Nintendo has tons of cash in the bank. They're not getting out of the hardware business for a long time. There are plenty of people willing to buy Nintendo hardware just to play their 1st party games.
The Switch's mobility is not just about playing games when you're out of the house. It fixes one of the biggest flaws with the Wii U... you can use it anywhere in the house. With the Wii U, you could only play games in tablet mode when within about 30 feat of the console. This is a big deal for gamers that have a family, when you want to play while laying in bed or on the couch in a different room, etc. I love the mobility of the Switch and it's never left my house.
It's not just the Nintendo core fans. I'm surprised by the number of people I know who bought the Switch and are not the traditional, hard core Nintendo fans (i.e. they're PC/PS4/XB1 gamers). Nintendo knows how to make really fun games that appeal to a wide audience. The Switch is probably the best console I've ever owned.
After nearly 2 decades in this business and having been forced to use every flavor of the month software process (and even having to follow DO-178 in the aviation industry and having to test to 100% code coverage), I've learned there's only one thing that matters when it comes to the quality of your code... how good your engineers are.
Good engineers write less bugs than bad engineers and no software development practice is going to change that. How long your sprints are, having software reviews before every checkin, forcing people to write tons of tests, waterfall vs agile, blah blah blah. That's all B.S. and doesn't mean a damn thing. You want high quality software? Then fire your bad engineers and hire better ones.
Focusing on bugs is not necessarily a bad thing but that's not going to fix the problem at Apple.
I've never had any problems using my Apple "toys" with non-Apple devices. I print stuff. I use a VPN to log into other networks that don't use Apple routers. I remote desktop into windows/linux machines all the time. I SSH into non-Apple computers. I mount NFS shares from non-Apple servers. I sometimes use them as remote controls for my Rokus.
I'm confused. What problems are you describing? My home is mixed with Apple and non-Apple stuff and they can all talk to each other just fine.
Then either there was something wrong with your printer or your guest is a complete moron. I print from my iPhone and iPad to my Brother printer all the time. It's trivial to do so. Even my wife can do it.
It's the government's job to step in and provide a solution if the monopolies refuse. Myself and lots of people I know have municipal run gigabit internet and you won't find someone disappointed with it. It's the best service I've ever had and yes, it is very fast. Large games, big updates, etc download orders of magnitude faster than on ordinary broadband.
Stop being so close minded. It's not just the coffee runs. It's everything. Cable TV packages, expensive cars, etc. Having that attitude and applying it to everything in life makes a huge difference in how much money you have.
BTW, if you think $850 a year is nothing, I'll be happy to take it that much off your hands every year and invest it for myself.
That IS the reason they are poor. It's not just the coffee runs but everything. Literally every single person I know who is poor not only spends tons of money on coffee but they spend $200 on the fancy cable TV package in addition to subscribing to Netflix/Hulu/Spotify/etc, they buy tons of beer/wine/etc, they always drive 2 brand new cars, they shop at expensive stores, etc. As soon as they get a bunch of unexpected money (e.g. Christmas, tax refund, etc) they blow it on expensive vacations or something else instead of investing it, keeping it in an emergency fund, etc. They're always asking to "borrow" money.
I know so many people who are in debt way over their heads and always complain about how they never have any money... right as they're on their way to spend $20 at Starbucks for their whole family (and they do this multiple times a week). Idiots.
Why would anyone care if a word is spelt with or without a "u" and in what order "r" and "e" are in? I'm an American and I couldn't care less if everyone started writing "colour" and "centre". I'm positive I'd feel the same way if I were British and everyone started writing "color" and "center".
Are people actually getting paid real money to research this crap? Where do I sign up?
I only connect devices that need to be on the internet. When it comes to TVs, Blu-Ray players, etc, I temporarily connect them once in a while just to get the latest firmware updates and then I disconnect them.
Try buying a TV that isn't "smart" these days. Even cheap, low end TVs have some sort of smarts built in. As much as I'd like to, you can't buy a "dumb" TV anymore.
This was my reaction. Java is by far my most hated language but it has little to do with the language itself. It's the community and how almost all Java developers think. They think Java is the answer to every single problem, even when the program is only targeted for a single platform, and they also think every problem requires dozens of layers of abstraction with names that are 10 feet long. I swear, "well written" Java programs are the hardest to read and maintain.
Plus, there's the whole "write once, debug everywhere" thing.
