The life time subscription was $49 when I got plex now it's $149... I do enjoy it very much but there are other options that are free and open source now like emby and Kodi although Kodi is not officially supported. At the moment I would still probably buy a lifetime subscription just because I like the interface and channels and it's so much easier to setup than Kodi.
Most of those "hot" shows are offered straight off the networks website with commercials of course and you can watch a lot of OTA stations on a live stream from their own site just a tablet with chrome and playon the roku.
Plex has channels for the big networks and can organize your dvd collection to watch on your roku, xbox, play station, etc...
I keep Netflix because I like some of their original content, they have back catalogs of entire shows I can binge watch without comercials, and it's organized all in one place as apposed to searching back and forth between dozens of free sites only to watch it with commercials. What I really don't miss is paying $30 for the previously mentioned stations with commercial interruptions when I get the same service free 24 hours later and more conveniently packaged in a stream I can watch at my convenience not on a tv schedule.
It's easy to get them free and legal with commercial interruptions of course cable companies should be glad people are still willing to pay for basic cable.
NBC, ABC, CBS, CWTV, MTV, Disney, and more offer streams of recent episodes of their prime time shows with commercials of course or possibly without or with more content for a small monthly fee. Netflix isn't what it used to be but there are plenty of other options, right now aside of from the netflix originals they don't have anything I can't get on hulu or free and legal somewhere else, I cut cable TV a few years ago when all those stations started offering their prime time shows and haven't really felt like I was missing anything.
get employees to compete amongst eachother for salary equity
You forget that national and multinational corporations employee people all over. I for one know that I make a less than those in my department that live in CA, although I am probably in a better financial state than them because the cost of living in the mid-west is considerably lower. I don't gauge my salary by what the company pays everyone else but instead by what other companies are paying for talent in my area.
There is no cultural change underway... motor vehicles representing freedom and independence is a mid-west thing for all those kids that live in scattered little towns where public transit and Uber don't go. They also never thought public transportation was the devil's work... they thought it was to damn expensive.. when you have a community of 6000 they are weighing options public transit isn't big on the list for their tiny 4 square mile town.
Being covered in snow or ice makes the reverse sensor on mine go crazy... I know only a couple people that think autonomous cars are a good idea and everyone else thinks they are a pipe dream and a bad idea although they will take all the nifty features that come about because of research into it like back up cameras and collision warning systems.
Why are they a pipe dream??
How often does your computer, tablet, or cell phone freeze or crash? Maybe once a year, more if it's cheap, but it does happen and if the same kind of system where controlling an autonomous car that would surely be a huge problem...
How often do you get into a cellular or gps dead spot... everyday if there just happens to be one on the highway you take to work... there is for me and it's about 5 miles long, no calls, data or GPS on that stretch of highway an autonomous car using that technology would be lost.
Sorry then you would know that dolphins getting aggressive when they are frisky isn't an urban legend... stay away from hippie chicks w/ dolphin tattoos that's how you get hepatitis.
I buy used games, CDs, and usually wait for movies to come out on DVD, but when I was in high school I never complained about the price of these things. A movie used to cost $2.50 to get in and granted 1.25 soda was over priced I'd spend about $10 to take my girlfriend to a movie and I made about $100 a week. Things have changed since then, a teen working a minimum wage job probably isn't making 40 hours a week anymore and although the pay has doubled everything else has gone up much more. Today the teen with a minimum wage job will need to spend more than %20 of their earning to take their girl to a movie.
That's the thing with encryption there is always things to weigh. Poor performance to make brute force attacks to costly vs the reward so long as a side vector isn't found to render it completely useless?
Someone using a unique, proprietary, and undisclosed system of encryption if crafted as well as any standard may actually fair better so long as they are not a huge public company.
I don't develop cryptography and have only every used MD5 for file integrity checks. Although my brother was talking the other day about a compressed encryption algorithm that sounded amazingly difficult to implement on even the best modern hardware.
If you purchase the latest console, a few accessories, titles, the TV you are going to connect it to, add to that a broadband Internet connection you could easily spend over two grand. Games are not the only entertainment product that is considered an everyday thing but is priced like a luxury item. I know people who always have the latest games, cell phones, see all the new movies, and go to concerts but they generally live on credit. Eventually that runs out and they are broke and in debt with no where to borrow anymore.
