I've met many a IT 'guru' who couldn't figure out basic networking. In the mid 90's I had to go to a collage and show the computer science professor how to turn his computer on. We delivered it the day before and he called in to say it didn't work. I went out there and turned it on and it booted to windows 95. The next week they sent me back out after the machines in the lab were all failing. I get there and this rocket surgeon is running a windows 3.11 backup over the top of windows 95. He just kept cratering PC after PC. This guy had multiple degrees and he didn't have the sense to lookup the differences between the operating systems. Got really insulted by my response and called my boss to send someone who knew what they were doing. My boss called the chancellor of the collage and he told the professor to do what I say. This guy couldn't stand that I didn't have any kind of a degree. He moved on at the end of the year. I could have done his job. I'm betting that he produced some of the most useless IT graduates out there. One things for sure if they didn't learn it on their own, they didn't learn anything from that guy.
Least we forget the extra complication caused by ditching the headphone jack and the shitty alternatives they offer. They won't learn from their mistakes they will just stop updating the older phones and try to force the issue with their customers.
They can't stand that he made their system look bad so they get him where they can. This is how the weak minded punish those who point out their incompetence. All for spite.
The article is just plain wrong as to the reason. Cable companies can't raise rates but one time a year. The reason it goes up every year is that every time contracts have to be renegotiated with the content providers they raise their rates. It funny how no one bothers to really find out why they go up. The company I work for is considering dropping video completely. The local TV stations are the worst. They charge us to carry their stations that we have no choice but to carry them. At the same time we do that they still have ads on their stations. We drop video and we will actually save money in the long run. No more theft of service means we have fewer problems with ingress noise on our plant. Reduced RF flowing through our plant further eliminates noise that causes problems with the plant. Increased channel space means we can use that part of the spectrum for increasing speeds. When that happens get ready to pay more for content since we will just be transport and you will be dealing with multiple content providers eager to make up the loss of revenue.
Sure lets not spend money to prevent problems. Lets give it to failing business models so they can give out huge bonuses to undeserving executives. So long and thanks for all the shills.
These guys would only really care about the benefits of these regulations if they were one of the people who were poisoned by these power companies. Its really sad they make everything about the co$t, about money. I would love to hear one of them whine about how much it costs them when they have a untreatable condition resulting from exposure to mercury. Except, I would never wish for anyone to be poisoned by mercury. Unlike them, who only see people as a dollar amount.
Only in the captive market is everything be about cost. The real cost is the lives of the people harmed by the pollution itself. The Darwinian nature of corporations is that they eventually resemble despotic regimes. Another accurate way of describing them is Psychopathic. This guarantees that they will care less about the harm they do than the bottom line. The truth is that this lack of concern with lives and a undefendable focus on cost is slowly turning this country in to a 'third world country'. We are sliding down hill under republican greed and spite. We have lost ground on life expectancy and every other positive indicator.
Years ago when I worked those types of jobs they would shut them off at night especially if it was raining. You could always tell when a precipitator went offline. Its not just power plants that do this. Paper mills will also power off their pollution control devices. Even if they are more passive systems like a baghouse.
If so, It was the guys own fault for using his external video folder as his cache folder. Its not a bug when you clean up the temp folder. PEBKAC nothing more nothing less. If not, well It probably was the guys own fault anyway.
"Yes, it's called lack of competition. The physical plant should be maintained by the municipality and the content and content management equipment should be owned by a plethora of providers. "
No, thats not what it is. That municipality will still have to charge for content and infrastructure. Our state has one city owned cable company and they still have all the same problems that the rest of us have and their rates are in line with ours. The problem is that the content providers are not required sell their product at a consistent rate. They charge smaller companies more for the same content. If you don't agree to pay the price you have to remove the channel. No other choice and negotiations really are just take it or leave it.
"At this point the only reason to sell cable is that a lot of people want to watch the same content at the same time, so you can broadcast it to them. As that becomes less true, it will make less and less sense to do that, and more and more sense to do everything based on IP."
