Posts by 81stcolumn
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Oh bother, that didn’t go at all well never mind envory the not quit one hit wonder played to death on Sunday nights in a nightclub best forgotten.
As for me I wouldn’t part with the Snake for anything I don’t know about growing old as a goth but it certainly never leaves me.
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I suppose you'd argue that legal = legitimate, but if I wanted to watch legal and fresh episodes of Game of Thrones, as far as I know, the *only* way is to pay Sky about $1000 a year. Screw that.
That can't be the free market price can it ? That would only work if there was a monopoly or near monopoly...oh dear...
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So perhaps wee need to apply some Copyright Math to the problem. After all whats $25 against savings of $150,000?
Incidentally, I pay Quickflix $10/month not because I watch what they've got on offer so far but because I badly want someone to succeed in this market so I treat this as seed funding of the smallest order.
After initial reservations about content my family is now enjoying Quickflix. I should point out that we have been waiting for relatively ad free stuff on demand for close to eight years. Amazingly, this service works on one of the crappiest connections in Auckland. As a TV and Sky free home, for us the current cost of DVD's is quite high. Certainly sufficient to support a premium on-demand service; if it is the right one. I'm assuming we can't be the only ones?
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Hard News: The Very Worst, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ugh. That is worrying.
Would it be more or less worrying if I said that the funded area is small and most of the interference seems to be related to image management?
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I should also point out that it is far easier to get the evidence you want from external consultants.
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they were told/forced to find research to back the Minister's perspective
I have watched a colleague spend weeks revising a research report because it wasn't what the minister would want to see. I am increasingly worried about this, as in my sphere of operations we haven't seen anything like this before.
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I found this article about the fate and fortunes of Apple and engineers in America most interesting. My biased interpretation is that when manufacturing goes offshore the market for engineers diminishes, and later when we need them to re-start or re-establish manufacturing there aren't enough of them for the venture to be competitive. I'm tempted to suggest that similar market forces do not apply to Lawyers or Accountants.
AFAIG. I have yet to read an effective defence of patent litigation as a productive device for any industry anywhere.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz,
Steve with all due respect I beg to disagree.........
"....you're the one the most experience if you don't lead this subject team it will cease to exist....."
No pay rise and said "manager" may shortly be in charge of a national development centre as well.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to izogi,
Imagine the possibility of PhD qualified graduates with publications working on hourly rates and being asked submit PBRF portfolios. It just might come true.........
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It also acknowledges that in many cases there are few people with the specialist skills whereas there are many people with the managerial skills.
Which always makes me chuckle; Universities have a horrible habit of creating experts and then turning them into managers.
