eftpotrm

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by eftpotrm 16y ago
That assumes a flexibility which isn't the case for many outside the young and single though. As soon as you introduce extra people and responsibilities into the equation you can't just up sticks and move because your job has changed.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Which is from memory less than Sky charges for content that includes adverts and is (IMHO) of vastly lower quality. Certainly far less of Sky's content is original productions.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
But.... that only works for the big boys. Imagine how YouTube would've got going if this rule had been around in 2005 - they'd have been strangled at birth by individual ISPs each demanding their own contract and their own payment. What we
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Actually, that _is_ pruned. I'm only getting the notices I want / need for various reasons, not the spam, and do periodically dump senders who aren't interesting any more. Yet I still end up with eMail as overwhelmingly a commercial medium.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I may be being slow on the uptake not to have spotted this before, but it hit me last week - 99% of my personal mail - both email and physical mail - is either companies sending out notices (adverts, bills, whatever...) or websites I subscr
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
OK, sorry, a generation out of date :-) Still, a 5mp lens/CCD/flash package, even allowing for miniaturisation, isn't more than a few tens of pounds at absolute maximum. There's still a hefty markup IMHO.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Indeed. I confess I remain baffled how the Mac managed to beat the Amiga to the not-PC slot in the market. More expensive, slower, less capable hardware, vastly more primitive operating system and not an enormous delay between the two. If C
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Apple cheap - hmm, not sure I buy that. Why does an iPhone cost more than an iPod Touch, a standard 2G phone and a 3G USB dongle? That's all the hardware is. Why does an iPad with a 10 inch screen cost twice as much as a netbook with a 10 i
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I've got an Asus Eee 1000 HG which I use for Windows development, bought as a reconditioned ex-demo machine for about half retail. It's obviously slower than my main machine, but (by and large) quite fast enough for my day-to-day developmen
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I've no idea on numbers, it was never quantified to my knowledge (and I don't think it really could be). However.... My former organisation had a collection of MI reports in their core application to let them track any number of sales metri