Comments by Paul M. Watson

haha, nice take on it. We have the “now they have two problems” quote in our Bugzilla quip list. Makes me laugh everytime.

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Thanks Rob, that is great news. Works well here on my MacBook.

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This is like a Mission Impossible movie. You never find out what is in the box, but that isn’t the point of the movie; just playing is the point.

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Testament to Boxee that I had no clue it was based on xbmc. I tried xbmc out once and thought it was solid but obviously a geeks solution to a geeks problem. On the other hand my non-tech girlfriend loves Boxee and everyone I’ve shown it to gets it. I think a lot of the xmbc votes were tips-of-the-hat from people who actually use Boxee

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Of course, if 90% of your listeners are on high-end gear…

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It is an awesome, awesome bit of software. I have invites too if anyone wants.

The collaborative, shareable playlists are a cool feature too.

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It is an awesome, awesome bit of software. I have invites too if anyone wants.

The collaborative, shareable playlists are a cool feature too.

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That is impressive footage. Thanks for hosting/posting it SmugMug.

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It isn't a fair comparison. A fairer, though still daft, comparison would be randomly choosing an email from your address book and emailing the same query.

Email didn't automatically match Joe to your query. You have all that knowledge from years of experience in your head.

As Drew says, Twitter and blog are broadcast mediums.

(I saw both your tweet and your blog post and have zero knowledge of insurance so had nothing to reply with. :) )

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RSS is not dead to me but it definitely needs a fresh take. I’ve never been more informed and less knowledgeable.

SvN could drop their RSS feed to walk the walk.

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Sounds like a misquote or mistalk by Ballmer. Many Microsoft products (Office, Visual Studio etc.) depend on the specific capabilities of the IE rendering engine. You couldn’t just drop WebKit in and fix a few interfaces.

Still, it would be interesting, but a big blow to Mozilla.

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There are so many “normal families” that are poor families. They have a mom and a dad, possibly even some aunts, uncles, grandparents and brothers and sisters. The parents have good jobs, a nice house, go on holiday once a year. Food on the table etc.

On paper it looks great, how could a kid want for more.

The kid could easily want for more. Those two, normal by-the-book parents probably spend no more than 20 minutes with their kid. They get home from work at 6pm, rush around preparing dinner, clean the house, yell at the kids and flop down with their TV dinner in front of the TV. If the kid wants some attention they have to throw a tantrum, before being put to bed at 8pm. Two very poor quality hours with mom and dad.

If you read Obama’s books you’ll see his mom and his grandma were busy but they took him with them wherever they went. His grandma didn’t go off to work and leave him in day care. He was exposed to the fullness of life, good and bad.

There are plenty of kids from unstable families who do very well because they find one inspiring person early on in their lives. A teacher at school, a community minder, someone at Church or someone from their extended family.

Sure, a mom and dad is ideal but it is more complex than just ticking “has mom and dad.” Mom and dad need to spend time with junior for it to make a difference.

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Nice idea. I call them noughts and crosses too (that is what they are, a bunch of noughts and a bunch of crosses.) Not sure where tic-tac-toe came in.

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Stephen, enjoy your visit to the country of Africa.

Seriously my good man, the place is big. Really big. Where in Africa? You name New Zealand, a country smaller than the aid money for most African countries. I come from South Africa, you may be going to Egypt for all I know.

Enjoy it all the same. Mind the lions.

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@Jordan: Windows VMs are never free. The VM software might be free but you have to own a Windows license for every VM instance (if you fire up two VMs and you have only bought one Windows license then you are pirating.) As far as I can tell Amazon EC2 factors the cost of the Windows license into your EC2 costs.

If that is the case then EC2 gives you a cheap and easy way of firing up Windows instances without having to buy licenses.

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