The user of the phone is the one who chooses between:
-Use cell tower or wifi for internet? -Upload the pictures or Not? -Get email 20 times per day or just once? etc.
The developer can save some data by spending 80% more time to get 20% more efficiency. But in the end, that's just some savings per transaction. If a user decides to use it an outrageous number of times per day, how could a developer do anything about it?
Would you be responsible for the data bill for everyone using a tool you created? Of course not.
More important, if AT&T was billing YOU for someone else's data, would you just accept whatever number they decided to say? NO.
When you start billing everyone, they start wanting to see exactly HOW you got that number. There will be all kinds of fighting over things like: - Apple's iOS sent that packet, not my app. - I'm not paying for a rebroadcast of data packets that AT&T dropped.
So they want a cut? Maybe they should have thought about that while they were renegotiating their deal with Steve Jobs. AT&T was probably all happy with themselves... still got iPhone exclusive... paying Apple less per new customer... Let them keep the money from those "app" things.
Most developers get 2/3 of 99 cents. So how much data access is 66 cents supposed to by for each customer?
A long time ago (around 1996) I read an interview of the executive of an ISP company. The magazine asked if they were scared of AT&T (or one of the Bell companies) getting into the internet business. The answer they got was "No, those guys can't get out of their own way." and "They are genetically wired to metered services".
(Disclosure: I have a professional educator in my immediate family.) Finally discussing the MERIT of releasing the "merit" results....
Cons: - This is a precedent that every employee's job evaluation should be public record. - Very good odds that this will lower the job satisfaction of teachers even further, making it yet harder to keep good teachers. - Any discussions that come about from publishing these measurements will be pointless. The publication will out of context from the GOALS and METHODS of making them.
Pros: - A few teachers who do well in the evaluations will have more ability to show they are being under-paid. - Arguments to improve the measurement system can be made and will get more attention.
First problem of DISCUSSING education: make sure everyone in the discussion shares the same definition of the term "education". Second problem of DISCUSSING education: agree on who is responsible for making education possible.
It seems it is nearly NP-Hard to understand the concept of "NP-Hard". Thanks to Wikipedia I now understand that I don't fully understand this.
I should think that turning observations into accurate equations is hampered by never knowing if you have enough of the correct observations to determine the correct equation.
The sales side of the company has no reason to slow things down. They get paid on commission or on number of accounts generated. They never have to deal with the costs of delivering service to those accounts.
The production side of the company has to deal with providing service to those accounts. It takes a considerable amount of time to upgrade systems. Before you can do that, they have must fight for the budget to do it. Before that, the need to find out that they have a need.
Can a drone do more? Yes: - see under clouds - move in any direction to get a better look - get much closer
The big thing is that a drone can do the same thing a LOT CHEAPER. Cheap enough to be available for just about anyone. That's the scarier part. Just a few examples: - cheaper cameras - because it is a lot closer and doesn't deal with hardships of space. - cheaper radios - because it is a lot closer and doesn't deal with hardships of space. In fact it can just record to a card then fly back to is owner, not even needing a transmitter.
There is plenty to be regretted from elected officials. We as electors don't do a great job picking. And the task of electing every official at all levels would overwhelm the voters and they would just pick by less worthy criteria.
Didn't Slashdot recently run a story on this very offering by European companies?
Such a reaction was predictable and understandable. Now we all get to wait and see how the loss of hosting profits for US companies compares to the gains for media companies. (And by profits, I mean lost business revenue along with increased costs.)
Remember too, that customers of outsourcing services may now have more reason to select specifically non-US businesses.
If all your factories moved there, and all your component suppliers moved there, and all your raw materials suppliers moved there, and all your delivery stages moved there, and all your support efforts moved there, and all their managers moved there, and much of your R&D exists to improve all those, how much pressure is there to move R&D?
Crooms Academy of Information Technology is a high school in the Seminole County Florida school district that has been around for a while. Students are usually selected by lottery due to more applications than slots available.
The school helps kids get internships with local companies, including Electronic Arts.
The problems are also regional. You may be a lower usage area, or your company was more forward-thinking, etc.
It can be easy for too many phones to overload the local tower. More antennas can be added with each serving a narrower pie-slice of the area. But that is a real money and the company budgets may not be able to respond as quickly as demand increases.
Don't think there is no competition. There is competition. Its just not as good as it could be.
For example: when I got my first iPhone (3GS model), AT&T refused to allow it to be part of a family plan. They also refused to sell me insurance for it.
Today Verizon and Sprint compete with AT&T to service iPhones. I now have 4 iPhones on one AT&T family voice plan. And AT&T is offering to sell me insurance for my iPhone. That's an improvement.
