We inherently like being productive. I personally am looking forward to early retirement, but not because I hate to work.
When the work is interesting, the customer is engaged, you have the tools to do your job, and the BS level is low you would have to put arm guards at the door to keep me out on even the weekends. Sadly, I find that in corporate America there is a lot of mundane work (especially documentation) that really doesn't need to be as onerous as it is, the customers are indecisive and slow to respond to requirements questions, and the company policies have precluded really having much fun.
So I am saving like mad to retire before 50. I expect that once I have assured financial independence that I will still end up finding some interesting work at a lower wage, perhaps even as a volunteer, and by having FU money and no need for job security I will be able to find something really fun to work on. Going and taking classes just to learn neat stuff is high on the list of possibilities as well.
30 Million to the school budgets is nothing. If a company like Alphabet want's to really help, they should be lobbying to help find a bigger and steadier way to fund our schools (i.e. tax increases on property, income, or corporations).
Telling people this close to Christmas that you've changed bonus policy is a jerk move. My compensation is mine, not yours. After all, employment is a business relationship. For anyone who disagrees, wait to see how you feel after your first layoff from a profitable company with large cash reserves. Loyalty is a farce.
Guilt when it comes to corporate entities is already severely murky and depressing, and getting worse.
How many people went to jail for all the mortgage fraud, forged notary signatures, and crap sandwich CDO's from the 2008 bust? Still waiting for all the pending investigations by Eric Placeholder are you? Yep, lies, delay tactics, and no actual justice.
So yes, companies will get sued. They have lawyers by the bushel on staff who will drain the resources of the victims, draw out lawsuits for years, if not decades, and eventually wear down the victims until they settle or go away. If there is sufficient outrage the Justice Department (sort of like calling your propoganda department the Ministry of Information)will launch a very public investigation that mostly just fades away, maybe nailing a token peon or two in case anyone pays attention long enough.
In other words, the victims will get "American Justice" at its finest. How satisfied was anybody over the Toyota "unintended acceleration" debacle? No real guilt was admitted, and no proper post-mortem was divulged, just denial and smoke screens. We got new floor mats and a software update along with some payouts to shut people up. Only outside independent investigation confirmed their software was horrendous. Nobody went to jail for killing and maiming a few of their customers.
No CEO or high ranking person will ever go to jail simply because their policies pressured underlings to release dangerous products onto the street. At best we might get a recall and a settlement, maybe an empty public apology or resignation with golden parachute if absolutely necessary. We little people are not important, protecting CEO's careers is a higher priority than protecting our miserable lives.
Same here. We've gone maybe once in the last year. I always end up feeling ripped off after going.
Our kiddo prefers watching at home where he can watch a movie 2-4 times in a row. The first time he gets good/bad, and who some of the characters are. By time he has seen it 2-3 times he actually gets some of the story line and might watch it one more time before moving on tot he next. He asks a lot of questions along the way, which is problematic in a theater. He also likes if we can "skip the scary parts", also problematic in a theater.
Alternatively we go to a grown up movie, requiring a babysitter, arranging his dinner, etc, etc. Ends up being a ~$100 evening full of stress and a late bedtime with next day stress spillover. Recently most of the movies have not lived up to the cost and hassle. Too many plot hole ridden CGI showcases. We wait till the dust has settled and just buy an occasional DVD. Many of those still only get watched once...
Having sat through management/engineer meetings it went like this:
Manager: Why are you wasting 10% there? Engineer: We need design margin for tolerance stackup and thermal expansion. Manager: But we'll lose sales! (in his head: "I'll lose my bonus!") Engineer: We need design margin or there is a chance that some of the batteries could catch on fire. Manager: So only a chance? Make the battery 10% bigger and stop complaining.
Engineers are measured and cautious in their statements. They talk in statistics, numbers, and probabilities, all of which have been lobotomized out of mid-level managers.
I am curious how an endowment/trust works for a body in this situation. Are the great-great-great grand kids supposed to keep fund going to pay for the ongoing preservation and eventual resuscitation? I mean we currently don't even have universal health care for the living, why would a popsicle be guaranteed massive charity at some future date? It is one thing to freeze her, but I can't imagine a more expensive hospital bill to thaw someone out, undo freezer burn, remove cancer, reverse cancer damage, re-animate the body, then rehab the patient. After that you would indeed be a time traveler in a very foreign land, but that seems like the easiest of the problems to solve.
