Our org purchased a box of 8 external Seagate drives to distribute to various staff members. All 8 failed within about 2 years. I suspect there was a broken or defective manufacturing tool in place the day they were made.
To be fair, that probably happens to every product every now and then, and our bad experience is not a statistically useful sample size.
But on a gut level I now avoid Seagate. Assuming the published benchmarks and reliability surveys are reasonably accurate, my avoidance is probably not rational, but it's hard not to personally value direct experience over publications. I would guestimate there's a roughly 10% chance the publications are wrong or bribed, and that 10% is perhaps enough to claim I have a rational reason to value personal experience over the publications and avoid Seagate.
As far as a direct cloud connection, I don't believe that's the job of a "dumb" device. Even if it's optional, how can I tell it's really "off" and not sending due to a hack or flaw?
And, how do they update the software if a hole is found? It's a similar problem for most IOT devices that hasn't been worked out systematically yet. It's a full fledged computer connecting to the Internet inside with all the trappings of a full fledged computer connecting to the Internet.
Russia needs to work on...improving the quality of life of all their citizens.
Dictators don't care about that; they want toys and power. They only care about the welfare of their masses if there's a risk they'll riot and overthrow the top.
There may be a bit of truth to that. Trump may relax sanctions on Russia in exchange for a Syrian draw-down or concessions. (Obama appeared to reject such a deal, taking sanction reduction off the Syria table.)
That kind of deal would boost Russia's economy, and give them more tax money for their space program.
Automation and virtual stores are a far bigger threat to blue-collar jobs than China and Mexico. President Elect Trump is solving the wrong problem. Big factories ain't coming back, at least not with people inside.
But if the economy is stimulated enough by other means, then jobs may open up in other areas, like cooks, custom landscaping, customizing cars, etc. The demand for hands-on customization exists: having something custom is a status symbol, but people will only pay for it if they feel they have enough money.
I think Helicopter Money (HM) should be tried to juice the economy. Automation has increased the economy's capacity, but the money supply hasn't grown to match that increase, creating sub-par inflation.
Some economist worry that HM may trigger run-away inflation. I don't propose over-doing it, just enough to get a normal inflation rate. If everyone is afraid to try new things in the new economy, we'll be stuck in a rut. Low interest rates alone aren't working. The old economic toolkit needs new tools for the new era, and we may have to gamble a bit to test these tools. I'm sure having the Fed Reserve manage interest rates made many economists nervous at first. They got over it. HM is just another knob* for them.
I don't personally like Trump, but boldly going where nobody has economically gone before is just up his ally.
Engage, Captain Orange!
* Some believe the market should "self regulate" both of these, but I have not seen a sensible plan for such. For example, one that cannot be manipulated by big banks using OPEC-like collusion. Some argue they do that now with interest rates, but making it even easier to collude is an anti-fix. Adjust, don't kill the Fed Reserve.
H didn't score so well with blue-collar men. I don't know if it's because she's female, or is too reserved (stiff) when they really want a Rosie O kind of personality, who knows. There are many voting issues to consider besides union, but if unions are important to you, then the average Republican politician is not your friend.
I think the tile look is cool myself. However, it's often not practical. For one, you have to play Tetris-like games to shift stuff around as things change.
It's probably one of the few times I may not care if it's a maintenance headache JUST to get eye candy. I'm human also: eye-candy sometimes snags me up just like anybody else.
However, I would try to point that out the maintenance "tax" to the customer/management. If they want form over function, it's their call.
the list doesn't look that much different for the 2012 and 2008 election cycles. The Unions have traditionally been heavily Blue since Reagan's first term.
Fair enough. Republicans often threaten to limit unions, which is rare with Democrats. Maybe their actions differ than their words, but as a union member I wouldn't go with the group that verbally threatens unions over the one that doesn't unless I had inside info that differs from their words.
blue collar workers "have been leaving unions for decade
I don't think they outright leave unions, but rather union-oriented industries are dying, such as manufacturing. Most of the new jobs opening up to replace those are more varied and specialized. It's easier to unionize a shop where most do the same kind of work. Anything large-scale and consistent/regimented gets offshored or automated.
