We still have a good number of networks broadcasting in 720P and they think I'm going to buy an 8K TV?
ABC, Big 10 Network, ESPN (and all their channels), Fox, Fox Sports, MLB network, SEC Network, National Geo, FX and Disney are all still broadcasting in 720P. Most Blu Rays people own aren't even 4K yet and many people can't even reliably stream 4K videos due to either speed or data caps.
Maybe I'm just getting old (I am, I'm pushing 35 now). What is the point though? The industry still hasn't even fully caught up to 1080, little yet 4K. Now they think we should go to 8K.
Maybe that is uncommon in the EU, but not in the US.
With the holidays coming up I've got to go visit my family and my wife's family in December.
It's a 450 mile drive to see my wife's family, and a 600 mile drive to see mine.
We go to see each of them for Christmas and Thanksgiving. As well as seeing each one another time or two during the year.
That means in any given year we make between 6 and 8 trips that are well over the 300 mile range. We could fly to visit her family, but it would cost more than double driving.
Plus flying with a bunch of Christmas presents would be a huge issue. I also go hunting with her father and brothers and while you can fly with a firearm in the US, it adds on another hassle.
Flying isn't an option to visit my family. I'm from a very rural area. Flying to the nearest commercial airport would still leave me with around 200 miles of driving to do.
You have to keep in mind that "the average persons" driving experience in the US and Europe are vastly different. I live in a large city in the US, and out of all the people I know at work, my friends, etc etc. Only a very small handful of the people are from this area. Most people seem to have come from small town America (like me).
People making several hundred mile trips to see family members several times per year is very common. Even if we are talking about distances of 400-600 miles or so it's often cheaper (especially if traveling with more than one person) and as fast or faster (when you factor in airport wait times and layovers) to drive.
Granted a 300 mile range electric car would meet the vast majority of my needs. But I make regular trips where that wouldn't work. I don't want to own two cars when my current one meets all my needs.
The fact of the matter is, that until Electric cars can mimic the way we use gasoline powered cars it's a non starter for many Americans. 300 miles of range is fine. But I need to be able to recharge it in 10-15 minutes and get back on the road. I also need to be able to find a charger everywhere I go. Even in very rural areas.
I'm a software Dev who has been working from home (100% of the time) since 2006. It's pretty clear to that there are huge advantages both to the employee and the employer for people to work from home.
The employee, it's obvious. No travel to and from work, comfort, flexibility, privacy (something lacking in an office space and makes it hard to concentrate). You save money on lunches (I just eat leftovers from dinner for lunch), clothes (typically just wear shorts or sweat and a T shirt), wear and tear on your car. Etc Etc.
What less people think about is the benefit to the company.
They need less office space. My company has 11,000 employees and only enough office space for around a third of them. Mainly the office space is largely just for the companies hardware. Less office space not only means less rent, but less utilities. Also spending less on amenities such as water coolers, snacks, coffee, etc etc. Everything adds up.
The biggest benefit, is that you can greatly expand your hiring pool. You can truly hire the people you need not just the people who are in the area your office is in. I work on a team of a little over a dozen people. There are people from OH, VA, MI, TN, LA, CA, HI and TX on it.
Also, it makes longer support hours easier without paying someone to be on call 24/7. Notice how my team has people in CA and HI. That's because my team supports production data. We have people who work 8-4 and 10-6 in their local time zones on my team. That means we have people who are supporting prod from 8am EST, until 6PM HAST. Which is 8am - Midnight EST. That's all just from people working their normal shifts. Someone is still on call during the weekends, but that's good enough during the week that we don't have to be on call during the week at least.
It also saves the company quite a bit in salary. My company is based out of DC but most of their workforce isn't in DC. This saves them a ton of money. They can't outsource because most of the jobs (but not all) have to have clearance for the.gov contracts. Living in Ohio, I'm much cheaper than a software dev in DC. Even though I come with a lot of experience and still make a great living in my area. You probably wouldn't even get much interest from fresh college grads in DC for what I currently make. The cost of living in DC is about 60% higher than in my area so having a workforce outside of DC saves them a whole lot of money.
I don't really keep anything that old. I built the current desktop I'm using about 4 years ago or so. Aside from some of the CAT cables, I don't think I really have any hardware sitting around that's older than that.
