Walmart is all well and good, but the full simulation and execution of the experience is also well within the scope of this project. Including:
1. Driving to a walmart at 4 AM and buying 10lbs of bubba burgers because thats just what dinner counts as now that you're married.
2. careening through 40 acres of empty parking lot at twice the posted speed limit because this is private property and any lane marking is merely a suggestion
3. Furiously trying to work a full size trampoline, basket ball hoop, or swing set into your car on a scorching august day because we cant do Disney this year and this will shut the goddamn kids up for a few weeks.
4. Swinging around the back of a walmart at 5 PM at four times the speed limit, dodging loading bays and trucks, to pick up a little caesar hot and ready because walmarts frozen pizzas take too long.
5. Mindlessly idling a large SUV in the fire lane over a period of hours because your wife had to get some last minute bullshit for the pasta salad tomorrow and you didnt want to get dressed.
6. Trying to avoid rolling over some weird noodle-chicken-cream whats-it in the parking spot you picked thats easily been there for 3 days, but inevitably just slowly rolling through it, grinding it into your tires where the smell will linger for a month.
Developer: its 7 PM and Im sure no one will mind if i patch this bug before I leave for vacation. better grab a quick slice of pie! Sysadmin: Its 3 AM and the event servers are all down, the database servers are all reporting max disk, and our payment card processing company has us flagged as a war criminal. Someone order a pizza and charge it to the last dev in git blame, while I rebuild this ZFS pool. again.
Prime day is a reaction to Alibaba and Aliexpress.com. They both generate nearly a trillion dollars of revenue across the world with 11/11 day sales. 11/11 day itself is a celebration called 'singles day' in china, where students started celebrating being single around 1993 on university campuses.
amazon day is a pointless branded knockoff Bezos hopes will generate just as much money. Assuming no one finds out about aliexpress and they somehow magically stop competing.
That. That is the original Q. I, nor anyone else working in AI or machine learning, have the slightest fucking idea what Q# is other than yet another attempt by microsoft to embrace, extend, extinguish a language.
you'd think after 30 years of this shit they'd learn to quit.
thats the budget for the TSA to be given the ability to dissect your luggage and look for known weapons and bombs that have been previously used in airline hijackings. The average middle school in america is 10-20 million dollars. The average library is about 4 million dollars. The war in Afghanistan, which has now run for 17 years, has cost 1.7 trillion dollars.
the point isnt to split hairs about what the money could be used for, its to give pause to consider that every dollar we spend defending against an enemy we largely spend 40 years creating, we could spend money on preventative measures like education and reducing our dependency on unnecessary and endless wars of aggression.
Whats ruined the world cup? A few things about FIFA soccer in general should have been coffin nails for the agency.. 1. fixed matches and corruption. FIFA has a long, long history of total corruption as it pertains to the sport. Despots have chaired it with impunity and most of the executives could easily mistake a trombone for a four star hotel. 2. Racism. turning the live coverage black and white is a novel idea to give viewers at home a sense of when racism is taking place in stadiums, but its a hollow gesture designed to punish the many for the actions of the few. Something I might add which is illegal under the Geneva conventions. Instead of cleaning up racist actors and venues, FIFA has decided the saturation knob is good enough. 3. Cowards.: plain and simple. Mediocre "superstar" players paid millions that feign injury and agony at the slightest encounter with even a slightly more qualified opponent. Youre representing an entire country. Act like it. 4. Riots.: Riots and rioters are something FIFA has decided must remain a cost socialized to the general public. Instead of stripping teams of wins or removing them from future play, FIFA stares at its collective shoes and does nothing. Disclosure: My Citroen burned like a fucking candle during the Glasgow riots, so i might not be impartial to this point.
Most are familiar with warnings, watches, and amber alerts but little has been done to explain newly overhauled codes for programmers dealing with EAS beacons. The following can be expected to show up in data streams soon.
