Posts by Michael P7 posts • joined Tuesday 13th November 2007 00:30 GMT
A "gentleman, in recliner, with pipe, and large book" icon. I call it... "Make yourselves comfortable kids, I'm about to tell you a story and we may be some time..."
I feel the need to warn people.
I was an early adopter on one of the second generation of RomeMP3 players which established the cassette form factor MP3 player genre.
For its day it was as compact - of not moreso - as MP3 players of the day, was easy to use, had pretty good sound quality, and allowed me to take MP3s on the road with ease.
Likewise the venerable Soda Stream was born in the day of glass bottled softdrinks when lugging that junk from market to home was a wrist snapping exercise that made summer agonizing and door-to-door softdrink sales profitable.
Judging these fellows out of context is like comparing the register to Popular Mechanics in the heyday of the transistor.
Admittedly the slightly bizarre resurrection of the cassette MP3 thing (albeit at 1/10th the price for several hundred times the capacity) brings it back into play, but as an idea whose time came, was reveled gloriously, then passed - not as some freak mutant device to be scorned by Gen X'ers who believe the digital world was spawned 5 years ago, fully formed and shining white, from Steve Jobs' prognostic backside
To heck with you all. To heck.
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MS yahoo, yahoos about "Yahoo!" brouhaha. Google moguls ogle ugly oligarch. Altavista ultra wistful, mists up over missed tricks.
World turns.
As a former Oracle DBA I have a lot of time for oracle database products. They really are quite good. Seriously. Before they nodded off and every man and his FOSS startup caught up, they were solid gold. Well gold plated maybe. Good gold plating, though.. Not gunna just rub off and make you look bad to your missus, THATS for sure!
This relentless borg'ing of other companies, and their habit over the past few years of "fusing" products to create unholy chimera - unnecessarily bloated and a tailor made dependency hell to administer, just speaks of a company that has forgotten its core market (perhaps because it has dominated that market into bloody stalemate), forgotten its secondary markets, and is now firmly seated on the express "growth" train out of town spawning "new" market opportunities as it goes - to grow, briefly flourish, hideously mutate, collapse into an oozing mass of genetic chaos, and be bought up as a curio by some specialist startup as a shell for their genius'ly simple, but marketspace starved, alternative.
Ahhh THERES the "."!
"I am coming to you... you will explode after a few minutes."
Ladies and.. well.. this is just for the ladies..
The Velvet Voice,
Mr Barry White
I find myself inclined to agree.
Millions of years of evolution (thousands of years of existing changelessly in God's image, for Ezekiel and Ezekiah in the back row) has lead us to identify, by secondary physical characteristics, women more likely to benefit the species because of their intelligence.
And, as a completely unexpected and unrelated bonus, they are more likely to deliver surviving young - being better equipped for fewer complications in childbirth.
Esteemed Doctor Emeritus, Sir Mix-a-lot was knighted for his research in this field, having identified several other possible survival characteristics but his research was limited to the back seat of his "Benz" and would do with confirmation outside such clean-room laboratory conditions.
