I can't imagine that it's any more or less of an obvious statement than iOS apps being an obvious money maker. Clearly angry birds is making money on both platforms. Most apps languish and don't make any money. I don't think this is really all that different from the rest of the software world with regards to success vs failure, though perhaps more pronounced since there's SO MANY dinky little phone apps out there.
I think as competition grows in the cloud computing market we'll see a lot more modeling being done on the cloud. There's a lot to be said about having your own supercomputer for sure, but if I can get it done at a fraction of the cost by renting off-peak hours on Amazon's cloud... I'm convinced the future is there, it'll just take us another decade to migrate off our entirely customized and proprietary environments we see today.
My understanding is they were going to standardize on a feature-by-feature basis and not lump the feature groups into a larger "version x.o" umbrella. So for each feature they'll write up a spec, but won't be "versioning" HTML anymore. Best of both worlds imo.
It sounds to me like we've finally gotten around to admitting the truth about how the system works instead of wasting a bunch of time and money with the standards process. It's not as if a particular browser saying it was HTML# compliant was really meaningful. You still had to test every feature and work around the bugs on a per-browser basis. IMO nothing really has changed except the illusion.
My company has twitter and facebook accounts as marketing tools. There's like 3-4 people who have that site opened to them via the proxy. Everyone else has varying degrees of "freedom" to use the web. Our call center folks have the least access, developers tend to have fairly open access.
I wanted to join the Redhat IRC channel so I could get some help with a server issue we were having in our production environment. Apparently opening an IRC port at my company required an "ok" from the CIO of the company. Yup, for realz.
Honestly at this point in my life I'd rather have someone who is just an honest and decent person rather than someone who claims to subscribe to my personal political views. That's basically the reason I'd vote for either Franken or Paul. Both are a bit nutty and at opposite ends of the political spectrum for sure, but (imo) honest decent guys who would do what they could to make things "right". They'd do it in diametrically opposed ways, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I doubt they are talking about those 100 literally uploading the most number of bytes. They upload quite a bit I'm sure. But I think they mean 100 people are creating the torrents which are making up the vast majority of torrent usage. 100 seems a little low based on my limited experience, but I would easily believe that less than 1000 people are at the core of "creating" the illegal content that shows up at the top of the charts on torrent sites.
Again, it depends on what I'm looking for. If I want a worker drone, which makes up 95+% of the work force, then that's what I'll get from most university graduates. On the other hand, if I need a super-star I will look more towards their history of entrepreneurial history and will likely not give a rat's ass about their sheepskin.
95% of the work force needs to be worker drones of various caliber. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. I just felt the GP was making unfair/unreasonable generalizations about people who don't have college degrees, so I made similar generalizations about people with them.
Getting a degree could also mean you're overly conformist and likely to lack a lot of creativity. You probably lack a strong leadership personality and shy away from individual excellence. If I need a worker drone, you're probably a good fit. I may or may not desire a worker drone.
I'm at year 9 in my career and I'm paid fairly well (higher than the 50th percentile for my job) with no degree. I started making "good money" at about year 4 when I changed jobs from my first professional job. This seems to be standard operating procedure with most grads. Work for a few years, then switch jobs so you can actually make money. It is true that not having a degree closes some doors completely (I posted up about government contractors) but I haven't found it to be a problem as long as I'm keeping my skill set up I get offers semi-regularly.
Depends. It's hard to get a job at any of the big defense contractors because they are allowed to bill the government based on the number of degrees the workers have. It may not be that way in other markets, but at least in Orlando it's defense contractor city around here.
I can't think of a state that has existed in real life which has a high quality of life without having a health welfare system. There's plenty of states that have little to no government intervention and equally little government welfare. Places like the Bahamas. All that happens there is that wealthy people create shell companies there, but actually "live" in nice places with very healthy welfare systems.
I don't think Assange is as radical as you might believe. Something tells me if someone leaked complete/accurate documents on how to make nuclear weapons he would be unlikely to publish them. He's already exhibited the behavior of filtering some (all?) leaks through major international news organizations to minimize the danger to others. It would be really interesting to see what he's redacted.
I thought netflix streaming was done via flash. While Flash isn't free as in freedom it seems like it wouldn't take much to get it working. What's missing from the Linux Flash that it doesn't work?
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I have yet to find an app for Android that converts my Android phone to an iPhone 4, which is really the only app anyone could ever want. :P
I can't imagine that it's any more or less of an obvious statement than iOS apps being an obvious money maker. Clearly angry birds is making money on both platforms. Most apps languish and don't make any money. I don't think this is really all that different from the rest of the software world with regards to success vs failure, though perhaps more pronounced since there's SO MANY dinky little phone apps out there.
