Why would anyone pay 30-35/month to youtube aka The Google for those channels when Sling TV gives you all those for 20/month? And has been doing so for over a year? And threw in a ton of promotions almost constantly for cheap or free Roku streaming devices?
You're comparing the population of the San Fran MSA to the 2005 population of NYC proper. Complete apple vs orange scenario. The NYC MSA is around 19 million.
I was with you until you said private streets. Fuck private streets. The public sphere is essential for a healthy society. We need public spaces, and we've generally stopped building so much of it since the civil rights era and peeps started getting uppity. The plague of culs de sac is bad enough. Private streets unless maybe one human person owns the entire surrounding land are bullshit.
voting should be at least a weeklong window. And Electoon Day itself should be a paid national/bank holiday. It should be more sacrosanct than Christmas Day; working on Election Day should be quadruple pay, to discourage employers from opening their doors.
I think part of hulu's problem is that the transition to commercials are harsh, not in relation to transitions in the story, way too repetitive, and you're immediately frustrated (at least on desktop) when all the controls suddenly freeze/gray out during the ad. At least spottily lets you pick your battles with a prescribed number of skips per hour.
All these things seem fixable. Have seemed fixable for ages. Yet they're not fixed. Their model is to practically insult you with a very similar experience with Hulu+. It doesn't matter if there's more content if you're still put off by the UI and ad experience. I would have thought hulu'd wise up by now, but the fact that they never did tells you they're in this business for another reason. More of a denial strategy, or negotiating leverage when competitors come to universal for streaming content contracts.
Check out Dishworld's sports package. All the euro soccer - premiere, la liga, serie a, Mls, champions league, Mexican, etc., and a bunch of other channels that don't matter unless you like badminton or cricket. $9/month. Works for roku, iOS, chromecast, android devices.
They allow you to transfer lots of credits, to write essays to demonstrate life learning, and offer tons of independent study courses to top off any remaining gaps. The essays are pure gold though.
But this general domain in the realm of contemporary giant data sets is the basic science research of our times. To say that 'data scientist' roles are dead in the near future based on a ROI analysis is to suggest that all these huge data sets aren't likely to pay off for a corp in the near future. And that doesn't sound right at all.
On paper, I still sometimes read Economist and Foreign Affairs. The Economist is just a great grab as you're walking out. It's light, and so much content that's at minimum vaguely interesting that you're never at risk of running out of something to read for the day.
It's been my observation that vegans feeding their dogs a vegan diet generally do so in order to keep their household meat-free. They don't want it in their house; it's a moral component that is served by not handling or storing typical dog food (dry or wet).
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Mod up. This is primarily why I got the Nook Simple Touch. (That, plus it can be rooted, reads epub, and there are already lots of easy ways to buy from Amazon.) Dedicated single-purpose devices, so long as they are inexpensive enough, tend to have the advantage over multi-purpose devices. I have an iPad, and they're two totally different animals. I only read pdfs on the ipad.
Go play Breakout. Or Super Breakout, if you need the flashbang.
Want an audiovisual literary development with some level of interactivity? Play Planescape, Dragon Age, Bioshock, Fallout 2, KOTOR, etc.
You can hate cut-scene-heavy games and still get great narrative. My personal opinion is that cut-scene segments are a bit of a cheat to get there if you're using them for all the heavy story lifting.
Kodak died because they didn't have the right culture to adapt to changing circumstances. They invented the first digital camera by a wide margin. They knew this was going to be 'a thing'. They just didn't know what to do with it, or how to go about it. The culture that builds a camera and optics meant to last decades is not automatically the best culture to spin off digital camera with ever-increasing feature on a planned obsolescence schedule. They were perfectionists who could not get out from under their Gillette profit model.
People seem to be arguing towards their own internalized assumptions and recollections about what trade schools used to be. (And if not that, then they're arguing over what they dislike about most state and national education priorities, and making this announcement into a target for all their education-related agita.) The fact of the matter is, there are no real trade schools. When they talk about college prep, they're ultimately talking about AP courses and college writing. I've been to a number of high schools in the city, in the 80s, 90s and today, and what vestiges of 'trade school instruction' were still lying around by 1990 are at worst on the periphery. This would be an environment like any new high school, except they'll offer a dozen elective (and maybe 3 or so selective) courses pertaining to software and computer design. It's not an Apex Tech. There may be ancient metal and wood shop classes still around, but whether the've been replaced with C++ and ergonomic design, it hardly adds up to a true traditional trade school.
Al Qaeda did not attack us because we stood in the way of the formation of a caliphate. They attacked us, in the final analysis, as a PR maneuver to further their recruitment needs in the war against Saudi Arabia's government. This happened in the greater context of a Saudi-Iranian geopolitical struggle for regional domination. The United States is the one symbol that, regardless of which side you fall in this war, everyone can get behind wanting to take down a peg. It was Al Qaeda's attempt to rewrite the rules of that struggle, and put themselves in a stronger position to negotiate with the local powers and whatever form popular discontent took inside their borders.
Customer Satisfaction. Employee Satisfaction. Average Time to Resolve Incident. Average Cost per Incident. I like these, assuming they're not fudged. If you're running a more ITIL-ized shop, you will also care about the relationship between incidents and Average Time to Close Problems ('problems', in this sense, being those environmental factors that are the ultimate cause of recurring incidents).
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Why would anyone pay 30-35/month to youtube aka The Google for those channels when Sling TV gives you all those for 20/month? And has been doing so for over a year? And threw in a ton of promotions almost constantly for cheap or free Roku streaming devices?
They do, when they feed them and let them grow feral in their backyards.
