I'm 50, and I agree with you, but it helps that 75% of my job is stuff other than programming, and despite working for a large company, my work is seasonal (related to sports), so it's always changing.
I'm 50 - my kids were tykes when I was 35, and I remember how stressful it was to meet my obligations at work - however, that didn't mean I was dissatisfied with the job. But the job wasn't causing the stress; the kids weren't causing the stress; the new financial obligations of raising kids weren't causing the stress - all of it combined caused some stress, but I still liked my job, and was happy doing it.
On the same laptop that he'll use living under the bridge? Actually, my post had less to do with internet access - he could have gone the library, for all I know - and more to do with the fact that someone in such a state is bothering reading and responding to slashdot.
Well, really... I think people just start to get bored by that time. They were really excited to get their job 10(+ or -) years ago, and now they're thinking, "is this really it? Come in every day and do the same thing every day for the rest of my life?"
I would bet people who (willingly) change jobs every so often are lot happier, and I would guess that if your job has a variety of things to do so that you're never doing the same thing for a very long time, you might be happier. I also think if you get to see the results of your work - the non-financial payday resulting from your work, something you can be proud of, then you might be happier.
I'm not sure the author reached the right conclusion. Trying to make sure I got all my work done when we were having kids was difficult, to be sure, and extra stressful - but then the kids grew up a bit and required less of me; they were in school all day. Now they are late teens, and while we still spend plenty of time together, I don't feel stressed about having to take care of them.
Maybe people just start getting really bored with the same-old, same-old. Maybe that's around the time people start facing midlife crisis. I know my career has turned and twisted and doesn't resemble anything like when I first started - I've never been bored at work, and I actually really like my job because of it. Always new stuff, always new challenges. If I was a desk jockey, I'd probably have been hating my job since long before age 35.
Verizon started selling unlimited smartphone data plans in February of this year, and the carrier said at the time that it would deliver video to customers at the same resolution used by streaming video companies. "We deliver whatever the content provider gives us. We don't manipulate the data," Verizon told Ars in February.
No, it's really not a good thing. Granted, most people don't care or won't notice, which is why T-Mobile's auto-opt-in, but with the choice to opt out, makes T-Mobile's version of this "throttling" acceptable.
It sounds like Verizon sold a lot of unlimited plans with the understanding they would not modify video, and now they are not even giving their customers a choice. That alone warrants a lawsuit, or at least letting customers cancel plans with ZERO penalty (maybe even a kickback to pay for a switch to another service).
But there's really two other points here. First is that people can use their phones as hot-spots (or use something like slimport) and so they will get poor video quality watching on larger devices. But the second, as others have pointed out, is that the FCC is saying mobile data counts as broadband access, so you can look at it as two separate things (which is probably the best option), or you can say Verizon is now modifying the broadband data their customers are paying for, which certainly should be a violation of NN, if not something else.
You and the post you were responding too are absolutely correct about resolutions and streaming quality on smaller devices, it's true, but if you are using your phone as a hotspot for your laptop (mine has a UHD display), or you're using slimport (also up to 4K) to display on a full size TV, the issue is you can't opt out or change a profile (unlike T-Mobile's version of this, which is the only thing that makes it acceptable). I'm not saying I personally actually use my phone that way (at this point, I don't - although we have had internet outage where I used my phone's hotspot for my FireTV), I'm saying I completely understand the problem.
Plus, you're always going to get the people claiming they can tell the difference on their 5 inch phone.
True. But I can tell when I'm using my phone as a hotspot for my laptop, and I can tell when I'm outputting directly from my phone using a slimport adapter. So the issue is, unlike T-Mobile's plan, you can't opt out.... AND they were selling their unlimited service stating that the video wouldn't be altered, so anybody who got a contract up until now should be able to freely cancel their plans.
Depends... if you see most of the biggies in the theaters, then unless you like re-watching movies a lot, $60/year may not get you a lot. It's a very limited catalog compared to the bulk of what's out there. Of course, there's more than that... if they include all the Touchstone pictures, and they include their whole catalog and not just some limited selection every month (and if they stop "vaulting" the classics), then it certainly would be a clear win.
