This wasn't designed to be a polemic on broadband and access and access speeds.
An interesting correlation to DSL is that if you have it, it's fairly likely you have speeds sufficient for low-res video watching. This wasn't always true.
Using sat or heaven-forbid, your smartphone? You have a different problem. I believe that basic Internet connectivity is a big need, but like cable tv and other luxuries, you're not gonna die without it.
It all costs money. Gradients of money. Rural folks miss out a lot on broadbands, and so dishes have become popular. Today, sat is pretty expensive. Move to the city where the economics have allowed the monopolistic service providers lots of competition and prices are reasonable, and more reasonable than Internet + tv of come kind.
Fiber everywhere would be the ideal solution. But this is an imperfect world.
You're seeing a massive money shift as people vote with their expenditures, which have to slowly ripple through the thick layers of money and lawyers in Hollywood.
I'm sad for writers that have negotiated bad contracts. A strike will not further their cause.
Money now comes from a different source, the online hegemony. The medium has changed because the delivery system changed, because the old one was leaden and corrupt.
I watched a nice NetFlix produced video tonight on my big screen, which is the place most people can afford to view one, Hollywood and the theater SYNDICATES having made the price of a night at the movies really expensive.
Between Amazon and NetFlix I have most stuff I want to watch, and I didn't have to worry about screaming children, seats, or what the goo is on the seat. I didn't worry about a cable company-- most all of them are universally loathed-- and I could opt out for the same money as opt-ing in if I didn't like the video.
So if you're a writer for TV, get out. You're sailing on a sinking ship.
When margins weren't tight, the catalog prices set the prices for local merchants, too. Worked both ways.
But local merchants can't compete with the mind-boggling purchasing power of the big online merchants. Mailorder fulfillment evolved really well, eventually using EDI over x.25, then an entire classification of electronic merchant amalgamation.
Local merchants formed buying coops.
This all said, while mail order started a long time ago, the clash of titans we're now experiencing is a race to the bottom and the fundamentals are indeed different, and these differences still amount to disqualifying them as "equivalent".
There are some similarities, no doubt. In my mind, the fulcrum between dissimilarities and similarities sides with the differences.
The mail order business didn't follow you around from store to store, taking notes and building a dossier on you.
They had real catalogs where you could search for something. Amazon, and to a lesser extent, eBay and Walmart/Costco/etc have search engines that are almost totally worthless, and might hit the broad side of a barn with a laser.
Mail order catalogs generally represented stocked merchandise with the mail order company as the primary fulfillment house, not acting as the agent for hundreds of thousands of others.
Mail order companies evolved with each new issue, and the online merchandisers are continuously updated and changed to reflect market conditions, and to harass the competition. The price can change several times in the same hour, whereas catalogs of mail order companies had one price, not mega-foolishness that gnawed at both customer patience, and the ability for competition to plan in a reasonable way.
There are many more inept comparisons, and so fie to your statement that these two industries are "equivalent".
By locally. It's where your community is. I have no Walmart, no Amazon, no Costco community. I live in a real town with real people. Costs a little more, but they're more important than someone's "shareholder return".
It takes no money at all to put the prepared docs into PDF or similar open formats and distribute them. The IEEE also gets away with this madness as well.
I DO acknowledge that it takes money to assemble and maintain docs, and that's what member and especially VENDOR members (who bought and paid for the standards to begin with) need to do if they want their standards to be openly acknowledged.
This is a publisher's racket, just like academic and college books and papers. Someone needs to let the air out of the balloon.
Restraint of trade litigation, however, costs a lot of money, too. And if you're making royalties from Netflix, biting that hand may hurt you, too.
When it comes to Hollywood, lawyers make a lot of dough. They won't want to see their money train derailed. Cord cutters, however, get to choose where they download. If they become too throttled, watch the uproar.
Oh, poor Hollywood. Got some competition. The MPAA might have to change their draconian thinking.
Hollywood hasn't had a new idea in decades. Whether it's Netflix, Amazon, whoever, I hope they eat Hollywood's lunch and burp afterwards. The sooner, the better.
