I'm looking at these seriously. No contract- $50 a month for "unlimited"* calls, text, data.
The data is slowed after some amount.
That's $50 a month savings for me. So $500 a year (taking out the cost of replacing the phone every 2 years). $5000 per 10 years. That's a couple nice vacations or a fourth of a new car.
In "the aviators", it is presented as not his assigned mission but while there he figured out a way to extend the range of the Lightnings by 300 miles which made a huge difference in the reach of the air forces.
Well, in 2000, at 40, I was able to easily get jobs even after the y2k programmer crash. I saw and heard many who were 50 reporting tremendous difficulties so I continued saving hard.
I guess the bar is moving lower. I know infosys requires your high school graduation date on the resume. Not the fact that you graduated or have a highschool degree but the date. That can only be a proxy for your age because we are at 17-19 when we graduate highschool.
In world war 2, the fighter pilots had a sign that said, "Pilots first mission is to see the bombers get home."
The new commander saw this and was appalled. He had the sign changed. "Pilots first mission is to kill enemy fighters". His adjutant openly wept when he saw the sign change because he understood it meant they would stop losing so many fighter pilots.
(from "The Aviators"-- great book on Rickenbacker, Lindberg*, and James Doolittle)
I think what the parent poster is trying to say is that 15% of soldiers shot to kill- most were too scared to fire properly and some were also morally unable to shoot to kill (at first). The kentucky woodsmen who hunted small game before the war tended to kill what they shot at.
The army improved training techniques so soldiers could shoot at humans and shoot to kill at a higher rate. They also train solders about hearts and minds, and about breaking the enemy resolve being more important than killing them. In general the army is better trained in winning and preventing wars than it used to be.
* Fun fact: In his early to mid 40's, Lindberg joined the 22 year old fighter pilots on the front to "observe" the performance of the corsair and lightnings.
He flew over 50 combat missions, he shot down one enemy pilot who was good at flying that he had run several of the younger pilots out of bullets (they had quicker reflexes but didn't have as much experience in aerial combat-- lindberg had been a fighter pilot in ww1 also).
In many cases, it's best not to have the cloud at your physical location but to have them at a site with good disaster ratings and better security than your typical company can provide.
And even then- your secure, disaster proof site can get hit (as happened in boulder colorado with 100 year floods but I hear it made it through pretty well).
Most people live on the coasts and anywhere within 100 miles of the coast is really not a good place to have a data center. Also probably not any place that ever gets 6.0 or greater earthquakes and then you don't want any F5 tornadoes and you don't want any floods that get higher than a couple feet every 500 years. You don't want a lot of sand and dust either.
You face three challenges. Terrorism (probably not a factor for most companies) Natural Disaster Loss of Power
With the ease of remoting in these days, your secure cloud server can be somewhere stable and safe in the middle of the country.
Who is a friend of mine that said to me casually, "Yea I wanted to build a team of young people that I could hang out with so I didn't hire anyone old". Old here being over 35!
In IT, age discrimination is blatant. It starts at 45. You should always keep your skillset up- but it probably won't help much because many young 28 year old managers are just flat out not going to hire an "old geezer" who is 45 unless they are the only viable candidate.
Just earlier this weak, they invented a new battery technology in japan that is believed to allow at least 3000 charge/recharge cycles with under 1% degradation-- i.e. a battery that will last longer than the car it's in.
As a battery company, tesla could be wiped out over night.
As a car maker- they have a "moat". It's a weak moat-- other car makers could come out with electric cars in the same slot. But Tesla's styling is pretty cool. It's likely to retain it's customers going forward unless newer electric cars were significantly better looking or had markedly superior battery life (aka lower cost of ownership).
I know I'm going to eat a frozen dinner so I sit it on the counter for 10 minutes before i heat it. They heat up evenly and faster.
I also nuke for a 15% longer but at 80% power.
Of course, I also gussy frozen food up too. Adding just a teeny bit of herbs, or sour cream, more vegetables or some fresh cheese can make them quite tasty.
But don't overrate us. Even without humans, most species would go extinct. Just much slower. And I mean really slowly. Humans seem equivalent to a major natural disaster like an asteroid strike.
There are many many species that fit in that exact category.
As soon as their environment changes in the slightest, they go extinct.
Perhaps they are end nodes of more adaptable species or perhaps they thrive by being perfectly adapted and crowd out those less perfectly adapted. But when things change, they die.
As of 2012, A major houston based food distribution company laid off over 400 IT people and replaced them with offshore / onshore employees of a major Indian INFOrmation SYStems firm with 110,000 employees.
