Waaaah! I want to gamble with other people's money and no risk! Maybe you should put your own damn money in some nice bonds, then. Whenever you get some more, that is, after you go bankrupt because your short positions crapped out.
Even if that guy does go bankrupt, I bet he'll get to keep most of his nice things because socialism. He's still a lot better off than a fresh college graduate with a couple hundred grand in student debt.
Back in '98 I was shelling out $200 a month for 128K ISDN. As late as 2011, I've lived in places where 1mbps DSL was my only option. Having gone to municipal symmetrical gigabit, it'll be hard to move anywhere else. That's where the USA needs to be right now. If broadband markets were actually allowed to be competitive, it could be. The forces that prevent it are largely corrupt, and the voters very much need to make this an election issue everywhere.
DMSO Tocopherol eyedrops a couple times a week? I suppose someone'll have to do a study on exactly how safe DMSO would be for eyeballs over long periods of time.
As a programmer, I'm pretty sure I know how to sweet talk an AI. Everyone will be wondering how I got the job and I'll be taking the AI out for an evening of formatting large data files and killing all humans!
Well I guess I see why those guys are so pissed off all the time. I'm guessing they have maybe ONE custom DB app on the system that's keeping them from switching that up. They could switch to LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE and be more productive. Seriously, give the force some Fischer Price "My First Laptop" laptops. They'll be all pissed off until they realize they don't have to use Notes anymore.
Did IBM ever make their money back on Lotus? How much did they spend on it? IIRC it was like $2 billion in 1995 dollars. I bet the manager who OKed it thought they were really clever, until someone pointed out that they don't actually sell software at IBM. They've probably sunk another $2 billion into trying to make anything from that company work.
I dropped them years ago for their willingness to fuck with standard network behavior. If I put an address in, I want my browser to ask my OS to resolve it. Period. I don't want to search for the thing if it's not found. I don't want someone's re-implemented name service protocol. I certainly don't want some half-assed application written by some half-assed application developer to try to re-invent how networking works, along with all the ways we already figured out that networking could be attacked for the last four decades.
Yeah. I worked at a satellite company a couple of jobs ago, and there was no one there who could tell you how the entire ground system worked as a whole. There were a bunch of very siloed departments that could tell you their little piece of it, but no one who knew the whole thing. And you might think they were getting along well enough despite that, but the fact of the matter was their software was very much preventing them from taking on new customers or business. It was effectively impossible for them to grow, while I was there.
Yeah, and you're not going to get software from people who don't understand the problem you're trying to solve and who don't know something about the business you're in. Finding a person who can put all the pieces together and actually deliver a product is still hard.
Yeah. The engineering effort of supporting DRM that has already been broken by some wiseass kid in Sweden is astronomical. Among other things, it makes automated testing of all the different ways video can be delivered incredibly difficult. This has an impact on customer satisfaction when bugs slip through the build process, on development costs of those delivery methods themselves and in the requirement to hire more manual testers in order to verify that mobile devices and set top boxes work at all before they're shipped out the door.
And that doesn't even begin to cover consumer frustration when none of their AV equipment works with any of their other AV equipment. Or when a customer has to maintain a relationship with 5 different media delivery companies in order to access all the content they've purchased.
I could make a pretty good argument that the AA's have cost the legitimate content delivery industry billions of dollars. Their rabid defense of profits has the opposite effect that the various IP laws have been set up to encourage -- stifling innovation and creativity of content producers and delivery companies. Not that anything can really be done about it until the the public is willing to have what is really a pretty boring discussion about the sad state of IP law and how it should be fixed.
Besides, don't they already have a law that says they don't need to police their own user base as long as they take down content when notified about it?
Just allow municipal broadband, New York. We did that in Colorado and now everyone's slowly getting gigabit. And weed. OBTW gigabit internet is *awesome*. Also weed.
Yeah, we thought that when the first gigabyte drive came out, too. My God, we thought, how will we ever fill that thing up with 8 bit pixellated porn? Once they start encoding other sense data into the porn, you'll probably end up being able to store less of it than you're able to store of your current porn now.
