My thought exactly. You know I was thinking of getting one of the GoPro cameras in the next couple of months, not any more. Given the option of Sony or GoPro anyone will win out first... Congrats GoPro, you have just been lumped in with Sony on my super shit list for scum bag companies. If I were DigitalRev I would simply re-post the review again. There needs to be legal and financial ramifications for misuse of a DCMA take down like this. This is a total pile of steaming pile of BS. GoPro=Scumbag.
While I agree that the content providers are out of control and that the congress is in fact just their legal arm there is still the problem that content has a cost to produce. If everyone didn't pay for it and everyone stole it then the content would dry up. I personally try my best to not purchase music and content from other than the artist. If we stop buying from the big scumbag content providers the small guys will likely flourish. I also try and buy used disks, in this way I am legal and at the same time I stick it to the man!
Mike
And these are the kinds of uneducated idiots we continue to elect to the house and senate. I wonder what lobby group or groups payed this clown to spout his complete bullshit. This moron, like just about every other politician in Washington, should be thrown out! I would call for a stronger response but considering that the government monitors these sorts of forums of expression and opinion I suspect it would be unwise.
This is a fantastic way for the company to make money for the schools... Oh, wait, scratch that. I meant to say for the administrators and the company to make money for them selves at the risk of future generations. We all know how well these benign corporations have done at protecting the private, in this case very private and potentially damaging, information of people. The things these kids are going to have to deal with, identity theft being the prime one, when they grown older is going to be sad to see. The scum bags behind this sort of thing should be strung up for their greed and lack of forethought of the ramifications for their "business model" on this most vulnerable segment of our population.
And they won't. Here in our area, Albany NY., we only have TW as a broad band carrier and personally I think the top tier service a disappointment. They have 50Mb/sec down on their internal network but no where near that to the internet proper. So you pay $100/month for 50/5 and get more like 25/3. Also since Verizon has little interest in coming into the capital of NY. with FIOS TW can do pretty much what they want to the customer, they got you over a barrel. As Google continues to roll Gig service to more areas and literally devastate the competition, the competition will have no option but to spend some of the ridiculous profits they have been squeezing out of their captive customers and compete or surrender the territory to Google. The real fix is to simply non for profit the last mile and force them all to play out of local CoLo sites for you as a customer. Changing the service provider is as simple as changing a routing table.
It says it all. Go in there and own the job from the start. You not only have experience from the past in the field but also have a freaking doctorate in physics. Make light of the doctorate to some extent not to trivialize it but to put the interviewer at ease. It shows that you are willing to put in the hard work needed to get the job done. Do play up the positive side of it for their own PR to customers. "We have techs with up to and including PHDs in out organization." Make this clear but don't be arrogant about it by any means. I have told potential employers that the job was mine and that I was interviewing them as much as they were me. The key is to stick in their minds, in a good way, after you leave. Make sure that every candidate interviewed before or after is being compared to the benchmark you have set. Appear polished but casual and easy to interact with. Make it very clear that you are a team player and have gone that extra mile to get the job done in the past. Make it clear that the only thing that has changed since your last job in the field is that you have gotten better. Make it clear that you are not looking to break the bank in the pay department. Allot of employers see a doctorate and think they are going to have to pay for that. Let them know that it simply shows that you can stay the course, nothing more. Last, remind them that they have the option of terminating you if it doesn't work out but you want the chance for both of you to see.
I figured that I would buy a copy and load it on an unused computer I have sitting around. You know what, they only sell an OEM version with no support or upgrade. There was no clear info on the various packages to be found. In general they even succeeded in breaking their own web site and curtailing sales that way. Well did you ever finally get a copy you ask? NO!!! I got so pissed at the site and the ridiculous complication of trying to find what I was looking for that I gave up. I will stick with Vista and 7 for now and later migrate to some flavor of Linux. Microsoft is a ship without a rudder, no prop, and hell the engine is even seized as well.
Nice job Microsoft, I didn't even have to buy a copy of your OS to be dissuaded.
