Other than simply being bad grammar, what does this quote from the article mean, "If the companies were to lose all of their video customers, the revenue decline would be more than offset by a lower programming fees and set-top box spending."
Does this mean that cable companies will decrease their cable fees if they lose customers, thereby increasing profits....????
My guess is it means if the company was internet-only they would save money by not having to support all the TV infrastructure. However I don't buy that for a second. If it was the case that a Cable/Broadband provider would make more money by being Broadband only, you would see companies switching to this. Instead you see the companies consolidating and merging into bigger and bigger entities trying to provide everything all at once.
Perhaps someday when the internet makes traditional TV redundant we will see this happen. But do not expect the existing business model to go down without a fight.
This just goes to show that the sociopathically greedy nature of a lot of industry executives has blinded them to the obvious. If you make a higher pricing structure a two-way street, most people won't mind.
The reason is they want to provide the same crap service and charge more for it. How about they paid me each time I hit caps because they oversold the bandwidth. Oh, it is suddenly not fair to the companies?
"PRUNEJUICE is a leader in DRINK YO PRUNE JUICE design, and we remain committed to the DRINK YO PRUNE JUICE market. Our strategy is to accelerate our growth by taking advantage of our design capabilities to deliver a breadth of products that best align with broader industry shifts toward low power, emerging markets and the cloud."
Being self-employed or running a business isn't all that hard and it is much more rewarding, especially for a computer geek now in internet age.
Having worked in various sized companies, from self-employed through 10, 20 and 500-1000 people, it became apparent to me that all businesses need:
1) Sales and Marketing 2) Accounting 3) A product
If you have no interest in 1) or 2), being self-employed is not for you. Also, when taking into account what you get paid for your "Product" as a coder, bear in mind the hours invested in Sales, Marketing, and Accounting for essentially zero compensation..
And if you have no interest in 3), you are probably an unemployed person specializing in 1) or 2). Many successful companies have come from a 1-2 person working with a 3 person. Starting a business doesn't mean you have to go it alone.
Obviously not doing maintenance is much worse than the risk incurred by doing maintenance. However in the 2 years of using the datacenter my company relies on, I can say the only 3 major outages have been due to non-routine maintenance. Once was during a power upgrade, the datacenter supposedly has redundant power company connections, but the plug was somehow pulled during the upgrade anyhow. Another was during network maintenance, our dual redundant internet connections turned out not to be so redundant when half the system went offline. And finally during AC upgrades that caused our entire server cluster to overheat and shut down.
So, the story here isn't "maintenance causes unplanned downtime therefore doing less maintenance causes less downtime". Its more like "unusual maintenance is more likely to get messed up". One would think you would be more careful when performing unusual procedures, but that is still when things get screwed up most often.
Wouldn't it be awfully nice, for Burger King that is, if you could be reminded about the new burger / free soda / two for one deal / whatever at Burger King when you exit GAP so that your 4 out of 5 statistic can be bumped up to, maybe, 9 out of 10?
No, actually it wouldn't. It would be god damn annoying. But then I don't shop at the places I am told to, I shop at the places I want to; and I only buy things when I want / need them, not when they are "OMG ON SALE BUY NOW!".
Holy shit, I wasn't aware of so much honey from one hive. Its too bad I live in such a small neighborhood and have too small of a yard to put one up. Also I with the ass-ton of hornets that invest this area every year, I wonder if a colony could survive.
I agree with the fake product judgement. Another poster quipped "designed by someone who learned about bees from Whinny the Pooh". Sounds accurate to me.
While this is a fine idea, the problem is you still have 8+ hours a day of soul-sucking boring programming on your hands. If you do program for a day job, and your company is resistant to introducing new technology, or writing code that might be more complicated than a 1st year CS student to understand (read: not as easily outsourced); you work at the wrong company for a lot of reasons. Get out, run while you can, save yourself!
If your day job isn't in the soul-sucking range, and is simply not quite as engaging when you were first hired / project first started... try programming in something more conceptual and less familiar. I have spent a lot of years working mainly on buisness apps using traditional object oriented programming languages. (C++ and its children, java and c#) For amusement I started teaching myself functional languages. Haskell, Clojure, and Groovy. With the things I have learned I have even integrated some of what I have learned into my work. Javascript isn't quite as functional a language as the others, but you can do some neat stuff with it. (See Functional Javascript for some really advanced javascript programing.) In a mostly Java shop Groovy fits right in, even easily and directly integrating with existing Java code.
If you need to sneak more advanced stuff into your codebase, and your employer demands boring crap code; you have the wrong job. A lot of programming jobs only really need boring straight CRUD (create, read, update, delete) screens, straightforward websites, and programming that is easy for crap developers to read.
There are lots of jobs out there that either perform tasks outside the boring realm of data entry or ecommerce that require creative and well designed code to get the job done. Other projects may be boring on the surface concepts, but are of such massive scale that they require just as creative thinking.