Not to be negative/gruesome, but it doesn't look like Jobs is going to be around much longer.
I think as competition grows in the cloud computing market we'll see a lot more modeling being done on the cloud. There's a lot to be said about having your own supercomputer for sure, but if I can get it done at a fraction of the cost by renting off-peak hours on Amazon's cloud... I'm convinced the future is there, it'll just take us another decade to migrate off our entirely customized and proprietary environments we see today.
The real victims are the advertisers who cannot exploit your personal information for profit.
My understanding is they were going to standardize on a feature-by-feature basis and not lump the feature groups into a larger "version x.o" umbrella. So for each feature they'll write up a spec, but won't be "versioning" HTML anymore. Best of both worlds imo.
It sounds to me like we've finally gotten around to admitting the truth about how the system works instead of wasting a bunch of time and money with the standards process. It's not as if a particular browser saying it was HTML# compliant was really meaningful. You still had to test every feature and work around the bugs on a per-browser basis. IMO nothing really has changed except the illusion.
My company has twitter and facebook accounts as marketing tools. There's like 3-4 people who have that site opened to them via the proxy. Everyone else has varying degrees of "freedom" to use the web. Our call center folks have the least access, developers tend to have fairly open access.
I wanted to join the Redhat IRC channel so I could get some help with a server issue we were having in our production environment. Apparently opening an IRC port at my company required an "ok" from the CIO of the company. Yup, for realz.
The more you can blend your bits in with "legitimate" bits the harder it is to detect you.
Yes, the NYT, which is in the process of making their own wikileaks type site has no reason to portray Assange in any particular light.
Honestly at this point in my life I'd rather have someone who is just an honest and decent person rather than someone who claims to subscribe to my personal political views. That's basically the reason I'd vote for either Franken or Paul. Both are a bit nutty and at opposite ends of the political spectrum for sure, but (imo) honest decent guys who would do what they could to make things "right". They'd do it in diametrically opposed ways, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Businesses will always attempt to do the work that gives them the largest profit margins. That's true no matter how much content someone "steals."
I doubt they are talking about those 100 literally uploading the most number of bytes. They upload quite a bit I'm sure. But I think they mean 100 people are creating the torrents which are making up the vast majority of torrent usage. 100 seems a little low based on my limited experience, but I would easily believe that less than 1000 people are at the core of "creating" the illegal content that shows up at the top of the charts on torrent sites.
Again, it depends on what I'm looking for. If I want a worker drone, which makes up 95+% of the work force, then that's what I'll get from most university graduates. On the other hand, if I need a super-star I will look more towards their history of entrepreneurial history and will likely not give a rat's ass about their sheepskin.
95% of the work force needs to be worker drones of various caliber. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. I just felt the GP was making unfair/unreasonable generalizations about people who don't have college degrees, so I made similar generalizations about people with them.
Getting a degree could also mean you're overly conformist and likely to lack a lot of creativity. You probably lack a strong leadership personality and shy away from individual excellence. If I need a worker drone, you're probably a good fit. I may or may not desire a worker drone.
I'm at year 9 in my career and I'm paid fairly well (higher than the 50th percentile for my job) with no degree. I started making "good money" at about year 4 when I changed jobs from my first professional job. This seems to be standard operating procedure with most grads. Work for a few years, then switch jobs so you can actually make money. It is true that not having a degree closes some doors completely (I posted up about government contractors) but I haven't found it to be a problem as long as I'm keeping my skill set up I get offers semi-regularly.
Depends. It's hard to get a job at any of the big defense contractors because they are allowed to bill the government based on the number of degrees the workers have. It may not be that way in other markets, but at least in Orlando it's defense contractor city around here.
I can't think of a state that has existed in real life which has a high quality of life without having a health welfare system. There's plenty of states that have little to no government intervention and equally little government welfare. Places like the Bahamas. All that happens there is that wealthy people create shell companies there, but actually "live" in nice places with very healthy welfare systems.
I don't think Assange is as radical as you might believe. Something tells me if someone leaked complete/accurate documents on how to make nuclear weapons he would be unlikely to publish them. He's already exhibited the behavior of filtering some (all?) leaks through major international news organizations to minimize the danger to others. It would be really interesting to see what he's redacted.
Ahh, I didn't know it was Silverlight. Thanks.
Redbox has already announced it's moving into the streaming business. Competition is great.
Internet streaming still cannot compete with channel surfing. Once that hurdle has been overcome it has a chance, but not in its current state.
I thought netflix streaming was done via flash. While Flash isn't free as in freedom it seems like it wouldn't take much to get it working. What's missing from the Linux Flash that it doesn't work?