That's funny. You do realize this is a very bad place to try and plug your crappy product right? Most the people on/. are the ones in IT waving our hands at upper management because they keep trying to cut costs. We know that your statement, "Not a single virus or ransomware infestation" is complete shit!
Go over to Forbes where the silly MBA's will believe that crap.
I think it's fair to say that in most cases if a show's not in their catalog then either the content owners won't permit it or there's not enough people who want to watch the show for them to stock it.
I had an aunt who owned a video rental store and every so often she would pull movies from the shelves that didn't rent. Her criteria was simple, did it rent in the last year? If not then she would put then in the attic. I'm sure Netflix has a much more complex and accurate algorithm and they probably just sell the movie.
If you can't find a movie you want to watch on Netflix, track down some of those old video rental stores and see if they have it. I know of a few stores in my area and it's those obscure movies that keep them in business; just like the vinyl record store.
I'm pretty sure this was a feature not a bug. I can see why this wouldn't work with seasons of TV shows but for movies it makes sense to send any disk in the queue once they become available.
You could rip the disk, send the disk back and not watch them until you can watch them in order. Then you're kind of storing the shows like a DVR until you can watch them in order. Some would argue that it's piracy if your goal was to pirate the show there are easier ways to do that. Plus, I usually never want to watch a TV series a second time so I wouldn't want it taking up space on my hard drive for very long anyway.
Ugh... I'm not going to read a financial report. If I wanted to do that I'd be working. Someone let me know when you've read it and confirmed that it's a lie, or not.
So what makes something independent? Just because it has a different project name? Or maybe it's a functionally different piece of software developed by a different person?
I did consider that question but ultimately decided that it didn't matter. I'll never be able to see the code base for Windows but I've heard developers say it's so massive that they only ever look as one small part at a time.
Sadly, even though I'm not only able but capable of going through the Linux source code I've never actually done so. I have no idea how complex it is and I suspect almost everyone here is the same. We're assuming it's complex based on what it does or the features it does. How many times have you cracked open a section of code and was just amazed that what seemed like a simple process could be so complex? Any experienced software engineer knows that this happens all the time.
For the amount of time he put into it I doubt it'll ever earn enough to be worth his time, but he didn't do it for that. It was a game written with passion for the type of game it is. There is no free version but it seems to be doing alright. I think he could have been getting $5 per copy but he said, and I'm not joking, that he would rather have more people enjoy the game then to make the extra money.
I know I'm bias but that game is so good he should be getting some serious money from it, but he's not. I see it as evidence that too many people on Android won't pay for apps. People in the Apple store will.
Interestingly, his first app which he released on Apple, Android and Windows got the most downloads from the Windows store.
There's this concept that Android users won't pay for software; that's too bad because I hate, hate, HATE advertisements and will gladly pay a few bucks for the app. But the vast majority of software that is in the Android store is ad supported/free. They should bring their software over to Android where it's easy to release two versions of any app; a free to try/ad supported version and a paid version without ads.
If they find it difficult to make a living as an independent app developer then stop being an independent app developer. Not only is it easy to earn a living from being a software engineer, most of us make a really good living from it. How many apps aren't created by independent developers but are instead created by companies with teams of developers? They're not going to join a union. A union would only works if enough app developers join it. The fact that you can't make a living from it tells me that the app store is over saturated with apps.
First lets define Sophisticated: "developed to a high degree of complexity" Second, it would be impossible to any one person to accurately compare different pieces of software as it's too much information to know.
So, what software program has the highest degree of complexity? My first thought is Windows 10. Linux/Unix has a philosophy of lots of smaller programs combining together to make a useful system, even if we counted that, I think the Windows Core is more complex then the Linux kernel and Windows 10 is more complex then say Ubuntu.
But who knows what the department of defense has, the NSA, Google's algorithms, Amazon, YouTube, China, North Korea, Russia? The more I go down this rabbit hole the more I come back to my second statement: it is impossible for any one person to accurately compare them because no one person knows them all.
For Android I use BeyondPod (paid ad-free version) where I can setup a random smart list. So every podcast I have subscribed to it will download and keep at least one episode. Then when I finish one episode then it'll pick a random one to play next. I've been using it for about 6 years. When I've tried something else it seemed lacking.
The problem is how complex the economy is. You raise minimum wage to $15/hr and some people will get laid off, some people will have to work harder to compensate, but also cost of goods for those companies will also go up and those companies will start to charge more for products/services. Even top economists struggle to estimate how it will affect inflation, interest rates, and unemployment rate. As all these cogs start to turn it's beneficial to some and not beneficial to others. I'm not convinced it's moving money from the rich to the poor; again, it's not that simple.
