What is an "AOL job" now anyway... do they police AIM or something?
I was wondering the same thing. AOL turned into a company that is a one stop shop for digital advertising like Google. You can find info here. They're also now Aol not AOL. Because you know, that's cooler these days...
It makes zero sense to reserve dedicated bandwidth for most consumers.
You can ask the reverse question, does it make sense to over-subscribe? That is akin to overbooking flights. The difference is in the airline industry, we actually have several choices for who to buy airline tickets from. For internet providers, this is not the case. See the problem?
If you advertise X speed service, they you must provide that service, 24/7, regardless of service.
This is customary in every other type of product market. Would a car manufacturer ever say "This car goes up to 60mph" with a whole bunch of caveats in the fine print? And then when you drive said car it only goes 5mph on a 55mph highway? No. In fact, in the car industry, this would never happen because if one manufacturer made a better car than the other, the other car would disappear due to lack of demand. However, because these providers are playing the game based on ownership of the "highways" they have no reason to compete. That is the root cause of the problem.
What? You thought in this brave new world of "got mine, fuck yours", that anything that is a benefit to you would even be remotely considered if it impacted the ability for established interests to make money???? HA!
Go cry over there, there's a microphone for you to use. Feel free to bawl into it as much as you want, we'll be laughing at it all the way to the bank. (And so will the fucking idiots who we tricked into giving us the power to do so. Gleefully even.)
Wow how condescending of you. You assume because of my comment that I am ignorant of the "game" aka economic game theory? That's very presumptuous of you. Has it ever occurred to you that not everyone feels compelled to be a narcissistic, elitist prick like you to gain other people's admiration? Strong people don't need anyone else's admiration and approval. That's a very blinky neon sign of weakness and frequently evidence of an inferiority complex. Perhaps you're compensating for the lack of something? Carry on though. You are quite amusing.:) We need more people like you in the world. You actually create opportunities for others with your hubris.
Be aware! Overconsumption of water can lead to death.
Overconsumption of water can lead to death actually. It can even result in a wrongful death lawsuit against a radio station to the tune of $16.5 million dollars in damages.
So it's stupid to enjoy something that tastes good and makes you pleasantly light-headed?
Neo-puritans be crazy.
I dunno, what's the main ingredient in alcohol? (in the voice of the Church Lady) Hmm... could it be... Satan?
By the way, watch the documentary How Beer Saved The World. It's easy to find online. Do you see how long humans have been consuming alcohol and that it's even a core element to our culture? Society hasn't disintegrated yet has it? How do you explain that?
The fact is no one lives forever. You're going to die from something and it's probably not going to be pleasant. I like to think of it this way from the song Sheep go to Heaven by CAKE "As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time."
Extroverts need that contact to be productive. They are usually pushed more form recognition (and recognition does nto work when no one knows your face) than from their paychecks.
ENTJ craves admiration. Because of this many ENTJ's are narcissists. You can claim that this is what gives your type the activation energy and motivation to work better but that doesn't make it sane and it doesn't offer any justification for why it should be pushed on the 15 other personality profiles that are different.
You won't like me saying this because you are locked into a particular belief system, but this insatiable desire for admiration and recognition has you captive in the equivalent of a hamster wheel. You are most likely being used by other people on puppet strings completely unaware of it. I don't like being psychologically controlled. I find that it is disrespectful and quite frankly disgusting for one human being to view another human being as an object, a battery, being purposed for their own personal benefit. That's a core belief in my value system. But if you think it's worth it, carry on my friend. I value liberty and choose to be free.
Does the First Amendment grant you the right to enter my property and make me listen to what you have to say? No. In fact, I can have you arrested for trespassing. Therefore, it's not unconstitutional.
For crying out loud, snowflakes, you're making yourself look like idiots with these absurd claims which amount to nothing other than "I want to force you to have to listen to my shit" even though elsewhere you'll pitch a fucking fit about people wearing Halloween costumes on a college campus claiming that you shouldn't be "forced" to have to look at them. Hypocritical nonsense double-standard!
