Google is like a band that has a great debut album but everything else afterwards sucks. They still have enough fans from their early work to live off of so they don't feel the need to do anything different.
1. The government crackdown on independent contractors working under 1099s. The government was worried that too many people were not paying into SS which would undermine its solvency. They then put out a whole bunch of restrictions which companies did not put in the effort to enforce.
The result was that companies stopped using 1099s and started doing this staffing through agencies. Since the agencies can take up to half the pay a contractor may receive that resulted in substantial less money being taken home by the independent contractors.
2. Affordable Care Act (ACA). The government decided that all people with pre-existing conditions need to have access to health insurance. How did they achieve this? By forcing only the people in the individual market to subsidize them. I remember when I got a quote for a policy that would take affect after the passage. It was more than twice what I was paying. I decided then to get a full time job.
A company can simply hire workers on a probationary period of say 60 days and then determine whether or not to keep them. With contract workers they will keep them for 18 months and then decide to let them go.
MCSE was more like two decades ago and they were promising 60-70K back then. I think the salary expectations may be a bit on the high side here depending on location but nowhere near as bad as a lot of these trade schools offer.
Net neutrality does nothing to stop that. It does not prevent data caps or tiered pricing based upon data usage. The ISP is still allowed to exempt any traffic they wish from any data cap that is put into place. That is how wireless carriers offer free Netflix with signup.
If states want to ban the use of fast lanes then the ISP can change their pricing to allow data caps. You want the unlimited data cap then its ~$120/month. 300 GB will cost ~$80/month, etc.
The ISP can then exempt their own services and the services of preferred partners from the data caps. This will achieve the same results for the ISP without violating Net Neutrality.
So according to the summary there are 25,000 apps (skills) available on Alexa. The market is expected to be worth 50 million next year. So that comes out to an average of $2000 per skill. Obviously that won't be distributed evenly so the median payoff for each skill will likely be less than $500.
This is the smartphone economy repeating itself. At least with smartphones there are some business use cases but this stuff is all consumer based. The only money you get is what Amazon considers your product to be worth. I think most good developers can find a better use for their time.
Technically since the article is about England this is about the LECs not the ISPs. The LEC manages the physical connection and the ISP provides the Internet service.
Baseband is not related to speed at all. It means that you are sending only one signal over the cable. 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet over UTP are also baseband connections. 2 Mb wireless connections over 802.11 are broadband connections.
Or maybe give the money back to people who grow the economy. The ultra-rich did not get that way by stealing money from everybody else despite what the SJWs want to believe.
When the government stops paying farmers to not produce and the country stops throwing away half the food that is produced then I'll worry about food riots. That isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
Land that gets turned into desert is more often than not due to poor land management. The state of California dumps millions of gallons of fresh water into the Pacific Ocean rather than sending it to the parched central valley farms in order to save some fish. Then they blame global warming for their problems.
There are a few small islands in the Pacific Ocean that may go underwater. The people there will have to move, period. The rest of the world is not going to radically alter their lifestyles to accommodate a relatively small number of people. If they want to start a war with the rest of the world over this that is their prerogative. I don't think that would end very well for them.
Life as we know it will end once Net Neutrality is repealed.
The only rational response is for everybody to march through the streets naked then douse themselves with gasoline and strike a match. This will also have the side benefit of reducing their carbon footprints to zero.
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Fish food?
You can catch more flies with shit than you can with honey or vinegar.
Don't know how that relates to vegans?
Google is like a band that has a great debut album but everything else afterwards sucks. They still have enough fans from their early work to live off of so they don't feel the need to do anything different.
This would really spice up the next paintball outing.
1. The government crackdown on independent contractors working under 1099s. The government was worried that too many people were not paying into SS which would undermine its solvency. They then put out a whole bunch of restrictions which companies did not put in the effort to enforce.
The result was that companies stopped using 1099s and started doing this staffing through agencies. Since the agencies can take up to half the pay a contractor may receive that resulted in substantial less money being taken home by the independent contractors.
2. Affordable Care Act (ACA). The government decided that all people with pre-existing conditions need to have access to health insurance. How did they achieve this? By forcing only the people in the individual market to subsidize them. I remember when I got a quote for a policy that would take affect after the passage. It was more than twice what I was paying. I decided then to get a full time job.
A company can simply hire workers on a probationary period of say 60 days and then determine whether or not to keep them. With contract workers they will keep them for 18 months and then decide to let them go.
We can only hope he is allowed to fully fix the country.
MCSE was more like two decades ago and they were promising 60-70K back then. I think the salary expectations may be a bit on the high side here depending on location but nowhere near as bad as a lot of these trade schools offer.
It's 8-10 a week for 8 months. That is 280-300 hours of training. Not enough to be considered experienced but sufficient for entry level.
Net neutrality does nothing to stop that. It does not prevent data caps or tiered pricing based upon data usage. The ISP is still allowed to exempt any traffic they wish from any data cap that is put into place. That is how wireless carriers offer free Netflix with signup.
If states want to ban the use of fast lanes then the ISP can change their pricing to allow data caps. You want the unlimited data cap then its ~$120/month. 300 GB will cost ~$80/month, etc.
The ISP can then exempt their own services and the services of preferred partners from the data caps. This will achieve the same results for the ISP without violating Net Neutrality.
So according to the summary there are 25,000 apps (skills) available on Alexa. The market is expected to be worth 50 million next year. So that comes out to an average of $2000 per skill. Obviously that won't be distributed evenly so the median payoff for each skill will likely be less than $500.
This is the smartphone economy repeating itself. At least with smartphones there are some business use cases but this stuff is all consumer based. The only money you get is what Amazon considers your product to be worth. I think most good developers can find a better use for their time.
Black with white stripes.
If they can produce a product to equivalent quality for a significantly lower price without government subsidies then fine. Otherwise, no.
Technically since the article is about England this is about the LECs not the ISPs. The LEC manages the physical connection and the ISP provides the Internet service.
Baseband is not related to speed at all. It means that you are sending only one signal over the cable. 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet over UTP are also baseband connections. 2 Mb wireless connections over 802.11 are broadband connections.
Amazing how many ways people are able to apply that lame joke.
They should have just merged it with projects Whiskey and Foxtrot.
I find LinkedIn to be necessary for career purposes. The rest are simply a waste of time.
Granted people are free to waste their time however they wish.
Or maybe give the money back to people who grow the economy. The ultra-rich did not get that way by stealing money from everybody else despite what the SJWs want to believe.
When the government stops paying farmers to not produce and the country stops throwing away half the food that is produced then I'll worry about food riots. That isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Land that gets turned into desert is more often than not due to poor land management. The state of California dumps millions of gallons of fresh water into the Pacific Ocean rather than sending it to the parched central valley farms in order to save some fish. Then they blame global warming for their problems. There are a few small islands in the Pacific Ocean that may go underwater. The people there will have to move, period. The rest of the world is not going to radically alter their lifestyles to accommodate a relatively small number of people. If they want to start a war with the rest of the world over this that is their prerogative. I don't think that would end very well for them.
Spend all the money you want. As long as it doesn't come out of the US Treasury we're all good.
So was the manager a man or a woman? You reference he and she in the story.
Possibly Caitlyn Jenner?
Life as we know it will end once Net Neutrality is repealed.
The only rational response is for everybody to march through the streets naked then douse themselves with gasoline and strike a match. This will also have the side benefit of reducing their carbon footprints to zero.
So you would have a problem with me making my own beer and moonshine then opening a bar in my basement to serve minors?
Why do you hate freedom?