A lot of people might suggest, program for pay at work, and leave the creative work as a hobby. I say fuck to that. If you are going to spend 8+ hours a day doing something, it had better be interesting. A lot of companies don't really activly advertise how interesting their work is. Talk to people, ask them about technologies. In fact I will say with 100% accuracy, that showing an interest in the advanced technologies and more importantly advanced techniques, will make you very appealing; no matter what your resume says.
If an interviewer just shrugs or looks forlorn when you mention the more exciting parts of programming during an interview... well you don't want to work there anyhow.
I thought about this too. It takes 3 pounds of honey to make 1 gallon of mead. You would need a lot of these pods to make any useful quantity of honey.
Do you know that the average Chinese farm contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer? Would you EAT a rectal thermometer? Well I would. Ah, mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
Yeah, but would you eat something that has been up someone's ass?
Fast forward a little more, and the Death Star is destroyed, and a few sequels later, the Empire loses the war. Your point was?
My point was that Leia's self-assured bravado was pretty much subverted straight away. And most of the time I see it used here, it does tend to come across as a stock geeky wish-fulfilling incantation, especially as it doesn't normally say anything particularly insightful or predictive in the context in which it's used(!)
Also, Leia was lying, the rebel base wasn't on Dantooine. I don't know where this takes the analogy now.
Actually I didn't mean it as a slight against the disadvantaged. I really meant the system itself is less caring for the poor. schools, medicine (for those that can even afford it), etc.
Parents that are in better paid positions such as engineering ones are more likely to be able to afford to have their children properly diagnosed. Poor children with learning disabilities are just lumped into the "stupid poor kids" category.
Perhaps people discovering that not everyone can be stereotyped away is making being a "maker" cool. But I am sure the high-school mentality of popular media will fight against us teaching kids they can be whatever they want and have whatever interestes they want.
You are a nerd. You are a jock.
Certainly nerds are not allowed to like sports, and jocks are not allowed to be engineers.
Here is some advice to anyone taking care of an ill parent: Put their official address as a PO box. If their address is your address, even if it is 100% your house and your property, someone will come around to try to repossess everything you own when your parent passes away.
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Other than simply being bad grammar, what does this quote from the article mean, "If the companies were to lose all of their video customers, the revenue decline would be more than offset by a lower programming fees and set-top box spending."
Does this mean that cable companies will decrease their cable fees if they lose customers, thereby increasing profits. ...????
My guess is it means if the company was internet-only they would save money by not having to support all the TV infrastructure. However I don't buy that for a second. If it was the case that a Cable/Broadband provider would make more money by being Broadband only, you would see companies switching to this. Instead you see the companies consolidating and merging into bigger and bigger entities trying to provide everything all at once.
Perhaps someday when the internet makes traditional TV redundant we will see this happen. But do not expect the existing business model to go down without a fight.
This just goes to show that the sociopathically greedy nature of a lot of industry executives has blinded them to the obvious. If you make a higher pricing structure a two-way street, most people won't mind.
The reason is they want to provide the same crap service and charge more for it. How about they paid me each time I hit caps because they oversold the bandwidth. Oh, it is suddenly not fair to the companies?
"PRUNEJUICE is a leader in DRINK YO PRUNE JUICE design, and we remain committed to the DRINK YO PRUNE JUICE market. Our strategy is to accelerate our growth by taking advantage of our design capabilities to deliver a breadth of products that best align with broader industry shifts toward low power, emerging markets and the cloud."
A warrior's drink.
So if Al-Qaeeda starts developing undersea technology
What the FUCK am I reading?
They plan on recovering Osama's body.
As many said before me: just fail them and let natural selection take its course.
I see what you did there...
Being self-employed or running a business isn't all that hard and it is much more rewarding, especially for a computer geek now in internet age.
Having worked in various sized companies, from self-employed through 10, 20 and 500-1000 people, it became apparent to me that all businesses need:
1) Sales and Marketing
2) Accounting
3) A product
If you have no interest in 1) or 2), being self-employed is not for you. Also, when taking into account what you get paid for your "Product" as a coder, bear in mind the hours invested in Sales, Marketing, and Accounting for essentially zero compensation..
And if you have no interest in 3), you are probably an unemployed person specializing in 1) or 2). Many successful companies have come from a 1-2 person working with a 3 person. Starting a business doesn't mean you have to go it alone.
Obviously not doing maintenance is much worse than the risk incurred by doing maintenance. However in the 2 years of using the datacenter my company relies on, I can say the only 3 major outages have been due to non-routine maintenance. Once was during a power upgrade, the datacenter supposedly has redundant power company connections, but the plug was somehow pulled during the upgrade anyhow. Another was during network maintenance, our dual redundant internet connections turned out not to be so redundant when half the system went offline. And finally during AC upgrades that caused our entire server cluster to overheat and shut down.
So, the story here isn't "maintenance causes unplanned downtime therefore doing less maintenance causes less downtime". Its more like "unusual maintenance is more likely to get messed up". One would think you would be more careful when performing unusual procedures, but that is still when things get screwed up most often.
