Besides announcing the the 8% increase in their stock dividend they also announced a $1.5B, that's billion with a B, stock buyback. That's enough money to pay 1,500 employees, if those employees made $1 million per year. Sickening.
Well if that's your concern, simple solution, put a web browser and Netflix and Youtube on Switch, problem solved. You stupid stupid overpaid mouthpiece of a man.
Cablevision has always been a pretty horrible company, but it actually did get noticeably worse when Altice took over last year. $20 cable box monthly rental fee is insane when you can get actual channels with Sling for $25. Plus I think the cable modem fee is up to $10, I bought my own for $22 when it went from free to $5. They really seem to be going the opposite of what people want. The streaming competition is going for $45 a month but that's what you'd pay just in fees for a $100 cable contract. I'm sticking with Altice bc I can't imagine living without broadband internet, but I'm not paying them for tv.
I don't have Movie Pass, but I found a newly renovated theater near me that is only $5 before 6PM, most others on Long Island are $9 or $10 if they even have a matinee discount at all, so I've been going to see alot more movies than I usually would. I sued to only go once a year, now I go once a month. My kids almost never saw the inside of a theater so they are going a lot more too, $20 seems a lot better than $40 or more.
So of course people are going to see movies they normally wouldn't.
That was all they needed to make a movie, a cultural tagline. I's like somebody making a movie of the Energizer Bunny of the Where's the Beef lady, if either of those were an intergalactic bounty hunter. No different than all of those movies based on SNL skits. Gotta be better than McGruber.
Thanks for all that. I kind of get it, but still, $17Billion for even 800 radio stations. They're just radio stations. Might as well spend $17B for some carriages for your horse and buggy business. The Nabisco buyout cost more at $25B but that was a huge business with some real assessts and a future, people gotta eat. Nobody thought $17B in debt for radio stations was a bad idea? No wonder the whole world nearly collapsed in 2008.
Toys R Us went bankrupt, they had only $5B debt but plenty of stock and store property and we're still selling items. How does any radio corporation get to the point that they are $20B in debt, they basically own nothing of any real worth. Even the stations themselves are small and limited tech. iTunes has been out for years. Napster. Writing has been on the wall for years. Who was loaning or lending this company money? At $10B or $15B in debt people didn't stop to think, hmm, may even we should cut them off? $20B is what it takes. Insane.
People could probably fake hand movements, they should instead make all workers put on a GoPro camera hat so they can constantly monitor what every one is doing and looking at then shock their brain when they do or look at something wrong. Problem solved.
They probably should have done this in mid October before everyone signed up for 1 month for Black Friday shopping and last minute Christmas shopping. The fact that they waited until mid-January at least is a good reminder for everyone who signed up monthly to cancel now that they are done shopping. And it does look like they are giving a 1 month notice, my monthly renewal date is February 5 but they said I won't be charged the extra $2, $12.99, until March 5th, so they are giving people and extra month at the current price it looks like.
Nobody likes to pay money, but I think it's a good move by them. We were signing up about every 3 ro 4 months just to save $12 on $60 video game and get it day 1. We were also getting a free month every year, from 3 different people in our house with Amazon accounts, so we probably only paid 1 or 2 months out of the year. Sorry if we ruined it for anybody,w e just did what they let us do. They could have dropped monthly entirely, forced everyone to pay $99, but at least people will still have the option to pay $13 in July for Prime day or next November for Black Friday shopping. It could have been worse.
I have no relationship with Amazon except as a customer, and I'll be dropping Prime next month.
To me, the dynamic changes, b/c a kid may not know any better, a teenager may be trying to get her father fired b/c he made her break up with her boyfriend or something, a grown woman may be trying to promote her Youtube site. Also, how involved the father is with the situation. Was he even aware of the posted vid? I read the article summary and the article, no where did it mention her age and I do think it's relevant. Maybe not her specific age, but little kid, teenager, or adult matters.
I know it shouldn't matter, but reading this it does. If she's 8, 9 or 10 I feel more sympathetic than if she's 19 or 25. All the article says is "daughter", a daughter can be any age, and a little kid may not understand, a teen looking to cause trouble or an adult looking to make a name for themselves. It changes the dynamic of the story reading this depending on how old I imagine the daughter to be. If they didn't want to give her age, then grade school, high school, college could have been used, just to frame it.
As someone looking to buy a Switch next week - and charge it around the house and in the car - I've been looking at USB-C a lot lately, and this article tells me nothing. The biggest issue seems to be the USB-A 2amp bottleneck, or something, more than USB-C per se. For me the best thing about USB-C is it has no top or bottom, it just fits, USB should have been like this from the beginning. It seems to be nearly small enough for any device yet powerful enough for any device. Why is hasn't become the new industry standard I don't know, but reading that article didn't help.
Here's hoping to a long and successful 5 or 6 years for Switch and USB-C gaining from that exposure.
Thanks for the common sense. You also left out migratory workers, illegal apartments and squatters. And John Rambo in First Blood. 80% maybe, I'm feeling generous. Probably more like 40% if that, those barriors or whatever outside of Mexico City are like an ant hill.