Mike
I am a generally calm and easy going person who cares for all my fellow living creatures, human, animal, and plant, but I rage at the thought of these sick fucks and their message of hate. To be completely honest it would be vary unwise for me to say what I would do if I came face to face with these fucking animals. These are by far the most repugnant scum walking the earth at this time and are in the same class as the taliban. I have one simple question. Why is it that one of these nut jobs that are capable of killing innocent children and adults has not gone after these sick F#@ks and killed them all? I am all for letting people live and let live but these are not people, they are pure hatred and need to be expunged from the face of the planet. Their message is nothing but hate! They shit on the memory and honor of every person that gave their life in the defense of freedom of speech and liberty. Weather you agree with the war or not, the families of the lost solders do not deserve to be shit upon like they are by these people and neither do the families of those lost at the school. These sick fucks lack all human decency and deserve no quarter from anyone that comes in contact with them.
And this has relevance to the fact that the United States of America developed the internet how? That DARPA is a US military think tank that funds a vast array of research, not just military I might add, in myriad fields matters not. The USA still developed the internet largely as we use and enjoy it today. Just because the rest of the world jumped on the band wagon after all the major research and ground work was done does not now give them the right to try and take it over. Control of the internet ultimately falls to a question of state security and you can be damn sure the the US government and military are not going to give the likes of china and russia even further control and penetration into the networks running government, military, and American businesses. It is a fact that china is a major power in electronic espionage. The exercise very tight control of the internet in their country. Sounds just like what I want to see happen here! NOT! Tell you what, about 98% of the sites I frequent and enjoy are US based, how about we cut you off and you can enjoy the net under the UN's stewardship. I'm sure that with the likes of the arab nations and states that are protectors of personal freedom and expression like china, russia and saudi arabia that you will not miss a bit of our network. F flitter away now and remember to thank DARPA in your prayers tonight.
The UN didn't develop the internet, the United States of America's DARPA, research colleges, and major corporations did. The UN doesn't support the vast majority of research and development of future technologies aimed at bettering the internet. Like it or not, the United States of America is one of, if not the most, open societies in the world. Few if any other nations protect free speech to the degree that we do. The internet is open and generally unregulated and that is the way it should, has to, stay this way or we end up like iran or another totalitarian state like north korea. The UN thinks that they have a mandate to regulate everything under the sun, they don't. When they pay for their own version of their very own internet then they can. But until that time, FUCK OFF UNITED NATIONS AND ALL YOU COCK KNOCKERS THAT THINK THEY SHOULD!!!
The wise money would go a couple of steps further. Install nothing more than a plain jane out of the box live Linux CD image. Boot the thing and store/work out of a fast USB thumb drive on which all data is encrypted with the latest and greatest super kick ass encryption and a key that is very strong. You take the USB key with you around your neck. For extra points you could have the OS start the camera and record upon boot as well as screen capture every few seconds to the HDD unless a special key combo is used to shut it down.
Hard to argue with one letter from all of the above. The next killer app, an easy to use seamless end to end encryption tool. I may just encrypt all my BS communication for the fun of knowing that they can't read it but think they should. Think of the countless hours that are going to be wasted by the watchers trying to decrypt shopping list and sexting between married couples. The mind boggles...
There is no place more isolated than the arctic. We have had bases there in the past, one even had a sub reactor to power it. Considering the fact that the environment is very much not in tune with the needs of any escaped pathogens I would say that it is just about the best choice. It would be hard to access and harder to enter. Get down under the rock and you are safe and contained with no vectors of escape of the bugs. It is a far better choice than the bread basket of the USA and allot of the world.
Mike
I agree that the American consumer is short sighted when it comes to savings on products that are sourced from over seas. I also don't like tariffs but it is a simple thing to deal with. We apply a blanket tariff to all goods coming from china and use it to supplement rare earth material purchases from china. As they drive up the prices so to do the tariffs rise in lock step. Even better we could have the tariff rise as a square of the artificial amount of increase so by the time they have doubled the prices the tariffs are at four times.
I have to disagree with you on this one. Conscientious and educated consumers are not fooled by this BS they use. I don't buy but maybe a couple of dozen soft drinks a year and those are the original formula cane sugar Coco Cola. I eat fast food from the likes of MD, BK, TB, etc. less than 4 times a year. I drink beer and wine that I like for the taste and not the adverts that push the stuff I don't like. The beer I drink in fact is not even well known here and there have never been advertisements for it. I am going on 47 years old and am still the same weight I filled out to 20 years earlier. When I gained weight I reduced my intake and worked harder. I changed my diet and eat more healthy. We need to simply exclude those that engage in unhealthy actions from the public health care system and put the cost on their own pocket book rather then society. Eat like a PIG, you pay for the heart bypass. Smoke, you pay for the cancer surgery. Why is it that rather than make those that are at fault, the stupid sheeple consumer, we legislate laws that harm those that live a self imposed restrained life?
