Posts by Lilith __
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that every correction should take up time on the 6pm news, but certainly on the broadcaster’s website
Quite. Personally, I rarely watch TV news because I can get better value on the web: more info and comment on the issues I'm most interested in. It's a richer medium.
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+1 to what Craig says, especially
I’d suggest media organisations 1) Need to get basic matters of fact right 2) Failing that, just put your damn ego in park and promptly retract and correct with a modicum of good grace.
And I think what the Washington Post is doing is great – giving their readers credit for their intelligence and knowledge, and accepting their help if they get something wrong. Even with good internal systems, mistakes are going to happen. Digital media allow a collaborative approach which can yield a better result for everybody.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Biobbs,
The future never looked so old...
Funny, I was just listening to that yesterday. Quaint, now!
Must have been around that time one of my big brothers was working for a computing outfit in Chch. That was in the days of punchcards, and for many years afterwards we used the discarded punchcards at home for writing phone messages on. I remember how some had only a few holes and others so many they were like lacework, and hard to write a message on without your biro slipping into the holes and marking the kitchen bench. Mum was always wiping off the biro marks with meths and telling us we should be more careful.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Biobbs,
Hi Biobbs :-)
Was it red?
No, it was not! And I'm not convinced Lou Reed is talking about computer games, either.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to recordari,
Love the video, Jack! A friend of mine had a ZX-81 before I got my Spectrum, and I remember thinking it was terrifically exciting, although also quite hard work to have fun with. ;-)
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My first computer, in the early 80s, was a 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It had a whole 7 colours, and unlike it’s predecessor (the 1k, monochrome, ZX-81) was marketed as a games machine! It had no monitor, the keyboard and joystick connected to your TV. I remember spending many hours happily playing Manic Miner , a rudimentary platform-and-ladders game, to the accompaniment of a tinny version of Hall of the Mountain King , played from a minute speaker hidden inside the keyboard. Games came on audio tape, so you hooked up your tape player to the computer and listened to the bleeps and squeals and watched the screen flash until it was done. Loading took a while, and if your tape got kinked or stretched, forget it! I also spent many frustrating hours typing in BASIC programs from computer magazines, which hardly ever worked due to unnoticed typing errors. I learned to type on those funny rubber keys. Happy days.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
That makes no sense to me. If you choose a 5 word password from a 40,000 vocab you have less than 40,000 passwords, not 10^23.
I don’t pretend to know anything about any of this, but isn’t the point that with a password made of 5 random common words put together, both the words and their order of appearance in the password can vary; so the number of possible combinations isn’t less than the total word pool, but much, much more?
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to BenWilson,
under National’s non-nanny nanny state
I’m thinking of it as a nonny state now…
Noddy state?
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I think I'd go with, 2011: the Year of Now What?
Certainly sums up our experience down here.
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Worried about losing everything if the economy tanks? Quick, swap your gold for kittehs.