As long as we're being humorless assholes:
Jokes are defined by the intention of humor. Lots of things are funny that aren't jokes, like, say, if you died, it'd be hilarious. Lots of things are jokes that fail at being funny: see the complete works of Joe Rogan.
Currently Microsoft needs more apps than it does quality. When they approach a customer they can tell them they have a gazillion apps in their store to deflect the "but the iPhone/Android has so many more apps.". Rest assured once it blows up in their faces they will clamp down hard. They are famous for reactionary overcompensation.
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
Not true. I work with EE faculty, and a number of them can't seem to grasp the concept that the being a brilliant engineer doesn't automatically confer one with expertise in diverse other areas such as patent law, accounting, videography, etc.
What's it got to do with EE's? This applies to a vast majority of people who have Money/Power/Fame. You can usually tell when at some point in a conversation with them they utter "Don't you know who I am?"
Seriously? You're posting this here without telling me how I can get this job? From the sounds of it, I could do it in the background while at my real job.
Then you are not familiar with the show. In it the world is run by a few mega corps that basically stay in power by keeping their media ratings higher than their competitors thus reaping the highest ad revenue. Network XXIII being the one of the biggest. The first episode has one of their own reporters investigating why a guy spontaneously combusts only to learn its because Network XXIII's latest ad technology (Blipverts, which are 30 seconds ads compressed to 3 seconds so the viewer will not be tempted to change the channel) short circuits the victims nervous system. All pretty well spelled out in my OP and relevant to the GP headline.
For Silicon Valley Companies, perma-temping and hiring H1B's is part of their business practice,
Indeed. A company that was at one time known for it's test and measurement equipment and pioneered the laserjet printer space routinely hires temporary (contracted through temp agencies) labor for permanent manufacturing positions which is illegal. Since the law in question prohibits temporary labor from occupying a position for more than a 12 month period this company lays off the entire manufacturing line the last week of the year only to recreate the positions the very next week.
(the toner cartridge in that LJ5 on third floor east isn't changing ITSELF, btw...)
Toner is a consumable and IT does not provide toner nor facilitate their replacement. Please feel free to open a ticket to IT once you have managed to jam the toner cartridge in upside down and sideways for technical support.
Hrmmm...choose the business model that makes them money or the one that bankrupts them? That isn't a choice so yes they are in fact barred from doing it. Just because you and I want it doesn't mean they can afford to do it. So your use of banned vs barred financially is a red herring. Sorry you don't like the truth and you think you can change the truth by choosing a different word to describe it but it doesn't in fact change anything. Disney, Viacom, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, et al are all cartels with too much power but in this argument Disney has more power than Comcast and Comcast has to pay the piper to keep the power they have. I hope this changes soon but I'm sure as hell not holding my breath.
The contracts the cable companies sign stipulate a minimum viewer base so they pay whether their customer purchase the bundle or not. So to make sure their costs are covered they simply force these bundles into the base tier of programming.
The carrier may be required to "buy" ESPN 2-54 if a subscriber has ESPN 1, but I've never seen where the subscriber must "pay" for ESPN 2-54.
WTF? Yeah, I'm gonna eat the cost of purchasing the whole lineup so my customer can get 1 channel! They would be out of business in less than 6 months provided their shareholders didn't sue them for financial suicide.
Disney requires that ESPN be in the base tier of programming and they also own:
A&E
History
H2
Fyi
Military History
Crime & Investigation Network
A+E Networks International
A+E Networks Consumer Products
A+E Studios
A&E IndieFilms
A+E Films
A+E Networks Digital
Lifetime Entertainment Services
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN on ABC - formerly ABC Sports
ESPN Classic
ESPNews
ESPN Deportes
ESPN Films
ESPNU
ESPN Classic
ESPN Now
ESPN Plus
ESPN Original Entertainment
ESPN Pay-Per-View
ESPN Regional Television
ESPN International (see for complete list of channels)
ESPN America
TSN (20%)
ESPN Radio
Mobile ESPN
ESPN3
ESPN The Magazine
ESPN Books (an imprint of Disney's Hyperion Books)
ESPN Home Entertainment
ESPN Outdoors
If you want A&E you gotta get all of those as well.