This is why games, movies, and music are pirated, they have created an artificial need for luxury priced entertainment products and it's bound to fail.
If there happens to be a manual to RTFM at all, usually it's an incomplete and out of date wiki.
My personal favorite is class libraries with documentation that is nothing more than a list of functions with no explanation or any types for the variables, so you are still stuck reading the code which is in no logical order and has both current and depreciated functions but you can't tell which are which or why because it's not commented.
Are the top of the list insecure pieces of crap or are they simply the most active at patching? It doesn't say how many where released by the vendor, other sources, how many had exploits in the wild, or whether they were patched.
I don't know, I've been around some of those communities and some of them are just plain jerks doesn't matter what sex, race, or ethnicity, of course being an equal opportunity jerk isn't an excuse for being a jerk. If you want to pick at a single thread in the cloth you may go ahead.
or that your employer is legally liable if certain customer information is compromised and banning recordings, photos, and videos is one way to secure that information.
In the course of video recording what you believe is corporate misconduct you could easily open yourself to liability and criminal charges if you captured the wrong thing and released it on facebook and youtube.
I used to work in a cubicle and would often have co-workers make fun of me because I would stand, stretch, and do calisthenics when able {like talking on the phone}.
This continued for a while until one of my much younger co-workers had a back issues, afterwards a lot of co-workers where doing the same and stopped making fun.
I still do my standing, stretching, and calisthenics but no one notices because I can close the office door.
You can get symantec also and it's needed because there are virus written for linux. Granted many of them are intended to infect ftp, web, and mail services which you probably aren't running on a workstation, although if the steam machine really takes off that may change and we may start seeing more.
I'm not going to deny that the world is full of poor decisions and poor code C and C++ included, it does not change the fact that the right tool for the right job is the best way to do things. It doesn't excuse the use of WYSIWYG development to override quality for quantity either or more simply to put off actual development.
A great example would be handing a bunch business users a sharepoint site with site ownership and sharepoint designer and saying have fun hope you can make something useful for your team... because this is what happens in the real world some slick marketer talks up all the amazing features and some business type buys it hook line and sinker and they end up with an expensive file share.
Unlike many people, you have the resources to self-educate and keep abreast of the times and state of the art. You just elect not to.
Personally I have spent more than a half my lifetime in school and I'm a grandfather, so I do agree that if you have the means to educate yourself then you should.
It's good that you are not trying to profit off of outsourcing to under-paid uneducated and usually under appreciated employees cranking out inferior products. It neither benefits the business or the employees however it is entirely something in line with what those that manage by profit margins and bottom lines would do.
But you keep trying to pretend that C++ is somehow tied to good programming.
Good programing isn't tied to the language however C, C++ are both good tools when used properly and shouldn't be avoided because development times and cost when it is the best tool for a particular job.
As far as managed code goes there is nothing wrong with it in general however when you give even a qualified person a wysiwyg editor like visual studio or business intelligence and start having them crank out software with high pressure and short deadlines you end up with problems.
Allow me to translate this for those that aren't sure what this means:
I'm also hoping in the next 5 years we can flush out most of the unmanaged language programmers from any place they don't need to be (unless performance constraints are so tight they outweigh potential security and scheduling implications, I resist the use of languages like C++*, C and Fortran).
"I'm also hoping software developers will be replaced with uneducated under-paid employees using limited frameworks and wysiwyg editors to churn out solutions that barely work in the least amount of time possible and is outsources to a service that I directly profit from"
I'm very busy tearing down old crappy processes and infrastructures to make way for lightweight processes and efficient distributed infrastructure.
I'm busy replacing your infrastructure with a cloud hosted services which I profit from, but is unlikely to be able to provide all of the services you require.
So yeah, if you (being any reader) one of those people I am your enemy and the beneficiary of this climate all at the same time.
I have a vested interest in companies that outsource your job and I need to destroy you so that I can make money.
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I worked on a Solaris 2.0 spark running audix off of a definity PBX not networked that thing ran from sometime before 95 to 2010.
