Honestly, streaming still has a lot of catching up to do.
Every Bluray I buy comes with a free digital copy. Now my hearing isn't what it used to be, so the audio that comes over a digital stream is fine, but to this day the quality of the video is noticeably better. I just bought the Black Panther Bluray and the disc is heads and shoulders above the Google Play stream. For Star Wars or Marvel movies, it's a an easy choice to pick up a disc.
I'll never understand why men think it's legal to be fired for being a man, but illegal to be fired for being a woman. It's some real cognitive dissonance.
Honestly, I think it's worth it to maintain the farming infrastructure and expertise. If something ever disrupted global supply chains, it's nice to know that we could replace the food we currently import from other countries with stuff we grow ourselves.
I see it more as a civil defense thing than anything else.
And all of these would be a sound argument if the gender gap was 55-45 or maybe even 60-40.
But at Google the gender gap in tech roles is 80-20, according to their own self-reporting. There's something more systemic going on than the subtle psychological differences between men and women.
If anything proved Balmer's screed of "Developers, Developers, Developers!" it's Windows phone.
I had two Windows 8 phones and they were both (subjectively) amazing. A great user interface with live tiles, fluid animations, very low latency response times. Live tiles were a lot of fun too. Cortana three years ago had all the features that Google Assistant is finally rolling out today. The People app is to this day the best phone based contacts app I've ever seen.
BUT! Third party development was non existent. When I would show this phone off to friends they would love it, but when they realized it didn't have Snapchat, that was a deal breaker. Windows Phone was to the iPhone what MacOS was to Windows. Superior OS, but lack of applications killed it.
It's too bad really. I have an LG G6 now and it's a nice phone, but I still miss my Nokia 928. Now I know how people must have felt when WebOS folded.
It very well may be. You just need to find a male day care worker willing to go to court, argue that he's been harmed by being prevented from changing soiled diapers and demand that changing dirty diapers be made part of his daily routine.
I may be alone in this, but I get enough value out of Twitter that I'd pay $5 a month for it.
Twitter has basically replaced RSS feeds for me. I follow my favorite journalists, some non-profits I support and the feeds of some hobby websites. Not only do you see all their new posts (just like an RSS feed) you can communicate back to whomever is posting.
Being able to interact with local journalists is great! I'm on a non-profit board and it's enabled us to get interviewed on local radio shows and gotten articles written in the local paper. When those same journalists write about other organizations in the region, we've used Twitter to reach out to those organizations and form a more traditional line of communication.
I don't know what it is about Facebook, but it's just not as good a solution as Twitter. Facebook comments to news articles are even worse than Twitter comments imho. Plus there's tons of quality stuff that gets posted that Facebook simply doesn't seem to put in my feed. At least with Twitter you end up seeing everything.
I hope Twitter finds a way forward. I think it really is a good resource, all things considered.
What do you mean they didn't hammer it home? They had the first interracial kiss on American Television. That kiss was definitely the 1960's equivalent of a sledgehammer.
I'd be real skeptical that they're being treated unfairly when they have billions upon billions of dollars in the bank. If it's that unfair how are they able to operate one of the most successful businesses in the history of the Earth?
For $9.99 I can listen to almost all the music in the world... or I can read a single eBook
Not any eBook either. Most current bestsellers are $12.99.
There are some all-you-can-eat services like Oyster or Scribd, but a lot of major publisher's don't participate. Once the major publishers throw their hats into the ring, they'd probably start to see revenue from people who are currently pirating.
Isn't developing and using tools like this kind of their job?
I mean they should never use this stuff against American citizens or without a warrant and due process, etc, etc.... But complaining we have the tools necessary to turn some warlord's cellphone into a microphone is like complaining about how the army has drones that can fly a grenade through his car window.
I mean if anything maybe these tools will be kind of useful. "Hey, before we bomb that large group of people over there, turn on their cell phone cameras and make sure it's not a sweet sixteen party.
The IRS really can't though. If you have a low income they can't garnish your wages. If your income is low enough that you can't afford rent and service debt on a student loan, then odds are you can default on the student loan and not risk garnishment.
