I saw something that suggested that 25 Mbps is a bare minimum for well-compressed UHD, 60 Mpbs for uncompressed... I have gigabit fiber with no data caps or restrictions so I have no worries whatsoever. I signed up for the beta and I hope I get to try it out.

Since it’s a streaming box, you would think it would try to maximize streaming bandwidth capabilities. They have wireless AC so in theory the can do gig wireless. Gig nic’s should be fairly ubiquitous by now, so just a little odd seeing their hardlink trumped by their wireless.

Looks awesome, but I’m a little disappointed that the specs sheet on Roku’s site only list 10/100 ethernet. Seems like at this point 10/100/1000 should be a given. Still looks great though, might pick up an Ultra model.

I utilize the #1 option - I am very fortunate to be able to work full-time from home. It was amazing how much time and money I saved compared to my ~120 mile/day, 2 hour round trip commute I had been doing for a little over 5 years. I highly recommend at least doing some work from home if your company supports. As…

I kind of feel like we need more of an ‘all-or-nothing’ with regards to human interaction. I look at this scale and see levels 2 -4 suggesting that a human may need to be ready to take over. There’s going to need to be quite a bit of lead time on that because I have a feeling most people are going to almost…

Neat idea, I like that!

My questions are asked during the course of the interview so once we wrap up there’s not much more to cover. I very much treat interviews as a two-way conversation so, to me, I don’t see why you would just table all of your questions until the end.

At work some of us have had to do this when we log into our companies VPN to prevent updates from downloading, we also have to disable SMS Agent Host too. Ironic thing is that we’re SCCM architects who are intentionally preventing our product from doing it’s job.

I’ve really been enjoying all of these survival articles you guys have been posting. Seems like there’s a lot of overlap too, so much easier to remember. Awesome stuff!

Yes, that is a big challenge. In addition, data caps on non-mobile internets is a problem too. Personally I am very fortunate, we live in a small town that has several options. One of my options is a regional ISP (several towns in southeastern Indiana) that runs fiber to your backdoor and offers gig download with…

I wish I could take advantage of this. My TV provider uses IPTV (odd considering I’m in the US). To my knowledge there’s no way that I can initiate and decrypt the stream without their box. I can watch channels on VLC but only if I hook into the TV network and only watch whatever channel the set-top-box is on. Oh well…

Free? Yes, but I thought to do some of the nicer TV-based features you had to pay up... maybe I’m remembering wrong? I’ll have to check them out again. Used it several years ago and there was a lot to like about it. Definitely good for power-users/control freaks (which I am)

I consider myself freakishly lucky - my parents divorced, my mom remarried, and my dad has had a steady ‘girlfriend’ for something like 15+ years. Everybody gets along. My dad and step dad can talk, and we even go to family events still. Example: 2 Thanksgivings ago my sister was flying in to where my dad’s side of…

Man I loved that game, I played the living SHIT out of it... of course that was on a US SNES so it was technically FF 2 for me.

Not to mention the sound system at a real Imax is something that’s hard to describe to people who haven’t heard (felt) it

I’m lucky in that I live near a really good legit Imax Theater. We have a few ‘fake’ Imax’s in the area too but only 1 real one. When Star Wars was out last Christmas, it was one of the few that could display the movie fully in the way Abrams shot it (so non-3D).

Oh shit, thanks for describing me sort of, though I haven’t melted down... yet

Yep, 100% agree. I was a lowly desktop tech long ago, and an opportunity for a engineering role came up. It was an internal posting and a lot of people applied. I was the newest to the company and had the least amount of experience. To set myself apart, I set up an AD domain, and SCCM and did things with them. I came…

What-in-the-unnatural-fuck was that??

Time to do a clean install