The summary alludes to this, but Facebook has done a much better job integrating into society than MySpace ever did at it's peak. At best, MySpace was a good place to go see about a new band. Facebook has built alliances (either officially, or just by use) with almost every major brand, and every company in the western world. This kind of branding will be held on to by corporations big and small, as they know it's a good way to reach users.
What we could see happen is that users abandon the service to connect to real people, and only use it to connect to brands, because the brands are demanding it. Over time (several more years) the brands will likely deprioritize their presence on the network, because people don't engage with them the way they used to. Go watch a commercial break on TV right now, I bet that one of the ads uses facebook.com/brandname as their website address. How insane is that? Snickers uses facebook.com/snickers instead of Snickers.com! Why would you do this? Facebook limits the opportunities that brands have to engage, and yet brands have played right into it, because the network is so powerful.
I do believe Facebook will live on as a way to authenticate and connect with other websites. It's a useful way to verify someone's real name, their social connections, and that they are a "good actor." See: many dating websites.
Sometimes being two minutes late for work means missing the train, meaning you're 30 minutes for work, meaning you get seen as a not-hard worker, meaning you get fired and have all the time in the world to brush your teeth! Problem solved!
iPad and iPhone ads are actually pretty good about showing you in succinct ways what you can do with the product.
They were solely focused on use cases, until these series of ads came out. Our signature. I find these ads ridiculously pretentious. Apple has earned that right to be pretentious, but I do wish they went back to their old style of showing the product doing something cool.
Perhaps the decade long dearth of any good television is nearing its end!
In chronological order, an abbreviated list:
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
The Shield (2002)
The Wire (2002)
Arrested Development (2003)
Deadwood (2004)
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Lost (2006)
30 Rock (2006)
Friday Night Lights (2006)
Dexter (2006)
Big Love (2006)
Mad Men (2007)
Breaking Bad (2008)
Parks and Recreation (2009)
Party Down (2009)
Community (2009)
Louie (2010)
Downton Abbey (2010)
Homeland (2011)
Yeah, it's been a pretty crappy decade. (Any show listed before 2003 had a significant number of episodes in 2003 and beyond.) There are a lot of people out there that feel that this is the newgoldenage of television.
New Jersey has been running out of money for at least a decade and at least as long as Corzine (the guy before Christie) proved he couldn't manage a budget. If this is a way to raise revenue, why not?
Nevermind. Spoiler: at the end he says he spent THIRTY MINUTES with the OS. Give me a break. He brags about learning Linux when Slackware was the most user friendly OS. You think he learned that in 30 minutes? You really need to be able to sit down for a few hours to give an OS a fair shake, potentially much longer. Is this ideal for Mom and Pop, who get their new machine? Absolutely not, and some tweaks are necessary to make this OS a bit easier for those making the transition. But there is no way this guy should be taken seriously until he spends a couple of days with the OS and learns the ins and outs.
He brings up a lot of good points. To be fair, there are a lot of UI changes in the new OS, and many are not "Conveyed" well (to use his language). However, I feel like he really didn't give the OS a chance. He openly admits he didn't figure out how to do certain things. He says he doesn't know how to close apps in the Metro UI. He says he couldn't figure out how to easily open up Control Panel. Um, hit start, start typing "control panel" and it pops right up.
Come on. It's different, but it's not impossible to use, not by a long stretch.
And I hit 85/35 on my FiOS every time I've ever tested it. This is an average. You've got basically the best LTE connection in the country "regularly" and you're comparing it against an average.
I am guessing he was using BBM, and set a broadcast message or a status message. Alternatively, he might have had a Swim Team group, which could have been next to his adult friend's name, and he could have hit the wrong group. The summary obscures this "all of his contacts" might have better read "all of his BBM contacts" but I don't expect the mainstream press to get into technical details like this.
My advice for you is to look at how your bosses dress and emulate it. Yes, he might be a male, but it'll give you an idea of what he/she expects. Is she in a suit every day? Is it because she's always visiting clients? Does she expect you to visit clients? What about days when she's not visiting clients? If your boss is male, just do the female equivalent. If he's in a suit and tie, you should probably wear blouses and pants (not jeans) or a skirt/conservative dress. If he's in jeans and a polo, you can be in jeans. If he's in a t-shirt and cargo shorts, you can wear whatever the hell you want.
Sure, you might be overdressed some days, but more likely than not, you'll always feel appropriate.
Overseas subscription isn't an option because the BBC does not have the legal right to broadcast outside of the UK. In fact, NBC/Comcast would probably petition the US Federal Government (via the FCC), internet service providers, and the IOC to shut down the BBC's online broadcast if they didn't put the IP restrictions in place, or worse, offered it for sale to US residents.