I see a societal split coming. Folks a bit younger than me seem to embrace the benefits that they reap from handing over their privacy and letting everything connect with everything. Targeted ads are welcomed (then ignored) rather than causing paranoia and revulsion.
I find myself as a cranky old 39 year old tending the other way. Facebook was shutoff over a year ago, Google+ only logged into about twice, and I have ad-blockers shielding whatever I can. It costs me an extra $4 a month to get rid of Hulu ads, which I find to be well worth it. I am becoming more and more technophobic as time passes. I thoroughly do not understand the need to have a "smart" version of everything, and I am starting to really tire of the need to charge everything or replace the batteries. A mechanical kitchen scale went on my Xmas list instead of one that links with my smart phone.
It is less clear to me as to whether this is a generational difference, or if the younger set will also tire of all the inconsistent, buggy, and unsupported crap that mostly is broken quickly. Will they grow out of it as their lives get busier and they become wiser with their time and money?
It never seems to rise to fraud when unplayable buggy games are shipped, or are missing advertised features. Nobody in power bats an eye when multiplayer games have their servers shut off and thus ruin the value of something I paid for, or when the first sale doctrine is violated and I can't sell my property due to DRM.
So yeah, these guys behaved badly, but it sort of like finding out a mobster's house got robbed. I have no sympathy to spare, and kind of hope the thieves get off.
Maybe, maybe not. Bear in mind that for modest commuting in my moderate (low AC use) climate my crappy little Leaf accounts for only 20% of our power use.
At night we have huge offline capacity, often even an oversupply of just renewables like hydro and wind (highly region dependent). We've started to see negative spot pricing during the night in areas such as Texas due to more installed wind power than nighttime demand. Home charging today is pretty dumb, but it is not inconceivable that once electric fleets get big enough to matter to the power operators that we will see a little bit of automatic scheduling show up for charging with power companies giving you a discount to those kWh's. My crappy little Leaf is set to finish charging at 6 AM (timer, not automagic, sadly), so most of my power is coming way off-peak when my local (Oregon) grid is almost exclusively powered by hydro and wind.
In California, where power is much more expensive, lots of folks are on plans where their electric cars are on a different time of use meter than their house to incentivize charging off-peak when the grid is the "greenest" and where there is plenty of spare capacity.
Sanders was not give a fair shake by the DNC, to deny that is ignorance. The email leaks for Debby Wasserman Schulz confirmed that there was an active effort to play favorites. He may still not have won, but it was dirty back room king making anyhow you slice it.
Checks and balances in the system?! What horrible forms of oppression! Oh no's!!!
The ACA went up to the supreme court, where the vast majority of it was upheld as legal and constitutional. Medicare expansion being imposed on the states was not upheld, and that let a bunch of red states opt out. So yeah, an elite council overrode the duly elected president and congress who had passed the law because they saw part of as overstepping the line of states rights. Everyone accepted the decision, and a bunch of poor and near poor people get to suffer at the hands of their state level elected officials.
As for Obama's election itself, we have another precedent in Gore v. Bush for the 2000 election. An elite council stopped an active recount and cutoff further arguments about bad ballots, and so on. Despite some pretty good evidence that bad ballot design skewing the results and a win well within recount error. Yet once the SCOTUS ruled Gore accepted the verdict and so did the rest of the country. We weren't all happy about it, but you didn't have mass riots or attempted coups, or 2nd amendment people "knowing what to do".
Your analogies actually spot on, and point out that checks an balances in government happen and are part of keeping the whole messy system functioning.
A common problem is that being 99.9% compatible is not enough. As soon as a customer gets a drawing or document with messed up formatting the jig is up. If it is a MS Word 201X vs MS Word 201Y issue, management doesn't care. As soon as you mention open source, for "equivalent" or anything of the sort, you get shut down. For business it often is not worth the perceived headache to not be 100% the same as your customers or colleagues, even if the license fees look horrendous to a mere peon.
We recently swapped all our machines from CentOS to Redhat because the vendor would not believe our bug submissions unless we used the officially supported OS. None of our bugs were OS related (we had been keeping one Redhat machine around for bug double checking, but it was becoming a hassle). According to our moles the vendor actually does all of their development on CentOS and then verifies against Redhat, but they will never admit it openly.
I interviewed at Analog Devices locally a couple years back. I really liked their setup. The center area was open space with a few cubicles for the drop-in marketing/sales guys, the rest was lab area. Around the perimeter were proper offices for the engineers. Most folks had their doors open, but it was expected that if you needed to focus, have a loud discussion, or talk on a phone conference you would close your office door.
