Ron Lindeboom
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Google whatever topics you are interested in. The most popular sources will always pop up at the top.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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I just took the speakeasy.net speed test and came in at…
…quite honorable enough for a cable modem rated at 20 down and 2 up.
Not all of the cities give me the same speed, but that is an issue with the routing and hops more than with our account here.
We don’t get as good a deal as many around the world, but we do have grape vines and vineyards as our view, so there are indeed trade-offs to be made.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Craig Seeman] “NYC Optonline aka Optimum, aka Cablevision – 100mbps down 15mbps up $99 a month . . . and they’re blanketing their coverage area with their own wifii so you can wander around the streets aimlessly and log in and watch Hulu. I’ve explained to my wife why we are never moving.”
Now I am jealous, Craig. We have nothing anywhere near this in our area.
Turning green with envy,
Ron Lindeboom
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[walter biscardi] “I’m glad it works for you. I’m paying for the same service and we’re lucky if we actually get the 20mbps downloads. Average is about 6 to 10. Charter has no answer for us. We’re switching over to a new AT&T service that just started up around here.”
We came OFF of AT&T to go to Charter, which didn’t work at all for us. We signed a one year contract and it was one of the bad contracts that I was alluding to and telling Moody to avoid at all costs. We were lucky to get anything uploaded while we were there.
The magazine print files that took me less than an hour to upload to the printer on Charter, took 14 to 16 hours using AT&T. It was a nightmare.
Your mileage hopefully will vary.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Also, Moody, do not forget to get a 30 day out clause on your contract. I have had as many bad experiences with service providers as I have had with good ones.
If they are so confident, make them give you 30 days before the contract goes into effect.
This is critically important, in our opinion.
Ron & Kathlyn
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Being that you are in Southern California, Moody, you can get many other options and some that are far cheaper and much faster.
Here in Paso Robles, we have a business account with Charter Communication Business Services and they charge us $399 a month for a 20MBPS down and 2MBPS up speeds on a cable modem with great service.
Check with your local cable provider’s internet business services unit.
There is also Speakeasy.net that operates in your area and with Speakeasy.net you can get a dedicated T1 line account for about $399 a month or less. In your area it is likely less as there is so much competition.
https://www.speakeasy.net/promos/fatpipe/
Personally, as bad as the market is right now and with as many companies going under as there have been, whomever you choose is likely to be far more aggressive than their published prices if you hold out for a deal and name-drop a bunch of companies that “I am checking with. I will get back to you.” If you do that, they will likely get you to a supervisor of or someone else who can take you to their best price.
We consolidated our two 100MBit closets that were $2500 each into two closets with a shared 1000Mbit (GigE) port on our load-balancing router that is now costing us nearly half of what we have been paying for the last couple of years to support this site each month.
The market is rough. You are fresh business. You are fresh meat. You taste good to them. They have been losing a lot of customers lately. They are hungry. Don’t forget that.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Simply stated: it is not her’s to copyright. As Water points out, the finished work is her’s to do with as she wishes but the FCP project file is NOT her’s unless she has a contract with you that says that at the end of the project, you owe her the project file. If that doesn’t exist, it is legally not her work.
It would be like me buying a bottle of wine and then telling the winemaker that I had a right to their equipment that produced it. Your “equipment” is your software, and the end-product is owned by her. How you got there is not owned by her, unless the contract states clearly that it is the case.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Scott Cumbo] “I HAVE NO TALENT AT ALL!”
I would bet money that this is simply an over-simplification of the facts and is hardly true, if at all.
I know people that have ten- or twenty-times my talent and in comparison to them, I may have little to no talent, at all. But I also remember the story of the tortoise and the hare and the lesson drawn from it.
The hare had all the natural innate talent that being a hare could give him. But as you said, and I have also found to be quite true, there is a tendency among those with natural talent to rest upon it and take their confidence in it.
I’ll take the ones with less talent and more drive. At the end of the day, a lot more will be accomplished.
After all, you may not have natural talent but you can learn many of the rules of a thing and accomplish a lot just knowing the basics. Just ask Creedence Clearwater.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Chris Blair] “Well that must be a California thing, because that would NEVER happen here in the midwest.”
One thing I have learned about human nature, Chris, is that it is boringly consistent. I have traveled a lot in my days and have known people from disparate cultures in a wide range of areas. From this, I have deduced that the old saying that the follies and frailies of man are held in common is quite true.
While I would agree with you that it is a rare thing for a crappy restaurant to succeed — it is rare here, too (even in California where we are all nuts and have our heads where the sun doesn’t shine to escape the unrelenting scorch) — the point was that determination is more important in some cases (and I would argue, most) than talent.
I have seen talent go unrewarded many times. I have seen dedication take the top of the mountain without much talent to back it up.
That was the point.
And to make it clear, I trump your 25 years in business by a decade and a half, so if we are going to get into experiential comparisons, I have been at it far longer and in far bigger markets with much more focused competition. So if you would like to turn this into a boy’s gym wanker contest, then let’s have at it.
I will stand by what I said: talent alone is NOT going to build a successful business. Sometimes, dedication wins without much talent to back it.
Life isn’t fair.
Go figure…
[Chris Blair] “Hard work and enthusiasm and drive and tenacity pay off in knowledge and experience. These people achieve not only because they work hard, but that hard work makes them good at what they do.”
I wish it were that simple. Working hard at your talent is also NOT the answer. I know many musicians that are some of the finest in the world, some that play rock even though they are qualified to play in a symphony orchestra if they so chose. They are skilled. They know their craft. They have honed their talent.
BUT…
They are almost all, terrible marketers and hate to sell themselves. They try to let their talent be their “calling card.”
Most have failed.
Why?
Talent is NOT enough. The best reel in the world won’t get you seen if you do not push it into people’s faces…often. Oh, and then oftener still.
Persistence is more important than talent. That is a law of business. I have seen many artists in this industry fail, as I have been building these kinds of media professionals communities for about 15 years now. (14 years of web-based ones, and a year of local user groups before that.)
If I had $10 for each one that I have seen fail in that time, I could retire.
What’s the lesson that I have learned in it all? It is contained in the Power of Artistic Passion issue of the magazine. Does it have all of the answers? No. But when you are fighting for your business life and survival in today’s marketplace, some answers are better than the lack of answers that some businesses seem to be trying to fight with.
But that’s just my opinion. You are free to yours.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Abraham is working on the mechanism today and I am sure that he will get to this, as we are rerouting all support videos to a different place than the demo reels. The reels are intended to show up on the profiles pages but not so the support videos.
Thanks for the reminder, Stephen.
Ron Lindeboom