I still have my old-style unlimited data plan for my iPhone, but I can't get unlimited for the others.
Probably, there is a lot of pressure for the data part of the business to work just like the voice part of the business. (Innovator's Dilemma)
For ages, they've been selling contract-limited sets of voice minutes that expire. When people use more minutes, overage bonus money comes in. If they sell you flat-rate data, there is no overage bonus.
As for complaining, I often notice that the executives complaining seem to be the ones in charge of making it happen. He's the one who gets bad performance reviews when users complain and he still must support all this new demand with no increase in budget. (Why else risk reducing sales?) The executive in charge of the sales staff isn't complaining at all.
Customer do not like surprise bills at the end of the month. They want to know up front how much they will pay, even if it is more. Remember what happened when AOL began offering flat-rate? Remember getting unlimited texts added to your plan after that cell bill?
How many times have we heard of this kind of proposal? Is it really even worth mentioning? Especially when its a random flame-bait article rather than actual legislation proposal?
By giving attention to this, you are encouraging the ACM (of all people) to produce more of it.
Next it'll be another rendition of "taxes on email".
Ever since there have been investors, there have been investors wanting assurances that the money is safe.
But time spent assuring is time not spent building. Looking at it another way, it is a reduction of efficiency. And efficiency is one of the great factors of competition.
Even Walt Disney expressed concern: "You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers." —Walt Disney
I've discussions with some managers that bugged me for a long time.
One day I realized that the basic part of the discussion that bugged me was their apparent belief that "management" was the product. (Instead of the software that we spent so much time and effort building, shipping, etc.)
the Supreme Court agreed with the companies [that the law, the way congress wrote it, says] that regulating greenhouse gases should be left to the EPA...
What then?
Add "Congress said" to the front of Supreme Court decisions and see what it sounds like.
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The user of the phone is the one who chooses between:
-Use cell tower or wifi for internet?
-Upload the pictures or Not?
-Get email 20 times per day or just once?
etc.
The developer can save some data by spending 80% more time to get 20% more efficiency. But in the end, that's just some savings per transaction. If a user decides to use it an outrageous number of times per day, how could a developer do anything about it?
Would you be responsible for the data bill for everyone using a tool you created? Of course not.
More important, if AT&T was billing YOU for someone else's data, would you just accept whatever number they decided to say? NO.
When you start billing everyone, they start wanting to see exactly HOW you got that number. There will be all kinds of fighting over things like:
- Apple's iOS sent that packet, not my app.
- I'm not paying for a rebroadcast of data packets that AT&T dropped.
So they want a cut? Maybe they should have thought about that while they were renegotiating their deal with Steve Jobs. AT&T was probably all happy with themselves... still got iPhone exclusive... paying Apple less per new customer... Let them keep the money from those "app" things.
Most developers get 2/3 of 99 cents. So how much data access is 66 cents supposed to by for each customer?
A long time ago (around 1996) I read an interview of the executive of an ISP company. The magazine asked if they were scared of AT&T (or one of the Bell companies) getting into the internet business. The answer they got was "No, those guys can't get out of their own way." and "They are genetically wired to metered services".
I guess he was right.
(Disclosure: I have a professional educator in my immediate family.)
Finally discussing the MERIT of releasing the "merit" results....
Cons:
- This is a precedent that every employee's job evaluation should be public record.
- Very good odds that this will lower the job satisfaction of teachers even further, making it yet harder to keep good teachers.
- Any discussions that come about from publishing these measurements will be pointless. The publication will out of context from the GOALS and METHODS of making them.
Pros:
- A few teachers who do well in the evaluations will have more ability to show they are being under-paid.
- Arguments to improve the measurement system can be made and will get more attention.
The teacher has many job requirements and those sometimes conflict.
This does lead to no-win situations for the teacher, especially when other peoples' agendas want to shift responsibility.
In the end you can be sure of this: It gets close to impossible for teachers to have high job satisfaction.
First problem of DISCUSSING education: make sure everyone in the discussion shares the same definition of the term "education".
Second problem of DISCUSSING education: agree on who is responsible for making education possible.
Does this mean that mathematicians set out to mathematically prove that their jobs are harder than physicists' jobs?
It seems it is nearly NP-Hard to understand the concept of "NP-Hard". Thanks to Wikipedia I now understand that I don't fully understand this.
I should think that turning observations into accurate equations is hampered by never knowing if you have enough of the correct observations to determine the correct equation.
The sales side of the company has no reason to slow things down. They get paid on commission or on number of accounts generated. They never have to deal with the costs of delivering service to those accounts.