I did not get that job, so I ended up at another good company that sadly has the typical cube farm. I end up shell-shocked some days by the number of distractions and interruptions. I only seem to be able to refocus so many times before my brain just kind of give up for the day.
If you goal is to communicate information to users then hard to read stuff is idiotic. If you goal is to wow your boss, VC funder, or anything like that then you might as well fill the text with latin and the style look awesome from the 10,000 foot view.
User interfaces are on a steady decline. Too many features lead MS to replace menus with the ribbon, which was a horrible cure for a real problem. Almost every program I have used scales very poorly with higher DPI screens. The few that actually pay attention often end up with awkward.
I'm currently dredging through Cadence documentation on how to get the dozen or so font call-outs to be large enough to read on my 4K screen, as they shrank a bunch of already small text int he latest release and are DPI agnostic as a matter of course. There is no central location for setting fonts, but rather an unholy peppering of variables, each one requires hunting down and tinkered with.
Awesome point! Though I still have to worry about the Trimet (bus system) drivers, one of whom was amongst the list of SOB's that have tried to kill me in my bike lane this year.
How about the dumbass driver that nearly mowed me down while I was cycling in the bike lane? Oh, wait, that was like 3 different drivers this year alone... Last one went through the bike lane to get to the turn lane while I was in it, missing my front wheel by about 2 feet. Yes, I am very visible, wiht multiple lights, light clothes, reflectors, flashers, etc. Let me cry a river for the occasional driver inconvenienced by a bicycle.
Autonomous cars have been getting incredible, and often unbelievable hype with lots of wild and unfounded claims, often from fanboys who are blinded by their own excitement. It is appropriate for the news media to look behind the curtain and report on what they find.
The reality so far has been rather sobering, and indicate to me we are still farther away than we think. - Google employees sleeping or working on laptops in beta vehicles on the way home from work, reminding us that humans cannot be trusted to be a backup safety system if HAL gives up or makes a mistake. More recently the Tesla driver who apparently was watching a DVD player rather than the road when the Autopilot drove under a truck.
- Uber cars that throw up their hands and require driver intervention for situations as basic as driving over a bridge, reminding us that we are a long way off from being able to remove the steering wheel and let the "driver" tune out and relax.
- No autonomous vehicles claim to handle dirt roads without markings, snowy conditions that blind lidar, or construction zones all on their own. I still fear a large increase in the error rate for manual driving by drivers who become rusty and have to take over under the worst driving situations (possibly after being summoned from a nap). On the plus side, their pickiness might finally get some money spent to properly maintain the roads.
Mac mini has been neglected for years, as has the mac pro. Their all-in-one approach is a non-starter for me, and the mini is non-expandable and badly underpowered. If they came out with an acceptable mini-tower not marked up by 3x that I could stick a few drives in and still upgrade the memory and video card in I would be game. Frankly I am done with Windows, and I am not a fan of Linux. Now would be a strategic time for them to take advantage of Windows 10 discontent, but I am sure they won't. I barely ever turn on my home PC anymore anyway. The dream is gone, as are the developers.
But your analogy fails. Going from an LTE average of 12 Mbps to 250 kbps max. By your analogy it be like going from typical 5 minutes wait per plate to 4 hours minimum for the last plate. You would validly be ticked off if your server disappeared into the kitchen for 4 hours would you not?
I am all for the FCC clamping down on the deceitful language and double speak. Don't call something "unlimited", then throttle it to near uselessness.
The cellular carrier make very high profits, yet rather than invest in a denser network to match customer usage they resort to throttling and other cost cutting schemes along with rapacious data prices to make their existing wimpy networks keep shambling on. Meanwhile they market themselves with claims of blazing fast speed that can burn through your data cap in mere minutes. The FCC is the 20 lb gorilla we have, I wish they would bulk up and bring more sanity to the whole situation.
I'd rather see a tamper proof stickers on the camera with a $100 deposit as an option. Let people take calls if they need a baby sitter to be able to get in touch, but photos or videos will cost them royally. Sensitive locations will use these stickers to protect prototypes on a regular basis and such, why not camera shy artists?
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Wish I could mod you funny... Maybe sad too?
To quote an acquaintance who has seen booms and busts in his personal financial life:
"I've been rich and poor. Being rich was better."
This.
We inherently like being productive. I personally am looking forward to early retirement, but not because I hate to work.
