...but physical keyboards are just not being made much anymore. I am a software engineering contractor, and I work in the cellular industry. Most of the manufacturers are dropping all physical "qwerty" keyboard designs because they don't see a market for them anymore.
Motorola is one of the only exceptions that I am aware of that has a "Smart" phone with a physical keyboard that isn't too horrible.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/2...
Other than that you are pretty much out of luck.
As was already stated this is just a ploy for tech companies to abuse the already over abused H1B visa market, and drive wages down even further, because the Chinese will work for peanuts. We had a visiting engineer from China at my job the other day, and in casual conversation he unknowingly gave me enough information to figure out how much he makes a year. His salary comes out to basically McDonald's wages if he were living here in the USA.
We were having a conversation about his iPad vs my Galaxy tab, and the engineer told me that " My brother keeps bugging me to buy him an iPad because he only makes 25 Yuan an hour which is half of what I make." So, he basically told me he makes 50 Yuan and hour. So, do the Math at the current rate of 6.23 Yuan to 1 dollar the Engineer makes 8.02/hr. Those are just stupidly poor wages for someone with a computer science degree Chinese or not!
I would be impressed if they didn't ask you to log into Facebook to mine your data. Anyone can mine data with full profile access. Let's see them mine that kind of data with a locked down profile. Whatever!
...never been a shortage of science or engineering staff in the United States. The only shortage is science/engineering staff that refuses to work for peanuts, and that is the only reason why there are so many H1B visas. People with 60,000 worth of student loans don't want to work for $20/hr it's ridiculous to even expect them to.
I can tell you this much for certain: I have a little cousin who is not very good at soccer, but he still gets a trophy for every tournament that his team plays in: win or lose. It gives him a false sense of pride and self esteem. If you were to ask him on any day of the week what he wants to be when he grows up he would tell you that he wants to be a pro soccer player. In reality since his team has never won a game, largely due to the fact that his skills as a goal keeper are not good, his possibilities of being a pro soccer player are almost zero, but due to the "No Losers" policy of kids teams these days he still feels like he has a shot. That is where I draw my conclusions from. It may be good for a child's self esteem while they are a child, but unfortunately in the real world those kids are going to end up frying chicken at KFC because their plans as a pro sports player never panned out due to the fact that they have been taught that everyone wins even if they lose!
Really the "winningest" huh? You mean they are the country that has won the most medals? I'm sorry that is Russia with the top medal tally. They had the most medals in 1956,1960,1964,1972,1976,1980,and 1994. Where as Norway is actually second but most were won a long time ago: 1924, 1928, 1936, 1952, 1968, and 2002 being the newest first place win. So no not the "winningest" in a long time, better than the US in the Winter Olympics yes, but of course Russia kicks every countries ass because they live in the cold all the time, and this year they have home advantage. Oh and my information comes from here:
http://www.topendsports.com/ev...
If I had any children, which I don't, I would never allow them to go to public school. Politically correctness has ruined our society, and will continue to ruin it until this country is no more. What kind of non-sense is this "No Losers" bologna that they are teaching children these days? If one loses a game, he or she loses, and if one wins then he or she wins. There is no grey area, and those are the facts! This bull shit that everyone gets a trophy whether they win or lose is just that bull shit! When I was a kid when we lost we tried harder so we could get a trophy next time, and then when we finally won the trophy we were proud. These days they are teaching kids that no matter what they win, and life is always fair in their little psychotic delusion of a world! $&%$ politically correctness and the democratic ass that it rode in on!
My thoughts exactly! It is actually sad how cost of living has been skyrocketing while cost of living wage increases are almost not happening. My father just retired this year making almost as much as me, and he was only a high school graduate. I have two degrees in science and engineering, and the difference between my dad and I is that his company gave him reasonable cost of living increases throughout his whole career where my company gives it's employees barely any. I got a semi-reasonable increase this year, but that is only because I got exceeds expectations in 8 out of 10 categories on my year end review. If not for that I am sure I would have gotten a 2.5% increase with the rest of the employees.
It is sad, but the problem is really created by the governments lack of a budget, and can not totally be blamed on corporate greed. That along with the fact that capitalism doesn't work in a global economy when competing with countries that basically allow slave labor. Most people don't realize that the whole reason Abe Lincoln opposed slave labor wasn't that he was sympathetic with the slaves. No, he opposed it because non slave owners would not be able to compete with slave owners. The same way that America can not compete with countries like China, because their workers are working for almost nothing. We used to do a decent job of competing when our products were made with quality, but once the quality went away no one wants to pay double the price for the same crappy product.