As in most things it's more complicated then that. I know in my state, Utah, you cannot fire someone for joining or organizing a union. But you can fire them without giving a reason.
At my employer the CEO told us in a town hall that if any of us thinks we need a union then they (the company) is doing something wrong and we (the employees) should tell them what needs to change. We have few union employees relative to our industry.
In a management training at my employer I was taught that if any employees start talking about joining a union then it's our job as managers to find out why they think they need a union and solve that problem. Incidentally, I'm not a manager but my employer sent me through the training just so that I would have a better understanding of how the company functions. I also work in a right to work state but we have operations throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.
Unions serve a purpose as a deterrent. A company won't want it's employees to join unions. Smart companies will treat their employees well enough that they won't join a union. Poorly run companies will have employees joining unions which will end up making that company as a whole less efficient because in the end a union is a parasite.
Nope, I pictured an old guy on a typewriter, sitting at an outside cafe, shaking his cane at anyone whizzing by on these newfangled scooters, writing the article.
I used to commute by train and my place of work was almost exactly one mile from the station. I used a bike that I locked up at the station but others used basic scooters. This would be been even nicer and quicker so I think it does help solve the last mile problem with mass transit.
You're spot on. These are rental scooters so a homeless person can drop $5 on a scooter to get them across town more quickly. I know in my city most the homeless tend to group near the homeless shelter. With these they can scoot across town where they will likely be able to panhandle for more then the cost of the rental scooter.
I would love to live an extended life or "forever". I just don't want everyone else to as well. The social and economic stresses it would put on the finite resources of this planet scare me. I think there's a reasonable chance that we'll see this in our lifetimes and it may be things like war that ends up killing people instead of "natural causes".
I've switched back. Ultimately it's the speed the of the new UI that I don't like. It seems sluggish. I like simple and plain. I'm glad they give is the option; at least for now.
If you're implying the government regulation is ineffective and the companies themselves need to solve the problem I don't think this is a fair comparison. Gmail was competing against any number of online email providers while the phone companies didn't.
The government sucks at anything it does. But the real question is, is the inefficiencies/ineffectiveness of the government worst then the a monopolistic company?
A lot of people have jobs or responsibilities where they just can't ignore unknown numbers. Anyone who has business cards printed up so that people can call them can't just ignore an unknown number. Mine automatically forwards to voicemail if they're not in my contacts. Even when I sell used stuff on ksl (local site similar to craigslist) I use a google voice number and I've still been able to connect to the legitimate buyer without issue.
I sort of feel bad for my parents and in-laws who have land lines. But then I remind myself that when I'm in retirement I'll probably still want access to a command line on my computer rather then whatever newfangled tech everybody else is using.
Let me share a story to illustrate the dangers of these supplemental companies. A cousin of mine is a seller of essential oils. One day she noticed a mole on her husband that looked like it could be melanoma. Instead of taking him to a doctor she treated him with frankincense oil. After about 6 weeks the mole was gone and she called it a success.
When I told this to my dermatologists he explained that even when there is a suspicious mole, there's only about a 10% chance that it's melanoma. I think we can all agree that that 10% chance is not worth the risk and so they usually take it out as a precaution. He also pointed out that they could have had the mole removed for free at the local skin cancer fair they have every year.
He is healthy and we still disagree on if she did the right thing. This is why it's important give clinical research more credibility then your own observations.
That is only one of the many problems that drive people to supplements. As you elude to there are the promises from their marketing department that the supplement works. They can almost claim anything, literally snake oil. Meanwhile pharmaceuticals that are regulated to by the FDA must disclose side-effects and must have scientific data the supports their claims. This ends with a perception of supplements working when in reality its more deception.
But that's not the only issue, cost is another huge issue. Recently while I was getting a prescription filled I scoffed to the pharmacists at the price of the generic medication. He asked if I had a high deductible plan and then explained that if I never get close to hitting my deductible then it'd be cheaper to pay out-of-pocket and not process it through my insurance. It's was like a quarter of the cost. He basically said, "Yep, it's that's big a pain to deal with the insurance companies" He also recommend that I check websites like GoodRx.com to price shop across different pharmacies. What I found was the of the two medications I regularly take the price difference is huge between pharmacies. This is how screwed up the pharmaceutical market is.
Slashdot Mirror
That's funny. You do realize this is a very bad place to try and plug your crappy product right? Most the people on /. are the ones in IT waving our hands at upper management because they keep trying to cut costs. We know that your statement, "Not a single virus or ransomware infestation" is complete shit!