When the work is interesting, the customer is engaged, you have the tools to do your job, and the BS level is low you would have to put arm guards at the door to keep me out on even the weekends. Sadly, I find that in corporate America there is a lot of mundane work (especially documentation) that really doesn't need to be as onerous as it is, the customers are indecisive and slow to respond to requirements questions, and the company policies have precluded really having much fun.
So I am saving like mad to retire before 50. I expect that once I have assured financial independence that I will still end up finding some interesting work at a lower wage, perhaps even as a volunteer, and by having FU money and no need for job security I will be able to find something really fun to work on. Going and taking classes just to learn neat stuff is high on the list of possibilities as well.
This.
30 Million to the school budgets is nothing. If a company like Alphabet want's to really help, they should be lobbying to help find a bigger and steadier way to fund our schools (i.e. tax increases on property, income, or corporations).
Telling people this close to Christmas that you've changed bonus policy is a jerk move. My compensation is mine, not yours. After all, employment is a business relationship. For anyone who disagrees, wait to see how you feel after your first layoff from a profitable company with large cash reserves. Loyalty is a farce.
Guilt when it comes to corporate entities is already severely murky and depressing, and getting worse.
How many people went to jail for all the mortgage fraud, forged notary signatures, and crap sandwich CDO's from the 2008 bust? Still waiting for all the pending investigations by Eric Placeholder are you? Yep, lies, delay tactics, and no actual justice.
So yes, companies will get sued. They have lawyers by the bushel on staff who will drain the resources of the victims, draw out lawsuits for years, if not decades, and eventually wear down the victims until they settle or go away. If there is sufficient outrage the Justice Department (sort of like calling your propoganda department the Ministry of Information)will launch a very public investigation that mostly just fades away, maybe nailing a token peon or two in case anyone pays attention long enough.
In other words, the victims will get "American Justice" at its finest. How satisfied was anybody over the Toyota "unintended acceleration" debacle? No real guilt was admitted, and no proper post-mortem was divulged, just denial and smoke screens. We got new floor mats and a software update along with some payouts to shut people up. Only outside independent investigation confirmed their software was horrendous. Nobody went to jail for killing and maiming a few of their customers.
No CEO or high ranking person will ever go to jail simply because their policies pressured underlings to release dangerous products onto the street. At best we might get a recall and a settlement, maybe an empty public apology or resignation with golden parachute if absolutely necessary. We little people are not important, protecting CEO's careers is a higher priority than protecting our miserable lives.
Same here. We've gone maybe once in the last year. I always end up feeling ripped off after going.
Our kiddo prefers watching at home where he can watch a movie 2-4 times in a row. The first time he gets good/bad, and who some of the characters are. By time he has seen it 2-3 times he actually gets some of the story line and might watch it one more time before moving on tot he next. He asks a lot of questions along the way, which is problematic in a theater. He also likes if we can "skip the scary parts", also problematic in a theater.
Alternatively we go to a grown up movie, requiring a babysitter, arranging his dinner, etc, etc. Ends up being a ~$100 evening full of stress and a late bedtime with next day stress spillover. Recently most of the movies have not lived up to the cost and hassle. Too many plot hole ridden CGI showcases. We wait till the dust has settled and just buy an occasional DVD. Many of those still only get watched once...
Having sat through management/engineer meetings it went like this:
Manager: Why are you wasting 10% there?
Engineer: We need design margin for tolerance stackup and thermal expansion.
Manager: But we'll lose sales! (in his head: "I'll lose my bonus!")
Engineer: We need design margin or there is a chance that some of the batteries could catch on fire.
Manager: So only a chance? Make the battery 10% bigger and stop complaining.
Engineers are measured and cautious in their statements. They talk in statistics, numbers, and probabilities, all of which have been lobotomized out of mid-level managers.
No, but we lost a whole satellite due to a minor glitch, which was elevated by an engineer and dutifully ignored by his management...
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Death is not always the worst option.
I am curious how an endowment/trust works for a body in this situation. Are the great-great-great grand kids supposed to keep fund going to pay for the ongoing preservation and eventual resuscitation? I mean we currently don't even have universal health care for the living, why would a popsicle be guaranteed massive charity at some future date? It is one thing to freeze her, but I can't imagine a more expensive hospital bill to thaw someone out, undo freezer burn, remove cancer, reverse cancer damage, re-animate the body, then rehab the patient. After that you would indeed be a time traveler in a very foreign land, but that seems like the easiest of the problems to solve.
