I spent 4 years trying to get a PhD but then dropped out; I did get a master's along the way luckily. There were some drawbacks to it, such as looking like an entry level employee to everyone despite having prior industry expereince. But I don't consider it a waste of time either. There were new things I would not have learned elsewhere, I had to really scrub out the cobwebs after being in industry and learn to think again, and doing the research and projects really is its own form of experience.
Yes, the degree is highly helpful. It's just that today there is a very strong anti-elite element out there that is actively encouraging people to skip all education. I really don't know what the motivation is.
True. I started saying engineer about myself periodically once I was a member of the engineering departments, and I get "must attend" invites to hardware design reviews. I'm not really an engineer, not having the proper certificate. However, I asked around, and apparently most hardware and RF engineers don't have such certificates, it's only necessary when a name is needed on some official documents.
Long term matters. Do you want that stupid entry level job for the next 40 years? I suspect most people want to be promoted, lead teams, and especially be able to design stuff and work on new projects. That is much more likely to happen with a degree; CS or EE degree helps a lot, but any degree will help there. The field is already chock full of people who can just barely code, and have no clue whatsoever why their algorithm takes days to run even though they're using all the latest fashions in coding.
It's the marketing myth. So many people believe that Steve Jobs personally build the iPhone from scratch, designed the Apple I and II and Macintosh, etc. It's as if they think that all those Apple employees were only there to make the buildings feel less empty.
He had on his possession several storage devices, disk drives, multiple phones, SD cards, and a digital video camera. It was clear he was not just trying to crack into the network. If you have access in the building after everyone is gone, you can just take pictures of papers lying about and end up with a lot of corporate secrets. The drawback of startups is that the staff is short handed and there's no regular security.
The fact that the CEO was the last to leave sounds fishy to me.
I had a professor in linear algebra who just wasn't very good. I never understood that subject, and yet it's so important with plenty of times I needed to know it. The class was taught by learning the operations rather than what you could do with the operations. So I learned how to calculate an Eigenvector without knowing why I would ever want to do that again once the test was over.
This is true. I sort of skated through school with high grades and little effort. I think that overall I'd have done better in life had I been dumber and been forced to work harder in school.
Right. Even if I see an advertisement for a product I like, I will never click on the ad itself. That's just dumb and a way to get malware and tracking.
Right, so get Netflix, or Amazon, or Hulu, or something other than cable. Then use that money you save to buy healthy snacks to munch on while watching TV.
Disney will pull content in the future. They haven't pulled everything yet.
However I disagree with your main assumption. Watching no TV at all is still better than cable, economically. Cable right now is a very expensive luxury, and it's hard to call it a luxury except for the price, because the cable companies treat you like scum.
So, end of the month after the bill is paid, consider... Did you get your $10 worth from Netflix? Did you get your $150 worth from cable? If you think the price for cable is fine on your budget, then go for it.
That's because you're on cable/satellite. You don't need to see the current episodes, believe me. That's a luxury. If you want to pay extra for that, then that's your right. But it is very easy to wait a year for the season to show up (then binge it in a couple weeks and then wait another 50 weeks).
There are top tier movies. Many many more top tier movies than were being shown on non-premium cable. And you can watch them when you want, you don't have to wait for them to show up somewhere. Yes, you will not get all the movies you want on just Netflix. You can learn to deal with that, or you can spend money to use Redbox, Vudu, or whatever. And even paying extra for the movies, it is still *cheaper* than the original cable bill!!
They're stuck in a mindset that customers will pay anything to get their channels. In reality you hit this price point where you think "maybe I don't need that." Similar to how when gasoline prices go up the sales of fuel efficient vehicles also goes up, as sell as ridership on mass transit, carpooling, etc. Consumers will hit a limit to what they are willing to pay even without alternatives, and this is only a bigger effect in a crappy economy like we have now with huge unemployment rates (mostly hidden from official figures because people have stopped looking for work).
It does not take much thinking to decide that a $150/month bill can be cut or eliminated.
Not true. I had internet separate from satellite. I save $60+ a month now.
