Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation's Fractale Stream Delayed by Storm Closure
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TJ_Kat
Posts: 363 Location: Saskatoon, Canada |
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sorry texas, i got no sympathy for you. i've been dealing with ice covered roads all winter, and it was damned near -40 earlier this week.
although, watching texans try to drive around right now would probably be funny. |
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Megiddo
 Posts: 8360 Location: IL |
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Next time Canada gets a heat index get above the 120s I'll have the same sympathy for y'all TJ_Kat.
Also, I'm mad that my university didn't even close during these rare 3 straight days of snow 
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unready
 Posts: 400 Location: Illinois, USA |
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I was in Dallas one time when there was freezing rain, so 0 accumulation of anything. It started around 10am. By noon, all the businesses had shut down. I was going to keep working, because, holy freakin cow, it's just a little freezing rain. Then building security came by to tell me the real estate managers were closing down the whole building. If I didn't leave by 3pm, they were going to kick me out. When I asked the dudes why everybody was flipping out so much over a little freezing rain, one guy said, "You have to understand. No one around here has snow tires." *sigh* |
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SonicRenegade84
 Posts: 630 Location: Atlantis! |
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Yes, we're sorry we only deal with snow one time a year.
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Yoda117
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Watching about 2-3" of solid ice on my front porch this morning... so I'm really getting a kick out of the TX reaction to this. I can see where you're going with this, but how could they put it on the blog if they don't have access? So long as there's power for the appropriate systems, it can be done using nothing more than a smart phone and an RDP client (I've done so for clients on more than a few occasions in the past). The important thing is that nobody is trying to brave the weather and do something potentially harmful (yeah, I might be used to driving in ice, but the guy who has to do the work might not be). Better to have a delay of a few days vs. the potential issue of having someone in the hospital (or worse). That said... this seems like a good opportunity for Funimation to examine their current business process with regard to how they stream an episode and determine whether there is a low cost solution to avoid delays in the future. If the Annualized Loss Expectancy from an event like this is greater than the countermeasure, then it's a no-brainer. Obviously, safety of the staff should be the paramount concern, but it's always a good idea to use events like this as a way to add resiliancy to any processes that the business deems as critical. /apologies for going all business continuity on you folks... I live for this stuff when I'm not in the booth |
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tuxedocat
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My understanding from watching the news is that there were rolling blackouts to meet power demands. Usually when those situations occur, at least in my area, some businesses shut down during high demand hours. Maybe the blog post was posted from someone's home before shutdown. |
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Emerje
 Posts: 7338 Location: Maine |
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No episode for Friday either.
It's turning into a long wait, when things turned deadly in the last episode the show become much more interesting.
Emerje |
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hikaru004
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Work from home. It is possible if your company allows you access to their intranet. |
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ZakuAce
 Posts: 525 Location: SE Wisconsin |
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NO. I refuse to have a moe character as a mascot for my team 
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chefneer
 Aria Company Posts: 1686 Location: Fort Worth, Texas |
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It got up to 56 today, and all the crud is melting off nicely, so FUNI should be up and running soon, I should think.
@ZakuAce - Aw c'mon, a moe character in a Packers uniform would be great. Imagine the publicity it would generate. |
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Emerje
Posts: 7338 Location: Maine |
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Heaven forbid if One Piece is late Saturday (it wasn't), but it's now Sunday morning and they still haven't uploaded Fractale? How can they upload other videos, but still claim this one is late due to weather?
Emerje |
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