I see a societal split coming. Folks a bit younger than me seem to embrace the benefits that they reap from handing over their privacy and letting everything connect with everything. Targeted ads are welcomed (then ignored) rather than causing paranoia and revulsion.
I find myself as a cranky old 39 year old tending the other way. Facebook was shutoff over a year ago, Google+ only logged into about twice, and I have ad-blockers shielding whatever I can. It costs me an extra $4 a month to get rid of Hulu ads, which I find to be well worth it. I am becoming more and more technophobic as time passes. I thoroughly do not understand the need to have a "smart" version of everything, and I am starting to really tire of the need to charge everything or replace the batteries. A mechanical kitchen scale went on my Xmas list instead of one that links with my smart phone.
It is less clear to me as to whether this is a generational difference, or if the younger set will also tire of all the inconsistent, buggy, and unsupported crap that mostly is broken quickly. Will they grow out of it as their lives get busier and they become wiser with their time and money?
Oh yeah, stay off my lawn!
At least we know what they have been concentrating on instead of refreshing their desktops.
Yeah, this.
It never seems to rise to fraud when unplayable buggy games are shipped, or are missing advertised features. Nobody in power bats an eye when multiplayer games have their servers shut off and thus ruin the value of something I paid for, or when the first sale doctrine is violated and I can't sell my property due to DRM.
So yeah, these guys behaved badly, but it sort of like finding out a mobster's house got robbed. I have no sympathy to spare, and kind of hope the thieves get off.
Maybe, maybe not. Bear in mind that for modest commuting in my moderate (low AC use) climate my crappy little Leaf accounts for only 20% of our power use.
At night we have huge offline capacity, often even an oversupply of just renewables like hydro and wind (highly region dependent). We've started to see negative spot pricing during the night in areas such as Texas due to more installed wind power than nighttime demand. Home charging today is pretty dumb, but it is not inconceivable that once electric fleets get big enough to matter to the power operators that we will see a little bit of automatic scheduling show up for charging with power companies giving you a discount to those kWh's. My crappy little Leaf is set to finish charging at 6 AM (timer, not automagic, sadly), so most of my power is coming way off-peak when my local (Oregon) grid is almost exclusively powered by hydro and wind.
In California, where power is much more expensive, lots of folks are on plans where their electric cars are on a different time of use meter than their house to incentivize charging off-peak when the grid is the "greenest" and where there is plenty of spare capacity.
Sanders was not give a fair shake by the DNC, to deny that is ignorance. The email leaks for Debby Wasserman Schulz confirmed that there was an active effort to play favorites. He may still not have won, but it was dirty back room king making anyhow you slice it.
Checks and balances in the system?! What horrible forms of oppression! Oh no's!!!
The ACA went up to the supreme court, where the vast majority of it was upheld as legal and constitutional. Medicare expansion being imposed on the states was not upheld, and that let a bunch of red states opt out. So yeah, an elite council overrode the duly elected president and congress who had passed the law because they saw part of as overstepping the line of states rights. Everyone accepted the decision, and a bunch of poor and near poor people get to suffer at the hands of their state level elected officials.
As for Obama's election itself, we have another precedent in Gore v. Bush for the 2000 election. An elite council stopped an active recount and cutoff further arguments about bad ballots, and so on. Despite some pretty good evidence that bad ballot design skewing the results and a win well within recount error. Yet once the SCOTUS ruled Gore accepted the verdict and so did the rest of the country. We weren't all happy about it, but you didn't have mass riots or attempted coups, or 2nd amendment people "knowing what to do".
Your analogies actually spot on, and point out that checks an balances in government happen and are part of keeping the whole messy system functioning.
No need to round before finding a nice ratio approximation, it adds error needlessly.
A common problem is that being 99.9% compatible is not enough. As soon as a customer gets a drawing or document with messed up formatting the jig is up. If it is a MS Word 201X vs MS Word 201Y issue, management doesn't care. As soon as you mention open source, for "equivalent" or anything of the sort, you get shut down. For business it often is not worth the perceived headache to not be 100% the same as your customers or colleagues, even if the license fees look horrendous to a mere peon.
We recently swapped all our machines from CentOS to Redhat because the vendor would not believe our bug submissions unless we used the officially supported OS. None of our bugs were OS related (we had been keeping one Redhat machine around for bug double checking, but it was becoming a hassle). According to our moles the vendor actually does all of their development on CentOS and then verifies against Redhat, but they will never admit it openly.
