Controversial posts made by scottalanmiller

Ever notice that despite being "logical", Vulcans were always emotionally distressed if they didn't use an impractical, illogical level of overprecision that did nothing but satisfy they emotional desire to sound superior?

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@Hubtech said:

@scottalanmiller this has nothing to do with his thread scott.

Yes, it was a continuing part of the conversation. You talking about derailments is where it completely left the original conversation. That is the true derailment.

@Jason said in Cheap TV or A Pretty Good Price For $399???:

Fight or flight? haha no we are all just tired of your shit here and spiceworks. You do realize there are chat rooms just talking about how insane you are being. You bring this site down by your need to be right at all costs even when you are wrong..

YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CONFUSED FRAME RATE AND REFRESH RATE - I Corrected you multiple times.

But whatever the all knowledgable Scott knows everything in the world.

I provided the technical reasons why it was true. And I provided an example that proved the case. You continue to support my cause by this emotional, non-technical outburst. You are using personal attacks to make your point instead of providing logic, facts, science or anything else. You've made my point in a way I could never do.

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You bet.

@Dashrender said in VitalPBX Sonata Suite:

I'm with JB on this one. Assuming that 1 additional year of support costs the same as the original purchase, they could solve this whole bit by simply stating, yearly maintenance is the same cost.

Oh it would be nice to state that there is no pricing that isn't listed. But you have to admit, it's slightly odd as a thought process to have to state the lack of things that don't exist.

@nadnerB said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

@scottalanmiller said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

@thwr said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

Update or pay-again?

Update. Owners of the full original game on Steam prior to the 26th found the new addition added to their libraries on Wednesday morning. No action or cost involved.

IF and only if you bought the game and ALL the DLC.
Otherwise, pay again.

That's what would make it an update.... if you don't already own what is being updated, it would be a give away Update implies that you own the original.

That should mean that someone downvoted, and they are not listed.

@Jason said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@JaredBusch said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@scottalanmiller said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@JaredBusch said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@scottalanmiller said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@coliver said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

Just for background - Fibrant is a municipal ISP that was setup by the City of Salisbury to fill in the gaps that other ISPs in the area refused to fill. They expanded from there and offer high speed services to the majority of the city.

but adding in SIP to services, that's where the problems tend to start. Being an ISP is good. Offering SIP is good. Putting the two together is generally bad. No
t always, of course, but pretty often.

Just because an ISP offers sip does not mean they are a shit IST

Yup, which I pointed out. I leans that way, but doesn't mean that it is the case.

That isn't what your first response was though. Your first response was very narrow and specific.

Yep, correlation doesn't equal causation. The two aren't related at all.

Ah, but they are. ISPs turn to SIP in many causes for the purpose of retaining customers in the face of competition based on quality of service.

Oh yeah, I didn't notice that you can't see the voting. Although to some degree, I like it being anonymous - it allows people to vote up or down without feeling guilty. I think that it provides a more honest assessment. If you can see who is doing it people are less likely to vote down something even when they don't like what is said.

@JaredBusch said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@scottalanmiller said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@JaredBusch said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@scottalanmiller said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

@coliver said in Fibrant ISP/SIP Provider Salisbury NC:

Just for background - Fibrant is a municipal ISP that was setup by the City of Salisbury to fill in the gaps that other ISPs in the area refused to fill. They expanded from there and offer high speed services to the majority of the city.

but adding in SIP to services, that's where the problems tend to start. Being an ISP is good. Offering SIP is good. Putting the two together is generally bad. No
t always, of course, but pretty often.

Just because an ISP offers sip does not mean they are a shit IST

Yup, which I pointed out. I leans that way, but doesn't mean that it is the case.

That isn't what your first response was though. Your first response was very narrow and specific.

I said that the chances got high, which I believe that they do. Combining the two is bad for customers in most cases and so often undertaken for the purpose of locking customers in to services that don't stand on their own. So the motivating factor to offering the two together is nearly always bad and in cases when it isn't, you expect to see the two services offered independently (so that one could be dropped but not the other.)

@Dashrender said:

Sure conference rooms have had larger project TVs, but I was calling your comparison of having a 84" TV at home apples v oranges when you don't a TV, you have a projector. It's not the same.

It's very much the same. I have a 84" display in my living room. That it projects from the front or the back might feel different to you but both are equally TVs. One is not more or less a TV than the other. That's a weird social thing that has arisen, but people in the AV space don't differentiate. Display devices are display devices.

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

What good career does college help with?

At some point, the definition of good needs to be explored. While I have a good career by most measures, I find myself looking for something I'm passionate about. I seem to be unable to get to that point in IT, despite the fact that I deeply enjoy a lot of parts of it. So I need to think carefully about how to find in IT what I'm passionate about or explore new careers that might generate that passion as well.

I find a lot of things very exciting. But routinely I find that needing a degree is a great way for me to define what a bad job looks like. Once a job requires you to "pay" for your job rather than to earn it by being qualified or good at it - it sucks. Now, lots of people have no desire to excel or be rewarded for hard work. For those people, generally the polar opposite of IT folk, those jobs are ideal. They pay well and you don't have to be up to par. All you have to be is "good enough" and that's all that there is to it.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Hubtech said:

oh. then nevermind. sorry to all those schmucks who have them ey!!!??

Man, Why do I go to the doctor then? Why have an engineer spec a house?

Because of government regulations. Without them, would you? When is the last time you talked to a doctor and felt that they were more qualified than you to diagnose what was wrong?

Doctors are a great example - they aren't, by and large, doing a good job. The government has to make a union like situation where the federal government takes away your rights to medicine and healthcare unless you get it through their approved channels. Doctors don't earn their keep.

Pre-Madonna? Like she is on her way to being a horrible, yet famous pop music diva?

Day one.... they haven't noticed yet.

@anonymous said:

I never never once uploaded a image to my website, hoping that someone else would use it.

Anecdotal fallacy. You did something, therefore everyone does the same thing.

I certainly have. So clearly we have conflicting anecdotal evidence. The difference is you are attempting to claim that because you personally have don't something that no one else could possibly.

I am simply stating that that is untrue and have proof. See the difference? You are claiming that you determine my motives. I do not claim to determine yours.

I watch camera porn all the time.

I see that you quoted me but nothing from you showed up.

@Pete-S said in Handling Downvotes:

By having both invisible all the potential drama is completely avoided.

It doesn't. The downvotes will have the same drama. The issue won't be addressed.