The indian company used a combination of offshore (at $30 an hour), onshore ($60 an hour) and a novel "physically here in the US but legally employed in India ( at $30 an hour)..
The employees lacked the promised Sucky Ass Program skillset. Didn't matter.
The Sucky Ass Program is enormously late (as often happens).
As bad as things are- it will be a new person (maybe you) who is hired... not the 400ish people who were laid off. They get the shaft.
29.3 Mbps down and 5.7 Mbps up. at 7:45pm on a Weeknight.
I seriously stopped testing after a half dozen times because it was always good (even for Netflix when I did those tests).
It's about $30 more than I think is fair but I can't complain about the performance. Uptime is also stellar-- probably 2 hours a month of unexpected downtime? Never for more than an hour so far.
Actually, merely with the replacement of my key lightbulbs with warm LED's (the G7's at 3000k are indistinguishable from incandescent by the way) (the 3000k is the key - not the brand), my electricity usage and bills dropped enormously.
Meantime, when I replace my AC unit, it will drop more. And my TV draws a fraction of the previous TV.
My electricity usage has consistently dropped since i moved into the house 15 years ago. In some months- my bills are lower than they were when I moved in despite price increases. During the summer, they are about the same- a little higher (10%) last august. I think I found the cause for that- a repair man broke one of the ducts so I was air conditioning the attic instead of one of the rooms.
I agree internet bandwidth consumption is growing and will continue to grow. However--
1) Whenever google enters an area, the ISP's have shown a pattern of being able to rapidly upgrade service while holding or even (!!!!) lowering their prices.
2) Many other countries have had better service at lower prices for close to a decade now.
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To be fair, my $110 internet service from comcast has gone from 3mbps to 25mbps (and sometimes even higher- perhaps they are caching large files locally) as it increased from $70. But I suspect if google came around, I could get much more bandwidth for $70.
Doing it when you can SEE the other orders coming in is the difference.
If you bought it at 99.01 and sold it to the huge order at 99.03, it's legal when you do not already know about the huge order.
If you bought it at 99.01 and sold it to the huge order at 99.03, it's illegal when you already know about the huge order.
With high speed connections, they can effectively "see" the future. So they know the huge order is coming and will execute in 200 milliseconds. They buy ahead of it. They know about the order so it should be illegal- but since it's done "with a computer", it's legal for now. But it probably won't be for yo much longer.
Keep electing republicans and america will end up with so many starving and jobless people with no social safety net that the french revolution will look like a 5 year old's birthday party.
You just bought the ENTIRE cake, not leaving me a single slice to eat.
You are so happy you won economically.
How do you think this is going to turn out?
Peace flows from the barrel of a gun- not from money. Peace is based on violence and the threat of violence.
Words only have power until the wordmeister goes too far and the primitive brute has enough of it and kills the wordmeister.
Pax Americana really only worked because America was ridiculously strong compared to the rest of the world for a few decades. As military strengths equalize- we are likely to see a return to war. And we have developed so many terrible tools since the last war, that nukes are going to seem like well-behaved fluffy kittens.
At my last corporation, the team leaders supervised 15 people each. The managers managed 2-4 teams plus another five or six people each. The CEO oversaw the work of 70,000 people.
So it was humorous when my friend went to work for a 15 person company- with annual budget and sales roughly the size of one of our teams and it had a CEO, CIO, CFO, a Sales Manager, and three "teams" of 2 to 3 people each.
Small companies have title inflation.
Large companies have CEO's who can ruin a company and who may occasionally save it. The CEO's tend to work 80+ hours per week with a lot of socializing outside of those 80+ hours per week.
And then some of them (like Yahoo lady) expect everyone below them who is not being equally compensated to also work 80+ hours per week.
Our "Exempt" status has been subverted for engineers and computer people. You shouldn't be able to treat an employ as "exempt" from overtime an double time unless that person is directly supervising an actual team of people who they set salaries for and who they can hire and fire.
Anyway- unless you are going to follow up and say you are CEO for at least 5,000 employees- your title is puffery. No offense man, but realize the difference between the owner/operator of a small company who calls himself a CEO and someone who is really a CEO- probably has massive ivy league and political connections- and who may also be a big overpaid douche.
I hit the mobile phone roadblock requirement a couple years ago.
I stopped using facebook.
I recently got some email messages that friends were posting things and when I logged on it looks like the block was gone.
It was there for months. I really don't care about FB any more. Just one more time waster of time I can't afford to waste.
I also didn't like the weaselly way they would promise to keep your privacy and then change the rules to violate your privacy, get caught, and then promise to keep your privacy (rinse, wash, repeat).
