h.264 is not the best compression format. It has many highly useful features for videos, yet 32gb for eight hours should be able to be "adjusted down" using a different codex if you don't need Blueray-quality videos (which is what that is at 720). I'd be surprised if such a "hitech" camera wouldn't allow you do dial it down to 480, which would double the 8hr. As for battery life...well, that's an entirely different subject lol.
After I read Wilson's testimony, I agree. When he got shot, stumbled a bit off, then turned around and started running at him that must have been his bodies "last ditch adrenaline survival dump". What REALLY got me was how often Wilson's fire arm malfunctioned, like 3-4 times. And he had no flashlight, mace, etc within reach in his car either. So, broken gun and no equipment? Ever law enforcement vehicle I've ever seen has that HUGE flashlight right there locked into a recharger. I almost think he might have shot him so many times from fear of his gun continuing to malfunction.
EZTV is such an amazing site, it made keeping up with TV shows from all over the planet so easy. Far easier than any cable system, I use the fact of BBC 2-4, Sky, CBC, etc being completely unavailable to my cable market as a huge reason I don't want it. Their simple listing, single line sorted by seeding time, is pure genius. Only one torrent or maybe two for HD shows...I've been scrambling trying to put a spreadsheet together, trying to look up all the various channels EZTV had to find schedules in four different countries. And even that misses out on all the one-off documentaries...
Does anyone know of a site with listings like that? epguides.com has some grids, but is still lacking.
I call it Holistic IT Support instead of jack-of-all-trades, after the idea of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Eventually you get enough experience you can quickly see various interconnections that others don't, in "unrelated areas" than most don't realize might be affected. HITS also takes into account the user's reactions and ways of working...even the BEST app will be worthless if the end users hate it.
Technically I'm work $3,694,362.43 in my weight in gold, or $3,750,706.09 in platinum. Honestly I really want to be paid my weight in lutetium, which would be around $32,386,360.
Don't be too upset, you can laugh back at their INSANE amount of student loans their paying off that effectively will put them way under a comparable salary for their entire lives.
"unused sick time carries over year to year and can be cashed out at retirement to pay for health insurance" LOL that was a sub-plot on the Dilbert cartoon...unfortunately Wally found out his company policy was not a liberal and he couldn't save up his sick days and retire early LOL.
indeed, that's why I love my current job. Much of our monitoring is the mainframes...nothing really EVER happens to them, all the changes are planned out months in advance, and everything goes through multiple steps of approval.
my company is doing that RIGHT NOW. We let go of our older, more knowledgable main frame people and hired some newbies to save a few bucks, then wonder why their team is missing alerts and their SLA...
MY current huge corp pet peeve is internal informational access. One of my main job metrics is to complete a list of descriptions for various apps on their Business Impact if they go down...currently I'm having to go through a list and contact each "app owner" and ask them. However, one floor down is our Help Desk, who has this very expansive knowledge base containing the EXACT information I need...yet I am not allowed access to it. AT ALL. I can't even look over someone's shoulder and copy some stuff down. No matter that last year at this time I was on that help desk and HAD access...never mind that we're actually HURTING our client by compartmentalizing our information like this...it's not even a contractual reason, it's just basically "we don't want you to have an easy job". Also, some of their information is inaccurate and causes false alarms BUT still their management "holds the line" and "none shall pass". Since I also work nights I haven't yet gotten the chance to discuss this with any of them in person; just my manager who has abandoned my request from their push back. Makes me want to abandon the updating...I really want to say "This information is RIGHT HERE and I refuse to keep beating my head against the wall, sending out hundreds of emails for this information WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE IT but the politics of our company are too feudal to let me do my job"
"men are 4x more likely to successfully commit suicide" I think that's because we men don't care what we look like afterwards and often will use a gun where women try pills or some crap.
I don't know of ANY job that really works well if your practically blind, IT or not. Even a fast-food cook has to be able to read the orders on the screen.
The older you are, the better you should be able to "play up" any skills you have and make them seems FAR above any much younger competition. If you can't then just just suck at branding yourself and all the IT skills in the world aren't going to help.
Indeed, the only REAL way to make actual, decent code on any complex app is following a defined software development cycle, I learned that the hard way too. Just throwing yourself at it 24/7 for weeks on end with a bottle of Adderall and pounds of coffee just makes crappy code.
I'm always the schizo-cat on my team, off on my own adventures while everyone else is filing weekly paperwork. I just say "oh my ADD" and skip it, since that's pretty much true and I've got several doctors to back me up. Usually I get away with it; being the most technical person on the team helps too.
ITIL certs are in great demand. A single search on Inceed has 1,600+ jobs, from $60k-$140k+. ITIL is also more policy than tech, sounds right up your ally. It's the "worldwide" standard now, ITIL policy REQUIRES my team to exist at my workplace...we do the ITSM "root cause analysis" part. Well, I'm supposed to but normally the network runs so smooth I might do 15 minutes of actual work a day, mostly I just watch primewire / neflix all night. I don't have any ITIL certs, but they ARE pretty useful but their just now showing up in the US on jobs. I can't actually name my client as I recently got in trouble from a VP for that (nice surprise there), but 1,500 feet away from me is the SABRE mainframe underground complex.
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h.264 is not the best compression format. It has many highly useful features for videos, yet 32gb for eight hours should be able to be "adjusted down" using a different codex if you don't need Blueray-quality videos (which is what that is at 720). I'd be surprised if such a "hitech" camera wouldn't allow you do dial it down to 480, which would double the 8hr. As for battery life...well, that's an entirely different subject lol.
