Bring the anti-structuring laws from banking to remedy such a problem. Kills the 49 Employee Disease, contractor abuse, 32/39.5 hour abuses, and other things businesses do to try to get around the law.
If a reasonable person can see that someone is attempting to circumvent a regulation, treat the business as if it passed an minimums or met any requirements w/o regard to their actual status.
While there may be upsides to contract labor, they are reserved for the few that do well in any system. For the larger part, contract work is used to dodge benefits and to generally make life hell for workers in the name of "uncertainty". In addition, the two-tier workforce generates more backstabbing from the large amount of people in less-than-voluntary contractorship due to desperation.
The better thing to do would be to penalize contract labor while rewarding direct hires for all skill levels, as well as ensuring that liabilities/benefit requirements cannot be dodged or passed to some staffing agency or contractor. This way, the US heads off the European "contractor-for-every-job syndrome" by rewarding direct-hire, long-term work. No exceptions, no excuses.
As for HSA's, they're fine only if you can throw thousands at them and never consume them. Otherwise they make care worse off for the Rest of Us that cannot treat $5k as if it was pocket change. Conventional plans as a part of a full-benefit package (from a proper direct-hire job) do a better job than the HDHP nightmare.
The sooner that both contracting (as a standard practice) and HSA's DIAF, the sooner things get better. I'll probably get flak for it, but not everyone wants to be a disposable resource.
The only thing is that one can buy a Thinkpad through retail-type channels and customize it to one's liking (regarding internal/external options, support and the like) while the Toughbook has no such equivalent(all you get is a reseller at best and a few preselected configurations).
I know that too well given the W520's use of it. The software stack in that can't even handle volume correctly compared to the T6x-era brethren that last used a decent sound chipset + stack.
I'm not surprised that the integrated chipsets (usually Realtek) get beat by even $50 hardware. They're usually from companies that can't sell a chipset of any type unless it is included with a manufacturer due to not being able to make any provision for performance.
Those companies couldn't make a good chip to save their lives. Or even an acceptable one.
The only entity for which should even be considered for cooperation is the ESA - and only on the basis that there are no non-EU interests involved.
The only way China has gotten as far as they have is through stealing technology - whether by outright espionage or by luring companies with their pliant workforce. It is more than time for the US, UK, Australia, and the EU to stand up to the threat of China. Or we can continue to let military owned companies like Huawei to continue raiding countries that fail to defend themselves.
I have, just that it applies to more than just the "if you're not for offshoring, you're a buggywhip maker and should die!" case.
Comparative advantage is used to (near-exclusively) explain actions that cause harm like this. It is rarely, if ever, used to explain the other side, such that some people are much better as full-benefit, full-time workers that have no middlemen between them and the employer - which would be a detriment to the massive push to turn the US into Europe's faulty staffing agency job market.
Sounds like you want to be an apologist for the world, someone that thinks the US should suffer. Trying to pull down the US to the level of the Third World does nothing positive - rather, it makes things worse. Your consent to such action as well as its defense with "but, but, buggywhips!" does nothing to make your case.
The problem is that someone isn't figuring out how to improve the world - but to do something that comes at the general cost of US citizens. Not only does that not grow any pie, it actively harms the US.
Eventually, you will regret your position when the US finally decides to Do Something and end such practices.
With point 1, that fails to take into account that services like this act as an incorrect redistribution that pulls the US down to pull the world up. The world acts not like a dynamic pie, but a 99.999999999999999999% fixed pie. Point 2 is effectively nullified by the United States, which doesn't care about jurisdiction. Repeat enough times, and it becomes a futile task to go anywhere when the US is already ahead of you. Point 3 can be managed with a government that considers it a problem solved by requiring a flesh-and-blood presence and diluting the dollar-vote advantage.
Kill this concept with fire and nuke it from orbit, TYVM. The last thing this economy needs is to siphon more work while we have people who cannot find replacement work fast enough to justify this kind of stuff.
The only logic in this algorithm is that US citizens are considered persona non grata unless they want to forgo the 13th Amendment in the name of economics - much like the various programs that precede it. Given the other companies out there, this is an already solved problem for the Third World. What they fail to do is to solve it for the First World.
In addition, the only purpose that this could serve is spam.
If the FCC had any bravery in them, they'd find a way to kill off the rampant use of metered data - and without the carrier raising the cost.
The lack of metered data is what had made the Internet good to work with. Now all it does is just engender politics about who gets exempt - much like the Bad Old Days of Compuserve.
Given how many decent, albeit old, chips covered by the Gnome 3 blacklist - this shouldn't be a surprise.
In addition, not much was ever said about the blacklist other than "R100/R200/$chip just can't handle it" without specifying how something that worked in Gnome 3.0 didn't work in later versions. The excuse generally has been along the lines of "STFU and enjoy the fallback, since your chip is too old" without a reasonable explanation of why it even happened. Never mind that Gnome 3 goes out of its way to make sure a blacklisted chipset stays in fallback to the best of its ability - without any opportunity to override.
