Have to agree. I have one "smart" tv that I got for the display quality, and one dumb (I think-- at least I don't use any smart functions). The dumb tv has a plug strip, network switch, Apple TV (actually two because they keep crashing and I had a spare), a wifi access point, and some other junk all velcro'd to the back.
Smart TVs simplify things... but they aren't the "best of both worlds" by any means.
Similar situation, but I don't exactly trust the precision of words used by their "Chief Legal Officer." Seriously, a CLO? That should say enough about the direction they are headed.
For me, it is because it was an order of magnitude easier to do it when I started, and most functionality is dealt with centrally. At home, it is awesome-- I have 5 units in one place and 8 in the other and I generally consider it money well spent.
Using a single unit in my office is a pain in the ass though, and I really should be firewalling it from the corporate network but making the controller work is too much of a pain.
Surely you jest!? Most of them are just Linux boxes, and all the ones I have used were easy enough to ssh into if you want. Never an issue with Buffalo, WD, Synology, or off-brand units with a Mac or Linux workstation.
You can control it via UPnP, which is pretty nice from a home automation standpoint. The API isn't documented, but even I was able to figure it out with Wireshark. Sonos does a better job than anything else I have found, although they will be getting a call from me on this one.
I am miffed by this, but we are talking about a system designed around streaming audio that houses your phone for control. It also adds support for new services as they arrive. Yes, they need to connect to the internet and yes they need to update firmware.
I am guessing my Sonos systems will get firewalled like my other IoT devices, although it will be more complicated if I still want Amazon Prime Music. Their diagnostic page has a lot of information I really don't want them to have automatically and continuously.
I remember way back when, likely Popular Mechanics in the 80's, when they demonstrated metal stud wall construction robots. One could lay bottom track and fasten to the floor, and the other could set top track and studs, crimping them in place rather than screwing.
Funny thing... I still haven't seen one on a job site, despite all the benefits that this approach would have. You can use flat metal rolls rather than shipping shaped forms to site, all with "zero" waste!
I don't think so. My guess based on a non-technical friend who does have a business account for his one-man-show is that the cost of supporting recovery just doesn't make the base tier work financially. He must have spent 12 hours on the phone with them trying to get things back (partially due to poor UI design). BUT, he swears by them with enough confidence that I was contemplating going to them for off-site backup.
I don't think they can really provide the same level of service at the personal account tier; it makes sense to go up the ranks.
Personally, I'll stick with multiple external hard drives in multiple locations, but if I wasn't comfortable with that $120/year wouldn't be that big of a deal.
A journeyman bricklayer makes ~$35/hour W2 in Los Angeles, and there is a shortage. They can easily get 25% overtime at 1.5x. Most low-rise residential and all single family homes would be non-union labor closer to $15-18/hour W2 with lower benefits.
The real shortage in California specifically is in electricians, who make $50-65/hour (journeyman), and could easily make $130-150k with overtime.
This has been discussed for years; it is why the manufacturers invest in Uber/Lyft, it is why Uber is investing in self-driving cars, and it is why higher utilization rates of autonomous cars are expected.
Yes, it means that a car with 50% utilization will be more expensive than one with 5%, it means that the service model changes dramatically, and it means that the ownership model is also likely to be impacted.
Who is really only looking at the first-order issues here? Aside for people complaining about EVs, I doubt many really think that everything will stay exactly as it is today.
You don't hit a critical mass with small cities. That doesn't mean you can't have interconnected communities in a metropolitan area to support "industry", but each community has to value housing, walkabikity, and transit.
The old way of doing bedroom communities doesn't work.
Oakland might be a stretch, but Dublin would be easier than Stockton. Her story is odd at best... although I get up at 4AM to be at work at 8, and my commute is a 15 minute bike ride, and I shower at the office.
I recently realized it was too late to get something from Amazon, so I checked online to see if Frys had what I needed and would run down the street to pick it up. However, the dread of shopping there pushed me into the Apple Store (at a lower price) instead.
It is kind of a shame that they are stuck in the 80's with their mindset, but the store near me will be closing within a couple years.
Some of them might be nicer, but it is t what I would call an exceptional experience. I will be sad for the random electronics bits to disappear though.
It is funny just how hard it is to do (from management perspective). You need to become a non-exempt employee typically, because at 10h per week you might not meet FLSA definitions for exemption. You also have inconsistencies with HR policies on how many hours it takes to get benefits.
We usually take the lazy way out and make people 1099 that want to partially retire, unless they are more "seasonal", working a few months full time and then taking a few off. Legal compliance is poorly defined, which makes it quite hard. The legal issues likely need to be simplified or codified.
Many organizations have the title "Fellow" or similar to reward technical achievements and long term contributions. Unfortunately they can also be very politically driven titles, but it is something.
I don't want to be too obvious about where exactly I think you are, but the electric company's fiber would be an alternative. The way it is handled at the substations on each end make me think it is internal network and not access network.
