My fellow sys admins at work are playing Fallout 4. Valve had the game free to play and for $20 (regular price is $60) during Memorial Day weekend. I spent enough time playing to get out of the fallout shelter. I couldn't see myself playing the game on a regular basis when I have a day job and a side job.
It effectively becomes a restaurant, which have notoriously thin margins.
My neighborhood theater has closed for the summer to renovate the space to have theaters on one side and a full-service restaurant with alcohol on the other side. Hence, it'll be a dine-in theater.
[...] gaming is becoming mainstream, with 2.6 billion gamers in 2017 versus 100 million in 1995.
I thought that took place back in 2000 when video game companies (~2B gamers) were converging with the movie studios (~2B movie goers) to become multimedia empires. I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders) when "Enter The Matrix" came into testing. Security for that game was nuts. A half-dozen testers got fired when discs went missing. The game failed to deliver and flopped. The dot com bust put an end to building multimedia empires.
"Those union electricians told us we could run all these servers without upgrading the circuit breakers. It's not an IT problem, it's a union problem!"
Manufacturing by itself doesn't boost the economy by much. Putting 10,000 people to work building stuff does boost an economy. As now you have 10-20,000 people who go out to eat, buy stuff( clothes the cars etc). Who wouldn't be able to before.
When John Deere opened a new factory, they received 10,000 applications for 800 positions. New factories don't need that many people to operate them.
The only reason the chinese are "leading" is because they have the legal authority to completely scrub their media of anything that is counter to the CCP's official narrative on "reality" in china.
What does the media have to do with projecting power throughout the world? Every time the US goes into an isolationist streak, other countries fill the void on the international stage. The Chinese are tightening their hold Asia and the South Pacific. The Russians are influencing the Europeans in general and France in particular. The Saudis and Iranians are still squabbling over the Middle East.
If governments actually cared, they would invest in Solar panels for residents to get off the grid.
The utilities would complain about not making money on supplying electricity at night, request massive fee hikes to compensate, and render solar power more expensive to support an industry that doesn't want to change.
I registered "cdreimer" as a Slashdot user name this morning. I haven't checked my side business email yet. I suspect it was a TOS violation and not a DMCA violation.
When I was learning to program after the dot com bust, we had a class assignment to pair up and work together. But the code had to be written individually. A pair of students submitted identical code except one used the x variable and the other used the y variable. That got a good laugh out of the class when the instructor mentioned. The students got a slap on the wrist for not submitting their own work.
If your side job numbers are so good, why haven't you retired yet?
I'm not planning to retire for another 30 years. One job to pay the bills and one job to buy cash flow assets for the long term provides a comfortable living.
I don't give two squirts of lukewarm piss about you, creimer.
Except you keep replying to my comments, as if you have no self-control whatsoever. A friend of mine read all the comments that I got over the weekend. He told me, "These people need to get a life."
Like writing grammatically-poor, typo-filled ebooks with weak plot, non-existent characterization, and no redeeming literary value, then putting them on Amazon in the hopes that someone will be dumb enough to buy them so you can make 30 cents?
Amazon ebook sales are dead in the water because I refused to be locked into "the world's largest marketplace" via KDP Select. A majority of my ebook sales are through Smashwords ($0.54 per copy).
This is what we're supposed to see as an example to be emulated?
Revenues from ebook sales and ads are but two of the 30 revenue streams that I have. I get paid whether or not I do any work on the side business.
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My fellow sys admins at work are playing Fallout 4. Valve had the game free to play and for $20 (regular price is $60) during Memorial Day weekend. I spent enough time playing to get out of the fallout shelter. I couldn't see myself playing the game on a regular basis when I have a day job and a side job.
It effectively becomes a restaurant, which have notoriously thin margins.
My neighborhood theater has closed for the summer to renovate the space to have theaters on one side and a full-service restaurant with alcohol on the other side. Hence, it'll be a dine-in theater.
[...] gaming is becoming mainstream, with 2.6 billion gamers in 2017 versus 100 million in 1995.
