"Don't know what redneck spot you live in, but having your car inspected for safety is hardly an onerous burden."
Idk where you're at but the only stickers we're required to have on our cars is the city/village tax sticker and the license plate sticker. No inspection stickers around here (Illinois). We're, however, required to carry a card saying we passed emissions (no general "safety inspection", though).
The station that I work at doesn't use IA7. Now if Intelsat 5/6 or Galaxy 4 dies, then we might have a problem.
Same here... I think we'd lose 95% of our syndicated programing if IA-6, IA-5 or Galaxy 4 bit the dust. Thank God network comes down on another "bird" (and there's a back-up on yet another one).
Destroy ClearChannel...Replace them with small local stations that are in tune with their audience.
Sadly, that wouldn't do much because the small stations you are talking about are almost also controlled by another one of the big companies (Entercom, Saga, ABC, Emmis, etc). The point is, there are very few small and locally owned radio stations anymore, especially if you're talking about a major market and the ones that are belong to the colleges and are up in the 88.1-91.9 part of the FM band, have a few hundred watts, if they're lucky (esp in big markets) and no one listens to them anyway.
Major Market Example: Chicago...NO LOCALLY OWNED COMMERCIAL STATIONS IN THE FM BAND. Go a bit lower to Milwaukee and you see that in the FM band, the only locally owned station belongs to some crackpot preacher guy. Not much chance of music being promoted there, huh?
Hmm.. Their desktops aren't bad. I have a 4 year old "Digital Studio" box sitting in front of me (well, actually, behind the Powerbook that i'm typing this on). The desktop still runs just fine on the ORIGINAL INSTALL of Win 98SE to be used for AIM & Web browsing. On top of that, I know someone who's got a VAIO subnotebook. She loves it. The only complaint she's had is that it's a bit slow. Other than that, she wouldn't think of getting rid of it.
As for their CLIE's.. I had one.. It sucked (problems getting it to sync with iSync on OS-X).. I moved onto a Sharp Zaurus which I love (and uses things other than the %^&*(*$% memory sticks)
Cybershots...I have one, also 4 years old, still works just fine, but I could use a camera that doesn't use memory sticks.
Part 15 of the FCC rules cover unlicensed broadcasting.. You can basically use something like a 100th of a watt without an FCC license. I don't know all of the details, but their site could tell you.
Just out of curiosity, you say that IC sells spots to stations, do they then own them outright? Here in the states the airwaves (theoretically) are publically owned. Each station is granted a license for a specific period of time, which is of course renewable. In the "old days" you actually had to show you did public service and community interest programming, among other thigns, before the FCC would renew the license.. Now, it's pretty much a given that you'll be renewed unless you did something really, really wrong
In the place I used to work, the data center was right next to the help desk. (I worked in the help desk)
I think that the datacenter was physically more secure than the actual systems in there. I mean, it was ID Access at all doors (you had to have your card specifically programmed for those doors) and the only people with keys was the head operator, the networking people, the CIO and her administrative assistants (who had the master building keys in their office)
We actually had problems getting in there ourselves (we printed to a printer in the data center for some reason and not the printer in the office that we were attached to where the manager/analyst were at). Ok,, Our problem was mostly faulty equipment (our card reader sucked!) but the entire thing is still between 2 locked doors in most spots.
One of my friends did "Spaceballs 4: The Search for Spaceballs 3" or something like that as a class project... All I remember about the things is that is how I got the nickname "Sparky"
Now, since we're on the topic of Starwars (general topic anyway),the same guy that did that is doing a Star Wars fan film.. I'd give out the link but I don't think his site can handle a Slashdotting.
You must have gotten overloaded 'cause I couldn't get to the site.. Anyway, I do a very similar thing where I have important news feeds and bookmarks on a page on my server
Both Freshman and Sophomore years, my roomate listened to different music than I did, so we'd use headphones. AIM was essential, if he needed to ask me something without getting up 'cause I had the noise canceling kind (some really, really nice Sony ones that I use for doing my shift at Marquette Radio).
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"(e.g. Dailey tearing up the Meigs Field Airport in Chicago.)"
You mean you didn't buy his BS of it being a potential tool a terrorist could use to attack Chicago?
Now.. Don't get me started on Daley and his airport BS.
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"Don't know what redneck spot you live in, but having your car inspected for safety is hardly an onerous burden."
Idk where you're at but the only stickers we're required to have on our cars is the city/village tax sticker and the license plate sticker. No inspection stickers around here (Illinois). We're, however, required to carry a card saying we passed emissions (no general "safety inspection", though).
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If you ever come across that page again, I'd love to see it.. In the mean time, I have some Googleing to do.
