Hmm... I feel like there is some confusion about the nature of advertising here.
I was honestly thinking more about e-commerce sites than sites whose primary source of revenue is advertising. I don't see any disconnect in the logic, however. Page loads faster, consumer browses faster, server loads are lowered, consumer appreciates experience more, consumer uses web site more. Profit????
Due to your brevity, I'm not sure if you were deliberately being insightful or it was some sort of joke."
I'll admit that I was going for the chuckle by being so brief but it's a statement of truth.
The average client with a storefront is not going to tell their customers that their computer is outdated and internet connection too slow to purchase their products. It is the developer's duty to provide cost savings to the client by reducing server load and to improve page performance for the customer to aid retention and thereby increase sales. It is the developer's duty to use every available tool in the box to achieve these goals. Such is the nature of modern web development.
The only person making 28k a year at Wendy's is the owner. People have babies to feed already. Have you been into the bathroom at some of these Wendy's? Watching decapitation videos for forty hours a week might be easier on the psyche than scraping doo-doo butter off the walls twice a day.
Have the network provider filter the sites. The devices can be modified or imported from out of state, taking what little bit of fangs this legislation had in the first place. Get blasted on national news as people compare your state to China. Watch people easily circumvent your restrictions through VPN and other alternate modes of content delivery. Make sure it costs the citizens of Kansas lots of tax dollars so they can feel like they got a bang for their buck.
The main purpose of any social media site should be to drive traffic to another site or service from a commercial perspective. The media itself should be limited, anything not quickly consumed is too engaging to the user and keeps from, again, driving traffic. It's the same with conversations. If you want to have an in-depth conversation then pick a different medium. If you want to tell a quick joke or express an opinion then social media is for you.
Government services shouldn't be adding extra load to commercial networks during major catastrophes. Someone tell the government to stop being cheap. For everyone else - I can understand some situations in an emergency where internet services might be required but for the most part the average citizen should be focused on evacuating safely. Don't check Waze for updates - read road signs and listen to emergency services' directions. You should not be relying on commercial services during emergencies as a general rule...
If I'm Reading this right, about 15% of American adults smoke these days, compared to about 42% of adults in 1942. Granted, this story is about teenagers that will soon be adults, and a million more than expected is not a number to be scoffed at, but really when we start getting numbers down that low, I don't know how much more outrage is necessary. The number is never going to be zero percent, no matter what the Puritans wish.
I'm not sure how Finland handles secondary education but it would be interesting to see if any of those selected decided to enroll in furthering their education. The article does a great job of not speaking on education basically at all.
Government is one of the few sectors where outsourcing and getting replaced by visa workers is a major fear. Perhaps this also explains why government systems tend to be antiquated?
Microsoft is a software company. They could have used technology to, say, web crawl pages published in the past year and look for ranked words that may be considered offensive or lewd. Instead, they did a survey, which had a minor variance from the results they had last time they did a survey. Big story there. In other news, Microsoft asserts that people on the internet are feeling pretty good about the end of the world.
Sure, we wouldn't have the internet without the DoD, but never forget that it was originally created for the express purpose of transmitting nuclear launch codes. Besides, the internet is now being weaponized against us what with all the espionage and ability to convince our toasters to rise up against us or our cars to turn off while coasting at 60 MPH.
"Separately from his tribal Lifeline plan, Pai has proposed kicking resellers out of the Lifeline program nationwide, not just in tribal areas. This would greatly limit poor people's choices, as more than 70 percent of wireless phone users who rely on Lifeline subsidies buy their plans from resellers."
This is literally about making a utility affordable for poor people. Chill out, Cowboy. Those gosh darn injuns need telephone capability too, buddy.
I really don't think of my phone as a luxury item though. Maybe ten years ago when it was impractical to afford one outright and no one would have any pre-conceived notion that you probably have one. It was only ten years before that when owning a cellular phone of any kind was not a given. In a world where even McDonald's requires you to fill out the application online, devices like smartphones are more utility than luxury maybe not globally but at least in the US
A lot of these comments put in perspective the general mentality towards harm reduction in America. Many people are benefiting from using e-cigs to reduce the harm caused by nicotine products. People using them to manage a problem they have are being called gross and douchey. The 'Just Say No' mentality that worked so well for the D.A.R.E. generation is being applied here. Many Americans share the same sentiments when they speak on the opioid epidemic in America. Even knowing that opioids were being over-prescribed for most of the late 90's and early 2000's, there's still a huge number of Americans blaming the users, telling users to go cold turkey even knowing that could potentially prove fatal to opioid addicts, fighting methadone clinics and safe injection sites because property values, providing no reasonable alternative to handling an epidemic that is killing a record number of Americans. Harm reduction needs some real support in Congress if America is ever going to start conquering its real problems, and hopefully not in the same way that alcohol prohibition changed the cultural values that Americans held about alcohol. Just imagine, people used to drink whiskey with their breakfast in the 1800's.
