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by rythie 16y ago
Facebook may have a valuation of $60bn, but actually the ammount of cash invested is only $2.34bn [ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook ] so that would be what was lost if it collapsed. Same for Twitter, actual investments are $360m
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by rythie 16y ago
The companies that are being talked about are not public yet - Facebook, Twitter etc. so would a tradational bubble really apply to this?
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by rythie 16y ago
We used that for quite a few years, were able to get 40-50 VMs on a Dual-Xeon box with 6GB of memory with no trouble. It's very lightweight and flexible with memory compared to systems like KVM and VirtualBox
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by rythie 16y ago
24bit, 96khz, 2 channels, 4 minutes * 0.40 (60% compression) = 55Mb per track. At $1 per track that's, $579 on a 32GB iPhone/iPod Touch assuming no apps, games, videos, iOS or formatting etc. (i.e. it's actually lower)
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by rythie 16y ago
It doesn't have to reach critical mass this time though, people who care about quality can download the better version, people don't care don't have to.
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by rythie 16y ago
Interesting, the hype around 24bit could kill off the CD, since CDs can't really compete with that and DVD-Audio and SACD failed to reach the mass market. As a bonus to Apple they will take more space, especially if they use FLAC, so people
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by rythie 16y ago
Does anyone distribute 24bit content anyway? iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. I don't think any of them do.
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by rythie 16y ago
Surely any technology company is trying to predict the future and create products that people want. The iPad was, what, 5 years after Microsoft's tablets, the difference is that Apple can execute well. Most the of the other vendors, Motorol
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by rythie 16y ago
Firewire was 400MBits for 5 years before USB2 was released (USB1 was only 12MBits). Look who won that one.
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by rythie 16y ago
The first replacement, Vista, is only 4 years old, that's what matters.
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What made you think iOS was open?(posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk)
2 points by rythie 16y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
Anyone used blender for this sort of thing? http://www.blender.org/
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by rythie 16y ago
She obviously either took a risk or didn't need the money back then. Many people refuse to take stock instead of a salary.
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by rythie 16y ago
This is about subscriptions vs. a one time visit. I'll probably only visit their website once, but if I 'like' them on facebook, they can push stuff at me, any time they want, promotions, new products etc.
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by rythie 16y ago
In Europe at least, they seem to also actively look for people too. A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and suggested I apply. I got rejected after 3 telephone screens, the suggested working somewhere else for a year and to reapply. I can
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by rythie 16y ago
I don't like prices like $9.99 first I have to round up to $10 and then I haven't actually seen that price next to the item. When someone quotes the price verbally $9.99 it's longer than $10, so sounds bigger. Also, $9.99 sounds like they a
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by rythie 16y ago
Also, do we need another answers site (Quora)? or photo sharing site (Instagram)? or search engine (Blekko, DuckDuckGo)?
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by rythie 16y ago
Make lessons 1-10 free (20-30mins each), charge for lessons 11 onwards. Most people that make it to lesson 11 would be willing to pay going forward, after seeing the quality of lessons 1-10.
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by rythie 16y ago
I don't think you can really train someone to be an artist or be creative anyway.
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by rythie 16y ago
There is a analogy with failed startups, in that she created something of value, but was never was able to promote it (assuming she tried).
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by rythie 16y ago
Kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/800508197/finding-vivian...
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Vivian Maier: A life's work seen for first time(bbc.co.uk)
89 points by rythie 16y ago|51 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
It's pretty annoying, Atomic Web is always running out of memory
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by rythie 16y ago
Actually I don't think TV ads, in the U.K. at least, are annoying. TV adverts are often entertaining, point me to products I didn't know about and they give you chance to go to the toilet or get a drink. Also, very often they are relevant e
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by rythie 16y ago
To say those movies are about "Toys" or "Rats", doesn't say anything about it, any more than saying a movie is about "People", and there are a far larger number of those.
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by rythie 16y ago
Possibly, but you have to wonder if TVs won't just end up reading TV optimised webpages rather than any other platform dominating in the long run.
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by rythie 16y ago
Is there something that makes you think all video won't be distributed via the web in 18 years time?
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by rythie 16y ago
Surely the underlying problem is that GIMP is and has been underfunded for years. Where as Photoshop costs $100s, GIMP presumably has very little revenue if it can only pay for two developers. Firefox is able to develop quickly due to the d
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by rythie 16y ago
What I think is interesting is, they go through the normal thoughts of becoming rich from the app. store, even though their idea is very niche and overly complicated [solving differential equations by taking pictures of them]. Penny's simpl
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IPhone Apps on The Big Bang Theory(ironwolf.dangerousgames.com)
3 points by rythie 16y ago|1 comments

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