Who is to say they aren't already prepared to launch it. Seems like the MSO's are lapping up reselling Comcast's X1 platform. It would simply mean creating an app to run on those STBs and they would have wide penetration of the US market's STBs.
Since I already subscribe to Prime, I just stick to that for video content for now. I had a DVR for a while that my cable company snuck into my home (and then began charging me for it later) and I never used it. Hopefully, Amazon begins to catch up with Netflix on number and variety of available titles.
I use the latest Roku box to consume video these days.
Unskilled labor is going to mostly disappear except for those tasks where it just isn't possible to automate. A "livable" wage for a task that can be done by a machine is a pipe dream. That's just reality. All the kicking and screaming and class warfare rhetoric isn't going to change it or delay the outcome.
So to that I say, please do go ahead and keep raising the minimum wage. That may actually accelerate the process. The displaced workers will either skill up or you'll see a reverse migration to places where the cost of living and level of automation will make it possible for unskilled workers to survive.
I'm sure Bernie Madoff used some of his ill-gotten gains of selling fairy dust to buy tangible goods for himself. That doesn't mean his business wasn't a scam.
Pirating is a drop in the bucket. I'd bet that most people would be perfectly happy to pay for Movie X if they could watch it at their leisure and not have to spend $20-30 for the privilege when all is said and done.
Sooner or later the prices will find their way to what people are willing to pay or the traditional methods of consuming them will dry up and be replaced by video on demand and streaming. I haven't gone to a theater to see a movie in years. That doesn't mean I stopped watching "immersive" content. I simply ponied up for a high end home theater system and watch content that I want WHEN I want at a price that I'm willing to pay.
I had the benefit of being able to do a home trial of Samsung's higher end 65" 4K HDR displays for my living room. Other than the curved thing, it's my understanding that the KS9000 is pretty much the same as the KS9500. I tried them both for a week, feed them both 1080p, 4k, 4k HDR and noticed no real difference in terms of quality. I didn't care for the curve, but it didn't detract from the image....and I ended up purchasing the non-curved variant.
So for me, there was no benefit of one over the other and I preferred the aesthetics of the flat screen.
Perhaps I'm just not representative of a typical user. I don't use my phone for gaming and all the apps that I use on a regular basis are free. That includes things like google maps and Wayz for navigation, the stock mail client, the stock browser, the various apps to manage my frequent flier and other travel tools, etc.
I think there are a lot of folks that fit that description so I'm frankly rather surprised that this number is even that large.
Many of the folks who have a track record of getting stuff done in their field (especially open source projects) know their value and often don't feel like they have to relocate to command what they're worth. And I think that's the way it ought to be.
It's nice when you can have teams gathered in a single place, but I certainly wouldn't "not hire" a rockstar simply because they couldn't/wouldn't relocate to some arbitrary location that the company wanted. Hire the best talent you can afford and don't stress about where they live.
My company pays for it. For work-related stuff, I use it. For everything else, I use libreoffice. I don't bother with Java installation though, so I lose some functionality/wizards/etc, but I'm fine with that.
You could have incontrovertible evidence of the identity of the thief or the current possessor of the laptop, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll be able to find a police department that's sufficiently interested to bother helping unless it's part of a larger crime. I'm not saying the police are bad people, but I am saying that most departments appear to be under-resourced to follow-up on petty crime.
One can only hope that they'll eventually get over the butt hurt affront to their SJW psyche and move on with their lives. It was funny for a couple of days, but now it's just tiresome.
When I used to go to China, I often found that access to sites I need to use to do my work were blocked in whole or in part. Without setting up a vpn, I can't do my work. And even then, it was always a cat and mouse game as the connections were randomly terminated.
So now I just avoid going there at all if I can help it.
