In order to win the soccer World Cup Germany has probably to win against:
Argentinia
Italy
Brazil
If they should be able to do so with real games and not as a matter of luck then they actually deserve it.
Month: June 2006
Looking for a specific file that I had modified today.
This did the trick in the terminal:
mdfind -onlyin ~/ 'kMDItemFSContentChangeDate > $time.today'
Spotlight is great, just that it’s standard interface is lame. Pretty much unusuable.
But there is always the terminal …
Boeings system to have internet on planes is maybe on the market
I used when on a plane with Lufthansa. It might be a marketing issue: Most people in the US do not know about this system. If Boeing would have given it away to one national US carrier for a discount, then the others would have needed to follow suit.
google gives away free videos!
well, actually it scheds some intense light on the actual problem of Google video:
Why would you want to spend between one and five US dollars for this?
Essentially there are two broad uses for the internet:
You look for something specific for whatever reason.
You click around for entertainment.
The later mode could be compared to ‘channel flipping’ on a TV. The first one is search. And there there is everything in between. Google video satisfies neither. Video is mostly of the second kind, and youTube caters to this market way better as Google ever did or will do. They went into the video market from the corporate aspect, and they lost. They can afford to loose. But they certainly don’t have the web-midas touch. Actually most things they tried are kind of lame. If you consider that they get heaps of free PR for anything that they start, then it is kind of lame that gmail and google news are the only ones that are in wider use.
Today GOOG trades around 400 US$ which makes it worth 122 Billion US$.
Which would mean that the company is worth as much as the nominal Gross Domestic Product of either Israel, Colombia or the Tchech Republic. if I understand this Wikipedia list right.
That’s right: countries with millions of people, all they make in a year worth as much as company in Mountain View employing a couple thousand people.
I think we should rename the stock symbol to GOOF.
If Dell would read BlogsNow they could have saved millions in PR by reacting quickly to this brewing PR debacle
Aparently there are people that spend 20 US$ a day on TV.
coding, tetris, nicotine and lots of other things:
no new features, but a new price: 500 US$ for shake
Apple should put old stuff into the public domain. That would help build trust.
Apple is lately a bit distracted: If you pay 150 US$ more to get a Macbook in black you still get a white power supply.
That would be normal way for Dell and all the others. But Apple is about the details. Having a white power supply feeding your 150US$ more black laptop might be acceptible in emergencies, but selling it like this is very lame.
What happened? Did they present to Steve Jobs running on a battery at all times? This is the kind of thing that he is famous for: Attention to detail. I wonder how this could escape him. What is he doing?
As with any good ‘Meme’ the videos from the 80s site triggered a couple of follow ups. Like this top 100 list. Even though the content comes from youTube is the horrible flash format they actually reference the sources for most of the videos.
Now if I were a postproduction house I would try to get all those DVDs and put the decent content on a server for the clients to enjoy. A collection of 500 amazing Music videos from all times in great quality might be a great way for the agency to spend some time with while they are waiting on those renders and lay offs.
look, there is a head floating Zardoz like over the uncanny valley
Interesting, and I think pretty smart, move on Warners behalf to put a little “Making of” out there.
Something tells me that Warner will not give Panavision the same nice vendor treatment that R&H enjoyed here on this show.