They turned to drinking to cope with dealing with stupid people at their work and the real cause of the problem is that they lost brain cells from dealing with said stupid people.
Why is this news? We've known this has been in progress for years. Like the Ice Industry and tailor industry before it, Cable is becoming obsolete because a new, more advanced form of media has superseded it. This is a pattern that repeats itself and John Schumpeter coined the term Creative Destruction to describe the process. When Netflix first came about, Blockbuster had a choice, adapt or not adapt. Blockbuster chose not to adapt and now it's part of human history along with the Ice Industry. It's all a very natural part of the process of evolution of technology and services. Cable was successful for 30 years-ish. They had a good run at it and will be remembered as such.
A century ago discrimination against both sexes was still the law of the land.
It is fascinating how things have changed isn't it? For anyone who is really interested, look up the history of child custody laws over the past century or so. What you find is that once upon a time, custody of kids in a divorce was actually automatically awarded to the father believe it or not. Then towards the middle of the 20th century the laws were completely changed such that by default custody was automatically awarded to the mother. Today, we are finally starting to define a way to evaluate who the more appropriate custodial parent is for the benefit of the children but up until recently it was a black and white decision, father or mother by default in all cases regardless of situation. What perpetuates sexism again? Yeah...
When you need to shrink, you just tell them they need to come into the office every day to increase productivity. When enough quit, change the policy, and not retrenchments need be paid.
Need to shrink = FAIL for executive management. Need to shrink is equivalent to getting decimated in a military contest. No matter how you slice it, your company is a loser with a capital L. You got schooled.
You live in a bubble. Many jobs have tight topical work. You are not in this position so this concept is completely beyond what could possibly exist right? I'm guessing you are a very young person. And probably a Bernie supporter. Very tragic.
Wrong on every claim here. Not surprising with your superiority complex. Ignorance is Bliss I suppose. Enjoy your fantasy world in your mind.
There's a middle ground. Use an ignorable electronic mechanism to query whether the person you'd like to talk to is interruptible. If so, wander over to their desk and proceed to talk; much lower overhead than scheduling a meeting, finding a room, et cetera. When I worked in an office I routinely used instant messaging to ask a co-worker sitting right next to me if they were available. I'd send "IRQ", and they would reply with "NAK", "ACK" or even just ignore me (implied NAK, I suppose).
Absolutely agree, but that only works for a 1-on-1 conversation and it doesn't matter whether you're physically present in the office or not. Also, you don't have to physically schedule a conference room, at my work we all have conference bridges. There are relatively cheap VOIP services that offer this. A conference could be everyone jumping on a conference line at a specified time. As with everything, every situation is different and the most appropriate choice must be made based on the context. Assuming that everything should be done one way or the other ALL the time disregarding the context is black and white thinking.
When I have a customer or a VP present, I damn well want to interrupt what you're doing to get needed information now and not have to schedule a meeting. Breaking your productivity is expected.
Remember, it is easier to replace you with someone willing to play ball than it is to replace customers.
If your company is so on fire that you can't wait a half a day or a day to talk about something, your company has major dysfunctional issues. It's apparent you don't have a background in Six Sigma LEAN, so it's not surprising that you wouldn't understand. But I'm sure your home grown (NIHS, not invented here syndrome) methodology is far superior to any other known to work in practice methodology. Keep telling yourself that. Burn that money.:)
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Languages like Lisp or Forth can sustain themselves because of their "all-level" nature. COBOL is is the obvious opposite.
When you mention Lisp, Forth and COBOL instead of Ruby, NodeJS, Haskell, etc. it's probably time to retire.
- Insufficient IT resources (inadequate or no backups)
- Hiring developers to do everything in the company and giving them broad access to everything
These are two industry standard best practices that many companies ignore and they have no one to blame but themselves.
The inmates are running the asylum
The old network/advertising model is obsolete? In other news: water is wet. Disclaimer: I grew up on network television and even I get it.
What is an "AOL job" now anyway... do they police AIM or something?
