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Most hobnobbing occurred outside on the grass-and-stone event terrace, under strung Christmas tree lights and the gaze of oversize gold statuettes.Sage tablecloths were topped with autumnal-hued flower arrangements. On a wooden stage threaded with ivy, Television Academy Chairman and CEO Hayma Washington presented each present Emmy contender with a congratulatory certificate. Nearby, Tatiana Maslany chatted with Henry Winkler, and Westwood co-stars Jeffrey Wright and Harris shared a table.

Lincoln Financial Toastmasters: noon second and fourth Thursday, Lincoln Financial Group, 100 N. Greene St., GB. lfg.toastmastersclubs.org.

I realized today that I am completely unable to think of even one single category of hardware ever invented on this planet that has not been fully commoditized, at some point.

Yes computers and communications will get much faster before leveling off. However Moore’s Law also brings with it a true challenge. What lags behind is not the hardware technologies of communications, storage or computation. What lags behind is the software technologies which are still in the stone ages. As the hardware technologies further outpace the invention of innovative software systems we are headed for real trouble. The key issue facing software people is the massive increase in complexity needed to build the current systems. Larger human teams simply won’t do since software development teams do not scale very well. Look at the level of software complexity and errors in software from Microsoft for example. Even NASA, which takes pride in their low level of bugs per million lines of code, has serious challenges creating and maintaining their software systems. More eyes won’t do. We need to invent systems that assist us in programming and remove the “rote” programming from programming. We need systems that take our “specifications” and write our software – with our guidance – for us. Fortunately such systems are under development.

NANCY PELOSI’S NAPA WEEKEND RECAP — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held her annual “invite-only” Napa donor conference this weekend. A record 300 attendees, including nearly 50 House Democrats and top candidates, joined in the event. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, California Gov. Jerry Brown and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe all gave policy remarks.

Gartner analysts took out their crystal balls and came up with a list of ten predictions that will impact enterprise businesses. The predictions cross over technology, economics, and social boundaries over that will morph during the next eight years. Read the article at ZDNet.

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Personally, I think that period of time opened peoples eyes up a little to the fact that there’s no guarentees that these companys may be here in a few years, let alone a few months.

One recurring theme we noticed: new customers are getting better packages, for less money, than existing customers. When pricing out comparable bundles for the bill guides, we generally saw that new customers were being offered the same or better service for $10-$20 less than our current customer. We even found one ten-year Charter customer, whose bill we did not publish, paying roughly $75 per month more than a brand-new customer, getting similar service, in their neighborhood would. Customers who do happen to live in competitive markets might as well shop around, check with other businesses, and see who’s offering the best deal. Competition has this way of dropping prices and improving available service, after all. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of us live in markets where we are stuck with a cable/broadband monopoly, so switching is off the table. The conventional wisdom says that if you can’t quit, you may as well negotiate. And for a long time, that was good advice. As recently as 2014, our siblings at Consumer Reports put together a handy list of tips for negotiating a better deal with your cable company. Even in a 2015 survey Consumer Reports still found that by and large, the 42% of customers who tried to negotiate were able either to reduce their bills or to get more services included for the prices they were paying. Anecdotally, however, it appears that the big companies — especially Comcast — aren’t as interested in negotiating with you as they used to be. Consumerist readers who have tried to negotiate better TV or triple-play rates with Comcast in recent months tell Consumerist that the company is simply not playing anymore, and the calls are ending either with rates unchanged or with Comcast calling a would-be cord-cutter’s bluff, and cheerfully snipping their service. Why the turn-around from extreme efforts at retention to a “don’t let the door hit’cha on the way out” attitude? Perhaps the wave of high profile, awkward, painful, retention-related PR disasters the company endured in 2014 and early 2015 has finally pushed it in that direction. Or maybe they’re just reading the writing on the wall: pay-TV has been losing customers for a while, after all, while broadband subscriptions are going up, up, up. And pay TV costs a lot more to provide, and has much thinner profit margins on it, than broadband service does. So, friends and readers, we leave you with a parting curiosity. We want to know: if you think your bills are too dang high, have you tried negotiating, and how has that worked out for you? [polldaddy type=”iframe” survey=”B107034769717C73″ height=”auto” domain=”kcoxconsumer” id=”cable-negotiation-1″]

Henry Winkler proved hard to reach through the crush of well-wishers throughout the night, but once THR did catch up with him, he said the greatest thing about his winning night is, "that I am either old enough or whatever it is that I was able to actually be present. That I got to take it in. That I felt the room. It feels unbelievable. And that Bill [Hader] won too? Oh my God, really. It really is indefinable."