faster disk.
Not only do you show the textbook example of why independent contract labor has too many things wrong with it, you also show that such arrangements favor corner-cutting that gets too close to do the job right.
Get a decent job that will stand by its equipment, buy as high as you can go, and make it last for a long time. Not only will you not have to follow trends as much, the hardware will last, the hardware will be protected, and that your job will be more stable than Fukushima after the tsunami.
Whether it is write limits, disk fragmentation, or controllers going berserk, mechanicals still have flash(SSD's) beat on functionality.
Sounds like they want an excuse since they dont provide any actual evidence to back it up(read: is their 99% just a terminating cliche just to shut people up?). The Thai floods just wont cut it, and I doubt that the existing drives are that unreliable.
That said, I have one of their 7200 RPM models(ST9750420AS) in a W520 and would gladly replace it with another SSD-free drive. It beats all the other "alternatives" such as USB drives and if I need extra battery life, I can always slap on a slice battery. That and if its horribly fragmented, I dont have the overhead associated with SSD's.
The US didnt make a point of shoving the Valdez incident down the memory hole nor was the invasion of Panama(which unlike Hong Kong is with the British, is relatively friendly with the US). However, not only did China disappear people and memories of the incident, they made sure that the job would be done by getting their equivalent of "country bumpkins" to fight the military in the city.
They still live in a feudal serfdom - where the nobility consists of multinationals seeking cheap[er] labor and the Party apparatus. Getting "dealt with" there (read: disappeared) takes a lot less effort in the People's Republic of China than it does in the United States (much less the First World) - you dont have to commit an actual crime, but just be in the wrong family at the wrong time when doing something.
Unless someone is of the urbanized part exposed to the world, nothing has really changed. In addition, that government will continue to keep it that way through the hukou system. With that, someone out in the countryside is not likely to see much if any of the benefits through such enforced isolation.
They had the choice in 1989 to be a country that just manages slave labor in a way that multinationals like, or that they could be a country that allowed greater choice for the non-nobility. Unfortunately they have chosen the former, being content with the fear of saying the wrong word, getting the wrong academic test score, or being in the wrong family.
The problem is that they would rather have a pliant workforce that stands in opposition to any US citizen that wants to program and/or code.
Take away the very thing that allows them to distort the market and things go back to normal.
You overlooked their attempt on June 4, 1989, which resulted in the Tiananmen Massacre. People were disappeared and history revised to disappear any memory of the conscious choice of the country to choose individual freedom - instead of just being content with letting multinationals keep their workers occupied while giving the people a few economic distractions.
A few trinkets wont change the general lack of freedom that the People's Republic of China maintains. The country's face will have to be ripped clean off with a change to a more Western-friendly government that grants freedom to people of all levels of prosperity and status- much like Taiwan and British Hong Kong before each got invaded by pro-mainland sentiment.
Bring enough of the developed world in with its standards and you bypass this nasty and unnecessary part of "industrialization" - especially if it uses the displaced to help enforce it.
If the new Kinect is as friendly with PC's as the last one, that'll be a step up. Otherwise it just becomes another console accessory.
Congratulations in buying into the entitlement mentality for business.
The problem is that they're still despotic junk pushers and not being punished for it.
How about being willing to protect our own and not selling our country's sovereignty to the highest bidder? Then again you would try to split the audience and pit it against our country by using the word consumer. In another era, McCarthy would have made it living hell for businesses to deal with Asia as closely as you wish.
Those aren't "neighbors" to be trusted given their attempts to take over First World companies and enslavement of their own people - or to otherwise slight the US.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre sealed China's fate as a forever-despotic country. Other countries just use the cover of offshoring by multinational companies to further their whitewashed despotism.
Those arent neighbors that you want, but neighbors you want to remove.
Given the general low quality from the Asia-specific machines(aside from Japan home-market-only hardware if you want to count them as such), this means attention to hardware quality goes out the window. It will be made with no attention to First World concepts such as quality or performance.
That and expect more Engrish in GB2312 to accompany that junk - since we couldnt pursue a national security exception when this started with IBM's spinoff with their PC division.
So you propose a model of work that is not unlike prostitution.
Service providers only exist to help companies screw over workers.
Requiring a prompt does cripple the bootloader when compared to others that are somehow exempt from it.
While there might be a good use for something like SecureBoot, answering to a manufacturer (whether it be Microsoft or anyone else) only makes avoidance or removal the only good decisions.
Same thing goes with TCPA/TCG equipment.
Secureboot is the problem and disabling it(or getting rid of the device for a freer one) is the solution.
The most likely occasion is that this just repeats with a nominally different supplier. Just cut to the chase and cut out the areas that pull this stuff.
Sounds like FDR knew of this kind of threat well before business even thought of it as an opportunity:
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
China not only has hundreds of millions of such necessitous men, they also have women and children of that variety as well. That, and they have the dictatorship as far as the workers are concerned - where critics disappear or get smeared (in the case of Apple & Foxconn wrt First World-side critics).
His daughter had some interesting things to say as well, "The best description we could come up with: it's like The Truman Show, at country scale."
Close, but not quite.