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user-inactivated  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid

It's more a combination of design by committee, "there are no stupid ideas", and business school fuckwits who feel compelled to prove their leadership by making their mark, so what you get is the centroid of "actual improvements" and "proof that not only are there stupid ideas, most ideas are stupid."

The only solution I've ever come up with involved blunt instruments, and it has some obvious drawbacks.





galen  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    business school fuckwits who feel compelled to prove their leadership by making their mark

This fucked over our radio station. Two GMs ago we had a guy that was determined to leave a legacy so he pushed through a new system that we didn't need or want, without consulting the rest of the board or our faculty advisor. Right now the board's primary concern is cleaning up the fallout, because the new system and its shoddy implementation pretty much fucked our image.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What's the system?

galen  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuckin RCS NexGen. Designed for Top 40 stations.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There are at least 3 open source options way more suited for college radio...yikes. Good luck with that, feel free to send me a PM if you're ever looking for an outside opinion on this kind of stuff.

galen  ·  3078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

'ppreciate it. Unfortunately after a $60k investment I think the university would kill us if we tried to switch to anything else.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    'ppreciate it. Unfortunately after a $60k investment I think the university would kill us if we tried to switch to anything else.

Oh, totally. Moreso the navigating your image side of things at this point. What you have is what you have for the foreseeable future.