I interviewed at Analog Devices locally a couple years back. I really liked their setup. The center area was open space with a few cubicles for the drop-in marketing/sales guys, the rest was lab area. Around the perimeter were proper offices for the engineers. Most folks had their doors open, but it was expected that if you needed to focus, have a loud discussion, or talk on a phone conference you would close your office door.
I did not get that job, so I ended up at another good company that sadly has the typical cube farm. I end up shell-shocked some days by the number of distractions and interruptions. I only seem to be able to refocus so many times before my brain just kind of give up for the day.
If you goal is to communicate information to users then hard to read stuff is idiotic. If you goal is to wow your boss, VC funder, or anything like that then you might as well fill the text with latin and the style look awesome from the 10,000 foot view.
User interfaces are on a steady decline. Too many features lead MS to replace menus with the ribbon, which was a horrible cure for a real problem. Almost every program I have used scales very poorly with higher DPI screens. The few that actually pay attention often end up with awkward.
I'm currently dredging through Cadence documentation on how to get the dozen or so font call-outs to be large enough to read on my 4K screen, as they shrank a bunch of already small text int he latest release and are DPI agnostic as a matter of course. There is no central location for setting fonts, but rather an unholy peppering of variables, each one requires hunting down and tinkered with.
Awesome point! Though I still have to worry about the Trimet (bus system) drivers, one of whom was amongst the list of SOB's that have tried to kill me in my bike lane this year.
How about the dumbass driver that nearly mowed me down while I was cycling in the bike lane? Oh, wait, that was like 3 different drivers this year alone... Last one went through the bike lane to get to the turn lane while I was in it, missing my front wheel by about 2 feet. Yes, I am very visible, wiht multiple lights, light clothes, reflectors, flashers, etc. Let me cry a river for the occasional driver inconvenienced by a bicycle.
Autonomous cars have been getting incredible, and often unbelievable hype with lots of wild and unfounded claims, often from fanboys who are blinded by their own excitement. It is appropriate for the news media to look behind the curtain and report on what they find.
The reality so far has been rather sobering, and indicate to me we are still farther away than we think.
- Google employees sleeping or working on laptops in beta vehicles on the way home from work, reminding us that humans cannot be trusted to be a backup safety system if HAL gives up or makes a mistake. More recently the Tesla driver who apparently was watching a DVD player rather than the road when the Autopilot drove under a truck.
- Uber cars that throw up their hands and require driver intervention for situations as basic as driving over a bridge, reminding us that we are a long way off from being able to remove the steering wheel and let the "driver" tune out and relax.
- No autonomous vehicles claim to handle dirt roads without markings, snowy conditions that blind lidar, or construction zones all on their own. I still fear a large increase in the error rate for manual driving by drivers who become rusty and have to take over under the worst driving situations (possibly after being summoned from a nap). On the plus side, their pickiness might finally get some money spent to properly maintain the roads.
Mac mini has been neglected for years, as has the mac pro. Their all-in-one approach is a non-starter for me, and the mini is non-expandable and badly underpowered. If they came out with an acceptable mini-tower not marked up by 3x that I could stick a few drives in and still upgrade the memory and video card in I would be game. Frankly I am done with Windows, and I am not a fan of Linux. Now would be a strategic time for them to take advantage of Windows 10 discontent, but I am sure they won't. I barely ever turn on my home PC anymore anyway. The dream is gone, as are the developers.
But your analogy fails. Going from an LTE average of 12 Mbps to 250 kbps max. By your analogy it be like going from typical 5 minutes wait per plate to 4 hours minimum for the last plate. You would validly be ticked off if your server disappeared into the kitchen for 4 hours would you not?
I am all for the FCC clamping down on the deceitful language and double speak. Don't call something "unlimited", then throttle it to near uselessness.
The cellular carrier make very high profits, yet rather than invest in a denser network to match customer usage they resort to throttling and other cost cutting schemes along with rapacious data prices to make their existing wimpy networks keep shambling on. Meanwhile they market themselves with claims of blazing fast speed that can burn through your data cap in mere minutes. The FCC is the 20 lb gorilla we have, I wish they would bulk up and bring more sanity to the whole situation.
I'd rather see a tamper proof stickers on the camera with a $100 deposit as an option. Let people take calls if they need a baby sitter to be able to get in touch, but photos or videos will cost them royally. Sensitive locations will use these stickers to protect prototypes on a regular basis and such, why not camera shy artists?