I retired a couple years ago and I *can't keep up*. Every week, there are at least 10 hours of material more than I can watch just from TV alone. Then there are computer games, board games, and real life stuff like vacations.
It amazes me that they are able to keep the prices up as well as they have in some areas.
So if I have 15 entertainment options to choose from that entertain me enough and 5 of them are free- at the least- I'll do the 5 free ones first.
It is *very* rare for anything wonderful or unique or special enough that I'm willing to pay a premium for it.
"In front-running, a trader will take a position in an equity just before a brokerage takes a position that will cause the stock to move in a predictable way. The most common example of front-running is when an individual trader buys shares of a stock just before a large institutional order for the stock which will cause a rapid increase in the stock's price."
You can do that by being a human and knowing a large order is coming in or you can do that with a computer that's connected by a fast connection to the exchange. When the large order comes in- your computer places an order faster ahead of the other order. You wouldn't be placing the order unless you knew about the large order.
This is illegal. The key is knowing the large order to buy or sell is coming in and executing "in front" of it.
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Arbitrage is noticing that two different markets or orders have a different price for the same equity. You buy the lower and sell it to the higher until the two prices equalize. This is legal
Age age 53, I have many memories which I remember remembering but which I do not remember.
I can remember seeing videos of me in the boyscouts which do not make me remember the actual memory.
I remember talking about past occurences but have lost the memory of the past occurrence.
And criminal law showed us in the 90's and 00's that many "eye" witnesses don't remember the actual event either AND that you can get them to modify their original memories by asking questions in the wrong way.
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It reminds me of an old saying which I can't quite remember.
If a learned man tells you something is definately possible, they are almost certainly right. If a learned man tells you something unproven by experience is definately impossible, they are almost certainly wrong.
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I'm looking at these seriously. No contract- $50 a month for "unlimited"* calls, text, data.
The data is slowed after some amount.
That's $50 a month savings for me. So $500 a year (taking out the cost of replacing the phone every 2 years). $5000 per 10 years. That's a couple nice vacations or a fourth of a new car.
In "the aviators", it is presented as not his assigned mission but while there he figured out a way to extend the range of the Lightnings by 300 miles which made a huge difference in the reach of the air forces.
Well, in 2000, at 40, I was able to easily get jobs even after the y2k programmer crash. I saw and heard many who were 50 reporting tremendous difficulties so I continued saving hard.
I guess the bar is moving lower. I know infosys requires your high school graduation date on the resume. Not the fact that you graduated or have a highschool degree but the date. That can only be a proxy for your age because we are at 17-19 when we graduate highschool.
You are correct. My mind can jumble things and I read the book a few months ago.
He did go on the 50+ missions (over the resistance of commanding officers).
He also had a ton of flying experience including multiple near fatal crashes in air mail plains.
Thanks for the correction! Hate the way my mind mangles things sometimes.
It was a great book tho.
I expect that AI, when it comes, will be an exceptionally good illusion.
But even then there will be no way to "prove" it's intelligent.
In part because humans will move the goal posts until they can't be moved any further to protect their self image.
In world war 2, the fighter pilots had a sign that said, "Pilots first mission is to see the bombers get home."
The new commander saw this and was appalled. He had the sign changed. "Pilots first mission is to kill enemy fighters". His adjutant openly wept when he saw the sign change because he understood it meant they would stop losing so many fighter pilots.
(from "The Aviators"-- great book on Rickenbacker, Lindberg*, and James Doolittle)
I think what the parent poster is trying to say is that 15% of soldiers shot to kill- most were too scared to fire properly and some were also morally unable to shoot to kill (at first). The kentucky woodsmen who hunted small game before the war tended to kill what they shot at.
The army improved training techniques so soldiers could shoot at humans and shoot to kill at a higher rate. They also train solders about hearts and minds, and about breaking the enemy resolve being more important than killing them. In general the army is better trained in winning and preventing wars than it used to be.
* Fun fact: In his early to mid 40's, Lindberg joined the 22 year old fighter pilots on the front to "observe" the performance of the corsair and lightnings.
He flew over 50 combat missions, he shot down one enemy pilot who was good at flying that he had run several of the younger pilots out of bullets (they had quicker reflexes but didn't have as much experience in aerial combat-- lindberg had been a fighter pilot in ww1 also).
In many cases, it's best not to have the cloud at your physical location but to have them at a site with good disaster ratings and better security than your typical company can provide.
And even then- your secure, disaster proof site can get hit (as happened in boulder colorado with 100 year floods but I hear it made it through pretty well).
Most people live on the coasts and anywhere within 100 miles of the coast is really not a good place to have a data center. Also probably not any place that ever gets 6.0 or greater earthquakes and then you don't want any F5 tornadoes and you don't want any floods that get higher than a couple feet every 500 years. You don't want a lot of sand and dust either.