I don't think any of these actually add to the broadband rates in NJ, as the study is measuring mostly consumer rates. That said, there is a large amount of IT investment in New Jersey.
So you looked at the most dense parts of California and compared them to the entire state of NJ (less National Parks)? That's not really a good comparison. Consider:
Hudson County (next to New York City): 13,495 people per square mile
Essex County (Newark): 6,211 people per square mile
Union County (Elizabeth): 5,216 people per square mile
Bergen County (NYC Suburbs): 3,884 people per square mile
Passaic (NYC Suburbs): 2,715 people per square mile
Middlesex County (Edison): 2,612 people per square mile
Camden County (next to Philly): 2,309 people per square mile
This list encompassed 4.6M people in NJ, or just over half of the state. Your list includes less than half of Californians. It's hard to figure out how anyone could make the claim that California is more dense than New Jersey, if they were slicing the data in anything resembling a fair comparison. I guess the one claim you could make would be: "San Francisco is more dense than Hudson County."
Other comparisons:
10% of Californians live in a population density of 4,556, (combine SF and Orange Counties). For NJ, 16% live in 8,226 (Hudson and Essex)
To get down to that density for NJ, you'll cover 38% of the state. At 38% of California, you're at 2,785 density.
To get down to that density for NJ, you'll cover 68% of the state (the top 10 counties). At 68% of California, you're at 1,402 density.
1,402 density covers 95% of NJ, which is all but the 4 least dense counties.
By the way, those 4 least dense counties have a population density greater than all but 17 of California's counties. Basically, the least dense part of NJ is still denser than a big chunk (22%) of California.
If I look at it by land size, combining SF and Orange Counties, I get 837 sq miles at a density of 4,556. This compares about equally to NJ which has a density of 4,851 for its top 692 sq miles. (It's tough to compare directly to the 837 - adding one more county goes to 1000+ sq miles.) In summary, if you took Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, and Passaic counties and put them on top of San Francisco and LA, you'd have roughly the same population density and roughly the same land covered.
AT&T is not based here, but they used to be, before SBC bought and renamed themselves. That company is now based in Dallas. There are still a lot of AT&Ters around the state in large facilities. This doesn't really matter though, considering AT&T probably provides local access to less than 1% of the NJ population.
Verizon is based here. Their actual headquarters is located in New York City, but all of the executives sit in Basking Ridge, NJ. This is important, because almost all of the Verizon employees at a director level and above are now in New Jersey. Different from AT&T, they are the local telco in almost every town.
Comcast is based in Philly. Lots of Comcast employees live in New Jersey. Comcast is a major cable franchise in NJ (as it is in most places).
The state of NJ, a few years ago, granted Verizon a state wide video franchise. This is a big deal. It means that Verizon can offer FiOS everywhere in the state without negotiating with the 566 different municipalities in the state. (566 municipalities for 8.8 Million people - NJ is a a good example of local government gone awry. Compare to 351 for 6.6M in MA, or 482 for 37M in California)
As the result of the above, FiOS is available in most towns, offering 20-50Mbps internet. Comcast Xfinity offers their highest tier service wherever there is FiOS, so nearly everyone in the state can get fast internet if they're willing to pay $30-$60/month. Notice to governments: reducing the amount of regulation (state wide franchise) can create more competition which can yield better results for citizens.
I didn't catch that. WPI is indeed a great alternative to RPI. In fact, I applied to both and would have been happy at either. I still think RPI has a higher profile than WPI, especially nationally.
If you're going to NJ, maybe Stevens deserves a look? Not sure how their aerospace program stacks up.
FiOS is straight VoIP for the telephone access, but you are correct about the broadcast channels over optical. I would fully expect FiOS to transition to IPTV once they want to provide 1 Gbps access, so they'll push all those channels off onto IP. It wouldn't be unbelievable to see them transition the 70% of channels that are very infrequently watched to IPTV first. This way, they could contain the control on the ESPNs and HBOs of the world, but free up bandwidth from the Current TV, Wealth TV, and other similarly lightly watched networks. They would need a new STB that would do converged IP and Broadcast signals.
UVerse is true IPTV, however, with no broadcast over their FTTN infrastructure.
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Running a contest, information on products, where to buy - grant the premise, man!
The summary alludes to this, but Facebook has done a much better job integrating into society than MySpace ever did at it's peak. At best, MySpace was a good place to go see about a new band. Facebook has built alliances (either officially, or just by use) with almost every major brand, and every company in the western world. This kind of branding will be held on to by corporations big and small, as they know it's a good way to reach users.