Is Google the only search engine on all the interwebs or something?
It's the one that matters the most. Being on Bing etc. may not worry the alleged content owners nearly as much. Perhaps Bing gets a lot of removal requests also. Bing it and find out. (You can google Bing, and you can bing Google. ee-eye, ee-eye, oh)
Bad link removal fees could be a nice source of revenue for search engines. Maybe I should try that racket: create a search engine, named like free-movie-search.com, and scan sites with a dodgy reputation to fill it. Content owners then pay me to remove the links. Nah, being that slimy would make me feel like a politician.
It could be that way first because most polls projected H would win. You want to influence the likely winner. Donations are not necessarily intended to finance campaigns, but to buy influence, and to do that you want to pay the likely winner.
Trump also baffled the political managers of such organizations who would make those decisions, being T is such a different (non) politician. He was a wild-card that many didn't know what to make of. He won mostly the angry/revenge vote, and those in management of such orgs are doing relatively well because they are managers after all.
Someone doing well won't want to rock the boat. It's the angry "losers" (for lack of a better term) that typically want to rock the boat. Therefore, those managers didn't feel/understand the revenge/anger angle of Trumpism.
You have to throw the normal political analysis out with Trump. The books have to be rewritten.
An auction system may reduce riff-raff and "shortage" BS.
Have a base cap, such as 30,000 skilled visa positions a year, for example. Maybe have another 30,000 slots, but corporations have to bid against each other for them. If there is truly a shortage, they will pay a high wage for them, and select them for actual skill instead of for cheaper bodies who work long hours because they have no family etc. They wouldn't bid on actual people, just the salaries. And perhaps tax some of that to help pay down the national debt.
An article in the LA Times describes how un-equal our trade deals are in terms of professions. Doctors and lawyers are protected from much offshoring & visa workers due to various laws and trade agreement exceptions, for example.
There's no reason law and medical schools couldn't be set up other countries to train remote and visa workers on US law and medical practices. But our rules arbitrary limit or exclude those schools.
You want cheaper ACA? make outsourcing and/or visa-ing doctors easier. Otherwise somebody who used to make $25/hr at a factory and now making $9 as a Walmart clerk has to pay $200 an hour for a doctor. One is zapped by globalization and one protected from it, creating a huge discrepancy between their service rates. Of course medical care goes up for such people. It's not ACA's direct fault.
If the impact of globalization is spread around more evenly, then perhaps life won't be so difficult for those subject to globalized careers: their wages may go down, but so will their cost of living as others' wages also go down.
Trump may be a babbling blowhard, but he has focused attention on this issue. Let's do it right this time: Spread the "love".
However, something tells me the heavy lobbying money of those professions will buy protection. Blue-collar workers don't have the equivalent counter-bribing force. Lawyers and doctors won't accept a cut without a heavy fight. The rich simply have more weapons.
People around here hate C#... because it's from MS.
MS has been burning people for decades. After being burnt 4 times in the past, do you blame somebody for not wanting to risk being burned 5?
Silverlight, Active-X, VB-Classic code, FoxPro, IE bugs, most of their mobile crap, etc. etc.
Maybe MS sometimes is accidentally nice and won't pull the rug out from under you in the future. But, how does one know THIS time is such a case?
Look what Oracle has done to Java "standards". C# could be Oracletized if MS gets desperate enough for cash one of these days.
(The one possible upside of MS is that it's easier to find developers for. Even if their tricks and flops force you to re-write, at least the rewrite team is fairly easy to put together. Their ubiquity makes reinventing the wheel a bit easier. )
You hit back on your browser, and now you have to start scrolling from the top all over again. Whoever came up with the idea for infinite scroll web pages should be forced to go home and start his trip all over again every time his GPS tells him to make a turn and he misses it.
Maybe the inventor had Alzheimers: they wouldn't know the difference or care.
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Our org purchased a box of 8 external Seagate drives to distribute to various staff members. All 8 failed within about 2 years. I suspect there was a broken or defective manufacturing tool in place the day they were made.
To be fair, that probably happens to every product every now and then, and our bad experience is not a statistically useful sample size.
