Posts by SteveH
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Yeah, cos Windows 7 will show me websites with Flash in them, and I can tether my phone and.. and... I'm doing it with 5-6 year old technology. So no, you can't compare them.
If those things are critical for you, then you can jailbreak your iPad and do them. But there is nothing for a Windows 7 tablet that will give you a UI as great as iOS's.
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I think the people who thought the iPad would replace a laptop are the ones who are most disappointed. It's not great for content creation. But it shines for the stuff that a laptop isn't portable enough for (any time you're not sitting a desk, basically) and that benefits from a larger screen than a phone's. It's much better than a laptop in bed or even on the couch. Browsing the web and reading are much better than on a phone. I can upload photos to it in the field to check them out on a reasonable size screen. It's perfect for maps.
I am disappointed with the speed of searching in pdfs. ePub books search nearly instantly - I can't see why pdfs are so much slower. It's slightly irritating that it won't charge from a PCs USB port. I also miss the mute switch that the iPhone has. It is heavier than it ideally should be (though the battery life is good).
The data plan prices make me quite angry. I really wish someone would force Vodafone and Telecom to justify their mobile data prices, particularly their roaming charges.
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I think that's one way to go; restricting the news to people who pay won't work, because you can get the news elsewhere. Giving subscribers additional content if they subscribe (Raw interview footage, epub versions of the articles or sections you are interested in, et al) works, I think
I agree. I doubt I'd ever subscribe to stuff.co.nz or nzherald.co.nz in their present form. But if subscribers got (e.g.) decent resolution photos with the articles instead of the postage stamp-size images they currently serve up I might be tempted.
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Wearing my web analytics hat, most web analytics systems only track a user once per page (as close to the start of the page load as possible), and time-on-page is the difference between the load time of one page, and the load time of the next.
I read online papers like this: I go to the main page and middle-click all the stories of interest to open them in new tabs and then read them one by one closing each one as I go. It sounds like the analytics systems are going to think that I'm an extremely fast reader with very little time on the site. Has anyone done any research as to how accurate the time on site statistics are? It sounds like they may be so inaccurate as to be basically worthless.
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That link might need a warning. That's a dead prem baby elephant. Or a fake.
At birth baby elephants stand about three feet tall and weight 30 - 50kg.
More like 100kg. Here's an actual birth and it's not gentle:
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<quote > "Banks is a
cunt. I'm not Banks.</quote >
Worked for Hubbard.Vote for the dick, not the cunt.
Cue the "dicks, assholes, and pussies" monologue from Team America.
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I thought the problem was that it was a better pioneer than the natives and once established it didn't let the native second growth establish.
Young gorse doesn't work so well but as it ages it lets enough light in to provide an ideal environment for nurturing natives. The seedlings eventually out grow the gorse which is adverse to being in shadow and dies. The technique is being successfully used on Banks Peninsula.
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Of all the issues the HoS could have covered with respect to Banks, it went for a one-inch discrepancy in his reported height. You have to despair sometimes.
I do despair that they are not covering more but I also think that that story is quite revealing of Banks' character. I mean, if he can't be honest about his own height and age and is so evasive about it when caught out, how can we expect him to act when he screws up in his job?
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I must say that aside from the silly puritan angle with the porn I find all these scandals - the Taito Philip Fields grouting saga, the Bollinger, the rented films, the minibar - immensely endearing. ... I also approve of the taking of exception. Again, not necessarily of the tone of the coverage, but that people should be bothered - yeah, I think it's very healthy.
Yes. On the one hand it does seem like a bit of a storm in a teacup. On the other hand perhaps this sort of thing is the reason why NZ is perceived to be the least corrupt country in the world. I think I'd rather err on the side of overreacting to minor breaches of the rules rather than just letting it slide and hoping it doesn't escalate.
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Apologies for my cousin. Somewhat wedded to the notion that people have a right to do stupid things that will kill them.
Nothing wrong with that. What I'm not so keen on is anyone actively encouraging people to do stupid things that will kill them.