I work remotely from home, so do a good number of the people in the company I work for. Even the ones who go into the office are often only there a few days a week.
Right now, people have physical phones in their cubical but they are being phased out to use a USB headset with a software VOIP system.
I don't really want to use my personal cell phone all the time for work, even though I have unlimited minutes and all that. I bought an Ooma, which a VOIP device refurbished from woot.com so it cost me around $105 for it. It only runs me $4 a month and I bought a nice speaker phone to hook up to it. I like to use that for long calls and such.
I don't think that the traditional phone is necessary anymore, but we still need some way for voice communication which typically means some sort of VOIP system.
We sort of break ours up. We have an implementation every M-Th, but M-W's are on the sub systems and Thursdays are fo the main system.
I'm a team lead over one of the sub systems, we push to production on Monday. But the implementation team do a push four times per week.
Sorry for any typos, sent this from my phone.
I don't know about most people here, but to me and my dozen or so gamer friends trade ins are important.
Don't get me wrong, I'd still play games and buy new games if it weren't possible to get trade in value for my old games. But it would be a whole lot less. Without trade ins I would probably only buy the few games a year that I actually want. I like games like Skyrim (which you could easily play for 2 years alone) or RPGs that take hundreds of hours. To me, those are worth 60-70 bucks because I get so much time out of them.
What I wouldn't do, is get games that I don't particularly care about just to play with my friends. For example. I've already pre-ordered and paid off Border Lands 2. I wasn't a big fan of the first game, but my friends were and I like playing with them. So since I can trade in a few games and it only cost me around 30-35 out of pocket I don't mind spending that to play with them. However, if I had to buy it fully out of pocket, I wouldn't.
I used to horde my games and never trade them in. Then I moved, and realized I had several dozen PS2 games (and no working PS2). Traded them in for more than 300 bucks in store credit at gamestop. I used all of that for new 360 games. I know it isn't the same as me buying it out of pocket, but game stop still had to buy that new copy to be able to sell it to me, so it basically is. The studio got paid either way. Yea, gamestop probably sold those for well more than twice that, which is what the studios are really mad about. But the fact remains that they wouldn't get nearly as many sales without trade ins.
I agree, your setting yourself up to fail.
Linux, isn't Windows and you shouldn't try to fool anyone. In order for people to switch to Linux, they first have to understand that it is different and while there are a lot of similar things there are a lot of differences as well.
That being said, I've had good success switching people to Linux over the past few years. I think the reason being is that I first have the conversation about how it isn't going to be like Windows and things will be different. I explain as being similar to moving from the US to the UK. You couldn't expect everything to be the same, although many are similar. You would have to learn the local customs and differences between what your used to doing.
It first started with my friends wife. She had a laptop that she really thought was awful running windows Vista. They literary were going to throw it away and buy her a new one. Convinced that the laptop itself was the problem. I took it one week and put Ubuntu on it. I was even a little surprised that the wireless worked without any fuss. She is still using that same laptop and is very happy with it. That's been well over a year now.
I switched my mother from Windows XP to Linux. She had a lot less trouble with it then I thought she would. I was even able to walk her through installing a new printer in CUPs over the phone. Surprised even myself. She's been telling her friends at work about how great her computer is now. Works just as good a year later as it did when I first put Linux on it and no worries about a virus or anything like that.
Now when I go back home for Thanksgiving I'm going to be putting Linux on an old laptop of her friend's so they can try it out.
I'll also add, that I would suggest openSUSE. I used to like Ubuntu, but they have gotten crazy as time went on. I switched to openSUSE with version 11 or so. It's been great. I also will say that I love YAST2. While I could certainly use Arch or Gentoo or any of the more advanced distro options I tend to prefer not to because I'm lazy with my home PC. I've really come to like openSUSE and wish I had found it earlier. I was a bit hesitant to switch over since I had always using something.deb based previously but I really am enjoying it. Which is something I haven't said about a Linux Distro in a while.
i'm at 10-15 now and going down to 5 once i cancel cable and go a la carte cable internet. 3-5 megabits is enough to stream netflix and amazon.
a lot cheaper to let steam update at night than to pay for super fast internet too
It depends on what you do with your home internet. If all you do is some Netflix streaming and web surfing then 3-5 down is plenty and your upload speed really won't matter.
