I don't think the Dept of Justice or Treasury (or Congress or any particular authority) knows what to do with a company that, instead of taking over any one business market as a monopoly, takes only 50%... of all of them. That could actually be much worse.
Over the course of human history, technology has made many jobs obsolete. But other jobs come available. We aren't facing a future of no jobs for people this time, either. What the latest technological advances have done, however, is make it financially viable to have goods and services performed by anyone anywhere in the world. What this means is that the western lifestyle is generally unsustainable. Global trade and manufacturing tends to raise the overall lifestyle of the country importing jobs (China, India, etc.) while putting downward pressure on the wages and lifestyle of the top countries exporting them. We'll have to accept that our children can't expect their overall experience to be as far ahead of ours as our parents' was ahead of our grandparents.
It doesn't matter what it is. Just do it on a regular basis, like a certain amount of time a day, or every Saturday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. It could be comic books, it could be the Torah, it could be Scientific American. Just read.
I don't think its really an administrative decision to protect children and provide only safe choices that prevent an education like this. Its the need to protect the schools, the businesses and any other organizations involved from lawsuits. Here in the U.S., the insurance premiums necessary for any group that would allow a 3 yr old to even approach - let alone use - a functional cutting blade bigger than "safety scissors" would be astronomical.
Its like the need for all that squishy rubber surface on playgrounds these days. It isn't there to keep kids from breaking limbs falling off equipment because breaking limbs is a bad thing. Its to minimize exposure to litigation if they do.
The estimate is that in 2012, Netflix's license fees will go from $180 million in 2010 to $1.98 billion in 2012, according to this.
Its going to be very hard for anyone to become the legal clearinghouse for media at a price point most consumers see as reasonable because the studios won't allow it.
It would seem that officially, only Qualcomm devices support the DRM scheme they aren't actually using, since other devices have been modified to work.
Actually, The Tunnel has completed principal photography and is in post-production, according to the Open Letter referenced in the article. And they supplied references to major media tracking their work, as IMDB requested.
Convince someone on the inside to leak 15,000 verifiable documents on any of those situations, and I bet WikiLeaks would jump on it. They aren't necessarily "focused" on the US, as much as that is what's mostly been made available to them. If the Taliban had a structure that required and kept comparable records, WikiLeaks would probably publish those, as well.
Along the same lines as this, I have seemed to notice that when a more "liberal" administration is in office, the dominant auto commercial music tends toward "country" and when a "conservative" administration is in office, the car commercials seems to trend more toward "rock" genre music.
Do you expect your degree (BA, BS, BFA, etc) to be your terminal degree? If so, go for the best you can get. If not, it doesn't matter what school you go to. Enroll in your least expensive regional state school, but work your hardest to build a portfolio you can take with you to your Master's/PhD program at the best school you can get. Yale/Harvard/Columbia will still take you coming from East Nowhere State University if you have something to show.
Don't go to college at all if you are looking for Vo-tech education. Hook up with someone who does what you want to do and apprentice. College is not for people who only want to learn the skills they need for the one job they think they want. It is, however, for people who want to be well-rounded and see that they can apply the skills they learned in their theater stagecraft class to their career in IT.
When a person comes within a 40 cm radius of the flower, its supersonic sensor perceives the approach, the stem bends towards the person, and the buds come into full bloom.
It can go supersonic within 40 cm? How about the buds come into full bloom and impale themselves in the approaching person?
Western Digital blah blah, 2.5" mobile blah blah. How do they compare to the mainline Hitachi and Seagate 15k Fibre Channel? EMC's SSD offerings? I want to know what I can expect for data warehousing on Oracle RAC.
Perhaps this is why the MMO is on hold. They are simply waiting for you to do something fun, exciting, and worth paying a monthly fee to do over and over!
I hate being told I can't do something (ie: work 80 hours this week then work 20 the next).
Where I work, being able to work 80 hours a week and then take 20 off the next is referred to as "Comp time" and would be part of an overtime compensation package. If I put in 80 hours a week one week, my management still expects 40 hours from me the next. That's why its called "exempt".
* Google is really bad for Silicon Valley. So many good software developers in SV got sucked in by Google. Too much of the top talent in the area is now working for Google, doing almost completely useless stuff, and it's not healthy for the industry. Is there any software company in the bay area that hasn't had at least a couple of engineers sucked away by Google? Are algorithms for pushing targeted ads and useless web applications that never get out of beta really worth depleting the industry of so many of its best? I predict that when Google comes crashing down (and it will - anyone who has seen the ridiculous excess of the Google campus cannot help but realize this), the net result will have been to set back innovation in the software industry a great deal, by tying up so many people who would otherwise have done something useful.
