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Re: Scared

Patrick — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:11:17 -0000

"Also, socialism." Hee! Nice one. -PK

Re: Om Asatoma Sadgamaya (ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय)

Seekerom — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:29:20 -0000

hi! do you know how to write in sanskrit – “naham karta, prabhudip karta”? if yes, email me please on seekerom@gmail.com

Re: FAIL stamp

Troy Pesola — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:04:09 -0000

I love the stamp and could use it ... a lot.

The image seemed to fit perfectly on my post about New Years Resolutions.
Do Not Set New Year's Resolutions

Thank you.

Re: Ignorance of the commons

Keith G — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:19:14 -0000

This is such great commentary. Love the way you put it.

Re: FAIL stamp

Beerbelott — Sat, 21 May 2011 17:58:47 -0000

Used here: http://www.rue89.com/mon-oe...

Re: Ignorance of the commons

Mark Halvorson — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:45:36 -0000

Agreed Hans! Here is a great article that I think analyzes the members of the Tea Party (among others). You've probably already read it, but it's quite interesting, because after you read it you realize you are talking to a group of people with their fingers in their ears going "la la la la la la."

In all groups there are reasonable people, drowned out by the extremists.

http://m.motherjones.com/po...

Re: Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Arimathea — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:19:34 -0000

I have been riding a commuter line in Los Angeles for over 20 years. Several drivers have commented that one of the most appreciated things is a letter from a passenger to their manager, telling the manager what the passenger likes about the driver's performance. People are quick to complain; they're not so quick to write a letter of thanks. That costs almost nothing except time and can go in a driver's permanent file to document his or her good work. And I have never seen a rule against praise of professional conduct in any contract.

Of course, that hasn't stopped the drivers from accepting cards or cookies as well...

Re: Road unrage

Matt the Engineer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:37:23 -0000

Lessons for crossing the street in large Asian cities:

1. Never make eye contact. If a driver sees that you see him, he'll try to run you over (not really, but since he sees you see him he knows you'll back out of the way from fear of death). Just cross the street looking straight ahead. Peripheral vision is your friend.

2. Cross in flocks. Find other people about to cross and join their group. It's easier to be seen by cars, and it's hard for them to make eye contact with all of you.

3. There is a vehicle caste system. Cows are on top (in India, at least). Trucks beat cars. Cars beat tuk-tuks. Tuk-tuks beat motorcycles. Motorcycles beat bicycles. Everyone trumps pedestrians.

Re: Dreyfus’s learning ladder

Hans Gerwitz — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:20:51 -0000

Since I wrote this, a similar Japanese model has been gaining prominence: Shu Ha Ri. I feel silly for not thinking of this analogue, since it's sometimes used in Go training.

Re: Ice-nine

Hans Gerwitz — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:56:42 -0000

I finally got to watching that interview (I prefer reading and generally procrastinate anything that requires watching). I admire Jon's position but think he's accurate in his self-assessment as idealistic and, as a result, impotent.

I think I agree with you that we will benefit from disruptive bubbles like the Tea Party drawing some energy away from the red-vs-blue dichotomy, but I don't think we can do anything to dissolve the bubbles themselves in this age of filters.

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Re: Ice-nine

Mark Halvorson — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:00:55 -0000

Also, just like the existence of Windows Phone 7 disrupts the binary iPhone vs. Android, black & white, "us vs. them" dynamic in the smartphone sector, hopefully the Tea Party will help disrupt the red vs. blue dynamic that dominates all political conversation. It can only be a good thing. Every little bit helps.

Bubbles, and the people who live in them, need to be burst and disrupted at every opportunity.

Make sure you DO NOT MISS Rachel Maddow's interview with Jon Stewart (the uncut version) at maddowblog.msnbc.com. Jon talks virtually the entire time and he discusses the bubbles and how his Rally To Restore Sanity was his widely misunderstood attempt to work outside the bubbles, but because people operate in bubbles it was hard for them to see it. Amazing.

Gee, I hope I'm not the only person who has read Hans' blog post!

Re: Ice-nine

Mark Hernandez — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:21:00 -0000

One thing that might be helpful is if the news media would challenge the Tea Party more and force them to back up their "anger" with reason, organization and direction. But they never seem to go that far.

When you hear the news media talk about the Tea Party, especially on the network news, they don't ask them questions like "how do you ACTUALLY plan on bringing about change and make things better?"

If there is no practicality, then the movement is a worthless distraction.

Change rarely happens through loosely coupled networks, but does when there is organization that contains clear objectives, a clear path to accomplish those objectives and the leadership to keep the eye on the prize. That's basic change 101.