But on a gut level I now avoid Seagate. Assuming the published benchmarks and reliability surveys are reasonably accurate, my avoidance is probably not rational, but it's hard not to personally value direct experience over publications. I would guestimate there's a roughly 10% chance the publications are wrong or bribed, and that 10% is perhaps enough to claim I have a rational reason to value personal experience over the publications and avoid Seagate.
As far as a direct cloud connection, I don't believe that's the job of a "dumb" device. Even if it's optional, how can I tell it's really "off" and not sending due to a hack or flaw?
And, how do they update the software if a hole is found? It's a similar problem for most IOT devices that hasn't been worked out systematically yet. It's a full fledged computer connecting to the Internet inside with all the trappings of a full fledged computer connecting to the Internet.
My sig proven as accurate as ever
@#&$ moderators can't take a joke.
Okay, but unless there's lots of new little factories, it won't change employment much.
Dictators don't care about that; they want toys and power. They only care about the welfare of their masses if there's a risk they'll riot and overthrow the top.
There may be a bit of truth to that. Trump may relax sanctions on Russia in exchange for a Syrian draw-down or concessions. (Obama appeared to reject such a deal, taking sanction reduction off the Syria table.)
That kind of deal would boost Russia's economy, and give them more tax money for their space program.
Corals can relate to DC Democrats.
Was that intended as sarcasm?
Automation and virtual stores are a far bigger threat to blue-collar jobs than China and Mexico. President Elect Trump is solving the wrong problem. Big factories ain't coming back, at least not with people inside.
But if the economy is stimulated enough by other means, then jobs may open up in other areas, like cooks, custom landscaping, customizing cars, etc. The demand for hands-on customization exists: having something custom is a status symbol, but people will only pay for it if they feel they have enough money.
I think Helicopter Money (HM) should be tried to juice the economy. Automation has increased the economy's capacity, but the money supply hasn't grown to match that increase, creating sub-par inflation.
Some economist worry that HM may trigger run-away inflation. I don't propose over-doing it, just enough to get a normal inflation rate. If everyone is afraid to try new things in the new economy, we'll be stuck in a rut. Low interest rates alone aren't working. The old economic toolkit needs new tools for the new era, and we may have to gamble a bit to test these tools. I'm sure having the Fed Reserve manage interest rates made many economists nervous at first. They got over it. HM is just another knob* for them.
I don't personally like Trump, but boldly going where nobody has economically gone before is just up his ally.
Engage, Captain Orange!
* Some believe the market should "self regulate" both of these, but I have not seen a sensible plan for such. For example, one that cannot be manipulated by big banks using OPEC-like collusion. Some argue they do that now with interest rates, but making it even easier to collude is an anti-fix. Adjust, don't kill the Fed Reserve.
H didn't score so well with blue-collar men. I don't know if it's because she's female, or is too reserved (stiff) when they really want a Rosie O kind of personality, who knows. There are many voting issues to consider besides union, but if unions are important to you, then the average Republican politician is not your friend.
Thanks.
Recount!
I think the tile look is cool myself. However, it's often not practical. For one, you have to play Tetris-like games to shift stuff around as things change.
It's probably one of the few times I may not care if it's a maintenance headache JUST to get eye candy. I'm human also: eye-candy sometimes snags me up just like anybody else.
However, I would try to point that out the maintenance "tax" to the customer/management. If they want form over function, it's their call.
Fair enough. Republicans often threaten to limit unions, which is rare with Democrats. Maybe their actions differ than their words, but as a union member I wouldn't go with the group that verbally threatens unions over the one that doesn't unless I had inside info that differs from their words.
I don't think they outright leave unions, but rather union-oriented industries are dying, such as manufacturing. Most of the new jobs opening up to replace those are more varied and specialized. It's easier to unionize a shop where most do the same kind of work. Anything large-scale and consistent/regimented gets offshored or automated.
Yeah, it's sort of a ... drum-roll please ... union!
Publish those standards, and if offshore schools/workers qualify, they qualify.
One can hire a personal lawyer, but of course that's expensive.