Amberish alert: a little girl hasnt been abducted but a local law enforcement agency also needs to justify their next years budget. this code is issued for 5 hours, broadcast on news outlets, and then the girls actual location with a family member is revealed. The amber alert, Sponsored by AT&T: a major telco carrier has intentionally kidnapped a preteen and, if you find her, you receive a coupon for a free large soda with any papa johns pizza order of a large pizza. Amber alert pro 2005 millennial edition: this is an alert sent from stations running an old copy of windows. no one knows how to turn it off. uncomfortable disaster alert: issued during slow-rolling man-made disasters for which no accountable agency or individual can be found. School shootings, the Flynt water crisis, honeybee extinction, and collapsing roads and infrastructure are defined as triggering this alert, however the content of the alert is simply an escapist series of movie previews and trailers for upcoming video games. presidential alert, the best: Get ready for this one because its yuge, really. Awaken at odd hours of the night to rambling screeds such as "jeb is a waste" and "the wall is the best, because america is the best, and, you wouldnt believe it but its gonna be great, trust me." Boggle as congress has legislatively redacted any ability to disable this alert.
Wife: Honey what do we want to eat from the deli counter? Greybeard husband: Oh i dont know, maybe the square root of a zero inch submarine sandwich with extra semicolon quote semicolon and a side of drop table customers, payroll, sales. [incoherent screaming from the office] Greybeard husband: ah! looks like someone already ordered one!
If you're shopping online with your user agent set as
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 You might pay more than someone coming from Firefox or Chrome. This wont impact IE or Edge users as they prefer to shop in person for the most flavorful brand of crayon.
income share was popular in the 50's because we hadnt evolved lending to a predatory level. sixty years ago you could take on student loans, fail to pay them, declare bankruptcy, and discharge those loans. lenders sought to avoid this by offering alternatives to future students. not that they needed them, as sixty years ago you could go to college with a part time job.
in 2018 debt is federally secured. it cant be discharged, so lenders can garnish your wages, and the wages of anyone who helped secure your student loans, until the end of time. There is no need for income share agreements, unless youre a lender trying to diversify your predatory lending tactics to avoid scrutiny by the SEC or your investors.
Frankly this is hardly news, let alone tech news. Facebook has been from its very inception a tool to harvest personal data for sale as analytic data to corporations seeking to exploit the human condition in the sale and marketing of products and services. The simplest way to curtail this behavior is to stop using facebook. There is no legislative process, no interlocutory system of plugins and ad blocking, and no personal privacy setting that is more powerful or directly effective.
As any Slashdotter knows, smart lights, switches, and power relays are poorly regulated and secured. If a coordinated attack were to take place against thousands, or millions of these devices, they absolutely could be used to shutter an electric grid in under a minute by inducing a triplen wave:
We're running out of gas on the witch hunt bus here and we could sure use some help. Its hard work trying to convince americans to give a shit about the red scare nearly 30 years after the fall of the soviet union.
America cant have this cake and eat it too. The nation insisted on a two-party system that discriminated against independents to guarantee the unilateral ability of the ruling class to dictate the terms of 'freedom' and 'democracy' both at home and abroad. Now, its saddled with an illiterate profiteer as its head of state, and hes doing a rather poor job of keeping the curtain closed on who actually runs america. In other words, America cannot paradoxically insist on trade partners they also consider enemy states. Its almost as beguiling as, say, the american tendency to fight wars for peace.
Congratulations. You've rolled back net neutrality and by acquiescing your fight with the FTC, have set a precedent for adhering to the letter of the law for throttling data. It might not help Americans who expect affordable, fast broadband service similar to what we see in the EU, but it at least prevents telecom companies from shoveling bullshit with impunity.
there are other negatives to losing common carrier status that you arent factoring into the bottom line, but time is a great teacher. You're now open to direct lawsuits from angry moms who blame you for the sin of pornography, as well as media moguls who blame you for piracy.
