When...Google Fiber show[s] up to offer alternatives with not only faster speeds but no data caps, Comcast and AT&T will have to start actually competing in the free market or be put out to pasture.
We are long since past the point where AT&T can do anything to keep my business if/when Google fiber comes to my area. It won't matter what AT&T would offer. I will absolutely dump AT&T for Google. It wouldn't matter if AT&T offered 100GB/s for $1/month with no caps. It wouldn't matter if AT&T offered to pay me a billion dollars a second for staying with them. I would still pay Google whatever they wanted.
All I need is for Google to show up with the service.
I don't understand the delays. Just sell it HIGH right out of the gate.
I can't believe we have to have this particular discussion...again. Hopefully studios have learned the lessons of history, so they won't be doomed to repeat them.
Studios tried selling movies that high ($80-$100) in the beginning. Few movies were purchased, but many were copied from rentals. This was a predictable result of price gouging.
When studios lowered the prices to something reasonable ($15-$25), VCR (and later, DVD) movie sales skyrocketed and illegal copying was greatly reduced. Illegal copying then ticked back up after people got fed up with the stupid shit studios put in there to delay showing the movie people paid for (ads, previews for things nobody gave two shits about,etc).
High prices lead to reduced sales, and a large lag time between theatrical release and home release leads to reduced sales. This was obvious to everyone except, apparently, the studios.
The optimum sales revenue will likely be generated by releasing the DVD (few people give a shit about Blu-Ray) either simultaneously with the theatrical release, or sometimes shortly afterwards (a few weeks, maybe).
Because the idea of a programming language evolving from a stable, thoroughly tested base specification is old....
One of the many reasons I stay with Java is stability. Every single piece of Java code I have written since 1998 (when I first started writing Java code) still runs unmodified.
Changing API's is the main reason I stopped programming with Qt. I don't want to have to rewrite all my software every few years. I just don't have the time for it.
Perhaps because it says so right there in the story? Hell, it even says so right in the summary. Turkey wants to control its data, and the NSA/GCHQ have shown that they must surrender their data. Connect the dots. It's obvious.
How the hell does this guy still have credibility after his 100% wrong calls, for years, on SCO's claim on Linux?
As soon as I saw the name, "Florian Mueller," I stopped reading. Given his track record, I can only assume that the entire article is worthless prattle; infected by Muelleritis (nonsensical, factually incorrect, crap sprouting from the shit mound of wishful thinking).
If the people at the AP are so clueless as to not know that, no wonder the news is so bad.
I have to wonder how many other stupid decisions are in the AP style guide. There was always a reason I couldn't put my finger on that I despised that guide when I was in college. This decision helps illuminate my "irrational" dislike for it.
This is a direct response to NSA/GCHQ spying. The rest of the world, even those that oppose us, used to at least trust that their data were their own. This is the fallout of the U.S. and U.K. dipping their fingers into everyone's pies.
Good job, spooks. You made the world a worse place than it would have been without you.
I collect some stats and notice that a disproportionate amount of traffic over that pipe is, say, Netflix, but not all.
Then you deserve to go out of business, because you are absolutely incompetent at managing your bandwidth distribution.
But let's pretend that you're actually talking about something reasonable: you notice that your tubes are full, but you don't want to take money from your CEO's yacht fleet. You, an as ISP are well within the constraints of net neutrality to evenly restrict the flow of traffic over your pipes, but without discriminating against anyone who isn't paying your extortion money.
One minute you blame government, the next you say we should listen to "public health officials." I think you contradict yourself.
Not if you realize that the government officials who make the laws are not the public health officials warning about health issues. They are two totally separate groups of people. The former need to be hanged, and the latter need to be rewarded.
I now have coded several applications in VB for people who had no idea Excel for example, could be run fully fledged business applications beyond simply adding up numbers.
I don't even know where to start on this one. All I can say is that you have no business being around any significant business if this is what you truly believe. Excel and Access are fine for very, very small business cases. But they both explode into insanity rather quickly beyond that.