Perhaps Google is taking the same mentality as Bell Labs in its heyday. Hire all the best minds available, give them complete freedom and time to work on whatever the heck comes into their heads, and see what potentially amazing technologies can result for patenting and licensing.
Your rights to privacy CANNOT be more important than National Security.
Given that this position is a philosophical one, I would argue that a need for national security over personal privacy indicates a fundamental flaw in either:
1. the nation's gov't, or 2. the society that exists within that nation's borders.
I'm not disagreeing with you in regard to fairness at all. I am just saying that in an a la carte world, cable television as an industry would dramatically change, with the vast majority of channels (History Channel, Sci Fi Channel, Outdoor, etc) disappearing. And the other generic programming channels, such as TNT and F/X, carrying the same cheap-to-produce material done by over-the-air broadcasters.
This is because while most people, at an intellectual level, don't agree with "subsidizing" channels with their cable fees, emotionally they like the idea of paying one flat fee and getting all these other things "free." Well, perhaps the word "like" isn't quite right, but you understand my point.
Using the common car analogy, most people are disgruntled that in order to get air conditioning and in-dash CD on their new car they have to buy power windows and locks. But they wouldn't even get the air conditioning if they had to pay the price the car company would charge for just that one feature.
Call me cynical, but I can't imagine that they would price individual channels that low. I can see $10 per channel per month, but you aren't going to get them for $2.50 each. No way.
A la carte cable channels will pretty much destroy the new standard in quality that a lot of people see happening on channels like F/X and TNT. The revenue sharing that goes on - subscribers pay a flat fee, and TNT gets a chunk of every subscriber on every cable system that carries it, whether you watch or not - allows them to get quality, high-production-value work done with ratings that would get an over-the-air broadcaster into bankruptcy. Without this revenue sharing, most of the cable channels will go away, for better or worse.
If TNT had to stand on its own ad revenue and those people who subscribed specifically to it, "The Shield" would have been cancelled in three episodes.
With a la carte channel line ups, every channel - even Discovery History of Baby Shark Health Improvement Channel - will cost like subscribing to HBO.
I can understand your position, and its fair. However, without having a credit card, car loans, something more helping in building a credit history, you aren't going to get a mortgage that isn't about the same as buying it with a credit card.
I have a 2.1 TB disk array in a cabinet in my basement. I have a small VIA epia box sitting silently in the media cabinet with my stereo. With a simple action on the remote control, I can, within seconds, be playing any video in my collection. I have a strong interest in being able to add my legitimately purchased High-Def content to this. And, being legitimately purchased, I should absolutely be able to do so.
This has always been my position when it came to the music industry. Musicians need to stop seeing the CD as the end product, and instead sell their MUSIC. I sit in a cubicle 40 hours a week, as my choice of career, and make a decent middle-class living. If someone chooses to be a musician, he or she should be rehearsing every day, get the band tight as a drum, and play MUSIC for people. Sell themselves, not CDs. And they will also be able to make that decent middle-class living.
Thank you for helping musicians, any musicians, understand that difference. I will definitely check out your brother's band.
In the article, Mr. Lucas says that quantity is the future, and that this will be a revolution in the industry. I don't agree. This will actually be a devolution. Hollywood studios, in their "Golden Age" in the first half of the 20th century, used to pump out tons of films with really small budgets with many of them superb films. If they really want to see financial and artistic success, they will absolutely return to this production process, but this would require them to force actors back into the contract system, which to me, wouldn't be a bad thing. Unless Thomas Mapother IV ends up at my local cinema in fifteen different movies a month, in which case, it won't do a thing for the business...
Where I used to work, they would stack their MDF (Main Distribution Frame) full of patch panels, 4U each and 11 per frame. Each panel would host 144 ports. Front and back came to over 3000 pairs of fibre coming into each frame. This was done without any horizontal cable management. Well-spaced cable management, both horizontal and vertical, is key to a maintainable bulk cabling system. We finally migrated all of that to new MDF, with 2U cable management between every two patch panels and dropped the port density per panel from 144 to 72. That made 2U of cable management for every 8U of patch panel space. This made it very easy to trace and pull fibre without unintentionally impacting other fibre paths. With good cable management products in a well-thought out arrangement, you may not even have to use ties. Even in your switch cabinets. All of this fibre ran to several fully-populated McData FC switches, and we would put cable management both above and below each switch. This would allow us to run the cable in, through the management, and either straight down or straight up to the appropriate switch port. We didn't even need ties.
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I don't think the Dept of Justice or Treasury (or Congress or any particular authority) knows what to do with a company that, instead of taking over any one business market as a monopoly, takes only 50% ... of all of them. That could actually be much worse.