Trust me they have studied every possible revenue model and they like the one they have.
They (Disney) are still extracting payments from the cable companies by requiring bundling of their media properties. If Comcast, Verizon, AT&T want ESPN they must carry ALL ESPN channels. It's one of the main reasons we can't get A La Carte programming.
Reminds me of the stories of panhandlers begging at intersections who get picked up by their chauffeurs at the end of the day to go back to their mansions.
In the past Microsoft may have had an NIH approach, but over the past few years they have significantly changed from that in the developer area - switching from the Microsoft Ajax tools to jQuery, using Json.Net etc etc etc.
I'm not sure either the OP or this one understand what NIH means. It's part of the EEE philosophy. Look for a hot new technology in the consumer space. Identify the leaders in that space. Purchase one of the leaders and modify the technology so that it is no longer 100% compatible with anybody else's version of the tech. Market the hell out of your version and destroy the competition. Internet Explorer was licensed from Spyglass and all version of IE up to 6 were based on that code. In this case Microsoft was so desperate to beat Netscape they gave Internet Explorer away for free which really pissed Spyglass off because their license was based on revenue from sales of IE. In the end it worked too well and the industry was stuck with dependency on IE 6 for over a decade. If Microsoft can figure out a way to integrate Blink or Webkit and make it work I don't see why they wouldn't as long as they can monetize it in some way.
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As long as we're being humorless assholes: Jokes are defined by the intention of humor. Lots of things are funny that aren't jokes, like, say, if you died, it'd be hilarious. Lots of things are jokes that fail at being funny: see the complete works of Joe Rogan.
FTFY
Currently Microsoft needs more apps than it does quality. When they approach a customer they can tell them they have a gazillion apps in their store to deflect the "but the iPhone/Android has so many more apps.". Rest assured once it blows up in their faces they will clamp down hard. They are famous for reactionary overcompensation.
For the price they are charging I'm sure they would sell you a wife and child seat attachment ;)
Depending on your budget for the chair one of MWE Labs Emperor chairs should meet your needs.
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
Not true. I work with EE faculty, and a number of them can't seem to grasp the concept that the being a brilliant engineer doesn't automatically confer one with expertise in diverse other areas such as patent law, accounting, videography, etc.
What's it got to do with EE's? This applies to a vast majority of people who have Money/Power/Fame. You can usually tell when at some point in a conversation with them they utter "Don't you know who I am?"
Seriously? You're posting this here without telling me how I can get this job? From the sounds of it, I could do it in the background while at my real job.
But it might seriously cut into your /. reading!
Then you are not familiar with the show. In it the world is run by a few mega corps that basically stay in power by keeping their media ratings higher than their competitors thus reaping the highest ad revenue. Network XXIII being the one of the biggest. The first episode has one of their own reporters investigating why a guy spontaneously combusts only to learn its because Network XXIII's latest ad technology (Blipverts, which are 30 seconds ads compressed to 3 seconds so the viewer will not be tempted to change the channel) short circuits the victims nervous system. All pretty well spelled out in my OP and relevant to the GP headline.
In other news Google has today announce they are rebranding Twitch.TV to Network XXIII (23 for the Roman Numeral illiterate)
no TV actors have EVER been paid that much b4!
/. news because the show portrays "nerds" and nerds in this sites tag line?
Is this considered
There are no good technology conferences, my friend.
You are mistaken. They list several.
For Silicon Valley Companies, perma-temping and hiring H1B's is part of their business practice,
Indeed. A company that was at one time known for it's test and measurement equipment and pioneered the laserjet printer space routinely hires temporary (contracted through temp agencies) labor for permanent manufacturing positions which is illegal. Since the law in question prohibits temporary labor from occupying a position for more than a 12 month period this company lays off the entire manufacturing line the last week of the year only to recreate the positions the very next week.
It's sorta like the guys at GitMo telling their guests today they get free waterboarding.
