The rating thread..

[goob]

In the interests of understanding the IM population, how do you rate yourself?

Out of 10

Looks:
Personality:
Intelligence:
Wealth:
Disposition*:
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?)

This is subjective to how YOU feel, - not how wealthy you are in relation to the average person, for example. It is how YOU feel about you.

Be interesting to find out how everyone feels....

Be honest.

[joesmooth20]

Looks: 7
Personality: 6
Intelligence: 7
Wealth: 8
Disposition*: 6
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?) 7

[DOMS]

Looks: 7
Personality: 8 (I'm caustic, but I like that in me)
Intelligence: 9
Wealth: 6 (This is getting better every year)
Disposition*: 9 (I'm not content with how life is, but I'm content with how it's progressing)

Introspection is one of the hardest skills to develop.

[DOMS]

One for Danny:

Looks: 2 (At least his dog like him.)
Personality: 1 (Because this scale is from 1 to 10.)
Intelligence: -3 (Because this scale is from 1 to 10.)
Wealth: 4 (Hey, male prostitutes don't get taxed.)
Disposition*: 10 (Denial, it's more than just a river in Egypt.)

[tallcall]

Looks: 7
Personality: 10 (I Like Me)
Intelligence: 9 (Master degree in Communnication and coersion)
Wealth: 1
Disposition*: 5 (mostly sad, but happy with some things)
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?)

So there, I'm just as smart as DOMS and I think I have a better personality. Unfortunately I have less money than Danny, maybe male prostitution is an option - I think there is a market for gay male escorts in Orlando/Tampa.

[kiko]

Originally Posted by DOMS

One for Danny:

Looks: 2 (At least his dog like him.)
Personality: 1 (Because this scale is from 1 to 10.)
Intelligence: -3 (Because this scale is from 1 to 10.)
Wealth: 4 (Hey, male prostitutes don't get taxed.)
Disposition*: 10 (Denial, it's more than just a river in Egypt.)

[Scarface30]

Looks: 7-8 (depends on the day, )
Personality: 9 (I'm a shy person at first, but once you get to know me...)
Intelligence: 9
Wealth: 2 (life of a student - all I have is debt at the moment)
Disposition: 7-8 (like DOMS, I'm more content with how life is progressing right now)

[goob]

Looks: 8.5 (No problems in this area)
Personality: 8 (Get on with everyone)
Intelligence: 8 (Great in some areas, not so great in others..)
Wealth: 5 ( Not as succesful as I wish)
Disposition:6 (Could be happier)

[vader]

Looks: 8.5
Personality:7 ,I've been told that I am an ass sometimes but I'm ok with that
Intelligence: 7 ,currently going to school to be a nurse
Wealth: 4 ,in school & 2 kids at home
Disposition*: 9, pretty happy most of the time I contribute this to exercise

[Doublebase]

Originally Posted by tallcall

Looks: 7
Personality: 10 (I Like Me)
Intelligence: 9 (Master degree in Communnication and coersion)
Wealth: 1
Disposition*: 5 (mostly sad, but happy with some things)
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?)

So there, I'm just as smart as DOMS and I think I have a better personality. Unfortunately I have less money than Danny, maybe male prostitution is an option - I think there is a market for gay male escorts in Orlando/Tampa.

How can you be that intelligent but yet so poor? There are so many ways to make money in this world. You just have to have some drive. Nothing on earth can stop a man with the right attitude.

It also helps to learn how to spell what your degree is in.

[goob]

Originally Posted by Doublebase

How can you be that intelligent but yet so poor? There are so many ways to make money in this world. You just have to have some drive. Nothing on earth can stop a man with the right attitude.

It also helps to learn how to spell what your degree is in.

He's a freelance proof-reader. For some reason he's not getting much work...

[joesmooth20]

I've known people that have MBA's and join the Coast Guard as Seaman aka grunts. I've drilled them with questions why and everyone's excuse is that they couldn't find a job. I have a GED and clear 50k, I don't get it.

[KentDog]

Originally Posted by joesmooth20

I've known people that have MBA's and join the Coast Guard as Seaman aka grunts. I've drilled them with questions why and everyone's excuse is that they couldn't find a job. I have a GED and clear 50k, I don't get it.

It's all about ambition. A lot of college grads immediately continue school for the same reason; "can't find a job" aka lack of ambition.

