you could hire a mediocre, good or brilliant employee and you'd end up with the same result.
No. In a way I see their point, although I don't completely agree. Having worked here in the socialized medicine system of a third world latin country, it becomes immediately apparent that there are people with a wide range of abilities and skillsets. However over time those "A-players" with excellent skills become lazy and sloppy, because of the mediocre environment that surrounds them. It's very very easy to turn a good employee into a mediocre employee when you surround him with other mediocre people, excessive bureaucracy and silly rules and regulations that are arbitrarily enforced. It's virtually impossible, however, to turn a mediocre person into a talented, highly motivated individual (although it does happen sometimes). So I see their point.
However Netflix's argument is based on the assumption that their hiring staff are the best possible judges of talent around and they never, ever make mistakes. Since everyone is human, then this simply cannot be true. Also people change over time, for many reasons. I work much more efficiently now in my late 40's than I did in my 20's, even though I work less actual hours I get more done. Likewise people who used to produce world class work can slack off, for any number of temporary or permanent reasons. So they get canned? Well then, this "system" is nothing but a quota system in disguise, and if you fail to meet your quota you're out of here. Not necessarily the best system, and certainly not anything new.
for a repeat of the Quebec-level storm that knocked out the power for 6 million in 1989
I was there. And it was really, really creepy. From my apartment building I could see the electrical arcing from the power station way on the other side of town. The lights went out everywhere, and then the Aurora Borealis started lighting up the sky - something that rarely happens at that lattitude (Montreal). It was - surreal.
Nah, we made adjustments to the model and it doesn't do that any more. It explains everything perfectly, once we added a bit more weight to the "fudge factor" variable.
You expect the government to go out of its way to prosecute those who did exactly what the government wanted? Right. Blah blah blah sealed files, national security, etc...
DRM is misapplied by design. Because my computer/reading device has to be able to decode it. Therefore I can decode it. It's just a question of figuring out how, be it scanning memory or playing around with a soldering iron on the motherboard.
And of course only one person has to figure out how to break it. Then everyone can break it.
Damn, and here was me thinking that there were plenty of places you could pay to stream music and movies - places that are making decent coin. Or do you think they have managed to shut down every single torrent/file sharing site?
Yeah, this is a clear case of the new anti-terrorism powers being abused once again. That's what happens when you give power to mean people. They abuse it. It gives their life meaning to make your life miserable, because they can. The age of tyranny has well and truly begun. It's only going downhill from here.
Not as important as the drive storing the data incorrectly because of a faulty transistor. There is device failure you never get to know about outside of a lab because error correction protocols make sure it doesn't cause data loss, and actual, perceivable device failure that could affect you and your data. These failures rates are now better than platter hard disks.
The problem is that low quality publications actually represent negative productivity.
Yep. but you will never get a bureaucrat to understand this. It's like in our hospitals - you can never convince administration that you actually WANT empty beds - because that means the population is healthy and empty beds are a sign of success of the health system. No, that won't fly. It's all about bed turnover per day, and bed occupancy rates.
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you could hire a mediocre, good or brilliant employee and you'd end up with the same result.
No. In a way I see their point, although I don't completely agree. Having worked here in the socialized medicine system of a third world latin country, it becomes immediately apparent that there are people with a wide range of abilities and skillsets. However over time those "A-players" with excellent skills become lazy and sloppy, because of the mediocre environment that surrounds them. It's very very easy to turn a good employee into a mediocre employee when you surround him with other mediocre people, excessive bureaucracy and silly rules and regulations that are arbitrarily enforced. It's virtually impossible, however, to turn a mediocre person into a talented, highly motivated individual (although it does happen sometimes). So I see their point.
However Netflix's argument is based on the assumption that their hiring staff are the best possible judges of talent around and they never, ever make mistakes. Since everyone is human, then this simply cannot be true. Also people change over time, for many reasons. I work much more efficiently now in my late 40's than I did in my 20's, even though I work less actual hours I get more done. Likewise people who used to produce world class work can slack off, for any number of temporary or permanent reasons. So they get canned? Well then, this "system" is nothing but a quota system in disguise, and if you fail to meet your quota you're out of here. Not necessarily the best system, and certainly not anything new.
for a repeat of the Quebec-level storm that knocked out the power for 6 million in 1989
I was there. And it was really, really creepy. From my apartment building I could see the electrical arcing from the power station way on the other side of town. The lights went out everywhere, and then the Aurora Borealis started lighting up the sky - something that rarely happens at that lattitude (Montreal). It was - surreal.
Nah, we made adjustments to the model and it doesn't do that any more. It explains everything perfectly, once we added a bit more weight to the "fudge factor" variable.
But-but- our computer model matches. Believe in the model!
"Funny" doesn't add to karma anyway.
And everyone in prison is also innocent. Just ask them.
You expect the government to go out of its way to prosecute those who did exactly what the government wanted? Right. Blah blah blah sealed files, national security, etc...
You get what you pay for.
DRM is misapplied by design. Because my computer/reading device has to be able to decode it. Therefore I can decode it. It's just a question of figuring out how, be it scanning memory or playing around with a soldering iron on the motherboard. And of course only one person has to figure out how to break it. Then everyone can break it.
Damn, and here was me thinking that there were plenty of places you could pay to stream music and movies - places that are making decent coin. Or do you think they have managed to shut down every single torrent/file sharing site?
So, how much wind can they take before being hopelessly blown off course?
If it's air gapped you won't be updating through windows update anyway, so this particular problem doesn't apply to you.
I'm not American. I live in a truly free country.
"The right to offend is more important than the right to not be offended".
My understanding was that a lot of it ends up in shipping containers bound for China.
There's plenty of violence if you touch the primary.
Yeah, this is a clear case of the new anti-terrorism powers being abused once again. That's what happens when you give power to mean people. They abuse it. It gives their life meaning to make your life miserable, because they can. The age of tyranny has well and truly begun. It's only going downhill from here.
Someone who would put someone else in a cage for being rude or for having a different point of view deserves no civility.
"The rising threat", rofl. Once again trade some of your liberty away because of "fear".
Not as important as the drive storing the data incorrectly because of a faulty transistor. There is device failure you never get to know about outside of a lab because error correction protocols make sure it doesn't cause data loss, and actual, perceivable device failure that could affect you and your data. These failures rates are now better than platter hard disks.
The problem is that low quality publications actually represent negative productivity.
Yep. but you will never get a bureaucrat to understand this. It's like in our hospitals - you can never convince administration that you actually WANT empty beds - because that means the population is healthy and empty beds are a sign of success of the health system. No, that won't fly. It's all about bed turnover per day, and bed occupancy rates.
The computer world moves fast. You'd better keep up. Write limits, lol.
I thought file formats were not patentable anyway. And why hasn't this expired yet?
Er, Red Dwarf. Nerd card revoked.
Either that or distance is being seriously compressed!