Of course it does - especially when it comes to Ubuntu versions, but android apps will say something like "requires Android Marshmallow or better." It lost it's kitsch a long time ago.
I had DirecTV, and it had to be absolutely pouring in order for the signal to go out, to the point we'd likely lose power anyway. If you lost your signal from an "average" rainfall, then your dish was probably not aligned very well to begin with. But as a company, dealing with DirecTV has been leaps and bounds over Comcast. I only canceled and went Comcast because I was already getting internet from them, and the internet from DTV was a non-starter. Of course, a couple of months later AT&T bought them and it became a different ballgame, but I'm stuck with Comcast for another year. I have not had any experience with Spectrum or Charter, but DirecTV always got the best customer service ratings.
Call it 4.4 KitKat, and I'm fine, call it "KitKat" and I don't know WTF version you are talking about, or if it's newer or order than Marshmallow or Lollipop. Android 8 Oreo. OK. Ubuntu and Debian can kiss my ass, too.
It's only a problem around here during Olympics and the World Cup. But most of that is broadcast, so there's at least that. NBC is a terrible host for the Olympics no matter what service you get.
Well... I had Comcast for internet, and DirecTV for TV, and it was costing over $200/month and I wasn't even getting any premium channels (although I had DVR service and three TVs hooked up with the little DirecTV receiver things). I was also paying for Netflix.
I have no other high speed choice for internet, so I dropped DTV and added basic cable (Comcast's "double play"). I have 75mbs (speed test actually shows > 90mbs),and basic cable (but only on one TV) for about half the price I was paying before.
But I have NO DVR service anymore, which means no recording and skipping commercials. So I augmented what I had with Hulu+ (commercial free option). Some networks are just being douchebags with their content, and you can't get them on a streaming service commercial free without having to actually buy the episodes. Sling looks like the most comprehensive option for me, but it's not commercial free - and while you can sometimes skip through commercials anyway, it's not always the case.
So now I pay a bit more than half what I was paying, but I am missing out on a lot of stuff I used to watch. On the upside, there's a lot of original content that is quite good, if not better than what the networks are putting out.
When my Comcast contract runs out, I will switch to internet only... I did buy an antenna, though. Unfortunately, I got a lot of channels hooking it directly up to the TV, but less than half hooking it up to my Hauppage card in my intended MythTV box, which I've just given up on.
I recall a lot of the engineering students (and a handful of physics and math students I knew, but admittedly not me) were in the bands the liberal arts students would go see at local venues and who thought themselves enlightened because they knew the local music scene.
I work for a television production studio. I started as a straightforward programmer out of college doing some graphics programs. That was over 20 years ago, and as technology evolved (and my "specialty" of programming silicon graphics workstations went by the wayside), I ended up writing tools and utilities for a variety of departments, requiring me to learn specific details about how different aspects television production works. Now I actually do very little programming, and when I do it's a different language depending on whether I'm writing a stand-alone interface, web services, and each graphics system has it's own scripting (even if they use VBS or Python, they all end up being different). I do handle the technical parts of AR, and I work with graphics operators to help them get data from 3rd parties; I have rigged up studio lighting and monitoring to be triggered by external events... I would say HR doesn't have a clue about it - my managers and the VP of my department are well aware, though.
My breadth of specific technical knowledge is what makes me valuable to my company. I'm not saying I can't be replaced, I'm saying my unique set of knowledge that covers several different needed areas would make it difficult. That makes my "specialty" the broad range of things I can do. That specific breadth makes me valuable to my company... but unfortunately, only to my company.
You'd just be distancing and obfuscating the problem. Any committee would end up being some desirable position to have; people would start backroom dealing to be on the committee, wherein they could then be bought and sold, just like most politicians already are. It's a nice idea, though. Of course, it's a nice idea when an agency would know when to give up expending tax payer dollars. But Cooper is a high profile case, so someone must think the press is good.
Because they don't want to think people can think they can wait out prosecution. I agree that, at this point, it's entirely useless. And I promise you, many times the amount of the stolen money has already been spent (and I'm talking tax dollars).
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I'm 50, and I agree with you, but it helps that 75% of my job is stuff other than programming, and despite working for a large company, my work is seasonal (related to sports), so it's always changing.