So tired of hearing about sending doomed people to the red planet. This is an engineering task so vast in scope and financial cost that it is going to have to be multiple countries working together in such a way that they never have, and likely never will, to get and stay there, alive. It is laudable that the likes of Branson and Musk are willing to spend vast sums of investors wealth to try and get there but to what end? To say that they did it? So what! Start on the moon, likely Heinlein was rather accurate about how things could unfold in getting there and possible ways of exchanging materials. It would also be a far more accessible local if something were to go wrong with at least a slim chance of rescue or escape. Energy harvesting the whole solar cycle could also be easier since the cold on the dark side is in the area where super conductors start to work. Communication is far simpler as well and does not require a dish the size of a small city. The delay is shorter too.
Hard to argue with evilviper on anything he put up in the above. Here in Albany, NY. we are paying $102.00 a month for 50/5 internet. The fine print is that it is 50/5 on their own network. Their connections to the internet are total crap and not up to the task. Since Verizon refuses to build out our area we are stuck with one some what high speed internet provider. I really hope that the Google build out in KC is successful and that they continue to roll in other markets of the country. I keep saying this but we need fibre to each home from one central location in city where all the providers have to live and compete for their customers. When changing providers is as easy as a change in a routing table then the usury practices of government supported sole providers will end. How we get there is the $64,000.00 question. We cut out cable 5 years ago and don't miss it it all. Funny but I actually get pissed when a commercial comes on now.
Funny but not my case. I am simply voting with my dollar. we could easily afford to have top tier cable or satellite service but the issue is that there is really nothing there save maybe a dozen channels that interest us. We do have time warners top internet package and it is $100 a month but there is no cap and we don't have pay to support QVC and jeezoid channels or suffer through exposure to commercials. To us that is worth far more than the little bit we loose. Mike
We have been streaming and using OTA for about 5 years now and the benefits far out weigh the hindrances to our way of thinking. First off there is the satisfaction of not giving the greedy cable or satellite companies our money. To be sure we do pay them for our internet and in this case it is $100.00 a month for docsis3 on time warner cable. We have no cap and get 50/5Mbps. Add in netflix and you have another $17 or so. Second thing is that we do not watch shitcoms or other lowest common denominator programming like glee or idol etc. We do OTA as well but record anything we want to watch so we never have to be subjected to the commercials. The really nice thing about OTA that most people don't know is the high quality of the HD picture. On cable it is about 1GB/hour, for OTA it is more like 4GB/hour and the difference is very clear (pun intended). For the tuner we use a silicondust HD homerun so we can view OTA on any monitor. All our monitors are computer driven since there is no need for a bluray player as there is one in the computer. Never going back to cable or satellite and paying for 98% of the channels I don't want or need. Mike
Been there, done that, nothing good came of it at all!
Exit interviews are simply pointless for the exiting employee. They are simply another keep busy activity for the over payed HR tools. I have never seen any substantial changes come of the info gleaned from them and being critical of the company, management, and your fellow past employees can only result in trouble down the line. Remember that they can't speak ill of you but they can simply answer that they would not rehire you. The kiss of death for anyone looking for a job now days.
Sounds great until you recall that even the military and the industrial complex that builds the drones can't seem to keep them under control. Remember that Iran now has all the cutting edge tech of a front line drone in their front pocket and also by extension, so does China. Post-mortem conclusion is that we were arrogant about the security of our com link and failed to see this one coming though we knew that they were working hard on it. Now just suppose that they decide to hack one of these drones and fly it into a school. Who is to know that they were to blame. Pilot error, computer glitch, GPS jamming, soft/firmware issue,... You get the idea, people die all the same. These drones are simply toys and serve no real purpose in our kind of civil society other than to monitor the odd idiot that runs from the state police for going 10 miles over the speed limit. The cost is high and the returns are low. but we can still put our heads in the sand to another civil liberty being taken away in the name of better security. BS!