[KentDog]

How are you guys doing your 1-10 scales? I've heard it done mainly two ways.. comparing to the rest of the population percentage-wise, or simply using a flowing scale in that 10 is the very best possible ("perfect"), 1 is the very worst possible, but 5 does not indicate average (using this method, there will be far less 9s than 2s; while in the first method, there would be an equal amount).

[tallcall]

Originally Posted by Doublebase

How can you be that intelligent but yet so poor? There are so many ways to make money in this world. You just have to have some drive. Nothing on earth can stop a man with the right attitude.

It also helps to learn how to spell what your degree is in.

I have no real ambition and have extreme loyalty to the people I work with currently. That plus I'm usually very depressed and the thought of giving up in the job I'm in for personal gain makes me feel even worse (I've always had to fight for everything - I just can't give up on it).

I am, however, finding that it is really easy to play politics with the managers here and get just about anything I want. I plan to do everything in my power to keep the worst guy I know employed so I can always look great by comparison just in case my record is ever called into question for any reason.

So I guess I am happy about that - no monetary wealth, just a different form of personal wealth. Plus I'm working in television in a position that is required to keep the stuff hitting the airwaves (that's highly technical jargon there).

About the spelling: I was up until about midnight and had to be awake at 4 am, so I'm just a little tired but getting things done anyway. I had a seminar that ended up running 3 hours of drills and 1.5 hours of chatting with Ricardo De La Riva and Boca, and it was worth it to stay and talk to them (Boca was absolutely awesome).

[maniclion]

Looks:3.16229²
Personality:3.16229²
Intelligence:3.16229²
Wealth:6
Disposition*:4-8 depends on how my day is going.....

[tallcall]

Originally Posted by goob

He's a freelance proof-reader. For some reason he's not getting much work...

How did you know my secret identity?

I'm training my mind to become the new Danny81. How am I doing?

[Doublebase]

Originally Posted by tallcall

Plus I'm working in television in a position that is required to keep the stuff hitting the airwaves (that's highly technical jargon there).

Thats funny. I work in television. I'm typing this from the roof of the Prudential building in Boston. We are putting the Boston Marathon on air. I've been here since Tuesday. We have 5 transmit sites. 2 of them, (at the startline) are sent back via fiber from Verizon. The other 3 are received at the top of Prudential then sent to the main truck via 2 OC-3's. We provide all the moto's that follow the runners. 2 trucks and 2 motorcycles. All the comms go through us via T-1 and are broadcast with 100Watt radios. There's some highly technical jargon for yuh.

[tallcall]

Originally Posted by Doublebase

Thats funny. I work in television. I'm typing this from the roof of the Prudential building in Boston. We are putting the Boston Marathon on air. I've been here since Tuesday. We have 5 transmit sites. 2 of them, (at the startline) are sent back via fiber from Verizon. The other 3 are received at the top of Prudential then sent to the main truck via 2 OC-3's. We provide all the moto's that follow the runners. 2 trucks and 2 motorcycles. All the comms go through us via T-1 and are broadcast with 100Watt radios. There's some highly technical jargon for yuh.

I hear that! I'm in Master Control. We have 4 ENG trucks and 2 SAT trucks all capable of digital microwave (the conversion for our market is complete but the running list of major technical problems for us is about as long as my arm - those SAT trucks are using their satellite encoders to encode the video for the microwave transmission and this work-around goes down all the time, then there are the issues we're having with CodeRunner setting itself up correctly when the trucks are powered up, and the list goes on). I get to tune them all in to 6 recievers - DeLand & Ormond (Coastal near Daytona and Ormond Beaches), Titusville & Melbourne (Coastal near Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach), Orlando & Winter Park (Inland on the SunTrust Bank High-Rise, both situated within about 5-10 miles of each other near our main plant). They all feed into the main plant via the old Time-Warner fibers left over when Time-Warner sold to Bright House Networks. I also coordinate feeds to and from Tampa and CNN through VYVX (since we don't have the facilities to do a proper satellite uplink from the main building).

You know the deal, stuff is always breaking, you always have to hop trucks around at the last second to get all the elements for your show and no one cares how you get it done just that it gets done. I always go very cut throat with the competition and have blown their microwave signals off the air before (). WKMG CBS is the only one that has continually blown me off the air so I always like to repay the favor.