With the exception of the video card and a relatively cheap 512GB SSD, I also haven't seen the need to buy a new PC until it outright fails. It's still humming along on the i7-2600K processor and 16GB of RAM that it came with 5 years ago. While I'm sure there are workloads that can benefit from the latest and greatest, for most people there just isn't any compelling reason to upgrade. We're starting to see the same phenomenon in the cell phone ecosystem as well.
True. They are pretty much indentured servants. If they move to another company, the new company has to be willing to go through all the legal BS to continue their H1-B and potentially their green card paperwork. So there is a lot of incentive to not bounce around.
The whole H1-B program is mostly a sham. Go to any Fortune X company and do a skill assessment of their foreign contractors. The number that turn out to be "exceptional talents" with hard to find degrees or special training/experience is actually rather small. The consulting companies barely go through the motions to hide that so the expectation of getting caught seems to be pretty low.
If you had a car with no battery, I would agree with you. If you had enough battery to store sufficient juice for your typical drive then the solar roof could simply be charging that battery during the day when you are not driving. Seems like that would be plenty, especially for someone who uses the car infrequently (so long as it is parked in a sunny spot).
These types of lists are always biased in a "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" kind of way. I've been using linux for 20 years now and don't really agree with most of their choices. These lists might get someone new started with Linux, but people eventually gravitate towards what works for them once they get their sea legs.
They have a history of sluggish or non-existent responses to vulnerabilities going back for many years. About 10 years ago they also had that high profile incident where they were randomly abusing NTP servers belonging to other organizations and they shrugged it off for a long time until there was a big public stink. I don't know why anyone buys that crap or trusts them with any of their data.
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Who is to say they aren't already prepared to launch it. Seems like the MSO's are lapping up reselling Comcast's X1 platform. It would simply mean creating an app to run on those STBs and they would have wide penetration of the US market's STBs.
Since I already subscribe to Prime, I just stick to that for video content for now. I had a DVR for a while that my cable company snuck into my home (and then began charging me for it later) and I never used it. Hopefully, Amazon begins to catch up with Netflix on number and variety of available titles.
I use the latest Roku box to consume video these days.
Unskilled labor is going to mostly disappear except for those tasks where it just isn't possible to automate. A "livable" wage for a task that can be done by a machine is a pipe dream. That's just reality. All the kicking and screaming and class warfare rhetoric isn't going to change it or delay the outcome.
So to that I say, please do go ahead and keep raising the minimum wage. That may actually accelerate the process. The displaced workers will either skill up or you'll see a reverse migration to places where the cost of living and level of automation will make it possible for unskilled workers to survive.
I'm sure Bernie Madoff used some of his ill-gotten gains of selling fairy dust to buy tangible goods for himself. That doesn't mean his business wasn't a scam.
There are people out there that will pay real money for a virtual shield in a video game, a garden gnome for their virtual garden, etc.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Bitcoin has zero value unless you're the electricity utility company. I find the entire virtual currency ecosystem to be laughable.
Pirating is a drop in the bucket. I'd bet that most people would be perfectly happy to pay for Movie X if they could watch it at their leisure and not have to spend $20-30 for the privilege when all is said and done.
Sooner or later the prices will find their way to what people are willing to pay or the traditional methods of consuming them will dry up and be replaced by video on demand and streaming. I haven't gone to a theater to see a movie in years. That doesn't mean I stopped watching "immersive" content. I simply ponied up for a high end home theater system and watch content that I want WHEN I want at a price that I'm willing to pay.
I had the benefit of being able to do a home trial of Samsung's higher end 65" 4K HDR displays for my living room. Other than the curved thing, it's my understanding that the KS9000 is pretty much the same as the KS9500. I tried them both for a week, feed them both 1080p, 4k, 4k HDR and noticed no real difference in terms of quality. I didn't care for the curve, but it didn't detract from the image....and I ended up purchasing the non-curved variant.
So for me, there was no benefit of one over the other and I preferred the aesthetics of the flat screen.
