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Re: Chester PD upgrades fleet

Jaimie Baillie — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:03:09 -0000

Does Barney get an extra bullet?

Re: Derry getting ready for first kindergarten

Jaimie Baillie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:01:32 -0000

easily.
if they can't handle a small class like this, fire them.

Re: I’ve Given Up on Digg & Delicious But Am Hooked on Reddit

Jaimie Baillie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:41:18 -0000

I hate reddit vs the others because of the incredible amount
of duplicate submissions. It seems like it would be a trivial
task to get rid of duplicates, but they don't seem to care. If
they could bother to fix this, it would be a huge improvement.

Re: Netscape’s folly

Jaimie Baillie — Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:59:28 -0000

"...another blogger has crossed-over into the ranks of the Working Journalists."
Is this any surprise? I've been reading weblogs extensively since 9/11, and have been endlessly amazed by the amount of excellent writing (much of which is far superior to what's to be found in the "real" media). If I was an editor, I'd be reading weblogs every day, not only to get a sense of the latest "buzz," but also as a way of spotting good (unpublished) writers.

Re: Pick any two

Jaimie Baillie — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:47:43 -0000

[Okay, back to topic]

"...in the long run de-regulation will bring more diversity of opinion to media..."

I don't buy this, and here's why: It hasn't worked with "programming" (or technically, "formats") why should we expect it to work with "opinion?" One of the arguments used to sell the first round of deregulation was that multiple-ownership would encourage diverse programming types because revenues from the "stronger" (more popular, higher rated) operations could be used to support the "weaker" ones. (So Clear Channel, for example, could use the "excess" revenues from it's #1 rated pop station to support its jazz or classical station in the same market.) This ignored the reality that publicly-held corporations have a fiduciary duty to their stockholders to maximize profits. And that duty militates against the creative or the different: "More of the same" is easier, more predictable, and safer too, because if you fail, at least you failed trying something that worked before (somewhere). (How many classical stations does Clear Channel operate?)
Meanwhile, the jazz buffs, or the classical listeners, could try getting together to start their own station, but because of allocation limits in most markets they'd have to buy a frequency from one of the existing owners. And for the chain owners, the potential consequences of selling a frequency outweigh any benefits: Even if one of your stations is an "underperformer," at least it'd not a "competitor." Another, more creative, operator, might find a program mix that would displace your #1 station, and how would you explain that to your shareholders?
These same arguments apply to news, opinion, or anything else. So I'll predict that instead of more diversity, we'll get more sameness (because of the drive for maximum revenues which come from maximum "popularity") coupled with poorer quality (caused by lack of competition). The key indicator will be local news coverage.
Come back in 5 years and see who's right.

Re: 10 Things I Love/Hate About Movable Type - Scroll - Webquills.net

Jaimie Baillie — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:05:08 -0000

Navigation is stuck into a sidebar down the page instead of up front.

This is correct architecture. The visual appearance is easily changed with CSS. See attached link.

Re: Long overdue update

Jaimie Baillie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:50:57 -0000

Try preferences -> display options -> allow reddits to show me custom styles.

Re: Nokia E52 - Latest Eseries Similar To Nokia E55

Jaimie Baillie — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:32:04 -0000

Looks perfect for me. Smaller the better.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Jaimie Baillie — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:52:55 -0000

The answer to the question is totally obvious and that would be give users the ability to modify whether or not a sound plays and if so what plays. The *user* knows best what they want and what would be best in their computing environment. I honestly can't imagine why anyone would be on the fence.

Re: SNEAK PREVIEW

Jaimie Baillie — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:19:10 -0000

Before you go hanging everyone who's shown as "delinquent" on the treasurer's website, note that it appears that when they reverted the amounts to the 2006 level they also backed out any payments they posted after January 1, 2007. So there are folks who the site shows as delinquent who actually aren't (today) although they were (earlier). (Wilson appears to be one of them.)

Re: GNOME 2.28, ridammi il mio touchpad!

Jaimie Baillie — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:58:22 -0000

Io trovo sia abbastanza un controsenso che HAL usi come configurazione di mouse/touchpad/chissàcosaltro file in XML ma che di fatto bisogni scriverli a mano, dato che nessun software li genera.

XML NON È PENSATO PER ESSERE MODIFICATO DA UN ESSERE UMANO! Dovrebbe essere sempre e solo generato da algoritmi e sempre e solo interpretato da algoritmi.

Fine dello sfogo ;)