The secret to theater popcorn at home is a kettle popper (even the cheap $40 one by Nostalgia Electronics) and 4oz Pop Weaver "Naks Paks". This crap called "Flavacol" seasoning is the main reason theatre popcorn tastes so good. The weaver packs have the popcorn, oil, and seasoning all ready to go. You can get them on ebay in lots of 6 (versus buying the whole case).
My team is in the process of migrating a large Windows app from a legacy language to C#. After evaluating the various UI options, we've reached a sad conclusion: MS doesn't actually have a viable UI framework for business apps at this time.
Windows Forms - legacy, in maintenance mode. Shouldn't be considered for new app development. WPF - A single update, a few years back. Cringeworthy level of complexity and tooling suckiness, can't even subclass a button without having to copy-and-paste XAML from the parent. Seems unlikely to be considered "best practice" for much longer. UWP - Too new, only has basic UI elements
It seems insane, providing business solutions was supposed to be MS's bread and butter.
It's fast. Throw queries with 20 joins at the OSS contenders and see how limited some of the planners are. Oracle also handles a large connection count better than some of the OSS alternatives. Finally, if you have a lot of database-layer code, migrating can be a serious headache.
That's part of the issue, though. The freight arriving at the port DOES have to be delivered from the port to a point elsewhere, and that's where the shipping expense really starts.
On a project I work on, we have a few methods that accept XML as parameters. If you think about it long enough, you'll realize (for better or worse) that you've recreated the annoying part of Perl functions, the lack of a formalized parameter declaration in the function signature.
I'm sitting in South Florida right now and you're absolutely right. There's no "secretive" tech being developed here. There's some tech, yes, but nothing on the cutting-edge at all. However, there is a constant stream of scam-bait coming from a bunch of old men who moved here from Jersey. They're always pitching some BS and I'm sure that's what this is.
It's two extremes with Mac management on one side and PC management on the other. The Macs are barely managed at all, so they require virtually no support. The PCs are locked down to the point where browser plugins can't even update, which is counterproductive and adds to tech support demand.
Same thing here... my SP 3 hangs at the "Surface" screen every time it restarts and I have to hard-restart it. It seems like there's some issue with UEFI introduced in a recent update. WP10 seems to be getting worse with each update, not better.
IT insists on centralized management and lockdown of Windows PCs to the point where any minor problem becomes a time consuming, difficult-to-solve issue. I've seen PCs slow to a crawl because SCCM is repeatedly failing to push down software. At other times, important software updates continually fail to install due to excessive policy restrictions. In all, it's just a continual battle of the IT support team versus the very own management infrastructure they put in place.
When our head support guy (6K users supported) was telling me how much less problems they had with Mac deployments, I asked him how his team manages the Macs. Guess what? No centralized management or lockdown at all.
Essentially, the difficulties of managing the Windows based PCs is entirely IT's own doing.
I (unfortunately) watched the show and you're exactly right. "Sofia" was cringeworthy, essentially a low-grade animatronic-ish face plugged into a Siri/Cortana/Google Now style interface.
I'm sure that they want to move more to ground shipments, every parcel carrier does. Also, do you think the custom UPS truck is cheaper than an off-the-shelf van?
I think the problem Amazon is having with UPS and Fedex isn't so much capacity, it's probably pricing. The rate increases that the parcel carriers have handed out each year for the last few years is nothing short of insane. They know there's essentially a duopoly (ignoring USPS) for parcel delivery and they really take advantage of that.
Fedex also announced that they're looking to move away from using the USPS for last-mile delivery. With that and this Amazon news, it doesn't look good for the USPS.
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isn't, not it's... damn you Monday!
But it's Netflix's ability to produce content pretty much entirely subsidized by their shiny disc rental service?
Get the movie on Blu-ray from Netflix? It'll come with all of that.
'cause the listening space wouldn't factor in at all...