Then the TV networks will have to look at their tawdry monopoly and figure out how to compete with both the cord cutters and those that aren't going to use an antenna anymore. Oh dear. Here, let me see if my heart bleeds for them. Nope.
Hollywood and the networks had a nice long run. Goodbye.
I guess the premise needs to be someone above barely competent.
We'll agree that your method works for fire control. Projects should NOT BE fire control in most cases. Sadly, many are. While I like to be the Ross Adair of systems malfunctions, I'll also take a less stressful life. At the end of fire control, there are often a pile of ashes. It's possible to lead a long and successful life, and not deal with but a small pile of ashes. Others seem to need them for daily lunch.
I like execution-time libs that give me full stats, so the database guy doesn't argue with the network guy who doesn't argue with the team that did middleware, etc etc.
DevOps, SCRUM, and other continuous development systems often eschew this, because they're running under fire control rather than improving incrementally. This said, I've seen a few SCRUM teams that were fast and surgical and rightly proud of their work.
But performance monitors often only give point to point execution times, not "network I/O took 3242ms") or "Auth timed out 3x" sorts of details.
I like logs, syslogs, and other methods of determining execution problems, too, because sometimes: it's not actually the code, it's the host, the UI, the wm, the phase of the moon. Best to know.
Maybe in your world, but when weighted down with sloggy operating systems and minimal memory (typical of many Windows 10 installations TODAY), code can get pretty slow.
For a very long time now, there have been libs that add breakpoints to examine how long processes are taking, think: debug mode, that can pinpoint problem areas pretty easily. Not enough coders use them.
It gets worse when a user has 94 Chrome tabs open, something in Office, and an AV app running.... all on a laptop whose processor speed is measured in furlongs per fortnight.
Yeah, SOME computers are way faster, and some have been habitually overloaded with things outside of a coder's control yet their app still must perform within a "reasonable" amount of time. Blah.
Let's suppose that the energy density is as fantastic (by comparison) as the authors imply. Let's suppose the ambient operating environment is as flexible as is implied. Let's suppose that these storage cells are actually both reproduceable, and at a reasonable cost.
I'm a happy person as a result, although nothing in the post implies citations of anyone having actually built one. And so, like many keen inventions, I'll patiently wait for the proof of reality. I hope we find out soon.
While some see this as a consequence of living with a privacy-be-damned era where are your details are centered on a single carried device, it's always been the choice of US Customs to search your stuff.
Doesn't matter if you made an incoming declaration or not. Assets are assets--- and people forget that digital assets are still assets.
Is searching a phone like a body cavity search? Some equate these two. For me, the good phone stays in the US, and I take a burner with me overseas. I suggest foreign visitors to the US do the same thing, if they believe their private details should be above suspicion by DHS. Change passwords frequently. Don't use things like Facebook apps while traveling. Always remove your cookies and browser privacy info.
Maybe just the opposite, the beginning of intelligence. The problems are garbage data, conflation, risk analysis with random failures, entropy, and just ignoring facts-- among so many other problems.
How far does an algorithm take bias until it's actually discriminating based on such things as gender, race, etc? We're in the very early stages of "big data" and we're doing a bad job of it. The problem is this: we'll continue doing a bad job until we have more transparency, IMHO.
Cogent research has demonstrated that there is deliberate SEO manipulation of fake news/alt-facts and it works. Other engines are manipulated as well but Google's results are perhaps the most pounded, and now fraught with trash results.
You have a rough life. You accuse mods of progressive liberal bias and then call me a liar.
Your capacity for rational conversation has left. You're entitled to your opinions, but selective citations of facts a body of knowledge does not make.
Although not a psychological professional in any jurisdiction, I'd say you have deep anger issues. Best of luck.
Have you any idea how much the google hashes have been mauled???
You cite an.au story, rather than attitudes in Germany that you initially cited.
This citation talks much more about health than schooling, or ACTUAL INTEGRATION outcomes.
Yes-- refugees and migrants absolutely come from horrific conditions. They've been bereft of resources considered basics in western culture. They're in need of help! Lots of it! The matter of politics that brought about their exit is meaningless, as the problem remains. This isn't about politics, rather, it's about humanity.
