how do you spend $100,000 on an undergrad degree? most state schools the tuition is $6000 per year or semester i guess if you go to school just to get away from your parents you run up insane student loans on out of state tuition and living expenses
Yeah, but Microsoft is evil and everyone knows you are dumb as door nails if you cheat with autocomplete and code suggestions in a modern IDE rather than type everything yourself
I get some RSI as well sometimes and then I run out to buy some habanero sauce It has some chemical that you find in prescription drugs that treat the condition
microsoft has had research for almost 20 years, and where are they now? research is useless unless you turn it into dollars. dozens of examples of research being ignored for a long time because there was no way to monetize it at the time and the company going under
the other day my almost 6 year old said we live on 72nd doctor. the correct designation is 72nd Dr since doctors use dr as shorthand, he thought streets use the same style
nope its true, there were some news articles about it at the time successful people mentor lots of other people they believe in, even if they work for competitor. steve jobs was mentored by a guy who worked for HP
a few months before he died he had dinner with sergey to mentor him. he said you have too much crap that no one cares about and google needs to focus on what brings in the cash. that's when they started their purge of anything that doesn't make money
same with facebook steve. he had dinner with him as well to tell him what he thought was wrong with facebook
so why did google go public if its so bad? why couldn't there be a geek charity fund to raise $5 billion or so to give out to the original employees to cash out their hard work?
time warner has a special $64.99 package of internet, basic broadcast channels and HBO including HBO GO so you can watch GoT when it airs and on demand
i have a la carte internet from time warner. no pay TV. netflix is great, almost blu ray quality. MLB TV is also HD quality. i pay $50 for 20/1 of course a lot of content is locally hosted via CDN's so its not like i'm going to the internet to stream netflix. google from what i know lives inside google data centers so you have to use the ISP's limited internet data pipe
i have some streaming issues with some porn and sometimes youtube, but it will only be selected videos
at least the home teams are blacked out on MLB and NBA. and they cost a lot. $150 for baseball, $180 for basketball. no football yet on streaming. ESPN streams live games but you have to pay for TV
in the end pay TV is not that bad. time warner and comcast have packages that start at $80 for internet and TV time warner is worse because it is supported by less streaming services like Disney Jr, Bravo and Epix
internet by itself is $50. by the time you pay for netflix, hulu, any a la carte TV shows via itunes, the electric bill to leave your computer on 24x7 to run bit torrent all day it adds up
yeah, but who show rooms at B&N? you always go to amazon first.
lately i've noticed electronics are about the same price at best buy as amazon. blu ray's generally cost $5 more. and some itunes movies are now cheaper than the blu ray
something comes up, you don't know how to solve it off the top of your head. quick research yields nothing. your company is losing revenue. you don't have time to post a question on a forum and wait a day or so for a solution. for that system you pay the 4 hour or less support costs so that if you need it, you call the vendor and get someone on the phone NOW.
where i work we pay Cisco and other vendors for support for this reason and the fact that with a lot of vendors you need to pay to get patches and updates
When you have servers labeled production, that generate revenue and downtime means lost revenue, then you pay for support since its cheaper than losing revenue and customers
most of the shareholders are pension and mutual funds who can't just sell all their shares on a whim. the amount of shares they own, it takes months to buy and sell enough shares to get in or out of a stock. they also depend on the dividends to pay their bills to retired folks and don't like to be screwed by management
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not like money will just instantly vanish
it will be invested somewhere and create new jobs that don't exist yet
how do you spend $100,000 on an undergrad degree?
most state schools the tuition is $6000 per year or semester
i guess if you go to school just to get away from your parents you run up insane student loans on out of state tuition and living expenses
Yeah, but Microsoft is evil and everyone knows you are dumb as door nails if you cheat with autocomplete and code suggestions in a modern IDE rather than type everything yourself
I get some RSI as well sometimes and then I run out to buy some habanero sauce
It has some chemical that you find in prescription drugs that treat the condition
microsoft has had research for almost 20 years, and where are they now?
research is useless unless you turn it into dollars. dozens of examples of research being ignored for a long time because there was no way to monetize it at the time and the company going under
the other day my almost 6 year old said we live on 72nd doctor. the correct designation is 72nd Dr
since doctors use dr as shorthand, he thought streets use the same style
chrome and gmail are huge, used by lots of people and feed the main business
even though i loved reader, most people had no idea what it was or what RSS is
every product apple makes turns a profit on day 1. if it doesn't, apple kills it fairly fast.
nope its true, there were some news articles about it at the time
successful people mentor lots of other people they believe in, even if they work for competitor. steve jobs was mentored by a guy who worked for HP
a few months before he died he had dinner with sergey to mentor him. he said you have too much crap that no one cares about and google needs to focus on what brings in the cash. that's when they started their purge of anything that doesn't make money
same with facebook steve. he had dinner with him as well to tell him what he thought was wrong with facebook
so why did google go public if its so bad?
why couldn't there be a geek charity fund to raise $5 billion or so to give out to the original employees to cash out their hard work?
Which includes hosting a site about why someone killed themselves
Pretty sure suicide is against the tos
That's half the people on slashdot, who think they are geniuses and need to protect everyone else
yes, when William Jennings Bryan did it, they called it populism. its now known as pandering to the masses
time warner has a special $64.99 package of internet, basic broadcast channels and HBO including HBO GO so you can watch GoT when it airs and on demand
i have a la carte internet from time warner. no pay TV. netflix is great, almost blu ray quality. MLB TV is also HD quality. i pay $50 for 20/1
of course a lot of content is locally hosted via CDN's so its not like i'm going to the internet to stream netflix. google from what i know lives inside google data centers so you have to use the ISP's limited internet data pipe
i have some streaming issues with some porn and sometimes youtube, but it will only be selected videos
at least the home teams are blacked out on MLB and NBA. and they cost a lot. $150 for baseball, $180 for basketball. no football yet on streaming.
ESPN streams live games but you have to pay for TV
in the end pay TV is not that bad. time warner and comcast have packages that start at $80 for internet and TV
time warner is worse because it is supported by less streaming services like Disney Jr, Bravo and Epix
internet by itself is $50. by the time you pay for netflix, hulu, any a la carte TV shows via itunes, the electric bill to leave your computer on 24x7 to run bit torrent all day it adds up
and lots of support software, like say backup software is only supported on official software like red hat or windows
if something doesn't work and you call them for support and you're running an unsupported config, they will tell you to get lost and solve it yourself
yeah, but who show rooms at B&N? you always go to amazon first.
lately i've noticed electronics are about the same price at best buy as amazon. blu ray's generally cost $5 more. and some itunes movies are now cheaper than the blu ray
something comes up, you don't know how to solve it off the top of your head. quick research yields nothing. your company is losing revenue. you don't have time to post a question on a forum and wait a day or so for a solution. for that system you pay the 4 hour or less support costs so that if you need it, you call the vendor and get someone on the phone NOW.
where i work we pay Cisco and other vendors for support for this reason and the fact that with a lot of vendors you need to pay to get patches and updates
When you have servers labeled production, that generate revenue and downtime means lost revenue, then you pay for support since its cheaper than losing revenue and customers
Other than blu rays, most things seem to be the same price at best buy and amazon or newegg
most of the shareholders are pension and mutual funds who can't just sell all their shares on a whim. the amount of shares they own, it takes months to buy and sell enough shares to get in or out of a stock. they also depend on the dividends to pay their bills to retired folks and don't like to be screwed by management
lots of people are getting "package is invalid" errors when they try to update random apps. sometimes apps update, sometimes not