Netflix, Disney, Amazon Video, Apple, CBS (Star Trek) and other legacy networks seeking relevancy.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
All of your screens are belong to us..
I'm seeing there's lots of support for diversity of sex, skin color and national origin in the Valley, just not for opinions or viewpoints. Troubling on so many levels..
His penance should be to have to remember 1000 different 16 character passwords with mixed case, numbers, punctuation and line noise that change 3 times a day.
Pretty much inevitable once Netflix got into the content biz. What remains to be seen is whether Disney will court other content houses like Sony to become something people will pay for. If it's Disney content alone, I wish them luck.
As has happened many times in American history, this will either fail or Tesla will move its factory to Texas. The UAW has a long and illustrious history of cooking geese.
I just turned down a job with a VC funded startup in the Valley because I can live better where I am compared to sharing an RV with 3 co-workers to live in the Bay Area. Great place for a career, nice place to visit but my 4 BR house I bought for 250k where I live would cost me a million there. Nope.
I recommended my son take another form of engineering (mechanical/chemical/electrical) when he was looking around over CSCI. Too easy to outsource/offshore CSCI these days and it's likely to get worse.
I wonder if the classic study of human visual/mental acuity "The Magic Number 7, plus or minus 2" were done today what the results would be. I have to think the number of items we can scan has gone up from UI training on screens but the understanding of what those items represent has likely gone down. Not strictly speaking an attention span function, but related.
It's usually the folks selling weapons of 'war' (all kinds of 'war') that benefit from conflict or, by extension, disruptions in economic models. It can be said that these kinds of conflicts are when most of the fundamental technological changes have occurred. Would we have our existing computational models without WWII? Integrated circuits without the Cold War and Space Race? Here's to hoping the merchants of change are well compensated.
Maybe the US of A could stop electing lawyers and billionaires to high office and look to engineers and scientists instead. Nah, what am I thinking - it'll never work because they typically have principles and core honesty.
Cash is anonymous. Cash is private. You have to ask why Visa's so determined to wipe it out. Bad enough my search history bombards me with spam, I don't want my purchases to do the same. Amazon already does that and it's bad enough tio make me want to dump my Prime membership.
It's inevitable that the combustion economy will eventually be replaced with renewables. Most estimates are this will happen over the next 10-25 years as renewables become more efficient, energy storage at large scale becomes more possible and attitudes about fossil fuels change. Resistance is futile..
From the BIO of the President of Environmental Progress:
"Michael is a leading pro-nuclear environmentalist. Michael was featured in "Pandora's Promise," an award-winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear. He appeared on "The Colbert Report," and has debated nuclear on CNN "Crossfire" with Ralph Nader, and at UCLA with Mark Jacobsen. His 2016 TED talk is on "How Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment."
Solar pails in environmental impact to, say, lead-acid batteries from cars. Selective science is, in many ways, worse than no science at all..
I didn't say the grid wasn't necessary, just that the current owners of the grid will obstruct distributed power generation in ways that benefit them, not the public.
Utilities, disguised as public entities, are just like any vested interest, they'll seek to maintain the status quo by economic and legal means. In TX, a very sunny state, Net Metering is only available in small geographic areas, not universally by the main electric utility grid. The reason given is "reliability of the grid" and cost of implementation of new metering models - this despite the fact many other states do it 100%. What's really in play here is fear that they (electric utilities) will slowly lose control over the flow of power and, not incidentally, money. Change is going to be hard for those addicted to controlling the flow of power - electric and monetary.
Amen. I remember a posting in 2009 that *required* "8 years experience with Solaris 10"..which was released in 2005. Companies continue to hide behind automated HR screening systems with nonsensical requirements so they can then say there were "no qualified US citizens to fill those jobs".. bring in the H-1B hires.
I'd say the folks most nervous are the captains of tech who might actually have to employ tech talent and pay the going rate instead of importing H-1B tech slaves by the thousands.
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Netflix, Disney, Amazon Video, Apple, CBS (Star Trek) and other legacy networks seeking relevancy. https://www.theverge.com/2017/... All of your screens are belong to us..
According to Meade, my EclipseView glasses meet all relevant standards. Amazon needs to calm down. Who elected them official Eclipse Safety Gods?