Wouldn't it be awfully nice, for Burger King that is, if you could be reminded about the new burger / free soda / two for one deal / whatever at Burger King when you exit GAP so that your 4 out of 5 statistic can be bumped up to, maybe, 9 out of 10?
No, actually it wouldn't. It would be god damn annoying. But then I don't shop at the places I am told to, I shop at the places I want to; and I only buy things when I want / need them, not when they are "OMG ON SALE BUY NOW!".
>Consumers can opt out by turning off their phones.
I can opt out of billboards by not driving and staying at home. I can opt out of spam by not having an email account.
opt out, I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
goatse alert
Indeed, any poster named in the pattern dev000 and a link to evenweb is a troll.
Laser printer toner is a great explosive. As is flower.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Consider the Lilies!"
Also "Flower Power".
How many children know how Simatic works?
They use pucks not balls.
Didn't TF2 go free to play a while back? The guy who bought a hacked account just to play TF2 is a moron.
Holy shit, I wasn't aware of so much honey from one hive. Its too bad I live in such a small neighborhood and have too small of a yard to put one up. Also I with the ass-ton of hornets that invest this area every year, I wonder if a colony could survive.
I agree with the fake product judgement. Another poster quipped "designed by someone who learned about bees from Whinny the Pooh". Sounds accurate to me.
While this is a fine idea, the problem is you still have 8+ hours a day of soul-sucking boring programming on your hands. If you do program for a day job, and your company is resistant to introducing new technology, or writing code that might be more complicated than a 1st year CS student to understand (read: not as easily outsourced); you work at the wrong company for a lot of reasons. Get out, run while you can, save yourself!
If your day job isn't in the soul-sucking range, and is simply not quite as engaging when you were first hired / project first started... try programming in something more conceptual and less familiar. I have spent a lot of years working mainly on buisness apps using traditional object oriented programming languages. (C++ and its children, java and c#) For amusement I started teaching myself functional languages. Haskell, Clojure, and Groovy. With the things I have learned I have even integrated some of what I have learned into my work. Javascript isn't quite as functional a language as the others, but you can do some neat stuff with it. (See Functional Javascript for some really advanced javascript programing.) In a mostly Java shop Groovy fits right in, even easily and directly integrating with existing Java code.
If you need to sneak more advanced stuff into your codebase, and your employer demands boring crap code; you have the wrong job. A lot of programming jobs only really need boring straight CRUD (create, read, update, delete) screens, straightforward websites, and programming that is easy for crap developers to read.
There are lots of jobs out there that either perform tasks outside the boring realm of data entry or ecommerce that require creative and well designed code to get the job done. Other projects may be boring on the surface concepts, but are of such massive scale that they require just as creative thinking.
A lot of people might suggest, program for pay at work, and leave the creative work as a hobby. I say fuck to that. If you are going to spend 8+ hours a day doing something, it had better be interesting. A lot of companies don't really activly advertise how interesting their work is. Talk to people, ask them about technologies. In fact I will say with 100% accuracy, that showing an interest in the advanced technologies and more importantly advanced techniques, will make you very appealing; no matter what your resume says.
If an interviewer just shrugs or looks forlorn when you mention the more exciting parts of programming during an interview... well you don't want to work there anyhow.
I thought about this too. It takes 3 pounds of honey to make 1 gallon of mead. You would need a lot of these pods to make any useful quantity of honey.
Mod "+1 I will never scan a QR code again"
Do you know that the average Chinese farm contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer? Would you EAT a rectal thermometer? Well I would. Ah, mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
Yeah, but would you eat something that has been up someone's ass?
Fast forward a little more, and the Death Star is destroyed, and a few sequels later, the Empire loses the war. Your point was?
My point was that Leia's self-assured bravado was pretty much subverted straight away. And most of the time I see it used here, it does tend to come across as a stock geeky wish-fulfilling incantation, especially as it doesn't normally say anything particularly insightful or predictive in the context in which it's used(!)
Also, Leia was lying, the rebel base wasn't on Dantooine. I don't know where this takes the analogy now.
Actually I didn't mean it as a slight against the disadvantaged. I really meant the system itself is less caring for the poor. schools, medicine (for those that can even afford it), etc.
Parents that are in better paid positions such as engineering ones are more likely to be able to afford to have their children properly diagnosed. Poor children with learning disabilities are just lumped into the "stupid poor kids" category.
Perhaps people discovering that not everyone can be stereotyped away is making being a "maker" cool. But I am sure the high-school mentality of popular media will fight against us teaching kids they can be whatever they want and have whatever interestes they want.
You are a nerd.
You are a jock.
Certainly nerds are not allowed to like sports, and jocks are not allowed to be engineers.
Here is some advice to anyone taking care of an ill parent: Put their official address as a PO box. If their address is your address, even if it is 100% your house and your property, someone will come around to try to repossess everything you own when your parent passes away.