Go over to Forbes where the silly MBA's will believe that crap.
Slackers! Looks like 4 of the 40 institutions are so incompetent they don't even know they're being attacked.
My dad's mortgage was about $79/mo. When was this and what percentage was that of his income?
I think it's fair to say that in most cases if a show's not in their catalog then either the content owners won't permit it or there's not enough people who want to watch the show for them to stock it.
I had an aunt who owned a video rental store and every so often she would pull movies from the shelves that didn't rent. Her criteria was simple, did it rent in the last year? If not then she would put then in the attic. I'm sure Netflix has a much more complex and accurate algorithm and they probably just sell the movie.
If you can't find a movie you want to watch on Netflix, track down some of those old video rental stores and see if they have it. I know of a few stores in my area and it's those obscure movies that keep them in business; just like the vinyl record store.
I'm pretty sure this was a feature not a bug. I can see why this wouldn't work with seasons of TV shows but for movies it makes sense to send any disk in the queue once they become available.
You could rip the disk, send the disk back and not watch them until you can watch them in order. Then you're kind of storing the shows like a DVR until you can watch them in order. Some would argue that it's piracy if your goal was to pirate the show there are easier ways to do that. Plus, I usually never want to watch a TV series a second time so I wouldn't want it taking up space on my hard drive for very long anyway.
Ugh... I'm not going to read a financial report. If I wanted to do that I'd be working. Someone let me know when you've read it and confirmed that it's a lie, or not.
So what makes something independent? Just because it has a different project name? Or maybe it's a functionally different piece of software developed by a different person?
I did consider that question but ultimately decided that it didn't matter. I'll never be able to see the code base for Windows but I've heard developers say it's so massive that they only ever look as one small part at a time.
Sadly, even though I'm not only able but capable of going through the Linux source code I've never actually done so. I have no idea how complex it is and I suspect almost everyone here is the same. We're assuming it's complex based on what it does or the features it does. How many times have you cracked open a section of code and was just amazed that what seemed like a simple process could be so complex? Any experienced software engineer knows that this happens all the time.
I've a friend who wrote an android game in his spare time. https://play.google.com/store/...
For the amount of time he put into it I doubt it'll ever earn enough to be worth his time, but he didn't do it for that. It was a game written with passion for the type of game it is. There is no free version but it seems to be doing alright. I think he could have been getting $5 per copy but he said, and I'm not joking, that he would rather have more people enjoy the game then to make the extra money.
I know I'm bias but that game is so good he should be getting some serious money from it, but he's not. I see it as evidence that too many people on Android won't pay for apps. People in the Apple store will.
Interestingly, his first app which he released on Apple, Android and Windows got the most downloads from the Windows store.
There's this concept that Android users won't pay for software; that's too bad because I hate, hate, HATE advertisements and will gladly pay a few bucks for the app. But the vast majority of software that is in the Android store is ad supported/free. They should bring their software over to Android where it's easy to release two versions of any app; a free to try/ad supported version and a paid version without ads.
If they find it difficult to make a living as an independent app developer then stop being an independent app developer. Not only is it easy to earn a living from being a software engineer, most of us make a really good living from it. How many apps aren't created by independent developers but are instead created by companies with teams of developers? They're not going to join a union. A union would only works if enough app developers join it. The fact that you can't make a living from it tells me that the app store is over saturated with apps.
First lets define Sophisticated: "developed to a high degree of complexity"
Second, it would be impossible to any one person to accurately compare different pieces of software as it's too much information to know.
So, what software program has the highest degree of complexity? My first thought is Windows 10. Linux/Unix has a philosophy of lots of smaller programs combining together to make a useful system, even if we counted that, I think the Windows Core is more complex then the Linux kernel and Windows 10 is more complex then say Ubuntu.
But who knows what the department of defense has, the NSA, Google's algorithms, Amazon, YouTube, China, North Korea, Russia? The more I go down this rabbit hole the more I come back to my second statement: it is impossible for any one person to accurately compare them because no one person knows them all.
For Android I use BeyondPod (paid ad-free version) where I can setup a random smart list. So every podcast I have subscribed to it will download and keep at least one episode. Then when I finish one episode then it'll pick a random one to play next. I've been using it for about 6 years. When I've tried something else it seemed lacking.
The problem is how complex the economy is. You raise minimum wage to $15/hr and some people will get laid off, some people will have to work harder to compensate, but also cost of goods for those companies will also go up and those companies will start to charge more for products/services. Even top economists struggle to estimate how it will affect inflation, interest rates, and unemployment rate. As all these cogs start to turn it's beneficial to some and not beneficial to others. I'm not convinced it's moving money from the rich to the poor; again, it's not that simple.