I'm seeing there's lots of support for diversity of sex, skin color and national origin in the Valley, just not for opinions or viewpoints. Troubling on so many levels..
His penance should be to have to remember 1000 different 16 character passwords with mixed case, numbers, punctuation and line noise that change 3 times a day.
Pretty much inevitable once Netflix got into the content biz. What remains to be seen is whether Disney will court other content houses like Sony to become something people will pay for. If it's Disney content alone, I wish them luck.
..it's dead. Tape is dead, Jim. It's a rare backup problem that can't be better solved by remote duplication.
As has happened many times in American history, this will either fail or Tesla will move its factory to Texas. The UAW has a long and illustrious history of cooking geese.
I just turned down a job with a VC funded startup in the Valley because I can live better where I am compared to sharing an RV with 3 co-workers to live in the Bay Area. Great place for a career, nice place to visit but my 4 BR house I bought for 250k where I live would cost me a million there. Nope.
I recommended my son take another form of engineering (mechanical/chemical/electrical) when he was looking around over CSCI. Too easy to outsource/offshore CSCI these days and it's likely to get worse.
I wonder if the classic study of human visual/mental acuity "The Magic Number 7, plus or minus 2" were done today what the results would be. I have to think the number of items we can scan has gone up from UI training on screens but the understanding of what those items represent has likely gone down. Not strictly speaking an attention span function, but related.
It's usually the folks selling weapons of 'war' (all kinds of 'war') that benefit from conflict or, by extension, disruptions in economic models. It can be said that these kinds of conflicts are when most of the fundamental technological changes have occurred. Would we have our existing computational models without WWII? Integrated circuits without the Cold War and Space Race? Here's to hoping the merchants of change are well compensated.
Maybe the US of A could stop electing lawyers and billionaires to high office and look to engineers and scientists instead. Nah, what am I thinking - it'll never work because they typically have principles and core honesty.
I feel that movie in every fibre of my being. Literally.
Cash is anonymous. Cash is private. You have to ask why Visa's so determined to wipe it out. Bad enough my search history bombards me with spam, I don't want my purchases to do the same. Amazon already does that and it's bad enough tio make me want to dump my Prime membership.
Reddit is where clickbait goes when it's been very, very bad. Nope and nope.
It's inevitable that the combustion economy will eventually be replaced with renewables. Most estimates are this will happen over the next 10-25 years as renewables become more efficient, energy storage at large scale becomes more possible and attitudes about fossil fuels change. Resistance is futile..
Again, change is hard. A head-in-the-sand approach won't help.
From the BIO of the President of Environmental Progress: "Michael is a leading pro-nuclear environmentalist. Michael was featured in "Pandora's Promise," an award-winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear. He appeared on "The Colbert Report," and has debated nuclear on CNN "Crossfire" with Ralph Nader, and at UCLA with Mark Jacobsen. His 2016 TED talk is on "How Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment." Solar pails in environmental impact to, say, lead-acid batteries from cars. Selective science is, in many ways, worse than no science at all..
I didn't say the grid wasn't necessary, just that the current owners of the grid will obstruct distributed power generation in ways that benefit them, not the public.
Utilities, disguised as public entities, are just like any vested interest, they'll seek to maintain the status quo by economic and legal means. In TX, a very sunny state, Net Metering is only available in small geographic areas, not universally by the main electric utility grid. The reason given is "reliability of the grid" and cost of implementation of new metering models - this despite the fact many other states do it 100%. What's really in play here is fear that they (electric utilities) will slowly lose control over the flow of power and, not incidentally, money. Change is going to be hard for those addicted to controlling the flow of power - electric and monetary.
Nope, the disaster has already occurred. ;-|
I call for appropriate and commiserate punishment. Get a rope.
Proof that if you're enough of an asshole as CEO someone will eventually notice.
Amen. I remember a posting in 2009 that *required* "8 years experience with Solaris 10" ..which was released in 2005. Companies continue to hide behind automated HR screening systems with nonsensical requirements so they can then say there were "no qualified US citizens to fill those jobs" .. bring in the H-1B hires.
I'd say the folks most nervous are the captains of tech who might actually have to employ tech talent and pay the going rate instead of importing H-1B tech slaves by the thousands.