Yep lets teach kids to enjoy coding before we suck the joy out of their lives with "inheritance encapsulation and polymorphism"
At what point does a person who doesn't like, or even have an aptitude for, programming suddenly reverse course and start becoming proficient in it and start liking it? You are doing a student a grave disservice by presenting programming as a simplistic endeavor at the beginning, and then hitting them with the reality of it later. That makes you out to be untrustworthy to the prospective student, and is a waste of everyone's time.
People who do not find the underlying principles interesting on their own merit are poorly suited for a career in programming. They may eventually slog through it, but they will be miserable.
Not everyone can be programmer. I find programming to be so intuitive that it boggles my mind how difficult it is for most people. But the reality is that relatively few people are good at it.
"[One last try] at educating people on this topic...."
You seem to be under the impression that your posting is any any way, shape, or form relevant to the discussion. It isn't.
1) ISP's advertise unlimited data at X rate for Y dollars.
2) Customers make use of X rate for Y dollars, and ISP's punish customers. This should be illegal, and is definitely bad business. But there is nowhere for customers to go, as ISP's have local monopolies or cartels.
3) Taxpayers have funded ISP's infrastructure expansion for decades so ISP's could handle customers making use of X rate for Y dollars, where X should have gone up and Y should have gone down over the years. But instead of expanding their infrastructure, ISP's steal taxpayers' money for use on mergers, acquisitions, and executive pay. This is illegal, but our politicians are too corrupt to enforce the laws.
Unless you have some particularly specific niche software or hardware (that can't run in Win7, therefore, not in Win10, since the drivers are mostly the same)....
Windows 10 auto-installed on a customer's newish Windows 7 computer, hosing the entire installation. I installed Kubuntu 15.10, and now he's a happy camper. He said his computer works better now than it did before.
See, in this house everyone assumes the lock on the front door works.
Finally, some common sense in this thread. All he did was jiggle some "locked" doors, and inform the residents of the doors that didn't lock. It's a community service, as long as he doesn't take anything.
interestingly the country google is from completely disagrees with googles stance as they regularly make laws and rulings around data beyond its borders
Google is not the U.S. Government, and your statement is an irrelevant strawman. Google is correct (logically, morally, and practically) that a country's laws cannot extend beyond its territories.
With the software industry already plagued by a shortage of skilled workers....
Bull fucking shit. There is no shortage of highly skilled programmers. There is a shortage of highly skilled programmers willing to work for the peanuts being offered by employers.
Let's assume for a moment that you are correct. I'm not saying that you're right, but I'll accept it for the sake of argument. Neither I nor any of my customers that use Calc have experienced any major problems with it. Quite the opposite, in fact. Excel's amortization function, for example, rounds incorrectly in many cases; whereas Calc's corresponding amortization function rounds correctly.
I have learned over time to not trust Excel's math.
...most cube critters already have years of experience abusing Excel.
This is a non-sequitur that Microsoft likes to throw into arguments it is losing, and is the last refuge of the desperate. This is a particularly shallow argument, as new versions of Office have required extensive retraining due to major user interface changes.
I don't know if the Donald is being genuine or just opportunistic, but his messages about loss of American jobs, unfair trade agreements, and corporate behavior is why so many people will put up with his other flaws.
Wow. Just. Wow.
It is absolutely idiotic to think that Trump is going to fight for American workers.
Absolutely.
Idiotic.
Trump is a businessman, and business almost always look for the cheapest means to accomplish a goal. Trump and Clinton will both try to accelerate H1B replacements for American workers.
Anyone who votes for either Clinton or Trump is a raging moron, and is wasting a vote for actual beneficial change.
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If Blackberry had any hope of snatching viability from imminent collapse, this just killed it.
Goodbye, Blackberry.
And good riddance.
When...Google Fiber show[s] up to offer alternatives with not only faster speeds but no data caps, Comcast and AT&T will have to start actually competing in the free market or be put out to pasture.