I'm 50 - my kids were tykes when I was 35, and I remember how stressful it was to meet my obligations at work - however, that didn't mean I was dissatisfied with the job. But the job wasn't causing the stress; the kids weren't causing the stress; the new financial obligations of raising kids weren't causing the stress - all of it combined caused some stress, but I still liked my job, and was happy doing it.
On the same laptop that he'll use living under the bridge? Actually, my post had less to do with internet access - he could have gone the library, for all I know - and more to do with the fact that someone in such a state is bothering reading and responding to slashdot.
And yet, here you are, reading and responding to slashdot. Interesting.
Well, really... I think people just start to get bored by that time. They were really excited to get their job 10(+ or -) years ago, and now they're thinking, "is this really it? Come in every day and do the same thing every day for the rest of my life?"
I would bet people who (willingly) change jobs every so often are lot happier, and I would guess that if your job has a variety of things to do so that you're never doing the same thing for a very long time, you might be happier. I also think if you get to see the results of your work - the non-financial payday resulting from your work, something you can be proud of, then you might be happier.
Not my experience, either.
I'm not sure the author reached the right conclusion. Trying to make sure I got all my work done when we were having kids was difficult, to be sure, and extra stressful - but then the kids grew up a bit and required less of me; they were in school all day. Now they are late teens, and while we still spend plenty of time together, I don't feel stressed about having to take care of them.
Maybe people just start getting really bored with the same-old, same-old. Maybe that's around the time people start facing midlife crisis. I know my career has turned and twisted and doesn't resemble anything like when I first started - I've never been bored at work, and I actually really like my job because of it. Always new stuff, always new challenges. If I was a desk jockey, I'd probably have been hating my job since long before age 35.
Verizon started selling unlimited smartphone data plans in February of this year, and the carrier said at the time that it would deliver video to customers at the same resolution used by streaming video companies. "We deliver whatever the content provider gives us. We don't manipulate the data," Verizon told Ars in February.
No, it's really not a good thing. Granted, most people don't care or won't notice, which is why T-Mobile's auto-opt-in, but with the choice to opt out, makes T-Mobile's version of this "throttling" acceptable.
It sounds like Verizon sold a lot of unlimited plans with the understanding they would not modify video, and now they are not even giving their customers a choice. That alone warrants a lawsuit, or at least letting customers cancel plans with ZERO penalty (maybe even a kickback to pay for a switch to another service).
But there's really two other points here. First is that people can use their phones as hot-spots (or use something like slimport) and so they will get poor video quality watching on larger devices. But the second, as others have pointed out, is that the FCC is saying mobile data counts as broadband access, so you can look at it as two separate things (which is probably the best option), or you can say Verizon is now modifying the broadband data their customers are paying for, which certainly should be a violation of NN, if not something else.
You and the post you were responding too are absolutely correct about resolutions and streaming quality on smaller devices, it's true, but if you are using your phone as a hotspot for your laptop (mine has a UHD display), or you're using slimport (also up to 4K) to display on a full size TV, the issue is you can't opt out or change a profile (unlike T-Mobile's version of this, which is the only thing that makes it acceptable). I'm not saying I personally actually use my phone that way (at this point, I don't - although we have had internet outage where I used my phone's hotspot for my FireTV), I'm saying I completely understand the problem.
Plus, you're always going to get the people claiming they can tell the difference on their 5 inch phone.
There's a tethering "bucket?" Why would someone even want Verizon?
True. But I can tell when I'm using my phone as a hotspot for my laptop, and I can tell when I'm outputting directly from my phone using a slimport adapter. So the issue is, unlike T-Mobile's plan, you can't opt out.... AND they were selling their unlimited service stating that the video wouldn't be altered, so anybody who got a contract up until now should be able to freely cancel their plans.
Depends... if you see most of the biggies in the theaters, then unless you like re-watching movies a lot, $60/year may not get you a lot. It's a very limited catalog compared to the bulk of what's out there. Of course, there's more than that... if they include all the Touchstone pictures, and they include their whole catalog and not just some limited selection every month (and if they stop "vaulting" the classics), then it certainly would be a clear win.