We run a station automation system from a European company called OmniBus. Currently we use their Columbus application on machines built to handle it's bigger brother called Colossus. Our Columbus is now 3 years old and has been discontinued by OmniBus, so we are considering upgrading to Colossus. The OmniBus systems all operate in conjunction with each other, our ENPS news production software, Our Pinnacle desktop editors, the Liquid full edit suites (5 of them - 1 has Liquid Blue), the Vertigo servers, the Deko graphics server, and eventually (maybe ) the new Isolon archive servers.

We had 9 terabytes of storage when we started 2 years ago, now just recently we hit the limit and started to lose everything. We purged all non essientials and are now back up to 1-2 terabytes and realize we have to upgrade real soon. The reason for hitting the limits is that we have added 2 big departments (Central Florida On Demand and Central Florida En Espanol) without adding any storage space to accommodate them.

In the end, my job is challenging and I love it, now pay me better damn it (I am pushing for that raise - I hope all the managers come back from NAB feeling better and in the mood to hand out a promotion)!

[Witchblade]

Y'all ain't the shy ones, eh?

[maniclion]

Originally Posted by tallcall

I hear that! I'm in Master Control. We have 4 ENG trucks and 2 SAT trucks all capable of digital microwave (the conversion for our market is complete but the running list of major technical problems for us is about as long as my arm - those SAT trucks are using their satellite encoders to encode the video for the microwave transmission and this work-around goes down all the time, then there are the issues we're having with CodeRunner setting itself up correctly when the trucks are powered up, and the list goes on). I get to tune them all in to 6 recievers - DeLand & Ormond (Coastal near Daytona and Ormond Beaches), Titusville & Melbourne (Coastal near Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach), Orlando & Winter Park (Inland on the SunTrust Bank High-Rise, both situated within about 5-10 miles of each other near our main plant). They all feed into the main plant via the old Time-Warner fibers left over when Time-Warner sold to Bright House Networks. I also coordinate feeds to and from Tampa and CNN through VYVX (since we don't have the facilities to do a proper satellite uplink from the main building).

You know the deal, stuff is always breaking, you always have to hop trucks around at the last second to get all the elements for your show and no one cares how you get it done just that it gets done. I always go very cut throat with the competition and have blown their microwave signals off the air before (). WKMG CBS is the only one that has continually blown me off the air so I always like to repay the favor.

We run a station automation system from a European company called OmniBus. Currently we use their Columbus application on machines built to handle it's bigger brother called Colossus. Our Columbus is now 3 years old and has been discontinued by OmniBus, so we are considering upgrading to Colossus. The OmniBus systems all operate in conjunction with each other, our ENPS news production software, Our Pinnacle desktop editors, the Liquid full edit suites (5 of them - 1 has Liquid Blue), the Vertigo servers, the Deko graphics server, and eventually (maybe ) the new Isolon archive servers.

We had 9 terabytes of storage when we started 2 years ago, now just recently we hit the limit and started to lose everything. We purged all non essientials and are now back up to 1-2 terabytes and realize we have to upgrade real soon. The reason for hitting the limits is that we have added 2 big departments (Central Florida On Demand and Central Florida En Espanol) without adding any storage space to accommodate them.

In the end, my job is challenging and I love it, now pay me better damn it (I am pushing for that raise - I hope all the managers come back from NAB feeling better and in the mood to hand out a promotion)!

sounds like what I did in the Navy but we controlled all comm circuits for our ship and as Link 11 relay for the whole Constellation Battle Group. We had sat/UHF/VHF/EHF/ELF....I had to know the equipment in and out, how to know how to re-configure the trunks for power and for transmission failures in emergencies, I repaired the antennas all over the ship and . We had voice/data and video coming in and going out.

I bet you and Double are familiar with everything on this page
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../14225_ch2.pdf

[SYN]

Looks:8-9
Personality:8
Intelligence:9
Wealth:6
Disposition*:7
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?)

[Irons77]

Looks:9
Personality:9
Intelligence:8
Wealth:9
Disposition*:10
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?)

[tallcall]

Originally Posted by maniclion

sounds like what I did in the Navy but we controlled all comm circuits for our ship and as Link 11 relay for the whole Constellation Battle Group. We had sat/UHF/VHF/EHF/ELF....I had to know the equipment in and out, how to know how to re-configure the trunks for power and for transmission failures in emergencies, I repaired the antennas all over the ship and . We had voice/data and video coming in and going out.