After I read Wilson's testimony, I agree. When he got shot, stumbled a bit off, then turned around and started running at him that must have been his bodies "last ditch adrenaline survival dump". What REALLY got me was how often Wilson's fire arm malfunctioned, like 3-4 times. And he had no flashlight, mace, etc within reach in his car either. So, broken gun and no equipment? Ever law enforcement vehicle I've ever seen has that HUGE flashlight right there locked into a recharger. I almost think he might have shot him so many times from fear of his gun continuing to malfunction.
EZTV is such an amazing site, it made keeping up with TV shows from all over the planet so easy. Far easier than any cable system, I use the fact of BBC 2-4, Sky, CBC, etc being completely unavailable to my cable market as a huge reason I don't want it. Their simple listing, single line sorted by seeding time, is pure genius. Only one torrent or maybe two for HD shows...I've been scrambling trying to put a spreadsheet together, trying to look up all the various channels EZTV had to find schedules in four different countries. And even that misses out on all the one-off documentaries...
Does anyone know of a site with listings like that? epguides.com has some grids, but is still lacking.
The older you get, the more you realize the less you actually know.
"What do you want to do?" "retire early like all our former CEO's?"
I call it Holistic IT Support instead of jack-of-all-trades, after the idea of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Eventually you get enough experience you can quickly see various interconnections that others don't, in "unrelated areas" than most don't realize might be affected. HITS also takes into account the user's reactions and ways of working...even the BEST app will be worthless if the end users hate it.
Technically I'm work $3,694,362.43 in my weight in gold, or $3,750,706.09 in platinum. Honestly I really want to be paid my weight in lutetium, which would be around $32,386,360.
hell, we used to promise our customers impossible things JUST to stir the pot, especially if they where overseas and were confusing anyway.
Don't be too upset, you can laugh back at their INSANE amount of student loans their paying off that effectively will put them way under a comparable salary for their entire lives.
"unused sick time carries over year to year and can be cashed out at retirement to pay for health insurance" LOL that was a sub-plot on the Dilbert cartoon...unfortunately Wally found out his company policy was not a liberal and he couldn't save up his sick days and retire early LOL.
indeed, that's why I love my current job. Much of our monitoring is the mainframes...nothing really EVER happens to them, all the changes are planned out months in advance, and everything goes through multiple steps of approval.
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. " - Tyler Durden
"If you want something done, ask a busy person." -- Benjamin Franklin
my company is doing that RIGHT NOW. We let go of our older, more knowledgable main frame people and hired some newbies to save a few bucks, then wonder why their team is missing alerts and their SLA...
GET OFF MY LAWN
MY current huge corp pet peeve is internal informational access. One of my main job metrics is to complete a list of descriptions for various apps on their Business Impact if they go down...currently I'm having to go through a list and contact each "app owner" and ask them. However, one floor down is our Help Desk, who has this very expansive knowledge base containing the EXACT information I need...yet I am not allowed access to it. AT ALL. I can't even look over someone's shoulder and copy some stuff down. No matter that last year at this time I was on that help desk and HAD access...never mind that we're actually HURTING our client by compartmentalizing our information like this...it's not even a contractual reason, it's just basically "we don't want you to have an easy job". Also, some of their information is inaccurate and causes false alarms BUT still their management "holds the line" and "none shall pass". Since I also work nights I haven't yet gotten the chance to discuss this with any of them in person; just my manager who has abandoned my request from their push back. Makes me want to abandon the updating...I really want to say "This information is RIGHT HERE and I refuse to keep beating my head against the wall, sending out hundreds of emails for this information WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE IT but the politics of our company are too feudal to let me do my job"
Just showing up on time every day puts you miles ahead of most Help Desk people.
I dunno, there are plenty of masturbation jobs on Inceed!
Sales is THE WORST for an IT tech. Most can barely talk to a normal person, much less convince said person to buy something from them.
"men are 4x more likely to successfully commit suicide" I think that's because we men don't care what we look like afterwards and often will use a gun where women try pills or some crap.
I don't know of ANY job that really works well if your practically blind, IT or not. Even a fast-food cook has to be able to read the orders on the screen.
The older you are, the better you should be able to "play up" any skills you have and make them seems FAR above any much younger competition. If you can't then just just suck at branding yourself and all the IT skills in the world aren't going to help.
Indeed, the only REAL way to make actual, decent code on any complex app is following a defined software development cycle, I learned that the hard way too. Just throwing yourself at it 24/7 for weeks on end with a bottle of Adderall and pounds of coffee just makes crappy code.
I'm always the schizo-cat on my team, off on my own adventures while everyone else is filing weekly paperwork. I just say "oh my ADD" and skip it, since that's pretty much true and I've got several doctors to back me up. Usually I get away with it; being the most technical person on the team helps too.
ITIL certs are in great demand. A single search on Inceed has 1,600+ jobs, from $60k-$140k+. ITIL is also more policy than tech, sounds right up your ally. It's the "worldwide" standard now, ITIL policy REQUIRES my team to exist at my workplace...we do the ITSM "root cause analysis" part. Well, I'm supposed to but normally the network runs so smooth I might do 15 minutes of actual work a day, mostly I just watch primewire / neflix all night. I don't have any ITIL certs, but they ARE pretty useful but their just now showing up in the US on jobs. I can't actually name my client as I recently got in trouble from a VP for that (nice surprise there), but 1,500 feet away from me is the SABRE mainframe underground complex.