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.
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.
That can happen here too; we call it "Eminent Domain". The thing is that one needs the local gummint in one's pocket. Sounds like Apple didn't have it or didn't want to use it.
There is *some* recourse about the amount of compensation but it requires suing (possibly in Federal court).
Recapitulating some earlier posters in this topic: when I was at Javasoft, a co-worker of mine once asked Gosling what his favorite editor was and he answered, "cat."
I am a venue frequency coordinator for a major sports league. This ruling is causing a LOT of worry for us. In a venue with 40 wideband channels for coaching, lots of OTA TV, plus the venue's own wireless mics, The little whitespace we have to work in now is getting awfully crowded. The notion of reserving two TV channels to work in at one of this league's games is absurd. We can only hope that we can ban the silly things from the entire premises out to the fence.
My current boss put an ad on Craigslist which said send your CV and write a perl script that does [thing]. I did so. That turned into a 90-min. phone screen in which he grilled me technically, and then he set up an on-site interview. 5 people, 45 min. each, intense technical drilldown.
The hr person was annoyed that he'd gone to Craigslist (mgr. never told me to say otherwise...), but the mgr. found somebody who could do what he wanted.
As one of the people who worked on the graphics code ("S-Products") down in Westwood, I'm flattered that people remember the stuff. It does live on in the Mirai software, by which Gollum was done.
Ask Spyglass, the company from which MS "licensed" what became MSIE, whether they felt raped when MS started giving away MSIE thus rendering the royalties to Spyglass $0.00 (plus the minumum quarterly fee)...
Maybe as a customer you haven't had anything to rape you for aside from license fees for products. If you were a developer / business partner, I suspect you would say differently.
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The answer is "mu". The question is broken.
Why do you still beat your wife? Why do Slashdotters hate (country they live in)? Why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air?
Why isn't anyone calling for boycotts of LG? Samsung? Has anybody sent radio reporters to THEIR factories?
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.
Yet another reason I'm happy with PagePlus http://www.pagepluscellular.com/ ! Mobile Virtual Network Operators FTW!
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
Hope this never happens to Amazon...
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
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...
Darn, and my mod points expired yesterday.
+1 Insightful!
WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE OUR SERVICE ORGANIZATION, PEASANT?
Sorry, old habits...
The 45 minute GC's ended with the first Generation-scavenging GC which may have come along after you game up on lispms...
That can happen here too; we call it "Eminent Domain". The thing is that one needs the local gummint in one's pocket. Sounds like Apple didn't have it or didn't want to use it.
There is *some* recourse about the amount of compensation but it requires suing (possibly in Federal court).
Recapitulating some earlier posters in this topic: when I was at Javasoft, a co-worker of mine once asked Gosling what his favorite editor was and he answered, "cat."
Whatever works for ya...
I am a venue frequency coordinator for a major sports league. This ruling is causing a LOT of worry for us. In a venue with 40 wideband channels for coaching, lots of OTA TV, plus the venue's own wireless mics, The little whitespace we have to work in now is getting awfully crowded. The notion of reserving two TV channels to work in at one of this league's games is absurd. We can only hope that we can ban the silly things from the entire premises out to the fence.
My current boss put an ad on Craigslist which said send your CV and write a perl script that does [thing]. I did so. That turned into a 90-min. phone screen in which he grilled me technically, and then he set up an on-site interview. 5 people, 45 min. each, intense technical drilldown.
The hr person was annoyed that he'd gone to Craigslist (mgr. never told me to say otherwise...), but the mgr. found somebody who could do what he wanted.
SF's jail is in another city, in another county. I don't they they'd appreciate the influx.
Mod parent... um, well it's already at 5...
Darn, and here I was hoping it'd be something cool, like "Ha, made you look" or "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage" or something...
Actually I retract that correction. Evergreen is indeed on the wrong side of the creek. Shasta Co. has some catching up to do, clearly...
Ahem. That's SHASTA County schools. Unless they're on the wrong side of Cottonwood Creek.
-- old Redding boy
A plasma bathtub would be good but what *I* really want is a plasma TOOTHBRUSH...
What a great concept! Sounds even better than the NAB which only has lots of booth betties...
Why did it have to be Narnia? Why couldn't it have been Discworld? Sigh...
As one of the people who worked on the graphics code ("S-Products") down in Westwood, I'm flattered that people remember the stuff. It does live on in the Mirai software, by which Gollum was done.
Because then they would have to give an award to a queer, which is simply unthinkable.
What do you mean?! Even "Elton John" (Reggie Dwight) has an OBE these days...
Ask Spyglass, the company from which MS "licensed" what became MSIE, whether they felt raped when MS started giving away MSIE thus rendering the royalties to Spyglass $0.00 (plus the minumum quarterly fee)...
Maybe as a customer you haven't had anything to rape you for aside from license fees for products. If you were a developer / business partner, I suspect you would say differently.