I was wondering the same thing. AOL turned into a company that is a one stop shop for digital advertising like Google. You can find info here. They're also now Aol not AOL. Because you know, that's cooler these days...
You've got layoffs!
DISCLAIMER: You are about to read a satirical joke, don't take it serious and get butt hurt. Also read this in Norm Macdonald's voice.
What we can learn from this using demographics correlation is that: Liberals are worse drivers than Conservatives.
It makes zero sense to reserve dedicated bandwidth for most consumers.
You can ask the reverse question, does it make sense to over-subscribe? That is akin to overbooking flights. The difference is in the airline industry, we actually have several choices for who to buy airline tickets from. For internet providers, this is not the case. See the problem?
If you advertise X speed service, they you must provide that service, 24/7, regardless of service.
This is customary in every other type of product market. Would a car manufacturer ever say "This car goes up to 60mph" with a whole bunch of caveats in the fine print? And then when you drive said car it only goes 5mph on a 55mph highway? No. In fact, in the car industry, this would never happen because if one manufacturer made a better car than the other, the other car would disappear due to lack of demand. However, because these providers are playing the game based on ownership of the "highways" they have no reason to compete. That is the root cause of the problem.
Marsha Blackburn, is that you?
Nah, I think we've got Jordan Belfort there...
They are also the ones that matter.
What? You thought in this brave new world of "got mine, fuck yours", that anything that is a benefit to you would even be remotely considered if it impacted the ability for established interests to make money???? HA!
Go cry over there, there's a microphone for you to use. Feel free to bawl into it as much as you want, we'll be laughing at it all the way to the bank. (And so will the fucking idiots who we tricked into giving us the power to do so. Gleefully even.)
Wow how condescending of you. You assume because of my comment that I am ignorant of the "game" aka economic game theory? That's very presumptuous of you. Has it ever occurred to you that not everyone feels compelled to be a narcissistic, elitist prick like you to gain other people's admiration? Strong people don't need anyone else's admiration and approval. That's a very blinky neon sign of weakness and frequently evidence of an inferiority complex. Perhaps you're compensating for the lack of something? Carry on though. You are quite amusing. :) We need more people like you in the world. You actually create opportunities for others with your hubris.
...people who own stock in Comcast, AOL Time Warner and/or AT&T.
0.5 to 1% near beer poured in your morning gruel to kill pathogens during medieval times is not what we're talking about here. False comparison.
Non-sequitir, try again. Get your facts straight and come back, then maybe we can have a rational discussion.
Be aware! Overconsumption of water can lead to death.
Overconsumption of water can lead to death actually. It can even result in a wrongful death lawsuit against a radio station to the tune of $16.5 million dollars in damages.
So it's stupid to enjoy something that tastes good and makes you pleasantly light-headed?
Neo-puritans be crazy.
I dunno, what's the main ingredient in alcohol? (in the voice of the Church Lady) Hmm... could it be... Satan?
By the way, watch the documentary How Beer Saved The World. It's easy to find online. Do you see how long humans have been consuming alcohol and that it's even a core element to our culture? Society hasn't disintegrated yet has it? How do you explain that?
The fact is no one lives forever. You're going to die from something and it's probably not going to be pleasant. I like to think of it this way from the song Sheep go to Heaven by CAKE "As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time."
Extroverts need that contact to be productive. They are usually pushed more form recognition (and recognition does nto work when no one knows your face) than from their paychecks.
ENTJ craves admiration. Because of this many ENTJ's are narcissists. You can claim that this is what gives your type the activation energy and motivation to work better but that doesn't make it sane and it doesn't offer any justification for why it should be pushed on the 15 other personality profiles that are different.
You won't like me saying this because you are locked into a particular belief system, but this insatiable desire for admiration and recognition has you captive in the equivalent of a hamster wheel. You are most likely being used by other people on puppet strings completely unaware of it. I don't like being psychologically controlled. I find that it is disrespectful and quite frankly disgusting for one human being to view another human being as an object, a battery, being purposed for their own personal benefit. That's a core belief in my value system. But if you think it's worth it, carry on my friend. I value liberty and choose to be free.