As in most things it's more complicated then that. I know in my state, Utah, you cannot fire someone for joining or organizing a union. But you can fire them without giving a reason.
At my employer the CEO told us in a town hall that if any of us thinks we need a union then they (the company) is doing something wrong and we (the employees) should tell them what needs to change. We have few union employees relative to our industry.
In a management training at my employer I was taught that if any employees start talking about joining a union then it's our job as managers to find out why they think they need a union and solve that problem. Incidentally, I'm not a manager but my employer sent me through the training just so that I would have a better understanding of how the company functions. I also work in a right to work state but we have operations throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.
Unions serve a purpose as a deterrent. A company won't want it's employees to join unions. Smart companies will treat their employees well enough that they won't join a union. Poorly run companies will have employees joining unions which will end up making that company as a whole less efficient because in the end a union is a parasite.
Nope, I pictured an old guy on a typewriter, sitting at an outside cafe, shaking his cane at anyone whizzing by on these newfangled scooters, writing the article.
I used to commute by train and my place of work was almost exactly one mile from the station. I used a bike that I locked up at the station but others used basic scooters. This would be been even nicer and quicker so I think it does help solve the last mile problem with mass transit.
You're spot on. These are rental scooters so a homeless person can drop $5 on a scooter to get them across town more quickly. I know in my city most the homeless tend to group near the homeless shelter. With these they can scoot across town where they will likely be able to panhandle for more then the cost of the rental scooter.
You do the math.
4 * USAF awesomeness = superpower strength
Thank you for your service.
I would love to live an extended life or "forever". I just don't want everyone else to as well. The social and economic stresses it would put on the finite resources of this planet scare me. I think there's a reasonable chance that we'll see this in our lifetimes and it may be things like war that ends up killing people instead of "natural causes".
I've switched back. Ultimately it's the speed the of the new UI that I don't like. It seems sluggish. I like simple and plain. I'm glad they give is the option; at least for now.
If you're implying the government regulation is ineffective and the companies themselves need to solve the problem I don't think this is a fair comparison. Gmail was competing against any number of online email providers while the phone companies didn't.
The government sucks at anything it does. But the real question is, is the inefficiencies/ineffectiveness of the government worst then the a monopolistic company?
A lot of people have jobs or responsibilities where they just can't ignore unknown numbers. Anyone who has business cards printed up so that people can call them can't just ignore an unknown number. Mine automatically forwards to voicemail if they're not in my contacts. Even when I sell used stuff on ksl (local site similar to craigslist) I use a google voice number and I've still been able to connect to the legitimate buyer without issue.
I sort of feel bad for my parents and in-laws who have land lines. But then I remind myself that when I'm in retirement I'll probably still want access to a command line on my computer rather then whatever newfangled tech everybody else is using.
My wife's on facebook. jk
Let me share a story to illustrate the dangers of these supplemental companies. A cousin of mine is a seller of essential oils. One day she noticed a mole on her husband that looked like it could be melanoma. Instead of taking him to a doctor she treated him with frankincense oil. After about 6 weeks the mole was gone and she called it a success.
When I told this to my dermatologists he explained that even when there is a suspicious mole, there's only about a 10% chance that it's melanoma. I think we can all agree that that 10% chance is not worth the risk and so they usually take it out as a precaution. He also pointed out that they could have had the mole removed for free at the local skin cancer fair they have every year.
He is healthy and we still disagree on if she did the right thing. This is why it's important give clinical research more credibility then your own observations.
That is only one of the many problems that drive people to supplements. As you elude to there are the promises from their marketing department that the supplement works. They can almost claim anything, literally snake oil. Meanwhile pharmaceuticals that are regulated to by the FDA must disclose side-effects and must have scientific data the supports their claims. This ends with a perception of supplements working when in reality its more deception.
But that's not the only issue, cost is another huge issue. Recently while I was getting a prescription filled I scoffed to the pharmacists at the price of the generic medication. He asked if I had a high deductible plan and then explained that if I never get close to hitting my deductible then it'd be cheaper to pay out-of-pocket and not process it through my insurance. It's was like a quarter of the cost. He basically said, "Yep, it's that's big a pain to deal with the insurance companies" He also recommend that I check websites like GoodRx.com to price shop across different pharmacies. What I found was the of the two medications I regularly take the price difference is huge between pharmacies. This is how screwed up the pharmaceutical market is.