I have been in the same boat and there was little that they could or would do past the basics. This was AT&T, they did run diagnostics from their end and they did send out a tech to check that I had no wire issues at my site. Since I do structured cabling it was all up to snuff. They then tested a number of pairs to my local and found a pair that were good and moved me to them. The connection still sucked. All this has no relevance to your issue. The problem you have is that the DSLAM you are coming off of is fully apportioned out and there are simply allot of users in the evening competing for that limited bandwidth of the back haul. You have a number of possible options. The first is a bit of social engineering and see if you can get someone at the ISP to step up and fix or request that the build out team fix the issue. Pressure from others using the same service in your area might help here. Another option might be to go with a satellite internet service, your mileage may vary with this one. My option when I could not get AT&T to do the right thing was to go with a cellular WAN card. In my area the coverage was crap and only became a good option after I put a high gain Yagi antenna on the roof pointing at the cell tower. I went from a -102dBm to -59dBm (1 bar to 5 bars). In terms of speed I went from around 100Kbps to over 1.5Mbps on Verizon's 3G network. Last is to see if there are any wireless internet providers in the area, allot of rural areas have one serving communities that are otherwise neglected by the major players.
Though it's not free it is cheap and works well. It supports allot of hardware and is efficient with resources. I have gotten it to run SCSI, ATA, USB, FC-AL, SATA, and SAS drives all at once. A build usually only takes about 5 minutes including a basic configuration. I have been running it for over 7 years now with no real issues to speak of.
Mike
I could not agree more. We already pay too much to the cable company for a fast internet connection. We stream almost everything we watch and pull the rest off air with a DVT tuner from Silicon dust and store it to watch later. This gives us the ability to skip commercials for products we would never buy and programs we would not watch if it were the only thing on the tube. We use NetFlix to stream and pull others from their respective sites if we feel the need to watch it before it hits DTV or NetFlix.
As far as a cable or sat TV subscription, NEVER AGAIN!!! At least not until they allow me to pick and choose what I want and charge a reasonable price for it. This will never happen and so the former is what they can expect from me in the future, nothing more than internet. Lets also keep in mind that they make a hell of allot of money on internet with no real cost to provide it beyond the initial build out and connection to the internet proper. The internet connection is cheap consider the way they oversell the service.
Fuck you cable and satellite!
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My thought exactly. You know I was thinking of getting one of the GoPro cameras in the next couple of months, not any more. Given the option of Sony or GoPro anyone will win out first... Congrats GoPro, you have just been lumped in with Sony on my super shit list for scum bag companies. If I were DigitalRev I would simply re-post the review again. There needs to be legal and financial ramifications for misuse of a DCMA take down like this. This is a total pile of steaming pile of BS. GoPro=Scumbag.
While I agree that the content providers are out of control and that the congress is in fact just their legal arm there is still the problem that content has a cost to produce. If everyone didn't pay for it and everyone stole it then the content would dry up. I personally try my best to not purchase music and content from other than the artist. If we stop buying from the big scumbag content providers the small guys will likely flourish. I also try and buy used disks, in this way I am legal and at the same time I stick it to the man! Mike
And these are the kinds of uneducated idiots we continue to elect to the house and senate. I wonder what lobby group or groups payed this clown to spout his complete bullshit. This moron, like just about every other politician in Washington, should be thrown out! I would call for a stronger response but considering that the government monitors these sorts of forums of expression and opinion I suspect it would be unwise.
This is a fantastic way for the company to make money for the schools... Oh, wait, scratch that. I meant to say for the administrators and the company to make money for them selves at the risk of future generations. We all know how well these benign corporations have done at protecting the private, in this case very private and potentially damaging, information of people. The things these kids are going to have to deal with, identity theft being the prime one, when they grown older is going to be sad to see. The scum bags behind this sort of thing should be strung up for their greed and lack of forethought of the ramifications for their "business model" on this most vulnerable segment of our population.
And they won't. Here in our area, Albany NY., we only have TW as a broad band carrier and personally I think the top tier service a disappointment. They have 50Mb/sec down on their internal network but no where near that to the internet proper. So you pay $100/month for 50/5 and get more like 25/3. Also since Verizon has little interest in coming into the capital of NY. with FIOS TW can do pretty much what they want to the customer, they got you over a barrel. As Google continues to roll Gig service to more areas and literally devastate the competition, the competition will have no option but to spend some of the ridiculous profits they have been squeezing out of their captive customers and compete or surrender the territory to Google. The real fix is to simply non for profit the last mile and force them all to play out of local CoLo sites for you as a customer. Changing the service provider is as simple as changing a routing table.