Over the course of human history, technology has made many jobs obsolete. But other jobs come available. We aren't facing a future of no jobs for people this time, either. What the latest technological advances have done, however, is make it financially viable to have goods and services performed by anyone anywhere in the world. What this means is that the western lifestyle is generally unsustainable. Global trade and manufacturing tends to raise the overall lifestyle of the country importing jobs (China, India, etc.) while putting downward pressure on the wages and lifestyle of the top countries exporting them. We'll have to accept that our children can't expect their overall experience to be as far ahead of ours as our parents' was ahead of our grandparents.
It doesn't matter what it is. Just do it on a regular basis, like a certain amount of time a day, or every Saturday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. It could be comic books, it could be the Torah, it could be Scientific American. Just read.
Because you know that as soon as your car is recognized as autonomous, some asshole kid is going to say "Let's make it crash!"
I don't think its really an administrative decision to protect children and provide only safe choices that prevent an education like this. Its the need to protect the schools, the businesses and any other organizations involved from lawsuits. Here in the U.S., the insurance premiums necessary for any group that would allow a 3 yr old to even approach - let alone use - a functional cutting blade bigger than "safety scissors" would be astronomical.
Its like the need for all that squishy rubber surface on playgrounds these days. It isn't there to keep kids from breaking limbs falling off equipment because breaking limbs is a bad thing. Its to minimize exposure to litigation if they do.
Technically, by taking your money, your sister is now rebroadcasting copyrighted content. No, seriously. She is.
The estimate is that in 2012, Netflix's license fees will go from $180 million in 2010 to $1.98 billion in 2012, according to this.
Its going to be very hard for anyone to become the legal clearinghouse for media at a price point most consumers see as reasonable because the studios won't allow it.
It would seem that officially, only Qualcomm devices support the DRM scheme they aren't actually using, since other devices have been modified to work.
Actually, The Tunnel has completed principal photography and is in post-production, according to the Open Letter referenced in the article. And they supplied references to major media tracking their work, as IMDB requested.
Convince someone on the inside to leak 15,000 verifiable documents on any of those situations, and I bet WikiLeaks would jump on it. They aren't necessarily "focused" on the US, as much as that is what's mostly been made available to them. If the Taliban had a structure that required and kept comparable records, WikiLeaks would probably publish those, as well.
Along the same lines as this, I have seemed to notice that when a more "liberal" administration is in office, the dominant auto commercial music tends toward "country" and when a "conservative" administration is in office, the car commercials seems to trend more toward "rock" genre music.
Do you expect your degree (BA, BS, BFA, etc) to be your terminal degree? If so, go for the best you can get. If not, it doesn't matter what school you go to. Enroll in your least expensive regional state school, but work your hardest to build a portfolio you can take with you to your Master's/PhD program at the best school you can get. Yale/Harvard/Columbia will still take you coming from East Nowhere State University if you have something to show.
Don't go to college at all if you are looking for Vo-tech education. Hook up with someone who does what you want to do and apprentice. College is not for people who only want to learn the skills they need for the one job they think they want. It is, however, for people who want to be well-rounded and see that they can apply the skills they learned in their theater stagecraft class to their career in IT.
From the article:
When a person comes within a 40 cm radius of the flower, its supersonic sensor perceives the approach, the stem bends towards the person, and the buds come into full bloom.
It can go supersonic within 40 cm? How about the buds come into full bloom and impale themselves in the approaching person?
Western Digital blah blah, 2.5" mobile blah blah. How do they compare to the mainline Hitachi and Seagate 15k Fibre Channel? EMC's SSD offerings? I want to know what I can expect for data warehousing on Oracle RAC.
Perhaps this is why the MMO is on hold. They are simply waiting for you to do something fun, exciting, and worth paying a monthly fee to do over and over!
I hate being told I can't do something (ie: work 80 hours this week then work 20 the next).
Where I work, being able to work 80 hours a week and then take 20 off the next is referred to as "Comp time" and would be part of an overtime compensation package. If I put in 80 hours a week one week, my management still expects 40 hours from me the next. That's why its called "exempt".
* Google is really bad for Silicon Valley. So many good software developers in SV got sucked in by Google. Too much of the top talent in the area is now working for Google, doing almost completely useless stuff, and it's not healthy for the industry. Is there any software company in the bay area that hasn't had at least a couple of engineers sucked away by Google? Are algorithms for pushing targeted ads and useless web applications that never get out of beta really worth depleting the industry of so many of its best? I predict that when Google comes crashing down (and it will - anyone who has seen the ridiculous excess of the Google campus cannot help but realize this), the net result will have been to set back innovation in the software industry a great deal, by tying up so many people who would otherwise have done something useful.
