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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If they can get people to make a habit of watching TV through them instead of the internet, they win. Yup, but surely even a basic viewing session of Internet-based TV would convince even the dimmest bulb that they're fighting a losing ba
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Any busines decision is a gamble. Porting to Android is a gamble because you've got an investment in a new platform which you don't have experience in to know if it'll pay off. Not porting to Android is a gamble because, frankly, Android ph
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I could. I surprised my parents some while back when we discovered I could remember the full address and phone number of a house we left when I was 5.5 and they couldn't. I found it again pretty easily when I was at university not that far
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But, batteries are much more expensive than shipping crates and also wear out with the sort of usage cycles that this sort of tech requires by design. I was hearing recently about a similar energy startup that was based on cooling air to
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
What for, though? I'm another Flashblock user and it seems to lose me ads and videos. The ads don't benefit me anyway, the videos are now capable of being deployed by other means; it's just the vendors haven't yet caught up. Flash is on lif
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
The reason replacing univeristies will help the developing world (and why I still argue for cheap computers tailored for the needs of the developing world) is that it makes access to aducation that much easier. Yes they need primary rather
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
OK. One of the core problems the world faces going forwards is resource supply - water, food, fuel. It's long been predicted that the next large-scale war will be over water supplies; there are already a number of simmering conflicts that g
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But the further out you go, the lower the quality of the personal link. What counts as a personal link, anyway? There are people on my Facebook profile I knew years ago in a different town, people on my LinkedIn profile I worked with 6-7 ye
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Big problem there - lack of data. Tripadvisor et al have the advantage that, with all the Internet posting (admittedly with dubious quality, but...), they can show a review of almost anything. Within my social circle? They won't even be 10%
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Yup, that happens pretty regularly, some coianges being better than others. For example, during the Beijing Olympics, various coaches and commentators unfortunately verbified 'medal'. The resulting sentences were not pleasant...
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I confess I actually sympathise with him. At the core his point strikes me as inane - that he won't spend a tiny fraction of the cost of his other equipment to solve a problem, that he clearly underprices his time - but still, the pricing s
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While you're right in the general sense that children get surprised when they discover a world that isn't like their home, I firmly believe you're wrong in the applicability of that to TV. Thanks to BBC iPlayer, we've had near-universal int
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Which is the advantage (to users) of the self-appointed benevolent dictator for life model. What do users want? Something that's cheap, easy to use and unlimited. What do the carriers want? Something that's branded to them and customised so
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I might buy burgers more often than cars, but my total spend on buying cars is rather higher. I'm also choosier about cars than burgers. I've never inspected 15 burgers and read their delivery history before buying one. And burgers are rath
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Apollo 13 holds the record for furthest men have been from the earth. If we're looking for the furthest any inividual has been away from the nearest second human, we're looking at command module pilots. I think that record goes to Micha
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No, the reasonable thing to do (and the good business practice) would have been to in some ways limit or revoke their access to the API if they didn't pay. That way, if they miss the mail and / or choose not to pay, they lose service but
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Oh, I know, I just think it's more fun than Baseball :-) ISTR that MLB had a lock-out a while back which ended up with Cricket filling some of the broadcast slots. Speaking as a cricket fan with any luck they can similarly shoot themselves
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Probably, but.... Insurance and incidents of the sort outlined could push a turnaround in 2-3 years, quite easily IMHO. Insurance changes could make it extremely expensive in the space of a single year if they're on annual policies. If scho
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
An interesting article, but I can't understand why the author thinks the current football code would wither and die in quite the way he proposes when there are other codes with much better safety records and to which they could transition r
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Why don't they want to enter politics though? If we drew up a hypothetical list of attributes for a scientist, how many could cross over into politics? Significant intellect and a desire to exercise that in significant work? Yes. Deep inter
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Exactly; so many of the problems of under-representation are due to minority groups having disparate, rather than concentrated, power bases and so failing to achieve the threshold for election in any single seat in spite of having more than
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Oh, yeah, UDFs are something that I want a dev to know about but I also want them to understand why most of the time they shouldn't use them ;-) Triggers, too. I would say there are some positive cases for using scalar UDFs in live-run quer
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
They seem to, unfortunately. I know MS SQL Server a little better (ahem) than the individuals who inspired this post and have years of use and multiple versions of it on my CV. Yet I was still asked to specify that it included stored proced
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And yet we regularly see corporate donations to individual campaigns well above that level; clearly there are ways around the rules as they stand.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or commutable from Derby / Nottingham area, UK 11+ years experience on MS platforms. - .Net (ASP.Net web dev, client apps, back-end server jobs, C# or VB.Net), - SQL Server v7-2008R2. - Classic ASP (with HTML, CSS, Jav
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Which is why we finesse the obvious but naive solution. Campaign contributions are becoming / have become de facto bribery, but without campaign contributions only the independently wealthy can stand for office. How about limiting how muc
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Yeah, I'll give GMail that. Yahoo's image handling does seem a little hit and miss - I've got some senders to always show, somehow, but it's not as good. But every time I use GMail now I find myself using keyboard shortcuts from Yahoo and w
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Flickr is good, I agree (speaking as someone with two separate personal pro accounts) but I think Yahoo has more in the arsenal than that. I recently returned to Yahoo Mail after a long absence, and to be honest, I like it. Honestly, for
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Joke or not, there's always interesting ideas. I'd say 22 is well served by OKCupid combining PoF with actual usability, 23 apparently by any number of services I've never used and that Android is having a crack at 11 and 17. And I suspect
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Significantly, tech already has. How often do we hear numbers quoted that the gaming industry now grosses more than films? Displacing the influence of the old leader in the community mindset is certainly a known problem and one that we've s

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