I'm not sure of exactly how it works, but my experience with cable internet is that my speed now gets *hammered* during peak times. When I bought my current house three years ago, this was not the case.
I think this is partly due to who my neighbors are now (average age much younger than before, turnover is pretty high where I live), but I'm not sure.
When I was looking into high-speed internet for the first time 6-7 years ago, I recall being informed that while cable whipped the pants off DSL at that time, in the long term it was unsustainable because the connection was, in essence, shared between me and my neighbors -- that is, as more people began using cable internet, speeds would need to drop to compensate.
By the way, I rarely use bittorrent, most of my traffic is streaming music. And during peak hours, I get skips and stutters on streaming audio... forget trying to watch streaming video.
Relevant bit from your post that pretty much defeats your argument (emphasis mine):
They're advertising a service at up to a certain speed
I want better high-speed internet. But if Concast's infrastructure can't provide it, what choice do they have but to limit some of the traffic? At least their new solution is independent of the type of traffic, which is fair, IMO, and in keeping with the concept of net neutrality.
Lead-in with a couple paragraphs, then out come the big guns:
and many of you will be starving in concentration camps before the next five years are out. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm usually not
Classic flamebait troll, sucker in people with reasonable statements, then say the indefensible.
Bush blew up frogs with firecrackers
What rural kid with access to firecrackers didn't do similar? Whether it was blowing up GI Joes or Barbies, frogs, earthworms, or crawfish, this is par for the course for boys.
I, for one, often used firecrackers to blow up small creatures... though I had to stop when the neighbors complained about missing cats. They thought I was blowing them up (joke's on them, though, I never blew up a cat... I dissected them, just like Tom Daschle).
Anyway, my point is that boys will be boys, and it's no reflection on what we're like as adults.
Shit, gotta go -- one of my "girlfriends" seems to have worked her way out of her manacles.
Yes, I know how this is possible, and if you took elementary physics, you should be able to figure it out.
I'll give you a line of thought to follow, to get you started.
What happens when the wind hits the sail? Force is exerted on the sail, which is transferred into forward momentum of the vehicle. What happens when the wind hits the sail from directly behind the vehicle (in relation to its path)? What is the force exerted by the wind on the sail when the speed of the vehicle is equal to the speed of the wind?
OK, now what happens when the wind is coming from an angle (say, 45 degrees)? And what happens when the speed of the vehicle is equal to the speed of the wind? What force is exerted on the sail then?
I still don't see how it is nonsense. Notice that there was an *if* in my statement... that is, *if* the individual is worth the extra pay.
The average developer, quite simply, is not worth what he is being paid, relative to the cost of developers overseas. It's economic reality, and as long as people are unwilling to accept it, they will continue to be left jobless when their role is offshored.
It's not as if the American has a choice in the matter either. The qualifications demanded by employers here just to get your foot in the door include a college degree that costs $40,000 to acquire, and that's on the cheap side, plus at least four years of time; probably longer. There has to be adequate compensation to make the investment worthwhile. If they even make a comparable demand on their foreign outsourcing, it's far cheaper.
There's a lot to disagree with here. Americans don't have a choice in the matter? That's ridiculous. There are other fields, other professions. No one is forcing them to develop code for a lviing at gunpoint. There does not have to be adequate compensation to make the investment worthwhile. I would say that anyone in the US who goes to college to learn to code is making a bad investment. There is no guarantee that an educational investment will be worthwhile.
In short, what is "fair" is not the economic reality we face. So it is better to adapt to the reality, than to keep hoping that some mystical force will keep the US's inflated wages in place.
Why is your prior role now filled by one (or two or three) people in India/China/Nigeria/Brasil?
Because you did not provide enough value to the company to justify your salary.
Life is unfair. Deal with it.
On a related note, *if* you are really worth the extra cash, then you should be able to figure out how to use your skills to demonstrate that to your employer... and on the plus side, you will be contributing more to the economy and society. Otherwise, suck it up... it's time to face the reality that being an American doesn't mean you never have to compete with foreign labor.
