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by eftpotrm 16y ago
My (non-photography) friends look more at my photos on Facebook they're where I get the majority of personal feedback. Flickr is a much better source for me of reference material and examples when I'm looking for inspiration on how to appro
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Interesting, particularly as it suggests the XBox 360 has been sold at a profit for at least four years now. So, of the three major home systems (as distinct from portables), at least two are being sold at a profit, further reducing the arg
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Interesting, the wording when I was reading up on all this was that data on PAYG was still being bought monthly. If I'd known that sort of deal was available I might well have gone for it - I'm already carrying a netbook most of the time so
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Another customer who's fed up with this. I went with T-Mobile just over a month ago knowing they had other limitations - worse coverage and slower data rates - specifically because they had good data terms. Now this isn't true, and I _will_
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
The argument of below-cost hardware sales comes up frequently, yet I'm not at all sure it's true. Nintendo have certainly gone on record as saying the Wii was _never_ sold for below hardware cost (don't have a reference to hand, sorry); I d
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
As soon as I heard this GS buy-in to Facebook, what came to mind? Pump and Dump. We can all see that Facebook's earnings don't justify a $50b valuation any time soon, so to buy in at that valuation looks like a very brave long-term investme
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
There are plenty of small MP3 players with more capacity and little added extras like screens and the ability to play the song you want when you want (ahem) for the same sort of money as the iPod Shuffle though, and I'm curious to know who
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
It looks to me like the low resolution is an aesthetic choice. I've seen many far higher resolution voxel engines 15 years ago running at speed, including one written by a guy at my old school aged 17.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Incredibly minor legitimate value while introducing significant noise and complication thouugh.
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I would be surprised to see them suffering for optimising the algorithm to try and trace the original source of content though. With the sort of sites we're talking about, by definition that original source will be more up-to-date content
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Supposed to, yes. Until my ISP moved to GMail and hugely upped the spam filtering without telling me (not impressed), I had much the same observation with Thunderbird - its junk filtering was getting less accurate, not more.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I would dearly like to go back several years and explain this to the authors of a transaction processing system I once worked on. It stored all its currency values (for very small units sold in large quantities) with floating point data typ
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
You're talking about society at the micro-level though, not the national level. Some of them were immigrants from outside but a large proportion were moving from other communities in the nation and their ability to do that while retaining t
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I would jump at an MP3 player with the capacity of an iPod but software better than iTunes for synching or indeed the native iPod (Classic for me, I need the space) software. What are the problems for me? * Abysmal interface for large colle
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Cool, glad to hear it :-) Best wishes to you all. Been very impressed with what I've seen of Tim's work, hope you can all learn from each other.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Not that I wish the author anything but the best, but he's not alone in this. Tim Robinson, of Meccano/Erector Difference Engine fame, has been working on building the Analytical Engine in Meccano for some time. His website ( http://meccano
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
From my memory of what Palm devices were like then and seeing what's happened since, IMHO Apple dodged a bullet there. Palm was an overvalued, overhyped company with a product line that was already hitting technical limits due to design tie
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
OK, but a) Northern Ireland has been in a state of at best hevy terrorist activity and at worst borderline civil war in some areas for a good part of the last 40 years, and b) Relative populations: England: 51.5m Wales: 3m Northern Ireland:
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Ah! Would this be the same Ed Vaizey who seems to think net neutrality is stifling the rights of Internet highwaymen to set up private tolls....? Bright chap, good understanding of the Internet evidently. Oh well.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
For such a far-reaching scheme I was curious why it wasn't getting more coverage... Who is the well-informed and clear-minded (ahem) politician in question?
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Heathrow is _hugely_ crowded; as I understand it has an activity level far higher than any other airport with two runways. They lobbied _very_ hard for a third, but it was ultimately shut down by a change of government. However, it wasn't r
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
While I hate to quote the underlying societal philosophy of Starship Troopers (ahem....) - And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. We legally compel all sorts of actions. W
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Well, I'm coming from the UK where space pressures are rather higher than average in the USA. But: * Airports - Heathrow Airport had a proposed runway addition recently, as a very busy and overcrowded airport and piece of critical national
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
While I agree with the general thrust of this, I'm not entirely sure what they could have done better. Deliberately blighting an area to drive down prices and increase their chances is clearly not on, but when they've been clearly establish
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
For a single isolated transaction that may well be fine; when (for whatever reason) there is only one possible vendor - the last parcel of land blocking a scheme for example - that vendor is using the law (of private propoerty in that case)
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
But this is surely an argument for better valuation rather than against the principle of forced sale per se . I'm not at all arguing that people should be forced to surrender for less than the true value, but I'm also well aware (my ex wor
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Actually I just put up the quote as a counterpoint.... I'm sure we can find better refutations that don't invoke Mr. Godwin. Regardless though, my core point in this is that the sanctity of private property within real estate isn't an unqua
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains. Avram Noam Chomsky
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Eminent domain (or compulsory purchase in the UK) is designed to keep fair market value fair though. Otherwise there is an escalating cost of acquisition for each subsequent parcel of land - the cost to abandon the project rises with each
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Amen! I've not worked in enough companies to make a proper generalisation but based on my limited experience, small or large the major difference seems to be whether you're a cost centre supporting the business or the profit driver building

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