We are long since past the point where AT&T can do anything to keep my business if/when Google fiber comes to my area. It won't matter what AT&T would offer. I will absolutely dump AT&T for Google. It wouldn't matter if AT&T offered 100GB/s for $1/month with no caps. It wouldn't matter if AT&T offered to pay me a billion dollars a second for staying with them. I would still pay Google whatever they wanted.
All I need is for Google to show up with the service.
I don't understand the delays. Just sell it HIGH right out of the gate.
I can't believe we have to have this particular discussion...again. Hopefully studios have learned the lessons of history, so they won't be doomed to repeat them.
Studios tried selling movies that high ($80-$100) in the beginning. Few movies were purchased, but many were copied from rentals. This was a predictable result of price gouging.
When studios lowered the prices to something reasonable ($15-$25), VCR (and later, DVD) movie sales skyrocketed and illegal copying was greatly reduced. Illegal copying then ticked back up after people got fed up with the stupid shit studios put in there to delay showing the movie people paid for (ads, previews for things nobody gave two shits about,etc).
High prices lead to reduced sales, and a large lag time between theatrical release and home release leads to reduced sales. This was obvious to everyone except, apparently, the studios.
The optimum sales revenue will likely be generated by releasing the DVD (few people give a shit about Blu-Ray) either simultaneously with the theatrical release, or sometimes shortly afterwards (a few weeks, maybe).
Because the idea of a programming language evolving from a stable, thoroughly tested base specification is old....
One of the many reasons I stay with Java is stability. Every single piece of Java code I have written since 1998 (when I first started writing Java code) still runs unmodified.
Changing API's is the main reason I stopped programming with Qt. I don't want to have to rewrite all my software every few years. I just don't have the time for it.
...Android increases marketshare despite a shrinking average selling price.
Despite? I think she meant to say, "Android increases marketshare, due in part to a shrinking average selling price."
How the hell do you know....
Perhaps because it says so right there in the story? Hell, it even says so right in the summary. Turkey wants to control its data, and the NSA/GCHQ have shown that they must surrender their data. Connect the dots. It's obvious.
How the hell does this guy still have credibility after his 100% wrong calls, for years, on SCO's claim on Linux?
As soon as I saw the name, "Florian Mueller," I stopped reading. Given his track record, I can only assume that the entire article is worthless prattle; infected by Muelleritis (nonsensical, factually incorrect, crap sprouting from the shit mound of wishful thinking).
If the people at the AP are so clueless as to not know that, no wonder the news is so bad.
I have to wonder how many other stupid decisions are in the AP style guide. There was always a reason I couldn't put my finger on that I despised that guide when I was in college. This decision helps illuminate my "irrational" dislike for it.
This is a direct response to NSA/GCHQ spying. The rest of the world, even those that oppose us, used to at least trust that their data were their own. This is the fallout of the U.S. and U.K. dipping their fingers into everyone's pies.
Good job, spooks. You made the world a worse place than it would have been without you.
I collect some stats and notice that a disproportionate amount of traffic over that pipe is, say, Netflix, but not all.
Then you deserve to go out of business, because you are absolutely incompetent at managing your bandwidth distribution.
But let's pretend that you're actually talking about something reasonable: you notice that your tubes are full, but you don't want to take money from your CEO's yacht fleet. You, an as ISP are well within the constraints of net neutrality to evenly restrict the flow of traffic over your pipes, but without discriminating against anyone who isn't paying your extortion money.
One minute you blame government, the next you say we should listen to "public health officials." I think you contradict yourself.
Not if you realize that the government officials who make the laws are not the public health officials warning about health issues. They are two totally separate groups of people. The former need to be hanged, and the latter need to be rewarded.
I now have coded several applications in VB for people who had no idea Excel for example, could be run fully fledged business applications beyond simply adding up numbers.
I don't even know where to start on this one. All I can say is that you have no business being around any significant business if this is what you truly believe. Excel and Access are fine for very, very small business cases. But they both explode into insanity rather quickly beyond that.
Yep lets teach kids to enjoy coding before we suck the joy out of their lives with "inheritance encapsulation and polymorphism"
At what point does a person who doesn't like, or even have an aptitude for, programming suddenly reverse course and start becoming proficient in it and start liking it? You are doing a student a grave disservice by presenting programming as a simplistic endeavor at the beginning, and then hitting them with the reality of it later. That makes you out to be untrustworthy to the prospective student, and is a waste of everyone's time.