Even with AT&T (my ISP) I save a lot of money compared to internet plus uverse tv. the Comcast "deal" feels like an anomaly. Possibly because the internet service came later, and most of these companies are atrocious in updating pricing schedules over time, and treat existing customers far worse than new or prospective customers.
I've been on the internet since the 80s. I liked being able to search for "bacon patties" and only results have both words would appear, or "bacon patties -turkey" to make sure it filtered out results that had were talking about turkey bacon. I see LOTS of results from google that decide it does not need to use all of my search terms, just today I saw this, Google decided it would replace "firmware" with "software" in search results.
10 minutes is nothing. Microsoft has taking the abuse of customers to new lows, but this isn't one. I have windows 8.1, and sometimes the (non-forced) updates can take over a half hour.
If it's used in every paragraph, then you ignore that person. Some poeple will drop the f-bomb when the traffic light turns red Some people use the f-bomb as their one and only adjective. The expletive is no longer shocking. But if I hear my mother use an expletive it is shocking enough that I pay attention. Where Alan Kay fits into this range is unknown, but I suspect he doesn't use the word that often in public, so I read that line as showing extreme dissatisfaction and not just mild annoyance.
And yet, the search results we got back in 1999 seem to have been better than the results we get today. Plus you had better control over the search (ie, a way to exclude results containing certain keywords).
Using the excerpt given regarding uselessness of results. Google does not use tech to provide good answers because they don't care about providing good answers. Instead they use the tech to maximize advertising revenue. It costs money to provide good results, so that cuts into revenue. Some sites will pay money to show up higher in the results, so no way is Google going to give you a free but relevant link when it could show a useless link that they get money from.
Getting higher up in Google search results is nearly a full blown industry. If Google filtered for relevant results then that industry would have to learn how to write useful pages instead of just paying Google to shortcut the process.
Now this isn't just a need for high minded people. Even those narcssists, kitten video fanciers, and porn watchers, would seemingly want more relevant resulst. Except that those groups seemingly are satisfied with even marginal results.
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I spent 4 years trying to get a PhD but then dropped out; I did get a master's along the way luckily. There were some drawbacks to it, such as looking like an entry level employee to everyone despite having prior industry expereince. But I don't consider it a waste of time either. There were new things I would not have learned elsewhere, I had to really scrub out the cobwebs after being in industry and learn to think again, and doing the research and projects really is its own form of experience.
Yes, the degree is highly helpful. It's just that today there is a very strong anti-elite element out there that is actively encouraging people to skip all education. I really don't know what the motivation is.
True. I started saying engineer about myself periodically once I was a member of the engineering departments, and I get "must attend" invites to hardware design reviews. I'm not really an engineer, not having the proper certificate. However, I asked around, and apparently most hardware and RF engineers don't have such certificates, it's only necessary when a name is needed on some official documents.
Long term matters. Do you want that stupid entry level job for the next 40 years? I suspect most people want to be promoted, lead teams, and especially be able to design stuff and work on new projects. That is much more likely to happen with a degree; CS or EE degree helps a lot, but any degree will help there. The field is already chock full of people who can just barely code, and have no clue whatsoever why their algorithm takes days to run even though they're using all the latest fashions in coding.
Hiring competent people would eat away at profits!
It's the marketing myth. So many people believe that Steve Jobs personally build the iPhone from scratch, designed the Apple I and II and Macintosh, etc. It's as if they think that all those Apple employees were only there to make the buildings feel less empty.
He had on his possession several storage devices, disk drives, multiple phones, SD cards, and a digital video camera. It was clear he was not just trying to crack into the network. If you have access in the building after everyone is gone, you can just take pictures of papers lying about and end up with a lot of corporate secrets. The drawback of startups is that the staff is short handed and there's no regular security.
The fact that the CEO was the last to leave sounds fishy to me.
If they're not real Nazis, then we should sue them for copyright violations for using Nazi symbols.
I had a professor in linear algebra who just wasn't very good. I never understood that subject, and yet it's so important with plenty of times I needed to know it. The class was taught by learning the operations rather than what you could do with the operations. So I learned how to calculate an Eigenvector without knowing why I would ever want to do that again once the test was over.
This is true. I sort of skated through school with high grades and little effort. I think that overall I'd have done better in life had I been dumber and been forced to work harder in school.
