Posts by Anthony

Chip Names

It's hard to get really involved when the battle for cpu supremacy is being fought between Nehalem and Barcelona. Even Opteron sounds like a Transformer. Worse still when breaking news leads are being Twittered at you.

Take a leaf out of the WWFs book, or ask any fighting dogs owner advice and start calling your chips something hard, edgy, streetwise. Maybe "The Overtaker" or "The Decimilisator" or maybe Intel could launch the "Cool for School" range of low heat CPUs. Maybe, just maybe, we can move into chip endorsements - "Hi, I'm Chuck Norris and this is the Chuck Norris CPU from Intel. Who cares what it has or does, I'm Chuck Norris and this is my CPU." The Adidas chip could run faster than any other chip, a supermodel could promote the thinnest chip yet and a supreme chess playing monk could endorse the worlds best fpu. The reality of whose chip may or may not benchmark faster than someone elses just doesn't enter into my purchasing equation after all so why not have some fun with these almost-equally-amazing products.

Face.. Book.. ?

Whatever happened to meeting people @ work, @ the pub etc?

If social networking sites joined dating agencies they'd say "random group of people and bots and interested parties seeks members for online surveys, datamining, spamming, Miranda style advertising (anything you say may be used against you) and reducing you to even more of a statistic than you already are."

Where is the future technology?

Internet P2P video BBC. Did I miss something?

Isn't this just the radio?

I've always liked the idea of personalising my listening. So I created playlists for my mp3 player.

With this service, by the time I'd chosen a couple of tracks I'd be at work and my battery would be flat. Just not for me.

First thing I predict with any decent kind of takeup of this service is an immediate rise in mobile phone thefts. But I'm very pessimistic about things I have little interest in.

Logical

Physical distribution of CDs is a bit worthless, unless you like shopping with real people and real weather. If you don't then online shopping can still provide you with a real CD and many artists have their own online presence and shop thanks to easy e-commerce applications. Exclusive offers keep these shops more than viable and prove that you don't need to be tied to a major to get your product out there.

Bands can easily sell outside the "normal" channels using myspace, itunes etc. providing a really good online surfing experience. Until someone like the RIAA decides to take on somewhere like myspace of course.

Until then online models will continue to spring up and the RIAA and others will continue to try to close them down because they don't seem to know what else to do. If they're not controlling it (DRMed CDs mostly) then they seem to see it as bad. Which it probably is for them.