I work from home myself so I typically get the fastest internet speed I can. I don't need super fast internet all the time, but when I'm moving a lot of data between my home office and the main office I can see the difference and it affects my working day. More-so with upload speed than download speed. I've currently got a 50/5 package and it's great.
I don't really need the crazy high download speeds, but I do notice the increase in upload speed.
I first starting using Linux shortly after going to college in 2002 and haven't installed windows on my computer since around 2004 or so. In the early days I probably changed to a new distro every couple of months or so and I tried out every DE I could find.
Gnome 2 is what I eventually settled on. I loved it. I could configure it to look and act the way I wanted, but it wasn't overly complicated and the UI was simplistic. Course Gnome 3 changed all of that and like most people, I can't use it.
I tried XFCE and LXDE. They seemed to be very lacking to me. XFCE felt like a step backwards, but if I had to I could have used it. LXDE however left a bad taste in my mouth for some reason.
I tried KDE 4 on OpenSuse and while it takes a while to configure it, I do like it. I recently installed Mint 13 with Cinnamon. It isn't bad, but it isn't great either. It still lacks some of the configuration that I would like it to have.
I didn't realize I had become a KDE Guy (which would have been a crazy thought for me before Gnome 3) until I found myself missing it now that I'm running Cinnamon. I think when the next version of OpenSuse releases (which had become my favorite distro anyway) I'll install it with KDE be happy.
That's really the only reason I still have my Wii. I don't game on it much nor do I even hook it up at home. But its great for entertainment in a hotel room or families house when you travel. Alot of TVs still aren't HD anyway and the wii is small enough that it travels well. Certainly better then my xbox would.
I pretty much only use it to play mario and th original zelda or watch netflix while traveling.
Several other posters have already pointed at it as well but a lot of the reason is legal issues.
I work for a company that does a lot of work for the US Government. As far as they are concerned, if I sign something and fax it to them, its just as legal as if I signed it in front of their face. However if I scanned and emailed that same document to them, they wouldn't accept it. There are many laws on the books regarding faxes, but not so much with other technologies.
It wouldn't be that hard to generate those stats. For example Microsoft stores/backups your gamerscore/achievements and profile to their servers for xbox live. All they have to do is compare the number of gamer tags that have achievements for the game, but don't have the achievement for finishing the game.
Aside from that, many games these days synch a whole lot of data to the companies who publish them. I know Bio Ware and EA both do that.
As far as why you weren't told. The info is usually there, typically somewhere in the owners manual or some sort of EULA. Or sometimes your not, because there aren't any laws (at least in the US) requiring that you are.
Yea, I grew up on a farm with hundreds of cattle and they never stood around all pointing north. They would kind of tend to break off into small groups of 5-8 and each of those would tend to stand facing one random direction but I've never seen a whole herd face any direction ever little yet a significant amount of the time.
It matters because MS spent alot of time and money developing Vista. If customers continue to demand XP and refuse to upgrade to Vista then that time and money was a waste.
While I'm certainly no MS fan I gotta admit that its sort of a compliment that people like XP so much they refuse to upgrade to Vista. Granted some of that is because of possible problems with Vista, but alot of it is that many people do not see the need to upgrade XP.
There are still schools that teach COBOL programing. My guess is that it depends on your area and what the local IT industry uses. Here in Central Ohio we have tons of banks and insurance companies that use alot of COBOL, IBM Mainframes, CICS, etc etc. The schools around here still teach COBOL thou for some of them its an elective.
I would say that there are two bigger problems here.
1. The guy just dosn't want this to happen so he is blowing smoke. 2. They don't want to pay a resonable wage to get it done.
Acctually, I'm 23 and working in COBOL/Mainframe applications for one of the major consulting firms in the world.
We do alot of new COBOL projects in the Insurance and Banking industry. COBOL is certainly a nitch language but its not dying at all. Just last week a big insurance company client of ours signed off to start the development of a brand new system for them, written in COBOL/JCL/Assembler to do their processing for them. They are replacing their 30 year old COBOL system with a brand new COBOL system that by the time its all said and done will cost near 800M bucks.
simply put for huge volume processing, mainframes and COBOL can not be beat.
Not to mention job options for a person my age that even knows COBOL/JCL/Mainframes/Assembler are almost limitless as every company using those realizes their workforce will be retiring in the next 10 years or so and they need to train new blood.