People who do not find the underlying principles interesting on their own merit are poorly suited for a career in programming. They may eventually slog through it, but they will be miserable.
Not everyone can be programmer. I find programming to be so intuitive that it boggles my mind how difficult it is for most people. But the reality is that relatively few people are good at it.
"[One last try] at educating people on this topic...."
You seem to be under the impression that your posting is any any way, shape, or form relevant to the discussion. It isn't.
1) ISP's advertise unlimited data at X rate for Y dollars.
2) Customers make use of X rate for Y dollars, and ISP's punish customers. This should be illegal, and is definitely bad business. But there is nowhere for customers to go, as ISP's have local monopolies or cartels.
3) Taxpayers have funded ISP's infrastructure expansion for decades so ISP's could handle customers making use of X rate for Y dollars, where X should have gone up and Y should have gone down over the years. But instead of expanding their infrastructure, ISP's steal taxpayers' money for use on mergers, acquisitions, and executive pay. This is illegal, but our politicians are too corrupt to enforce the laws.
I hope that brings you up to speed.
Unless you have some particularly specific niche software or hardware (that can't run in Win7, therefore, not in Win10, since the drivers are mostly the same)....
Windows 10 auto-installed on a customer's newish Windows 7 computer, hosing the entire installation. I installed Kubuntu 15.10, and now he's a happy camper. He said his computer works better now than it did before.
Windows 10 is a gift to the Linux world.
Maybe this will be the year of Windows on mobile.
This is more like Phrenology than anything else. It's absurd and pointless.
...by the time I learn it it'll be obsolete & replaced by something with a retarded name like Cunt%% or something.
Jim Jeffries, is that you?
See, in this house everyone assumes the lock on the front door works.
Finally, some common sense in this thread. All he did was jiggle some "locked" doors, and inform the residents of the doors that didn't lock. It's a community service, as long as he doesn't take anything.
If the jury rules for Oracle, that means Microsoft will owe billions to the estate of Gary Kildall.
And IBM will be able to sue Oracle and Microsoft for billions, for Oracle's use of the SQL API .
interestingly the country google is from completely disagrees with googles stance as they regularly make laws and rulings around data beyond its borders
Google is not the U.S. Government, and your statement is an irrelevant strawman. Google is correct (logically, morally, and practically) that a country's laws cannot extend beyond its territories.
With the software industry already plagued by a shortage of skilled workers....
Bull fucking shit. There is no shortage of highly skilled programmers. There is a shortage of highly skilled programmers willing to work for the peanuts being offered by employers.
When my customers tell me they don't want Windows 10, I download and install this to fix the problem. They universally thank me.
...Calc doesn't come close to Excel....
Let's assume for a moment that you are correct. I'm not saying that you're right, but I'll accept it for the sake of argument. Neither I nor any of my customers that use Calc have experienced any major problems with it. Quite the opposite, in fact. Excel's amortization function, for example, rounds incorrectly in many cases; whereas Calc's corresponding amortization function rounds correctly.
I have learned over time to not trust Excel's math.
...most cube critters already have years of experience abusing Excel.
This is a non-sequitur that Microsoft likes to throw into arguments it is losing, and is the last refuge of the desperate. This is a particularly shallow argument, as new versions of Office have required extensive retraining due to major user interface changes.
I don't know if the Donald is being genuine or just opportunistic, but his messages about loss of American jobs, unfair trade agreements, and corporate behavior is why so many people will put up with his other flaws.
Wow. Just. Wow.
It is absolutely idiotic to think that Trump is going to fight for American workers.
Absolutely.
Idiotic.
Trump is a businessman, and business almost always look for the cheapest means to accomplish a goal. Trump and Clinton will both try to accelerate H1B replacements for American workers.
Anyone who votes for either Clinton or Trump is a raging moron, and is wasting a vote for actual beneficial change.