Well in our case that's why we go for locallity in our content.
In a one-newspaper town it's not hard to have a fresh angle on events.
But blogs don't have to be news.
It's just a content management system that works passing well for recurring visitors.
In Australia the mainstream news is already responding to web-news outlets by running stories they would have kept quiet about in years gone by to protect their cosy relationships.
In more competitive markets that might be less pronounced. bu it is a *Good Thing* here.
Just to add to this. Some friends and I run a news and views blog. We get about 400 uniques a day in a city of 300,000.
Looking closely in the access logs The local newspaper and news radio are among are biggest readers. Closely followed by the local Legislative Assembly.
The wild-eyed techno utopians are almost always wrong, but don't think blogs aren't changing the world.
We're not doing anything particularly new, but the barrier to entry before would have stopped us doing it at all.
sure, they're plundering the podosphere for content.
i assume the figure the global pool of podcast "talent" is greater than the local pool of amateur radio enthusiasts.
The one trouble I see for them is that most of the really good podcasts are chock full of profanity, crudity, drug references (hell you can hear our producer toking down in the background on ours), and talk about sex.
Maybe there's a journalist out there so dilligent. And maybe mossberg is that guy.
But most of this stuff gets cribbed from the media release, is an unattributed quote from a friend who's an expert, what they heard in the pub, and a couple of days using the OS on the free hardware they scammed apple into sending.
real work would interfere from real journalism (see earlier reference to pub).
My father's just changed jobs and the office supplied IT systems have been moved out of his study, so he's starting from scratch with home IT.
Mac Mini didn't rate consideration.
a 17" iMac however is going to fit the bill very nicely indeed.
If I wanted another desktop for myself I'd snaffle the mini up in a moment because I, like all other "Switchers" already have the extra gear needed.
In my office we long ago stopped buying machines with keyboard, monitors and mice.
This let us buy more powerfull machines on the same budget, it also let us have much better quality monitors and mice than the lowest cost garbage which comes with most "package deals".
yes but most of us get our phones in a contract which includes connection fees.
so $50/month (or whatever depending where you are) is a whole different kettle of fish compared to banging $500 of cold hard cash on the table for a bundle of unconnected gadgets.
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Yes me and everyone who did thoroughly enjoy Lord Of The Rings are certainly the odd ones out.
Meaning they carried on just like any other invading army of that time, or most other times for that matter.
Eastern Roman Empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire with it's seat in Constantinople, nee Byzantium, now known as Istanbul.
Stayed in business until the muslim Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453.
Most people who carry on about the crusades are astonishingly ignorant of the history.
Just because you were nine doesn't mean your "feeling tricked" wasn't pathetic.
It is amazing you think anyone is interested in your feelings about a book that is not the subject of this story.
the skid marks an ABS car leaves would support your 50% engaged hypotheses.
yeah like putting Power into the XBox2 hasn't already done that?
They already control the distribution of the games.
encouraging more people to develop games right up to the point they have to be approved for distribution is entirely in their interest.
Well in our case that's why we go for locallity in our content.
In a one-newspaper town it's not hard to have a fresh angle on events.
But blogs don't have to be news.
It's just a content management system that works passing well for recurring visitors.
In Australia the mainstream news is already responding to web-news outlets by running stories they would have kept quiet about in years gone by to protect their cosy relationships.
In more competitive markets that might be less pronounced. bu it is a *Good Thing* here.
Well I can run Knoppix fine on 512.
People doing media editting would have a different view of course.
And I'm not talking about financial insitutions backend machines either.
But those extreme uses aren't going to be happy with a one-size-fits-all OS solution anyway.
Just to add to this. Some friends and I run a news and views blog. We get about 400 uniques a day in a city of 300,000.
Looking closely in the access logs The local newspaper and news radio are among are biggest readers. Closely followed by the local Legislative Assembly.
The wild-eyed techno utopians are almost always wrong, but don't think blogs aren't changing the world.
We're not doing anything particularly new, but the barrier to entry before would have stopped us doing it at all.
sure, they're plundering the podosphere for content.
i assume the figure the global pool of podcast "talent" is greater than the local pool of amateur radio enthusiasts.
The one trouble I see for them is that most of the really good podcasts are chock full of profanity, crudity, drug references (hell you can hear our producer toking down in the background on ours), and talk about sex.
Not so great for broadcast.
streams suck for concurrency, the internet is designed to move static content.
You get 200 listeners to a stream and the bandwidth starts to get expensive.
200 listeners to a weekly podcast and no-one notices.
tie it in with blogtorrent and you're scaling pretty well.
and if people like it then that's great, personally i don't read any corporate blogs,
see? now I have choice!
Hoorah!
go to podcast.net, you can already stream all the podcasts in the world if that's your thing.
but if your rss reader is downloading your new content to your ipod overnight it's really not that much hassle.
24/7 streaming content is hard to do and loops are pointless.
we do 1 hour a week, have a blast recording, and people who listen and like it can go back and get the earlier shows.
Now these guys are looking to plunder the free content, but that's OK.
Except you can timeshift the quality stuff and ignore the rest.
Also if you find something you like you can go back and download their earlier 'casts.
It's got a lot more potential than community radio over time.
10GB???
Just about everything anyone on a sane OS wants to do should fit under 1GB.
I think you're immensely trusting.
Maybe there's a journalist out there so dilligent. And maybe mossberg is that guy.
But most of this stuff gets cribbed from the media release, is an unattributed quote from a friend who's an expert, what they heard in the pub, and a couple of days using the OS on the free hardware they scammed apple into sending.
real work would interfere from real journalism (see earlier reference to pub).
all pdf searches are, at some level, extracting the text and then indexing that.
in a real pinch pdftotext -raw can be extremely powerfull if you script it right. (comes in xpdf)
you're right,
But I think it's a case of horses for courses.
My father's just changed jobs and the office supplied IT systems have been moved out of his study, so he's starting from scratch with home IT.
Mac Mini didn't rate consideration.
a 17" iMac however is going to fit the bill very nicely indeed.
If I wanted another desktop for myself I'd snaffle the mini up in a moment because I, like all other "Switchers" already have the extra gear needed.
In my office we long ago stopped buying machines with keyboard, monitors and mice.
This let us buy more powerfull machines on the same budget, it also let us have much better quality monitors and mice than the lowest cost garbage which comes with most "package deals".
reasonably priced on ebay.
http://search.ebay.com/6310i_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8
They were (and are) wildly popular in the business community here in Australia.
They seem to make a statement "I know my tech but don't give a stuff about frivolities" which a certain type of person likes to send.
I met a girl at a party a few weeks back and when we saw each other's phones (the same) it was like lust at first site.
it only lasted the night but there you go. anyone want to claim a gentoo install's ever done that for them?
dock it for the drive in to work and back, plug it in overnight.
My current phone goes a week without charge which means I forget more often than i did with the old phone which I plugged in every night.
Generally i agree though, longer battery is better.
Being able to go up to Sydney for a hoolihan of a long weekend without having to worry about charging the phone in my drunken stupor is a plus.
But as long the they use the standard charger i imagine I could borrow a charge.
I drop my cellphone all the time. When I get mad, I throw it against a wall.
I suggest you get counselling for that.
It really isn't normal.
If kellogs started shipping their own branded mp3 player in every box of cereal they'd be the biggest seller in a year.
people buy a lot more phones than they do ipods.
yes but most of us get our phones in a contract which includes connection fees.
so $50/month (or whatever depending where you are) is a whole different kettle of fish compared to banging $500 of cold hard cash on the table for a bundle of unconnected gadgets.