Smart call. The sub-contracting markup would probably have to have an upper limit to reduce such.
Furthermore, perhaps charge more for heavy users of visa workers. Somebody who hires thousands will have to pay more than somebody who hires 5.
If you have the money to hire thousands, then you have training money for citizens: no "shortage" excuse.
It's the one that matters the most. Being on Bing etc. may not worry the alleged content owners nearly as much. Perhaps Bing gets a lot of removal requests also. Bing it and find out. (You can google Bing, and you can bing Google. ee-eye, ee-eye, oh)
Bad link removal fees could be a nice source of revenue for search engines. Maybe I should try that racket: create a search engine, named like free-movie-search.com, and scan sites with a dodgy reputation to fill it. Content owners then pay me to remove the links. Nah, being that slimy would make me feel like a politician.
It could be that way first because most polls projected H would win. You want to influence the likely winner. Donations are not necessarily intended to finance campaigns, but to buy influence, and to do that you want to pay the likely winner.
Trump also baffled the political managers of such organizations who would make those decisions, being T is such a different (non) politician. He was a wild-card that many didn't know what to make of. He won mostly the angry/revenge vote, and those in management of such orgs are doing relatively well because they are managers after all.
Someone doing well won't want to rock the boat. It's the angry "losers" (for lack of a better term) that typically want to rock the boat. Therefore, those managers didn't feel/understand the revenge/anger angle of Trumpism.
You have to throw the normal political analysis out with Trump. The books have to be rewritten.
An auction system may reduce riff-raff and "shortage" BS.
Have a base cap, such as 30,000 skilled visa positions a year, for example. Maybe have another 30,000 slots, but corporations have to bid against each other for them. If there is truly a shortage, they will pay a high wage for them, and select them for actual skill instead of for cheaper bodies who work long hours because they have no family etc. They wouldn't bid on actual people, just the salaries. And perhaps tax some of that to help pay down the national debt.
An article in the LA Times describes how un-equal our trade deals are in terms of professions. Doctors and lawyers are protected from much offshoring & visa workers due to various laws and trade agreement exceptions, for example.
There's no reason law and medical schools couldn't be set up other countries to train remote and visa workers on US law and medical practices. But our rules arbitrary limit or exclude those schools.
You want cheaper ACA? make outsourcing and/or visa-ing doctors easier. Otherwise somebody who used to make $25/hr at a factory and now making $9 as a Walmart clerk has to pay $200 an hour for a doctor. One is zapped by globalization and one protected from it, creating a huge discrepancy between their service rates. Of course medical care goes up for such people. It's not ACA's direct fault.
If the impact of globalization is spread around more evenly, then perhaps life won't be so difficult for those subject to globalized careers: their wages may go down, but so will their cost of living as others' wages also go down.
Trump may be a babbling blowhard, but he has focused attention on this issue. Let's do it right this time: Spread the "love".
However, something tells me the heavy lobbying money of those professions will buy protection. Blue-collar workers don't have the equivalent counter-bribing force. Lawyers and doctors won't accept a cut without a heavy fight. The rich simply have more weapons.
Over my dead Zune!
Are you saying my butt is Yuuuuge?
to better model spherical cows.
My iPhone had a curved screen. It wasn't intentional, though.
MS has been burning people for decades. After being burnt 4 times in the past, do you blame somebody for not wanting to risk being burned 5?
Silverlight, Active-X, VB-Classic code, FoxPro, IE bugs, most of their mobile crap, etc. etc.
Maybe MS sometimes is accidentally nice and won't pull the rug out from under you in the future. But, how does one know THIS time is such a case?
Look what Oracle has done to Java "standards". C# could be Oracletized if MS gets desperate enough for cash one of these days.
(The one possible upside of MS is that it's easier to find developers for. Even if their tricks and flops force you to re-write, at least the rewrite team is fairly easy to put together. Their ubiquity makes reinventing the wheel a bit easier. )
PHB: "About this new NoSql database I had you set up. Um, I wish to do some SQL on it; could you add SQL to it by Wednesday?"
Maybe the inventor had Alzheimers: they wouldn't know the difference or care.