You face three challenges.
Terrorism (probably not a factor for most companies)
Natural Disaster
Loss of Power
With the ease of remoting in these days, your secure cloud server can be somewhere stable and safe in the middle of the country.
Who is a friend of mine that said to me casually, "Yea I wanted to build a team of young people that I could hang out with so I didn't hire anyone old". Old here being over 35!
In IT, age discrimination is blatant. It starts at 45. You should always keep your skillset up- but it probably won't help much because many young 28 year old managers are just flat out not going to hire an "old geezer" who is 45 unless they are the only viable candidate.
Just earlier this weak, they invented a new battery technology in japan that is believed to allow at least 3000 charge/recharge cycles with under 1% degradation-- i.e. a battery that will last longer than the car it's in.
As a battery company, tesla could be wiped out over night.
As a car maker- they have a "moat". It's a weak moat-- other car makers could come out with electric cars in the same slot. But Tesla's styling is pretty cool. It's likely to retain it's customers going forward unless newer electric cars were significantly better looking or had markedly superior battery life (aka lower cost of ownership).
I know I'm going to eat a frozen dinner so I sit it on the counter for 10 minutes before i heat it. They heat up evenly and faster.
I also nuke for a 15% longer but at 80% power.
Of course, I also gussy frozen food up too. Adding just a teeny bit of herbs, or sour cream, more vegetables or some fresh cheese can make them quite tasty.
absolutely.
But don't overrate us. Even without humans, most species would go extinct. Just much slower. And I mean really slowly. Humans seem equivalent to a major natural disaster like an asteroid strike.
There are many many species that fit in that exact category.
As soon as their environment changes in the slightest, they go extinct.
Perhaps they are end nodes of more adaptable species or perhaps they thrive by being perfectly adapted and crowd out those less perfectly adapted. But when things change, they die.
As of 2012, A major houston based food distribution company laid off over 400 IT people and replaced them with offshore / onshore employees of a major Indian INFOrmation SYStems firm with 110,000 employees.
The indian company used a combination of offshore (at $30 an hour), onshore ($60 an hour) and a novel "physically here in the US but legally employed in India ( at $30 an hour)..
The employees lacked the promised Sucky Ass Program skillset. Didn't matter.
The Sucky Ass Program is enormously late (as often happens).
As bad as things are- it will be a new person (maybe you) who is hired... not the 400ish people who were laid off. They get the shaft.
If you want to work nights, weekends and holidays.
Have low status and be viewed as a "cost center" by the business unless it is a software company.
Face regular "stack" ranking if it is a software company.
Hit a very hard age discrimination wall at age 45 to 50.
High likelyhood of your job being offshored or outsourced if your pay is good.
It's amazing more students don't go into the field.
I seem too- at any time from 3pm to 3am, prime time, etc.
Here.. I just tested at http://www.speedtest.net/
29.3 Mbps down and 5.7 Mbps up. at 7:45pm on a Weeknight.
I seriously stopped testing after a half dozen times because it was always good (even for Netflix when I did those tests).
It's about $30 more than I think is fair but I can't complain about the performance. Uptime is also stellar-- probably 2 hours a month of unexpected downtime? Never for more than an hour so far.
Actually, merely with the replacement of my key lightbulbs with warm LED's (the G7's at 3000k are indistinguishable from incandescent by the way) (the 3000k is the key - not the brand), my electricity usage and bills dropped enormously.
Meantime, when I replace my AC unit, it will drop more.
And my TV draws a fraction of the previous TV.
My electricity usage has consistently dropped since i moved into the house 15 years ago. In some months- my bills are lower than they were when I moved in despite price increases. During the summer, they are about the same- a little higher (10%) last august. I think I found the cause for that- a repair man broke one of the ducts so I was air conditioning the attic instead of one of the rooms.
I agree internet bandwidth consumption is growing and will continue to grow. However--
1) Whenever google enters an area, the ISP's have shown a pattern of being able to rapidly upgrade service while holding or even (!!!!) lowering their prices.
2) Many other countries have had better service at lower prices for close to a decade now.
---
To be fair, my $110 internet service from comcast has gone from 3mbps to 25mbps (and sometimes even higher- perhaps they are caching large files locally) as it increased from $70. But I suspect if google came around, I could get much more bandwidth for $70.
Doing it when you can SEE the other orders coming in is the difference.
If you bought it at 99.01 and sold it to the huge order at 99.03, it's legal when you do not already know about the huge order.