Sounds like Apple wants to be on both sides of their 1984 commercial. Not only do they want to be on the side that "is different" while being on the side that hates freedom and privacy.
China is a very big and diverse country, and going China doesn't necessarily mean going low cost nowadays. Costal China is first world (or close enough already, in any case not 3rd world by far), with a very high adoption rate for smartphones
Yet the products seem to fail to hold up to that standard save for the few (and large) exceptions.
And not crappy ones, also high end ones. Plus, Android is impaired in China by no official Google Play support if I understand correctly, and side channels are full of malware making Android reputation poor. The iPhone doesn't support TD-SCDMA so is not carried by the first operator, China Mobile. WP is mostly nowhere (as everywhere). There is a gap to fill there, and if you come with a new OS it may be easier to get a foothold in such a context than in Western countries with entrenched iPhone and Android
Even with the region hobbling of the N9 to intentionally kill sales of the product, it did better than the Windows Mobile phones by a wide margin. Until Nokia was introduced to the Trojan Horse that Elop brought in, they had a viable alternative - the Maemo/Meego platform.
As a N770, N810 Wimax, and N900 owner(twice over), this would be a step down from the N9. Even the N9 itself is a large step down from the do-everything-go-anywhere N900 that represented the peak of what Nokia did with that platform. Despite that, that is what you get when you have a First World focus on hardware design.
Given that there is an existing tablet that has gone down this road(Zenithink C71) and uses cut-down hardware, there is precedent. That is the class of hardware that Jolla will come up with when they do release a product - older generation, strictly low-end hardware wrapped around a shoddy frame.
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Feed the staffing companies to the same shredder, and anyone left in that company that uses them or advocates indirect labor.
Get rid of the philosophy to send stuff offshore, bring back the engineers, and take a page from General Motors' own efforts to bring things back.
Wouldn't hurt to avoid contractors like the plague either, since it shows a sense of trust not found in many companies today.
I thought she also made a point to get rid of the engineers and then became a H1-b cheerleader.
Bring the anti-structuring laws from banking to remedy such a problem. Kills the 49 Employee Disease, contractor abuse, 32/39.5 hour abuses, and other things businesses do to try to get around the law.
If a reasonable person can see that someone is attempting to circumvent a regulation, treat the business as if it passed an minimums or met any requirements w/o regard to their actual status.
While there may be upsides to contract labor, they are reserved for the few that do well in any system. For the larger part, contract work is used to dodge benefits and to generally make life hell for workers in the name of "uncertainty". In addition, the two-tier workforce generates more backstabbing from the large amount of people in less-than-voluntary contractorship due to desperation.
The better thing to do would be to penalize contract labor while rewarding direct hires for all skill levels, as well as ensuring that liabilities/benefit requirements cannot be dodged or passed to some staffing agency or contractor. This way, the US heads off the European "contractor-for-every-job syndrome" by rewarding direct-hire, long-term work. No exceptions, no excuses.
As for HSA's, they're fine only if you can throw thousands at them and never consume them. Otherwise they make care worse off for the Rest of Us that cannot treat $5k as if it was pocket change. Conventional plans as a part of a full-benefit package (from a proper direct-hire job) do a better job than the HDHP nightmare.
The sooner that both contracting (as a standard practice) and HSA's DIAF, the sooner things get better. I'll probably get flak for it, but not everyone wants to be a disposable resource.
The only thing is that one can buy a Thinkpad through retail-type channels and customize it to one's liking (regarding internal/external options, support and the like) while the Toughbook has no such equivalent(all you get is a reseller at best and a few preselected configurations).
I know that too well given the W520's use of it. The software stack in that can't even handle volume correctly compared to the T6x-era brethren that last used a decent sound chipset + stack.
I'm not surprised that the integrated chipsets (usually Realtek) get beat by even $50 hardware. They're usually from companies that can't sell a chipset of any type unless it is included with a manufacturer due to not being able to make any provision for performance.
Those companies couldn't make a good chip to save their lives. Or even an acceptable one.
Flat rate data didn't discourage carriers from upgrading to 2G and 3G - and doesn't seem to harm Sprint that much to keep it.
With flat rate data, they have to actually Do The Right Thing when they engineer their network.
With metered data, they don't have to develop their network even if they do raise their rates. See Verizon Wireless and AT&T for examples.
The only entity for which should even be considered for cooperation is the ESA - and only on the basis that there are no non-EU interests involved.
The only way China has gotten as far as they have is through stealing technology - whether by outright espionage or by luring companies with their pliant workforce. It is more than time for the US, UK, Australia, and the EU to stand up to the threat of China. Or we can continue to let military owned companies like Huawei to continue raiding countries that fail to defend themselves.
