I don't know Powershell, but when I've encountered it I've been left with the impression that it's designed more as a programming language that you write while in an editor or IDE, with typing commands in from a command line prompt was a very late afterthought.
Yup, for all the criticism of Netflix, what are the reasonable alternatives? Apple and Google aren't cutting it here. Amazon has a smaller overall selection, has premium pricing for some shows, and overall is only worth it if you are already a Prime cult member. Hulu seems to be just a wannabe for those people who demand more current TV series.
Netflix lost the content, but not because it didn't want that content anymore. Too many services are trying to get exclusive content, too many content owners want to have their own streaming services, and other content owners seeing that Netflix is a hit are increasing their prices. Remember content owners play the same games at times with cable and satellite operators, raising prices and threatening to withold all the content until one side or the other blinks.
Some of Netflix content is mediocre, but some of it is really great.
You CAN today pay a little more for content you want - subscribe to more than one streaming service! No one streaming service has everything or will ever have everything. And paying for two streaming services is still massively cheaper than getting even a basic cable subscription (assuming you have internet separately).
Look at it this way. People used to pay $75 a month ore more for less content and choice than Netflix has for $10 a month. If Netflix doesn't have enough for some people, they can add a $10/month for Hulu and another $10/month for Amazon and another $10/month for HBO and still be spending less money than they did for cable. I get the impression that if Netflix provided the service for free (with no ads) that some people would still complain.
Don't blame Netflix for this. Content owners have gotten very stingy about streaming their content, often deciding that they want a bigger piece of the pie and try to start their own streaming service.
The early Teslas were a good sporty car that I could see people getting just for the car itself instead of being all electric. Less boring than the always-in-the-shop Jaguars and not as expensive as the higher end supercars. The price of course was one of the selling points, an alternative to a Lexus for the senior director.
It's a nice laptop. When I first used one in 2009, I liked it. It was lighter than all other laptops I've used, and the trackpad was easy to use until anything I've seen on PC laptops, and battery life was very good. I distinctly remember at the time being impressed about how much better it was than what I'd used in the past. Granted, I did not pay for it out of my own pocket.
Today though the gap is smaller, both PCs and Macs have very light models that are both power efficient and with good CPU performance. Trackpad is still better on Mac in my view, but Apple has a lot of key patents here so it's hard for PCs to copy it. On the other hand the newest Macs have the drawback of using USB-C for everything. People at work are holding onto their 2015 Macbook Pros rather than upgrading for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes I unblock ads, or use an unprotected browser for particular sites. Ie, at work they're highly in love with Microsoft and Cloud based solutions and everything, from HR to corporate announcements to training. So nothing works with them if you have any sort of scripting protection, even protection against cross-site scripting attacks will break all of this stuff. So I set up a second browser that has no adblock or noscript or even popup blocking.
Now I tried this at home, mostly because I was having troubles watching Big Bang Theory for a few months now. I used to use IE for this but it stopped working there. So as an experiment I got Chrome and tried there. Videos refuse to play even with no addons and wide open security. Then I remembered that I have an adblock running on my router, so I tried shutting that down, but still no videos played. However a quick test at work shows that the videos played fine. So there's something that refuses to play if some site is inaccessible. I used to fix this in the past by finding just the right script to block that everything starts working, but not so many scripts that nothing works. At this point it's just too much effort to bother...
It's stuff like that that pisses me off, because these companies are training their customers to not be secure on the internet. If you try being slightly secure, stuff breaks. Just a plain jane adblock stops stuff from working. So most people just leave things wide open, and follow instructions that say "please turn off adblock" or "please turn off your tracking protection" or "please enable all cookies".
I think a lot of this comes from blocking too much data so they only see a small part of the picture, so that they have a flawed analytical model which makes the ad selection look stupid. Other people who say "who needs privacy?" and leave everything wide open may be seeing ads that really are highly targeted, who may or may not feel creeped out by it all.
For me, I'd rather have the stupid ads than highly targeted ads.
Too many advertisers. I suspect they are selling data about what you purchased to advertisers, but that doesn't mean every single advertiser is paying for this and getting the data. So a couple advertisers may see that you purchased a baby crib and now probably you're going to be looking for baby clothes, but there are probably hundreds of advertisers that only know you looked at baby crib ads.