One other thing -- if you are going to complain and suggest a boycott of outsourcing companies, I suggest you make sure not to buy any goods made offshore either. Have fun paying for locally made clothes, consumer products, and food. Offshoring of labor, while difficult to deal with when it's *your* job on the line, has led to a vast increase in our American quality of life, based upon the variety and price of consumer goods available. You need to take the bad with the good, and if you were personally affected, I'm sorry, but that's the price of globalization.
Oh, it'll no doubt be 'dark', but it'll be a safe, well-defined dark. I really hope I'm wrong
From what I've read, the theatrical release will be toned down, and fans of the book should wait until the full version comes out on DVD. I also read that they've added in some action scenes to make a better movie, and that it is *chock* full of sexiness... The uncut version will probably be rated 18+.
I'm of mixed feelings -- but as always, I have low expectations. That way, if it's decent, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
This happens in a lot of businesses where development plus operations costs are greater than the revenues generated. Without enough incoming cash to go around, the development effort fails. Without a good development effort, the revenue increases fail. It becomes a really nasty Catch-22.
The problem is that revenues should not cover development plus operations. Revenues should cover amortisation on the development costs, plus your overhead and cost of goods sold.
The problem is that most software business are heavy on the development costs early on, so *cash flow* is the issue, not profitability. This can be overcome by owner investment, outside investment (VC)... to overcome the cash flow problem by reducing development is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Of course, if you're going to sink money into a venture, you want to make sure that the future has a good likelihood of paying off well... and you can be damn sure that VCs want to be assured of that as well. Like he said in TFA, they didn't have a post-release plan or budget, and they never bothered to figure out if they'd be cash-positive, or even if they'd be profitable.
BTW, the same is true for your consulting business example -- this is especially true for hiring a sales force. Admin overhead is scalable (part-time help, etc), but good sales staff are *expensive* and less scalable -- and the results aren't immediately shown in the cash stream. This is why most successful small consulting businesses are dependent on the owner making most of the sales, and are owned by good salespeople (along with other talents).
And this is why, ladies and gents, if you want to make a go of a business, you'd better understand the business end of things as well as the sales and product ends. And if you don't fully understand the business end, you hire someone who does.
And people wonder why VC firms are so obsessed about the cash flow of startups (after learning their lessons of the 90s).
I'm reasonably sure nobody paid the guys who made cave paintings.
Dude, I know I'm getting a bit off-topic, but are you sure that's not the case? That Ogg didn't give Gork a haunch of meat in exchange for decorating his cave? Seriously?
We do not know if cave paintings were made as a religious exercise, for cash, or for a "burning passion to do so. What we do know is that many "primitive" cultures today do, in fact, exchange goods or services for art. You are mistaken for assuming that true artists and creators do so for the "burning passion" -- I think you idealize too much.
Confucius say, man who post dumb joke on slashdot has nothing to say.
Get it? Ha-ha. Dumb joke. Nothing to say. And now that I've had to explain the joke since I am well aware of how obtuse (myself included) so many of us are, and I didn't want to be mistaken for a troll, it's not funny.
Or, as Confucius say, man who explain joke to disarm moderator, find it humorous.
That said, it's really almost the default action these days in defense against someone with a very strong agressive attack.
Interesting. My experience from when I fenced was that point-in-line was only used by recent converts to sabre from epee or foil (especially epee). Defensively it didn't do much, as it was almost always more effective to attack outright than to establish a line... since beating a line was generally easy to do (especially with prise de fer). I never ran across anyone who could disengage the line effectively in sabre without coming out of line; maybe it was the caliber of fencers I faced, but I faced the best in the state.
Members who should have been shipped a DVD today will automatically receive a credit to their accounts, which we will communicate in personal emails.
RTFA.
On a related note, I think it's fantastic that a company decided to 'do the right thing' though they were not obligated to do so. Pre-emptively issuing credits to subscribers whose shipments were delayed? Awesome for the customers, and a nice CR move by Netflix. There are many companies out there who would not take the same stance.
This is in addition to Netflix not getting rid of multiple profiles per account, after a vocal minority of subscribers complained.
Is it really possible that Netflix is a company that actually understands that making their customers happy and loyal is a good business strategy? I wasn't sure there were many of those around anymore.