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The station that I work at doesn't use IA7. Now if Intelsat 5/6 or Galaxy 4 dies, then we might have a problem.
Same here... I think we'd lose 95% of our syndicated programing if IA-6, IA-5 or Galaxy 4 bit the dust. Thank God network comes down on another "bird" (and there's a back-up on yet another one).
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Cool!
I wish Marquette had done something like that.
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the harmonics are 2x, 3x, 4x, etc of the base frequency.
Ex: 780kHz, 2nd harmonic is 1560 and 2340 is the 3rd.
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Actually,
I got Hotmail to shut down an account that was sending me offensive email via their abuse@hotmail.com e-mail address.
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2mb? Wow.. Marquette at least gave us 5mb on the old system and at least 10mb on the Exchange system they installed a couple of years ago.
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yep
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$15??? Where do you live? It's way more than that in any large market.
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I agree
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Destroy ClearChannel...Replace them with small local stations that are in tune with their audience.
Sadly, that wouldn't do much because the small stations you are talking about are almost also controlled by another one of the big companies (Entercom, Saga, ABC, Emmis, etc). The point is, there are very few small and locally owned radio stations anymore, especially if you're talking about a major market and the ones that are belong to the colleges and are up in the 88.1-91.9 part of the FM band, have a few hundred watts, if they're lucky (esp in big markets) and no one listens to them anyway.
Major Market Example: Chicago...NO LOCALLY OWNED COMMERCIAL STATIONS IN THE FM BAND. Go a bit lower to Milwaukee and you see that in the FM band, the only locally owned station belongs to some crackpot preacher guy. Not much chance of music being promoted there, huh?
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Hmm.. Their desktops aren't bad. I have a 4 year old "Digital Studio" box sitting in front of me (well, actually, behind the Powerbook that i'm typing this on). The desktop still runs just fine on the ORIGINAL INSTALL of Win 98SE to be used for AIM & Web browsing. On top of that, I know someone who's got a VAIO subnotebook. She loves it. The only complaint she's had is that it's a bit slow. Other than that, she wouldn't think of getting rid of it.
As for their CLIE's.. I had one.. It sucked (problems getting it to sync with iSync on OS-X).. I moved onto a Sharp Zaurus which I love (and uses things other than the %^&*(*$% memory sticks)
Cybershots...I have one, also 4 years old, still works just fine, but I could use a camera that doesn't use memory sticks.
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Part 15 of the FCC rules cover unlicensed broadcasting.. You can basically use something like a 100th of a watt without an FCC license. I don't know all of the details, but their site could tell you.
Just out of curiosity, you say that IC sells spots to stations, do they then own them outright? Here in the states the airwaves (theoretically) are publically owned. Each station is granted a license for a specific period of time, which is of course renewable. In the "old days" you actually had to show you did public service and community interest programming, among other thigns, before the FCC would renew the license.. Now, it's pretty much a given that you'll be renewed unless you did something really, really wrong
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In the place I used to work, the data center was right next to the help desk. (I worked in the help desk)
I think that the datacenter was physically more secure than the actual systems in there. I mean, it was ID Access at all doors (you had to have your card specifically programmed for those doors) and the only people with keys was the head operator, the networking people, the CIO and her administrative assistants (who had the master building keys in their office)
We actually had problems getting in there ourselves (we printed to a printer in the data center for some reason and not the printer in the office that we were attached to where the manager/analyst were at). Ok,, Our problem was mostly faulty equipment (our card reader sucked!) but the entire thing is still between 2 locked doors in most spots.
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LOL!
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Yes, but, with Clear Channel automating everything good luck finding a live DJ to give you that info.
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You mean Sony tried to prevent them from using the BETA logo? JVC = VHS.
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One of my friends did "Spaceballs 4: The Search for Spaceballs 3" or something like that as a class project... All I remember about the things is that is how I got the nickname "Sparky"
Now, since we're on the topic of Starwars (general topic anyway),the same guy that did that is doing a Star Wars fan film.. I'd give out the link but I don't think his site can handle a Slashdotting.
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That's pretty f*cked up man! I'd love to read some of the plotlines if they're online!
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You must have gotten overloaded 'cause I couldn't get to the site.. Anyway, I do a very similar thing where I have important news feeds and bookmarks on a page on my server
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ROTFL!!! How about doing that in an IPASS express lane doing 70 ;)
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NBC is part of GE who also owns (or soon will own) Universal.
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Both Freshman and Sophomore years, my roomate listened to different music than I did, so we'd use headphones. AIM was essential, if he needed to ask me something without getting up 'cause I had the noise canceling kind (some really, really nice Sony ones that I use for doing my shift at Marquette Radio).
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Wait..There are? Hmm.. I haven't found them yet.
AC