If you bought it at 99.01 and sold it to the huge order at 99.03, it's illegal when you already know about the huge order.
With high speed connections, they can effectively "see" the future. So they know the huge order is coming and will execute in 200 milliseconds. They buy ahead of it. They know about the order so it should be illegal- but since it's done "with a computer", it's legal for now. But it probably won't be for yo much longer.
Keep electing republicans and america will end up with so many starving and jobless people with no social safety net that the french revolution will look like a 5 year old's birthday party.
Let's put this in personal terms.
I have a gun.
You just bought the ENTIRE cake, not leaving me a single slice to eat.
You are so happy you won economically.
How do you think this is going to turn out?
Peace flows from the barrel of a gun- not from money.
Peace is based on violence and the threat of violence.
Words only have power until the wordmeister goes too far and the primitive brute has enough of it and kills the wordmeister.
Pax Americana really only worked because America was ridiculously strong compared to the rest of the world for a few decades. As military strengths equalize- we are likely to see a return to war. And we have developed so many terrible tools since the last war, that nukes are going to seem like well-behaved fluffy kittens.
At my last corporation, the team leaders supervised 15 people each.
The managers managed 2-4 teams plus another five or six people each.
The CEO oversaw the work of 70,000 people.
So it was humorous when my friend went to work for a 15 person company- with annual budget and sales roughly the size of one of our teams and it had a CEO, CIO, CFO, a Sales Manager, and three "teams" of 2 to 3 people each.
Small companies have title inflation.
Large companies have CEO's who can ruin a company and who may occasionally save it. The CEO's tend to work 80+ hours per week with a lot of socializing outside of those 80+ hours per week.
And then some of them (like Yahoo lady) expect everyone below them who is not being equally compensated to also work 80+ hours per week.
Our "Exempt" status has been subverted for engineers and computer people. You shouldn't be able to treat an employ as "exempt" from overtime an double time unless that person is directly supervising an actual team of people who they set salaries for and who they can hire and fire.
Anyway- unless you are going to follow up and say you are CEO for at least 5,000 employees- your title is puffery. No offense man, but realize the difference between the owner/operator of a small company who calls himself a CEO and someone who is really a CEO- probably has massive ivy league and political connections- and who may also be a big overpaid douche.
It is odd because I do have one memory from when I was 13.
I decided I would remember that moment and I paid attention to it fiercely.
And I can still remember it clearly to this day. And as far as I can tell, it's the original memory.
I hit the mobile phone roadblock requirement a couple years ago.
I stopped using facebook.
I recently got some email messages that friends were posting things and when I logged on it looks like the block was gone.
It was there for months. I really don't care about FB any more.
Just one more time waster of time I can't afford to waste.
I also didn't like the weaselly way they would promise to keep your privacy and then change the rules to violate your privacy, get caught, and then promise to keep your privacy (rinse, wash, repeat).
We have too much entertainment.
I retired a couple years ago and I *can't keep up*. Every week, there are at least 10 hours of material more than I can watch just from TV alone. Then there are computer games, board games, and real life stuff like vacations.
It amazes me that they are able to keep the prices up as well as they have in some areas.
So if I have 15 entertainment options to choose from that entertain me enough and 5 of them are free- at the least- I'll do the 5 free ones first.
It is *very* rare for anything wonderful or unique or special enough that I'm willing to pay a premium for it.
Actually they are not.
http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/...
"In front-running, a trader will take a position in an equity just before a brokerage takes a position that will cause the stock to move in a predictable way. The most common example of front-running is when an individual trader buys shares of a stock just before a large institutional order for the stock which will cause a rapid increase in the stock's price."
You can do that by being a human and knowing a large order is coming in or you can do that with a computer that's connected by a fast connection to the exchange. When the large order comes in- your computer places an order faster ahead of the other order. You wouldn't be placing the order unless you knew about the large order.
This is illegal.
The key is knowing the large order to buy or sell is coming in and executing "in front" of it.
---
Arbitrage is noticing that two different markets or orders have a different price for the same equity. You buy the lower and sell it to the higher until the two prices equalize. This is legal
Age age 53, I have many memories which I remember remembering but which I do not remember.
I can remember seeing videos of me in the boyscouts which do not make me remember the actual memory.
I remember talking about past occurences but have lost the memory of the past occurrence.
And criminal law showed us in the 90's and 00's that many "eye" witnesses don't remember the actual event either AND that you can get them to modify their original memories by asking questions in the wrong way.
---
It reminds me of an old saying which I can't quite remember.
If a learned man tells you something is definately possible, they are almost certainly right.
If a learned man tells you something unproven by experience is definately impossible, they are almost certainly wrong.