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Re: The Memphis 10: Are early voting lines in Memphis a sign of enthusiasm, or a sign of a problem?

Gregg Smith — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:58:08 -0000

Try Los Picosos carnitas. I like it. If you don't, that's ok because it's huge and worth a lot more than the price.

(but I eat Chipotle too. way too convenient).

Re: Food Fight: Cozy Corner vs. Flying Sobie’s Hen House Food Truck

Gregg Smith — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 01:00:02 -0000

Amen on the rib/wing combo

Re: School-by-school TNReady scores for 2017 are out now. See how your school performed

Gregg Smith — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:08:54 -0000

Link doesn't work. Very interested in seeing the results. Thanks!

Re: Hopson: Proposed budget cuts to Memphis schools could reverse years of improvements

Gregg Smith — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:29:54 -0000

Most of the mentioned cuts appear to be in schools and directly impact students. How many cuts will be made in the SCS headquarters? Also, I'm sure someone has investigated and reported on the savings (mainly employees) in the administration buildings since the SCS and MCS were combined. Is that available somewhere?

Re: A Decade Of Twitter

Gregg Smith — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:49:19 -0000

Any chance you could link your early posts on twitter? The word "Twitter" is so ubiquitous on your site that it turns up on every page even with a date range filter. I'd like to revisit the point I first signed up. Thanks
Gregg

Re: AVC – A Publishing Dinosaur

Gregg Smith — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:40:36 -0000

Arrived via Google now today (but a long time if quiet reader). Where does that one fit?

Re: Onkyo TX-NR636 7.2-Channel Network A/V Receiver

Gregg Smith — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:42:15 -0000

Thanks for a great review. Im looking at the 636 to replace the 616 I believe has been damages by a power surge through the HDMI cable. You mentioned doing a "factory reset" and I was wondering if you could explain how to do that? I've tried various methods in onkyo forums without success but I was not 100% sure I was doing it correctly.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Re: Gatsby New Years Eve - December 30, 2010

Gregg Smith — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:51:40 -0000

hilarious. i know those condos (Blue Mountain, right?). we stay there every year (and will be back for Independence Day).

Re: SaaS Economics – Part 1: The SaaS Cash Flow Trough

Gregg Smith — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:53:43 -0000

Hello David. I really appreciate the insight you share in these two recurring revenue posts. Very helpful even to our old school business. Are you still able to email your Excel model? Thanks again.

Re: Video: Avner Ronen on The Future Of TV

Gregg Smith — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:59:17 -0000

Thanks for sharing, Fred. I'm still sticking it out in the cable industry and I'm glad to see Avner and Boxee are looking to us as potential partners. Roku is really reaching out to the industry.

Programming costs are driving people to our broadband solutions daily, but the big ones are still driving people to cable to see their live sports and access to on demand content that's much easier to access than online.

Re: ClearQAM - What It Is And Why It Matters

Gregg Smith — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:33:15 -0000

Fred: Can't reply directly to your question below, but cable MSOs don't pay retransmission fees for "non-subscribers" accessing broadcast channels via QAM.

In addition, we "agreed" to pay for free, over the air broadcast because we don't have a choice. We can't turn off one ABC station in an MSA for another in a different MSA (we overlap). No competition among broadcast content providers is legislated. We pass those costs as broadcast surcharges directly to our subscribers (with no markup) and in total, for 6 broadcast stations, we charge a little under $5 per sub per month.

We are very interested in the coming litigation around the Aereo model...

Re: #screwcable

Gregg Smith — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:13:13 -0000

We would if we could...the model is changing but it's going to take a while. For one thing, the IP network can't handle the multicast programming that RF (radio frequency i.e. cable) can. Consider 50% of the homes on your node (100 or so probably) watching 2 HD tvs with 4 ipads cranking. You'd be begging for dialup.

Re: #screwcable

Gregg Smith — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:02:49 -0000

The MSOs (like us) would like nothing more than to give our subscribers more choice and quit using our bandwidth to provide a ridiculous amount of irrelevant and unwatched programming. The Disney/Fox/ComcastNBC/CBS oligopoly require us to carry all this crap. The FCC requires us to PAY to carry local broadcast stations where we provide eyeballs to that broadcasters normally wouldn't get increasing ad revenue. It's a broken model--we agree. The economics to the MSOs for video aren't nearly what you, Fred and 99% of everyone else assumes. Y'all are smarter than that.

Re: Caption Contest Thursday: Money Mitt | The Reformed Broker

Gregg Smith — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:38:07 -0000

They ONLY thing better than money? The smile baby.

Re: I’m a Goner | The Reformed Broker

Gregg Smith — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:12:12 -0000

it's a pretty amazing under-the-radar garage rock fest in Memphis. I know you're a Ty Segall fan--he's a headliner (he's on the Goner label).

Re: I’m a Goner | The Reformed Broker

Gregg Smith — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:03:23 -0000

Really hoped you meant you were coming to gonerfest. http://www.goner-records.co...

Re: Forrest Spence 5K Helps Families Endure Unthinkable

Gregg Smith — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:32:11 -0000

Thank you for your support, Joe. The Spence's do amazing work with the Fund.

Re: Engadget's back to school 2011 sweepstakes: we're giving away $3,000 worth of gear... 15 times!

Gregg Smith — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:58:29 -0000

Love my timbuk2. Great bags!

Re: The Great Netflix Shaft

Gregg Smith — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:03:26 -0000

Popular content costs money. Netflix is confirming what cable cos have been saying for years.

Re: Netflix raises plan prices by 60%, with 4100 negative comments and counting | VentureBeat

Gregg Smith — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:27:32 -0000

As cable cos have stated time and time again, content is expensive. It's the content providers charging a small fortune, not the network services.

Re: How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years

Gregg Smith — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:05:37 -0000

Who will enter the numbers?

Re: Ty Segall, “It #1″ | The Reformed Broker

Gregg Smith — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:57 -0000

Damn.

Re: Cornography: Bull or Bear The Reformed Broker

Gregg Smith — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:44:22 -0000

CORNHOLE!

...it's a GAME. I SWEAR!

Re: Cornography: Bull or Bear The Reformed Broker

Gregg Smith — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:30:30 -0000

We are planting interstate highway medians in Arkansas in corn.

Semi related: My image here is of a planter hopper that holds $100k worth of corn (and can plant 600 acres). http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: http://lunchbrag.com/post/3879513216

Gregg Smith — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:32:41 -0000

i read a rumor that dejavu has closed (the florida street one too). any word on that?