Of course it does - especially when it comes to Ubuntu versions, but android apps will say something like "requires Android Marshmallow or better." It lost it's kitsch a long time ago.
I had DirecTV, and it had to be absolutely pouring in order for the signal to go out, to the point we'd likely lose power anyway. If you lost your signal from an "average" rainfall, then your dish was probably not aligned very well to begin with. But as a company, dealing with DirecTV has been leaps and bounds over Comcast. I only canceled and went Comcast because I was already getting internet from them, and the internet from DTV was a non-starter. Of course, a couple of months later AT&T bought them and it became a different ballgame, but I'm stuck with Comcast for another year. I have not had any experience with Spectrum or Charter, but DirecTV always got the best customer service ratings.
Call it 4.4 KitKat, and I'm fine, call it "KitKat" and I don't know WTF version you are talking about, or if it's newer or order than Marshmallow or Lollipop. Android 8 Oreo. OK. Ubuntu and Debian can kiss my ass, too.
It's only a problem around here during Olympics and the World Cup. But most of that is broadcast, so there's at least that. NBC is a terrible host for the Olympics no matter what service you get.
Did you have concerns about lightening and grounding your antenna?
Well... I had Comcast for internet, and DirecTV for TV, and it was costing over $200/month and I wasn't even getting any premium channels (although I had DVR service and three TVs hooked up with the little DirecTV receiver things). I was also paying for Netflix.
I have no other high speed choice for internet, so I dropped DTV and added basic cable (Comcast's "double play"). I have 75mbs (speed test actually shows > 90mbs),and basic cable (but only on one TV) for about half the price I was paying before.
But I have NO DVR service anymore, which means no recording and skipping commercials. So I augmented what I had with Hulu+ (commercial free option). Some networks are just being douchebags with their content, and you can't get them on a streaming service commercial free without having to actually buy the episodes. Sling looks like the most comprehensive option for me, but it's not commercial free - and while you can sometimes skip through commercials anyway, it's not always the case.
So now I pay a bit more than half what I was paying, but I am missing out on a lot of stuff I used to watch. On the upside, there's a lot of original content that is quite good, if not better than what the networks are putting out.
When my Comcast contract runs out, I will switch to internet only... I did buy an antenna, though. Unfortunately, I got a lot of channels hooking it directly up to the TV, but less than half hooking it up to my Hauppage card in my intended MythTV box, which I've just given up on.
Shitty compared to what? Comcast? Name a better company.
I recall a lot of the engineering students (and a handful of physics and math students I knew, but admittedly not me) were in the bands the liberal arts students would go see at local venues and who thought themselves enlightened because they knew the local music scene.
I work for a television production studio. I started as a straightforward programmer out of college doing some graphics programs. That was over 20 years ago, and as technology evolved (and my "specialty" of programming silicon graphics workstations went by the wayside), I ended up writing tools and utilities for a variety of departments, requiring me to learn specific details about how different aspects television production works. Now I actually do very little programming, and when I do it's a different language depending on whether I'm writing a stand-alone interface, web services, and each graphics system has it's own scripting (even if they use VBS or Python, they all end up being different). I do handle the technical parts of AR, and I work with graphics operators to help them get data from 3rd parties; I have rigged up studio lighting and monitoring to be triggered by external events... I would say HR doesn't have a clue about it - my managers and the VP of my department are well aware, though.
My breadth of specific technical knowledge is what makes me valuable to my company. I'm not saying I can't be replaced, I'm saying my unique set of knowledge that covers several different needed areas would make it difficult. That makes my "specialty" the broad range of things I can do. That specific breadth makes me valuable to my company... but unfortunately, only to my company.
You'd just be distancing and obfuscating the problem. Any committee would end up being some desirable position to have; people would start backroom dealing to be on the committee, wherein they could then be bought and sold, just like most politicians already are. It's a nice idea, though. Of course, it's a nice idea when an agency would know when to give up expending tax payer dollars. But Cooper is a high profile case, so someone must think the press is good.
Because they don't want to think people can think they can wait out prosecution. I agree that, at this point, it's entirely useless. And I promise you, many times the amount of the stolen money has already been spent (and I'm talking tax dollars).
I hear the Taliban is available.