I have had my own intellectual property pirated(I have heard all the excuses and justifications). It’s tough to take, but, the solution being put through the US law process at the moment is wrong. It will mess with the Internet and damage freedom of expression. Big, powerful companies will exploit it to bully and get [...]
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Why should it be? Because we are surrounded right now by doomsayers. The demise of the Euro, global recession, austerity measures, no future for young people, the coming year will be the worst, etc etc. Let’s make a football analogy. If you send your team out saying they are going to lose and there is [...]
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A friend of mine has an iPhone 4S with Siri. He was talking to it the other night. “Wake me up at 7:30″ he told it. His wife, who was nearby in the bedroom said angrily- “Are you talking to her or are you talking to me??!”. .. Seems that Siri can become the “other woman”!
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It’s going to put us all through a decision. Apple are well under way with it for iOS and many other companies are adopting it. – Putting all our files on remote servers(the Cloud). Then we can synchronise different machines from it, our files are available everywhere, and when our computer fails, we don’t have [...]
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Not everybody handles anger well, and I was reflecting on Alex Ferguson’s success. It always strikes me that he often seems angry, and he is well known for his “hair dryer” dressing downs of players at half time. – Another expression of anger. Yet he is very successful. So he could be an example of [...]
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.. and yet people are moved, saddened by his passing. – Because he was so much more. Not just his involvement in great design at Apple, giving us delightful products. Not just because he was an inspiring presenter, a great salesman, who knew how to make you want a product. – He was key in [...]
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There are some songs that stand the test of time. Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd combines great lyrics with great music. The analogy with Michael Jackson and the trial of his doctor is striking and the lyrics contain references to giving a stressed out performer drugs to keep him relaxed and functioning to perform: ” [...]
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I lived in New Zealand. I even often used to see the All Blacks, they stayed where I stayed. I can tell you that the Rugby World Cup is vital to New Zealand. Not the event being there, it is vital that the All Blacks win it! They are the best in the world, they [...]
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I was at a bank the other day trying to do money transfer. They said it would take 2 days and sometimes up to 5 to get to the other account. I pointed out that there is a thing called the Internet now and maybe they should look in to using it! Imagine a web [...]
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When I was in New Zealand I met developers who were writing for the iPhone. Some produced good games, yet despite that were disappointed when the game did not succeed. The impression some had was that putting the game on the App Store was putting the game on the market. It isn’t, it’s more like [...]
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