Because there are people who will never touch "that Mozilla thing or whatever" who will nevertheless give Netscape a chance. Most of 'em have no idea, even after all this time, that the two are related, or that one is spawned from the bowels of the other. Mind you, I think Netscape blew most of their remaining mindshare capital with the last few poorly-built ripoffs of early Mozilla builds. This may be the last chance Netscape has to regain any sort of credibility for the brand.
Not, mind you, that I expect it to work. Netscape will implode, the Mozilla team will be cut loose, but they'll still end up making a workable product that many of "us" will use regularly and
My first thought was actually of the 3WA (WWWA), the Worlds Welfare Work Association.
But maybe it's just because I watched my unsubbed, undubbed tape of Dirty Pair: Project Eden last night. I didn't know what they were saying, but it was sure fun to watch... ---
Karel P Kerezman
I beg to differ. Yes, morning drive-time is often based on annoying (and increasingly syndicated) content (for a nice change, listen to one of our competitors in the market, KINK-FM 102), but many, many of the air talent at our facility are not only radio lifers but also very, very nice and interesting and entertaining people... on and off the air.
And the shitty part? They're being phased out right and left. With the near-maturity of digital audio storage and the hand-in-glove automation capabilities, companies are cutting costs by cutting talent in favor of automation and syndication. I've been in radio a mere decade, and even I am appalled and disgusted at times by the mercenary, heavy-handed approach to "de"-programming.
I've already seen the parting of many good and talented friends from the ranks, and the bloodletting has only begun... ---
Karel P Kerezman
Finally, a topic on which I have a viable perspective...
On a good day, our "best" streaming station would get maybe about a thousand sets of ears. The terrestrial broadcast reaches hundreds of thosands. All we get from streaming is a kind of value-added geegaw, a kind of keep-up-with-the-Joneses us-too feature. Sort of like the stations' websites, come to think on it.
You're right about the whole issue of local radio advertising on a global stage. Nobody in NYC is going to fly out to visit Oregon Stamp And Stationery on 10th and Alder, downtown Portland. Then again, a healthy percentage of advertising is national agency material, and that plays anywhere and everywhere. (The agencies are what started this brouhaha, btw.) The largest portion of our "internet listeners," however, are people in office buildings and other locations where a terrestrial broadcast won't reach, but are otherwise within our market. To a certain extent, then, the streaming listeners are those we want to target with our advertising.
Even with all of that... I'm not sorry to see streaming go, even if only for a little while. (Vee haff vays...) Stations will be streaming again soon, you just may not hear their commercial inventory being rebroadcast is all. We're already in the middle of prepping a system for blocking ads from the streaming system, and once that's running so shall our streaming be.
For the record, it's not the Nielsons but a company named Arbitron that does the diary-based statistical analysis for radio. Just thought I'd clear that one up.
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Karel P Kerezman
I futzed around with test1 and the ac patches on my UT server at the office, only to find that the web ServerAdmin interface became hopelessly broken. I never found an explanation of exactly why that is, only posts indicating that yes, there is a problem. Otherwise test1-ac18 (the variant I toyed with) was a dream to work with. I even got the *gasp* DVD code from linuxvideo to work, as much as it was going to at that particular date.
To get to the point... is there any indication that test2 resolves whatever phantom oddness it is that plagues the UT webadmin function? Or (more likely) does nobody see this as much of an issue?
What's really depressing is going to a (rare) theatrical release of a supposedly-great anime feature and finding it utterly unwatchable.
My wife, one of our best friends and I went to see X/1999 at Cinema 21 here in Portland last week. Ye gods, it was bad.
The relevant bit here is that we did much the same thing... we hate people who talk during movies, but this film was begging, I say begging to be MSTied. And so we did. And the entire balcony applauded... us.
I haven't had such a bittersweet experience in a theater since my dating years.
For the record: Horrible dub, an awful attempt to compress a long and moody manga into a 2-hour anime, painfully brief yet very well animated fight sequences. Save your money and rent Akira and Fist of the North Star instead, since the only good elements in X are largely derivative of those films anyway. Bleah.
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Not, mind you, that I expect it to work. Netscape will implode, the Mozilla team will be cut loose, but they'll still end up making a workable product that many of "us" will use regularly and
My first thought was actually of the 3WA (WWWA), the Worlds Welfare Work Association. But maybe it's just because I watched my unsubbed, undubbed tape of Dirty Pair: Project Eden last night. I didn't know what they were saying, but it was sure fun to watch...
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Karel P Kerezman
And the shitty part? They're being phased out right and left. With the near-maturity of digital audio storage and the hand-in-glove automation capabilities, companies are cutting costs by cutting talent in favor of automation and syndication. I've been in radio a mere decade, and even I am appalled and disgusted at times by the mercenary, heavy-handed approach to "de"-programming.
I've already seen the parting of many good and talented friends from the ranks, and the bloodletting has only begun...
---
Karel P Kerezman
On a good day, our "best" streaming station would get maybe about a thousand sets of ears. The terrestrial broadcast reaches hundreds of thosands. All we get from streaming is a kind of value-added geegaw, a kind of keep-up-with-the-Joneses us-too feature. Sort of like the stations' websites, come to think on it.
You're right about the whole issue of local radio advertising on a global stage. Nobody in NYC is going to fly out to visit Oregon Stamp And Stationery on 10th and Alder, downtown Portland. Then again, a healthy percentage of advertising is national agency material, and that plays anywhere and everywhere. (The agencies are what started this brouhaha, btw.) The largest portion of our "internet listeners," however, are people in office buildings and other locations where a terrestrial broadcast won't reach, but are otherwise within our market. To a certain extent, then, the streaming listeners are those we want to target with our advertising.
Even with all of that... I'm not sorry to see streaming go, even if only for a little while. (Vee haff vays...) Stations will be streaming again soon, you just may not hear their commercial inventory being rebroadcast is all. We're already in the middle of prepping a system for blocking ads from the streaming system, and once that's running so shall our streaming be.
For the record, it's not the Nielsons but a company named Arbitron that does the diary-based statistical analysis for radio. Just thought I'd clear that one up.
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Karel P Kerezman
*ahem* I will now come back from dreamworld and return to my regularly scheduled humdrum existence...
--- Karel P Kerezman
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Karel P Kerezman
To get to the point... is there any indication that test2 resolves whatever phantom oddness it is that plagues the UT webadmin function? Or (more likely) does nobody see this as much of an issue?
--- Karel P Kerezman
My wife, one of our best friends and I went to see X/1999 at Cinema 21 here in Portland last week. Ye gods, it was bad.
The relevant bit here is that we did much the same thing... we hate people who talk during movies, but this film was begging, I say begging to be MSTied. And so we did. And the entire balcony applauded... us.
I haven't had such a bittersweet experience in a theater since my dating years.
For the record: Horrible dub, an awful attempt to compress a long and moody manga into a 2-hour anime, painfully brief yet very well animated fight sequences. Save your money and rent Akira and Fist of the North Star instead, since the only good elements in X are largely derivative of those films anyway. Bleah.