It would make more sense if the majority of the USA wasn't 20 years behind the rest of the world. We looked into a IP based service called skitter. It looks good and would make video more profitably and allow customers to view content more in line with current consumer preferences. The problem with that is we would have to replace all of our set top and rf infrastructure to support it and that is something the smaller companies just can't do. We don't expect the government to give us any help either. They reserve that kind of help for larger companies and leave nothing for rural systems.
Cable isn't going anywhere, you have to get that stream from somewhere. To get all the same content you get from cable would require more than a single online streaming account. By the time you purchase all of that content, you will pay the same amount. Once again this is all the content providers playing profit games with the different streaming services. If you can live without all of the latest and greatest you will be okay with just a prime account. You will however have to learn to live with the lag on all of the popular shows.
You probably are not going to agree but I work for a small cable company and some media companies double their cost per sub every time contracts come up for renewal. Cable companies make almost nothing on video these days. The exception is Comcast. Comcast owns several networks and the HITS platform. As for the rest of us the profit margin is hair thin. If it wasn't for internet sales most small cable companies would have went out of business years ago. When I started working for this company they had twelve systems. Ten years later that number is three. one of the three is actually three towns tied together by fiber. The captive market doesn't allow for true negotiations, so expect more of the same in the future.
Its obvious that a whitelist would be specific to the business. It depends on weather you want you're employees to be able to access the whole of the internet. One eye doctor had us lock it down until they literally couldn't access anything unrelated to the job. She maintains the list herself and since it was installed none of her machines have become infected. On a larger scale it would require someone to work that desk full time but it would have the benefit of reducing this types of breach. You don't have to have a sysadmin to maintain it. You can train almost anyone to manage the list once its configured. You talk about cost but whats the cost of having unrestricted internet access in a large organization?
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I've met many a IT 'guru' who couldn't figure out basic networking. In the mid 90's I had to go to a collage and show the computer science professor how to turn his computer on. We delivered it the day before and he called in to say it didn't work. I went out there and turned it on and it booted to windows 95. The next week they sent me back out after the machines in the lab were all failing. I get there and this rocket surgeon is running a windows 3.11 backup over the top of windows 95. He just kept cratering PC after PC. This guy had multiple degrees and he didn't have the sense to lookup the differences between the operating systems. Got really insulted by my response and called my boss to send someone who knew what they were doing. My boss called the chancellor of the collage and he told the professor to do what I say. This guy couldn't stand that I didn't have any kind of a degree. He moved on at the end of the year. I could have done his job. I'm betting that he produced some of the most useless IT graduates out there. One things for sure if they didn't learn it on their own, they didn't learn anything from that guy.
Clear and cold perfect conditions. Now fifteen minutes to totality.
"Hi, I'm talking Tina and you need a CPAP"
Least we forget the extra complication caused by ditching the headphone jack and the shitty alternatives they offer. They won't learn from their mistakes they will just stop updating the older phones and try to force the issue with their customers.
Should happen sometime in the next six months.
They can't stand that he made their system look bad so they get him where they can. This is how the weak minded punish those who point out their incompetence. All for spite.
The article is just plain wrong as to the reason. Cable companies can't raise rates but one time a year. The reason it goes up every year is that every time contracts have to be renegotiated with the content providers they raise their rates. It funny how no one bothers to really find out why they go up. The company I work for is considering dropping video completely. The local TV stations are the worst. They charge us to carry their stations that we have no choice but to carry them. At the same time we do that they still have ads on their stations. We drop video and we will actually save money in the long run. No more theft of service means we have fewer problems with ingress noise on our plant. Reduced RF flowing through our plant further eliminates noise that causes problems with the plant. Increased channel space means we can use that part of the spectrum for increasing speeds. When that happens get ready to pay more for content since we will just be transport and you will be dealing with multiple content providers eager to make up the loss of revenue.
Sure lets not spend money to prevent problems. Lets give it to failing business models so they can give out huge bonuses to undeserving executives. So long and thanks for all the shills.
