If you know me in real life, you know that I hate stupid people. You also know that I hate pushy sales people. For example, a few years ago, I was walking into a restaurant for dinner when a salesman from a car dealership across the road came running up behind me in the parking lot. He introduced himself as, we’ll call him Bob, and immediately began asking me questions about my truck. In case you didn’t already know, I drive a Chevy Avalanche. Anyways, at the time, I had only had my truck for a couple of weeks. The sales guy started asking me if I like my truck and if I got it for a good price. At first, I thought this was just some guy that was also eating at the same restaurant and was genuinely interested in my truck. But, I was starving and quickly informed the guy that he was stopping me from eating. If he wanted to know more about my truck, I told him there was a Chevrolet dealership directly across the road and he could go there for more answers. That’s when the guy explained to me that he was a salesman from the dealership across the road. WTF?!?
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For most of you, St. Patrick’s Day is a day for drinking green beer and pretending to be Irish. For me, it’s a day that marks the day I began dating the most amazing woman I’ve ever met. This St. Patrick’s Day happened to mark five years of our relationship. To celebrate (my fiancee putting up with me for this long), I flew us out to Las Vegas for the weekend. I’ve been to Vegas several times before, but this was my fiancee’s first time there. In my usual style of writing, I waited until I got back to write this post. So, here are some words about my weekend excursion.
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I’m getting sick of hearing about AT&T and other cellphone service providers bitch about how they have to throttle their networks because we, the consumers, are such bandwidth hogs. I just read an article written by John Donovan, a Senior EVP of AT&T technology and network operations, on his own blog where he says that throttling unlimited data plans is necessary because smartphone owners consume too much data. Umm?!?!? WTF?!?!? If your network can’t support the massive amounts of data being consumed, you shouldn’t be selling as many cellphones and signing up so many users! Even though you know your network has issues with handling large volumes of data, you still have no problem collecting money from new member registrations and cellphone purchases!
I think of this just like airline ticket sells. Airlines know how many passengers their planes can hold. Even though they’re allowed to sell more tickets than they have seats for a given flight, they still have a max limit of how many tickets can be sold for that flight. If the plane can only hold 200 passengers per flight, they cannot sell 10,000 tickets for that flight. If your network can’t handle more users, don’t sell any more cellphones and don’t signup any new members! Instead, you’d rather point your dirty finger at us and say we’re the problem.
As long as you continue collecting our money, you have NO right to throttle unlimited data plans and then blame it on us. You are the reason for data throttling! AT&T, you are the company that got in bed with Apple as the original exclusive carrier for the first iPhone. What did you think was going to happen? Now that we have even more smartphones to choose from, you should have known that your network would get crippled. You are bringing in billions of dollars every year from us, but you still blame us for your shortcomings.
Just do us all a favor and stop your bullshit about blaming us for your mistakes!
You can find the link to the original article over at Slashdot.
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I just read this on Slashdot and wanted to re-post it as I am totally 100% on board with the original author:
“Obama’s State of the Union focused on the return of manufacturing jobs to America. This New Yorker story makes the case that the manufacturing jobs aren’t going to come back, and he should be focusing on software. Quoting: ‘Yes, there are industries where manufacturing jobs can be brought back to America through proper tax incentives and training programs. But maybe he should have talked more about the things that he could do to keep software jobs here. He spoke of federal funding for university and scientific research. But a real pro-software agenda would also include reforming patent law to stop trolling (and perhaps eliminating software patents altogether); increasing H-1B visas for highly skilled coders; stopping Congress from defunding DARPA, whose research helped create Siri, the iPhone’s talking assistant; and opening up the unused, federally owned wireless spectrum. That agenda wouldn’t bring Apple’s manufacturing jobs back, but it would help to keep the company’s coding jobs here. And it would certainly help develop “an economy that’s built to last.”‘”
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As most of you have pointed out, I haven’t been actively posting articles on this site like I use to. You may also have read that’s because I am currently working on yet another startup. I can’t go into details about that startup just yet. But, I can tell you about one small piece of it. In fact, it’s a piece that has actually spun off into its own side-project.