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We still have a good number of networks broadcasting in 720P and they think I'm going to buy an 8K TV? ABC, Big 10 Network, ESPN (and all their channels), Fox, Fox Sports, MLB network, SEC Network, National Geo, FX and Disney are all still broadcasting in 720P. Most Blu Rays people own aren't even 4K yet and many people can't even reliably stream 4K videos due to either speed or data caps. Maybe I'm just getting old (I am, I'm pushing 35 now). What is the point though? The industry still hasn't even fully caught up to 1080, little yet 4K. Now they think we should go to 8K.
Maybe that is uncommon in the EU, but not in the US. With the holidays coming up I've got to go visit my family and my wife's family in December. It's a 450 mile drive to see my wife's family, and a 600 mile drive to see mine. We go to see each of them for Christmas and Thanksgiving. As well as seeing each one another time or two during the year. That means in any given year we make between 6 and 8 trips that are well over the 300 mile range. We could fly to visit her family, but it would cost more than double driving. Plus flying with a bunch of Christmas presents would be a huge issue. I also go hunting with her father and brothers and while you can fly with a firearm in the US, it adds on another hassle. Flying isn't an option to visit my family. I'm from a very rural area. Flying to the nearest commercial airport would still leave me with around 200 miles of driving to do. You have to keep in mind that "the average persons" driving experience in the US and Europe are vastly different. I live in a large city in the US, and out of all the people I know at work, my friends, etc etc. Only a very small handful of the people are from this area. Most people seem to have come from small town America (like me). People making several hundred mile trips to see family members several times per year is very common. Even if we are talking about distances of 400-600 miles or so it's often cheaper (especially if traveling with more than one person) and as fast or faster (when you factor in airport wait times and layovers) to drive. Granted a 300 mile range electric car would meet the vast majority of my needs. But I make regular trips where that wouldn't work. I don't want to own two cars when my current one meets all my needs. The fact of the matter is, that until Electric cars can mimic the way we use gasoline powered cars it's a non starter for many Americans. 300 miles of range is fine. But I need to be able to recharge it in 10-15 minutes and get back on the road. I also need to be able to find a charger everywhere I go. Even in very rural areas.
I'm a software Dev who has been working from home (100% of the time) since 2006. It's pretty clear to that there are huge advantages both to the employee and the employer for people to work from home. The employee, it's obvious. No travel to and from work, comfort, flexibility, privacy (something lacking in an office space and makes it hard to concentrate). You save money on lunches (I just eat leftovers from dinner for lunch), clothes (typically just wear shorts or sweat and a T shirt), wear and tear on your car. Etc Etc. What less people think about is the benefit to the company. They need less office space. My company has 11,000 employees and only enough office space for around a third of them. Mainly the office space is largely just for the companies hardware. Less office space not only means less rent, but less utilities. Also spending less on amenities such as water coolers, snacks, coffee, etc etc. Everything adds up. The biggest benefit, is that you can greatly expand your hiring pool. You can truly hire the people you need not just the people who are in the area your office is in. I work on a team of a little over a dozen people. There are people from OH, VA, MI, TN, LA, CA, HI and TX on it. Also, it makes longer support hours easier without paying someone to be on call 24/7. Notice how my team has people in CA and HI. That's because my team supports production data. We have people who work 8-4 and 10-6 in their local time zones on my team. That means we have people who are supporting prod from 8am EST, until 6PM HAST. Which is 8am - Midnight EST. That's all just from people working their normal shifts. Someone is still on call during the weekends, but that's good enough during the week that we don't have to be on call during the week at least. It also saves the company quite a bit in salary. My company is based out of DC but most of their workforce isn't in DC. This saves them a ton of money. They can't outsource because most of the jobs (but not all) have to have clearance for the .gov contracts. Living in Ohio, I'm much cheaper than a software dev in DC. Even though I come with a lot of experience and still make a great living in my area. You probably wouldn't even get much interest from fresh college grads in DC for what I currently make. The cost of living in DC is about 60% higher than in my area so having a workforce outside of DC saves them a whole lot of money.
I don't really keep anything that old. I built the current desktop I'm using about 4 years ago or so. Aside from some of the CAT cables, I don't think I really have any hardware sitting around that's older than that.
