Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Totally agree - just what did they expect? and Ihimaera was gingerly circling the implications of Trowenna on RNZ today, calling it an 'elephant' as if it were somehow invisible to anyone but himself.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
if you're going to have a rhetorical carpet bomber on your show
like Hooten, you mean? Or Boag, perhaps. Farrar?
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Kracklite,
touche
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Kracklite,
It's interesting to imagine how Jobs will be seen in a few centuries in context with them and their like.
New York Times makes a comparison I hadn't heard of.
In the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero, the person on whose career he explicitly modeled his own: Edwin H. Land, the genius domus of Polaroid Corporation and inventor of instant photography.
Land, in his time, was nearly as visible as Jobs was in his. In 1972, he made the covers of both Time and Life magazines, probably the only chemist ever to do so.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to BenWilson,
I can't think of a device that brought more music to more people
true
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Kracklite,
no less significant for that
even his failures were impressive - like building a huge passenger ship so ahead of its market that it was available instead to lay the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, another step towards te internet.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Simon Grigg,
high five :)
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to BenWilson,
The impact of iTunes was really as an aggregation/market channel, not a technology/protocol. Russell and others have written over the years about the interaction with DRM and music industry dynamics. Oh, I think I've just said what Simon did :)
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Simon Grigg,
and BitTorrent?
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Russell Brown,
"Dude!"