Comment: Why just Apple? (Score 1) 744
Why isn't anyone calling for boycotts of LG? Samsung? Has anybody sent radio reporters to THEIR factories?
Comment: Re:Project 25 is still alive and kicking (Score 2) 115
P25 also had its issues, like not all radios use the same CODECs (I'm looking at YOU, Motorola), all digital voice codecs do badly in the presence of lots of noise (next to a fire engine pumping hard, in a K9 cop car with the dog excited, sirens blaring, low-air-pressure warning going off inside the resipirator). Also from what i hear, I believe the encryption has been cracked.
Not a panacea, P25.
Comment: Prepaid reseller! (Score 1) 562
Yet another reason I'm happy with PagePlus http://www.pagepluscellular.com/ ! Mobile Virtual Network Operators FTW!
Comment: Kind of a long shot (Score 2) 214
Depends on the size of the place.
Of course, engineering gets stuck with it at first because < cynical broadcast engineer mode > we are the only ones who can actually deal with physical reality </>... A separate IT department doesn't really start to make a lot of sense until you have radio AND TV who already have separate engineering groups with different takes on IT. CBS in SF has a separate IT group (run by a former radio CE) but that's with like 3 TVs and 4 FMs in the same building.
If your station is the hub for all 5, well, maybe but I think it might be a hard sell to the pointy-hairs / showbiz-money types. Maybe better off re-org'ing engineering with a separate IT subgroup and breaking out its expenses and tasks sepatately for the time being.
Eric
CE, KNGY San Francisco, back in t3h day
Comment: Glad I never bought from them. (Score 1) 230
Hope this never happens to Amazon...
Comment: Re: Middle of nowhere? (Score 1) 332
If Wolfe & Homestead is the middle of nowhere, then I am Marie of Romania. HP has been there since the '60s.. It'll be replacing one suburban office park with another, nicer-sounding one.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=s&ll=37.334678,-122.009611&spn=0.012096,0.014119&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6
Comment: Re:Two timezones to the west - Alaska (Score 1) 359
You had a box?! and a glacier... luxury.
Comment: Crowdsourcing Big Brother (Score 1) 67
Can I patent crowdsourcing Big Brother? Is it possible to trademark that phrase, "Crowdsourcing Big Brother"? Service-mark it?
Eastern District of Texas, here I come...
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greenerd writes "Researchers from the University of Central Florida may have found the most efficient (and most bizarre) battery material yet – ‘frozen smoke’, also known as Aerogel. One of the world’s lightest solids, aerogel contains multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) which each one several thousands thinner than human hair. The researchers, Associate Professor Lei Zhai and Postdoctoral Associate Jianhua Zou, believe that this material could soon become the best energy storage material for capacitors and batteries."
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Comment: Re:The Real Power behind The Anarchist Cookbook... (Score 1) 375
Darn, and my mod points expired yesterday.
+1 Insightful!