Cherry-picking pimped Google citations does not research make. Research makes research. Have a heart: these people are in desperate need and deserve the same life everyone else has, this generation and subsequent ones. I'm fine with Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, (and just about everyone except actual terrorists) and am willing to lend resources, as resources were lent to my American ancestors. Pay it forward or pay it back, I'm good with it either way.
No, you can't-- unless you look through a myriad listing.
Here's the fact: Google's search rankings have been pimped. They no longer represent the "truth" you might think they do. Google, IMHO, is NOT a reputable resource.
Google citations are known for their own bias. Instead, I rely on my colleagues in Germany who would directly and emphatically dispute what you've written. They're trying very hard-- and it's not without failures, but not the morass you imply.
Citation, please? Indeed a lot of refugees are educated professionals, and read and write not only in their native tongue, but there are likely more than one of those.
The integration into Germany is pretty well documented, and no doubt there are a few problems, but not of the magnitude you infer. Merkel does a pretty good job of attempting to enforce real integration, not just pockets of refugees, having learned that from huge Turkish immigrations of not long ago. I dispute both the numbers, and their inference.
Millions upon millions of Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians, Eastern Europeans, the varieties of the Rus, not to mention Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hmong, so many others DIDN'T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE and a generation later, their kids are largely homogenized. Their parents will stick to the old ways, just like C coders. Fine. They're good and upright citizens. We need skilled workers, and not so skilled workers. Real GDP needs actual people doing actual work at all levels. Let them come.
Nope. There are a subsection of obsessive compulsive, geriatric, and perhaps actual medical possibilities. But not on the Apple Watch. It has only so much real estate on it, and the processing power of a pigeon.
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This wasn't designed to be a polemic on broadband and access and access speeds.
An interesting correlation to DSL is that if you have it, it's fairly likely you have speeds sufficient for low-res video watching. This wasn't always true.
Using sat or heaven-forbid, your smartphone? You have a different problem. I believe that basic Internet connectivity is a big need, but like cable tv and other luxuries, you're not gonna die without it.
It all costs money. Gradients of money. Rural folks miss out a lot on broadbands, and so dishes have become popular. Today, sat is pretty expensive. Move to the city where the economics have allowed the monopolistic service providers lots of competition and prices are reasonable, and more reasonable than Internet + tv of come kind.
Fiber everywhere would be the ideal solution. But this is an imperfect world.
Nope.
There is a strong cadre of freelancers out there, and a lot of llc/llp/sub-s writers doing quite well. It's NOT this or Starbucks.
A strike is a very foolish idea. Good luck with that.
You're seeing a massive money shift as people vote with their expenditures, which have to slowly ripple through the thick layers of money and lawyers in Hollywood.
I'm sad for writers that have negotiated bad contracts. A strike will not further their cause.
Money now comes from a different source, the online hegemony. The medium has changed because the delivery system changed, because the old one was leaden and corrupt.
I watched a nice NetFlix produced video tonight on my big screen, which is the place most people can afford to view one, Hollywood and the theater SYNDICATES having made the price of a night at the movies really expensive.
Between Amazon and NetFlix I have most stuff I want to watch, and I didn't have to worry about screaming children, seats, or what the goo is on the seat. I didn't worry about a cable company-- most all of them are universally loathed-- and I could opt out for the same money as opt-ing in if I didn't like the video.
So if you're a writer for TV, get out. You're sailing on a sinking ship.
When margins weren't tight, the catalog prices set the prices for local merchants, too. Worked both ways.
But local merchants can't compete with the mind-boggling purchasing power of the big online merchants. Mailorder fulfillment evolved really well, eventually using EDI over x.25, then an entire classification of electronic merchant amalgamation.
Local merchants formed buying coops.
This all said, while mail order started a long time ago, the clash of titans we're now experiencing is a race to the bottom and the fundamentals are indeed different, and these differences still amount to disqualifying them as "equivalent".
There are some similarities, no doubt. In my mind, the fulcrum between dissimilarities and similarities sides with the differences.
No.