All this work to be compatible with Linux is only being done because Microsoft is desperately trying to get a ticket on the cloud moneytrain its ignored for nearly a decade. So far bootstrapping things like Kinect, office, and exchange to their cloud offering has boosted its presence in much the same way that paying hosting providers to switch their park-web sites to IIS static pages improved their netcraft numbers.
Curt and Tar from the command prompt
i presume we mean curl but this is moot. Anyone who needed curl or tar "from the command prompt" (as if it came anywhere else?) has their macbook, or their linux system...and they have it for free in the amazon cloud as well as the 40 some other openstack players that exist.
it was mentioned on Slashdot in the past about OpenSSH being ported natively to Win32 in certain early builds.
Embrace extend extinguish only works when theres a product with a bottom line people are willing to choose. "becoming linux" isnt doing anything to Redmond but wasting programmer hours trying to catch a lizard. Larry Ellison learned this fact with MySQL. GPL is an armored license that prohibits the type of early nineties chicanery Microsoft was absolutely legendary for pulling on small companies and startup projects.
Deemons now run in the background even with the command prompt closed.
Daemons,Welcome to 1991. You could also just pick a cloud provider with a competent ecosystem that will natively run any of five or more major linux distributions that your programmers are already familiar with.
Having exposed local police for bungling ineptitude in the face of a hostage crisis, it seems authorities have no choice but to find every potential crime they can think of to charge this kid with. This includes, beguilingly, arson?
Remember: this kid did not kill anyone. at best, he lied to police and should be tried for that. The real question is, what disciplinary action was taken against the officer or officers who fired on an unarmed man in his own home? Was a warrant issued to allow police to enter the premises? What steps were taken to de-escalate the hostage situation? did the police wait for a trained negotiator or attempt to make contact with the person?
1. Facebook is busted for some privacy violation users glossed over in the terms of service but are now outraged about.
2. Facebook admits its doing the thing it said it would, but that everything is working to help users.
3. some nameless third party chimes in and accidentally shows the meat counter to the cattle.
4. Facebook walks back its original statement, revises its terms to explicitly refuse service to the third party that outed it, and everyones fine.
The only winning move is not to play. Just delete the god damn app already and leave facebook. Absolutely none of it is for your direct benefit. A multinational megacorporation has found a way to turn your friends into a carrot you'll follow into a slaughterhouse that carves up your personal information and sells it to the real customers.
Healthcare, prisons, and education, should never be run for profit, as this amounts to an automatic restriction of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Prisoners can fight back. Refuse to participate in any work release program. Refuse to participate in any prison line work program (laundry, kitchen, etc...) Making private prisons a losing financial proposition will force the state to implement prison reforms.
What might be common sense for us is certainly not for newcomers to PGP or those being made to use PGP in a corporate environment as part of a 'best practice'
when you're sending a PGP message, it needs to be plaintext. HTML is simply too dangerous to be disarmed in every conceivable application. This means your email messages should be read in plaintext for PGP.
I also think the EFF is a bit paranoid in issuing a 'full stop' to using PGP until this is fixed. At worst, you should send a link to the PGP document you'd like the user to read (in plaintext of course.)
Paranoid Caucasians living in isolated suburbs. Now im sure this will get downvoted to oblivion, but unless and until you've lived with these people you've no clue just how willing a specific segment of the American population is to buy just one more thing to "keep their family safe."
I moved back into my parents old home in an Ohio suburb temporarily after they died in order to auction off the estate and sell the property. Granted this was in 2010 so the economy was about as stable a foundation as the Los Angles I had lived the bulk of my adult life in, but I was prepared for a long sale anyhow. In the first two weeks I lived there I got 3 neighbors banging on my door announcing themselves and nearly demanding to know who i was, who my wife was, what school my kids went to, and how many cars I owned. I was left politely at some point with a cake from Wal-Mart and a suggested church. At the end of the month I received a phone call from the local police department reporting a burglar had entered the home and had been detained after claiming to be my husband. After confirming he was indeed my husband with police, who seemed stunned to see actual gay people, life settled back down to normal with the exception of the now monthly 'jesus saves' fliers that would arrive unsolicited on my car windshield from neighbourhood kids.