These guys would only really care about the benefits of these regulations if they were one of the people who were poisoned by these power companies. Its really sad they make everything about the co$t, about money. I would love to hear one of them whine about how much it costs them when they have a untreatable condition resulting from exposure to mercury. Except, I would never wish for anyone to be poisoned by mercury. Unlike them, who only see people as a dollar amount.
life before all else. If they had done the job right the first time it wouldn't have cost them to catch up.
Only in the captive market is everything be about cost. The real cost is the lives of the people harmed by the pollution itself. The Darwinian nature of corporations is that they eventually resemble despotic regimes. Another accurate way of describing them is Psychopathic. This guarantees that they will care less about the harm they do than the bottom line. The truth is that this lack of concern with lives and a undefendable focus on cost is slowly turning this country in to a 'third world country'. We are sliding down hill under republican greed and spite. We have lost ground on life expectancy and every other positive indicator.
Years ago when I worked those types of jobs they would shut them off at night especially if it was raining. You could always tell when a precipitator went offline. Its not just power plants that do this. Paper mills will also power off their pollution control devices. Even if they are more passive systems like a baghouse.
Mod this up.
I turned in several sites about four years ago and never heard anything back.
Will eventually go to far and make themselves in to a perfect copy of what they are there to prevent.
Everyone should have their own space, in fact that what we will call it. Their space. Sound like the sleeper hit of 2019.
If so, It was the guys own fault for using his external video folder as his cache folder. Its not a bug when you clean up the temp folder. PEBKAC nothing more nothing less. If not, well It probably was the guys own fault anyway.
To many AC bitching about to many stories about to many streaming services.
I usually don't buy that type of thing from amazon anyway.
Many of the older windows and dos prank programs got flagged as a virus by virtue that they did things the user didn't want.
"Yes, it's called lack of competition. The physical plant should be maintained by the municipality and the content and content management equipment should be owned by a plethora of providers. "
No, thats not what it is. That municipality will still have to charge for content and infrastructure. Our state has one city owned cable company and they still have all the same problems that the rest of us have and their rates are in line with ours. The problem is that the content providers are not required sell their product at a consistent rate. They charge smaller companies more for the same content. If you don't agree to pay the price you have to remove the channel. No other choice and negotiations really are just take it or leave it.
"At this point the only reason to sell cable is that a lot of people want to watch the same content at the same time, so you can broadcast it to them. As that becomes less true, it will make less and less sense to do that, and more and more sense to do everything based on IP."
It would make more sense if the majority of the USA wasn't 20 years behind the rest of the world. We looked into a IP based service called skitter. It looks good and would make video more profitably and allow customers to view content more in line with current consumer preferences. The problem with that is we would have to replace all of our set top and rf infrastructure to support it and that is something the smaller companies just can't do. We don't expect the government to give us any help either. They reserve that kind of help for larger companies and leave nothing for rural systems.
Cable isn't going anywhere, you have to get that stream from somewhere. To get all the same content you get from cable would require more than a single online streaming account. By the time you purchase all of that content, you will pay the same amount. Once again this is all the content providers playing profit games with the different streaming services. If you can live without all of the latest and greatest you will be okay with just a prime account. You will however have to learn to live with the lag on all of the popular shows.
You probably are not going to agree but I work for a small cable company and some media companies double their cost per sub every time contracts come up for renewal. Cable companies make almost nothing on video these days. The exception is Comcast. Comcast owns several networks and the HITS platform. As for the rest of us the profit margin is hair thin. If it wasn't for internet sales most small cable companies would have went out of business years ago. When I started working for this company they had twelve systems. Ten years later that number is three. one of the three is actually three towns tied together by fiber. The captive market doesn't allow for true negotiations, so expect more of the same in the future.
Its obvious that a whitelist would be specific to the business. It depends on weather you want you're employees to be able to access the whole of the internet. One eye doctor had us lock it down until they literally couldn't access anything unrelated to the job. She maintains the list herself and since it was installed none of her machines have become infected. On a larger scale it would require someone to work that desk full time but it would have the benefit of reducing this types of breach. You don't have to have a sysadmin to maintain it. You can train almost anyone to manage the list once its configured. You talk about cost but whats the cost of having unrestricted internet access in a large organization?
Yeah, its called a typo. You should look that up.