It says it all. Go in there and own the job from the start. You not only have experience from the past in the field but also have a freaking doctorate in physics. Make light of the doctorate to some extent not to trivialize it but to put the interviewer at ease. It shows that you are willing to put in the hard work needed to get the job done. Do play up the positive side of it for their own PR to customers. "We have techs with up to and including PHDs in out organization." Make this clear but don't be arrogant about it by any means. I have told potential employers that the job was mine and that I was interviewing them as much as they were me. The key is to stick in their minds, in a good way, after you leave. Make sure that every candidate interviewed before or after is being compared to the benchmark you have set. Appear polished but casual and easy to interact with. Make it very clear that you are a team player and have gone that extra mile to get the job done in the past. Make it clear that the only thing that has changed since your last job in the field is that you have gotten better. Make it clear that you are not looking to break the bank in the pay department. Allot of employers see a doctorate and think they are going to have to pay for that. Let them know that it simply shows that you can stay the course, nothing more. Last, remind them that they have the option of terminating you if it doesn't work out but you want the chance for both of you to see.
I figured that I would buy a copy and load it on an unused computer I have sitting around. You know what, they only sell an OEM version with no support or upgrade. There was no clear info on the various packages to be found. In general they even succeeded in breaking their own web site and curtailing sales that way. Well did you ever finally get a copy you ask? NO!!! I got so pissed at the site and the ridiculous complication of trying to find what I was looking for that I gave up. I will stick with Vista and 7 for now and later migrate to some flavor of Linux. Microsoft is a ship without a rudder, no prop, and hell the engine is even seized as well. Nice job Microsoft, I didn't even have to buy a copy of your OS to be dissuaded. Mike
I am a generally calm and easy going person who cares for all my fellow living creatures, human, animal, and plant, but I rage at the thought of these sick fucks and their message of hate. To be completely honest it would be vary unwise for me to say what I would do if I came face to face with these fucking animals. These are by far the most repugnant scum walking the earth at this time and are in the same class as the taliban. I have one simple question. Why is it that one of these nut jobs that are capable of killing innocent children and adults has not gone after these sick F#@ks and killed them all? I am all for letting people live and let live but these are not people, they are pure hatred and need to be expunged from the face of the planet. Their message is nothing but hate! They shit on the memory and honor of every person that gave their life in the defense of freedom of speech and liberty. Weather you agree with the war or not, the families of the lost solders do not deserve to be shit upon like they are by these people and neither do the families of those lost at the school. These sick fucks lack all human decency and deserve no quarter from anyone that comes in contact with them.
And this has relevance to the fact that the United States of America developed the internet how? That DARPA is a US military think tank that funds a vast array of research, not just military I might add, in myriad fields matters not. The USA still developed the internet largely as we use and enjoy it today. Just because the rest of the world jumped on the band wagon after all the major research and ground work was done does not now give them the right to try and take it over. Control of the internet ultimately falls to a question of state security and you can be damn sure the the US government and military are not going to give the likes of china and russia even further control and penetration into the networks running government, military, and American businesses. It is a fact that china is a major power in electronic espionage. The exercise very tight control of the internet in their country. Sounds just like what I want to see happen here! NOT! Tell you what, about 98% of the sites I frequent and enjoy are US based, how about we cut you off and you can enjoy the net under the UN's stewardship. I'm sure that with the likes of the arab nations and states that are protectors of personal freedom and expression like china, russia and saudi arabia that you will not miss a bit of our network. F flitter away now and remember to thank DARPA in your prayers tonight.
The UN didn't develop the internet, the United States of America's DARPA, research colleges, and major corporations did. The UN doesn't support the vast majority of research and development of future technologies aimed at bettering the internet. Like it or not, the United States of America is one of, if not the most, open societies in the world. Few if any other nations protect free speech to the degree that we do. The internet is open and generally unregulated and that is the way it should, has to, stay this way or we end up like iran or another totalitarian state like north korea. The UN thinks that they have a mandate to regulate everything under the sun, they don't. When they pay for their own version of their very own internet then they can. But until that time, FUCK OFF UNITED NATIONS AND ALL YOU COCK KNOCKERS THAT THINK THEY SHOULD!!!