A month passes and we're both playing Borderlands in the living room when we notice a handful of police walking alongside the house to the back yard. The neighbours who were standing proudly in our driveway, had called the police on our utility meter reader, who was black. After enduring a half hour with the neighbours explaining everything from make-believe methamphetamine addicts to the second amendment and gun ownership, they left.
long story short, we finally sold the property and moved back to LA, but the obsession with night prowlers, evil lurking in the shadows, drug addicts, and the paranoid gun culture was pretty shocking. This was a city thats biggest crime was a McDonalds truck that had lost its brakes and slid backwards into an adjacent sandwich shop, yet everyone on the block was geared up like a K-Town shop owner in the LA riots. It made zero sense...however if you're selling a doorbell that profiles people, ive got just the customer.
throwing effort at a money train that left the station 6 years ago with Steve Jobs as its conductor is a classic microsoft blunder. Steam is for games, google is for word processing, Chrome is for browsing...what are you for again?
pack it in and put the paddles on your cloud platform while you still have a chance to compete with it...and for god sakes stop asking cloud customers for feature suggestions you just come across as desperate and directionless as always.
in much the same way bribing GoDaddy to switch their parked domains to IIS increased the total presence of IIS on the internet, so shall moving yet another microsoft product into Azure help increase the presence of Microsofts cloud offering.
News from the future: Microsoft abruply shutters Azure 8 years after its release due to poor performance and not listening to a litany of developer complaints about the bugs in blob storage and the inability to support native docker without some sort of in-house developed version.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Walmart is all well and good, but the full simulation and execution of the experience is also well within the scope of this project. Including:
1. Driving to a walmart at 4 AM and buying 10lbs of bubba burgers because thats just what dinner counts as now that you're married.
2. careening through 40 acres of empty parking lot at twice the posted speed limit because this is private property and any lane marking is merely a suggestion
3. Furiously trying to work a full size trampoline, basket ball hoop, or swing set into your car on a scorching august day because we cant do Disney this year and this will shut the goddamn kids up for a few weeks.
4. Swinging around the back of a walmart at 5 PM at four times the speed limit, dodging loading bays and trucks, to pick up a little caesar hot and ready because walmarts frozen pizzas take too long.
5. Mindlessly idling a large SUV in the fire lane over a period of hours because your wife had to get some last minute bullshit for the pasta salad tomorrow and you didnt want to get dressed.
6. Trying to avoid rolling over some weird noodle-chicken-cream whats-it in the parking spot you picked thats easily been there for 3 days, but inevitably just slowly rolling through it, grinding it into your tires where the smell will linger for a month.
Developer: its 7 PM and Im sure no one will mind if i patch this bug before I leave for vacation. better grab a quick slice of pie!
Sysadmin: Its 3 AM and the event servers are all down, the database servers are all reporting max disk, and our payment card processing company has us flagged as a war criminal. Someone order a pizza and charge it to the last dev in git blame, while I rebuild this ZFS pool. again.
Prime day is a reaction to Alibaba and Aliexpress.com. They both generate nearly a trillion dollars of revenue across the world with 11/11 day sales. 11/11 day itself is a celebration called 'singles day' in china, where students started celebrating being single around 1993 on university campuses.
amazon day is a pointless branded knockoff Bezos hopes will generate just as much money. Assuming no one finds out about aliexpress and they somehow magically stop competing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That. That is the original Q. I, nor anyone else working in AI or machine learning, have the slightest fucking idea what Q# is other than yet another attempt by microsoft to embrace, extend, extinguish a language.
you'd think after 30 years of this shit they'd learn to quit.
thats the budget for the TSA to be given the ability to dissect your luggage and look for known weapons and bombs that have been previously used in airline hijackings. The average middle school in america is 10-20 million dollars. The average library is about 4 million dollars. The war in Afghanistan, which has now run for 17 years, has cost 1.7 trillion dollars.
the point isnt to split hairs about what the money could be used for, its to give pause to consider that every dollar we spend defending against an enemy we largely spend 40 years creating, we could spend money on preventative measures like education and reducing our dependency on unnecessary and endless wars of aggression.
