I spent about a decade doing high-level end-user compute management for a large healthcare organization.
There are two major forces at play.
Doctors just want fancy equipment so they can keep up status. Doctors are lazy and entitled, and can't be bothered to do anything beneath them.
I've been on countless projects for SSO or (reduced signon, anyway) and context management. I've had to make sure countless pretty-boy doctors could get the new device that the OTHER hospital gave THEIR doctors. It's **all** about physician satisfaction. It's a seller's market, and if you don't give the doctors every last thing they demand they will go to work at the other hospital down the street. Of course, doctors know EVERYTHING, so there's no negotiating with them at any level. Site managers know they're fucked, and we know site managers are fucked, so we bend over and take it.
The context management systems (that keep patients synchronized across multiple clinical apps -- your EMR, or your radiology app, or your bed placement app, or your 10 other non-integrated apps) all suck and are fantastic boondoggles. SSO works for major systems, but unless you're AMAZING and have every last system in Cerner (or whatever you use), your docs will fuck that up too and blame IT.
I moved to Sonarr to grab my TV. Then I moved back to a plain old cable box to watch live sports.
The peace and sanity in my house of not being screwed every so often on a Sunday night by some PlayReady Can't Install fuckup has made me much, much, less likely to punch babies in the face in anger....not that Sonarr doesn't have problems, but they're less angering than drying to reset my DRM and lose shows when PlayReady completely shits the bed -- once or twice a year.
You're not forced to use Windows at all. Run whatever you want on your hardware....but if you do run an older version of Windows - one that's going to stop being updated - it's going to remind you regularly to upgrade to the current version.
How do you think this will work for local elections in prison towns?
Do you think the new Sheriff of Douglas Arizona and all local JOPs will be voted in by a landslide by the prisoners there? Should the local governance of Winslow Arizona be domainted by the will of the prisoners held way out in Navajo county?
Like a lot of states, the prisons in Arizona are in remote mining towns with small local populations, of which prisoners make up a large percentage.
By a quick count, at least 20% of the population of the rural cities with prisons in my state are the prisoners themselves.
[Some of the prisons are on county land outside of incorporated areas, so they may not be able to vote in some local elections, but my point remains.]
It's about 360k per episode after initial ramp-up. Apparently 1M to get going. They mention an issue with rights, so I assume that's part of the 1M. They say "cleared up," with regard to rights, but that might not mean "cleared up and PAID FOR."
I also assume that like any show, gathering a bunch of people in a writer's room costs salaries, leasing space, blah blah. It's expensive to open doors on anything. That first new camera costs a lot of money.
High end TV production costs *way* more than 1M/episode. That wouldn't even crack half the salaries on NCIS. (Harmon 525k, Weatherly and the rest of the main cast get 250k/ea)
For me, most of my content came from my personal physical albums and DVDs that I ripped.
The idea of bringing and sorting media is CRAZY. I use Sickbeard to grab my TV, and it shows up in Plex without a hitch, beautifully. For movies, Plex **just works**. I put in my original thousand movies and I had to manually correct fewer than two dozen of them. Albums worked nearly as well. TV requires a minimum of sorting and renaming to work perfectly, but Sickbeard knows exactly how to name them if you're downloading them as they air.
Aside: I'm not advocating torrenting movies over renting them legally, but if you wanted to, I assure you that **EVERY** release on RedBox is available in pristine 720 or 1080 rip from a "reputable" group like Yify before it's available at your local RedBox kiosk.
I've got a post below, but I'm with you. MCE well configured with a Ceton card was great....except for those days when PlayReady decided to be a bitch.
I was previously a Windows Media Center guy, with a nice Ceton cable-card tuner. MCE had a nice, high wife acceptance factor, and made for a better DVR than any of the big guys -- although consumer DVRs have caught up nicely in the last few years.
Times have changed.
Because I still enjoy games in my living room, the primary device now connected to my television is an XBox One, and nearly all television is watched on Plex. Plex is, in a word, fantastic. It was worth the $100 I shelled out for a lifetime pass.