They usually don't bother to filter out the people who actually bought the product because advertising is very cheap,
And this is the entire source of the problem with modern advertising. IT'S CHEAP! It's so cheap, that the advertisers don't give a damn if they target too many wrong people. It's so cheap it may as well be free. Their major expenditures are paying out to web sites that use their third party service ("don't think about it, just embed our links"). They are NOT paying out money to support the bandwidth to get the advertisements to people, instead the customers are paying to support bigger bandwidth to support all these ads. Even the cheap ass snail mail advertising flyers are once a week only because they have to actually pay bulk rate fees. If the internet figured out a way to apply a bulk rate fee to advertisers then these problems would likely start clearing up.
It seems just stupid to start advertising something I just bought. Why would I go buy another so soon? Oh, I just bought a new car, so why are you trying to sell me a second new car? Why do they think I need a second baby crib as a backup?
Google analytics, and anything with the word "analytics" in the URL gets blocked by me. These tend to relatively safe, most web sites work just find without enabling those. The few that don't work I don't need to visit.
Socialism as a word is like capitalism, you can range from being slightly socialist to being overwhelming socialist. Most countries have some amount of socialism. Ignore the modern redefinition of socialism as used in recent US presidential elections which seems to equate socialism with communism. If there are tax moneys that go to welfare, health care, education, or job loss protection, then there's a some socialism involved whether or not the economy is based on capitalist principles. Socialism doesn't require direct worker ownership of companies.
The US has had this huge anti-communist political trend for a long time, which morphed also into an anti socialist and anti union political stance as well. Which is why for some strange reason, "socialist" has become a new insult because it's a trigger word for those who were around in the anti-commie era and another way to divide people into "us" versus "them".
There ARE people who hate some women just because they work in the game industry. They see a change in a game company's direction and blame it on the women involved, never mind that customers as a whole have been changing. They may be few in number but they seem to make a lot of noise, and they're not being shushed.
Generally they're not legal. But try suing when you're working for minimum wage. The government won't sue on your behalf unless they have nothing better to do, and the current political climate is down on government agencies that sue on citizens' behalf.
There are libertarians, and then there are Libertarians. Some people just take it too damn seriously. Increased social liberties at the same time as increased economic liberties, that sounds good. But then they start adding in lots of litmus tests, and welcome goofy theories like the gold standard with open arms. This is what political parties do, the want to attract those with the extreme views and purist ideologies, leaving moderates who think about things behind.
It still makes sense. Not everywhere has reasonable and affordable broadband service, so if they want to watch a movie it's either a very expensive theater visit, or a physical rental. And the rental is generally at a reasonable price compared to an online streaming pay-per-view. You can also check out physical media at many libraries but they generall have a smaller supply.
Redbox does it without being staffed, but they have a small selection.
When called to describe the plots, the two views are wildly different, sometimes polar opposite.
And so for many people Trump is a racist, blowing a dog whistle that racists and liberals can hear clearly. For others, Trump is a practical leader doing what's best for the nation.
Which is the correct view? At this point, probably no one knows - there's no unbiased source of information.
I'm not in either, or any, party, I didn't like Clinton or Trump. So when I see Trump and dislike what he's doing, it's not based out of any party loyalty or wanting my side to win the White House Bowl. There's just a whole lot of incompetence at the very top, and things are being run by those underneath.
Trump seems to be very easily influenced just by stroking his ego, which is way out of control Of course, Hillary also had an ego that needed reining in. He's making major diplomatic gaffs this week, embarrassing ones; he goes out of his way to insult our traditional allies and hug our adversaries. His day to day political views appear to change depending upon what alternative conspiracy theory news source he listened to that morning. He lets personal grudges get in the way of thinking clearly. He refuses to listen to advice and goes into meetings unprepared because he seems to think he's a good negotiator. And, OMG, the vast majority of Republicans are opposed to tarriffs and here he goes starting trade wars for no logical reason which will screw up any short term economic boost from the tax cuts - that's just plain old fashioned stupidity.
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I don't know Powershell, but when I've encountered it I've been left with the impression that it's designed more as a programming language that you write while in an editor or IDE, with typing commands in from a command line prompt was a very late afterthought.
No matter how you do your job, someone will eventually walk past and say that you're doing it wrong.