I bet you and Double are familiar with everything on this page
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../14225_ch2.pdf

I am familiar with most of what is on that page, though not intimately familiar. Usually the Engineering department handles satellite configuration and repair, though I have worked with them on many a sat re-configuration days, usually when we lose CNN's NewsBeam NewsSource signals.

[goob]

Originally Posted by Irons77

Looks:9
Personality:9
Intelligence:8
Wealth:9
Disposition*:10
(*Happy/ Sad, content with life?)

Ehh... you have mirrors at your house, yeah?

[Doublebase]

Originally Posted by tallcall

In the end, my job is challenging and I love it, now pay me better damn it (I am pushing for that raise - I hope all the managers come back from NAB feeling better and in the mood to hand out a promotion)!

This is def a challenging business. My managers were also all at NAB. A position like yours should require a salary around 80K. I guess it depends on were you work also. The guys here at the local networks make over that.

This new digital work is really, umm, different. I like it. I came in right when it was starting. When its working it looks great. Compared to analog. It seems that you have to do a lot of rebooting. The encoders and decoders get stupid all the time and the PIDS matching is critical. I could keep writing about this but I don't want to bore everyone.

[IainDaniel]

Looks:0
Personality: 0
Intelligence: 0
Wealth: 0
Disposition*: Ecstatic

[tallcall]

Originally Posted by Doublebase

This is def a challenging business. My managers were also all at NAB. A position like yours should require a salary around 80K. I guess it depends on were you work also. The guys here at the local networks make over that.

This new digital work is really, umm, different. I like it. I came in right when it was starting. When its working it looks great. Compared to analog. It seems that you have to do a lot of rebooting. The encoders and decoders get stupid all the time and the PIDS matching is critical. I could keep writing about this but I don't want to bore everyone.

Orlando's cost of living is fairly low compared to most large cities, and we have an overabundance of college graduates willing to work for nothing - and doing a good job (who says no one believes in hard work anymore? ).

I told my boss I am looking for a raise and would like to be paid industry average for this area - ~$40,000 (base pay of 30,000 with 4+ years of experience should yield around 40,000). It's already been approved by the stations General Manager, it is in the HR manager's hands and will passed up to the corporate level. I'm going to speak to my boss, our Senior Engineer (managerial rank only given to one person, above him is the Chief Engineer), when I go back on Wednesday to see how things have progressed. He told me that things were actually moving faster than they normally do. I'm hoping things continue to move fast.

I really like Digital Microwave. I cam in learning the analog systems and still have a fondness for them. It would be nice to be able to use analog microwave during storm season because I have NO IDEA how well the weaker signal (the digital signal doesn't need as much power and is therefore a weaker signal) will hold up during the onset of a hurricane. We never have the trucks out when the storm is on top of us or anything, just right before and immediately after.

Aside from that I am really having fun with the new toys. I love how I can bounce a signal off a building and still get a perfect picture. Now if we could only prevent the trucks from overdriving the receivers when they're transmitting from just a few miles away (we always go to low power mode in the trucks when we're so close but sometimes I have to bounce the signal to prevent over saturation).

My favorite new trick is getting 2 trucks up on the same channel hitting the same receiver, different horns. I did this by restricting the bandwidth to 6 MHz, going to low power, going horizontal with a minus offset on one truck, and vertical with a plus offset on the other. It was amazing to me that we got those live shots with almost no interference from each other and ran them back to back live on the air.

[tallcall]

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Looks:0
Personality: 0
Intelligence: 0
Wealth: 0
Disposition*: Ecstatic

Well said!

[Doublebase]

Originally Posted by tallcall

My favorite new trick is getting 2 trucks up on the same channel hitting the same receiver, different horns. I did this by restricting the bandwidth to 6 MHz, going to low power, going horizontal with a minus offset on one truck, and vertical with a plus offset on the other. It was amazing to me that we got those live shots with almost no interference from each other and ran them back to back live on the air.

Yeah that is amazing. Hmmm, I would would think those two trucks would interfere with one another. I'd imagine you were using 2gig. Are you guys broadcasting in HD yet? I don't think that trick would work using HD with such small bandwidth.