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by froo 17y ago
My dad used to tell me stories about how I used to load up various programs on our vic-20 at the age of 2 (there was a spelling one with a black bird/raven, I don't remember the name of it) My first earliest memories of computer usage was l
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by froo 17y ago
Interesting, but I don't see how this could be very comfortable since there's no resistance, I could see one's arm getting quite tired by holding it in the air for long periods of time on nothing. I'd much rather something like a falcon for
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by froo 17y ago
The ironic thing in this whole internet censorship debacle here in Australia is that this bullshit is being led by the left wing side* of our political system which one would typically associate with progressive ideals and liberal thinking.
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by froo 17y ago
The strangest thing about me for all the brouhaha over piracy is how few people so far seem to have found a way -- or even wanted to find a way -- to capitalize on the best, fastest, easiest distribution system in the world. To be fair, I
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by froo 17y ago
The number of ticket sales is a better figure to use for comparison ...which if you check the article I linked is also reported. Quote: "An increase in ticket prices also helped boost January's box office. The average ticket price was $7.
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by froo 17y ago
I went back and watched this and found it highly interesting. The technology has advanced from mostly bittorrent instead of gnutella based networks. The film industry is producing arguably better blockbusters (The Dark Knight vs Signs?) and
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60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thoughts now 6 years on?(vids.myspace.com)
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by froo 17y ago
Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. People also seem to conveniently forget that Vivendi Universal were actively trying to offload
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by froo 17y ago
To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen the grey cartridge version of Ocarina of Time, at least not in Australia... I purchased my Ocarina of Time just around the same time Majora's Mask was released and I received a gold one. I remember
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by froo 17y ago
Plus given all the hype around the game as it is, people will more than likely buy the game just to say they owned a copy of something that wasn't supposed to exist. Hell, make it a "Limited Edition" like Nintendo did with "Ocarina of Time
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by froo 17y ago
I'm a little disappointed that Twitter has become the next big thing. Does it seem to everyone else that the next big thing has gotten easier and easier for the average programmer to make? It's not disappointing at all, just because somet
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by froo 17y ago
So the first 5 episodes of family guy plus every other piece of content on hulu is better than nothing how? Just curious how we're not supposed to envy you...
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by froo 18y ago
Instead of a captcha, what about something that is like a puzzle to complete, that way you can also avoid low quality submissions which might come from people not intelligent enough to solve said puzzles and would also be a delightful littl
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by froo 18y ago
Easy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral. Well then by your "easy" definition, theft (within the context of piracy) is not a threatening force, is not fraudulent nor does it require force. So you have just defi
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by froo 18y ago
Well that depends on your moral subset, it's an entirely subjective matter. You have a group of film producers that glorify theft, violence, murder and other heinous acts (many of which are morally questionable) in their films for the "ente
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by froo 18y ago
Actually supporting the pirating of content isn't my position. My position is that producers/distributors of content crying foul when they're not providing an alternative service that comes close to other non-legal methods seems a bit pathe
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by froo 18y ago
Yeah, but don't forget it's also up to the consumer not to steal the producer's creation. What a useless argument. I will give you a very specific example which happened to me the other day, that will show you that content producers/distr
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by froo 18y ago
I think this what is called being a "scape goat" - perhaps under political pressure, the courts are deciding to make an example out of them. If jail time became the norm for running torrent sites/trackers, those who have the know how to put
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by froo 18y ago
With bloggers, I always find it's better to try and push your content to the smaller bloggers first - everyone's always trying to get promoted on the techcrunches or the mashables. As for emails - really, just look for journalists who've wr
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by froo 18y ago
Honestly? Whenever I've shot off emails to people as introductory emails it has always been fairly informal but always targeted. The best advice I can give is make sure you know who you're writing too, what their blog is about. Perhaps incl
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by froo 18y ago
Were they form emails or did you specifically target the journalists/bloggers you were talking too? Form letters get ignored - personal emails less so. Choose your words carefully when approaching these guys. It might take a extra time, but
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by froo 18y ago
Yet this has no visual feedback (there's a quantum leap between using a Cintiq and say one of the Bamboo's or Intuos'.. I have an older Graphite, used a Cintiq and fell in love instantly) Plus, to Wacom's credit they have the many different
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by froo 18y ago
Please explain for me. Well, my grandmother is technically inept, the concept of computers scare her - the keyboard, mouse, so many wires etc. It becomes a little overwhelming. This sort of device would be something she could use to play
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by froo 18y ago
I saw a Wacom Cintiq the other day in use. Wow. If you have $2k, it's better than pen and paper As someone who has used both the Cintiq and pen and paper, I prefer the pencil/paper combination for storyboarding and general sketching as yo
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by froo 18y ago
The whole thing oozes irony. Users are now paying for a service to "protect" them while they download stuff, that they didn't want to pay for. Not only have the RIAA and MPAA completely failed to slow down the filesharers, their heavy hande
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by froo 18y ago
Well, to explore unexplored areas involves risk of some form, it is just the magnitude of that risk that is unknown. So then to simply avoid unexplored areas and as such, minimising risk, therefore it could have been possible to never see a
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by froo 18y ago
there's always #startups on IRC (irc.freenode.net)
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by froo 18y ago
I wrote a little about it here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=502705 But essentially I believe that there is a real disconnect between the cost of production and the amount of entertainment that a viewer can get, especially since th
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by froo 18y ago
Ah gotcha, well then I shall retract my previous statement. I wasn't aware of the quote :) But still the offer stands, I love talking to people about their startups (as well as my own) and discussing various perspectives. I think lines of c
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by froo 18y ago
Taleb's point is not to reduce the probability of having a black swan, which he essentially assumes to be fixed But the probability isn't fixed, given black swan events are dependent on taking bigger risks. If you minimise risk, you can e

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