Just make sure when you do finally land that good paying job you start paying the loans back again.
You can't get student loans discharged in a bankruptcy, but you can still default on them.
What's the point of preserving a credit score to get a nice apartment if you can't afford to move out regardless? What's the point of preserving a credit score to buy a nice car if you can only afford a used beat up car to begin with?
Garnishment isn't an issue if you have low wages either. Wages can't be garnished if you make under a certain amount of money.
Living with poor credit is a challenge, but it's not insurmountable. Tens of millions of people do it in this country every day. Young people with college educations won't be making minimum wage for the next fifty years. Eventually opportunities will come. When they do, people can start paying the loans, exit default, repair their credit and get on with their life.
I think people in a bad spot should really ask themselves, "What value does a high credit score really have right now?" If you don't have a high enough income to access credit, then a high credit score is worthless. I think there's a strong argument to be made that people can have a higher quality of life at low incomes by strategically defaulting on their student loans.
I never got mine discharged. I just defaulted on them until I had the income to pay them off.
I mean, college educated people in their twenties aren't going to be making minimum wage for the next fifty years. Eventually they will have higher incomes. When their income goes up, start paying the loans, get out of default and go on with your life.
So this may sound crazy, but I wonder why today's twenty-somethings don't just simply default on their loans.
I'm a Gen Xer. I graduated college in 2000, just in time for the dot com bubble burst and 9/11 to mess with the economy. The only job I could find was as an overnight janitor at a hotel. I made $8 an hour.
There was no way I could afford both rent and student loans, so I simply didn't pay the loans. Sure it ruined my credit, but at $8 an hour it's not like anybody would be giving me loans anyways.
3.5 years later I got a job making $14 an hour, which allowed me to start paying the loans back again. As my career has progressed I've gotten promotions and raises and whatnot. Now I'm financially secure, the loans are all paid off and my credit score hovers around 750.
Careless lending by the banks is a big reason the economy is in the mess it's in today. Why pay them money before taking care of yourself? Maybe if banks were feeling some pain we'd actually see some social programs to help young people out.
I don't know about where other people work. But for me the process is, customer requests something, I build the request, customer is satisfied with the result, boss is happy with me. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Does it really need to be more complicated than that?
This makes me wonder if "App Neutrality" will become a thing in the future the same way "Net Neutrality" is today.
Imagine a conversation like, "I really only watch anime's that are on Netflix because that site 'just works'. I don't want to have to do the extra steps that I need to do for Crunchyroll."
Although for all I know this will affect Cruchyroll too. I just picked them out of the air as an example.
I remember a time when the idea of AOL and Yahoo! being brought together into one company would have been the biggest of biggest news. Now it barely even garners a mention in the article.
I mean, imagine if Google bought Netflix, merged it with Youtube... and nobody gave a shit. It really makes you wonder what the tech landscape will look like in another twenty years.
I have a first generation Kindle and it still works great. I also have a first generation Kindle Paperwhite and it also works great.
It's hard to imagine either of the devices ever breaking down, especially the Paperwhite. I think the reason nobody buys them anymore is because of their long operating life, and the lack of a compelling reason to upgrade.
The idea that these kind of transitions have to be handled with the utmost secrecy really insults me as a professional.
Three years ago I learned through the grapevine that I was going to be laid off. It was supposed to be kept secret from me but drinking buddies in HR and Accounting tipped me off.
So how did I react? I spent the week documenting all of my responsibilities, so when they were dropped into my colleagues (and fellow professionals) laps it would not be too much of burden on them. Then on the day I was to be laid off I showed up early so I could "have the conversation" and make a discreet exit.
We need to be better gatekeepers of our profession. The idea that IT professionals are sociopaths that will destroy infrastructure unless they're coddled really damages all of us. It's on us to prove we're valuable colleagues and professionals, and not dangerous rogue agents who need to be marginalized (and then easily commoditized).
I switched to protopage.com
It took about half an hour to setup, but it works pretty good. It might be a good substitute for anybody looking for something that's like the old iGoogle.
Slashdot Mirror
It's news for nerds, you know.... stuff that matters.