Agree on your reflection of your ILEC; looks pretty half-assed.
There is a website that lets you look up actual tower owners; the major carriers own very few of their own towers. I forget how to do it now, been several years, but there is a good chance you can get a repeater from there at least for yourself; looks like each hop is moderate distance.
The fiber on the transmission line is the electric company's for switching/automation. I don't know about your area, but in California they will lease dark fiber.
Not sure who owns or who is on the tower north of Barre, but it should have LOS to Knox Mtn to relay to you... if you could get a tower there. Your best chance would be getting ~10-20 people together in your area that want service and go from there; there is strength in numbers.
Isn't town is a mile and a half south, but the transmission line is a half mile north? Looks like there is fiber in the intersection in town as well where the phone company's propane generator and pedestal are to connect back to the CO.
I was very surprised by the lack of any (visible) Wireless ISPs though; there could be one closer to the capital that would have LOS to the 3,000 ft summit north of you, but there aren't any towers I could find there.
Not trying to stalk; just trying to be helpful. I've had to get pretty good at assessing utility infrastructure from Google Earth in the past few years, but I haven't done any in your state before.
Well, if it is important to you, there is fiber on the transmission line a half-mile up the road from you. Might not be economically viable for just yourself, but you could always put a tower up and you should have line of sight to town.
So, what do you think is a "reasonable" speed today, and in 5 years?
Many WISPs are able to deliver 150Mb within their coverage area now, we are seeing GPON expansion opportunities for smaller communities where 10-20km reach is sufficient.
I see 10/1 as the equivalent of "lifeline" service, and about 40/10 as "normal" and 100/50 as "power user" and 1G/250M as "exceptional" today-- in 5 years I expect each of those levels to drop a tier and we will see the 10G/1G become "exceptional."
What we really need is ways for under-served communities to take action to get themselves the level of service they want.
A decade ago we did have "remote access" via ssh/sftp to the file server. We were caught off guard with one employee needing to work at a client site for a couple months. Terrible practice, but we only had ~8 people at the time and were saving up for the real firewall...
We did at least use certificate login though, I guess. Not much of a salvation.
But, anything in the last 5-8 years is really, really stupid. I understand how it happens, but it is still stupid as hell.
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I think Youtube and Maps are fair game, but search and play are a stretch.
Have to agree. I have one "smart" tv that I got for the display quality, and one dumb (I think-- at least I don't use any smart functions). The dumb tv has a plug strip, network switch, Apple TV (actually two because they keep crashing and I had a spare), a wifi access point, and some other junk all velcro'd to the back.
Smart TVs simplify things... but they aren't the "best of both worlds" by any means.
It can, but it is a very painful process. Operating it without internet access though isn't an issue.
Similar situation, but I don't exactly trust the precision of words used by their "Chief Legal Officer." Seriously, a CLO? That should say enough about the direction they are headed.
For me, it is because it was an order of magnitude easier to do it when I started, and most functionality is dealt with centrally. At home, it is awesome-- I have 5 units in one place and 8 in the other and I generally consider it money well spent.
Using a single unit in my office is a pain in the ass though, and I really should be firewalling it from the corporate network but making the controller work is too much of a pain.
Surely you jest!? Most of them are just Linux boxes, and all the ones I have used were easy enough to ssh into if you want. Never an issue with Buffalo, WD, Synology, or off-brand units with a Mac or Linux workstation.
You can control it via UPnP, which is pretty nice from a home automation standpoint. The API isn't documented, but even I was able to figure it out with Wireshark. Sonos does a better job than anything else I have found, although they will be getting a call from me on this one.
I am miffed by this, but we are talking about a system designed around streaming audio that houses your phone for control. It also adds support for new services as they arrive. Yes, they need to connect to the internet and yes they need to update firmware.
I am guessing my Sonos systems will get firewalled like my other IoT devices, although it will be more complicated if I still want Amazon Prime Music. Their diagnostic page has a lot of information I really don't want them to have automatically and continuously.
I remember way back when, likely Popular Mechanics in the 80's, when they demonstrated metal stud wall construction robots. One could lay bottom track and fasten to the floor, and the other could set top track and studs, crimping them in place rather than screwing.
Funny thing... I still haven't seen one on a job site, despite all the benefits that this approach would have. You can use flat metal rolls rather than shipping shaped forms to site, all with "zero" waste!
I don't think so. My guess based on a non-technical friend who does have a business account for his one-man-show is that the cost of supporting recovery just doesn't make the base tier work financially. He must have spent 12 hours on the phone with them trying to get things back (partially due to poor UI design). BUT, he swears by them with enough confidence that I was contemplating going to them for off-site backup.
I don't think they can really provide the same level of service at the personal account tier; it makes sense to go up the ranks.
Personally, I'll stick with multiple external hard drives in multiple locations, but if I wasn't comfortable with that $120/year wouldn't be that big of a deal.