The production side of the company has to deal with providing service to those accounts. It takes a considerable amount of time to upgrade systems. Before you can do that, they have must fight for the budget to do it. Before that, the need to find out that they have a need.
If you aren't doing anything someone else would criticize, then you probably never existed.
Can a drone do more? Yes:
- see under clouds
- move in any direction to get a better look
- get much closer
The big thing is that a drone can do the same thing a LOT CHEAPER. Cheap enough to be available for just about anyone. That's the scarier part. Just a few examples:
- cheaper cameras - because it is a lot closer and doesn't deal with hardships of space.
- cheaper radios - because it is a lot closer and doesn't deal with hardships of space. In fact it can just record to a card then fly back to is owner, not even needing a transmitter.
There is plenty to be regretted from elected officials. We as electors don't do a great job picking. And the task of electing every official at all levels would overwhelm the voters and they would just pick by less worthy criteria.
Don't confuse "unelected" with "unremovable".
Didn't Slashdot recently run a story on this very offering by European companies?
Such a reaction was predictable and understandable. Now we all get to wait and see how the loss of hosting profits for US companies compares to the gains for media companies. (And by profits, I mean lost business revenue along with increased costs.)
Remember too, that customers of outsourcing services may now have more reason to select specifically non-US businesses.
If all your factories moved there,
and all your component suppliers moved there,
and all your raw materials suppliers moved there,
and all your delivery stages moved there,
and all your support efforts moved there,
and all their managers moved there,
and much of your R&D exists to improve all those,
how much pressure is there to move R&D?
Crooms Academy of Information Technology is a high school in the Seminole County Florida school district that has been around for a while. Students are usually selected by lottery due to more applications than slots available.
The school helps kids get internships with local companies, including Electronic Arts.
The problems are also regional. You may be a lower usage area, or your company was more forward-thinking, etc.
It can be easy for too many phones to overload the local tower. More antennas can be added with each serving a narrower pie-slice of the area. But that is a real money and the company budgets may not be able to respond as quickly as demand increases.
Don't think there is no competition. There is competition. Its just not as good as it could be.
For example: when I got my first iPhone (3GS model), AT&T refused to allow it to be part of a family plan. They also refused to sell me insurance for it.
Today Verizon and Sprint compete with AT&T to service iPhones. I now have 4 iPhones on one AT&T family voice plan. And AT&T is offering to sell me insurance for my iPhone. That's an improvement.
I still have my old-style unlimited data plan for my iPhone, but I can't get unlimited for the others.
Probably, there is a lot of pressure for the data part of the business to work just like the voice part of the business. (Innovator's Dilemma)
For ages, they've been selling contract-limited sets of voice minutes that expire. When people use more minutes, overage bonus money comes in. If they sell you flat-rate data, there is no overage bonus.
As for complaining, I often notice that the executives complaining seem to be the ones in charge of making it happen. He's the one who gets bad performance reviews when users complain and he still must support all this new demand with no increase in budget. (Why else risk reducing sales?) The executive in charge of the sales staff isn't complaining at all.
Customer do not like surprise bills at the end of the month. They want to know up front how much they will pay, even if it is more. Remember what happened when AOL began offering flat-rate? Remember getting unlimited texts added to your plan after that cell bill?
I am new in California, but I'm told that its better to have lots of small quakes than to save up for one big one.
Maybe fracking is a way to make sure you get small quakes to let off the pressure.
How many times have we heard of this kind of proposal? Is it really even worth mentioning? Especially when its a random flame-bait article rather than actual legislation proposal?
By giving attention to this, you are encouraging the ACM (of all people) to produce more of it.
Next it'll be another rendition of "taxes on email".
At least judges have one thing in common with scientists: their industry includes the phrase "prove it"
I'm not sure I understood that. Perhaps you can find another way to express it.
Ever since there have been investors, there have been investors wanting assurances that the money is safe.
But time spent assuring is time not spent building. Looking at it another way, it is a reduction of efficiency. And efficiency is one of the great factors of competition.
Even Walt Disney expressed concern:
"You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers." —Walt Disney
I've discussions with some managers that bugged me for a long time.
One day I realized that the basic part of the discussion that bugged me was their apparent belief that "management" was the product. (Instead of the software that we spent so much time and effort building, shipping, etc.)
the Supreme Court agreed with the companies [that the law, the way congress wrote it, says] that regulating greenhouse gases should be left to the EPA...
What then?
Add "Congress said" to the front of Supreme Court decisions and see what it sounds like.
Let's not turn all the world into a pro wrestling match...
Apple built Thunderbolt with Intel, not against them. If it was only about fighting USB, they wouldn't team up.