Honestly, streaming still has a lot of catching up to do.
Every Bluray I buy comes with a free digital copy. Now my hearing isn't what it used to be, so the audio that comes over a digital stream is fine, but to this day the quality of the video is noticeably better. I just bought the Black Panther Bluray and the disc is heads and shoulders above the Google Play stream. For Star Wars or Marvel movies, it's a an easy choice to pick up a disc.
Spoiler Alert, haha.
I'll never understand why men think it's legal to be fired for being a man, but illegal to be fired for being a woman. It's some real cognitive dissonance.
Honestly, I think it's worth it to maintain the farming infrastructure and expertise. If something ever disrupted global supply chains, it's nice to know that we could replace the food we currently import from other countries with stuff we grow ourselves.
I see it more as a civil defense thing than anything else.
And all of these would be a sound argument if the gender gap was 55-45 or maybe even 60-40.
But at Google the gender gap in tech roles is 80-20, according to their own self-reporting. There's something more systemic going on than the subtle psychological differences between men and women.
If anything proved Balmer's screed of "Developers, Developers, Developers!" it's Windows phone.
I had two Windows 8 phones and they were both (subjectively) amazing. A great user interface with live tiles, fluid animations, very low latency response times. Live tiles were a lot of fun too. Cortana three years ago had all the features that Google Assistant is finally rolling out today. The People app is to this day the best phone based contacts app I've ever seen.
BUT! Third party development was non existent. When I would show this phone off to friends they would love it, but when they realized it didn't have Snapchat, that was a deal breaker. Windows Phone was to the iPhone what MacOS was to Windows. Superior OS, but lack of applications killed it.
It's too bad really. I have an LG G6 now and it's a nice phone, but I still miss my Nokia 928. Now I know how people must have felt when WebOS folded.
It very well may be. You just need to find a male day care worker willing to go to court, argue that he's been harmed by being prevented from changing soiled diapers and demand that changing dirty diapers be made part of his daily routine.
I may be alone in this, but I get enough value out of Twitter that I'd pay $5 a month for it.
Twitter has basically replaced RSS feeds for me. I follow my favorite journalists, some non-profits I support and the feeds of some hobby websites. Not only do you see all their new posts (just like an RSS feed) you can communicate back to whomever is posting.
Being able to interact with local journalists is great! I'm on a non-profit board and it's enabled us to get interviewed on local radio shows and gotten articles written in the local paper. When those same journalists write about other organizations in the region, we've used Twitter to reach out to those organizations and form a more traditional line of communication.
I don't know what it is about Facebook, but it's just not as good a solution as Twitter. Facebook comments to news articles are even worse than Twitter comments imho. Plus there's tons of quality stuff that gets posted that Facebook simply doesn't seem to put in my feed. At least with Twitter you end up seeing everything.
I hope Twitter finds a way forward. I think it really is a good resource, all things considered.
What do you mean they didn't hammer it home? They had the first interracial kiss on American Television. That kiss was definitely the 1960's equivalent of a sledgehammer.
This could be used against Apple though
I'd be real skeptical that they're being treated unfairly when they have billions upon billions of dollars in the bank. If it's that unfair how are they able to operate one of the most successful businesses in the history of the Earth?
Yeesh, how can you trust someone to prioritize multiple projects on the job when they don't even know to prioritize family over work?
For $9.99 I can listen to almost all the music in the world... or I can read a single eBook
Not any eBook either. Most current bestsellers are $12.99.
There are some all-you-can-eat services like Oyster or Scribd, but a lot of major publisher's don't participate. Once the major publishers throw their hats into the ring, they'd probably start to see revenue from people who are currently pirating.
Isn't developing and using tools like this kind of their job?
I mean they should never use this stuff against American citizens or without a warrant and due process, etc, etc.... But complaining we have the tools necessary to turn some warlord's cellphone into a microphone is like complaining about how the army has drones that can fly a grenade through his car window.
I mean if anything maybe these tools will be kind of useful. "Hey, before we bomb that large group of people over there, turn on their cell phone cameras and make sure it's not a sweet sixteen party.