The mail order business didn't follow you around from store to store, taking notes and building a dossier on you.
They had real catalogs where you could search for something. Amazon, and to a lesser extent, eBay and Walmart/Costco/etc have search engines that are almost totally worthless, and might hit the broad side of a barn with a laser.
Mail order catalogs generally represented stocked merchandise with the mail order company as the primary fulfillment house, not acting as the agent for hundreds of thousands of others.
Mail order companies evolved with each new issue, and the online merchandisers are continuously updated and changed to reflect market conditions, and to harass the competition. The price can change several times in the same hour, whereas catalogs of mail order companies had one price, not mega-foolishness that gnawed at both customer patience, and the ability for competition to plan in a reasonable way.
There are many more inept comparisons, and so fie to your statement that these two industries are "equivalent".
Exactly.
By locally. It's where your community is. I have no Walmart, no Amazon, no Costco community. I live in a real town with real people. Costs a little more, but they're more important than someone's "shareholder return".
So their casual users are shut out of the "game".
It takes no money at all to put the prepared docs into PDF or similar open formats and distribute them. The IEEE also gets away with this madness as well.
I DO acknowledge that it takes money to assemble and maintain docs, and that's what member and especially VENDOR members (who bought and paid for the standards to begin with) need to do if they want their standards to be openly acknowledged.
This is a publisher's racket, just like academic and college books and papers. Someone needs to let the air out of the balloon.
There is some merit to your idea.
Restraint of trade litigation, however, costs a lot of money, too. And if you're making royalties from Netflix, biting that hand may hurt you, too.
When it comes to Hollywood, lawyers make a lot of dough. They won't want to see their money train derailed. Cord cutters, however, get to choose where they download. If they become too throttled, watch the uproar.
Oh, poor Hollywood. Got some competition. The MPAA might have to change their draconian thinking.
Hollywood hasn't had a new idea in decades. Whether it's Netflix, Amazon, whoever, I hope they eat Hollywood's lunch and burp afterwards. The sooner, the better.
Then the TV networks will have to look at their tawdry monopoly and figure out how to compete with both the cord cutters and those that aren't going to use an antenna anymore. Oh dear. Here, let me see if my heart bleeds for them. Nope.
Hollywood and the networks had a nice long run. Goodbye.
I guess the premise needs to be someone above barely competent.
We'll agree that your method works for fire control. Projects should NOT BE fire control in most cases. Sadly, many are. While I like to be the Ross Adair of systems malfunctions, I'll also take a less stressful life. At the end of fire control, there are often a pile of ashes. It's possible to lead a long and successful life, and not deal with but a small pile of ashes. Others seem to need them for daily lunch.
I like execution-time libs that give me full stats, so the database guy doesn't argue with the network guy who doesn't argue with the team that did middleware, etc etc.
DevOps, SCRUM, and other continuous development systems often eschew this, because they're running under fire control rather than improving incrementally. This said, I've seen a few SCRUM teams that were fast and surgical and rightly proud of their work.
Sure, I've heard of and have used profilers.
But performance monitors often only give point to point execution times, not "network I/O took 3242ms") or "Auth timed out 3x" sorts of details.
I like logs, syslogs, and other methods of determining execution problems, too, because sometimes: it's not actually the code, it's the host, the UI, the wm, the phase of the moon. Best to know.
Maybe in your world, but when weighted down with sloggy operating systems and minimal memory (typical of many Windows 10 installations TODAY), code can get pretty slow.
For a very long time now, there have been libs that add breakpoints to examine how long processes are taking, think: debug mode, that can pinpoint problem areas pretty easily. Not enough coders use them.
It gets worse when a user has 94 Chrome tabs open, something in Office, and an AV app running.... all on a laptop whose processor speed is measured in furlongs per fortnight.
Yeah, SOME computers are way faster, and some have been habitually overloaded with things outside of a coder's control yet their app still must perform within a "reasonable" amount of time. Blah.
Let's suppose that the energy density is as fantastic (by comparison) as the authors imply. Let's suppose the ambient operating environment is as flexible as is implied. Let's suppose that these storage cells are actually both reproduceable, and at a reasonable cost.