I work remotely from home, so do a good number of the people in the company I work for. Even the ones who go into the office are often only there a few days a week. Right now, people have physical phones in their cubical but they are being phased out to use a USB headset with a software VOIP system. I don't really want to use my personal cell phone all the time for work, even though I have unlimited minutes and all that. I bought an Ooma, which a VOIP device refurbished from woot.com so it cost me around $105 for it. It only runs me $4 a month and I bought a nice speaker phone to hook up to it. I like to use that for long calls and such. I don't think that the traditional phone is necessary anymore, but we still need some way for voice communication which typically means some sort of VOIP system.
We sort of break ours up. We have an implementation every M-Th, but M-W's are on the sub systems and Thursdays are fo the main system. I'm a team lead over one of the sub systems, we push to production on Monday. But the implementation team do a push four times per week. Sorry for any typos, sent this from my phone.
I don't know about most people here, but to me and my dozen or so gamer friends trade ins are important. Don't get me wrong, I'd still play games and buy new games if it weren't possible to get trade in value for my old games. But it would be a whole lot less. Without trade ins I would probably only buy the few games a year that I actually want. I like games like Skyrim (which you could easily play for 2 years alone) or RPGs that take hundreds of hours. To me, those are worth 60-70 bucks because I get so much time out of them. What I wouldn't do, is get games that I don't particularly care about just to play with my friends. For example. I've already pre-ordered and paid off Border Lands 2. I wasn't a big fan of the first game, but my friends were and I like playing with them. So since I can trade in a few games and it only cost me around 30-35 out of pocket I don't mind spending that to play with them. However, if I had to buy it fully out of pocket, I wouldn't. I used to horde my games and never trade them in. Then I moved, and realized I had several dozen PS2 games (and no working PS2). Traded them in for more than 300 bucks in store credit at gamestop. I used all of that for new 360 games. I know it isn't the same as me buying it out of pocket, but game stop still had to buy that new copy to be able to sell it to me, so it basically is. The studio got paid either way. Yea, gamestop probably sold those for well more than twice that, which is what the studios are really mad about. But the fact remains that they wouldn't get nearly as many sales without trade ins.
I agree, your setting yourself up to fail. Linux, isn't Windows and you shouldn't try to fool anyone. In order for people to switch to Linux, they first have to understand that it is different and while there are a lot of similar things there are a lot of differences as well. That being said, I've had good success switching people to Linux over the past few years. I think the reason being is that I first have the conversation about how it isn't going to be like Windows and things will be different. I explain as being similar to moving from the US to the UK. You couldn't expect everything to be the same, although many are similar. You would have to learn the local customs and differences between what your used to doing. It first started with my friends wife. She had a laptop that she really thought was awful running windows Vista. They literary were going to throw it away and buy her a new one. Convinced that the laptop itself was the problem. I took it one week and put Ubuntu on it. I was even a little surprised that the wireless worked without any fuss. She is still using that same laptop and is very happy with it. That's been well over a year now. I switched my mother from Windows XP to Linux. She had a lot less trouble with it then I thought she would. I was even able to walk her through installing a new printer in CUPs over the phone. Surprised even myself. She's been telling her friends at work about how great her computer is now. Works just as good a year later as it did when I first put Linux on it and no worries about a virus or anything like that. Now when I go back home for Thanksgiving I'm going to be putting Linux on an old laptop of her friend's so they can try it out. I'll also add, that I would suggest openSUSE. I used to like Ubuntu, but they have gotten crazy as time went on. I switched to openSUSE with version 11 or so. It's been great. I also will say that I love YAST2. While I could certainly use Arch or Gentoo or any of the more advanced distro options I tend to prefer not to because I'm lazy with my home PC. I've really come to like openSUSE and wish I had found it earlier. I was a bit hesitant to switch over since I had always using something .deb based previously but I really am enjoying it. Which is something I haven't said about a Linux Distro in a while.
i'm at 10-15 now and going down to 5 once i cancel cable and go a la carte cable internet. 3-5 megabits is enough to stream netflix and amazon.
a lot cheaper to let steam update at night than to pay for super fast internet too
It depends on what you do with your home internet. If all you do is some Netflix streaming and web surfing then 3-5 down is plenty and your upload speed really won't matter. I work from home myself so I typically get the fastest internet speed I can. I don't need super fast internet all the time, but when I'm moving a lot of data between my home office and the main office I can see the difference and it affects my working day. More-so with upload speed than download speed. I've currently got a 50/5 package and it's great. I don't really need the crazy high download speeds, but I do notice the increase in upload speed.