I could see the phone system at work soon becoming integrated with the email address book
You are a day late and a dollar short.
The life time subscription was $49 when I got plex now it's $149... I do enjoy it very much but there are other options that are free and open source now like emby and Kodi although Kodi is not officially supported. At the moment I would still probably buy a lifetime subscription just because I like the interface and channels and it's so much easier to setup than Kodi.
Most of those "hot" shows are offered straight off the networks website with commercials of course and you can watch a lot of OTA stations on a live stream from their own site just a tablet with chrome and playon the roku.
Plex has channels for the big networks and can organize your dvd collection to watch on your roku, xbox, play station, etc...
I keep Netflix because I like some of their original content, they have back catalogs of entire shows I can binge watch without comercials, and it's organized all in one place as apposed to searching back and forth between dozens of free sites only to watch it with commercials. What I really don't miss is paying $30 for the previously mentioned stations with commercial interruptions when I get the same service free 24 hours later and more conveniently packaged in a stream I can watch at my convenience not on a tv schedule.
It's easy to get them free and legal with commercial interruptions of course cable companies should be glad people are still willing to pay for basic cable.
NBC, ABC, CBS, CWTV, MTV, Disney, and more offer streams of recent episodes of their prime time shows with commercials of course or possibly without or with more content for a small monthly fee. Netflix isn't what it used to be but there are plenty of other options, right now aside of from the netflix originals they don't have anything I can't get on hulu or free and legal somewhere else, I cut cable TV a few years ago when all those stations started offering their prime time shows and haven't really felt like I was missing anything.
get employees to compete amongst eachother for salary equity
You forget that national and multinational corporations employee people all over. I for one know that I make a less than those in my department that live in CA, although I am probably in a better financial state than them because the cost of living in the mid-west is considerably lower. I don't gauge my salary by what the company pays everyone else but instead by what other companies are paying for talent in my area.
There is no cultural change underway... motor vehicles representing freedom and independence is a mid-west thing for all those kids that live in scattered little towns where public transit and Uber don't go. They also never thought public transportation was the devil's work... they thought it was to damn expensive.. when you have a community of 6000 they are weighing options public transit isn't big on the list for their tiny 4 square mile town.
Being covered in snow or ice makes the reverse sensor on mine go crazy... I know only a couple people that think autonomous cars are a good idea and everyone else thinks they are a pipe dream and a bad idea although they will take all the nifty features that come about because of research into it like back up cameras and collision warning systems.
Why are they a pipe dream??
How often does your computer, tablet, or cell phone freeze or crash? Maybe once a year, more if it's cheap, but it does happen and if the same kind of system where controlling an autonomous car that would surely be a huge problem...
How often do you get into a cellular or gps dead spot... everyday if there just happens to be one on the highway you take to work... there is for me and it's about 5 miles long, no calls, data or GPS on that stretch of highway an autonomous car using that technology would be lost.
Sorry then you would know that dolphins getting aggressive when they are frisky isn't an urban legend... stay away from hippie chicks w/ dolphin tattoos that's how you get hepatitis.
I buy used games, CDs, and usually wait for movies to come out on DVD, but when I was in high school I never complained about the price of these things. A movie used to cost $2.50 to get in and granted 1.25 soda was over priced I'd spend about $10 to take my girlfriend to a movie and I made about $100 a week. Things have changed since then, a teen working a minimum wage job probably isn't making 40 hours a week anymore and although the pay has doubled everything else has gone up much more. Today the teen with a minimum wage job will need to spend more than %20 of their earning to take their girl to a movie.
That's the thing with encryption there is always things to weigh. Poor performance to make brute force attacks to costly vs the reward so long as a side vector isn't found to render it completely useless?
Someone using a unique, proprietary, and undisclosed system of encryption if crafted as well as any standard may actually fair better so long as they are not a huge public company.
I don't develop cryptography and have only every used MD5 for file integrity checks. Although my brother was talking the other day about a compressed encryption algorithm that sounded amazingly difficult to implement on even the best modern hardware.