Look out...Here comes Zuckercud pitching his cowbook idea again!
Wait? You haven't met anyone who's monitor is broken because the power was off?
(the toner cartridge in that LJ5 on third floor east isn't changing ITSELF, btw...)
Toner is a consumable and IT does not provide toner nor facilitate their replacement. Please feel free to open a ticket to IT once you have managed to jam the toner cartridge in upside down and sideways for technical support.
once the aliens show up (the floaty section in the alien mothership in particular goes on for far too long).
Great! I just started playing and you go and ruin the WHOLE thing for me.
SOoooo...shouldn't the first link in the regular search be a link to the results from Google Scholar?
Hrmmm...choose the business model that makes them money or the one that bankrupts them? That isn't a choice so yes they are in fact barred from doing it. Just because you and I want it doesn't mean they can afford to do it. So your use of banned vs barred financially is a red herring. Sorry you don't like the truth and you think you can change the truth by choosing a different word to describe it but it doesn't in fact change anything. Disney, Viacom, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, et al are all cartels with too much power but in this argument Disney has more power than Comcast and Comcast has to pay the piper to keep the power they have. I hope this changes soon but I'm sure as hell not holding my breath.
You win at failed reading comprehension...
The contracts the cable companies sign stipulate a minimum viewer base so they pay whether their customer purchase the bundle or not. So to make sure their costs are covered they simply force these bundles into the base tier of programming.
The carrier may be required to "buy" ESPN 2-54 if a subscriber has ESPN 1, but I've never seen where the subscriber must "pay" for ESPN 2-54.
WTF? Yeah, I'm gonna eat the cost of purchasing the whole lineup so my customer can get 1 channel! They would be out of business in less than 6 months provided their shareholders didn't sue them for financial suicide.
Disney requires that ESPN be in the base tier of programming and they also own:
A&E
History
H2
Fyi
Military History
Crime & Investigation Network
A+E Networks International
A+E Networks Consumer Products
A+E Studios
A&E IndieFilms
A+E Films
A+E Networks Digital
Lifetime Entertainment Services
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN on ABC - formerly ABC Sports
ESPN Classic
ESPNews
ESPN Deportes
ESPN Films
ESPNU
ESPN Classic
ESPN Now
ESPN Plus
ESPN Original Entertainment
ESPN Pay-Per-View
ESPN Regional Television
ESPN International (see for complete list of channels)
ESPN America
TSN (20%)
ESPN Radio
Mobile ESPN
ESPN3
ESPN The Magazine
ESPN Books (an imprint of Disney's Hyperion Books)
ESPN Home Entertainment
ESPN Outdoors
If you want A&E you gotta get all of those as well.
Trust me they have studied every possible revenue model and they like the one they have.
They (Disney) are still extracting payments from the cable companies by requiring bundling of their media properties. If Comcast, Verizon, AT&T want ESPN they must carry ALL ESPN channels. It's one of the main reasons we can't get A La Carte programming.
Reminds me of the stories of panhandlers begging at intersections who get picked up by their chauffeurs at the end of the day to go back to their mansions.
In the past Microsoft may have had an NIH approach, but over the past few years they have significantly changed from that in the developer area - switching from the Microsoft Ajax tools to jQuery, using Json.Net etc etc etc.
I'm not sure either the OP or this one understand what NIH means. It's part of the EEE philosophy. Look for a hot new technology in the consumer space. Identify the leaders in that space. Purchase one of the leaders and modify the technology so that it is no longer 100% compatible with anybody else's version of the tech. Market the hell out of your version and destroy the competition. Internet Explorer was licensed from Spyglass and all version of IE up to 6 were based on that code. In this case Microsoft was so desperate to beat Netscape they gave Internet Explorer away for free which really pissed Spyglass off because their license was based on revenue from sales of IE. In the end it worked too well and the industry was stuck with dependency on IE 6 for over a decade. If Microsoft can figure out a way to integrate Blink or Webkit and make it work I don't see why they wouldn't as long as they can monetize it in some way.