Whats ruined the world cup? A few things about FIFA soccer in general should have been coffin nails for the agency..
1. fixed matches and corruption. FIFA has a long, long history of total corruption as it pertains to the sport. Despots have chaired it with impunity and most of the executives could easily mistake a trombone for a four star hotel.
2. Racism. turning the live coverage black and white is a novel idea to give viewers at home a sense of when racism is taking place in stadiums, but its a hollow gesture designed to punish the many for the actions of the few. Something I might add which is illegal under the Geneva conventions. Instead of cleaning up racist actors and venues, FIFA has decided the saturation knob is good enough.
3. Cowards.: plain and simple. Mediocre "superstar" players paid millions that feign injury and agony at the slightest encounter with even a slightly more qualified opponent. Youre representing an entire country. Act like it.
4. Riots.: Riots and rioters are something FIFA has decided must remain a cost socialized to the general public. Instead of stripping teams of wins or removing them from future play, FIFA stares at its collective shoes and does nothing. Disclosure: My Citroen burned like a fucking candle during the Glasgow riots, so i might not be impartial to this point.
Most are familiar with warnings, watches, and amber alerts but little has been done to explain newly overhauled codes for programmers dealing with EAS beacons. The following can be expected to show up in data streams soon.
Amberish alert: a little girl hasnt been abducted but a local law enforcement agency also needs to justify their next years budget. this code is issued for 5 hours, broadcast on news outlets, and then the girls actual location with a family member is revealed.
The amber alert, Sponsored by AT&T: a major telco carrier has intentionally kidnapped a preteen and, if you find her, you receive a coupon for a free large soda with any papa johns pizza order of a large pizza.
Amber alert pro 2005 millennial edition: this is an alert sent from stations running an old copy of windows. no one knows how to turn it off.
uncomfortable disaster alert: issued during slow-rolling man-made disasters for which no accountable agency or individual can be found. School shootings, the Flynt water crisis, honeybee extinction, and collapsing roads and infrastructure are defined as triggering this alert, however the content of the alert is simply an escapist series of movie previews and trailers for upcoming video games.
presidential alert, the best: Get ready for this one because its yuge, really. Awaken at odd hours of the night to rambling screeds such as "jeb is a waste" and "the wall is the best, because america is the best, and, you wouldnt believe it but its gonna be great, trust me." Boggle as congress has legislatively redacted any ability to disable this alert.
Wife: Honey what do we want to eat from the deli counter?
Greybeard husband: Oh i dont know, maybe the square root of a zero inch submarine sandwich with extra semicolon quote semicolon and a side of drop table customers, payroll, sales.
[incoherent screaming from the office]
Greybeard husband: ah! looks like someone already ordered one!
If you're shopping online with your user agent set as
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25
You might pay more than someone coming from Firefox or Chrome. This wont impact IE or Edge users as they prefer to shop in person for the most flavorful brand of crayon.
income share was popular in the 50's because we hadnt evolved lending to a predatory level. sixty years ago you could take on student loans, fail to pay them, declare bankruptcy, and discharge those loans. lenders sought to avoid this by offering alternatives to future students. not that they needed them, as sixty years ago you could go to college with a part time job.
in 2018 debt is federally secured. it cant be discharged, so lenders can garnish your wages, and the wages of anyone who helped secure your student loans, until the end of time. There is no need for income share agreements, unless youre a lender trying to diversify your predatory lending tactics to avoid scrutiny by the SEC or your investors.