I have, just that it applies to more than just the "if you're not for offshoring, you're a buggywhip maker and should die!" case.
Comparative advantage is used to (near-exclusively) explain actions that cause harm like this. It is rarely, if ever, used to explain the other side, such that some people are much better as full-benefit, full-time workers that have no middlemen between them and the employer - which would be a detriment to the massive push to turn the US into Europe's faulty staffing agency job market.
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Sounds like you want to be an apologist for the world, someone that thinks the US should suffer. Trying to pull down the US to the level of the Third World does nothing positive - rather, it makes things worse. Your consent to such action as well as its defense with "but, but, buggywhips!" does nothing to make your case.
The problem is that someone isn't figuring out how to improve the world - but to do something that comes at the general cost of US citizens. Not only does that not grow any pie, it actively harms the US.
Eventually, you will regret your position when the US finally decides to Do Something and end such practices.
With point 1, that fails to take into account that services like this act as an incorrect redistribution that pulls the US down to pull the world up. The world acts not like a dynamic pie, but a 99.999999999999999999% fixed pie.
Point 2 is effectively nullified by the United States, which doesn't care about jurisdiction. Repeat enough times, and it becomes a futile task to go anywhere when the US is already ahead of you.
Point 3 can be managed with a government that considers it a problem solved by requiring a flesh-and-blood presence and diluting the dollar-vote advantage.
Kill this concept with fire and nuke it from orbit, TYVM. The last thing this economy needs is to siphon more work while we have people who cannot find replacement work fast enough to justify this kind of stuff.
The only logic in this algorithm is that US citizens are considered persona non grata unless they want to forgo the 13th Amendment in the name of economics - much like the various programs that precede it. Given the other companies out there, this is an already solved problem for the Third World. What they fail to do is to solve it for the First World.
In addition, the only purpose that this could serve is spam.
If you don't mind 3G, get an N900 (or similarly 3G capable phone that is equally carrier-hostile) and do tethering through that.
Not sure about the carrier-hostile 4G equivalent though.
If the FCC had any bravery in them, they'd find a way to kill off the rampant use of metered data - and without the carrier raising the cost.
The lack of metered data is what had made the Internet good to work with. Now all it does is just engender politics about who gets exempt - much like the Bad Old Days of Compuserve.
Given how many decent, albeit old, chips covered by the Gnome 3 blacklist - this shouldn't be a surprise.
In addition, not much was ever said about the blacklist other than "R100/R200/$chip just can't handle it" without specifying how something that worked in Gnome 3.0 didn't work in later versions. The excuse generally has been along the lines of "STFU and enjoy the fallback, since your chip is too old" without a reasonable explanation of why it even happened. Never mind that Gnome 3 goes out of its way to make sure a blacklisted chipset stays in fallback to the best of its ability - without any opportunity to override.
That would work until regulation provided a legal partition between personal accounts and corporate accounts. Even if at work or not.
Everyone except the person hell-bent on using social media to filter wins.
These are the things you get with the lack of openness - in favor of the One True Platform where everything must submit to the One True Experience
I presume that this guy won't count, or will this have the audience racing to be the first person to claim spotting him?
Sounds like Apple wants to be on both sides of their 1984 commercial. Not only do they want to be on the side that "is different" while being on the side that hates freedom and privacy.
You'll find the notice right before the equivalent of the Obituary section or a couple pages from the back of the first section.
China is a very big and diverse country, and going China doesn't necessarily mean going low cost nowadays. Costal China is first world (or close enough already, in any case not 3rd world by far), with a very high adoption rate for smartphones
Yet the products seem to fail to hold up to that standard save for the few (and large) exceptions.
And not crappy ones, also high end ones. Plus, Android is impaired in China by no official Google Play support if I understand correctly, and side channels are full of malware making Android reputation poor. The iPhone doesn't support TD-SCDMA so is not carried by the first operator, China Mobile. WP is mostly nowhere (as everywhere). There is a gap to fill there, and if you come with a new OS it may be easier to get a foothold in such a context than in Western countries with entrenched iPhone and Android
Even with the region hobbling of the N9 to intentionally kill sales of the product, it did better than the Windows Mobile phones by a wide margin.
Until Nokia was introduced to the Trojan Horse that Elop brought in, they had a viable alternative - the Maemo/Meego platform.
Try using an excuse that isn't a standard Apple handwave.
As a N770, N810 Wimax, and N900 owner(twice over), this would be a step down from the N9. Even the N9 itself is a large step down from the do-everything-go-anywhere N900 that represented the peak of what Nokia did with that platform. Despite that, that is what you get when you have a First World focus on hardware design.
Given that there is an existing tablet that has gone down this road(Zenithink C71) and uses cut-down hardware, there is precedent. That is the class of hardware that Jolla will come up with when they do release a product - older generation, strictly low-end hardware wrapped around a shoddy frame.