Of Pots and Kettles (but not Easter)

First, I hope everyone has had an enjoyable Easter, if you celebrate it, and an enjoyable weekend if you do not. Now for the thing I actually want to mention here.

This past week, Netflix, one of the companies that pushed so hard for the FCC to take control of Internet access for the US in the name of Net Neutrality (which is actually counter to any one entity controlling access to the Internet, but that's not the point today) and make rules so-called fast lanes and discriminate throttling have admitted they have been throttling their own customers. For years. If you had an AT&T or Verizon connection when you tried to stream something from Netflix, the stream would be throttled down. Of course Netflix is just thinking of its paying customers, trying to help them from exceeding data caps, unlike those ISPs that were trying to keep network congestion down for their paying customers. Netflix was thinking of its customers so much that it neglected to tell any of them they were getting impaired service, or AT&T and Verizon.

Some would take an opportunity like this to say that one should not trust any companies, but I vehemently disagree. You can indeed trust companies, to do what is best for them. The question is what the company's operating philosophy is. Every decision a company makes will be to increase revenue and/or decrease costs, but there are many ways this can be achieved, and it is the philosophy that determines which choice is made.
Remember that; you can trust that the best decision is always being made. Just wonder about why that decision is considered the best.

The Final Week

This is the final week of Lent, for all of those who celebrate the coming of Easter this way, and I hope everyone's resolutions for this season are going well. I did not really have one until about halfway through. It was to finish a project I've been working on for months now, but sadly I had some unfortunate business to take care of last week that prevented me from working on the project. I might be able to finish it this week, but I'm not sure. The end is in sight though! At least for the first phase. Subsequent phases may take even longer. Last time I completed a project like this (I keep saying that because I curiously do not want to say what it is I'm doing, and I don't know why) the first phase took just over a month and what followed took over a year. I certainly hope it won't take that long this time, but we will see.

Things are Starting!

I know several games have already come out this year, but it seems like the season has just started. Last week we saw Far Cry Primal release (which I am currently playing and enjoying) and this week The Division launches, as does the first of the Just Cause 3 expansions, for those who purchased the season pass already. Okay, the DLC maybe is not that exciting, but it is a fun game, and this looks to add more ways to add fun (rocket-firing jetpack with machine gun), but still good stuff is going on now. Also we saw Masters of Orion release in early access for everyone to purchase and play, saw No Man's Sky get a release date and price and I'm sure plenty more that I am not thinking of just now.
This is looking to be a good year for games.