What we could see happen is that users abandon the service to connect to real people, and only use it to connect to brands, because the brands are demanding it. Over time (several more years) the brands will likely deprioritize their presence on the network, because people don't engage with them the way they used to. Go watch a commercial break on TV right now, I bet that one of the ads uses facebook.com/brandname as their website address. How insane is that? Snickers uses facebook.com/snickers instead of Snickers.com! Why would you do this? Facebook limits the opportunities that brands have to engage, and yet brands have played right into it, because the network is so powerful.
I do believe Facebook will live on as a way to authenticate and connect with other websites. It's a useful way to verify someone's real name, their social connections, and that they are a "good actor." See: many dating websites.
Sometimes being two minutes late for work means missing the train, meaning you're 30 minutes for work, meaning you get seen as a not-hard worker, meaning you get fired and have all the time in the world to brush your teeth! Problem solved!
On second view, these are actually Windows 8 ads, showing an Asus tablet ... whoops.
iPad and iPhone ads are actually pretty good about showing you in succinct ways what you can do with the product.
They were solely focused on use cases, until these series of ads came out. Our signature. I find these ads ridiculously pretentious. Apple has earned that right to be pretentious, but I do wish they went back to their old style of showing the product doing something cool.
These ads seem to be everywhere for me. Isn't this what you're advocating for? Less talking.
I think the ads are quite effective, but I still don't know anyone who has a Surface.
You lost your credibility in the second line:
Perhaps the decade long dearth of any good television is nearing its end!
In chronological order, an abbreviated list:
Yeah, it's been a pretty crappy decade. (Any show listed before 2003 had a significant number of episodes in 2003 and beyond.) There are a lot of people out there that feel that this is the new golden age of television.
New Jersey has been running out of money for at least a decade and at least as long as Corzine (the guy before Christie) proved he couldn't manage a budget. If this is a way to raise revenue, why not?
Nevermind. Spoiler: at the end he says he spent THIRTY MINUTES with the OS. Give me a break. He brags about learning Linux when Slackware was the most user friendly OS. You think he learned that in 30 minutes? You really need to be able to sit down for a few hours to give an OS a fair shake, potentially much longer. Is this ideal for Mom and Pop, who get their new machine? Absolutely not, and some tweaks are necessary to make this OS a bit easier for those making the transition. But there is no way this guy should be taken seriously until he spends a couple of days with the OS and learns the ins and outs.
He brings up a lot of good points. To be fair, there are a lot of UI changes in the new OS, and many are not "Conveyed" well (to use his language). However, I feel like he really didn't give the OS a chance. He openly admits he didn't figure out how to do certain things. He says he doesn't know how to close apps in the Metro UI. He says he couldn't figure out how to easily open up Control Panel. Um, hit start, start typing "control panel" and it pops right up.
Come on. It's different, but it's not impossible to use, not by a long stretch.
And I hit 85/35 on my FiOS every time I've ever tested it. This is an average. You've got basically the best LTE connection in the country "regularly" and you're comparing it against an average.
I am guessing he was using BBM, and set a broadcast message or a status message. Alternatively, he might have had a Swim Team group, which could have been next to his adult friend's name, and he could have hit the wrong group. The summary obscures this "all of his contacts" might have better read "all of his BBM contacts" but I don't expect the mainstream press to get into technical details like this.
Protect your 6 digit id!
My advice for you is to look at how your bosses dress and emulate it. Yes, he might be a male, but it'll give you an idea of what he/she expects. Is she in a suit every day? Is it because she's always visiting clients? Does she expect you to visit clients? What about days when she's not visiting clients? If your boss is male, just do the female equivalent. If he's in a suit and tie, you should probably wear blouses and pants (not jeans) or a skirt/conservative dress. If he's in jeans and a polo, you can be in jeans. If he's in a t-shirt and cargo shorts, you can wear whatever the hell you want.
Sure, you might be overdressed some days, but more likely than not, you'll always feel appropriate.
Overseas subscription isn't an option because the BBC does not have the legal right to broadcast outside of the UK. In fact, NBC/Comcast would probably petition the US Federal Government (via the FCC), internet service providers, and the IOC to shut down the BBC's online broadcast if they didn't put the IP restrictions in place, or worse, offered it for sale to US residents.
I love this thinking. There was a thread about this some time back that I found most enjoyable, despite my shoddy math.
A dumptruck full of harddrives.
Jersey City has a large number of banks and investment houses that got displaced by 9/11. It is about 1 mile from WTC Ground Zero.
Secaucus has a large number of data centers, although not necessarily more than New York City.
NASDAQ has it's high frequency trading facility in Carteret NJ.
I don't think any of these actually add to the broadband rates in NJ, as the study is measuring mostly consumer rates. That said, there is a large amount of IT investment in New Jersey.
