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by froo 16y ago
In a lot of cases, people already value the product, the issue is with distribution and being able to get their hands on it in a convenient fashion. There was a recent (albeit not conclusive) study done of 7000 pirates here in Australia whi
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by froo 16y ago
>You do realize 'Google' is a corruption of 'googol', right? :) ... to go even more meta, "googol" is a corruption of "google" - as the name was suggested by Kasner's (the mathematician) nephew. It was the last name of Kasner's newphew'
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by froo 16y ago
>Actually the numbers could be much, much better than 2X. Or the numbers could be exactly the same, either way, he's muscling in on 30% of their revenue for providing pre-existing functionality and expecting them to like it or lump it.
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by froo 16y ago
Thats not a very constructive comment, but taking the trollbait - there are examples of other countries around the world (my own for example) that have public option health cares who's economies aren't in the tank.
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by froo 16y ago
*owned by Disney and managed by Jim Morris (he produced WALL-E) Although, you could argue that Catmull and Lasseter are more responsible for this than Jobs is...
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by froo 16y ago
The curious thing about the article is that he fails to mention Apple's sales of the iPad so far are only really US based sales. I'm more curious to see if there's going to be an upswing when the rest of the world is able to purchase them.
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by froo 16y ago
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
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by froo 16y ago
>There have been times in the past where I have attempted to pay for shows and this restriction prevented me. Exactly, I've got no problems paying for content. In my case, I pay for music off iTunes, I prefer to watch movies in the cine
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by froo 16y ago
One major thing to note is that this is an Australian study, so the perspective is Australian in nature. Obtaining content over here, legally, is incredibly difficult - even if you are trying to pay for it. I've said this for awhile (in fac
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Most pirates say they'd pay for legal downloads(news.com.au)
12 points by froo 16y ago|26 comments
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by froo 16y ago
I've often tested the limits of credit card signatures to the point that I now regularly pose as several Disney cartoon characters.
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by froo 16y ago
Not enough black backgrounds, red bold text OR animated flames :(
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by froo 16y ago
No, I mean the link I posted is a link to directly download last months data from them, off their website.
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by froo 16y ago
Its definitely a great little place, although I think it would be unbelievably cooler if the sliding rooms were automated/motorized in some way. Just imagine it, you "leave" a room so it starts to pack itself up and depending on which way y
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by froo 16y ago
If that's the data off Adsense Heaven (which I suspect it is) a more recent dataset can be found as a direct download here - this is last month's data, I haven't yet stumbled across this months http://www.adsenseheaven.com/zipped/pos511966
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by froo 16y ago
That's fair enough. Again, honestly? I'd say still stick it in the bank and start a web-based business around an app you write. Its extremely cheap to take this route. Bootstrapping is an incredible rush and it makes you think about what is
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by froo 16y ago
Honestly? If you haven't got a sound idea on how to invest it, I would say leave it in the bank and accrue interest until you've got a decent idea on what to do with it, otherwise you run a high risk of essentially blowing it. If you're sti
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by froo 16y ago
I think the Head First series is actually quite good for teaching Python as a first language. I recently purchased the Python one (it's just called Head First Programming from memory) for a friend who wanted to start with coding and she pic
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by froo 16y ago
BSG callsigns, cool - I've been naming my machines after 80's transformers for years!
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by froo 16y ago
Perhaps send her to flickr, my grandmother loves to look at photos, so she might get a voyeuristic kick out of it. I've preordered one of these for my grandmother and have started considering getting one for myself.
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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods(visual-literacy.org)
6 points by froo 16y ago|1 comments
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by froo 16y ago
I actually don't mind Dreamhost for very targeted uses. I jumped on a deal at the beginning of this year for ~$9 for 1 year of shared hosting. I now use that account purely for running things like scripts through SSH for doing basic data gr
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by froo 16y ago
I'd be curious if these figures are similar to those found at universities for these industries? As an anecdote, I know that in a first year class of around 300 for engineering at my uni, there were 2 women. This was in `99.
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IPhone 4G hands-on(engadget.com)
2 points by froo 16y ago|7 comments
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by froo 16y ago
http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html (For those that can't work out, Buy N Large is the corporation from WALL-E... this is a parody done by pixar)
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by froo 16y ago
I'm currently tracking a news story on a different matter. I just use google alerts, it's much better imo.
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by froo 16y ago
If we armed pleo with missiles and lasers (think of the 80's cartoon dino riders) I'm sure he could hold his own.
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by froo 16y ago
I'd suggest the valuations are based on perceived value by the investors. That's how we get insane valuations of $15 billion for Facebook when they were hemorrhaging money (not the case now of course). Either way, I suspect its part voodoo
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by froo 17y ago
The study this organisation did polled several puppets and the consensus was that everyone's a little bit racist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbQiSVeQwVQ
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by froo 17y ago
Let me translate this. Apple to rest of the world: Fuck you.

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