The IRS really can't though. If you have a low income they can't garnish your wages. If your income is low enough that you can't afford rent and service debt on a student loan, then odds are you can default on the student loan and not risk garnishment.
Just make sure when you do finally land that good paying job you start paying the loans back again.
You can't get student loans discharged in a bankruptcy, but you can still default on them.
What's the point of preserving a credit score to get a nice apartment if you can't afford to move out regardless? What's the point of preserving a credit score to buy a nice car if you can only afford a used beat up car to begin with?
Garnishment isn't an issue if you have low wages either. Wages can't be garnished if you make under a certain amount of money.
Living with poor credit is a challenge, but it's not insurmountable. Tens of millions of people do it in this country every day. Young people with college educations won't be making minimum wage for the next fifty years. Eventually opportunities will come. When they do, people can start paying the loans, exit default, repair their credit and get on with their life.
I think people in a bad spot should really ask themselves, "What value does a high credit score really have right now?" If you don't have a high enough income to access credit, then a high credit score is worthless. I think there's a strong argument to be made that people can have a higher quality of life at low incomes by strategically defaulting on their student loans.
I never got mine discharged. I just defaulted on them until I had the income to pay them off.
I mean, college educated people in their twenties aren't going to be making minimum wage for the next fifty years. Eventually they will have higher incomes. When their income goes up, start paying the loans, get out of default and go on with your life.
So this may sound crazy, but I wonder why today's twenty-somethings don't just simply default on their loans.
I'm a Gen Xer. I graduated college in 2000, just in time for the dot com bubble burst and 9/11 to mess with the economy. The only job I could find was as an overnight janitor at a hotel. I made $8 an hour.
There was no way I could afford both rent and student loans, so I simply didn't pay the loans. Sure it ruined my credit, but at $8 an hour it's not like anybody would be giving me loans anyways.
3.5 years later I got a job making $14 an hour, which allowed me to start paying the loans back again. As my career has progressed I've gotten promotions and raises and whatnot. Now I'm financially secure, the loans are all paid off and my credit score hovers around 750.
Careless lending by the banks is a big reason the economy is in the mess it's in today. Why pay them money before taking care of yourself? Maybe if banks were feeling some pain we'd actually see some social programs to help young people out.
I don't know about where other people work. But for me the process is, customer requests something, I build the request, customer is satisfied with the result, boss is happy with me. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Does it really need to be more complicated than that?
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This makes me wonder if "App Neutrality" will become a thing in the future the same way "Net Neutrality" is today.
Imagine a conversation like, "I really only watch anime's that are on Netflix because that site 'just works'. I don't want to have to do the extra steps that I need to do for Crunchyroll."
Although for all I know this will affect Cruchyroll too. I just picked them out of the air as an example.
I remember a time when the idea of AOL and Yahoo! being brought together into one company would have been the biggest of biggest news. Now it barely even garners a mention in the article.
I mean, imagine if Google bought Netflix, merged it with Youtube... and nobody gave a shit. It really makes you wonder what the tech landscape will look like in another twenty years.
I have a first generation Kindle and it still works great. I also have a first generation Kindle Paperwhite and it also works great.
It's hard to imagine either of the devices ever breaking down, especially the Paperwhite. I think the reason nobody buys them anymore is because of their long operating life, and the lack of a compelling reason to upgrade.
Amazon should have made them flimsier I suppose.
Three years ago I learned through the grapevine that I was going to be laid off. It was supposed to be kept secret from me but drinking buddies in HR and Accounting tipped me off.
So how did I react? I spent the week documenting all of my responsibilities, so when they were dropped into my colleagues (and fellow professionals) laps it would not be too much of burden on them. Then on the day I was to be laid off I showed up early so I could "have the conversation" and make a discreet exit.
We need to be better gatekeepers of our profession. The idea that IT professionals are sociopaths that will destroy infrastructure unless they're coddled really damages all of us. It's on us to prove we're valuable colleagues and professionals, and not dangerous rogue agents who need to be marginalized (and then easily commoditized).
I switched to protopage.com It took about half an hour to setup, but it works pretty good. It might be a good substitute for anybody looking for something that's like the old iGoogle.