george_morgan

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by george_morgan 9y ago
BBC, USMC?
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by george_morgan 12y ago
Related HN post from a number of years ago, covering a similar idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192304
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by george_morgan 14y ago
I’m reminded of the classic triple constraint ‘cheap, fast, good’. They’re promising cheap and fast…
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by george_morgan 15y ago
Amusingly, it requires more syllables to say ‘W.W.W.’ than it does to say ‘World wide web’.
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by george_morgan 15y ago
The design was by Pentagram, not Microsoft. They are certainly more than familiar with the work Paul Rand…
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by george_morgan 15y ago
It’s a little more than just the opinion of someone named Paula, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Scher
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by george_morgan 15y ago
This is one of those ideas which present themselves perfectly in hindsight. Nike+ was the shoe which knew where you had been, invert that principle and you’re lead to the shoe which knows where you are going. Certainly a valid creative cata
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by george_morgan 15y ago
I’ve also wondered this. iOS and Mac OS both have a penchant for faux-realism and pastiche which always seems strangely incongruous with the austere industrial design. It’s a trend that seems to be getting stronger, just look to the most re
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by george_morgan 15y ago
Related, the Read Regular project: http://www.readregular.com/english/background.html
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by george_morgan 15y ago
I’ve often wondered if there is a parallel to the concept of Turing-completeness in linguistics. Once a language possesses certain principle structures, would it be capable of expressing all human thought? I understand that linguistic relat
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by george_morgan 16y ago
I think it’s partly to do with the (over) use of the phrase “x is an art,” usually meaning “x is a very skilled and hard thing to do successfully.” For example, it feels quite natural to say something such as “running a business is an art.”
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by george_morgan 16y ago
I'd rather see larger, rather than denser, sensors. Although I suspect the tiny apertures of phone cameras will always be the limiting factor.
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Within consumer electronics, Nokia were good at letting customers differentiate their phones by allowing interchangeable facias. Didn't Sony also release various colours of Walkmen? I imagine the ability to mass produce a product in multipl
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Ah, my mistake. I did know that. Honest.
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by george_morgan 16y ago
I never thought about it at the time, but the 3rd gen iPod was one of the last vestiges of the Classic Mac OS interface. It's the last device Apple shipped with Monaco as it's default system font. If I remember correctly, the later iPods us
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Very similar to the Chromo http://prote.in/chromo colour clock, which has been around for a few years.
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by george_morgan 16y ago
I was taught to copy passages from newspaper articles or ideally a sample of writing from the same author as the final text you will be setting and not to use lorem ipsum by my typography tutors. Despite what’s often said, it isn’t as good
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Although incorrect posture over 10,000 hours sounds like a recipe for RSI.
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by george_morgan 16y ago
The iPhone has never had the competitive advantage based on it’s feature count.
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Do go on.
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Android phones already have an “emergency call only” option on the unlock screen. Now, a phone that self-diagnoses an emergency is heading into interesting territory…
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Not quite as ridiculous as it sounds, there are already issues with people getting access to digital information of deceased relatives (encrypted hard drives, social networking sites, email etc.).
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by george_morgan 16y ago
Well, there was a politicised line of thought in 20C modernist typography towards abandoning capitals due to their implied hierarchies. Herbert Bayer’s experimental Architype ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_Architype ) would be one exa
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Well, it was a “too long, didn’t listen” but I’m not sure anyone read. Alas.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
TL;DL
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by george_morgan 17y ago
There will still be a place for Apple to sell developer tools, which would likely still be desktops and laptops. Or to put it another way, Apple engineers will probably want to use Apple computers to create Apple products. It’s possible tho
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Any Cocoa application (it’s an Apple thing obviously, so it’s only going to work if the application is using their file browser), File > Open. Source list on the left, under the “Media” heading find “photos”. All there, browsable by eve
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by george_morgan 17y ago
The file browser in OS X shows the iPhoto library in it’s source list.
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by george_morgan 17y ago
Hang it on the back of the seat?
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by george_morgan 17y ago
I can see that Apple relies on Google services, but what does Apple provide which Google relies on?

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