So far, it's just a bunch of people shouting, with other politicians who pay lip service to something that has no real value or meaning.

It's okay to be "upset" but how does being upset benefit anyone?

The real problem boils down to "information" and the misuse of it, and the gaming of the existing systems to keep things confusing. We need to clean up that problem first, it seems to me.

So I think that there is little you could have done about it, and little we need to do about it since it's not a real threat, just a distraction. But it was cool that you were there!

Re: Piggers are number one

Hans Gerwitz — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:39:00 -0000

My own brother, lost to the bowels of popular culture. I knew B-school was going to corrupt you. Stay strong!

Re: Piggers are number one

Kurt — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:13:00 -0000

who dat. black and gold piggers matter. they do.

Re: Which came first, the word or the quale?

MTBradley — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:36:00 -0000

Silverstein is a tough read for all of us. :–)

Re: Which came first, the word or the quale?

Hans Gerwitz — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:50:00 -0000

Thanks, great pointers. Everett seems at a glance to see language as an expression of culture-borne conceptual structures. Silverstein is a tough read for armchair anthropologists like myself, but I'll be reading both.

From the history angle, I've recently (re)discovered Sapir's Speech as a Personality Trait, the themes of which I believe should be used as a "why you must care" introduction to early grammar studies.

Re: Which came first, the word or the quale?

MTBradley — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:39:00 -0000

You might be interested in Michael Silverstein’s “Languages/cultures are dead!” as well as Daniel Everett’s “Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahã.”

Re: Pointing at the TV

Hans Gerwitz — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:33:00 -0000

> Apple did buy Siri for their voice controlled AI.

Great point…but they also had to add buttons back to the Shuffle.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Hans Gerwitz — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:43:00 -0000

No surprise: they stuck with the well-known D-pad focus model and introduced streaming-from-iOS for rich experiences. It looks like the implementation is in line with an internal prediction at my studio: a new feature to the existing full-screen video display.

I still hope for a "display to external" API in iOS for second-screen use. The current crop of device hardware might be underpowered for this, though; note the AirPlay demo did not render video on the device screen while streaming.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Josh Schoenwald — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:58:00 -0000

As stated earlier I think the control will be direct—on the iOS device itself through a local wi-fi connection between the iOS device and iTV. In the box will be a remote of some sort, probably something traditional which offers indirect manipulation if you don't have an iPad or iPhone or iPod Touch.

iOS devices are ubiquitous enough that I can see Apple using one for a "magical" experience, but not requiring you to have one.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:35:00 -0000

The "Apple TV as iOS accessory" idea appeals to me quite a lot. Not just because a touchscreen is the best interface for navigating huge amounts of content from the sofa (where a keyboard and mouse just don't work well), but because it then makes it easier to integrate other devices. So with a slingbox-style infra-red LED in front of your satellite TV/cable box/DVD player, the iOS device could act as a controller for them fairly easily as well.

It seems more feasible than the idea of all your video outputs being funnelled through a single set-top box, anyway.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Guymcl — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:30:00 -0000

I'm thinking Phil, John, foz & Josh have hit it. The iTV could be an accessory with an associated app to run on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Basically, that would make the TV into a giant repeater for the iOS device display -- one that is no doubt smart enough to stream a higher resolution video to the TV screen than the one displayed on the iOS device, if necessary. That would do everything the Apple TV does and then some... and better. The iOS device is doing all the work. That would explain the low price point, too.

Kudos, gentlemen. This may not be THE solution we see tomorrow, but it is clever enough to be worthy of Apple.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Bryan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:30:00 -0000

I really like the idea of selling the device as an iPhone accessory for $99. It may not be the best example, but the Zune HD AV dock goes for $89.99, and all it gives you is video out to your TV. Compared to that, an "iTV" for $99 or even $199 seems like a good deal if it has app functionality.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Hans Gerwitz — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:09:00 -0000

I agree, and actually mentioned streaming video from iOS mobiles. But that is, as you say, output. While it's fair to call that control, I wouldn't refer to it as interaction.

Re: Pointing at the TV

Derek Martin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0000

You are thinking about this the wrong way. There will be no "indirect manipulation".
Think of it like "TV-output over Wi-Fi".
You manipulate it on your iPod Touch or iPhone or iRemote, BUT just like with a "normal" remote control, the remote doesn't change -- the TV screen does.
Of course, it won't involve beaming/sending the display to the TV.
Apps will simply tell the iTV what data to start displaying, and the TV will be responsible for displaying it, not the remote.

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