I think they do, yes. In fact Lenovo is less likely to churn out 3 million different subvariants of each model which I believe lends to them a standardization and reliability not apparent with some of the Thinkpads. For instance in our corporate setting we have LOTS of hardware problems with T41, T60, T61 models and replacement parts are not only hard to find but hard to figure out which part model FRU you need.
In my own humble opinion I cannot understand what the panache of Thinkpads is anymore relative to Lenovo models. I can understand the appeal of the higher end TP's geared more towards executives, but we don't get those anyway. To their credit, after more than a year of using a TP trackpoint, I would rather use it and find trackpads a pain.
Actually I wind up with systems that are fairly well maintained and since the success rate of complex systems implementations like CRM, SAP, Tivoli and so on is perhaps no better than 50% regardless of who I use, it's really a kind of zero sum equation either way. But why they fail is a discussion for another day. Hint - it has nothing to do with IT skill, and everything to do with management.
But that's not the ethos of Apple gear. Their ethos is to simply have it work, one way, every time, all the time. Making an iPhone into a mini Windows like machine would not be a sensible thing for Apple to do. Perhaps a Zune-phone could have 9-gillion switches and 10 layers deep drop down menus, but that would be their ethos, not Apple's.
My critical staff will come from and will stay outside of the US. I don't a big uptick in American technical graduates to fill those slots anyway. And for the few who do there will always be advanced jobs for them.
About 80% of the lifecycle cost of an IT system is people, as opposed to say 9% of the total cost for a car company to produce a car. So you can it have one of two ways, you can crush that ratio down to 9% for IT and eliminate 90% of the jobs everywhere, or you can eliminate 60-80% of that 80% cost by doing the job elsewhere. And if Americans were smart they'd start educating their workforce to be the people who design the new systems that automate away the 90% of labor component through smart automation and management. But hanging on to coder and sysadmin jobs is like hanging on to textile and furniture making jobs. Anyone can do it so do it where it costs less. Not all foreigners are fools and newbies you know.
The prior FCC's head. He said once, to the news, and I quote "I literally have no idea what the public interest is." unquote.
That pretty much sums up the FCC. So don't hold your breath, the FCC is there to mouth words that the the religious right wants to hear and to support the oligopolies that keep American telcom mired 10-15 years in the past.
What with their room temperature IQ's, hangovers and general apathy and language barriers. They can barely sweep the bar code over the scanner so asking them what's the difference between Linux and Winderz is a waste of time.
All of those companies outsource to a huge degree. Clearly "IT" has little value in and of itself. What does have value is a subset of their critical applications infrastructure. But the other 90% falls squarely in the laps of people like me who send the work to India, South America, China to do it for 1/10th the cost. If that work had any inherent strategic value they wouldn't outsource.
Is it faster and smaller? Does it run better and not crash? Is it a RAM whoring slut? Is it going to break all of my extensions to protect me from myself?
I work in security and I'm actually a little sick of everyone trying to incorporate more security features into every product under the sun. Hey, maybe a little bit of education and awareness is worth 10 million lines of antiphishing code.
I'm not sure you'd even want FF, slow and bulky as it is, on an iPhone. Not sure about Opera but I'll tell you that Opera mini 3.12 is a pretty crappy browser. Maybe v4 is better, I hope so for their sake.
I can't wait to hear those two girly men scream and nag and shriek about what a moral outrage it all is. The winner can bury an ice ax in Skip Baylis's head.
The guy sent in to probe for the intel of the people who may very well lose their jobs in an oursourcing deal has a crappy job. Those people have zero motivation to help, are often scared and angry.
A friend of mine, an historian, commented that when you leave teenagers in charge what you get is the middle ages. Which is factually correct.
The Facebook generation, essentially a gibbering gaggle of binge drinking ADD retards, are now in charge. In a few more years you can expect another Cultural Revolution that will make 'Idiocracy' look like a documentary.
L1B visas are unlimited. They allow a foreign company to bring in their own overseas workers to the US ostensibly to work on that firm's projects alone, at rate the company choses to pay them as long as it doesn't violate minimum wage laws. Moreover those workers, often packed 4 or 5 in an apartment are charged their rent and expenses against that below market rate salary. So if they are 'paid' $3000/month for the job used to do for 80K/year, then they are charged back $2000/month in rent and expenses leaving them 12k/year.