I'm a happy person as a result, although nothing in the post implies citations of anyone having actually built one. And so, like many keen inventions, I'll patiently wait for the proof of reality. I hope we find out soon.
We very much agree.
Safety is a concern, but assets flow as well.
In reality, it's intimidation and security theatre.
While some see this as a consequence of living with a privacy-be-damned era where are your details are centered on a single carried device, it's always been the choice of US Customs to search your stuff.
Doesn't matter if you made an incoming declaration or not. Assets are assets--- and people forget that digital assets are still assets.
Is searching a phone like a body cavity search? Some equate these two. For me, the good phone stays in the US, and I take a burner with me overseas. I suggest foreign visitors to the US do the same thing, if they believe their private details should be above suspicion by DHS. Change passwords frequently. Don't use things like Facebook apps while traveling. Always remove your cookies and browser privacy info.
Then remind your friends to vote.
Maybe just the opposite, the beginning of intelligence. The problems are garbage data, conflation, risk analysis with random failures, entropy, and just ignoring facts-- among so many other problems.
How far does an algorithm take bias until it's actually discriminating based on such things as gender, race, etc? We're in the very early stages of "big data" and we're doing a bad job of it. The problem is this: we'll continue doing a bad job until we have more transparency, IMHO.
Cogent research has demonstrated that there is deliberate SEO manipulation of fake news/alt-facts and it works. Other engines are manipulated as well but Google's results are perhaps the most pounded, and now fraught with trash results.
You have a rough life. You accuse mods of progressive liberal bias and then call me a liar.
Your capacity for rational conversation has left. You're entitled to your opinions, but selective citations of facts a body of knowledge does not make.
Although not a psychological professional in any jurisdiction, I'd say you have deep anger issues. Best of luck.
Have you any idea how much the google hashes have been mauled???
You cite an .au story, rather than attitudes in Germany that you initially cited.
This citation talks much more about health than schooling, or ACTUAL INTEGRATION outcomes.
Yes-- refugees and migrants absolutely come from horrific conditions. They've been bereft of resources considered basics in western culture. They're in need of help! Lots of it! The matter of politics that brought about their exit is meaningless, as the problem remains. This isn't about politics, rather, it's about humanity.
Cherry-picking pimped Google citations does not research make. Research makes research. Have a heart: these people are in desperate need and deserve the same life everyone else has, this generation and subsequent ones. I'm fine with Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, (and just about everyone except actual terrorists) and am willing to lend resources, as resources were lent to my American ancestors. Pay it forward or pay it back, I'm good with it either way.
No, you can't-- unless you look through a myriad listing.
Here's the fact: Google's search rankings have been pimped. They no longer represent the "truth" you might think they do. Google, IMHO, is NOT a reputable resource.
Google citations are known for their own bias. Instead, I rely on my colleagues in Germany who would directly and emphatically dispute what you've written. They're trying very hard-- and it's not without failures, but not the morass you imply.
Citation, please? Indeed a lot of refugees are educated professionals, and read and write not only in their native tongue, but there are likely more than one of those.
The integration into Germany is pretty well documented, and no doubt there are a few problems, but not of the magnitude you infer. Merkel does a pretty good job of attempting to enforce real integration, not just pockets of refugees, having learned that from huge Turkish immigrations of not long ago. I dispute both the numbers, and their inference.
Millions upon millions of Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians, Eastern Europeans, the varieties of the Rus, not to mention Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hmong, so many others DIDN'T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE and a generation later, their kids are largely homogenized. Their parents will stick to the old ways, just like C coders. Fine. They're good and upright citizens. We need skilled workers, and not so skilled workers. Real GDP needs actual people doing actual work at all levels. Let them come.
Step away from the coffee maker. Your anger management has peaked, and now spread out over the site of a bunch of babbling geeks.
By the way, have you thought seriously about joining Whitehouse.govr? You'd do really really well there.
Nope. There are a subsection of obsessive compulsive, geriatric, and perhaps actual medical possibilities. But not on the Apple Watch. It has only so much real estate on it, and the processing power of a pigeon.