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by zandorg 17y ago
Good interview. Mark really is a great interviewee - except when he's on Oprah.
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by zandorg 17y ago
My guess is Google found it useful, and wanted to share it, so it's their gift to the world.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Well, I read they bought high yield bonds (known as junk bonds in the 80s), to get them through a nasty period where the IPO markets had dried up, and VC obviously couldn't fund a late-stage company. So maybe it's both bonds and improvement
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by zandorg 17y ago
Absolutely a great company, they did everything right. I think junk bonds got them through the dotcom collapse. When Half.com let people exchange 2nd-hand books, it was USA only. Then Amazon introduced 3rd-party sellers in about 2003 in the
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by zandorg 17y ago
I agree. How can he say ALL electronic artists are nerds? What about Portishead? Michael Jackson? The Human League? 'Nerd' isn't even an insult in my book.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Recently I bought an Akai S950, a popular sampler used by Moby (and others), and it is amazing how much better it sounds than a software sampler - especially if you route the 8 outputs through an old mixing desk and adjust EQ/level (and put
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by zandorg 17y ago
Where's John Meriwether? Why is the Steve Jobs photo from like 1985?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Does Nestle ask for your friendship before selling you some Oreo's?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Bing is not gniB.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I'd code the graphics code in C++, and the logic/game/AI code in Lisp.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I know there's a list, but I still have to search it, and I couldn't find anything I wanted. To browse by author or genre would be nice.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Dan Simmons: Hyperion? Nope Terry Brooks Shannara? Nope What IS available on Kindle?
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by zandorg 17y ago
But isn't it a wonderful excuse! "Oh, it was my WEP that did it, officer".
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by zandorg 17y ago
Those too. Basically, if you price the book at 1p, Amazon doesn't get their 15% (?) cut, which is why so many sellers charge 1p (or 1 cent). But if the postage is more than £2.75 (in the UK at least), they have to charge more, and then Amaz
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by zandorg 17y ago
Computers aren't getting faster as quick as they used to (certainly not to Moore's Law) so the Microsoft strategy that always assumed faster hardware, is a flop. Which means a properly optimised OS can sell more, ultimately (eg, no endless
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by zandorg 17y ago
Hi! Sorry, it's not ready for release in that way. I don't want criticism of it to affect the other songs/tracks I'm working on.
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by zandorg 17y ago
My track Paris Thru the Tears scores a whopping 7.9! :-D It was recorded on analogue synths (£1500 + £200), a HardSID slaved to an old P300 running Windows 98, an old Akai sampler (which cost £100), and 2 crappy mixing desks (£75 and £100)
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by zandorg 17y ago
This comic strip makes a point about Kindle: http://xkcd.com/548/
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by zandorg 17y ago
I guess you could call it HTML 1.0...
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by zandorg 17y ago
On the topic of Geocities shutting down, I found an option in wget which ignores existing files - because Yahoo has a 503 error if you try to spider too many pages. It's -nc which means 'no clobber' - which is the least helpful phrase consi
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by zandorg 17y ago
I have a home music production studio with 15 devices (mixers, synths, processors, amp, laptop, ancient PC). I used a measuring device and even though the PC is supposed to use 250 watts or so, the entire studio is only 468 watts! This is
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by zandorg 17y ago
I don't know what that is, but you could use a MIDI pedal and hook it up with some controller software!
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by zandorg 17y ago
Me and a friend once vowed to write 'festive' articles for an online magazine we wrote. In the '25 days of christmas', we'd each write an article every other day. It was pretty intense - though we managed it - and we swore never to attempt
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by zandorg 17y ago
There's an Asimov story about that too.
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by zandorg 17y ago
In the mass production industry, the first users traditionally pay off R&D at a high price, and then you reduce and sell to everyone else once costs are recovered.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Definitely, a good video! We get to see features such as a 16-note sequencer.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Well my major complaint is that everyone goes "Why doesn't the Kindle have colour or a touchscreen?" when the answer is: "Because it's e-ink and it's really pleasant on the eye, and is black and white because that's what it is, and it's not
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by zandorg 17y ago
Someone call Rob Hubbard! Sounds like a Commodore 64 tune. But seriously, it's really cool, and I hope it sells well.
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by zandorg 17y ago
My old laptop isn't fast enough to play newer video formats, so I need DVDs.
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by zandorg 17y ago
So Amazon invents the Kindle, starts this thing off, and somehow it's okay for Apple to barge in with their monopolistic bullshit? I think Amazon knows a little bit more about books than Apple, so I predict Apple won't steal a dime from Ama

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