Frankly this is hardly news, let alone tech news. Facebook has been from its very inception a tool to harvest personal data for sale as analytic data to corporations seeking to exploit the human condition in the sale and marketing of products and services. The simplest way to curtail this behavior is to stop using facebook. There is no legislative process, no interlocutory system of plugins and ad blocking, and no personal privacy setting that is more powerful or directly effective.
As any Slashdotter knows, smart lights, switches, and power relays are poorly regulated and secured.
If a coordinated attack were to take place against thousands, or millions of these devices,
they absolutely could be used to shutter an electric grid in under a minute by inducing a triplen wave:
https://electricalbaba.com/tri...
We're running out of gas on the witch hunt bus here and we could sure use some help. Its hard work trying to convince americans to give a shit about the red scare nearly 30 years after the fall of the soviet union.
America cant have this cake and eat it too. The nation insisted on a two-party system that discriminated against independents to guarantee the unilateral ability of the ruling class to dictate the terms of 'freedom' and 'democracy' both at home and abroad. Now, its saddled with an illiterate profiteer as its head of state, and hes doing a rather poor job of keeping the curtain closed on who actually runs america. In other words, America cannot paradoxically insist on trade partners they also consider enemy states. Its almost as beguiling as, say, the american tendency to fight wars for peace.
For those looking for alternatives, https://gitlab.com/ is open source and can easily import all your projects from github.
gitea is a good light weight alternative for those seeking to take back their repos as well:
https://gitea.io/en-US/
dont wait until Microsoft turns this into Github Professional platinum edition 2019 with Minecraft 3D integration and Azure store support.
The FTC is barred from regulating common carriers
Congratulations. You've rolled back net neutrality and by acquiescing your fight with the FTC, have set a precedent for adhering to the letter of the law for throttling data. It might not help Americans who expect affordable, fast broadband service similar to what we see in the EU, but it at least prevents telecom companies from shoveling bullshit with impunity.
there are other negatives to losing common carrier status that you arent factoring into the bottom line, but time is a great teacher. You're now open to direct lawsuits from angry moms who blame you for the sin of pornography, as well as media moguls who blame you for piracy.
All this work to be compatible with Linux is only being done because Microsoft is desperately trying to get a ticket on the cloud moneytrain its ignored for nearly a decade. So far bootstrapping things like Kinect, office, and exchange to their cloud offering has boosted its presence in much the same way that paying hosting providers to switch their park-web sites to IIS static pages improved their netcraft numbers.
Curt and Tar from the command prompt
i presume we mean curl but this is moot. Anyone who needed curl or tar "from the command prompt" (as if it came anywhere else?) has their macbook, or their linux system...and they have it for free in the amazon cloud as well as the 40 some other openstack players that exist.
it was mentioned on Slashdot in the past about OpenSSH being ported natively to Win32 in certain early builds.
Embrace extend extinguish only works when theres a product with a bottom line people are willing to choose. "becoming linux" isnt doing anything to Redmond but wasting programmer hours trying to catch a lizard. Larry Ellison learned this fact with MySQL. GPL is an armored license that prohibits the type of early nineties chicanery Microsoft was absolutely legendary for pulling on small companies and startup projects.
Deemons now run in the background even with the command prompt closed.
Daemons,Welcome to 1991. You could also just pick a cloud provider with a competent ecosystem that will natively run any of five or more major linux distributions that your programmers are already familiar with.
Having exposed local police for bungling ineptitude in the face of a hostage crisis, it seems authorities have no choice but to find every potential crime they can think of to charge this kid with. This includes, beguilingly, arson?
Remember: this kid did not kill anyone. at best, he lied to police and should be tried for that. The real question is, what disciplinary action was taken against the officer or officers who fired on an unarmed man in his own home? Was a warrant issued to allow police to enter the premises? What steps were taken to de-escalate the hostage situation? did the police wait for a trained negotiator or attempt to make contact with the person?