Yup, for all the criticism of Netflix, what are the reasonable alternatives? Apple and Google aren't cutting it here. Amazon has a smaller overall selection, has premium pricing for some shows, and overall is only worth it if you are already a Prime cult member. Hulu seems to be just a wannabe for those people who demand more current TV series.
Netflix lost the content, but not because it didn't want that content anymore. Too many services are trying to get exclusive content, too many content owners want to have their own streaming services, and other content owners seeing that Netflix is a hit are increasing their prices. Remember content owners play the same games at times with cable and satellite operators, raising prices and threatening to withold all the content until one side or the other blinks.
Some of Netflix content is mediocre, but some of it is really great.
You CAN today pay a little more for content you want - subscribe to more than one streaming service! No one streaming service has everything or will ever have everything. And paying for two streaming services is still massively cheaper than getting even a basic cable subscription (assuming you have internet separately).
Look at it this way. People used to pay $75 a month ore more for less content and choice than Netflix has for $10 a month. If Netflix doesn't have enough for some people, they can add a $10/month for Hulu and another $10/month for Amazon and another $10/month for HBO and still be spending less money than they did for cable. I get the impression that if Netflix provided the service for free (with no ads) that some people would still complain.
No, it's better than a cable company.
Don't blame Netflix for this. Content owners have gotten very stingy about streaming their content, often deciding that they want a bigger piece of the pie and try to start their own streaming service.
The early Teslas were a good sporty car that I could see people getting just for the car itself instead of being all electric. Less boring than the always-in-the-shop Jaguars and not as expensive as the higher end supercars. The price of course was one of the selling points, an alternative to a Lexus for the senior director.
It's a nice laptop. When I first used one in 2009, I liked it. It was lighter than all other laptops I've used, and the trackpad was easy to use until anything I've seen on PC laptops, and battery life was very good. I distinctly remember at the time being impressed about how much better it was than what I'd used in the past. Granted, I did not pay for it out of my own pocket.
Today though the gap is smaller, both PCs and Macs have very light models that are both power efficient and with good CPU performance. Trackpad is still better on Mac in my view, but Apple has a lot of key patents here so it's hard for PCs to copy it. On the other hand the newest Macs have the drawback of using USB-C for everything. People at work are holding onto their 2015 Macbook Pros rather than upgrading for a variety of reasons.
This came from Engadget presumably, and not straight from Lockheed-Martin.
Sometimes I unblock ads, or use an unprotected browser for particular sites. Ie, at work they're highly in love with Microsoft and Cloud based solutions and everything, from HR to corporate announcements to training. So nothing works with them if you have any sort of scripting protection, even protection against cross-site scripting attacks will break all of this stuff. So I set up a second browser that has no adblock or noscript or even popup blocking.
Now I tried this at home, mostly because I was having troubles watching Big Bang Theory for a few months now. I used to use IE for this but it stopped working there. So as an experiment I got Chrome and tried there. Videos refuse to play even with no addons and wide open security. Then I remembered that I have an adblock running on my router, so I tried shutting that down, but still no videos played. However a quick test at work shows that the videos played fine. So there's something that refuses to play if some site is inaccessible. I used to fix this in the past by finding just the right script to block that everything starts working, but not so many scripts that nothing works. At this point it's just too much effort to bother...
It's stuff like that that pisses me off, because these companies are training their customers to not be secure on the internet. If you try being slightly secure, stuff breaks. Just a plain jane adblock stops stuff from working. So most people just leave things wide open, and follow instructions that say "please turn off adblock" or "please turn off your tracking protection" or "please enable all cookies".
I think a lot of this comes from blocking too much data so they only see a small part of the picture, so that they have a flawed analytical model which makes the ad selection look stupid. Other people who say "who needs privacy?" and leave everything wide open may be seeing ads that really are highly targeted, who may or may not feel creeped out by it all.
For me, I'd rather have the stupid ads than highly targeted ads.
Too many advertisers. I suspect they are selling data about what you purchased to advertisers, but that doesn't mean every single advertiser is paying for this and getting the data. So a couple advertisers may see that you purchased a baby crib and now probably you're going to be looking for baby clothes, but there are probably hundreds of advertisers that only know you looked at baby crib ads.
