We’re having some lovely weather.
2011-3-18
We’re having some lovely weather. Related posts: 9/100 How I Find Blogging Ideas iPhone. 4. 2011-5-24 2011-5-2
Month: March 2011
2011-3-17
We made fairy cakes with icing (for St Patricks Day). Washed down with greenish milk. Related posts: 10/100 Somebody Has to Say It 9/100 How I Find Blogging Ideas Man…it’s been a long time MMXINI? SXSW? #tweetni Lolwhut?
We made fairy cakes with icing (for St Patricks Day). Washed down with greenish milk.
Netflix not happy to disrupt media industry once. Pulls rabbit from hat.
NYTimes: Netflix Is Said to Be Close to Acquiring a Television Show Netflix may be on the verge of acquiring its first original television series, “House of Cards,” a drama to be directed by David Fincher. … Picking up the exclusive rights to a television show would effectively make Netflix a network similar to ABC … Continue reading “Netflix not happy to disrupt media industry once. Pulls rabbit from hat.”
NYTimes: Netflix Is Said to Be Close to Acquiring a Television Show
Netflix may be on the verge of acquiring its first original television series, “House of Cards,” a drama to be directed by David Fincher.
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Picking up the exclusive rights to a television show would effectively make Netflix a network similar to ABC or HBO and would underscore just how disruptive the company has become to the media business.
That makes Netflix a company to admire. And makes you wonder why there aren’t more ‘original programming” internet television stations out there. The cost of streaming would be part of it, obviously, but it makes me wonder if there’s a model for peer-to-peer television networks. That would be awesome.
2011-3-16
With the car in the garage (uh-oh) and a need to get to several meetings today, I decided to take the bike that I bought last summer (and used half a dozen times). It wasn’t as difficult as I thought and I didn’t get all sweaty. The sun was shining and the breeze was very … Continue reading “2011-3-16”
With the car in the garage (uh-oh) and a need to get to several meetings today, I decided to take the bike that I bought last summer (and used half a dozen times).
It wasn’t as difficult as I thought and I didn’t get all sweaty. The sun was shining and the breeze was very cooling.
And this is the route I took.
Note to self: Buy gloves. Brrr.
WiFi iPad gets GPS through iPhone Personal Hotspot
Link: CultofMac One of the drawbacks of the cheaper, WiFi-only iPad 2 is that it doesn’t have GPS — so it can’t run any of those beautiful fullscreen navigation apps. GPS is limited to the more expensive 3G iPad models. But if you own a GPS-enabled iPhone, you’re in luck. The WiFi-only iPad 2 inherits … Continue reading “WiFi iPad gets GPS through iPhone Personal Hotspot”
Link: CultofMac
One of the drawbacks of the cheaper, WiFi-only iPad 2 is that it doesn’t have GPS — so it can’t run any of those beautiful fullscreen navigation apps.
GPS is limited to the more expensive 3G iPad models. But if you own a GPS-enabled iPhone, you’re in luck. The WiFi-only iPad 2 inherits GPS functionality when it’s tethered to an iPhone.
This makes me happy.
2011-3-15
I was at the Northern Ireland Assembly Tweetup last night and bumped into a lot of interesting folk. But you can see them here and here and read about them here. I just want to point out the lovely books. And this is Ivor 🙂 Related posts: The Broadband Blueprint (re DETI Telecoms Consultation) Let … Continue reading “2011-3-15”
I was at the Northern Ireland Assembly Tweetup last night and bumped into a lot of interesting folk. But you can see them here and here and read about them here. I just want to point out the lovely books.
And this is Ivor 🙂
Identi.ca
As Twitter are being dicks at the moment, I’ve revived my account at identi.ca. http://identi.ca/cimota Related posts: Top 3 issues… Great design creates new data. People Pay More For Design iPad Adventures in TwitterLand
As Twitter are being dicks at the moment, I’ve revived my account at identi.ca.
2011-3-14
The face of public transport in Northern Ireland. Shameful, really. Related posts: Translink Annual Report – #freepublictransport Talking about public transport on the Twitters…. The Broadband Blueprint (re DETI Telecoms Consultation) Public Education was a challenge in the 19th Century. Public Transport is our challenge.
The face of public transport in Northern Ireland. Shameful, really.
2011-2-13
Apparently it fullscreens and works fine but this is obviously the way Flash content is meant to be enjoyed – in a frameless window overlapping the main content, displaced half a screen from where it should be. Performance increases when it goes full-screen (which is obviously poor when not full-screen). No examination on the effect … Continue reading “2011-2-13”
Apparently it fullscreens and works fine but this is obviously the way Flash content is meant to be enjoyed – in a frameless window overlapping the main content, displaced half a screen from where it should be. Performance increases when it goes full-screen (which is obviously poor when not full-screen).
No examination on the effect of battery life. Click-through the image to read the review and watch the video.
It disappoints me that the consumer-facing differentiator between Android and iOS is turning out to be “Runs Flash!”. That’s just wrong in so many ways. Please, manufacturers, don’t mortgage your future by getting into bed with Adobe.
2011-3-12
The topic of teamwork in games is something that fascinates me. And the incentives for teamwork as well. I wrote: No amount of coercion will make people work in a team – look at L4D as a PvP team-based game which can either deliver an incredibly fulfilling experience as a team meshes together (on one … Continue reading “2011-3-12”
The topic of teamwork in games is something that fascinates me. And the incentives for teamwork as well.
I wrote:
No amount of coercion will make people work in a team – look at L4D as a PvP team-based game which can either deliver an incredibly fulfilling experience as a team meshes together (on one or other sides; being ambushed well is just as good as winning sometimes) or an incredibly frustrating experience as the guy with 45% health heals himself really slowly while every other team member is being punded/pinned/constricted.
So, by all means reward team play but don’t think for a second that there won’t be bad players. And when all is said and done, maybe someone wants to play as the superhero lone killer? It’s not really BadWrongFun. Sometimes these loners save the day, sometimes they doom the team.
Now, TK trolls, that’s another matter entirely.
But the issue is that there remain too many rewards for solo play.
Someone else wrote:
CoD is the biggest culprit of this, the entire “Killstreak” chain kill system entices people to be individual, to try to rack up as many KILLS as possible even if those kills are not directly related to the goal. CoD, being a successful franchise from a monetary standpoint, has then been copied by other games to mimic that succes, and bring that “individual” mentality with it.
Left4Dead still represents the best team game I’ve seen so far.