1. Facebook is busted for some privacy violation users glossed over in the terms of service but are now outraged about.
2. Facebook admits its doing the thing it said it would, but that everything is working to help users.
3. some nameless third party chimes in and accidentally shows the meat counter to the cattle.
4. Facebook walks back its original statement, revises its terms to explicitly refuse service to the third party that outed it, and everyones fine.
The only winning move is not to play. Just delete the god damn app already and leave facebook. Absolutely none of it is for your direct benefit. A multinational megacorporation has found a way to turn your friends into a carrot you'll follow into a slaughterhouse that carves up your personal information and sells it to the real customers.
Healthcare, prisons, and education, should never be run for profit, as this amounts to an automatic restriction of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Prisoners can fight back. Refuse to participate in any work release program. Refuse to participate in any prison line work program (laundry, kitchen, etc...) Making private prisons a losing financial proposition will force the state to implement prison reforms.
What might be common sense for us is certainly not for newcomers to PGP or those being made to use PGP in a corporate environment as part of a 'best practice'
when you're sending a PGP message, it needs to be plaintext. HTML is simply too dangerous to be disarmed in every conceivable application. This means your email messages should be read in plaintext for PGP.
I also think the EFF is a bit paranoid in issuing a 'full stop' to using PGP until this is fixed. At worst, you should send a link to the PGP document you'd like the user to read (in plaintext of course.)
Paranoid Caucasians living in isolated suburbs. Now im sure this will get downvoted to oblivion, but unless and until you've lived with these people you've no clue just how willing a specific segment of the American population is to buy just one more thing to "keep their family safe."
I moved back into my parents old home in an Ohio suburb temporarily after they died in order to auction off the estate and sell the property. Granted this was in 2010 so the economy was about as stable a foundation as the Los Angles I had lived the bulk of my adult life in, but I was prepared for a long sale anyhow. In the first two weeks I lived there I got 3 neighbors banging on my door announcing themselves and nearly demanding to know who i was, who my wife was, what school my kids went to, and how many cars I owned. I was left politely at some point with a cake from Wal-Mart and a suggested church. At the end of the month I received a phone call from the local police department reporting a burglar had entered the home and had been detained after claiming to be my husband. After confirming he was indeed my husband with police, who seemed stunned to see actual gay people, life settled back down to normal with the exception of the now monthly 'jesus saves' fliers that would arrive unsolicited on my car windshield from neighbourhood kids.
A month passes and we're both playing Borderlands in the living room when we notice a handful of police walking alongside the house to the back yard. The neighbours who were standing proudly in our driveway, had called the police on our utility meter reader, who was black. After enduring a half hour with the neighbours explaining everything from make-believe methamphetamine addicts to the second amendment and gun ownership, they left.
long story short, we finally sold the property and moved back to LA, but the obsession with night prowlers, evil lurking in the shadows, drug addicts, and the paranoid gun culture was pretty shocking. This was a city thats biggest crime was a McDonalds truck that had lost its brakes and slid backwards into an adjacent sandwich shop, yet everyone on the block was geared up like a K-Town shop owner in the LA riots. It made zero sense...however if you're selling a doorbell that profiles people, ive got just the customer.
throwing effort at a money train that left the station 6 years ago with Steve Jobs as its conductor is a classic microsoft blunder. Steam is for games, google is for word processing, Chrome is for browsing...what are you for again?
pack it in and put the paddles on your cloud platform while you still have a chance to compete with it...and for god sakes stop asking cloud customers for feature suggestions you just come across as desperate and directionless as always.
in much the same way bribing GoDaddy to switch their parked domains to IIS increased the total presence of IIS on the internet, so shall moving yet another microsoft product into Azure help increase the presence of Microsofts cloud offering.
News from the future: Microsoft abruply shutters Azure 8 years after its release due to poor performance and not listening to a litany of developer complaints about the bugs in blob storage and the inability to support native docker without some sort of in-house developed version.