If you're willing to continue to learn new technologies, you'll stay employed. My company hires programmers in their 50s all the time. They're people who not only have valuable experience but know how to use the languages/technologies/etc that the kids in their 20s know. They can be very valuable to a company and I'm not worried at all when I hit my 50s in 10 years.
What's equally as important though is if you can work with a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s. Your attitude and how much people want to work with you as at least as important to what you know. If you go in with an attitude like "pfft, why you are using when you can just use ", you won't last long.
I don't understand why the US switched to chip-and-signature cards instead of the much better chip-and-pin cards like EU did. I visited Europe last month and they've got it down right. Paying at a restaurant is where it's really much better because the server never walks away with your card like they do here... thus preventing them from being able to take a picture of your card. I really wish we'd would switch to chip and pin.
There are two very big reasons why folks would still subscribe to Netflix dvd.
1) The catalog is huge. Outside of buying the movie/show, itâ(TM)s one of the only ways to get lots of things.
2) Folks who want to build a large digital movie library and thus rip them.
What a terrible article. Cutting the cord is about changing your viewing habits, not replacing cable with internet alternatives that give you exactly what you had before. Of course it's stupid to do the latter. If you're primary way of consuming media is live TV, then just subscribe to cable. That's what cable companies are for.
The real question is, why do you need to watch so much live TV? Most cord cutters don't watch live TV very much, if at all. If they do watch live TV, they have an antenna just for the basic channels. My wife and I cut the cord about 8 years ago and almost everyone we know around our age or younger has as well. Out of all those cord cutters we know, we're the only ones who still watch live TV on the main prime-time channels and that's only because we're sometimes too impatient to wait for it to come out on Hulu. In fact, we'll quite often get teased from our friends over the fact that we still watch live TV.
All you need is one or two streaming services (e.g. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime) and maybe an OTA antenna. If you need more than that, you watch too much TV and need to find a hobby.
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Nintendo has tons of cash in the bank. They're not getting out of the hardware business for a long time. There are plenty of people willing to buy Nintendo hardware just to play their 1st party games. The Switch's mobility is not just about playing games when you're out of the house. It fixes one of the biggest flaws with the Wii U... you can use it anywhere in the house. With the Wii U, you could only play games in tablet mode when within about 30 feat of the console. This is a big deal for gamers that have a family, when you want to play while laying in bed or on the couch in a different room, etc. I love the mobility of the Switch and it's never left my house.
It's not just the Nintendo core fans. I'm surprised by the number of people I know who bought the Switch and are not the traditional, hard core Nintendo fans (i.e. they're PC/PS4/XB1 gamers). Nintendo knows how to make really fun games that appeal to a wide audience. The Switch is probably the best console I've ever owned.
After nearly 2 decades in this business and having been forced to use every flavor of the month software process (and even having to follow DO-178 in the aviation industry and having to test to 100% code coverage), I've learned there's only one thing that matters when it comes to the quality of your code... how good your engineers are.
Good engineers write less bugs than bad engineers and no software development practice is going to change that. How long your sprints are, having software reviews before every checkin, forcing people to write tons of tests, waterfall vs agile, blah blah blah. That's all B.S. and doesn't mean a damn thing. You want high quality software? Then fire your bad engineers and hire better ones.
Focusing on bugs is not necessarily a bad thing but that's not going to fix the problem at Apple.
I've never had any problems using my Apple "toys" with non-Apple devices. I print stuff. I use a VPN to log into other networks that don't use Apple routers. I remote desktop into windows/linux machines all the time. I SSH into non-Apple computers. I mount NFS shares from non-Apple servers. I sometimes use them as remote controls for my Rokus. I'm confused. What problems are you describing? My home is mixed with Apple and non-Apple stuff and they can all talk to each other just fine.
Then either there was something wrong with your printer or your guest is a complete moron. I print from my iPhone and iPad to my Brother printer all the time. It's trivial to do so. Even my wife can do it.
Because we don't like to reinvent the wheel. I worked with way too many people who insist on doing that and it drives me crazy.
Who cares? Unless you're google or facebook maybe, folks who turn off JavaScript aren't worth catering too.
It's the government's job to step in and provide a solution if the monopolies refuse. Myself and lots of people I know have municipal run gigabit internet and you won't find someone disappointed with it. It's the best service I've ever had and yes, it is very fast. Large games, big updates, etc download orders of magnitude faster than on ordinary broadband.
