Cord cutting reveals the content distribution chain as a series of monopolies. By copyright law, the producer of content owns a monopoly. But through subsequent licensing deals, additional monopolies are created. Like the last mile pipe, content distribution networks, and DNS, streaming infrastructure is a shared service that provide benefit to everyone on the net yet when commercially owned creates monopolies or walled gardens.
I remember interview with some Hollywood type in which they expressed a strong hatred for streaming services because the brand was no longer the studio or the production house but it was the program itself. The same effect is happening with streaming services. I don't think of "Man in the high Castle" as part of the Amazon brand. Its brand is "Man in the high Castle".
I think it's past time for a RAND policy for all content and a method of making sure everyone gets paid
Have you seen the infrastructure in the USA? You know how many bridges and overpasses have an F rating? I've seen how well the government handles that along with the VA hospitals.
the current state of infrastructure is what you get when fiscal conservatives try to starve government of revenue. If we had a higher gas tax or mileage fees, we would have no problem funding infrastructure.
Seems to me that their DHCP server should be changed to hand out a new address every time the old address lease expires. Without logging, you can't tell what addresses associated with what person.
Age-related cognitive decline is a medical reality. It is also common.
It does not hit everyone equally, and it may not have hit you at all
Medication-related cognitive decline is also a reality. blood-pressure medications and like can cause problems with brain function to the point of changing one's personality.
I've tried Google keep, Microsoft one note, personal wikis but nothing seems to function as well as Evernote. The ability to access the same data, without explicit synchronization steps on tablet, phone, and laptop is a core value of Evernote. What's the alternative?
at 59 I started leaning Swedish. this year at 60, I started learning hebrew (Israeli GF), brython bottle and bootstrap. Learning more marketing and business development skills.
I'm starting to think older developers need to form a coop with some marketing/sales people to sell their skills, extract products out of the contract work and make a future for themselves.
Competency is only a small factor in hiring. It's an economic decision by the hiring company. It's a political/subjective decision by the hiring manager/HR as well as the ongoing hunt for the purple squirrel. Like many "seasoned" IT people, I've gotten tremendous feedback from a variety of sources that I'm damned competent but, because I wasn't under 35, had a life, knew how to say no I wasn't considered to be "good employee material".
The perception that layoffs only get rid of deadwood from a company is a fallacy. Layoffs are random good and bad people are laid off and simply discriminating against someone because they've been laid off is shortsighted but isn't likely to change.
Yes it is hard to find good people. It's always been hard to find good people but the best company I ever worked for had a good 30 to 40% women programmers. We also had a significant number of graybeards who were tasked with the responsibility of training good behavior into the young punks. These graybeards also encourages young punks to teach them something new.
So, if you want good people, they come in all ages and genders. You have to be willing to have your senior people set the right standard that everybody else has to live up to.
They also assume that you're in perfect health and in a very narrow range of size. Can you imagine working at that desk if you are 6 feet tall and use a nice ergonomic chair? Can you imagine having some form of mobility problems trying to get in and out of that bed?
I look at this is furniture that is designed for 20-year-olds, not someone who's lived a life.
All drivers suffer from some form of attention drift be it from radio, landscape, thoughts about work etc. It's unavoidable part of the human mind. Driving adjuncts such as autopilot mode reduce the consequences from driver inattention.
That's data Tesla should have, since they get driving statistics from their cars. They should be able to easily calculate the accident rate for their cars under similar driving conditions with and without Autopilot on.
No, it also needs to be deactivated immediately if the driver takes their hands off the steering wheel. No hands-free operation. Force the driver to do what they are supposed to be doing anyway -- driving and being in control.
I have let my attention drift with my hands on the whee even with the threat of pain and possible death. solution like intermittant buzzing or twitching the wheel will only exhaust the driver with false alerts leading to even more unsafe driving. Because autopilot is as safe as human driver, the only solution is to encourage it's use and get more data to make autopilot even safer.
see this R&T article. http://www.roadandtrack.com/ca...
An unregulated natural monopoly is offering a service, when it is not economically viable for competitors to offer you a competing service.
If you actually read the contracts the cable company writes when "negotiating" (i.e. take it or leave it) with the town, you'll see that the contract make the town liable for the minimum level of profit for that cable company.
Isn't contract law fun?
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Cord cutting reveals the content distribution chain as a series of monopolies. By copyright law, the producer of content owns a monopoly. But through subsequent licensing deals, additional monopolies are created. Like the last mile pipe, content distribution networks, and DNS, streaming infrastructure is a shared service that provide benefit to everyone on the net yet when commercially owned creates monopolies or walled gardens.
I remember interview with some Hollywood type in which they expressed a strong hatred for streaming services because the brand was no longer the studio or the production house but it was the program itself. The same effect is happening with streaming services. I don't think of "Man in the high Castle" as part of the Amazon brand. Its brand is "Man in the high Castle".