They usually don't bother to filter out the people who actually bought the product because advertising is very cheap,
And this is the entire source of the problem with modern advertising. IT'S CHEAP! It's so cheap, that the advertisers don't give a damn if they target too many wrong people. It's so cheap it may as well be free. Their major expenditures are paying out to web sites that use their third party service ("don't think about it, just embed our links"). They are NOT paying out money to support the bandwidth to get the advertisements to people, instead the customers are paying to support bigger bandwidth to support all these ads. Even the cheap ass snail mail advertising flyers are once a week only because they have to actually pay bulk rate fees. If the internet figured out a way to apply a bulk rate fee to advertisers then these problems would likely start clearing up.
It seems just stupid to start advertising something I just bought. Why would I go buy another so soon? Oh, I just bought a new car, so why are you trying to sell me a second new car? Why do they think I need a second baby crib as a backup?
Google analytics, and anything with the word "analytics" in the URL gets blocked by me. These tend to relatively safe, most web sites work just find without enabling those. The few that don't work I don't need to visit.
Socialism as a word is like capitalism, you can range from being slightly socialist to being overwhelming socialist. Most countries have some amount of socialism. Ignore the modern redefinition of socialism as used in recent US presidential elections which seems to equate socialism with communism. If there are tax moneys that go to welfare, health care, education, or job loss protection, then there's a some socialism involved whether or not the economy is based on capitalist principles. Socialism doesn't require direct worker ownership of companies.
The US has had this huge anti-communist political trend for a long time, which morphed also into an anti socialist and anti union political stance as well. Which is why for some strange reason, "socialist" has become a new insult because it's a trigger word for those who were around in the anti-commie era and another way to divide people into "us" versus "them".
There ARE people who hate some women just because they work in the game industry. They see a change in a game company's direction and blame it on the women involved, never mind that customers as a whole have been changing. They may be few in number but they seem to make a lot of noise, and they're not being shushed.
Generally they're not legal. But try suing when you're working for minimum wage. The government won't sue on your behalf unless they have nothing better to do, and the current political climate is down on government agencies that sue on citizens' behalf.
There are libertarians, and then there are Libertarians. Some people just take it too damn seriously. Increased social liberties at the same time as increased economic liberties, that sounds good. But then they start adding in lots of litmus tests, and welcome goofy theories like the gold standard with open arms. This is what political parties do, the want to attract those with the extreme views and purist ideologies, leaving moderates who think about things behind.
Don't use itunes, but all the stuff I see for streaming is $5 and up, I've even seen $9.99 for just renting.
It still makes sense. Not everywhere has reasonable and affordable broadband service, so if they want to watch a movie it's either a very expensive theater visit, or a physical rental. And the rental is generally at a reasonable price compared to an online streaming pay-per-view. You can also check out physical media at many libraries but they generall have a smaller supply.
Redbox does it without being staffed, but they have a small selection.
Still cheaper than online renting.
Special investigations tend to keep going on year after year until they finally find the stained dress.
When called to describe the plots, the two views are wildly different, sometimes polar opposite.
And so for many people Trump is a racist, blowing a dog whistle that racists and liberals can hear clearly. For others, Trump is a practical leader doing what's best for the nation.
Which is the correct view? At this point, probably no one knows - there's no unbiased source of information.
I'm not in either, or any, party, I didn't like Clinton or Trump. So when I see Trump and dislike what he's doing, it's not based out of any party loyalty or wanting my side to win the White House Bowl. There's just a whole lot of incompetence at the very top, and things are being run by those underneath.
Trump seems to be very easily influenced just by stroking his ego, which is way out of control Of course, Hillary also had an ego that needed reining in. He's making major diplomatic gaffs this week, embarrassing ones; he goes out of his way to insult our traditional allies and hug our adversaries. His day to day political views appear to change depending upon what alternative conspiracy theory news source he listened to that morning. He lets personal grudges get in the way of thinking clearly. He refuses to listen to advice and goes into meetings unprepared because he seems to think he's a good negotiator. And, OMG, the vast majority of Republicans are opposed to tarriffs and here he goes starting trade wars for no logical reason which will screw up any short term economic boost from the tax cuts - that's just plain old fashioned stupidity.
Politics is is all about being a socially acceptable means of being a hypocrite in public.
Your party in power: "He needs to be allowed to govern"
Your party out of power: "He's abusing his office"