Sure, sure, if they want to spend the money on that.
Walking Dead is on Netflix for sure.
Right. Even if I see an advertisement for a product I like, I will never click on the ad itself. That's just dumb and a way to get malware and tracking.
Right, so get Netflix, or Amazon, or Hulu, or something other than cable. Then use that money you save to buy healthy snacks to munch on while watching TV.
Disney will pull content in the future. They haven't pulled everything yet.
However I disagree with your main assumption. Watching no TV at all is still better than cable, economically. Cable right now is a very expensive luxury, and it's hard to call it a luxury except for the price, because the cable companies treat you like scum.
So, end of the month after the bill is paid, consider... Did you get your $10 worth from Netflix? Did you get your $150 worth from cable? If you think the price for cable is fine on your budget, then go for it.
Well when you cut the cord, then you find out if the person will be an innie or an outie.
That's because you're on cable/satellite. You don't need to see the current episodes, believe me. That's a luxury. If you want to pay extra for that, then that's your right. But it is very easy to wait a year for the season to show up (then binge it in a couple weeks and then wait another 50 weeks).
There are top tier movies. Many many more top tier movies than were being shown on non-premium cable. And you can watch them when you want, you don't have to wait for them to show up somewhere. Yes, you will not get all the movies you want on just Netflix. You can learn to deal with that, or you can spend money to use Redbox, Vudu, or whatever. And even paying extra for the movies, it is still *cheaper* than the original cable bill!!
They're stuck in a mindset that customers will pay anything to get their channels. In reality you hit this price point where you think "maybe I don't need that." Similar to how when gasoline prices go up the sales of fuel efficient vehicles also goes up, as sell as ridership on mass transit, carpooling, etc. Consumers will hit a limit to what they are willing to pay even without alternatives, and this is only a bigger effect in a crappy economy like we have now with huge unemployment rates (mostly hidden from official figures because people have stopped looking for work).
It does not take much thinking to decide that a $150/month bill can be cut or eliminated.
Not true. I had internet separate from satellite. I save $60+ a month now.
Even with AT&T (my ISP) I save a lot of money compared to internet plus uverse tv. the Comcast "deal" feels like an anomaly. Possibly because the internet service came later, and most of these companies are atrocious in updating pricing schedules over time, and treat existing customers far worse than new or prospective customers.
I've been on the internet since the 80s. I liked being able to search for "bacon patties" and only results have both words would appear, or "bacon patties -turkey" to make sure it filtered out results that had were talking about turkey bacon. I see LOTS of results from google that decide it does not need to use all of my search terms, just today I saw this, Google decided it would replace "firmware" with "software" in search results.
10 minutes is nothing. Microsoft has taking the abuse of customers to new lows, but this isn't one. I have windows 8.1, and sometimes the (non-forced) updates can take over a half hour.
Did the noise floor go up since then, or the signal strength go down?
If it's used in every paragraph, then you ignore that person. Some poeple will drop the f-bomb when the traffic light turns red Some people use the f-bomb as their one and only adjective. The expletive is no longer shocking. But if I hear my mother use an expletive it is shocking enough that I pay attention. Where Alan Kay fits into this range is unknown, but I suspect he doesn't use the word that often in public, so I read that line as showing extreme dissatisfaction and not just mild annoyance.
And yet, the search results we got back in 1999 seem to have been better than the results we get today. Plus you had better control over the search (ie, a way to exclude results containing certain keywords).
Using the excerpt given regarding uselessness of results. Google does not use tech to provide good answers because they don't care about providing good answers. Instead they use the tech to maximize advertising revenue. It costs money to provide good results, so that cuts into revenue. Some sites will pay money to show up higher in the results, so no way is Google going to give you a free but relevant link when it could show a useless link that they get money from.
Getting higher up in Google search results is nearly a full blown industry. If Google filtered for relevant results then that industry would have to learn how to write useful pages instead of just paying Google to shortcut the process.
Now this isn't just a need for high minded people. Even those narcssists, kitten video fanciers, and porn watchers, would seemingly want more relevant resulst. Except that those groups seemingly are satisfied with even marginal results.