Best,
Perhaps I'm just not representative of a typical user. I don't use my phone for gaming and all the apps that I use on a regular basis are free. That includes things like google maps and Wayz for navigation, the stock mail client, the stock browser, the various apps to manage my frequent flier and other travel tools, etc.
I think there are a lot of folks that fit that description so I'm frankly rather surprised that this number is even that large.
Many of the folks who have a track record of getting stuff done in their field (especially open source projects) know their value and often don't feel like they have to relocate to command what they're worth. And I think that's the way it ought to be.
It's nice when you can have teams gathered in a single place, but I certainly wouldn't "not hire" a rockstar simply because they couldn't/wouldn't relocate to some arbitrary location that the company wanted. Hire the best talent you can afford and don't stress about where they live.
Harry Mudd will sort things out.
P.T. Barnum never gets old.....the sale of "virtual real estate" and "virtual items" within a "virtual world."
"There's a sucker born every minute."
My company pays for it. For work-related stuff, I use it. For everything else, I use libreoffice. I don't bother with Java installation though, so I lose some functionality/wizards/etc, but I'm fine with that.
You could have incontrovertible evidence of the identity of the thief or the current possessor of the laptop, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll be able to find a police department that's sufficiently interested to bother helping unless it's part of a larger crime. I'm not saying the police are bad people, but I am saying that most departments appear to be under-resourced to follow-up on petty crime.
The Chinese are overachievers yet again. 18% of the global population, but 21% of the corruption. Bravo! :)
One can only hope that they'll eventually get over the butt hurt affront to their SJW psyche and move on with their lives. It was funny for a couple of days, but now it's just tiresome.
When I used to go to China, I often found that access to sites I need to use to do my work were blocked in whole or in part. Without setting up a vpn, I can't do my work. And even then, it was always a cat and mouse game as the connections were randomly terminated.
So now I just avoid going there at all if I can help it.
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With the exception of the video card and a relatively cheap 512GB SSD, I also haven't seen the need to buy a new PC until it outright fails. It's still humming along on the i7-2600K processor and 16GB of RAM that it came with 5 years ago. While I'm sure there are workloads that can benefit from the latest and greatest, for most people there just isn't any compelling reason to upgrade. We're starting to see the same phenomenon in the cell phone ecosystem as well.
That's perfectly fine. If you can be more competitive by physically running your company offshore then you should do that.
True. They are pretty much indentured servants. If they move to another company, the new company has to be willing to go through all the legal BS to continue their H1-B and potentially their green card paperwork. So there is a lot of incentive to not bounce around.
The whole H1-B program is mostly a sham. Go to any Fortune X company and do a skill assessment of their foreign contractors. The number that turn out to be "exceptional talents" with hard to find degrees or special training/experience is actually rather small. The consulting companies barely go through the motions to hide that so the expectation of getting caught seems to be pretty low.
If you had a car with no battery, I would agree with you. If you had enough battery to store sufficient juice for your typical drive then the solar roof could simply be charging that battery during the day when you are not driving. Seems like that would be plenty, especially for someone who uses the car infrequently (so long as it is parked in a sunny spot).
It will affect those who haven't "cultivated their political connections" adequately. Follow the money.
More likely in a black or dark blue Audi A4/A6 with government/army plates and a hooker or er nai (mistress) inside.
These types of lists are always biased in a "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" kind of way. I've been using linux for 20 years now and don't really agree with most of their choices. These lists might get someone new started with Linux, but people eventually gravitate towards what works for them once they get their sea legs.
They have a history of sluggish or non-existent responses to vulnerabilities going back for many years. About 10 years ago they also had that high profile incident where they were randomly abusing NTP servers belonging to other organizations and they shrugged it off for a long time until there was a big public stink. I don't know why anyone buys that crap or trusts them with any of their data.
You mean like we do with Windows, new Linux kernel releases, etc?
I'd rather have that instead of all the political noise and slashvertisements.
**shrug**