Exactly, we need to stop thinking that there are only 2 of everything, 2 political ideologies, 2 OSes, 2 news stations, etc. There are more than 2 sides to everything, think of the RIAA debates, the RIAA has one side, the general public has another and the musicians have another side too
IMO, that's oversimplifying, really. Most issues are comprised of many factors, of which there are gradients of opinion between polar extremes on those factors.
There aren't sides to most issues. There are gradients on multiple axes for different factors that result in some kind of shape in multi-dimensional space that can't be reduced to a polygon.
The reason I think that this is important is that it's as much an oversimplification to say there are sides to an issue as it is to say there are only two sides to an issue... meaning that while it's sometimes useful to say "He's on my side on that issue" it's much more accurate to say "his consideration of the factors that affect that issue aligns with mine".
Alright, that's unclear and too complex. I guess it suffices to say that there are shades of grey in multidimensional space for every issue, not extra sides on the polygon.
Perhaps if people knew jack I also wouldn't see people walk out into cross walks against the light because they never bothered to learn that edestrians in crosswalks at a light don't have right of way unless the light says they do?
State laws differ on this, and in many states the pedestrian hads the right of way regardless of what the crossing light says. New Jersey, for example.
Though my personal favorite are the ones who, on open road, pull right up next to another car, and sit there doing the same speed for miles and miles, like "ooh I got a buddy".
That always pisses me off, too. But worse than that is when the other driver doesn't want to be in front or right next to me, and instead decides the best place to be is in my blind spot. Or when someone merges from two lanes over into the lane next to me, with me in his blind spot... then decides to get over one more lane without looking. Happens all the time.
I'm quite familiar with the flunge, fleching was not allowed in NJISAA events, so we were ahead of the game a bit, I guess.
Good to hear the capteur is gone, and that blades are stiffer. I always used heavier blades anyway, due to the cost of replacement blades...
I would imagine that the quicker timing and the issue of remises means more Prise de Fer attacks instead of parry-riposte?
When I fenced, parrying was a minor issue at the higher levels anyway. The action was typically simultaneous attacks from the "flunge" every touch, only occasionally a beat or a feint/stopcut. As a lefty, I enjoyed a bit of an advantage, and often used Prise de Fer attacks anyway since I could easily direct the opponent's blade away from my body while being inside their guard. I'm sure it wouldn't have worked as well at the next higher level...
Anyway, I've taken a few numbers from the link you provided, and will be making some calls... interestingly, two of the clubs listed for NJ are run by people I competed with.
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I'm not sure of exactly how it works, but my experience with cable internet is that my speed now gets *hammered* during peak times. When I bought my current house three years ago, this was not the case.
I think this is partly due to who my neighbors are now (average age much younger than before, turnover is pretty high where I live), but I'm not sure.
When I was looking into high-speed internet for the first time 6-7 years ago, I recall being informed that while cable whipped the pants off DSL at that time, in the long term it was unsustainable because the connection was, in essence, shared between me and my neighbors -- that is, as more people began using cable internet, speeds would need to drop to compensate.
By the way, I rarely use bittorrent, most of my traffic is streaming music. And during peak hours, I get skips and stutters on streaming audio... forget trying to watch streaming video.
I want better high-speed internet. But if Concast's infrastructure can't provide it, what choice do they have but to limit some of the traffic? At least their new solution is independent of the type of traffic, which is fair, IMO, and in keeping with the concept of net neutrality.
Lead-in with a couple paragraphs, then out come the big guns:
Classic flamebait troll, sucker in people with reasonable statements, then say the indefensible.
What rural kid with access to firecrackers didn't do similar? Whether it was blowing up GI Joes or Barbies, frogs, earthworms, or crawfish, this is par for the course for boys.
I, for one, often used firecrackers to blow up small creatures... though I had to stop when the neighbors complained about missing cats. They thought I was blowing them up (joke's on them, though, I never blew up a cat... I dissected them, just like Tom Daschle).
Anyway, my point is that boys will be boys, and it's no reflection on what we're like as adults.
Shit, gotta go -- one of my "girlfriends" seems to have worked her way out of her manacles.
Yes, I know how this is possible, and if you took elementary physics, you should be able to figure it out.
I'll give you a line of thought to follow, to get you started.
What happens when the wind hits the sail? Force is exerted on the sail, which is transferred into forward momentum of the vehicle. What happens when the wind hits the sail from directly behind the vehicle (in relation to its path)? What is the force exerted by the wind on the sail when the speed of the vehicle is equal to the speed of the wind?