No, it's not. You just don't have enough astronomy. We invented measurements of time to know when to plant our crops and later to navigate the seas. It's entirely based on our observations of orbits and rotations. The math is all based on angles of circles and spheres. Our ancestors got really good at eyeballing the sky and figuring out where they were. It's probably in our DNA to some extent, since the ones that were bad at doing that tended not to make it home. If you want additional context, look at the Nautical Almanacs that have been in print since the 1700s. You can actually find some editions of ones from around that time in Google's free books.
TLDR: Time is that way for a reason, and you should have a healthy respect for it.
Well, you could go the brand management route via youtube. Easier to pick up endorsements and backers when you have 4 or 5 million subscribers. I've been seeing some good ones by some wingsuiters and people running cooking channels. There's a whole Asian cooking empire out there with several people with neighborhood of 5-6 million subscribers. They're frequently pitching cookbooks and kitchen equipment in their videos, along with the usual prominent product placement.
A lot of people dream of doing that for a living, often with gamer channels, but being successful at it is probably more actual work than any 9-5 job I could think of. Generally speaking, you'd be better off going into IT.
We wouldn't need 90% of the jails if we made weed legal nationwide. But that would be the end of a lot of free labor for a lot of private prison owners.
He had a boner to try out his new toy. We didn't need unconditional surrender from Japan. Everyone says ending the war would have been a choice between millions more Americans killed or nuking Japan, but we could have told Japan that they could keep all their shit and promise not to attack our interests in the South Pacific again to end the war and they probably would have gone for it. And if we didn't feel the need for the huge presence in the South Pacific, Vietnam and the Korean wars probably would have never happened either.
A large part of that is that the first round of C++ programmers were writing C in C++, and you did have all the problems that C had. Things started to get better with the advent of the boost libraries and the C++11 standard brought a lot of the ideas from those libraries over in the standard.
If you were just rewriting some moldy old C or C++ library (ffmpeg and gdal come to mind as particularly moldy,) in C++11, the library would probably be a lot easier to write because of the new stuff in C++11.
Of course, you'll get done rewriting that moldy old library and think "Wow, that was easy. I think I'll add threads!" and then you'll be right back to programming life sucking again.
There is really a lot of reliability that can be engineered into a system if you want to justify the costs. You can multi-home your internet connection so a single provider can't cut you off from the internet, you can set up redundant systems designed to fail-over to backups. You can replicate your databases. You can put processes in place so that upgrades are installed and tested on redundant servers so that problematic upgrades can be rolled back without a customer noticing. You can hire knowledgeable people to manage those systems, with clearly defined processes and escalation procedures. It'd be fairly expensive and no one actually does all, or even much of any of that, BUT YOU COULD!
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Even if that guy does go bankrupt, I bet he'll get to keep most of his nice things because socialism. He's still a lot better off than a fresh college graduate with a couple hundred grand in student debt.
Back in '98 I was shelling out $200 a month for 128K ISDN. As late as 2011, I've lived in places where 1mbps DSL was my only option. Having gone to municipal symmetrical gigabit, it'll be hard to move anywhere else. That's where the USA needs to be right now. If broadband markets were actually allowed to be competitive, it could be. The forces that prevent it are largely corrupt, and the voters very much need to make this an election issue everywhere.
DMSO Tocopherol eyedrops a couple times a week? I suppose someone'll have to do a study on exactly how safe DMSO would be for eyeballs over long periods of time.
I dunno. I suppose it might have improved in the 13 years since I last worked for IBM, but I'd be surprised.
As a programmer, I'm pretty sure I know how to sweet talk an AI. Everyone will be wondering how I got the job and I'll be taking the AI out for an evening of formatting large data files and killing all humans!
Did IBM ever make their money back on Lotus? How much did they spend on it? IIRC it was like $2 billion in 1995 dollars. I bet the manager who OKed it thought they were really clever, until someone pointed out that they don't actually sell software at IBM. They've probably sunk another $2 billion into trying to make anything from that company work.