Sony Dash failed. Funnily enough it terminates in July 2017. Chumby never took off. Amazon sells a $49 tablet but they think a $230 device is a good idea? Vidcam was a smart idea about 20 years ago, not sure it's needed now. I'm not entirely opposed to the device, but even $199 would seem alot, you could just get a $200 Chormebook. Maybe this is just an early adopter tax and it will be $149 this holiday? I can imagine this selling over the holiday for $149 for gifts even if people didn't know why they were buying it besides "just b/c it's new tech at $149." But I don't see it taking off. OTOH, maybe it sells better than normal Echo so they ditch that and this becomes ubiquitous? Well once it hits $149 anyway.
This is the future, we have been heading there with VC, PS+, Xbox Live gold, MS Game Pass, EA Access.
Gamefly doesn't work anymore. I signed up on a Wednesday, waited 8 days for a game to ship the following Thursday, then wait another 4 days for it arrive the following Monday. Mail the game back 2 Monday's later, they get notified from the post office 2 days later on Wednesday, but it's still "At home" in my Q on Thursday. So for a 1 month rental period that's 14 days of playing and 15 days of shipping & handling.
I still think NEW games should be sold, then after a year move them to rental. Just like movies - theaters, video-on-demand, DVD. People don't BUY 2 and 3 year old games, better to have them in a rental program than forgotten.
The site hasn't crashed yet, what happened to the/. effect? It gave me 56, the Speedtest that it linked to gave me 57, but that one took much longer, I'm getting 50, so I think for a really quick check of your speed it's not a bad thing. I'm going to check again around 9PM, things always bog down between 8 and 10.. Just ran it again, still came back with 56, so it's consistent.
Nice timing of the article, right after the one about Opera's native ad blocking.
I will update my Win 8 machine before the free Win 10 option goes away, but not much before.
Can't help but think that at some point these will be used mostly for police work. I'm guessing they won't hire Apple for encryption work, they'll want to know every single bit that passes thru these. Do they have cameras and "gunshot" detectors yet?
I'm not compeltley paranoid, I do see the value in these, and more good than harm will come of them, but I feel like it's just the city getting us used to surveillance. At some point self charging drones will be stationed on top of everyone of these zooming around the city, peeping in windows. Benign today, malignant tomorrow.
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Besides announcing the the 8% increase in their stock dividend they also announced a $1.5B, that's billion with a B, stock buyback. That's enough money to pay 1,500 employees, if those employees made $1 million per year. Sickening.
Well if that's your concern, simple solution, put a web browser and Netflix and Youtube on Switch, problem solved. You stupid stupid overpaid mouthpiece of a man.
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Cablevision has always been a pretty horrible company, but it actually did get noticeably worse when Altice took over last year. $20 cable box monthly rental fee is insane when you can get actual channels with Sling for $25. Plus I think the cable modem fee is up to $10, I bought my own for $22 when it went from free to $5. They really seem to be going the opposite of what people want. The streaming competition is going for $45 a month but that's what you'd pay just in fees for a $100 cable contract. I'm sticking with Altice bc I can't imagine living without broadband internet, but I'm not paying them for tv.
I don't have Movie Pass, but I found a newly renovated theater near me that is only $5 before 6PM, most others on Long Island are $9 or $10 if they even have a matinee discount at all, so I've been going to see alot more movies than I usually would. I sued to only go once a year, now I go once a month. My kids almost never saw the inside of a theater so they are going a lot more too, $20 seems a lot better than $40 or more. So of course people are going to see movies they normally wouldn't.
That was all they needed to make a movie, a cultural tagline. I's like somebody making a movie of the Energizer Bunny of the Where's the Beef lady, if either of those were an intergalactic bounty hunter. No different than all of those movies based on SNL skits. Gotta be better than McGruber.
Thanks for all that. I kind of get it, but still, $17Billion for even 800 radio stations. They're just radio stations. Might as well spend $17B for some carriages for your horse and buggy business. The Nabisco buyout cost more at $25B but that was a huge business with some real assessts and a future, people gotta eat. Nobody thought $17B in debt for radio stations was a bad idea? No wonder the whole world nearly collapsed in 2008.
Toys R Us went bankrupt, they had only $5B debt but plenty of stock and store property and we're still selling items. How does any radio corporation get to the point that they are $20B in debt, they basically own nothing of any real worth. Even the stations themselves are small and limited tech. iTunes has been out for years. Napster. Writing has been on the wall for years. Who was loaning or lending this company money? At $10B or $15B in debt people didn't stop to think, hmm, may even we should cut them off? $20B is what it takes. Insane.
People could probably fake hand movements, they should instead make all workers put on a GoPro camera hat so they can constantly monitor what every one is doing and looking at then shock their brain when they do or look at something wrong. Problem solved.
One day they'll find the master of that cave, an ape.