So, of course less people are going to be flying planes who the hell can afford one? Not me. My Grandpa had one, a 1970 Cessna 172, but I'll probably never be able to afford one. He was also an engineer for Mcdonnell Douglas before they merged with Boeing.
If anyone is in for a slashcott I propose that we create our own site using the open source slash code, and make it just like the classic slashdot look. I already purchased the domain name slashdice.com kind of fitting I think. Then once dice tanks slashdot by forcing the beta on us we will have somewhere to go.
I'm with you! We should just get the code from slash-code and create a new site for those of us who do not desire a redesign. Dice obviously doesn't care what Slashdot's long standing members think, and this site is going to tank once the classic look goes away.
The funniest part to me is that we are telling them that we are going to stop frequenting the site once classic goes away, and they are ignoring it like they think they are the bee's knees and we have to stay or we won't have another forum to go to.
Oh yeah, by the way I have reserved the domain name SlashDice.com if anyone is interested in joining me in bringing the classic Slashdot back to life, and biting your thumb at Dice at the same time once they do away with the classic look. Just message me and we will get the ball rolling!
WAKE UP DICE! A forum without users is not really a forum.
...FU Time Warner, Comcast and AT&T, because I am sure that it is the corporate lobby that is trying to get this one passed. If you don't want to go out of business then lower your prices to compete with Google don't keep trying to hang onto your Oligopoly!
...just because someone is nominated doesn't mean they are worthy, or that they are going to receive it. Let's not forget that in 1939 Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!
This is very true. Until this year every PC in our entire company of 50,000+ employees was running Windows XP SP3! We have just now started upgrading to Windows 7 and there are no future plans to upgrade to Windows 8 or any flavor of it with that stupid Metro interface! (My PC is not a Tablet)
...aren't there lets talk about the fact that apparently there is nothing to hold this thing on to your head other than a mouth piece. So if it would work, which it can't, what if I cough under water, lose my bite on this thing and it falls out of reach. I have a few breaths swim and I drown because I dropped my damn breathing apparatus! It's a stupid design even if it would work!
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...but physical keyboards are just not being made much anymore. I am a software engineering contractor, and I work in the cellular industry. Most of the manufacturers are dropping all physical "qwerty" keyboard designs because they don't see a market for them anymore. Motorola is one of the only exceptions that I am aware of that has a "Smart" phone with a physical keyboard that isn't too horrible. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/2... Other than that you are pretty much out of luck.
T-Mobile doesn't have contracts anymore. So, it will be a different story this time. Sprint can't enforce contracts that don't exist.
especially if the announcement from Power Japan Plus about a battery improvement hold any merit.
Spot on, wish I had some mod points!
As was already stated this is just a ploy for tech companies to abuse the already over abused H1B visa market, and drive wages down even further, because the Chinese will work for peanuts. We had a visiting engineer from China at my job the other day, and in casual conversation he unknowingly gave me enough information to figure out how much he makes a year. His salary comes out to basically McDonald's wages if he were living here in the USA. We were having a conversation about his iPad vs my Galaxy tab, and the engineer told me that " My brother keeps bugging me to buy him an iPad because he only makes 25 Yuan an hour which is half of what I make." So, he basically told me he makes 50 Yuan and hour. So, do the Math at the current rate of 6.23 Yuan to 1 dollar the Engineer makes 8.02/hr. Those are just stupidly poor wages for someone with a computer science degree Chinese or not!
I would be impressed if they didn't ask you to log into Facebook to mine your data. Anyone can mine data with full profile access. Let's see them mine that kind of data with a locked down profile. Whatever!
I meant will work for peanuts, I haven't had coffee yet
...never been a shortage of science or engineering staff in the United States. The only shortage is science/engineering staff that refuses to work for peanuts, and that is the only reason why there are so many H1B visas. People with 60,000 worth of student loans don't want to work for $20/hr it's ridiculous to even expect them to.
I can tell you this much for certain: I have a little cousin who is not very good at soccer, but he still gets a trophy for every tournament that his team plays in: win or lose. It gives him a false sense of pride and self esteem. If you were to ask him on any day of the week what he wants to be when he grows up he would tell you that he wants to be a pro soccer player. In reality since his team has never won a game, largely due to the fact that his skills as a goal keeper are not good, his possibilities of being a pro soccer player are almost zero, but due to the "No Losers" policy of kids teams these days he still feels like he has a shot. That is where I draw my conclusions from. It may be good for a child's self esteem while they are a child, but unfortunately in the real world those kids are going to end up frying chicken at KFC because their plans as a pro sports player never panned out due to the fact that they have been taught that everyone wins even if they lose!