The wise money would go a couple of steps further. Install nothing more than a plain jane out of the box live Linux CD image. Boot the thing and store/work out of a fast USB thumb drive on which all data is encrypted with the latest and greatest super kick ass encryption and a key that is very strong. You take the USB key with you around your neck. For extra points you could have the OS start the camera and record upon boot as well as screen capture every few seconds to the HDD unless a special key combo is used to shut it down.
Hard to argue with one letter from all of the above. The next killer app, an easy to use seamless end to end encryption tool. I may just encrypt all my BS communication for the fun of knowing that they can't read it but think they should. Think of the countless hours that are going to be wasted by the watchers trying to decrypt shopping list and sexting between married couples. The mind boggles...
There is no place more isolated than the arctic. We have had bases there in the past, one even had a sub reactor to power it. Considering the fact that the environment is very much not in tune with the needs of any escaped pathogens I would say that it is just about the best choice. It would be hard to access and harder to enter. Get down under the rock and you are safe and contained with no vectors of escape of the bugs. It is a far better choice than the bread basket of the USA and allot of the world. Mike
I agree that the American consumer is short sighted when it comes to savings on products that are sourced from over seas. I also don't like tariffs but it is a simple thing to deal with. We apply a blanket tariff to all goods coming from china and use it to supplement rare earth material purchases from china. As they drive up the prices so to do the tariffs rise in lock step. Even better we could have the tariff rise as a square of the artificial amount of increase so by the time they have doubled the prices the tariffs are at four times.
I have to disagree with you on this one. Conscientious and educated consumers are not fooled by this BS they use. I don't buy but maybe a couple of dozen soft drinks a year and those are the original formula cane sugar Coco Cola. I eat fast food from the likes of MD, BK, TB, etc. less than 4 times a year. I drink beer and wine that I like for the taste and not the adverts that push the stuff I don't like. The beer I drink in fact is not even well known here and there have never been advertisements for it. I am going on 47 years old and am still the same weight I filled out to 20 years earlier. When I gained weight I reduced my intake and worked harder. I changed my diet and eat more healthy. We need to simply exclude those that engage in unhealthy actions from the public health care system and put the cost on their own pocket book rather then society. Eat like a PIG, you pay for the heart bypass. Smoke, you pay for the cancer surgery. Why is it that rather than make those that are at fault, the stupid sheeple consumer, we legislate laws that harm those that live a self imposed restrained life?
So tired of hearing about sending doomed people to the red planet. This is an engineering task so vast in scope and financial cost that it is going to have to be multiple countries working together in such a way that they never have, and likely never will, to get and stay there, alive. It is laudable that the likes of Branson and Musk are willing to spend vast sums of investors wealth to try and get there but to what end? To say that they did it? So what! Start on the moon, likely Heinlein was rather accurate about how things could unfold in getting there and possible ways of exchanging materials. It would also be a far more accessible local if something were to go wrong with at least a slim chance of rescue or escape. Energy harvesting the whole solar cycle could also be easier since the cold on the dark side is in the area where super conductors start to work. Communication is far simpler as well and does not require a dish the size of a small city. The delay is shorter too.
Does this mean that our political leaders can now be made to remember their promises and lies to us?
Hard to argue with evilviper on anything he put up in the above. Here in Albany, NY. we are paying $102.00 a month for 50/5 internet. The fine print is that it is 50/5 on their own network. Their connections to the internet are total crap and not up to the task. Since Verizon refuses to build out our area we are stuck with one some what high speed internet provider. I really hope that the Google build out in KC is successful and that they continue to roll in other markets of the country. I keep saying this but we need fibre to each home from one central location in city where all the providers have to live and compete for their customers. When changing providers is as easy as a change in a routing table then the usury practices of government supported sole providers will end. How we get there is the $64,000.00 question. We cut out cable 5 years ago and don't miss it it all. Funny but I actually get pissed when a commercial comes on now.
