Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Don Christie,
Russell, you describe Apple critics as “hordes of haters”. I’m simply returning the favour.
I was referring to some of the commenters under Chris's column. I don't think it's an inaccurate description.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Peter Griffin,
until recently Popular Mechanic via Zinio
I'm not such a fan of Zinio, on the basis of my experience with a subscription to Harper's. The pages were just flat PDFs and it took a lot of zooming and fiddling around to make the type readable. Couldn't complain about the price, though.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Don Christie,
Speaking from the “hordes of haters” to the “arse licky lovers” – do you not think that the hoops and loops Apple put their users are just a tiny bit ridiculous? I am stunned at how you consider these normal.
Oh, behave. I'm not being an "arse-licky lover", I just think the claims are demonstrably wrong. And Apple's devices and the services attached to them do generally just work.
And then of course, there is this form of “evil”.
Everyone's fighting the patent wars, though.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Gareth Ward,
I assume this guy has refused to update iOS because of Apple’s new terms (fair enough) and therefore has gotten to a point where app upgrades mean the app fails because it won’t run on an out-of-date version of the OS.
Ah. I was puzzled too, but I suspect you're right.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Danielle,
It may be measured, but it doesn’t really pass the logic test. At all.
Fair enough. But rather than spazzing out about evil bloggers, in the time-honoured MSM style, he turned up and put his case.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Giovanni’s blog on the Metro article on Auckland schools and league tables etc is attracting an interesting discussion including comments from Metro editor.
Agree with him or not, I think Simon has given a good, measured account of himself there. I'm glad it hasn't turned nasty.
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Jose has posted the Media7 Greatest Hits reel. See: there is a place for humour in this show!
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Certainly not “fiscal restraint”, if the taxpayer funding of The GC and NZ’s Got Talent are anything to go by.
But that's how the system works. The key factor is the willingness of a broadcaster to screen the programme.
Those people who insist NZ On Air (budget freeze notwithstanding) can simply do the job of a public service broadcaster and also complain about The GC drive me nuts.
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
I was on a bus, the building across the road was lit up by afternoon sun and reflected in the bus window. All planned, of course … ;)
That's really nice. It has dream logic.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Sacha,
Martyn Bradbury makes some observations after the round of Save TVNZ7 meetings he helped conduct around the country.
At the risk of being the subject of another Bomber fatwa, does that guy ever check a fact?
Previous Labour Party policy:Labour rarely built public broadcasting capacity (Radio NZ’s funding freeze was frozen before National turned up) and when they did, with TV6 & 7, they trusted a TVNZ who could barely disguise their contempt for public broadcasting better than with Rick Ellis’s answer when challenged on the lack of Maori on TVNZ with CrimeWatch as his example. The other mistake was Kiwi FM. It was set up by Jenny Shipley as the Radio Youth Network, and for reasons Labour have yet to explain, they handed the 3 frequencies over to Mediaworks. This largesse was continued by National who have rolled this deal over with Mediaworks again last week.
1. Labour never froze Radio NZ’s budget. It increased funding for Radio NZ markedly at first opportunity, and raised it by $2.4 million in its final Budget. This was arguably not enough (the 2007 KPMG report made it clear RNZ wasn’t funded properly to meet its obligations) but saying that the budget freeze started with Labour is just just … wrong.
2. Kiwi FM was not “set up by Jenny Shipley as the Radio Youth Network”. The Youth Radio Network never existed. Kiwi FM was launched by Helen Clark in 2005.
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