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Super Slash posted:Was any of it Cisco kit? I was taken on a demo tour of sorts and their high end stuff is ridiculously awesome, and huge. No, the actual VC unit was Lifesize. The huge frame and glass unit was a different small name brand. I can't recall it but I'll google around and find it. This thing: http://www.telepresencetech.com/3d-telepresence.html Super-NintendoUser fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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The percentage of large video conferencing setups that actually get used for their intended purpose as opposed to a cargo cult purchase where the cameras never get used after the first week must be in the single figures.
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Jan 6, 2017 01:42
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I thought they were all purchased to watch the football game if you have to be in on a weekend
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Jan 6, 2017 01:47
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Thanks Ants posted:The percentage of large video conferencing setups that actually get used for their intended purpose as opposed to a cargo cult purchase where the cameras never get used after the first week must be in the single figures. When I forgot to do one of their silly online exams for a week Polycom revoked our Voice systems certification and was a real pain in the rear end about us getting it back. We decided that there was no market for the video systems and all of our techs let that lapse. They've been emailing me weekly for over two years saying our Video systems certification is in jeopardy. Seems they want to keep their count of certified installers as high as possible. I've literally seen one other unit outside of Polycom's demo rooms, and that was in a DoJ building in DC.
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Jan 6, 2017 03:59
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Thanks Ants posted:The percentage of large video conferencing setups that actually get used for their intended purpose as opposed to a cargo cult purchase where the cameras never get used after the first week must be in the single figures. This is really disappointing, because conferencing is dramatically more engaging with video, and gives you the visual cues you miss on pure audio. I'm seriously glad that I don't have to do just voice conference calls anymore.
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Jan 6, 2017 05:25
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Jerk McJerkface posted:No, the actual VC unit was Lifesize. The huge frame and glass unit was a different small name brand. I can't recall it but I'll google around and find it. 
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Jan 6, 2017 07:16
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RUN, HE'S TRYING TO PULL YOU INTO HIS DIMENSION!
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Jan 6, 2017 07:23
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xzzy posted:The amount of money they dump into video conferencing and collaboration-enabling doodads is absurd. I don't know what their actual budget is but googling the model numbers of things they buy is nonstop sticker shock. Everyone just uses Hangouts and Airplays to one of the TVs if someone needs to dial in.
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Jan 6, 2017 08:57
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That is exactly it. It was huge. It's like 4'Wx4'Hx3'D. I can count on one hand the number of times it was actually turned on and used for a conference in 5 years. But I'd have to take off the gloves and shoes of a hundred people to count the number of times it was critical I stayed late to test it because we had a critical demo the next day.
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Jan 6, 2017 14:54
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dc3k posted:All of our meeting rooms (like 30+) have some insane Cisco teleconference bullshit in them. Tens of thousands per room. These things? http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/collaboration-endpoints/telepresence-mx800/model.html I swear someone on the IS team got a kickback from Cisco, because we're putting these drat things everywhere, even in rooms that have no need for video conferencing. 10'x10' 6 person room that one SVP uses for little sit downs with their directors maybe once a week? gently caress it, slap one of these in there.
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They are so paranoid about security in our place, they cover up the VC camera in case it broadcasts somewhere 
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angry armadillo posted:They are so paranoid about security in our place, they cover up the VC camera in case it broadcasts somewhere We frequently get repair calls in our factory location because workers sneak into conference rooms to take an unscheduled break and disconnect the video conference units because they think the cameras can spy on them.
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angry armadillo posted:They are so paranoid about security in our place, they cover up the VC camera in case it broadcasts somewhere Most cameras in our Polycom installations have a feature where they turn to face the wall, when not in use.
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Jan 6, 2017 17:01
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nielsm posted:Most cameras in our Polycom installations have a feature where they turn to face the wall, when not in use. But the polygon remotes have that stupid feature where you pick them up and they wake up the camera. So when the meeting starts and someone moves the remote out of their way, everyone's all DEY SPYIN ON US.
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Jan 6, 2017 17:05
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We have a report that needs to be run to see what we owe in royalties for products, one per artist per month quarter or year depending on contract. This report takes forever and no one has really complained to me that it keeps taking longer and longer as time goes on I figure it's just coded like crap because it was made 20 years ago. I'm not a programmer so I'm not going to rewrite the hundreds of lines this thing does. CFO complains that new hardware seems to take longer than old when running this report. I have logs Harddrives are pushing peeking at 8x the old hardwares MB/s that can't possibly be it. Guess what was happening Moron who made it took a date range and checked every order ever made in the system to see if it fell into the range instead of filtering the table for the date range needed, I also filtered by the provided Royalty ID It now runs in under a minute instead of 4-6 hours per ID. There's a few dozen IDs. 2 lines of code, because for some reason every order goes through the entire list twice and I'm not going to modify and troubleshoot that hot mess. I did get to prove that the new hardware was faster with side by side windows in both environments on the new code that was fun.
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My company is EXTREMELY anti-alcohol at every level, but at the same time I don't really have any kind of per diem when I travel other than not being unreasonable. I've literally never even had an expense questioned for random one-off hardware purchases for testing or evaluating down or taking a pile of people out for dinner/lunch when I visit a site. I am not some high-up person either, they just treat us like we will be responsible and professional. It's kinda nice.
