Our worksite bandwidth isn't constrained by the circuit, it's the firewalling. We are one of the top ten targets in the universe. Given that, I'm not slowed down by external access, but by internal firewalls. We have to protect against internal threats also.

A production server requires three instances - production, test, and development. Days to implement, weeks to approve. We have to actually know what it will be expected to do before we can request it.

I'm currently using around 120GB of storage, of which 40GB is purely redundant. I'm limited only by the shared volumes, and I see about 16TB available. Our tech now knows that this storage is cheap.

Our website managers, however, believe we need a world-class presence, so we are now engaged in rapid releases, monthly. This is a reporting site our customers use to get statements, details, and resolve complaints. I'm not sure we need to team the site so often, but I'll let our customers make that point.

Not all corporate IT is lost and dysfunctional.

I'm still using green screens. They try to force me to the GUI, first by pointing out the functionality. I out of that they are denying me those functions in terminal, so of course the GUI is better. They really just don't want me running macros to pull details on 5,000+ accounts when I'm asked to.

Yes, that's it.

No, until they find a Filipino who can remember how things worked before the current issue was raised. That's somehow become very difficult. Then I move over to the Dark Side and get more pay for interfacing with them. But not until.

Trust me, if the kill off our team and let the Filipinos do it. The ticket count will triple. They will still need someone to consolidate, properly categorize, and track. They were never able to do so with the US team for 14 years. I'm not yet quaking in my boots that they will get the offshore team up tothat challenge in even a quarter of the time. But they will try.

I work with teams in the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Britain, Australia, India, and the Philippines. I have no normal working hours any more.

But my employer does not require me to do 8-5 and will other hours. An 11pm call either leaves me staying the next day at 10am, or
  taking the 2nd day off.

We really do have to throw them all out...

Good for you. But will it change how the software works in any way?

Then buy a work PC for home use.

Next problem?

And I'm not quite ready to go to single-player mode. Still figuring out 13..

It's not the end of silicon that's in sight. It's the end of the growth described by Moore's Law, ultimately the end of shrinking silicon devices, and the beginning of either cleverer manufacturing.

It the end of civilization as we know it, depending on how many friends in the semiconductor business you have...

When I lived in country like that, we called storage >1 day a "generator".

1. That other eco system doesn't deliver updates to every single device on the same day.

2. Nexus devices are popular enough to be a big enough population to encourage staging updates.

Google does not do integration for the carrier-specific bits. Whine to your carrier about their slow progress.

You know the answer. Android releases must be adapted to the different makes and models of phones. Apple has to deal with about 6 different phones. Samsung alone has more different models.

My M7 got updated to Kit Kat about 16 months after purchase, and will get Lollipop on time, probably 19 months after purchase.

Blanket 'they don't update phones >1 year old' statements are both false and unfounded. If 1) Google gave your manufacturer an image, and 2) your manufacturer customized it, then 3) the carrier has to brand it and release to you. If step 2 or 3 are missed, blame the appropriate party.

If Google decided not to issue an image, it is likely because they unilaterally decided the phone was not capable of providing an adequate user experience with the new software. My G1 went through this, and my Sensation 4G also. my M7 and M8 will too someday.

Let it go. Please.

Every useful site that discusses this already pointed out that these OTA releases are staged to avoid overwhelming networks (even your lame WiFi you steal from your neighbor) and to catch any problems before they blow it all out to every user.

Whiners asking 'why haven't its been so long i never get' apparently did not read any of these. Please go find a site that makes this clear, and stick to it for future useful information. The others, feh.

And, if you have not already seen (which I'm sure you haven't), 5.0.1 is released. Looks like 5.0 had enough problems for a maintenance update already. You should now breath a sigh of relief that you did not get an update, which would have annoyed you with any of the myriad nuisances out there.

My N7 2013 is still waiting also, and I decided not to sideload it. Now I'll wait for 5.0.1 to go through the GPE devices, then through the early update populations, and I bet it goes around pretty quickly. There is evidence that 5.0 had enough bugs that Google convinced the manufacturers to hold off and wait for a minor (?) patch.