I'm sure that as soon as CBS gets their streaming service off the ground they'll cancel the series. And if the series is a failure before that, they'll say "see, SciFi never has an audience."
Broadcast TV networks in general are a fading image in the public eye. CBS, in particular, has gone out of its way to annoy (Star Trek Discovery) and considers itself a streaming provider. It'll take more than an overproduced sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel to gain enough eyeballs to make it worth their while. They're edging towards irrelevancy and gaining speed.
The folks you should be afraid of is the NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) as they'll fight self-driving (and potentially self-delivering) vehicles to their dying breath. Oh, BTW, they're one of the largest lobbying groups at both the state and national levels. Expect laws to enable self-delivery to be delayed a number of years due to this boneheaded lot.
A reasonable way for policing these kinds of breaches is to enact legislation requiring those companies pay each and every person whose identity was leaked a reasonable compensation. In my case, that would be about $120 per year as I've already had to close hacked accounts, change personal data and hire an independent identity management firm to clean up the mess and control future issues. 145m x $120 = bankruptcy for Equifax. Sounds good to me.
Over 60 and in tech pre-sales. I show up in a room of 20 something IT folks and they act surprised when I not only know what they're doing in dev/ops but can tell them how they got where they are and how to get where they need to go. Occasionally, I have to remind them I've seen many of the wrong turns and stupid (failed) projects first-hand and can add some perspective to their own plans. Sadly, I'm acutely aware of the view of age and experience in the industry at large and have experienced firsthand HR moves where companies carefully carve out the over-50 crowd for "HR actions" while preemptively claiming no age bias by tossing in a few younger folks in the mix. I personally know *many* folks in my same age bracket that simply can't find any work in the field, despite having all relevant certifications and experience. Companies are hurting themselves by their blind HR policies that target age as a negative attribute.
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-- Carl Sagan
It's interesting that much of the "fake news" circulating today is, at its core, designed to balkanize national populations, increase factional friction and reduce cohesiveness of organizations such as NATO and the EU. It's time to ask who would benefit most from such a move?
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-- Carl Sagan
Elon's had a long history of proving naysayers like this wrong. My money's (literally) on him to pull this off. The folks truly terrified of self-driving cars are the National Auto Dealers Association (NADA) who stand to lose the most when you can order a car online and have it deliver itself.
Having spent some time in the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain) I can say it's humid as a duck fart and about a hundred times hotter. The only similarity it has to mars is the dunes and large expanses of nothing. The Atacama desert is a better simulation.
The hollowing out of IBM is proceeding as described in Bob Cringely's book "The Rise and Fall of IBM. IBM is sacrificing everything for the sake of "shareholder value" including customer satisfaction, retention and long-term growth. The folks in the C-suite are counting their cash and packing their (platinum) parachutes..
Ikea assembly should be an official Olympic Sport like the curling or synchronized swimming. It requires patience, manual dexterity and determination. Talar svenska är frivilligt.
My observations agree with yours.
Sample size: 5
Father present at birth: 5
Sex distribution: 4 girls, 1 boy
Observations: 1 and 3 of 5, both girls, showed remarkable attention at birth. So much so that the attending doctor commented on both occasions. Both adults now adult with very strong, creative personalities. 2 and 4 of 5 (also girls) showed "normal" attention at birth, turning out to be interesting but not exceptional adults. 5 of 5 (boy) showed little interest in surroundings at birth, was slow to speak (age 2) and somewhat awkward as a toddler. As a teen measured IQ 166, national merit scholar and engineering student. Introvert.
Conclusions: Humans arrive at birth largely pre-wired for the personality they will have. Behavior at birth is a gross indicator of that personality. To say personality (and some level of consciousness) is not pre-imprinted in the womb is to ignore ample evidence to the contrary.
Back in the day when I was doing UI code, I strove to make interfaces "idiot-obvious without being expert-obnoxious" and figured that if you needed a manual (or man pages) I'd done a poor job of things. These days, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of the commercial efforts at UI design as, frequently as not, some ad pops up obscuring some item I'm trying to read and usually can't be made to go away without the click-through dance. Want to make UIs run smoother and look better? Take the freaking ads out.
And get off my lawn!
Disney may take their content and go home but Netflix will persist. Maybe if they listened to customers more and invested in script development they'd have a chance. Besides, Disney's pretty much out of old stories to steal.
I had the original Palm Treo, the Pre and Pre plus. Horrible phones. So much so, that when I worked for HP (before they dumped Palm) I missed a crucial incoming call because my phone just couldn't be made to answer. Out of sheer frustration and disgust I threw it from a moving car at 80 MPH. It skidded a little bit then flew apart in a fuzzy ball of broken bits. To this day, I fondly remember that image from my rear-view mirror. If apple picks up some of the bits of WebOS, I hope the call answer logic isn't one of them.
In many companies HR has given up finding good people, instead seeking out unicorn candidates with 100% matches to shopping lists of certifications and experience. It's easier (on HR) and when a candidate doesn't work out they just point back to the requirements and blame the person who wrote them.
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I'm sure that as soon as CBS gets their streaming service off the ground they'll cancel the series. And if the series is a failure before that, they'll say "see, SciFi never has an audience."
Broadcast TV networks in general are a fading image in the public eye. CBS, in particular, has gone out of its way to annoy (Star Trek Discovery) and considers itself a streaming provider. It'll take more than an overproduced sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel to gain enough eyeballs to make it worth their while. They're edging towards irrelevancy and gaining speed.