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Jan 6, 2017 17:40
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xzzy posted:But the polygon remotes have that stupid feature where you pick them up and they wake up the camera. So when the meeting starts and someone moves the remote out of their way, everyone's all DEY SPYIN ON US. People react the same way when the Surface Hub turns on as you enter the room. "No, the camera doesn't always record. They just.. um... detect the lights coming on through the infrared sensor for the remote. For reals!" People still love them though, so there's that.
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AlternateAccount posted:My company is EXTREMELY anti-alcohol at every level, but at the same time I don't really have any kind of per diem when I travel other than not being unreasonable. I've literally never even had an expense questioned for random one-off hardware purchases for testing or evaluating down or taking a pile of people out for dinner/lunch when I visit a site. I am not some high-up person either, they just treat us like we will be responsible and professional. It's kinda nice. Hmm.
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Shocking as it is, its possible to be against something, yet still think people are responsible enough to be trusted. For instance, I'm against crack smoking, but think that most of my co-workers can be trusted not to do it.
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RFC2324 posted:Shocking as it is, its possible to be against something, yet still think people are responsible enough to be trusted. Your terrible analogy only works if crack is legal and more or less socially acceptable. Don't need me to tell you this, but it isn't.
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He could be in Utah.
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Sheep posted:Your terrible analogy only works if crack is legal and more or less socially acceptable. Don't need me to tell you this, but it isn't. Legality defines what is morally/ethically acceptable? RFC2324 fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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Jan 6, 2017 20:19
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RFC2324 posted:Legality defines what is morally/ethically acceptable? No but something illegal is unlikely to be tolerated on the company dime, regardless of moral standing.
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RFC2324 posted:You are correct, wrong place
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anthonypants posted:You would've had better success if you'd used weed in your analogy. Except I think weed is just fine, and more acceptable than alcohol, despite its legal standing. And I'm borderline alcoholic 
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Jan 6, 2017 20:42
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HP you incompetent fucks. When I look up a unit configuration based on the laptop's serial number and part number, and I order the only LCD panel listed.... that motherfucker had better be the right drat panel. But it isn't. Thank god our CTO is covering for parts ordering right now so I've got heavy hitter to deal with HP. <mr.garrison> HP motherfuckers ! You goat-dropped pieces of poo poo ! </mr.garrison>
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mllaneza posted:HP you incompetent fucks. When I look up a unit configuration based on the laptop's serial number and part number, and I order the only LCD panel listed.... that motherfucker had better be the right drat panel. But it isn't. Thank god our CTO is covering for parts ordering right now so I've got heavy hitter to deal with HP. When I worked in a shop, we had this problem with literally every manufacturer. The policy became no LCD replacements without pulling the panel first.
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Jan 7, 2017 03:23
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It's not worth your time to gently caress around with laptops just get the tech to come on site and if the wrong part was per-delivered they get to come out again! I hate opening laptops.
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As lovely as opening up laptops is, I just wish there some standardisation when it comes to power adapter connectors as they keep frigging changing. In Europe the legal standard for mobile phones is micro USB (despite Apple getting around it), I'm also a bit miffed because a guy I kitted out with a laptop just before Christmas has broken his spare charger (the connector is snapped apart, who loving does this?) and I don't want to have to deal with a lovely manager when it comes to purchasing.
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AlternateAccount posted:My company is EXTREMELY anti-alcohol at every level, but at the same time I don't really have any kind of per diem when I travel other than not being unreasonable. I've literally never even had an expense questioned for random one-off hardware purchases for testing or evaluating down or taking a pile of people out for dinner/lunch when I visit a site. I am not some high-up person either, they just treat us like we will be responsible and professional. It's kinda nice. Our small company is very pro alcohol. Our christmas lunch was followed by a pub crawl, and a gift to everyone of an xmas card and a $100 Dan Murphy's gift card. (It's an Aussie bottle shop chain) Nothing like "you must go drinking with us to fit in", just sociable "we're going drinking, wanna come?"
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Super Slash posted:As lovely as opening up laptops is, I just wish there some standardisation when it comes to power adapter connectors as they keep frigging changing. If you buy all One brand the laptops will usually share power supplies. USB-C should eventually catch on as universal power but who knows how long that will take
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Overseeing our multinational phone system migration to RingCentral this weekend. Mostly well and good, except... our CEO's extension can't be called from the UK. 101 is a restricted emergency number. So either he changes it, or nobody from the UK calls him unless we direct-dial. How did RC not catch this? Oh well, not my problem.
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Bob Morales posted:If you buy all One brand the laptops will usually share power supplies. USB-C should eventually catch on as universal power but who knows how long that will take You'd think so but we're a HP shop and there are three different types out there, Probook Generation 1, 2, then 4. I think the gen 1 & 2 share the same connector but have different power requirements, the annoyance also comes from buying them I've been sent an older generation plug a couple times and have the explain it's wrong as the newer ones have smaller connectors.
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Woogles posted:Overseeing our multinational phone system migration to RingCentral this weekend. Cant make him 001?
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All I can think of is to introduce a prefix to dial internally to other offices, but this then breaks things like returning missed calls (will show as 101, you redial, get the police non-emergency number).
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Our small company is very pro alcohol. Our christmas lunch was followed by a pub crawl, and a gift to everyone of an xmas card and a $100 Dan Murphy's gift card. (It's an Aussie bottle shop chain) A bottle shop is a liquor store i take it?
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RFC2324 posted:A bottle shop is a liquor store i take it? Do you mean a package store?
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