Saturday, January 01, 2005
Dan whistle blows about fake calls at G4 and gets shlasdoted and digged and this may be the nail in g4s coffin!!!!!
yes dan the man huard blows lid on g4s business practases! excerpt from http://www.danhuard.com To get back on track, even with an extra few hours to work on live calls, the execution of the calls were still suffering. Getting geeks to ‘come out of their shell’ is very hard. Rehearsing the question with them ahead of time always helped but as soon as they were on live television it usually went to hell. Nonetheless, I kept plugging away. After the next couple weeks of pre-producing the first live caller, I started to get some heat from my Executive Producer, Paul Block. Even with the callers I found from viewer mail, they still weren’t interesting enough for him. People get nervous on TV. Hell, I would get nervous on TV, it’s not easy. I explained to Paul Block and Joshua Brentano (the new Series Producer) that the demographic we’re using for the live calls isn’t working. Most of the TSS fans are geeks, they’re introverts. This is where The Screen Savers as you once knew them changed completely. I was ordered by Paul Block and Joshua Brentano to generate questions for live callers. But these weren’t any live callers. They wanted me to use G4 employees, friends, family, whomever. Basically, I would think of a question and give that question to a designated caller. So now, the A block callers were manufactured questions and callers. I used TSS producer’s friends and family, Peter Green’s assistant (Sr. VP of Programming & Production - this was done with his OK, btw), my girlfriend, and countless other people to create the ruse that these were genuine questions coming from our viewing audience. At this point my work suffered exponentially because my heart just wasn’t in my job anymore. The live aspect of the show just died, and I stopped believing in the most unique show on television. I was called into Paul Block’s office two other times this time I was threatened to lose my job. Here’s a quote from that meeting, “Dan, if I didn’t like you, I’d fire you right now.” Was Paul correct in saying that? Maybe, but I was forced to go against what four years of college told me not to do: lose my ethics. I fought them every chance I could, I tried my best to uphold the dignity and the ethics of The Screen Savers. From what I gather, this is why I was part of the lay-offs. i guess he didnt want an exposee but he got one you can read the news on this at
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/01/1725230.shtml?tid=129 or at http://www.digg.com/technology/The_Screen_Savers_faked_their_calls_at_G4
if you want my opinion G4's pr department better say something fast or G4 is going to have a lot of angery computer nerds at there front door!!!!!!!!!!!
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rayjay2380
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Yep at the end of this week we get to see ces!!!!!! what i hope to see from the show is the unveiling of xbox 2 and any cool mp3 players that may come here! what do you hope to see?
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rayjay2380
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
how to speed up firefox on a broadband connection!!!
this is interesting i tryed it and it works!!!!!!!!
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
Id like to thank a_soggy_waffle on the g4tech tv boards for this info!!!!!!!
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rayjay2380
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
whats your fav computer co?
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rayjay2380
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Saturday, December 25, 2004
i feel i need to say somthing about xbox2 code name xenon all ineed to say is three things 1. no hard drive witch will make people mad! 2 hddvd pressumed format may get killed unless they install blue ray on all systems! 3 rumors of apple putting there hard ware on here A+ for microsoft! but we dont know just wait till ces and will know!!!!!!!
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rayjay2380
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004
yes my week has been crazy esspecially this close to christmas it some times drives you crazy what people try to do to get what they need for the holiday its nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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rayjay2380
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my new blog is here!!!!!!!
i found a better blog service then what i had im now with blog drive!!!!!!!!!
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rayjay2380
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