Posts by Robert E A Harvey

whot?

they had to spend half a billion dollars growing virtual vegetables?

Methinks someone is taking real milk from the virtual cow in advance of the IPO. Either that or each gratuitous greengage needs a server of its own.

Weird.

As I understand it

It's a underculture thing, 'sticking it to the man' rather than artistic appreciation.

And, to be fair, much of Hollybore's output is not significantly degraded by second rate re-photoraphy. They started it.

So, who gets fired?

Well, Gordon Brown did. Sort of. But he still has a job.

vertical resolution

I've been getting more and more annoyed by this toys-r-us vertical resolution obsession that has been filling the world. It's just cheap & nasty.

Yes

Why the blue blistering blazes would you want to listen to MP3s at a music festival?

The walkie talkie might be good if the batteries lasted 5 days, otherwise its clutter.

To find yer tent molish a unique flag and stick it on a long pole. Paint the tent with coloured waterproofer. One red tent in a field of beige ones is easy to find.

If you leave yer bits at home, they won't get nicked.

Wellies, some sleeping gear, condoms, and perhaps coffee (though people mostly buy that now) . There are 362 days a year to play with yer ipud.

forbidden by international treaty.

and that would stop who? and how?

peaked

>IMHO, MS Office peaked with 97/2003.

Somewhere between the two, yes.

@worstal

>Yes

well, more fool them, and whoever was backing them.

I do hope so.

should we picking on easy targets?

Yes. Like culling the runts, its for the good of the breed.

influence elections

That's a tricky one.

Everyone is entitled to do that, and the history of a free press is a history of taking political positions, often merely to sell some more.

But there is a separate problem with excessive dominance caused by an advantageous position, especially when that advantage is granted by the governments being influence. I don't deny that.

But it is separate to his right to sell, rather than give away, his content. It is not separate to my decision not to fund him.

He's still entitled not to have his charged product stolen. Two wrongs etc etc.

Nobody talks about sensor size in terms of height

Yet 35mm is not a diagonal.

Weird.

well,

I thought it was quite clever. It got the whole 'bad drives out good' thing going without saying 'betamax'.

And the idea that the critical ecosystem is not ten thousand fart apps but support from Disney and Sony music had not occured to me (I'm not a 'content' junkie)

Quite

>People buy an iPhone because its the iPhone

Chap I know has a perfectly good HTC android. He wants his telco to replace it with an iphone. I asked what Apps he'd tried on the HTC.

"it don't do apps. You need an iphone for that".

Don't forget we are 0.5% of the population. The rest are suckers who get advertised at.

Wrong?

It was called Expresso in the UK for most of the 50s & 60s, when we had coffee bars.

For some reason we reverted to the Italian spelling when it became popular again.

I'm told the french spell it with an X, but I am not fool enough to drink french coffee.