I thought that took place back in 2000 when video game companies (~2B gamers) were converging with the movie studios (~2B movie goers) to become multimedia empires. I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders) when "Enter The Matrix" came into testing. Security for that game was nuts. A half-dozen testers got fired when discs went missing. The game failed to deliver and flopped. The dot com bust put an end to building multimedia empires.
"Those union electricians told us we could run all these servers without upgrading the circuit breakers. It's not an IT problem, it's a union problem!"
Manufacturing by itself doesn't boost the economy by much. Putting 10,000 people to work building stuff does boost an economy. As now you have 10-20,000 people who go out to eat, buy stuff( clothes the cars etc). Who wouldn't be able to before.
When John Deere opened a new factory, they received 10,000 applications for 800 positions. New factories don't need that many people to operate them.
Trump doesn't breath the air of the unwashed masses when he has cans of Perri-Air to breath from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U
The only reason the chinese are "leading" is because they have the legal authority to completely scrub their media of anything that is counter to the CCP's official narrative on "reality" in china.
What does the media have to do with projecting power throughout the world? Every time the US goes into an isolationist streak, other countries fill the void on the international stage. The Chinese are tightening their hold Asia and the South Pacific. The Russians are influencing the Europeans in general and France in particular. The Saudis and Iranians are still squabbling over the Middle East.
If governments actually cared, they would invest in Solar panels for residents to get off the grid.
The utilities would complain about not making money on supplying electricity at night, request massive fee hikes to compensate, and render solar power more expensive to support an industry that doesn't want to change.
I'm sure the Chinese are thrilled to be leading the rest of the world as the US withdraws into isolation.
Get the genius brain, not the abbey normal brain.
That WinXP was reliable by crashing?
Sounds like a store brand for Target.
You registered it as a copyright?
I registered "cdreimer" as a Slashdot user name this morning. I haven't checked my side business email yet. I suspect it was a TOS violation and not a DMCA violation.
You participated in a discussion on politics, didn't you?
Not as much as I would like. I got some rabid admirers who hang out on IT and political topics. I try to touch those topics with a light touch.
And he thinks that you, who filed a frivolous DMCA notice over a copyright claim for a _name_ (which doesn't apply), *have* a life?
The _name_ that I registered as my own this morning?
You would think HP would have gotten slapped down by the Supreme Court for the all tricks they pulled over the years.
It'll be the awesome recession.
If you like gold-plating... :P
When I was learning to program after the dot com bust, we had a class assignment to pair up and work together. But the code had to be written individually. A pair of students submitted identical code except one used the x variable and the other used the y variable. That got a good laugh out of the class when the instructor mentioned. The students got a slap on the wrist for not submitting their own work.
If your side job numbers are so good, why haven't you retired yet?
I'm not planning to retire for another 30 years. One job to pay the bills and one job to buy cash flow assets for the long term provides a comfortable living.
I don't give two squirts of lukewarm piss about you, creimer.
Except you keep replying to my comments, as if you have no self-control whatsoever. A friend of mine read all the comments that I got over the weekend. He told me, "These people need to get a life."
Keep telling yourself that the "ROI isn't justified," creimer. Maybe then you won't have to admit that it's beyond your reach.
I'll stick to the numbers. You stick to the fairy tales.
Or are you wrong, and arguing for your incorrect usage in a vain effort to save face and not look like a complete buffoon?
Do you think I give tinkle of what any asshat on Slashdot thinks about me?
Like writing grammatically-poor, typo-filled ebooks with weak plot, non-existent characterization, and no redeeming literary value, then putting them on Amazon in the hopes that someone will be dumb enough to buy them so you can make 30 cents?
Amazon ebook sales are dead in the water because I refused to be locked into "the world's largest marketplace" via KDP Select. A majority of my ebook sales are through Smashwords ($0.54 per copy).
This is what we're supposed to see as an example to be emulated?
Revenues from ebook sales and ads are but two of the 30 revenue streams that I have. I get paid whether or not I do any work on the side business.
Somebody who made more than 50k per year in Silicon Valley could afford them when they're still expensive.
My side job could drop $10K on a new system. I'm not convinced that the ROI is justified.
TRICKLE. The word you're looking for is TRICKLE.
Nope. Tinkle. Trickle would imply a faster pace.