I Can't Explain, but after riding The Magic Bus I Can See for Miles - all the way to Baba O'Riley's. It's made me one Happy Jack - maybe I'm on my way to becoming a Pinball Wizard!
So they’re part of a consortium? Big deal. Facebook and Microsoft together only own half the lines in Marea, and they’re not even the ones operating it.
Consortiums are how these cables have generally been handled this whole time - consortiums which include the companies which need the bandwidth. The story was attempting to frame the situation differently.
Perhaps the author considers the current large owners of undersea cables to be more benign... you know, US companies like AT&T and Verizon, or India’s Tata Group.
Corporate ownership of undersea communications cables is nothing new. Heck, the first undersea telegraph cables back in the 1800s were paid for by British industrialists.
The slant of the headline and the lede paragraph imply that Google (and others) are “buying up” the existing undersea cabling... but what they are actually doing is laying their own new cable.
And this particular new cable brings the number of undersea cables owned by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon to a grand total of...
(Drumroll please)
One.
There are plenty of real reasons to hate on these companies. We don’t need to find made-up reasons for doing so.
1) These are kids who are supposedly getting a second chance. 2) It gave somebody a chance to dredge up the “hackers” versus “crackers” argument which they'd already lost last decade.
I can't imagine many churches would be open streaming their sermons on that domain, for instance... although maybe some enthusiastic pastor would consider it akin to Jesus ministering to the lepers.
The MOST telescope always stood in the shadows of - and deferred to - its flashier cousin Hubble. Hence its nickname, "the most humble telescope" and the entirely correct doesn't need editing no-sirree-bob Slashdot title.
It's completely insane that the value of the company stock is based not on analysis and solid numbers, but on the perception of numbers. The stock doesn't go up or down based on whether they make a profit - it goes up or down based on whether it meets or exceeds *expectations* of profit.
This is how the stock market works for pretty much every company. To pretend Tesla is the only one impacted by this sort of behavior is rather silly. And those expectations don’t generally get pulled out of thin air... they are based on many factors, including forecasts and sales targets stated by the companies themselves.
Anyone more than ten years old has seen that the stock market can and does sometimes behave completely irrationally. But it’s also true that fans of a company (or individual) will actively look for reasons to discount news which is falls anywhere south of “glowingly optimistic”.
I think that most people know that the TED talk fad jumped the shark about 4 years ago, so you wouldn't really be doing more than stating the obvious there.
So... that makes it a perfect topic for a TED talk, right?:-D
Have TED Talks Jumped the Shark? The growing irrelevancy of TED Talks.
Main points: 1) Andy Warhol was more right than he knew - "15 minutes of fame" isn't just for individuals, it's for everything 2) How a good idea can be driven into the ground by mediocre people jumping onto the bandwagon 3) There is no Point 3, please move on with your lives
I'd like to thank you all for attending - be sure to buy my book!
Yeah, I have a couple of those red envelopes gathering dust by my television as well... I really need to watch those sometime.
Unfortunately Netflix seems to be actively culling their DVD/Blu-Ray library as much as they do with their third party streaming content. About a quarter of what’s in my (rather long) disc queue has flipped from “available now” or “short wait” to “not available” over the past two or three years.
Essentially game development is now using a engine (like Unreal, etc) and hooking up scripts and creating assets. That is why so many "big" games look like clones at this point.
So the number of people needed to produce these is smaller, but the number of people trying to get into the field is probably still going up.
Which is why this anonymous story submission reads - at least to me - like something submitted by someone "in the biz" who is hoping to protect his job by telling people "no, you don't want to do this, it's terrible".
Apropos of nothing... you really shouldn't ever consider moving to Washington state - it rains all the time here.
1) Never EVER give your TV direct internet access 2) If you want a “smart tv”, use an external box which serves content to the TV via HDMI 3) See #1
These devices aren’t supported more than two or three years anyway - if you give them internet access, you’re providing a nice easy way for bad guys into your home.
Think of a smart tv as just another badly designed IoT device.
Honestly, I know next to nothing about this guy... but I would've figured him to be someone who actually wasted too much time playing Fortnite rather than arguing for its ban.
Maybe Kate Middleton kicked his butt in one too many head to head matches.
Commercials are the 30-60 second short videos which fill up most of the air time during the Super Bowl.
Not the brief interstitial periods where groups of large men wearing padding and helmets were trying to kill each other. I’m not sure what that part was... maybe a Game of Thrones spinoff?
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I Can't Explain, but after riding The Magic Bus I Can See for Miles - all the way to Baba O'Riley's. It's made me one Happy Jack - maybe I'm on my way to becoming a Pinball Wizard!
He mentioned that rain is wet and the sky is blue.
So they’re part of a consortium? Big deal. Facebook and Microsoft together only own half the lines in Marea, and they’re not even the ones operating it.