Really the "winningest" huh? You mean they are the country that has won the most medals? I'm sorry that is Russia with the top medal tally. They had the most medals in 1956,1960,1964,1972,1976,1980,and 1994. Where as Norway is actually second but most were won a long time ago: 1924, 1928, 1936, 1952, 1968, and 2002 being the newest first place win. So no not the "winningest" in a long time, better than the US in the Winter Olympics yes, but of course Russia kicks every countries ass because they live in the cold all the time, and this year they have home advantage. Oh and my information comes from here: http://www.topendsports.com/ev...
Amen, brother! If you don't like it then unplug your Ethernet cable and GTFO!
Paris is a cesspool!
If I had any children, which I don't, I would never allow them to go to public school. Politically correctness has ruined our society, and will continue to ruin it until this country is no more. What kind of non-sense is this "No Losers" bologna that they are teaching children these days? If one loses a game, he or she loses, and if one wins then he or she wins. There is no grey area, and those are the facts! This bull shit that everyone gets a trophy whether they win or lose is just that bull shit! When I was a kid when we lost we tried harder so we could get a trophy next time, and then when we finally won the trophy we were proud. These days they are teaching kids that no matter what they win, and life is always fair in their little psychotic delusion of a world! $&%$ politically correctness and the democratic ass that it rode in on!
Ask them to find anything on a map for that matter. http://news.nationalgeographic...
or they think "axe" is an awesome body spray.
My thoughts exactly! It is actually sad how cost of living has been skyrocketing while cost of living wage increases are almost not happening. My father just retired this year making almost as much as me, and he was only a high school graduate. I have two degrees in science and engineering, and the difference between my dad and I is that his company gave him reasonable cost of living increases throughout his whole career where my company gives it's employees barely any. I got a semi-reasonable increase this year, but that is only because I got exceeds expectations in 8 out of 10 categories on my year end review. If not for that I am sure I would have gotten a 2.5% increase with the rest of the employees. It is sad, but the problem is really created by the governments lack of a budget, and can not totally be blamed on corporate greed. That along with the fact that capitalism doesn't work in a global economy when competing with countries that basically allow slave labor. Most people don't realize that the whole reason Abe Lincoln opposed slave labor wasn't that he was sympathetic with the slaves. No, he opposed it because non slave owners would not be able to compete with slave owners. The same way that America can not compete with countries like China, because their workers are working for almost nothing. We used to do a decent job of competing when our products were made with quality, but once the quality went away no one wants to pay double the price for the same crappy product.
So, of course less people are going to be flying planes who the hell can afford one? Not me. My Grandpa had one, a 1970 Cessna 172, but I'll probably never be able to afford one. He was also an engineer for Mcdonnell Douglas before they merged with Boeing.
If anyone is in for a slashcott I propose that we create our own site using the open source slash code, and make it just like the classic slashdot look. I already purchased the domain name slashdice.com kind of fitting I think. Then once dice tanks slashdot by forcing the beta on us we will have somewhere to go.
What do you guys think, anyone with me?
I'm with you! We should just get the code from slash-code and create a new site for those of us who do not desire a redesign. Dice obviously doesn't care what Slashdot's long standing members think, and this site is going to tank once the classic look goes away. The funniest part to me is that we are telling them that we are going to stop frequenting the site once classic goes away, and they are ignoring it like they think they are the bee's knees and we have to stay or we won't have another forum to go to. Oh yeah, by the way I have reserved the domain name SlashDice.com if anyone is interested in joining me in bringing the classic Slashdot back to life, and biting your thumb at Dice at the same time once they do away with the classic look. Just message me and we will get the ball rolling! WAKE UP DICE! A forum without users is not really a forum.
...FU Time Warner, Comcast and AT&T, because I am sure that it is the corporate lobby that is trying to get this one passed. If you don't want to go out of business then lower your prices to compete with Google don't keep trying to hang onto your Oligopoly!
...just because someone is nominated doesn't mean they are worthy, or that they are going to receive it. Let's not forget that in 1939 Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!
I'm with you; down with Facebook! I never see my family any more, but their entire lives are broadcast on Facebook.
More of the wonderful changes we are seeing as Dice slowly consumes Slashdot!
I'm not a diver so I'll take your word for it, but I assume that depth would play a role.
This is very true. Until this year every PC in our entire company of 50,000+ employees was running Windows XP SP3! We have just now started upgrading to Windows 7 and there are no future plans to upgrade to Windows 8 or any flavor of it with that stupid Metro interface! (My PC is not a Tablet)
...aren't there lets talk about the fact that apparently there is nothing to hold this thing on to your head other than a mouth piece. So if it would work, which it can't, what if I cough under water, lose my bite on this thing and it falls out of reach. I have a few breaths swim and I drown because I dropped my damn breathing apparatus! It's a stupid design even if it would work!