I can relate. I lost my mother to COPD two months ago. I come from a family of five where everyone smokes. My brother and have switched to vaping, my sister has quit due to pregnancy, and my dad still smokes a pack a day, though I've given him an e-cig on multiple occasions. It was tough watching my mother struggle to breathe to the point where her lungs eventually just gave up on her. I'm sorry for your loss, I'm glad to hear vaping worked for you:)
Stop smoking crack and shilling for the political pundits. Everybody else is having a constructive conversation about copyright law over here. *spritzes AC with water bottle*
Considering probably 95% of my communications happen over some method other than telephone, I am dangerously close to not needing a telephone number at all. It may even approach the point where I can save myself $30 a month by not paying for telephone service on my smartphone. If Americans can save a dollar, they will. The telephone companies need to realize that they need to adapt or die.
They say the customer is always right. If a sales rep tells me that their client can't pull up a web page that they need, I'm not allowed to tell the client that they need to buy a new computer already or alternatively not do business with us any more because I coded something their browser doesn't support. For example, there are DoD contractors out there that have to follow the "Army Gold Standard", which means your code needs to run in older browsers, and good luck getting the Army to update that thing - it literally may take an act of Congress. There are many more examples of customers running older browsers on older machines that don't quite support the coolest bleeding edge features of ES6+. The reality of business sometimes conflicts with the wishes of the developer to write bleeding edge stuff. We are not allowed to tell the client that they're stupid for running outdated software and they need to stop being cheap just so they can order one copy My Widget(TM). At best, we write code that plans for the cutting edge to be fully adopted and we also write legacy support fallback stuff.
All the cool kids refer to JavaScript as ECMAscript these days. If you're lucky, they'll even write you some code that doesn't break in older browsers. Buy a MacBook Pro and some horn-rimmed glasses already, old man!
IMHO, Java should be a last choice for Android application development. Few clients really mean that they want an Android-only application where there are other SDK's that provide us ways to develop for multiple platforms at once. You might still have to get under the hood and write a little of Java once the final project is built. I'm personally interested in Xamarin, but that SDK plays to my strengths. Then there's Cordova and React Native, if your strength is in javascript languages. There are other options too, which maybe others would like to discuss. Perhaps you are right, Android has been artificially inflating those numbers a bit while other languages have been racing to join the Android space.
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Hmm... I feel like there is some confusion about the nature of advertising here.
I was honestly thinking more about e-commerce sites than sites whose primary source of revenue is advertising. I don't see any disconnect in the logic, however. Page loads faster, consumer browses faster, server loads are lowered, consumer appreciates experience more, consumer uses web site more. Profit????
Due to your brevity, I'm not sure if you were deliberately being insightful or it was some sort of joke."
I'll admit that I was going for the chuckle by being so brief but it's a statement of truth.
The average client with a storefront is not going to tell their customers that their computer is outdated and internet connection too slow to purchase their products. It is the developer's duty to provide cost savings to the client by reducing server load and to improve page performance for the customer to aid retention and thereby increase sales. It is the developer's duty to use every available tool in the box to achieve these goals. Such is the nature of modern web development.
Every effort must be made to maximize the speed at which the consumer browses when they are shopping.
The only person making 28k a year at Wendy's is the owner. People have babies to feed already. Have you been into the bathroom at some of these Wendy's? Watching decapitation videos for forty hours a week might be easier on the psyche than scraping doo-doo butter off the walls twice a day.
to a whole new frontier!
Have the network provider filter the sites. The devices can be modified or imported from out of state, taking what little bit of fangs this legislation had in the first place. Get blasted on national news as people compare your state to China. Watch people easily circumvent your restrictions through VPN and other alternate modes of content delivery. Make sure it costs the citizens of Kansas lots of tax dollars so they can feel like they got a bang for their buck.
Good research. This really tempers what was a sensational story. No news is good news. Or is no news just fake news in this case? Haha
The main purpose of any social media site should be to drive traffic to another site or service from a commercial perspective. The media itself should be limited, anything not quickly consumed is too engaging to the user and keeps from, again, driving traffic. It's the same with conversations. If you want to have an in-depth conversation then pick a different medium. If you want to tell a quick joke or express an opinion then social media is for you.
No, you don't understand.... Hard work is not how you become a member of the elite class... That's how you get shift leader at McDonald's...
Government services shouldn't be adding extra load to commercial networks during major catastrophes. Someone tell the government to stop being cheap. For everyone else - I can understand some situations in an emergency where internet services might be required but for the most part the average citizen should be focused on evacuating safely. Don't check Waze for updates - read road signs and listen to emergency services' directions. You should not be relying on commercial services during emergencies as a general rule...
Did we learn nothing from Jurassic Park???
If I'm Reading this right, about 15% of American adults smoke these days, compared to about 42% of adults in 1942. Granted, this story is about teenagers that will soon be adults, and a million more than expected is not a number to be scoffed at, but really when we start getting numbers down that low, I don't know how much more outrage is necessary. The number is never going to be zero percent, no matter what the Puritans wish.