Funny but not my case. I am simply voting with my dollar. we could easily afford to have top tier cable or satellite service but the issue is that there is really nothing there save maybe a dozen channels that interest us. We do have time warners top internet package and it is $100 a month but there is no cap and we don't have pay to support QVC and jeezoid channels or suffer through exposure to commercials. To us that is worth far more than the little bit we loose. Mike
We have been streaming and using OTA for about 5 years now and the benefits far out weigh the hindrances to our way of thinking. First off there is the satisfaction of not giving the greedy cable or satellite companies our money. To be sure we do pay them for our internet and in this case it is $100.00 a month for docsis3 on time warner cable. We have no cap and get 50/5Mbps. Add in netflix and you have another $17 or so. Second thing is that we do not watch shitcoms or other lowest common denominator programming like glee or idol etc. We do OTA as well but record anything we want to watch so we never have to be subjected to the commercials. The really nice thing about OTA that most people don't know is the high quality of the HD picture. On cable it is about 1GB/hour, for OTA it is more like 4GB/hour and the difference is very clear (pun intended). For the tuner we use a silicondust HD homerun so we can view OTA on any monitor. All our monitors are computer driven since there is no need for a bluray player as there is one in the computer. Never going back to cable or satellite and paying for 98% of the channels I don't want or need. Mike
Been there, done that, nothing good came of it at all! Exit interviews are simply pointless for the exiting employee. They are simply another keep busy activity for the over payed HR tools. I have never seen any substantial changes come of the info gleaned from them and being critical of the company, management, and your fellow past employees can only result in trouble down the line. Remember that they can't speak ill of you but they can simply answer that they would not rehire you. The kiss of death for anyone looking for a job now days.
Sounds great until you recall that even the military and the industrial complex that builds the drones can't seem to keep them under control. Remember that Iran now has all the cutting edge tech of a front line drone in their front pocket and also by extension, so does China. Post-mortem conclusion is that we were arrogant about the security of our com link and failed to see this one coming though we knew that they were working hard on it. Now just suppose that they decide to hack one of these drones and fly it into a school. Who is to know that they were to blame. Pilot error, computer glitch, GPS jamming, soft/firmware issue, ... You get the idea, people die all the same. These drones are simply toys and serve no real purpose in our kind of civil society other than to monitor the odd idiot that runs from the state police for going 10 miles over the speed limit. The cost is high and the returns are low. but we can still put our heads in the sand to another civil liberty being taken away in the name of better security. BS!
I have been in the same boat and there was little that they could or would do past the basics. This was AT&T, they did run diagnostics from their end and they did send out a tech to check that I had no wire issues at my site. Since I do structured cabling it was all up to snuff. They then tested a number of pairs to my local and found a pair that were good and moved me to them. The connection still sucked. All this has no relevance to your issue. The problem you have is that the DSLAM you are coming off of is fully apportioned out and there are simply allot of users in the evening competing for that limited bandwidth of the back haul. You have a number of possible options. The first is a bit of social engineering and see if you can get someone at the ISP to step up and fix or request that the build out team fix the issue. Pressure from others using the same service in your area might help here. Another option might be to go with a satellite internet service, your mileage may vary with this one. My option when I could not get AT&T to do the right thing was to go with a cellular WAN card. In my area the coverage was crap and only became a good option after I put a high gain Yagi antenna on the roof pointing at the cell tower. I went from a -102dBm to -59dBm (1 bar to 5 bars). In terms of speed I went from around 100Kbps to over 1.5Mbps on Verizon's 3G network. Last is to see if there are any wireless internet providers in the area, allot of rural areas have one serving communities that are otherwise neglected by the major players.
Though it's not free it is cheap and works well. It supports allot of hardware and is efficient with resources. I have gotten it to run SCSI, ATA, USB, FC-AL, SATA, and SAS drives all at once. A build usually only takes about 5 minutes including a basic configuration. I have been running it for over 7 years now with no real issues to speak of. Mike
I could not agree more. We already pay too much to the cable company for a fast internet connection. We stream almost everything we watch and pull the rest off air with a DVT tuner from Silicon dust and store it to watch later. This gives us the ability to skip commercials for products we would never buy and programs we would not watch if it were the only thing on the tube. We use NetFlix to stream and pull others from their respective sites if we feel the need to watch it before it hits DTV or NetFlix. As far as a cable or sat TV subscription, NEVER AGAIN!!! At least not until they allow me to pick and choose what I want and charge a reasonable price for it. This will never happen and so the former is what they can expect from me in the future, nothing more than internet. Lets also keep in mind that they make a hell of allot of money on internet with no real cost to provide it beyond the initial build out and connection to the internet proper. The internet connection is cheap consider the way they oversell the service. Fuck you cable and satellite!