So you looked at the most dense parts of California and compared them to the entire state of NJ (less National Parks)? That's not really a good comparison. Consider:
Hudson County (next to New York City): 13,495 people per square mile
Essex County (Newark): 6,211 people per square mile
Union County (Elizabeth): 5,216 people per square mile
Bergen County (NYC Suburbs): 3,884 people per square mile
Passaic (NYC Suburbs): 2,715 people per square mile
Middlesex County (Edison): 2,612 people per square mile
Camden County (next to Philly): 2,309 people per square mile
This list encompassed 4.6M people in NJ, or just over half of the state. Your list includes less than half of Californians. It's hard to figure out how anyone could make the claim that California is more dense than New Jersey, if they were slicing the data in anything resembling a fair comparison. I guess the one claim you could make would be: "San Francisco is more dense than Hudson County."
Other comparisons:
10% of Californians live in a population density of 4,556, (combine SF and Orange Counties). For NJ, 16% live in 8,226 (Hudson and Essex)
To get down to that density for NJ, you'll cover 38% of the state. At 38% of California, you're at 2,785 density.
To get down to that density for NJ, you'll cover 68% of the state (the top 10 counties). At 68% of California, you're at 1,402 density.
1,402 density covers 95% of NJ, which is all but the 4 least dense counties.
By the way, those 4 least dense counties have a population density greater than all but 17 of California's counties. Basically, the least dense part of NJ is still denser than a big chunk (22%) of California.
If I look at it by land size, combining SF and Orange Counties, I get 837 sq miles at a density of 4,556. This compares about equally to NJ which has a density of 4,851 for its top 692 sq miles. (It's tough to compare directly to the 837 - adding one more county goes to 1000+ sq miles.) In summary, if you took Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, and Passaic counties and put them on top of San Francisco and LA, you'd have roughly the same population density and roughly the same land covered.
A couple things to consider, as someone who works in the industry, and lives in New Jersey.
NJ has the highest population density (1189/sq mile). It is surrounded by two major cities (New York and Philadelphia).
AT&T is not based here, but they used to be, before SBC bought and renamed themselves. That company is now based in Dallas. There are still a lot of AT&Ters around the state in large facilities. This doesn't really matter though, considering AT&T probably provides local access to less than 1% of the NJ population.
Verizon is based here. Their actual headquarters is located in New York City, but all of the executives sit in Basking Ridge, NJ. This is important, because almost all of the Verizon employees at a director level and above are now in New Jersey. Different from AT&T, they are the local telco in almost every town.
Comcast is based in Philly. Lots of Comcast employees live in New Jersey. Comcast is a major cable franchise in NJ (as it is in most places).
The state of NJ, a few years ago, granted Verizon a state wide video franchise. This is a big deal. It means that Verizon can offer FiOS everywhere in the state without negotiating with the 566 different municipalities in the state. (566 municipalities for 8.8 Million people - NJ is a a good example of local government gone awry. Compare to 351 for 6.6M in MA, or 482 for 37M in California)
As the result of the above, FiOS is available in most towns, offering 20-50Mbps internet. Comcast Xfinity offers their highest tier service wherever there is FiOS, so nearly everyone in the state can get fast internet if they're willing to pay $30-$60/month. Notice to governments: reducing the amount of regulation (state wide franchise) can create more competition which can yield better results for citizens.
I didn't catch that. WPI is indeed a great alternative to RPI. In fact, I applied to both and would have been happy at either. I still think RPI has a higher profile than WPI, especially nationally. If you're going to NJ, maybe Stevens deserves a look? Not sure how their aerospace program stacks up.
WPI is great, but I can't recommend it ahead of RPI. At best they're the same, and the post already seems to prefer RPI due to proximity to home.
Cornell Engineering isn't part of the land grant part of Cornell, so you'll have to reconsider matching that with your public education schools.
Cornell. It's a no brainier if you can get in and want to stay in Upstate NY.
FiOS is straight VoIP for the telephone access, but you are correct about the broadcast channels over optical. I would fully expect FiOS to transition to IPTV once they want to provide 1 Gbps access, so they'll push all those channels off onto IP. It wouldn't be unbelievable to see them transition the 70% of channels that are very infrequently watched to IPTV first. This way, they could contain the control on the ESPNs and HBOs of the world, but free up bandwidth from the Current TV, Wealth TV, and other similarly lightly watched networks. They would need a new STB that would do converged IP and Broadcast signals.
UVerse is true IPTV, however, with no broadcast over their FTTN infrastructure.
Thanks for the tip - now the real question - do you actually use that setting ever or am I a crazy person?