'Carlos Danger' now has an alibi of sorts. "But judge, I was just trying to do multi factor identification.. honest.."
The folks you should be afraid of is the NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) as they'll fight self-driving (and potentially self-delivering) vehicles to their dying breath. Oh, BTW, they're one of the largest lobbying groups at both the state and national levels. Expect laws to enable self-delivery to be delayed a number of years due to this boneheaded lot.
A reasonable way for policing these kinds of breaches is to enact legislation requiring those companies pay each and every person whose identity was leaked a reasonable compensation. In my case, that would be about $120 per year as I've already had to close hacked accounts, change personal data and hire an independent identity management firm to clean up the mess and control future issues. 145m x $120 = bankruptcy for Equifax. Sounds good to me.
.. North Korea says it will use its nuclear weapons responsibly.
..you don't really own it. At best it's a lease, at worst it's a brick.
Put it in Dallas. Great transportation hub and it's trying really hard to buy itself a soul.
Over 60 and in tech pre-sales. I show up in a room of 20 something IT folks and they act surprised when I not only know what they're doing in dev/ops but can tell them how they got where they are and how to get where they need to go. Occasionally, I have to remind them I've seen many of the wrong turns and stupid (failed) projects first-hand and can add some perspective to their own plans. Sadly, I'm acutely aware of the view of age and experience in the industry at large and have experienced firsthand HR moves where companies carefully carve out the over-50 crowd for "HR actions" while preemptively claiming no age bias by tossing in a few younger folks in the mix. I personally know *many* folks in my same age bracket that simply can't find any work in the field, despite having all relevant certifications and experience. Companies are hurting themselves by their blind HR policies that target age as a negative attribute. "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas." -- Carl Sagan
It's interesting that much of the "fake news" circulating today is, at its core, designed to balkanize national populations, increase factional friction and reduce cohesiveness of organizations such as NATO and the EU. It's time to ask who would benefit most from such a move? "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas." -- Carl Sagan
Elon's had a long history of proving naysayers like this wrong. My money's (literally) on him to pull this off. The folks truly terrified of self-driving cars are the National Auto Dealers Association (NADA) who stand to lose the most when you can order a car online and have it deliver itself.
You're the (former) CEO. It's your fault, period. You failed to manage effectively, period. Blame is irrelevant, you have been fired. Man up.
Until Oracle kills this platform too? Their track record is pretty impressive.
Having spent some time in the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain) I can say it's humid as a duck fart and about a hundred times hotter. The only similarity it has to mars is the dunes and large expanses of nothing. The Atacama desert is a better simulation.
The hollowing out of IBM is proceeding as described in Bob Cringely's book "The Rise and Fall of IBM. IBM is sacrificing everything for the sake of "shareholder value" including customer satisfaction, retention and long-term growth. The folks in the C-suite are counting their cash and packing their (platinum) parachutes..
Ikea assembly should be an official Olympic Sport like the curling or synchronized swimming. It requires patience, manual dexterity and determination. Talar svenska är frivilligt.
My observations agree with yours. Sample size: 5 Father present at birth: 5 Sex distribution: 4 girls, 1 boy Observations: 1 and 3 of 5, both girls, showed remarkable attention at birth. So much so that the attending doctor commented on both occasions. Both adults now adult with very strong, creative personalities. 2 and 4 of 5 (also girls) showed "normal" attention at birth, turning out to be interesting but not exceptional adults. 5 of 5 (boy) showed little interest in surroundings at birth, was slow to speak (age 2) and somewhat awkward as a toddler. As a teen measured IQ 166, national merit scholar and engineering student. Introvert. Conclusions: Humans arrive at birth largely pre-wired for the personality they will have. Behavior at birth is a gross indicator of that personality. To say personality (and some level of consciousness) is not pre-imprinted in the womb is to ignore ample evidence to the contrary.
Back in the day when I was doing UI code, I strove to make interfaces "idiot-obvious without being expert-obnoxious" and figured that if you needed a manual (or man pages) I'd done a poor job of things. These days, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of the commercial efforts at UI design as, frequently as not, some ad pops up obscuring some item I'm trying to read and usually can't be made to go away without the click-through dance. Want to make UIs run smoother and look better? Take the freaking ads out. And get off my lawn!
When IBM out-maneuvers you on one of your core technologies, you've lost the fox. Hey Larry, what part of Sun have you not pissed away?
Seems to be a consensus that a delayed El Nino does this: https://www.accuweather.com/en...
Disney may take their content and go home but Netflix will persist. Maybe if they listened to customers more and invested in script development they'd have a chance. Besides, Disney's pretty much out of old stories to steal.
..was an optimist. He failed to forsee the Internet and the power it gives to governments.
I had the original Palm Treo, the Pre and Pre plus. Horrible phones. So much so, that when I worked for HP (before they dumped Palm) I missed a crucial incoming call because my phone just couldn't be made to answer. Out of sheer frustration and disgust I threw it from a moving car at 80 MPH. It skidded a little bit then flew apart in a fuzzy ball of broken bits. To this day, I fondly remember that image from my rear-view mirror. If apple picks up some of the bits of WebOS, I hope the call answer logic isn't one of them.
Absolutely matches my experience as well. Lazy HR = poor (or no) hiring decisions.
In many companies HR has given up finding good people, instead seeking out unicorn candidates with 100% matches to shopping lists of certifications and experience. It's easier (on HR) and when a candidate doesn't work out they just point back to the requirements and blame the person who wrote them.