In the closet is a QNAP 4-bay NAS. It's running a suite of Sickrage (choose your own Sickbeard fork), sabNZBplus, Transmission, and Plex. I've purchased a pair of block Usenet accounts on competing backbones, and I download about 25 gigs a month from them to get the number and quality of shows that I want. I keep them forever on the QNAP.
I rip or download any movies I want into Plex -- I converted my entire physical library some time ago -- and they're watchable anywhere, in part because I have Cox's Gig service in Phoenix.
On Sundays I still turn on the cable feed to watch the NFL, and a couple Saturdays a month I turn on the cable feed to watch a UFC PPV, although I expect to watch their next game on the UFC app on the XB1.
[A TB Usenet block is available on sale for another 10-15 hours at NewgroupDirect for $40 right now...]
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I spent about a decade doing high-level end-user compute management for a large healthcare organization.
There are two major forces at play.
Doctors just want fancy equipment so they can keep up status.
Doctors are lazy and entitled, and can't be bothered to do anything beneath them.
I've been on countless projects for SSO or (reduced signon, anyway) and context management. I've had to make sure countless pretty-boy doctors could get the new device that the OTHER hospital gave THEIR doctors. It's **all** about physician satisfaction. It's a seller's market, and if you don't give the doctors every last thing they demand they will go to work at the other hospital down the street. Of course, doctors know EVERYTHING, so there's no negotiating with them at any level. Site managers know they're fucked, and we know site managers are fucked, so we bend over and take it.
The context management systems (that keep patients synchronized across multiple clinical apps -- your EMR, or your radiology app, or your bed placement app, or your 10 other non-integrated apps) all suck and are fantastic boondoggles. SSO works for major systems, but unless you're AMAZING and have every last system in Cerner (or whatever you use), your docs will fuck that up too and blame IT.
Whiny bitches, all of 'em.
CableCARD is encrypted, and nobody else supports it.
Mostly nobody, at least as I understand.
I get that.
I moved to Sonarr to grab my TV. Then I moved back to a plain old cable box to watch live sports.
The peace and sanity in my house of not being screwed every so often on a Sunday night by some PlayReady Can't Install fuckup has made me much, much, less likely to punch babies in the face in anger. ...not that Sonarr doesn't have problems, but they're less angering than drying to reset my DRM and lose shows when PlayReady completely shits the bed -- once or twice a year.
Loved my Media Center. Ran it for the entire life of the product.
I surrendered this last year, moved to Plex and Sonarr, mostly spurred by the XB1 not being a MCE.
Let me know if you want to double down and buy my cable card tuner :)
You're not forced to use Windows at all. Run whatever you want on your hardware. ...but if you do run an older version of Windows - one that's going to stop being updated - it's going to remind you regularly to upgrade to the current version.
3114409 has been pulled, but might have caught some people who patched early.
...you mean, other than just letting your "office" machines get their patches directly from the internet instead of WSUS or SCCM?
....exactly what countermeasures beyond them mentioning they used to use IP range blacklists, exactly?
Where are the details?
This is like some old story about a guy he used to know who did some thing one time...
Crazy, the idea of a pictograph being used to represent a word....
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
I enjoy fried mealworms as replacements for salty snacks, like any other pop-and-crunch food covered in chili powder.
Not quite.
Pastafarians are secularists who believe that a Flying Spaghetti Monster is just as likely as any other deity.
Source: I'm an ordained minister of the CoFSM.
How do you think this will work for local elections in prison towns?
Do you think the new Sheriff of Douglas Arizona and all local JOPs will be voted in by a landslide by the prisoners there? Should the local governance of Winslow Arizona be domainted by the will of the prisoners held way out in Navajo county?
Like a lot of states, the prisons in Arizona are in remote mining towns with small local populations, of which prisoners make up a large percentage.
By a quick count, at least 20% of the population of the rural cities with prisons in my state are the prisoners themselves.
[Some of the prisons are on county land outside of incorporated areas, so they may not be able to vote in some local elections, but my point remains.]
This just in: Some people will vote for their own self-interests.
