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The Audiresys Blog: Microsoft rumours of own demise not greatly exaggerated
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Thursday, July 18, 2013. Microsoft rumours of own demise not greatly exaggerated. Market, and suffered a high-profile failure, despite years of heavy spending, to produce a server for streaming television on-demand, it was clear to all that Microsoft didn’t suffocate only those whom it couldn’t be bothered to crush. And Windows was both evil and eternal, like the Soviet Union. Then there was a bit of the-rest-is-history. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. It ultimately did and was a key component in the iPho...
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The Audiresys Blog: December 2012
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Sunday, December 23, 2012. A British company is actually shipping a $35 computer. Http:/ www.raspberrypi.org. It says it wants children all over the world to learn programming. I’m not sure that this device will make it happen. Aside from its capabilities (512MB of RAM? It’s both too expensive (when the cost of a screen is added) for the truly poor people in the Third World (24 of the world’s 191 countries have GDP per capita of less than $1k/year), and too cheap for everyone else. Ah, that would be much...
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The Audiresys Blog: Living by one’s wits
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Sunday, July 21, 2013. Living by one’s wits. Conventional wisdom often can’t keep up with reality. The U.S. may have lost much of its manufacturing base but still exports a lot of high-tech manufactured goods ( aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, electrical machinery, etc.). Right? Not as much as it used to and, relative to its population, less than practically all other major industrialised countries. Here are such exports per capita (click to enlarge):. The US. topped out...
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The Audiresys Blog: Not every good idea is a good idea
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Saturday, July 27, 2013. Not every good idea is a good idea. Disbelief has to forcibly choked, not merely suspended, to avoid the conclusion that whatever it is,. It would be far more expensive than the conventional high-speed line now being planned between these very cities as a result of a matching-funds deadly embrace between the effectively bankrupt state of California and the rescission-bound federal government. No-one claims that that. Yet this as-yet undeclared idea is spam du jour. 30 years in in...
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The Audiresys Blog: Leaving Las Vegas
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Thursday, July 25, 2013. Television — with which the average person (of course not you or I) supposedly spends hours per day — is changing much faster than befits such a dominant, time-tested institution. As media use becomes individualised, the little fish plus the Web plus streaming services are ganging up on the big fish. The latest trend is for big terrestrial networks to threaten to switch to pay-TV distribution only. Would ITV leave the public spectrum? What would happen to it? So ITV won’t l...
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The Audiresys Blog: No news is better than good news
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Monday, July 22, 2013. No news is better than good news. The main reason for the big three’s decline over time seems to be thei. The TNS report, in Russian, is at http:/ tnsglobal.ru/media/content/B7525726-B5E1-4C12-BE25-4C543F42F3EE/TV%20in%20Russia.pdf. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 30 years in informatics and 26 years (and counting) applying them to audience research and measurement. But I still think it’s gauche to call yourself an engineer unless you do hardware. View my complete profile.
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The Audiresys Blog: Employment of miners’ canaries as a share of the workforce
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Thursday, July 18, 2013. Employment of miners’ canaries as a share of the workforce. When I started to learn programming 30 years ago, almost all the packaged software in the world was U.S.-made. There were a few examples of “Euroware” such as 4D, à la fois. Who make almost all our consumer goods (a) want ever more money for their products as their standard of living rises, and (b) are. Less amused by the increasingly funny money we must use to pay much of the bill. I would be surprised if this werenR...
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The Audiresys Blog: Postsoviet psychographics
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur Gennady Balashov proposed a classification of contemporary Russians and Ukrainians. It draws a curious parallel to VALS. In the U.S. In Russian on Snob.ru. Abbreviated synopsis with my comments in italics. Of course, Innovators and Thinkers are very prominent in Russia and Ukraine—they are the intelligentsia and a chunk of the rest. Balashov is one of them. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Employment of miners...
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The Audiresys Blog: July 2013
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Saturday, July 27, 2013. Not every good idea is a good idea. Disbelief has to forcibly choked, not merely suspended, to avoid the conclusion that whatever it is,. It would be far more expensive than the conventional high-speed line now being planned between these very cities as a result of a matching-funds deadly embrace between the effectively bankrupt state of California and the rescission-bound federal government. No-one claims that that. Yet this as-yet undeclared idea is spam du jour. In Spain’...
