Posts by Russell Brown
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Which is not to say I won't be watching the game tonight...
Of course.
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Who is Deborah?
I am Deborah!
</obscure Spartacus reference>
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Is paid content where the author has been paid to write it or where the consumer pays to read it?
And wot is "consumer generated media"?
Good question. My instructions in this regard are as follows:
"when we talk about paid content we are referring to, for example, professionally produced tv shows, industry developed games, employed journalists' news articles, recorded news bulletins etc; and user generated content e.g. home-made movies, freeware games, blogs, citizen reporting etc."
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RB: Shouldn't it be "Consumer Generated Media are the Foot Soldiers"? How can you take seriously a proposition that isn't even grammatical?
I'm totally using that.
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That's all well established academic knowledge by now, but it's more subtle than saying a game makes a person act a certain way. It's not actually about the game anyway but the "blokey" norms around it. I get a sense you might first need more background understanding about how people, cultures and behaviours relate. Anyway, perhaps others can chip in.
I agree with Yamis, actually. You're making a characterisation that may well apply in many cases, but I don't think it's endemic or inseparable from the culture. It might be "well established academic knowledge", but it's also a generalisation based on what you've read.
My friend Tracey Nelson (a bug scientist by day) moves easily in rugby culture -- coaching kids, devising her own statistical analysis, radio commentary, putting the hard questions at AB press conferences -- because she knows more about the game than most of the men she meets. Also, no one would mess with Tracey anyway ...
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Hey, if Facebook can be valued at $15 billion …
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More McShane: batshit insane.
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It's translated from Italian, but the chart speaks for itself. It shows the total two-year cost of an 8GB iPhone on the lowest plan in all the launch markets.
Lowest-plan data caps range from - cough - 5MB with Telstra in Australia to unlimited in a couple of places.
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A pox on iTunes. A pox I say! ;)
Well, if it helps, I still think the iTunes Music Store is sucky.
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But what if you need, say, 40+ Gb, and won't touch a "Classic" because of it's serious flaws? Are there any other reasonable options?
I have an 80GB Classic and have never had a problem with it. I think the early problems with the 6th gen iPods (mostly with the 160GB) were sorted out with software updates. At $328 for a thin, palm-sized hard drive with a large-ish colour screen that plays and syncs music and video (including video out to TV) it really seems pretty good.
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