A journeyman bricklayer makes ~$35/hour W2 in Los Angeles, and there is a shortage. They can easily get 25% overtime at 1.5x. Most low-rise residential and all single family homes would be non-union labor closer to $15-18/hour W2 with lower benefits.
The real shortage in California specifically is in electricians, who make $50-65/hour (journeyman), and could easily make $130-150k with overtime.
This has been discussed for years; it is why the manufacturers invest in Uber/Lyft, it is why Uber is investing in self-driving cars, and it is why higher utilization rates of autonomous cars are expected.
Yes, it means that a car with 50% utilization will be more expensive than one with 5%, it means that the service model changes dramatically, and it means that the ownership model is also likely to be impacted.
Who is really only looking at the first-order issues here? Aside for people complaining about EVs, I doubt many really think that everything will stay exactly as it is today.
I had no issues with it... but bad English is a fairly universal language, and "baked into" would leave most non-Americans puzzled.
"Integrated" would be a less colloquial term and clearer and more transparent to a diverse audience.
You don't hit a critical mass with small cities. That doesn't mean you can't have interconnected communities in a metropolitan area to support "industry", but each community has to value housing, walkabikity, and transit.
The old way of doing bedroom communities doesn't work.
Oakland might be a stretch, but Dublin would be easier than Stockton. Her story is odd at best... although I get up at 4AM to be at work at 8, and my commute is a 15 minute bike ride, and I shower at the office.
Says someone who shops at Fry's...
I recently realized it was too late to get something from Amazon, so I checked online to see if Frys had what I needed and would run down the street to pick it up. However, the dread of shopping there pushed me into the Apple Store (at a lower price) instead.
It is kind of a shame that they are stuck in the 80's with their mindset, but the store near me will be closing within a couple years.
Some of them might be nicer, but it is t what I would call an exceptional experience. I will be sad for the random electronics bits to disappear though.
It is funny just how hard it is to do (from management perspective). You need to become a non-exempt employee typically, because at 10h per week you might not meet FLSA definitions for exemption. You also have inconsistencies with HR policies on how many hours it takes to get benefits.
We usually take the lazy way out and make people 1099 that want to partially retire, unless they are more "seasonal", working a few months full time and then taking a few off. Legal compliance is poorly defined, which makes it quite hard. The legal issues likely need to be simplified or codified.
Many organizations have the title "Fellow" or similar to reward technical achievements and long term contributions. Unfortunately they can also be very politically driven titles, but it is something.
I don't want to be too obvious about where exactly I think you are, but the electric company's fiber would be an alternative. The way it is handled at the substations on each end make me think it is internal network and not access network.
Agree on your reflection of your ILEC; looks pretty half-assed.
There is a website that lets you look up actual tower owners; the major carriers own very few of their own towers. I forget how to do it now, been several years, but there is a good chance you can get a repeater from there at least for yourself; looks like each hop is moderate distance.
The fiber on the transmission line is the electric company's for switching/automation. I don't know about your area, but in California they will lease dark fiber.
Not sure who owns or who is on the tower north of Barre, but it should have LOS to Knox Mtn to relay to you... if you could get a tower there. Your best chance would be getting ~10-20 people together in your area that want service and go from there; there is strength in numbers.
Isn't town is a mile and a half south, but the transmission line is a half mile north? Looks like there is fiber in the intersection in town as well where the phone company's propane generator and pedestal are to connect back to the CO.
I was very surprised by the lack of any (visible) Wireless ISPs though; there could be one closer to the capital that would have LOS to the 3,000 ft summit north of you, but there aren't any towers I could find there.
Not trying to stalk; just trying to be helpful. I've had to get pretty good at assessing utility infrastructure from Google Earth in the past few years, but I haven't done any in your state before.
Well, if it is important to you, there is fiber on the transmission line a half-mile up the road from you. Might not be economically viable for just yourself, but you could always put a tower up and you should have line of sight to town.
So, what do you think is a "reasonable" speed today, and in 5 years?
Many WISPs are able to deliver 150Mb within their coverage area now, we are seeing GPON expansion opportunities for smaller communities where 10-20km reach is sufficient.
I see 10/1 as the equivalent of "lifeline" service, and about 40/10 as "normal" and 100/50 as "power user" and 1G/250M as "exceptional" today-- in 5 years I expect each of those levels to drop a tier and we will see the 10G/1G become "exceptional."
What we really need is ways for under-served communities to take action to get themselves the level of service they want.
A decade ago we did have "remote access" via ssh/sftp to the file server. We were caught off guard with one employee needing to work at a client site for a couple months. Terrible practice, but we only had ~8 people at the time and were saving up for the real firewall...
We did at least use certificate login though, I guess. Not much of a salvation.
But, anything in the last 5-8 years is really, really stupid. I understand how it happens, but it is still stupid as hell.