OK, now what happens when the wind is coming from an angle (say, 45 degrees)? And what happens when the speed of the vehicle is equal to the speed of the wind? What force is exerted on the sail then?
Been through it twice, pal. Once I was caught off-guard and unprepared... Second time I came out of it with a promotion and a raise.
I learned from the experience... I only wish I had paid attention to the trends enough to have been prepared the first time.
The average developer, quite simply, is not worth what he is being paid, relative to the cost of developers overseas. It's economic reality, and as long as people are unwilling to accept it, they will continue to be left jobless when their role is offshored.
There's a lot to disagree with here. Americans don't have a choice in the matter? That's ridiculous. There are other fields, other professions. No one is forcing them to develop code for a lviing at gunpoint. There does not have to be adequate compensation to make the investment worthwhile. I would say that anyone in the US who goes to college to learn to code is making a bad investment. There is no guarantee that an educational investment will be worthwhile.
In short, what is "fair" is not the economic reality we face. So it is better to adapt to the reality, than to keep hoping that some mystical force will keep the US's inflated wages in place.
They did not take your job. You lost your job.
The difference is significant.
Why is your prior role now filled by one (or two or three) people in India/China/Nigeria/Brasil?
Because you did not provide enough value to the company to justify your salary.
Life is unfair. Deal with it.
On a related note, *if* you are really worth the extra cash, then you should be able to figure out how to use your skills to demonstrate that to your employer... and on the plus side, you will be contributing more to the economy and society. Otherwise, suck it up... it's time to face the reality that being an American doesn't mean you never have to compete with foreign labor.
One other thing -- if you are going to complain and suggest a boycott of outsourcing companies, I suggest you make sure not to buy any goods made offshore either. Have fun paying for locally made clothes, consumer products, and food. Offshoring of labor, while difficult to deal with when it's *your* job on the line, has led to a vast increase in our American quality of life, based upon the variety and price of consumer goods available. You need to take the bad with the good, and if you were personally affected, I'm sorry, but that's the price of globalization.
From what I've read, the theatrical release will be toned down, and fans of the book should wait until the full version comes out on DVD. I also read that they've added in some action scenes to make a better movie, and that it is *chock* full of sexiness... The uncut version will probably be rated 18+.
I'm of mixed feelings -- but as always, I have low expectations. That way, if it's decent, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
OK, so maybe not a haunch of meat... maybe he paid with a tubesteak.
Sure, it's a nautical term, it means a ship can sail into the wind (by) and on a right angle to the wind (large).
The phrase has come to mean that the statement it refers to applies generally (i.e., in a multitude of conditions).
The problem is that revenues should not cover development plus operations. Revenues should cover amortisation on the development costs, plus your overhead and cost of goods sold.
The problem is that most software business are heavy on the development costs early on, so *cash flow* is the issue, not profitability. This can be overcome by owner investment, outside investment (VC)... to overcome the cash flow problem by reducing development is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Of course, if you're going to sink money into a venture, you want to make sure that the future has a good likelihood of paying off well... and you can be damn sure that VCs want to be assured of that as well. Like he said in TFA, they didn't have a post-release plan or budget, and they never bothered to figure out if they'd be cash-positive, or even if they'd be profitable.
BTW, the same is true for your consulting business example -- this is especially true for hiring a sales force. Admin overhead is scalable (part-time help, etc), but good sales staff are *expensive* and less scalable -- and the results aren't immediately shown in the cash stream. This is why most successful small consulting businesses are dependent on the owner making most of the sales, and are owned by good salespeople (along with other talents).
And this is why, ladies and gents, if you want to make a go of a business, you'd better understand the business end of things as well as the sales and product ends. And if you don't fully understand the business end, you hire someone who does.
And people wonder why VC firms are so obsessed about the cash flow of startups (after learning their lessons of the 90s).
Dude, I know I'm getting a bit off-topic, but are you sure that's not the case? That Ogg didn't give Gork a haunch of meat in exchange for decorating his cave? Seriously?