If you purchase the latest console, a few accessories, titles, the TV you are going to connect it to, add to that a broadband Internet connection you could easily spend over two grand. Games are not the only entertainment product that is considered an everyday thing but is priced like a luxury item. I know people who always have the latest games, cell phones, see all the new movies, and go to concerts but they generally live on credit. Eventually that runs out and they are broke and in debt with no where to borrow anymore.
This is why games, movies, and music are pirated, they have created an artificial need for luxury priced entertainment products and it's bound to fail.
If there happens to be a manual to RTFM at all, usually it's an incomplete and out of date wiki.
My personal favorite is class libraries with documentation that is nothing more than a list of functions with no explanation or any types for the variables, so you are still stuck reading the code which is in no logical order and has both current and depreciated functions but you can't tell which are which or why because it's not commented.
Are the top of the list insecure pieces of crap or are they simply the most active at patching? It doesn't say how many where released by the vendor, other sources, how many had exploits in the wild, or whether they were patched.
I don't know, I've been around some of those communities and some of them are just plain jerks doesn't matter what sex, race, or ethnicity, of course being an equal opportunity jerk isn't an excuse for being a jerk. If you want to pick at a single thread in the cloth you may go ahead.
or that your employer is legally liable if certain customer information is compromised and banning recordings, photos, and videos is one way to secure that information.
In the course of video recording what you believe is corporate misconduct you could easily open yourself to liability and criminal charges if you captured the wrong thing and released it on facebook and youtube.
Did they sue GalaxyQuest?
No because Paramount was involved in that production.
I used to work in a cubicle and would often have co-workers make fun of me because I would stand, stretch, and do calisthenics when able {like talking on the phone}.
This continued for a while until one of my much younger co-workers had a back issues, afterwards a lot of co-workers where doing the same and stopped making fun.
I still do my standing, stretching, and calisthenics but no one notices because I can close the office door.
You can get symantec also and it's needed because there are virus written for linux. Granted many of them are intended to infect ftp, web, and mail services which you probably aren't running on a workstation, although if the steam machine really takes off that may change and we may start seeing more.
I'm not going to deny that the world is full of poor decisions and poor code C and C++ included, it does not change the fact that the right tool for the right job is the best way to do things. It doesn't excuse the use of WYSIWYG development to override quality for quantity either or more simply to put off actual development.
A great example would be handing a bunch business users a sharepoint site with site ownership and sharepoint designer and saying have fun hope you can make something useful for your team... because this is what happens in the real world some slick marketer talks up all the amazing features and some business type buys it hook line and sinker and they end up with an expensive file share.
Unlike many people, you have the resources to self-educate and keep abreast of the times and state of the art. You just elect not to.
Personally I have spent more than a half my lifetime in school and I'm a grandfather, so I do agree that if you have the means to educate yourself then you should.
It's good that you are not trying to profit off of outsourcing to under-paid uneducated and usually under appreciated employees cranking out inferior products. It neither benefits the business or the employees however it is entirely something in line with what those that manage by profit margins and bottom lines would do.
But you keep trying to pretend that C++ is somehow tied to good programming.
Good programing isn't tied to the language however C, C++ are both good tools when used properly and shouldn't be avoided because development times and cost when it is the best tool for a particular job.
As far as managed code goes there is nothing wrong with it in general however when you give even a qualified person a wysiwyg editor like visual studio or business intelligence and start having them crank out software with high pressure and short deadlines you end up with problems.
Allow me to translate this for those that aren't sure what this means:
I'm also hoping in the next 5 years we can flush out most of the unmanaged language programmers from any place they don't need to be (unless performance constraints are so tight they outweigh potential security and scheduling implications, I resist the use of languages like C++*, C and Fortran).
"I'm also hoping software developers will be replaced with uneducated under-paid employees using limited frameworks and wysiwyg editors to churn out solutions that barely work in the least amount of time possible and is outsources to a service that I directly profit from"
I'm very busy tearing down old crappy processes and infrastructures to make way for lightweight processes and efficient distributed infrastructure.
I'm busy replacing your infrastructure with a cloud hosted services which I profit from, but is unlikely to be able to provide all of the services you require.
So yeah, if you (being any reader) one of those people I am your enemy and the beneficiary of this climate all at the same time.
I have a vested interest in companies that outsource your job and I need to destroy you so that I can make money.