The secret to theater popcorn at home is a kettle popper (even the cheap $40 one by Nostalgia Electronics) and 4oz Pop Weaver "Naks Paks". This crap called "Flavacol" seasoning is the main reason theatre popcorn tastes so good. The weaver packs have the popcorn, oil, and seasoning all ready to go. You can get them on ebay in lots of 6 (versus buying the whole case).
My team is in the process of migrating a large Windows app from a legacy language to C#. After evaluating the various UI options, we've reached a sad conclusion: MS doesn't actually have a viable UI framework for business apps at this time.
Windows Forms - legacy, in maintenance mode. Shouldn't be considered for new app development.
WPF - A single update, a few years back. Cringeworthy level of complexity and tooling suckiness, can't even subclass a button without having to copy-and-paste XAML from the parent. Seems unlikely to be considered "best practice" for much longer.
UWP - Too new, only has basic UI elements
It seems insane, providing business solutions was supposed to be MS's bread and butter.
It's fast. Throw queries with 20 joins at the OSS contenders and see how limited some of the planners are. Oracle also handles a large connection count better than some of the OSS alternatives. Finally, if you have a lot of database-layer code, migrating can be a serious headache.
That's part of the issue, though. The freight arriving at the port DOES have to be delivered from the port to a point elsewhere, and that's where the shipping expense really starts.
I keep wondering if it's just coincidence that this is happening in the same town where Walmart's HQ is located.
Or the other way around, since UPS knows that Fedex doesn't alone have the capacity to handle all of Amazon's freight.
On a project I work on, we have a few methods that accept XML as parameters. If you think about it long enough, you'll realize (for better or worse) that you've recreated the annoying part of Perl functions, the lack of a formalized parameter declaration in the function signature.
You have to understand the concept of prima donnas then the rest will make sense relative to "audio pros".
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The hull cracked because the pilot ran it into a concrete structure.
I'm sitting in South Florida right now and you're absolutely right. There's no "secretive" tech being developed here. There's some tech, yes, but nothing on the cutting-edge at all. However, there is a constant stream of scam-bait coming from a bunch of old men who moved here from Jersey. They're always pitching some BS and I'm sure that's what this is.
It's two extremes with Mac management on one side and PC management on the other. The Macs are barely managed at all, so they require virtually no support. The PCs are locked down to the point where browser plugins can't even update, which is counterproductive and adds to tech support demand.
Same thing here... my SP 3 hangs at the "Surface" screen every time it restarts and I have to hard-restart it. It seems like there's some issue with UEFI introduced in a recent update. WP10 seems to be getting worse with each update, not better.
IT insists on centralized management and lockdown of Windows PCs to the point where any minor problem becomes a time consuming, difficult-to-solve issue. I've seen PCs slow to a crawl because SCCM is repeatedly failing to push down software. At other times, important software updates continually fail to install due to excessive policy restrictions. In all, it's just a continual battle of the IT support team versus the very own management infrastructure they put in place.
When our head support guy (6K users supported) was telling me how much less problems they had with Mac deployments, I asked him how his team manages the Macs. Guess what? No centralized management or lockdown at all.
Essentially, the difficulties of managing the Windows based PCs is entirely IT's own doing.
It was on "60 Minutes" - crap news for old people is the entire show format.
I (unfortunately) watched the show and you're exactly right. "Sofia" was cringeworthy, essentially a low-grade animatronic-ish face plugged into a Siri/Cortana/Google Now style interface.
I'm guessing it's Mozilla replacing FF's default search with Yahoo. Yahoo uses Bing's search results.
Do you have Prime?
I'm sure that they want to move more to ground shipments, every parcel carrier does. Also, do you think the custom UPS truck is cheaper than an off-the-shelf van?
You can send packaging feedback...
I think the problem Amazon is having with UPS and Fedex isn't so much capacity, it's probably pricing. The rate increases that the parcel carriers have handed out each year for the last few years is nothing short of insane. They know there's essentially a duopoly (ignoring USPS) for parcel delivery and they really take advantage of that.
Fedex also announced that they're looking to move away from using the USPS for last-mile delivery. With that and this Amazon news, it doesn't look good for the USPS.