Basically you're losing your jobs to people who practically indentured servants. THAT's why there's a shortage. There's a shortage of indentured servants that US companies can pay. They're not paying your rate ergo so a 'gap' is created that filled off the labor rolls by foreign workers.
On/. I am constantly shouted down by Game Boys who insist that octo-core liquid cooled machines are absolutely necessary. Be that as it may, your monitor already costs more than a low end commodity PC so I expect that to 'justify' that purchase the graphics engine side of the equation will get ever bigger and more complex.
There will be no manned spaceflight past earth orbit through the remainder of this entire century. No one wants to do it. Hell most Americans think NASA's budget is bigger than the Pentagon's. We are never going to Mars, we are never going back to the Moon.
Everyone knows that NASA will be pressured to end manned spaceflight after the Shuttle program and it will be respun as some kind international friendship effort to have all American astronauts put into orbit by Russian, Chinese and Indian systems.
And oh, in case you were wondering, manned spaceflight past Earth orbit is dead, buried over and out through at least this entire century.
Just wondering, cuz the gaggle of post anarchist anti globalist we hate America loons is especially rich here today.
I like the street scenes because when you're trying to find a building in an endless row of office bldgs its good to know what the bldg looks like, especially when they don't post their street numbers anywhere you can see from your car.
Oh we're gonna do that. US = Nazi Germany, America worst nation in the history of the planet, are we? Tearing pages out of Howard Zinn and smoking them again?
Ok d00d, torch that Starbucks! Vulva La Revolucion!!!!
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I think they do, yes. In fact Lenovo is less likely to churn out 3 million different subvariants of each model which I believe lends to them a standardization and reliability not apparent with some of the Thinkpads. For instance in our corporate setting we have LOTS of hardware problems with T41, T60, T61 models and replacement parts are not only hard to find but hard to figure out which part model FRU you need.
In my own humble opinion I cannot understand what the panache of Thinkpads is anymore relative to Lenovo models. I can understand the appeal of the higher end TP's geared more towards executives, but we don't get those anyway. To their credit, after more than a year of using a TP trackpoint, I would rather use it and find trackpads a pain.
I bought a Lenovo N100 3000 0768 with a bag with a 3 year depot repair and warranty with Lojack with XP with tax and shipping for $998.00.
Not the smallest, cheapest, fastest or lightest machine out there but probably one of the lowest 3 year TCO's around.
Actually I wind up with systems that are fairly well maintained and since the success rate of complex systems implementations like CRM, SAP, Tivoli and so on is perhaps no better than 50% regardless of who I use, it's really a kind of zero sum equation either way. But why they fail is a discussion for another day. Hint - it has nothing to do with IT skill, and everything to do with management.
But that's not the ethos of Apple gear. Their ethos is to simply have it work, one way, every time, all the time. Making an iPhone into a mini Windows like machine would not be a sensible thing for Apple to do. Perhaps a Zune-phone could have 9-gillion switches and 10 layers deep drop down menus, but that would be their ethos, not Apple's.
My critical staff will come from and will stay outside of the US. I don't a big uptick in American technical graduates to fill those slots anyway. And for the few who do there will always be advanced jobs for them.
About 80% of the lifecycle cost of an IT system is people, as opposed to say 9% of the total cost for a car company to produce a car. So you can it have one of two ways, you can crush that ratio down to 9% for IT and eliminate 90% of the jobs everywhere, or you can eliminate 60-80% of that 80% cost by doing the job elsewhere. And if Americans were smart they'd start educating their workforce to be the people who design the new systems that automate away the 90% of labor component through smart automation and management. But hanging on to coder and sysadmin jobs is like hanging on to textile and furniture making jobs. Anyone can do it so do it where it costs less. Not all foreigners are fools and newbies you know.
The prior FCC's head. He said once, to the news, and I quote "I literally have no idea what the public interest is." unquote.
