Who cares

an intrusive ad for online casinos was splashed across the top. That definitely isn't the viewing experience Martin Scorsese imagined for audiences.

He probably also didn't intend for them to fall asleep (during an admittedly decent movie) but he's been allergic to sub 3 hour runtimes since shutter island. He should hire an editor to shorten the runtime and also remove that intrusive ad.

So did IBM absolutely fuck up the deployment despite having hard numbers on max capacity requirements or did NY Public Schools, like every client, be stupid and cheap and underfund the capacity they needed?

One can make a compelling case for either scenario but neither explanation pulls out ahead.

You've never read a SOW have you?

We know what you're talking about. We just reject that you're correct. Maybe 10% of people -- and that's high as hell for an estimate -- are diving in to get the latest and greatest every release. Smartphone sales had been slumping for 2 straight years before the 15, and iPhone profit % of apple's business has been dropping consistently for 9 years.

Must have been a magical 1 GB drive from the future

I cut the cable a while back and really the only thing I've missed is sports. I subscribed to MLB TV and League Pass because I was either out of market traveling or living out of market, and I use those a lot. Fucking Sunday ticket has always been so overpriced that I do not understand how or why people buy it.

When I was living in Germany in 2003, there were tens of thousands of people dying from heat stroke in France alone because they didn't have AC, which is probably the single largest consumer of power in the states. Plenty of power outages and cuts. Huge one took out basically of all Italy and a significant chunk of Switzerland.

They definitely happen, even if the US infrastructure is not nearly up to snuff.

Yeah half the country 2.5 years ago! Here's my shocked face

https://www.bundesnetzagentur....

Granted it's been about two years since I was last in Germany but I had 5G up and down the Rhein and from Frankfurt down to Munich. But hey it's not like people track this:
https://www.nperf.com/en/map/D...

Cue the population density XKCD comic

IBM (IBM) stock surged Thursday to its highest level in more than a decade, boosted by the tech giant's better-than-expected fourth quarter results and the progress of its artificial intelligence initiatives.

Sure makes sense to fire people for what is working and potentially eke out that extra .2% earning. But hey what do I or the workforce know about productivity and remote work? Will never cease to amaze me how f*cking dumb companies can be for no real reason. They don't need to but golly they sure will plow right ahead:

For 2024, Krishna said the company expects revenue to grow in the mid-single digits while generating $12 billion in free cash flow.

This is from their earnings call last week too: https://www.investors.com/news....

Feel free to read about it with citations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They're immune to the short-term decision-making distortions caused by the publicy held corporations' shareholders, their lawyers, and the Fortune 500 Executive class raiding the companies they're supposed to be managing,

What fucking world are you living in where a family business is immune to external pressure? You (almost) cleverly tried to limit the scope of the interference but that's not gonna fly here. The family companies are not in the business of taking losses, especially when it comes to something expensive like owned property

If you're dubious of this lawsuit working it's because you don't know very much about liability and privacy violations of minors. Big bucks here

Now let me help you out here. There are some people who would be considered shareholders in those privately held businesses. I can help you along further if you need it.