But then that just means you're being overcharged for Internet.
Seems like more in the realm of a want than a need if someone continues to live rurally and doesn't have a high speed service offering available.
You're comparing the population of the San Fran MSA to the 2005 population of NYC proper. Complete apple vs orange scenario. The NYC MSA is around 19 million.
Wow, your life must be pretty disappointing for you if it's important to take potshots at a kid who got arrested for no good reason.
I was with you until you said private streets. Fuck private streets. The public sphere is essential for a healthy society. We need public spaces, and we've generally stopped building so much of it since the civil rights era and peeps started getting uppity. The plague of culs de sac is bad enough. Private streets unless maybe one human person owns the entire surrounding land are bullshit.
voting should be at least a weeklong window. And Electoon Day itself should be a paid national/bank holiday. It should be more sacrosanct than Christmas Day; working on Election Day should be quadruple pay, to discourage employers from opening their doors.
I think part of hulu's problem is that the transition to commercials are harsh, not in relation to transitions in the story, way too repetitive, and you're immediately frustrated (at least on desktop) when all the controls suddenly freeze/gray out during the ad. At least spottily lets you pick your battles with a prescribed number of skips per hour. All these things seem fixable. Have seemed fixable for ages. Yet they're not fixed. Their model is to practically insult you with a very similar experience with Hulu+. It doesn't matter if there's more content if you're still put off by the UI and ad experience. I would have thought hulu'd wise up by now, but the fact that they never did tells you they're in this business for another reason. More of a denial strategy, or negotiating leverage when competitors come to universal for streaming content contracts.
Check out Dishworld's sports package. All the euro soccer - premiere, la liga, serie a, Mls, champions league, Mexican, etc., and a bunch of other channels that don't matter unless you like badminton or cricket. $9/month. Works for roku, iOS, chromecast, android devices.
David Gerrold, is that you?
Ah, yes, the New Yorker - when i need someone to cut through the latest scientific controversies, there is no finer swordsman.
They allow you to transfer lots of credits, to write essays to demonstrate life learning, and offer tons of independent study courses to top off any remaining gaps. The essays are pure gold though.
Just think of all the fold points it must have.
But this general domain in the realm of contemporary giant data sets is the basic science research of our times. To say that 'data scientist' roles are dead in the near future based on a ROI analysis is to suggest that all these huge data sets aren't likely to pay off for a corp in the near future. And that doesn't sound right at all.
On paper, I still sometimes read Economist and Foreign Affairs. The Economist is just a great grab as you're walking out. It's light, and so much content that's at minimum vaguely interesting that you're never at risk of running out of something to read for the day.
He didn't own a coffee maker in 2005, apparently.
It's been my observation that vegans feeding their dogs a vegan diet generally do so in order to keep their household meat-free. They don't want it in their house; it's a moral component that is served by not handling or storing typical dog food (dry or wet).
Mod up. This is primarily why I got the Nook Simple Touch. (That, plus it can be rooted, reads epub, and there are already lots of easy ways to buy from Amazon.) Dedicated single-purpose devices, so long as they are inexpensive enough, tend to have the advantage over multi-purpose devices. I have an iPad, and they're two totally different animals. I only read pdfs on the ipad.
Good idea. We can start with anonymous cowards.
Go play Breakout. Or Super Breakout, if you need the flashbang. Want an audiovisual literary development with some level of interactivity? Play Planescape, Dragon Age, Bioshock, Fallout 2, KOTOR, etc. You can hate cut-scene-heavy games and still get great narrative. My personal opinion is that cut-scene segments are a bit of a cheat to get there if you're using them for all the heavy story lifting.
Kodak died because they didn't have the right culture to adapt to changing circumstances. They invented the first digital camera by a wide margin. They knew this was going to be 'a thing'. They just didn't know what to do with it, or how to go about it. The culture that builds a camera and optics meant to last decades is not automatically the best culture to spin off digital camera with ever-increasing feature on a planned obsolescence schedule. They were perfectionists who could not get out from under their Gillette profit model.
People seem to be arguing towards their own internalized assumptions and recollections about what trade schools used to be. (And if not that, then they're arguing over what they dislike about most state and national education priorities, and making this announcement into a target for all their education-related agita.) The fact of the matter is, there are no real trade schools. When they talk about college prep, they're ultimately talking about AP courses and college writing. I've been to a number of high schools in the city, in the 80s, 90s and today, and what vestiges of 'trade school instruction' were still lying around by 1990 are at worst on the periphery. This would be an environment like any new high school, except they'll offer a dozen elective (and maybe 3 or so selective) courses pertaining to software and computer design. It's not an Apex Tech. There may be ancient metal and wood shop classes still around, but whether the've been replaced with C++ and ergonomic design, it hardly adds up to a true traditional trade school.
Al Qaeda did not attack us because we stood in the way of the formation of a caliphate. They attacked us, in the final analysis, as a PR maneuver to further their recruitment needs in the war against Saudi Arabia's government. This happened in the greater context of a Saudi-Iranian geopolitical struggle for regional domination. The United States is the one symbol that, regardless of which side you fall in this war, everyone can get behind wanting to take down a peg. It was Al Qaeda's attempt to rewrite the rules of that struggle, and put themselves in a stronger position to negotiate with the local powers and whatever form popular discontent took inside their borders.
Customer Satisfaction. Employee Satisfaction. Average Time to Resolve Incident. Average Cost per Incident. I like these, assuming they're not fudged. If you're running a more ITIL-ized shop, you will also care about the relationship between incidents and Average Time to Close Problems ('problems', in this sense, being those environmental factors that are the ultimate cause of recurring incidents).