There's no way this will pass the senate and house and survive a presidential veto, and he'll certainly veto it if it comes to his desk.
Stop being so close minded. It's not just the coffee runs. It's everything. Cable TV packages, expensive cars, etc. Having that attitude and applying it to everything in life makes a huge difference in how much money you have. BTW, if you think $850 a year is nothing, I'll be happy to take it that much off your hands every year and invest it for myself.
That IS the reason they are poor. It's not just the coffee runs but everything. Literally every single person I know who is poor not only spends tons of money on coffee but they spend $200 on the fancy cable TV package in addition to subscribing to Netflix/Hulu/Spotify/etc, they buy tons of beer/wine/etc, they always drive 2 brand new cars, they shop at expensive stores, etc. As soon as they get a bunch of unexpected money (e.g. Christmas, tax refund, etc) they blow it on expensive vacations or something else instead of investing it, keeping it in an emergency fund, etc. They're always asking to "borrow" money.
I know so many people who are in debt way over their heads and always complain about how they never have any money... right as they're on their way to spend $20 at Starbucks for their whole family (and they do this multiple times a week). Idiots.
Security is really hard. It's especially hard when so many insist on trying to reinventing the wheel, which countless developers do all the time.
Why would anyone care if a word is spelt with or without a "u" and in what order "r" and "e" are in? I'm an American and I couldn't care less if everyone started writing "colour" and "centre". I'm positive I'd feel the same way if I were British and everyone started writing "color" and "center". Are people actually getting paid real money to research this crap? Where do I sign up?
It's much better and doesn't require another subscription. It's Star Trek but with regular people.
and keep it on standard time all year round. What people want is permanent daylight saving time.
I only connect devices that need to be on the internet. When it comes to TVs, Blu-Ray players, etc, I temporarily connect them once in a while just to get the latest firmware updates and then I disconnect them.
Try buying a TV that isn't "smart" these days. Even cheap, low end TVs have some sort of smarts built in. As much as I'd like to, you can't buy a "dumb" TV anymore.
This was my reaction. Java is by far my most hated language but it has little to do with the language itself. It's the community and how almost all Java developers think. They think Java is the answer to every single problem, even when the program is only targeted for a single platform, and they also think every problem requires dozens of layers of abstraction with names that are 10 feet long. I swear, "well written" Java programs are the hardest to read and maintain. Plus, there's the whole "write once, debug everywhere" thing.
If you're willing to continue to learn new technologies, you'll stay employed. My company hires programmers in their 50s all the time. They're people who not only have valuable experience but know how to use the languages/technologies/etc that the kids in their 20s know. They can be very valuable to a company and I'm not worried at all when I hit my 50s in 10 years. What's equally as important though is if you can work with a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s. Your attitude and how much people want to work with you as at least as important to what you know. If you go in with an attitude like "pfft, why you are using when you can just use ", you won't last long.
The article doesn't state they're switching to chip and pin. It just says they're not requiring signatures.
I don't understand why the US switched to chip-and-signature cards instead of the much better chip-and-pin cards like EU did. I visited Europe last month and they've got it down right. Paying at a restaurant is where it's really much better because the server never walks away with your card like they do here... thus preventing them from being able to take a picture of your card. I really wish we'd would switch to chip and pin.
There are two very big reasons why folks would still subscribe to Netflix dvd. 1) The catalog is huge. Outside of buying the movie/show, itâ(TM)s one of the only ways to get lots of things. 2) Folks who want to build a large digital movie library and thus rip them.
Of course. Are you telling me you don't try to restore your backups regardless of the medium they're on?
What a terrible article. Cutting the cord is about changing your viewing habits, not replacing cable with internet alternatives that give you exactly what you had before. Of course it's stupid to do the latter. If you're primary way of consuming media is live TV, then just subscribe to cable. That's what cable companies are for. The real question is, why do you need to watch so much live TV? Most cord cutters don't watch live TV very much, if at all. If they do watch live TV, they have an antenna just for the basic channels. My wife and I cut the cord about 8 years ago and almost everyone we know around our age or younger has as well. Out of all those cord cutters we know, we're the only ones who still watch live TV on the main prime-time channels and that's only because we're sometimes too impatient to wait for it to come out on Hulu. In fact, we'll quite often get teased from our friends over the fact that we still watch live TV. All you need is one or two streaming services (e.g. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime) and maybe an OTA antenna. If you need more than that, you watch too much TV and need to find a hobby.