I first starting using Linux shortly after going to college in 2002 and haven't installed windows on my computer since around 2004 or so. In the early days I probably changed to a new distro every couple of months or so and I tried out every DE I could find. Gnome 2 is what I eventually settled on. I loved it. I could configure it to look and act the way I wanted, but it wasn't overly complicated and the UI was simplistic. Course Gnome 3 changed all of that and like most people, I can't use it. I tried XFCE and LXDE. They seemed to be very lacking to me. XFCE felt like a step backwards, but if I had to I could have used it. LXDE however left a bad taste in my mouth for some reason. I tried KDE 4 on OpenSuse and while it takes a while to configure it, I do like it. I recently installed Mint 13 with Cinnamon. It isn't bad, but it isn't great either. It still lacks some of the configuration that I would like it to have. I didn't realize I had become a KDE Guy (which would have been a crazy thought for me before Gnome 3) until I found myself missing it now that I'm running Cinnamon. I think when the next version of OpenSuse releases (which had become my favorite distro anyway) I'll install it with KDE be happy.
That's really the only reason I still have my Wii. I don't game on it much nor do I even hook it up at home. But its great for entertainment in a hotel room or families house when you travel. Alot of TVs still aren't HD anyway and the wii is small enough that it travels well. Certainly better then my xbox would. I pretty much only use it to play mario and th original zelda or watch netflix while traveling.
Several other posters have already pointed at it as well but a lot of the reason is legal issues. I work for a company that does a lot of work for the US Government. As far as they are concerned, if I sign something and fax it to them, its just as legal as if I signed it in front of their face. However if I scanned and emailed that same document to them, they wouldn't accept it. There are many laws on the books regarding faxes, but not so much with other technologies.
It wouldn't be that hard to generate those stats. For example Microsoft stores/backups your gamerscore/achievements and profile to their servers for xbox live. All they have to do is compare the number of gamer tags that have achievements for the game, but don't have the achievement for finishing the game. Aside from that, many games these days synch a whole lot of data to the companies who publish them. I know Bio Ware and EA both do that. As far as why you weren't told. The info is usually there, typically somewhere in the owners manual or some sort of EULA. Or sometimes your not, because there aren't any laws (at least in the US) requiring that you are.
Yea, I grew up on a farm with hundreds of cattle and they never stood around all pointing north. They would kind of tend to break off into small groups of 5-8 and each of those would tend to stand facing one random direction but I've never seen a whole herd face any direction ever little yet a significant amount of the time.
Well a few months ago that might have been true. But these days Russia seems to be trying to get back into the swing of the cold war.
It matters because MS spent alot of time and money developing Vista. If customers continue to demand XP and refuse to upgrade to Vista then that time and money was a waste.
While I'm certainly no MS fan I gotta admit that its sort of a compliment that people like XP so much they refuse to upgrade to Vista. Granted some of that is because of possible problems with Vista, but alot of it is that many people do not see the need to upgrade XP.
There are still schools that teach COBOL programing. My guess is that it depends on your area and what the local IT industry uses. Here in Central Ohio we have tons of banks and insurance companies that use alot of COBOL, IBM Mainframes, CICS, etc etc. The schools around here still teach COBOL thou for some of them its an elective.
I would say that there are two bigger problems here.
1. The guy just dosn't want this to happen so he is blowing smoke.
2. They don't want to pay a resonable wage to get it done.
Acctually, I'm 23 and working in COBOL/Mainframe applications for one of the major consulting firms in the world. We do alot of new COBOL projects in the Insurance and Banking industry. COBOL is certainly a nitch language but its not dying at all. Just last week a big insurance company client of ours signed off to start the development of a brand new system for them, written in COBOL/JCL/Assembler to do their processing for them. They are replacing their 30 year old COBOL system with a brand new COBOL system that by the time its all said and done will cost near 800M bucks. simply put for huge volume processing, mainframes and COBOL can not be beat. Not to mention job options for a person my age that even knows COBOL/JCL/Mainframes/Assembler are almost limitless as every company using those realizes their workforce will be retiring in the next 10 years or so and they need to train new blood.