This furlough is an attempt to prevent another round of layoffs. Another round of layoffs would cause IBM to reconsider which projects are necessary and start eliminating projects as a whole.
30% pay for 1 week of a 52 week year works out to 0.5% of your salary. It could be worse...
They are. IBM's mainframe business is quickly becoming a dinosaur, cloud or not.
The furlough is a way to prevent another round of layoffs. By furloughing a division, you can save X%. You cant have two rounds of layoffs within 3 months and not destroy existing projects.
People have been calling mainframes "dinosaurs" since the 1990s at least. They still keep selling. The mainframe division was the only hardware division that is still showing growth, according to the article.
Those numbers are from Worth of Web which is not reliable source. Were they making bank? Sure, but nowhere near $1m per month. CPM on websites like these is low.
Are there any possible legal repercussions? I mean, yeah, if they made upwards of 12 million dollars from their site then banning it from reddit isn't exactly going to hurt them...
Seems like some of these homeowners would pay $30k to not have this program, or for some control over the final product. I could imagine some rich guy paying $15k to keep his section of beach off the program.
IBM has had private clouds for a few years now. It's not like AWS where anyone can click and spin up an instance. It's geared towards very large companies. These companies have been reluctant to use AWS, or have specific requirements (hardware requirements, licensing issues, corporate policies). So it's incorrect to say IBM cant build a cloud. IBM's cloud isnt a public facing entity.
That's a really interesting question. Hopefully by opening up the API we'll enable more people to ask and answer those questions. How does social impact upon TV? How does TV impact upon social?
BTW we do trend identification across genres, channels and broader categories. I've often wondered what insights can be gained by looking at entities / things that are trending but not trending as strongly as leading news or sports events? Or looking at the rate of change of trends, i.e. identify slowly emerging trends?
While the majority of TV is pre-recorded or repeated content (think of all the repeats of the Simpsons, Real Housewives of X etc). We know whether a show is recorded or live and the broad categories that a given show falls into. We also break up our trending calculations into different groups based, News, Sports etc and treat the data differently (as seen in the apps)
Also, bear in mind that while a show might be prerecorded it still may show useful data. For instance The Colbert Report and The O' Reilly Factor are usually recorded shows, however they can talk about drastically different things from show to show, and even between segments in shows.
I grant that useful trends are more difficult to extract from sitcoms and other things like that, but just because a show isn't live, doesn't that no useful trending information can be extracted.
We look at trending data over various periods of time, from minute length to longer so we can gather sentence level, show level, series level and even channel level topics.
You might be able to use indexing to show potential bias. If you have access to the data, how often do the major news networks use the word "Obama" versus "President" over the course of the day? Say... Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC.
We actually had a very interesting page up for this in the run up to the 2012 election, comparing and graphing mentions of Obama and Romney on each network along with sentiment analysis of what they said about them.
The page has since been taken down but here are two of our blog posts about the analysis.
I have no tablet so cannot try. Is the data archived? Could I, say, go back and search for "topic X" that might have been in "newsmagazine program Y" in the past month?
Why would POWER be affected by this decision?
Everyone and their mother sells a x86 server. Hard to make a profit when everyone is competing. How many other companies sell POWER hardware?
I have seen people register just for free stuff and not pay attention to conference (Considering tickets get sold out in 2 minutes, if you really want to go for conference sake, its a bummer).
30% pay for 1 week of a 52 week year works out to 0.5% of your salary. It could be worse...