They probably should have done this in mid October before everyone signed up for 1 month for Black Friday shopping and last minute Christmas shopping. The fact that they waited until mid-January at least is a good reminder for everyone who signed up monthly to cancel now that they are done shopping. And it does look like they are giving a 1 month notice, my monthly renewal date is February 5 but they said I won't be charged the extra $2, $12.99, until March 5th, so they are giving people and extra month at the current price it looks like. Nobody likes to pay money, but I think it's a good move by them. We were signing up about every 3 ro 4 months just to save $12 on $60 video game and get it day 1. We were also getting a free month every year, from 3 different people in our house with Amazon accounts, so we probably only paid 1 or 2 months out of the year. Sorry if we ruined it for anybody,w e just did what they let us do. They could have dropped monthly entirely, forced everyone to pay $99, but at least people will still have the option to pay $13 in July for Prime day or next November for Black Friday shopping. It could have been worse. I have no relationship with Amazon except as a customer, and I'll be dropping Prime next month.
I'd ask Elliot, but he probably doesn't recall.
To me, the dynamic changes, b/c a kid may not know any better, a teenager may be trying to get her father fired b/c he made her break up with her boyfriend or something, a grown woman may be trying to promote her Youtube site. Also, how involved the father is with the situation. Was he even aware of the posted vid? I read the article summary and the article, no where did it mention her age and I do think it's relevant. Maybe not her specific age, but little kid, teenager, or adult matters.
I know it shouldn't matter, but reading this it does. If she's 8, 9 or 10 I feel more sympathetic than if she's 19 or 25. All the article says is "daughter", a daughter can be any age, and a little kid may not understand, a teen looking to cause trouble or an adult looking to make a name for themselves. It changes the dynamic of the story reading this depending on how old I imagine the daughter to be. If they didn't want to give her age, then grade school, high school, college could have been used, just to frame it.
As someone looking to buy a Switch next week - and charge it around the house and in the car - I've been looking at USB-C a lot lately, and this article tells me nothing. The biggest issue seems to be the USB-A 2amp bottleneck, or something, more than USB-C per se. For me the best thing about USB-C is it has no top or bottom, it just fits, USB should have been like this from the beginning. It seems to be nearly small enough for any device yet powerful enough for any device. Why is hasn't become the new industry standard I don't know, but reading that article didn't help. Here's hoping to a long and successful 5 or 6 years for Switch and USB-C gaining from that exposure.
I really don't know what else people buy in those stores, that's all I ever see anybody buy - cigarettes, alcohol and lottery tickets.
Thanks for the common sense. You also left out migratory workers, illegal apartments and squatters. And John Rambo in First Blood. 80% maybe, I'm feeling generous. Probably more like 40% if that, those barriors or whatever outside of Mexico City are like an ant hill.
Sony Dash failed. Funnily enough it terminates in July 2017. Chumby never took off. Amazon sells a $49 tablet but they think a $230 device is a good idea? Vidcam was a smart idea about 20 years ago, not sure it's needed now. I'm not entirely opposed to the device, but even $199 would seem alot, you could just get a $200 Chormebook. Maybe this is just an early adopter tax and it will be $149 this holiday? I can imagine this selling over the holiday for $149 for gifts even if people didn't know why they were buying it besides "just b/c it's new tech at $149." But I don't see it taking off. OTOH, maybe it sells better than normal Echo so they ditch that and this becomes ubiquitous? Well once it hits $149 anyway.
This isn't new.
This is the future, we have been heading there with VC, PS+, Xbox Live gold, MS Game Pass, EA Access. Gamefly doesn't work anymore. I signed up on a Wednesday, waited 8 days for a game to ship the following Thursday, then wait another 4 days for it arrive the following Monday. Mail the game back 2 Monday's later, they get notified from the post office 2 days later on Wednesday, but it's still "At home" in my Q on Thursday. So for a 1 month rental period that's 14 days of playing and 15 days of shipping & handling. I still think NEW games should be sold, then after a year move them to rental. Just like movies - theaters, video-on-demand, DVD. People don't BUY 2 and 3 year old games, better to have them in a rental program than forgotten.
Is the removal of the optical port considered a cosmetic or convenience upgrade?
The site hasn't crashed yet, what happened to the /. effect? It gave me 56, the Speedtest that it linked to gave me 57, but that one took much longer, I'm getting 50, so I think for a really quick check of your speed it's not a bad thing. I'm going to check again around 9PM, things always bog down between 8 and 10.. Just ran it again, still came back with 56, so it's consistent.
Nice timing of the article, right after the one about Opera's native ad blocking. I will update my Win 8 machine before the free Win 10 option goes away, but not much before.
Middle East was just too slow to legalize marijuana. Stoners don't riot.
Can't help but think that at some point these will be used mostly for police work. I'm guessing they won't hire Apple for encryption work, they'll want to know every single bit that passes thru these. Do they have cameras and "gunshot" detectors yet? I'm not compeltley paranoid, I do see the value in these, and more good than harm will come of them, but I feel like it's just the city getting us used to surveillance. At some point self charging drones will be stationed on top of everyone of these zooming around the city, peeping in windows. Benign today, malignant tomorrow.