{"id":310,"date":"2002-03-13T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2002-03-13T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=310"},"modified":"2002-03-13T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2002-03-13T16:40:04","slug":"the-right-tool-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/03\/13\/the-right-tool-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"the right tool for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dougal is looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/dougal.gunters.org\/myphpblog\/archive.php?blogid=1&#038;tem=emc3&#038;y=2002&#038;m=03&#038;d=12\">Netscape 4.x Sucks<\/a> articles.<\/p>\n<p>=====<\/p>\n<p>Dear FM100.2;<\/p>\n<p>  Why can&#8217;t I hear your radio station in full hi-fidelity stereo on my monaural transistor radio?  It works fine when I use my home stereo system.  Why do you design your radio station to only support certain radios?  My AM radio in my car doesn&#8217;t even get your station.  You could at least design it to degrade gracefully.<\/p>\n<p>Signed Joe User<\/p>\n<p>=====<\/p>\n<p>Memo from Marketing to Tech Staff:<\/p>\n<p>  Guys, come on, stop being prima donnas and give our customers what they need.  Our stats show us that a full 8% of our audience tries to tune us in on AM radios.  I don&#8217;t care how, you have to provide them with the SAME experience as other users.  Everyone must have exactly the same experience or you&#8217;ll ruin our branding initiative.<\/p>\n<p>=====<\/p>\n<p>v 1.1 Release Notes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; reduced audio to 16khzmono to unify experience across platforms<br \/>\n&#8211; put hooks in to accomodate split AM\/FM transmission in future<br \/>\n&#8211; scrapped plans for digital station id &#8211; not cross-radio compatible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dougal is looking for Netscape 4.x Sucks articles. ===== Dear FM100.2; Why can&#8217;t I hear your radio station in full hi-fidelity stereo on my monaural transistor radio? It works fine when I use my home stereo system. Why do you design your radio station to only support certain radios? My AM radio in my car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}