I think it's past time for a RAND policy for all content and a method of making sure everyone gets paid
Older white males doubly so because we are also hated by younger white males who hate everybody else who is not like them
I've worked at multiple places where just being a woman got you catcalled. Based on my experience, her story is entirely believable.
you wouldn't hit personal tax rates all that much higher for the average person but you should/would take a big bite out of rent based income.
Have you seen the infrastructure in the USA? You know how many bridges and overpasses have an F rating? I've seen how well the government handles that along with the VA hospitals.
the current state of infrastructure is what you get when fiscal conservatives try to starve government of revenue. If we had a higher gas tax or mileage fees, we would have no problem funding infrastructure.
Seems to me that their DHCP server should be changed to hand out a new address every time the old address lease expires. Without logging, you can't tell what addresses associated with what person.
I'm waiting for the Republicans to count robots as 3/5th of a person.
Age-related cognitive decline is a medical reality. It is also common.
It does not hit everyone equally, and it may not have hit you at all
Medication-related cognitive decline is also a reality. blood-pressure medications and like can cause problems with brain function to the point of changing one's personality.
robots should be counted as three fifths of a human when it comes congressional representation, wages and taxation.
I've tried Google keep, Microsoft one note, personal wikis but nothing seems to function as well as Evernote. The ability to access the same data, without explicit synchronization steps on tablet, phone, and laptop is a core value of Evernote. What's the alternative?
what is more dangerous? Talking on the phone hands-free or pulling over to the breakdown lane to handle a phone call?
at 59 I started leaning Swedish. this year at 60, I started learning hebrew (Israeli GF), brython bottle and bootstrap. Learning more marketing and business development skills. I'm starting to think older developers need to form a coop with some marketing/sales people to sell their skills, extract products out of the contract work and make a future for themselves.
then why do my gf's kids ask me to fix configuration problems with their phones?
most of my peers have left the field. my mentors have "retired" as companies paid them to go away
it is the same for me. the supermarket and my barber are the only local shops I go to. if I plan ahead, online is the only way to go.
Competency is only a small factor in hiring. It's an economic decision by the hiring company. It's a political/subjective decision by the hiring manager/HR as well as the ongoing hunt for the purple squirrel. Like many "seasoned" IT people, I've gotten tremendous feedback from a variety of sources that I'm damned competent but, because I wasn't under 35, had a life, knew how to say no I wasn't considered to be "good employee material". The perception that layoffs only get rid of deadwood from a company is a fallacy. Layoffs are random good and bad people are laid off and simply discriminating against someone because they've been laid off is shortsighted but isn't likely to change.
Yes it is hard to find good people. It's always been hard to find good people but the best company I ever worked for had a good 30 to 40% women programmers. We also had a significant number of graybeards who were tasked with the responsibility of training good behavior into the young punks. These graybeards also encourages young punks to teach them something new. So, if you want good people, they come in all ages and genders. You have to be willing to have your senior people set the right standard that everybody else has to live up to.
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!! = voice
why can't you tell the difference between speech and voice = speech
They also assume that you're in perfect health and in a very narrow range of size. Can you imagine working at that desk if you are 6 feet tall and use a nice ergonomic chair? Can you imagine having some form of mobility problems trying to get in and out of that bed? I look at this is furniture that is designed for 20-year-olds, not someone who's lived a life.
All drivers suffer from some form of attention drift be it from radio, landscape, thoughts about work etc. It's unavoidable part of the human mind. Driving adjuncts such as autopilot mode reduce the consequences from driver inattention.
That's data Tesla should have, since they get driving statistics from their cars. They should be able to easily calculate the accident rate for their cars under similar driving conditions with and without Autopilot on.
see: http://www.roadandtrack.com/ca...
No, it also needs to be deactivated immediately if the driver takes their hands off the steering wheel. No hands-free operation. Force the driver to do what they are supposed to be doing anyway -- driving and being in control.
I have let my attention drift with my hands on the whee even with the threat of pain and possible death. solution like intermittant buzzing or twitching the wheel will only exhaust the driver with false alerts leading to even more unsafe driving. Because autopilot is as safe as human driver, the only solution is to encourage it's use and get more data to make autopilot even safer. see this R&T article. http://www.roadandtrack.com/ca...
No loyalty to the hands that taught you how to fish.
companies get as much loyalty as they give.
Sounds like you are acknowledging that the welfare state causes unemployment.
only in that is allows workers to say no to unreasonable employer demands.
An unregulated natural monopoly is offering a service, when it is not economically viable for competitors to offer you a competing service.
If you actually read the contracts the cable company writes when "negotiating" (i.e. take it or leave it) with the town, you'll see that the contract make the town liable for the minimum level of profit for that cable company. Isn't contract law fun?