Does the First Amendment grant you the right to enter my property and make me listen to what you have to say? No. In fact, I can have you arrested for trespassing. Therefore, it's not unconstitutional.
For crying out loud, snowflakes, you're making yourself look like idiots with these absurd claims which amount to nothing other than "I want to force you to have to listen to my shit" even though elsewhere you'll pitch a fucking fit about people wearing Halloween costumes on a college campus claiming that you shouldn't be "forced" to have to look at them. Hypocritical nonsense double-standard!
are you sure it is not age related? between 20 & 50 is a long time. I know I cant do now what i could do when i was 20
Stop it! If you correlate more facts the data can't be spun in the desired way. Shame on you.
They turned to drinking to cope with dealing with stupid people at their work and the real cause of the problem is that they lost brain cells from dealing with said stupid people.
Why is this news? We've known this has been in progress for years. Like the Ice Industry and tailor industry before it, Cable is becoming obsolete because a new, more advanced form of media has superseded it. This is a pattern that repeats itself and John Schumpeter coined the term Creative Destruction to describe the process. When Netflix first came about, Blockbuster had a choice, adapt or not adapt. Blockbuster chose not to adapt and now it's part of human history along with the Ice Industry. It's all a very natural part of the process of evolution of technology and services. Cable was successful for 30 years-ish. They had a good run at it and will be remembered as such.
A century ago discrimination against both sexes was still the law of the land.
It is fascinating how things have changed isn't it? For anyone who is really interested, look up the history of child custody laws over the past century or so. What you find is that once upon a time, custody of kids in a divorce was actually automatically awarded to the father believe it or not. Then towards the middle of the 20th century the laws were completely changed such that by default custody was automatically awarded to the mother. Today, we are finally starting to define a way to evaluate who the more appropriate custodial parent is for the benefit of the children but up until recently it was a black and white decision, father or mother by default in all cases regardless of situation. What perpetuates sexism again? Yeah...
When you need to shrink, you just tell them they need to come into the office every day to increase productivity. When enough quit, change the policy, and not retrenchments need be paid.
Need to shrink = FAIL for executive management. Need to shrink is equivalent to getting decimated in a military contest. No matter how you slice it, your company is a loser with a capital L. You got schooled.
You live in a bubble. Many jobs have tight topical work. You are not in this position so this concept is completely beyond what could possibly exist right? I'm guessing you are a very young person. And probably a Bernie supporter. Very tragic.
Wrong on every claim here. Not surprising with your superiority complex. Ignorance is Bliss I suppose. Enjoy your fantasy world in your mind.
There's a middle ground. Use an ignorable electronic mechanism to query whether the person you'd like to talk to is interruptible. If so, wander over to their desk and proceed to talk; much lower overhead than scheduling a meeting, finding a room, et cetera. When I worked in an office I routinely used instant messaging to ask a co-worker sitting right next to me if they were available. I'd send "IRQ", and they would reply with "NAK", "ACK" or even just ignore me (implied NAK, I suppose).
Absolutely agree, but that only works for a 1-on-1 conversation and it doesn't matter whether you're physically present in the office or not. Also, you don't have to physically schedule a conference room, at my work we all have conference bridges. There are relatively cheap VOIP services that offer this. A conference could be everyone jumping on a conference line at a specified time. As with everything, every situation is different and the most appropriate choice must be made based on the context. Assuming that everything should be done one way or the other ALL the time disregarding the context is black and white thinking.
When I have a customer or a VP present, I damn well want to interrupt what you're doing to get needed information now and not have to schedule a meeting. Breaking your productivity is expected. Remember, it is easier to replace you with someone willing to play ball than it is to replace customers.
If your company is so on fire that you can't wait a half a day or a day to talk about something, your company has major dysfunctional issues. It's apparent you don't have a background in Six Sigma LEAN, so it's not surprising that you wouldn't understand. But I'm sure your home grown (NIHS, not invented here syndrome) methodology is far superior to any other known to work in practice methodology. Keep telling yourself that. Burn that money. :)