If we're going to be pedantic, the word you're looking for is "Initialism."
Acronyms spell things (e.g. NATO, scuba, sonar).
I think this comes down to if you're a Joel fan or a Mike fan.
I realize it's a group effort, Joel/Trace/Kevin vs Mike/Bill/Kevin - but a lot of us have a preference. :(
I was a fan of Kevin's lines, most than most - so I like most of the run.
It's about 360k per episode after initial ramp-up. Apparently 1M to get going. They mention an issue with rights, so I assume that's part of the 1M. They say "cleared up," with regard to rights, but that might not mean "cleared up and PAID FOR."
I also assume that like any show, gathering a bunch of people in a writer's room costs salaries, leasing space, blah blah. It's expensive to open doors on anything. That first new camera costs a lot of money.
High end TV production costs *way* more than 1M/episode. That wouldn't even crack half the salaries on NCIS. (Harmon 525k, Weatherly and the rest of the main cast get 250k/ea)
It scales down per episode after the first three.
1.3M for three more episodes (430k ea for episodes 4-6)
1.1M for each three episodes after that (366k ea for episodes 7-9 and 10-12)
Since you can do an episode for about 370k, there's *apparently* 1M in new rampup costs.
A sad thought.
Knowing who made a show directly influences what other shows of theirs I may watch.
Knowing the manufacturer of my spatula may facilitate another purchase (or avoidance of purchasing from the same maker).
DraftKings (or the other one) did this in The League this (final) season.
Product placement has always existed, but since we all skip commercials now, you gotta get your ad dollars somewhere.
Look, I hate the TSA as much as (if not more than) the next guy, but can we be clear about the numbers?
95% of contraband, which **includes, but is not limited to** weapons got through.
What percentage of weapons, then?
They might just be terrible at detecting forbidden fruits and vegetables.
For me, most of my content came from my personal physical albums and DVDs that I ripped.
The idea of bringing and sorting media is CRAZY. I use Sickbeard to grab my TV, and it shows up in Plex without a hitch, beautifully. For movies, Plex **just works**. I put in my original thousand movies and I had to manually correct fewer than two dozen of them. Albums worked nearly as well. TV requires a minimum of sorting and renaming to work perfectly, but Sickbeard knows exactly how to name them if you're downloading them as they air.
Aside: I'm not advocating torrenting movies over renting them legally, but if you wanted to, I assure you that **EVERY** release on RedBox is available in pristine 720 or 1080 rip from a "reputable" group like Yify before it's available at your local RedBox kiosk.
I have that Visio. Among it's best features is that it's also a Plex client.
I've got a post below, but I'm with you. MCE well configured with a Ceton card was great. ...except for those days when PlayReady decided to be a bitch.
I was previously a Windows Media Center guy, with a nice Ceton cable-card tuner. MCE had a nice, high wife acceptance factor, and made for a better DVR than any of the big guys -- although consumer DVRs have caught up nicely in the last few years.
Times have changed.
Because I still enjoy games in my living room, the primary device now connected to my television is an XBox One, and nearly all television is watched on Plex. Plex is, in a word, fantastic. It was worth the $100 I shelled out for a lifetime pass.
In the closet is a QNAP 4-bay NAS. It's running a suite of Sickrage (choose your own Sickbeard fork), sabNZBplus, Transmission, and Plex. I've purchased a pair of block Usenet accounts on competing backbones, and I download about 25 gigs a month from them to get the number and quality of shows that I want. I keep them forever on the QNAP.
I rip or download any movies I want into Plex -- I converted my entire physical library some time ago -- and they're watchable anywhere, in part because I have Cox's Gig service in Phoenix.
On Sundays I still turn on the cable feed to watch the NFL, and a couple Saturdays a month I turn on the cable feed to watch a UFC PPV, although I expect to watch their next game on the UFC app on the XB1.
[A TB Usenet block is available on sale for another 10-15 hours at NewgroupDirect for $40 right now...]
Simple.
A lot of us like the taste of meat, but wouldn't mind a friendly substitute, especially if it were cheaper.