We do not know if cave paintings were made as a religious exercise, for cash, or for a "burning passion to do so. What we do know is that many "primitive" cultures today do, in fact, exchange goods or services for art. You are mistaken for assuming that true artists and creators do so for the "burning passion" -- I think you idealize too much.
Confucius say, man who post dumb joke on slashdot has nothing to say.
Get it? Ha-ha. Dumb joke. Nothing to say. And now that I've had to explain the joke since I am well aware of how obtuse (myself included) so many of us are, and I didn't want to be mistaken for a troll, it's not funny.
Or, as Confucius say, man who explain joke to disarm moderator, find it humorous.
That's only because my great-aunt Edna has a larger stock of feces to throw at me than the typical monkey.
Interesting. My experience from when I fenced was that point-in-line was only used by recent converts to sabre from epee or foil (especially epee). Defensively it didn't do much, as it was almost always more effective to attack outright than to establish a line... since beating a line was generally easy to do (especially with prise de fer). I never ran across anyone who could disengage the line effectively in sabre without coming out of line; maybe it was the caliber of fencers I faced, but I faced the best in the state.
Sounds to me like actual calling of phrasing by the director has given way to letting the machine do the calling... not sure how I feel about that.
I take it the point-in-line has pretty much disappeared as an establishment of right-of-way, then?
My mistake. Of course it;s the Happy Fun ball we're not supposed to taunt; the Wookie, we're not supposed to Tauntaun.
I really don't know the best way to go about measuring a wiki, but I'd suggest not taunting it. It might get pissed and rip your arm off.
RTFA.
On a related note, I think it's fantastic that a company decided to 'do the right thing' though they were not obligated to do so. Pre-emptively issuing credits to subscribers whose shipments were delayed? Awesome for the customers, and a nice CR move by Netflix. There are many companies out there who would not take the same stance.
This is in addition to Netflix not getting rid of multiple profiles per account, after a vocal minority of subscribers complained.
Is it really possible that Netflix is a company that actually understands that making their customers happy and loyal is a good business strategy? I wasn't sure there were many of those around anymore.
post an idiotic question, get an idiotic answer.
Just doing my best to make idle as bad as digg.
Ugh. It's a euphemism for what is commonly referred to as "hate mail".
I think we all can agree that it's time for a kindler, gentler slashdot.
But really, are you really that dense? Oh... wait... UserID 1280296... I think I understand now. Never mind.
IMO, that's oversimplifying, really. Most issues are comprised of many factors, of which there are gradients of opinion between polar extremes on those factors.
There aren't sides to most issues. There are gradients on multiple axes for different factors that result in some kind of shape in multi-dimensional space that can't be reduced to a polygon.
The reason I think that this is important is that it's as much an oversimplification to say there are sides to an issue as it is to say there are only two sides to an issue... meaning that while it's sometimes useful to say "He's on my side on that issue" it's much more accurate to say "his consideration of the factors that affect that issue aligns with mine".
Alright, that's unclear and too complex. I guess it suffices to say that there are shades of grey in multidimensional space for every issue, not extra sides on the polygon.
State laws differ on this, and in many states the pedestrian hads the right of way regardless of what the crossing light says. New Jersey, for example.
That always pisses me off, too. But worse than that is when the other driver doesn't want to be in front or right next to me, and instead decides the best place to be is in my blind spot. Or when someone merges from two lanes over into the lane next to me, with me in his blind spot... then decides to get over one more lane without looking. Happens all the time.
I'm quite familiar with the flunge, fleching was not allowed in NJISAA events, so we were ahead of the game a bit, I guess.
Good to hear the capteur is gone, and that blades are stiffer. I always used heavier blades anyway, due to the cost of replacement blades...
I would imagine that the quicker timing and the issue of remises means more Prise de Fer attacks instead of parry-riposte?
When I fenced, parrying was a minor issue at the higher levels anyway. The action was typically simultaneous attacks from the "flunge" every touch, only occasionally a beat or a feint/stopcut. As a lefty, I enjoyed a bit of an advantage, and often used Prise de Fer attacks anyway since I could easily direct the opponent's blade away from my body while being inside their guard. I'm sure it wouldn't have worked as well at the next higher level...
Anyway, I've taken a few numbers from the link you provided, and will be making some calls... interestingly, two of the clubs listed for NJ are run by people I competed with.