junklight

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by junklight 15y ago
First off - most people in any entertainment industry - music , books , comedy etc. are not making megabucks. Most of them earn somewhere between an ok wage and a pretty rubbish one. However there are plenty of people experimenting like L
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by junklight 15y ago
that was my thought too I wouldn't sasume it has been ruled out - people (myself included) sometimes get mentally stuck on one solution and fail to spot another obvious avenue.
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by junklight 15y ago
this whole "there is only one product in any category and it has to be killed" theory of journalism and blogs drives me up the wall. Go outside and look in the road. Can you see more than one make of car? competition is good. This story sho
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by junklight 15y ago
Heh heh. When I learned about computer science in school it was punched cards, and then later on VAXs. The theory and the Unix stuff came in useful though. Seriously though I left education 24 years ago and now looking back that was pretty
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by junklight 15y ago
I'm not sure that this actualy means anything. Just a pragmatic move while they get the pro features into FCPX. I guess if there is any hidden message it might be that they are wanting to keep the pro's onside - which might be good news for
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by junklight 15y ago
yes it's clear that what this light hearted throwaway joke needs is lots of over analysis. I thought it was quite amusing anyway.
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by junklight 15y ago
Do you know what - in my house I have a number of machines. They do things like cleaning clothes and dishes and making food hotter. They all have microprocessors in them and can do quite sophisticated stuff - but their interface - almost al
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by junklight 15y ago
I guess there are three options: 1) dive in help her, pay up make it all good get good PR. BUT if they are thinking that this is going to be a common problem and going to happen a lot then they may be making rod for their own backs… or 2) R
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by junklight 15y ago
yawn I do get tired of these "recieved wisdom" nuggets as seen in the headline here - see also "ipad is for consuming only" and "linux not suitable for desktop" (although that one seems to have died a death) etc. etc. and of course the ac
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by junklight 15y ago
This isn't really suprising. Even the large banks would do this if they could get away with it. Look at the Goldman Sachs high frequency trading stuff - even if it wasn't illegal they were sailing as close to the wind as they possibly could
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by junklight 15y ago
It's not just the tech industry - read Nick Davies Flat Earth News for more on PR and the massive impact it has on "news". I wonder if this will become the norm or if there will be a backlash and people will start to prefer unspun unvarnish
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by junklight 15y ago
I've been programming since '81 and commercially since '88. Books, magazines (remember typing in example programs!) , undoubtedly re-invented many more wheels than I do now, colleagues, CIX (remember that BBS in the UK?), looking at open
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by junklight 15y ago
I fully agree projection figures are guesses, likely to show the situation in a good light, and as much use as a guide to the future as a random line drawn on a bit of paper. BUT that is not all that makes up a projection. The interestin
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by junklight 15y ago
This strategy worked out really well for C# as a response to Java. At first it seemed just like a spoiling move but somewhere a long the way c# turned into the better language. So you can't blame them for giving the strategy another whirl
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by junklight 15y ago
Well it looks like they have already done something better than all their non-Apple competitors - instead of rushing it out half finished they seem to have waited until it's done. Given the biggest complaint about webos on the phone was the
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by junklight 15y ago
I think your editorial headline doesn't really do them service. They made an entirely rational business decision based on prevailing conditions. They sound more disappointed than pissed to me.
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by junklight 15y ago
next, money. "I heard that this guy went to his dealer with some cash and walked away with some drugs leaving no paper trail whatsoever."
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by junklight 15y ago
ah bless. Apple product announcement and all the websites and bloggers and journalists are scratching their heads. "How can I turn this into page views. Gee the overview of what he said - been done a million times. What about slagging it al
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by junklight 15y ago
I worked for a chap in Yorkshire who had been a miner and had lost his job in the Thatchers war against the miners. He'd taken his redundancy money and taught himself to program.
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by junklight 15y ago
you give away 9 copies to sell 1. Perhaps you need to give more away and make it easier and then you'll sell more?
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by junklight 15y ago
it's not just your friends - it's everyone that has an interest. Take all things said to you and ask "what's their angle". (and that 'angle' might that they love you dearly and don't want to upset you) looking back I reckon an awful lot of
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by junklight 15y ago
Yes. The fact that Facebook knows what bands and tv all my friends are into is why i choose to do my tens of searches a day on Facebook. Pity it never tells me anything useful. So the author thought of a cool metaphor about dust and archeol
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by junklight 15y ago
Of course these are from a selected environment - those dying with time to reflect. I imagine there is a whole other class of regret the: I wish I hadn't done that/put my <body part> in there/opened that door/said that etc. etc. mom
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by junklight 15y ago
I have no idea if it is solid or not but statements like: "Bitcoin will be tested but from what we know about it at the moment, it looks solid." worry me. Its easy to make things for ideal conditions. If bitcoin becaomes mainstream the stre
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by junklight 15y ago
It doesn't even need to be a real problem - just one that the investor perceive as a problem. And given that the tech is pretty complex and beyond the understanding of a lot of people using bitcoin then that risk is even greater. And as wit
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by junklight 15y ago
I think you are spot on. Although the whole saga of windows variations on tablets, which is astonishingly ongoing, never really helped. What really surprises me is that the likes of Palm never got their act together in this space. Apple ha
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by junklight 15y ago
So explain why it is a "religion". I am looking at human nature and saying that you are not going to change it and therefore you are going to need to work around it. "We need a circular flow of recycable materials" is a technical solution t
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by junklight 15y ago
So I do agree that the tipping point will be when the danger is in our collective faces. I also agree there is a good chance it might be pretty bad indeed with as you say large numbers dying. I don't believe that sustainable ways of life wi
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by junklight 15y ago
it's not a bold claim at all. Look around at the planet. Humans are everywhere it is possible to be. Something drove us to do that. And given it is quite unlikely that there was a meeting 100,000 years a go in Africa where we as a species
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by junklight 15y ago
I'm not totally sure about that. There is a lot of investment in this area (albeit tossed and blown on the winds of political trends). Things like photovoltaics are only a few years off being viable on a large scale (at current levels of in

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