I'm not sure how Finland handles secondary education but it would be interesting to see if any of those selected decided to enroll in furthering their education. The article does a great job of not speaking on education basically at all.
Government is one of the few sectors where outsourcing and getting replaced by visa workers is a major fear. Perhaps this also explains why government systems tend to be antiquated?
Microsoft is a software company. They could have used technology to, say, web crawl pages published in the past year and look for ranked words that may be considered offensive or lewd. Instead, they did a survey, which had a minor variance from the results they had last time they did a survey. Big story there. In other news, Microsoft asserts that people on the internet are feeling pretty good about the end of the world.
Sure, we wouldn't have the internet without the DoD, but never forget that it was originally created for the express purpose of transmitting nuclear launch codes. Besides, the internet is now being weaponized against us what with all the espionage and ability to convince our toasters to rise up against us or our cars to turn off while coasting at 60 MPH.
From the article
"Separately from his tribal Lifeline plan, Pai has proposed kicking resellers out of the Lifeline program nationwide, not just in tribal areas. This would greatly limit poor people's choices, as more than 70 percent of wireless phone users who rely on Lifeline subsidies buy their plans from resellers."
This is literally about making a utility affordable for poor people. Chill out, Cowboy. Those gosh darn injuns need telephone capability too, buddy.
I really don't think of my phone as a luxury item though. Maybe ten years ago when it was impractical to afford one outright and no one would have any pre-conceived notion that you probably have one. It was only ten years before that when owning a cellular phone of any kind was not a given. In a world where even McDonald's requires you to fill out the application online, devices like smartphones are more utility than luxury maybe not globally but at least in the US
A lot of these comments put in perspective the general mentality towards harm reduction in America. Many people are benefiting from using e-cigs to reduce the harm caused by nicotine products. People using them to manage a problem they have are being called gross and douchey. The 'Just Say No' mentality that worked so well for the D.A.R.E. generation is being applied here. Many Americans share the same sentiments when they speak on the opioid epidemic in America. Even knowing that opioids were being over-prescribed for most of the late 90's and early 2000's, there's still a huge number of Americans blaming the users, telling users to go cold turkey even knowing that could potentially prove fatal to opioid addicts, fighting methadone clinics and safe injection sites because property values, providing no reasonable alternative to handling an epidemic that is killing a record number of Americans. Harm reduction needs some real support in Congress if America is ever going to start conquering its real problems, and hopefully not in the same way that alcohol prohibition changed the cultural values that Americans held about alcohol. Just imagine, people used to drink whiskey with their breakfast in the 1800's.
I can relate. I lost my mother to COPD two months ago. I come from a family of five where everyone smokes. My brother and have switched to vaping, my sister has quit due to pregnancy, and my dad still smokes a pack a day, though I've given him an e-cig on multiple occasions. It was tough watching my mother struggle to breathe to the point where her lungs eventually just gave up on her. I'm sorry for your loss, I'm glad to hear vaping worked for you :)
Stop smoking crack and shilling for the political pundits. Everybody else is having a constructive conversation about copyright law over here. *spritzes AC with water bottle*
Considering probably 95% of my communications happen over some method other than telephone, I am dangerously close to not needing a telephone number at all. It may even approach the point where I can save myself $30 a month by not paying for telephone service on my smartphone. If Americans can save a dollar, they will. The telephone companies need to realize that they need to adapt or die.
They say the customer is always right. If a sales rep tells me that their client can't pull up a web page that they need, I'm not allowed to tell the client that they need to buy a new computer already or alternatively not do business with us any more because I coded something their browser doesn't support. For example, there are DoD contractors out there that have to follow the "Army Gold Standard", which means your code needs to run in older browsers, and good luck getting the Army to update that thing - it literally may take an act of Congress. There are many more examples of customers running older browsers on older machines that don't quite support the coolest bleeding edge features of ES6+. The reality of business sometimes conflicts with the wishes of the developer to write bleeding edge stuff. We are not allowed to tell the client that they're stupid for running outdated software and they need to stop being cheap just so they can order one copy My Widget(TM). At best, we write code that plans for the cutting edge to be fully adopted and we also write legacy support fallback stuff.
All the cool kids refer to JavaScript as ECMAscript these days. If you're lucky, they'll even write you some code that doesn't break in older browsers. Buy a MacBook Pro and some horn-rimmed glasses already, old man!
IMHO, Java should be a last choice for Android application development. Few clients really mean that they want an Android-only application where there are other SDK's that provide us ways to develop for multiple platforms at once. You might still have to get under the hood and write a little of Java once the final project is built. I'm personally interested in Xamarin, but that SDK plays to my strengths. Then there's Cordova and React Native, if your strength is in javascript languages. There are other options too, which maybe others would like to discuss. Perhaps you are right, Android has been artificially inflating those numbers a bit while other languages have been racing to join the Android space.