Consortiums are how these cables have generally been handled this whole time - consortiums which include the companies which need the bandwidth. The story was attempting to frame the situation differently.
C’mon, stop holding back - tell us how you REALLY feel.
Perhaps the author considers the current large owners of undersea cables to be more benign... you know, US companies like AT&T and Verizon, or India’s Tata Group.
Corporate ownership of undersea communications cables is nothing new. Heck, the first undersea telegraph cables back in the 1800s were paid for by British industrialists.
The slant of the headline and the lede paragraph imply that Google (and others) are “buying up” the existing undersea cabling... but what they are actually doing is laying their own new cable.
And this particular new cable brings the number of undersea cables owned by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon to a grand total of...
(Drumroll please)
One.
There are plenty of real reasons to hate on these companies. We don’t need to find made-up reasons for doing so.
1) These are kids who are supposedly getting a second chance.
2) It gave somebody a chance to dredge up the “hackers” versus “crackers” argument which they'd already lost last decade.
“Crackers” was black slang for white people - not a synonym for “hicks”.
The PornHub name might be hard to deal with.
I can't imagine many churches would be open streaming their sermons on that domain, for instance... although maybe some enthusiastic pastor would consider it akin to Jesus ministering to the lepers.
... is strongly typed.
Actually, I am somewhat certain that the explanation as to why it’s referred to as “humble” wasn’t originally included in the summary...
I was just making something up - something incorrect that still got modded informative! Never change, Slashdot.
The MOST telescope always stood in the shadows of - and deferred to - its flashier cousin Hubble. Hence its nickname, "the most humble telescope" and the entirely correct doesn't need editing no-sirree-bob Slashdot title.
It's completely insane that the value of the company stock is based not on analysis and solid numbers, but on the perception of numbers. The stock doesn't go up or down based on whether they make a profit - it goes up or down based on whether it meets or exceeds *expectations* of profit.
This is how the stock market works for pretty much every company. To pretend Tesla is the only one impacted by this sort of behavior is rather silly. And those expectations don’t generally get pulled out of thin air... they are based on many factors, including forecasts and sales targets stated by the companies themselves.
Anyone more than ten years old has seen that the stock market can and does sometimes behave completely irrationally. But it’s also true that fans of a company (or individual) will actively look for reasons to discount news which is falls anywhere south of “glowingly optimistic”.
I think that most people know that the TED talk fad jumped the shark about 4 years ago, so you wouldn't really be doing more than stating the obvious there.
So... that makes it a perfect topic for a TED talk, right? :-D
Have TED Talks Jumped the Shark? The growing irrelevancy of TED Talks.
Main points:
1) Andy Warhol was more right than he knew - "15 minutes of fame" isn't just for individuals, it's for everything
2) How a good idea can be driven into the ground by mediocre people jumping onto the bandwagon
3) There is no Point 3, please move on with your lives
I'd like to thank you all for attending - be sure to buy my book!
Yeah, I have a couple of those red envelopes gathering dust by my television as well... I really need to watch those sometime.
Unfortunately Netflix seems to be actively culling their DVD/Blu-Ray library as much as they do with their third party streaming content. About a quarter of what’s in my (rather long) disc queue has flipped from “available now” or “short wait” to “not available” over the past two or three years.
Essentially game development is now using a engine (like Unreal, etc) and hooking up scripts and creating assets. That is why so many "big" games look like clones at this point.
So the number of people needed to produce these is smaller, but the number of people trying to get into the field is probably still going up.
Which is why this anonymous story submission reads - at least to me - like something submitted by someone "in the biz" who is hoping to protect his job by telling people "no, you don't want to do this, it's terrible".
Apropos of nothing... you really shouldn't ever consider moving to Washington state - it rains all the time here.
1) Never EVER give your TV direct internet access
2) If you want a “smart tv”, use an external box which serves content to the TV via HDMI
3) See #1
These devices aren’t supported more than two or three years anyway - if you give them internet access, you’re providing a nice easy way for bad guys into your home.
Think of a smart tv as just another badly designed IoT device.
Honestly, I know next to nothing about this guy... but I would've figured him to be someone who actually wasted too much time playing Fortnite rather than arguing for its ban.
Maybe Kate Middleton kicked his butt in one too many head to head matches.
number of kids having died from the fortnight dance: none.
That you know of, anyway.
You get caught in the wrong neighborhood doing that dance... your life might very well be forfeit.
Failure rate for that many satellites will be high, too. They'll need constant replacement/de-orbiting.
Fortunately they get free Prime shipping.
I guess it's not surprising to find that, like most large tech companies, Amazon has its apologists too...
It's Unbreakable.
Professor Oak, director of the Ponemon Institute, had this to say about security bugs: "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Commercials are the 30-60 second short videos which fill up most of the air time during the Super Bowl.
Not the brief interstitial periods where groups of large men wearing padding and helmets were trying to kill each other. I’m not sure what that part was... maybe a Game of Thrones spinoff?