junklight

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by junklight 16y ago
iplayer irritatingly only has stuff on for 6 days after transmission. BBC 4 does repeat their material pretty regularly. It will say on this pages when it does: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s3vdm (in fact it looks like it was alread
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by junklight 16y ago
So yes - the western consumer machine has not penetrated so well. But that does not mean they are not on the map at all - if you saw any of the recent "Africa" season on BBC 4 in the uk it was clear that mobile phone usage is high, there ar
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by junklight 16y ago
You don't know though - by the guys own admission he isn't a great business man. He might have driven the fledgling Apple into the ground by making some poor choices. As for your own choice - go for it - you can't win if you ain't in the ga
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by junklight 16y ago
I don't think you can fix it. You take risks all along the continuum - if you are standalone you have more control but you need to get user buy in. If you go to a busy popular platform then you risk falling into the sinking sands caused by
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by junklight 16y ago
The bottom line is - they know you exist. If you are a real threat to them then they will find out anyway - how hard is it to ask a mate to sign up on your behalf and forward the email or use a disposable account. They aren't doing their jo
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by junklight 16y ago
Editor :- "I know what will get us more eyeballs: Another article about the iPad" Journalist :- "But there is nothing left to say" Editor :- "sure there is - start small - say, how you no longer love it. In a day or two we can do 'how the i
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by junklight 16y ago
The comment "hopefully encasing the oil" doesn't inspire much confidence either. As a solution it has all the air of "give it a bang" and see it if fixes it.
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by junklight 16y ago
Interesting. The way I usually deal with this is to right click links I want to follow and open them in new tabs (and I have my browser set so it doesn't move focus to those new tabs). I can then follow up in my own time. I either eventuall
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by junklight 16y ago
blimey! Yes - that is mental. All over the world people believe all kinds of rubbish. But engineers look at things and say "I know how to do that" or "why don't you do this" - and you end up with stuff like this. Fantastic!
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by junklight 16y ago
was watching thinking "ho hum". Until the crane lifted the space shuttle. That is one serious crane. Like you say - the shuttle is kind of swamped by that shed. That is some heavy duty machinery they have there
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by junklight 16y ago
Ha - that is almost precisely what I was going to say. All this winner and loser and X killer is a press and blogosphere invention. Fortunately the companies themselves know better. Competition is a brilliant thing
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by junklight 16y ago
while all the commentators and media are wetting their pants about who has landed what blow on who I can't help feeling that the real winners are going to be us users. Apple will lose if they don't respond - and it would seem likely that th
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by junklight 16y ago
There are sustainable fisheries. For example: http://www.theecologist.org/how_to_make_a_difference/food_an... And interestingly enough - the fish in Macdonalds fillet of fish is sustainably produced as well. Again I can't recommend the bo
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by junklight 16y ago
This already well underway. The book & film "End of the Line" is well worth a read. Also the massive disruption of the eco-system by removing large numbers of species has un-predictable knock on effects - for example massive numbers of
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by junklight 16y ago
Can't believe I've never thought of this. So just to be clear - your working directory is in dropbox and you edit, compile etc in place and no bandwidth, sync , whatever issues?
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by junklight 16y ago
You go and tell that to all the people I know in real life that use facebook - the mothers in the school playground for example. Facebook is so big most of its users don't care about any of that stuff. For them it has one simple function -
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by junklight 16y ago
or he used a chamber pot I guess
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by junklight 16y ago
Surely your last point does indeed point to a "re-creation". Its a re-creation of the detailed model Conan Doyle had either in mind or in his notes. Which as you point out is supported strongly by the fact that a coherent model can be made
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by junklight 16y ago
it certainly did. I have to say I went for all the high tech solutions first - zappers and stuff. The fly paper won hands down. Sugary sticky stuff on some paper - sometimes the simplest solution is the best one.
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by junklight 16y ago
I dunno - I bought some flypaper last year on the promise it would kill flies. And it did!
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by junklight 16y ago
There has been a fascinating series on Lagos on the BBC recently (might still be available on iplayer) called "Welcome to Lagos". One of the things that struck me was that for all the perceived disadvantage from a western perspective they h
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by junklight 16y ago
I like "The employee also said he deliberately disabled a filter in Google to access inappropriate sites" You mean: he turned off the safe search option. Given the rest of the content it seems odd to spin it so that changing an easy to alte
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by junklight 17y ago
Ha ha Kottke channeling the channel 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctaszjeaDK0
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by junklight 17y ago
While I agree with the article I do think there is a single most important secret: "Don't give up". (I might add its not the only thing - just like the article says - but without this one you are never going to make it. And I know it sounds
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by junklight 17y ago
Ah - an almost perfect example of UK Tabloid reporting: Moral panic over something that doesn't yet exist, and even if it does work is only going to give access to information people have chosen to make available. But lets not let facts get
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by junklight 17y ago
I'd given up on QS and gone to google search box (or whatever it was called) - I happily am back on QS with this stealth release - much faster and don't remember the last time it crashed
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by junklight 17y ago
Now I am sure this keynote was just trying to be provocative and make people think but: Really? Seriously? You think that other skills - sales, marketing , financial , even secretarial type things require the same kind of thinking , the sam
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by junklight 17y ago
Stick with it - its a couple of clicks down: http://steveblank.com/2010/02/11/it-must-be-a-marketing-prob... its a good article
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by junklight 17y ago
The main reason I hate this question when I'm away from work and work related contexts is that my company is all I talk about and think about for 99% of my time. And sometimes its really nice to have a small break from it. Also I know t
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by junklight 17y ago
rant on..... Apart from the inconsistency in the article: the headline talks about moving from XP to Vista but then they refer to windows 2000 support as the rationale.... These are the people who are meant to be running the country and the

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