Something something Natalie Portman's Hot Grits :-P
I dropped them years ago for their willingness to fuck with standard network behavior. If I put an address in, I want my browser to ask my OS to resolve it. Period. I don't want to search for the thing if it's not found. I don't want someone's re-implemented name service protocol. I certainly don't want some half-assed application written by some half-assed application developer to try to re-invent how networking works, along with all the ways we already figured out that networking could be attacked for the last four decades.
Yeah. I worked at a satellite company a couple of jobs ago, and there was no one there who could tell you how the entire ground system worked as a whole. There were a bunch of very siloed departments that could tell you their little piece of it, but no one who knew the whole thing. And you might think they were getting along well enough despite that, but the fact of the matter was their software was very much preventing them from taking on new customers or business. It was effectively impossible for them to grow, while I was there.
Yeah, and you're not going to get software from people who don't understand the problem you're trying to solve and who don't know something about the business you're in. Finding a person who can put all the pieces together and actually deliver a product is still hard.
And that doesn't even begin to cover consumer frustration when none of their AV equipment works with any of their other AV equipment. Or when a customer has to maintain a relationship with 5 different media delivery companies in order to access all the content they've purchased.
I could make a pretty good argument that the AA's have cost the legitimate content delivery industry billions of dollars. Their rabid defense of profits has the opposite effect that the various IP laws have been set up to encourage -- stifling innovation and creativity of content producers and delivery companies. Not that anything can really be done about it until the the public is willing to have what is really a pretty boring discussion about the sad state of IP law and how it should be fixed.
Besides, don't they already have a law that says they don't need to police their own user base as long as they take down content when notified about it?
Women value diamonds for their many industrial uses!
Cue Apple et al opening new factories in Singapore, Romania and some African nations.
Oddly not as much as you'd think. You usually end up eating half a tub of ice cream and watching my little pony reruns on netflix.
Just allow municipal broadband, New York. We did that in Colorado and now everyone's slowly getting gigabit. And weed. OBTW gigabit internet is *awesome*. Also weed.
Yeah, we thought that when the first gigabyte drive came out, too. My God, we thought, how will we ever fill that thing up with 8 bit pixellated porn? Once they start encoding other sense data into the porn, you'll probably end up being able to store less of it than you're able to store of your current porn now.
F...Forty-two?
TLDR: Time is that way for a reason, and you should have a healthy respect for it.
A lot of people dream of doing that for a living, often with gamer channels, but being successful at it is probably more actual work than any 9-5 job I could think of. Generally speaking, you'd be better off going into IT.
Come with me, and you'll be... in a world of Tesla Automation!
We wouldn't need 90% of the jails if we made weed legal nationwide. But that would be the end of a lot of free labor for a lot of private prison owners.
He had a boner to try out his new toy. We didn't need unconditional surrender from Japan. Everyone says ending the war would have been a choice between millions more Americans killed or nuking Japan, but we could have told Japan that they could keep all their shit and promise not to attack our interests in the South Pacific again to end the war and they probably would have gone for it. And if we didn't feel the need for the huge presence in the South Pacific, Vietnam and the Korean wars probably would have never happened either.
If you were just rewriting some moldy old C or C++ library (ffmpeg and gdal come to mind as particularly moldy,) in C++11, the library would probably be a lot easier to write because of the new stuff in C++11.
Of course, you'll get done rewriting that moldy old library and think "Wow, that was easy. I think I'll add threads!" and then you'll be right back to programming life sucking again.
There is really a lot of reliability that can be engineered into a system if you want to justify the costs. You can multi-home your internet connection so a single provider can't cut you off from the internet, you can set up redundant systems designed to fail-over to backups. You can replicate your databases. You can put processes in place so that upgrades are installed and tested on redundant servers so that problematic upgrades can be rolled back without a customer noticing. You can hire knowledgeable people to manage those systems, with clearly defined processes and escalation procedures. It'd be fairly expensive and no one actually does all, or even much of any of that, BUT YOU COULD!
When they contact you, tell then "$2000 a day plus expenses." They go away pretty quickly after that.