That pretty much sums up the FCC. So don't hold your breath, the FCC is there to mouth words that the the religious right wants to hear and to support the oligopolies that keep American telcom mired 10-15 years in the past.
What with their room temperature IQ's, hangovers and general apathy and language barriers. They can barely sweep the bar code over the scanner so asking them what's the difference between Linux and Winderz is a waste of time.
Yeah sure, but then everyone will complain that no one stopped them from building and installing something against their own best interests.
Wiki's reliability is already questionable. Why not sponsor articles? At least they'd get paid for being corrupt agendized liars?
All of those companies outsource to a huge degree. Clearly "IT" has little value in and of itself. What does have value is a subset of their critical applications infrastructure. But the other 90% falls squarely in the laps of people like me who send the work to India, South America, China to do it for 1/10th the cost. If that work had any inherent strategic value they wouldn't outsource.
Is it faster and smaller? Does it run better and not crash? Is it a RAM whoring slut? Is it going to break all of my extensions to protect me from myself?
I work in security and I'm actually a little sick of everyone trying to incorporate more security features into every product under the sun. Hey, maybe a little bit of education and awareness is worth 10 million lines of antiphishing code.
I'm not sure you'd even want FF, slow and bulky as it is, on an iPhone. Not sure about Opera but I'll tell you that Opera mini 3.12 is a pretty crappy browser. Maybe v4 is better, I hope so for their sake.
I can't wait to hear those two girly men scream and nag and shriek about what a moral outrage it all is. The winner can bury an ice ax in Skip Baylis's head.
The guy sent in to probe for the intel of the people who may very well lose their jobs in an oursourcing deal has a crappy job. Those people have zero motivation to help, are often scared and angry.
WTF are we taking advert space out now on /.?
A friend of mine, an historian, commented that when you leave teenagers in charge what you get is the middle ages. Which is factually correct.
The Facebook generation, essentially a gibbering gaggle of binge drinking ADD retards, are now in charge. In a few more years you can expect another Cultural Revolution that will make 'Idiocracy' look like a documentary.
L1B visas are unlimited. They allow a foreign company to bring in their own overseas workers to the US ostensibly to work on that firm's projects alone, at rate the company choses to pay them as long as it doesn't violate minimum wage laws. Moreover those workers, often packed 4 or 5 in an apartment are charged their rent and expenses against that below market rate salary. So if they are 'paid' $3000/month for the job used to do for 80K/year, then they are charged back $2000/month in rent and expenses leaving them 12k/year.
Basically you're losing your jobs to people who practically indentured servants. THAT's why there's a shortage. There's a shortage of indentured servants that US companies can pay. They're not paying your rate ergo so a 'gap' is created that filled off the labor rolls by foreign workers.
That's why I keep IE Tab installed on FF. So the standard is probably meaningless to the wider population of sites.
On /. I am constantly shouted down by Game Boys who insist that octo-core liquid cooled machines are absolutely necessary. Be that as it may, your monitor already costs more than a low end commodity PC so I expect that to 'justify' that purchase the graphics engine side of the equation will get ever bigger and more complex.
There will be no manned spaceflight past earth orbit through the remainder of this entire century. No one wants to do it. Hell most Americans think NASA's budget is bigger than the Pentagon's. We are never going to Mars, we are never going back to the Moon.
Everyone knows that NASA will be pressured to end manned spaceflight after the Shuttle program and it will be respun as some kind international friendship effort to have all American astronauts put into orbit by Russian, Chinese and Indian systems.
And oh, in case you were wondering, manned spaceflight past Earth orbit is dead, buried over and out through at least this entire century.
Just give me a rebate. At least don't make me pay so much for being raped. Thanks.
Raleigh
Just wondering, cuz the gaggle of post anarchist anti globalist we hate America loons is especially rich here today.
I like the street scenes because when you're trying to find a building in an endless row of office bldgs its good to know what the bldg looks like, especially when they don't post their street numbers anywhere you can see from your car.
Oh we're gonna do that. US = Nazi Germany, America worst nation in the history of the planet, are we? Tearing pages out of Howard Zinn and smoking them again?
Ok d00d, torch that Starbucks! Vulva La Revolucion!!!!