Perhaps Google is taking the same mentality as Bell Labs in its heyday. Hire all the best minds available, give them complete freedom and time to work on whatever the heck comes into their heads, and see what potentially amazing technologies can result for patenting and licensing.
Given that this position is a philosophical one, I would argue that a need for national security over personal privacy indicates a fundamental flaw in either:
1. the nation's gov't, or
2. the society that exists within that nation's borders.
But it certainly is not an absolute.
I'm not disagreeing with you in regard to fairness at all. I am just saying that in an a la carte world, cable television as an industry would dramatically change, with the vast majority of channels (History Channel, Sci Fi Channel, Outdoor, etc) disappearing. And the other generic programming channels, such as TNT and F/X, carrying the same cheap-to-produce material done by over-the-air broadcasters.
This is because while most people, at an intellectual level, don't agree with "subsidizing" channels with their cable fees, emotionally they like the idea of paying one flat fee and getting all these other things "free." Well, perhaps the word "like" isn't quite right, but you understand my point.
Using the common car analogy, most people are disgruntled that in order to get air conditioning and in-dash CD on their new car they have to buy power windows and locks. But they wouldn't even get the air conditioning if they had to pay the price the car company would charge for just that one feature.
Call me cynical, but I can't imagine that they would price individual channels that low. I can see $10 per channel per month, but you aren't going to get them for $2.50 each. No way.
A la carte cable channels will pretty much destroy the new standard in quality that a lot of people see happening on channels like F/X and TNT. The revenue sharing that goes on - subscribers pay a flat fee, and TNT gets a chunk of every subscriber on every cable system that carries it, whether you watch or not - allows them to get quality, high-production-value work done with ratings that would get an over-the-air broadcaster into bankruptcy. Without this revenue sharing, most of the cable channels will go away, for better or worse.
If TNT had to stand on its own ad revenue and those people who subscribed specifically to it, "The Shield" would have been cancelled in three episodes.
With a la carte channel line ups, every channel - even Discovery History of Baby Shark Health Improvement Channel - will cost like subscribing to HBO.
I can understand your position, and its fair. However, without having a credit card, car loans, something more helping in building a credit history, you aren't going to get a mortgage that isn't about the same as buying it with a credit card.
I have a 2.1 TB disk array in a cabinet in my basement. I have a small VIA epia box sitting silently in the media cabinet with my stereo. With a simple action on the remote control, I can, within seconds, be playing any video in my collection. I have a strong interest in being able to add my legitimately purchased High-Def content to this. And, being legitimately purchased, I should absolutely be able to do so.
Its not about piracy. Its about fair use.
This has always been my position when it came to the music industry. Musicians need to stop seeing the CD as the end product, and instead sell their MUSIC. I sit in a cubicle 40 hours a week, as my choice of career, and make a decent middle-class living. If someone chooses to be a musician, he or she should be rehearsing every day, get the band tight as a drum, and play MUSIC for people. Sell themselves, not CDs. And they will also be able to make that decent middle-class living.
Thank you for helping musicians, any musicians, understand that difference. I will definitely check out your brother's band.
In the article, Mr. Lucas says that quantity is the future, and that this will be a revolution in the industry. I don't agree. This will actually be a devolution. Hollywood studios, in their "Golden Age" in the first half of the 20th century, used to pump out tons of films with really small budgets with many of them superb films. If they really want to see financial and artistic success, they will absolutely return to this production process, but this would require them to force actors back into the contract system, which to me, wouldn't be a bad thing. Unless Thomas Mapother IV ends up at my local cinema in fifteen different movies a month, in which case, it won't do a thing for the business...
Where I used to work, they would stack their MDF (Main Distribution Frame) full of patch panels, 4U each and 11 per frame. Each panel would host 144 ports. Front and back came to over 3000 pairs of fibre coming into each frame. This was done without any horizontal cable management. Well-spaced cable management, both horizontal and vertical, is key to a maintainable bulk cabling system. We finally migrated all of that to new MDF, with 2U cable management between every two patch panels and dropped the port density per panel from 144 to 72. That made 2U of cable management for every 8U of patch panel space. This made it very easy to trace and pull fibre without unintentionally impacting other fibre paths. With good cable management products in a well-thought out arrangement, you may not even have to use ties. Even in your switch cabinets. All of this fibre ran to several fully-populated McData FC switches, and we would put cable management both above and below each switch. This would allow us to run the cable in, through the management, and either straight down or straight up to the appropriate switch port. We didn't even need ties.