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Re: I am not an economist (Scripting News)

aac74 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:01:06 -0000

eye on winer is going to love this :)

Re: ALEX JONES WITH PETER SCHIFF 22nd December 08

aac74 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:04:01 -0000

you're lucky, you are in debt ! Gordon is going to turn the pound into zimbabwe money and give you a house for free !!! What do I get ??? A back account full of funny money !

Re: FusionFall: New Cartoon Network MMO

aac74 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:32:12 -0000

nope just Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FusionFall

Re: When will housing bottom?

aac74 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:33:20 -0000

but what if the capital loss on the property (due to the greatest depression) is $10,000 / year ? Obviously you wouldn't take this hit if you didn't sell but if you are looking for a five year investment it's high risk.

Hasn't property investment always been a capital gain rather than a yield play ? I think American thinking hasn't yet adjusted to the notion that property prices can fall for years and years. In that environment your gearing is burning your money as fast as the rental cash is coming in. So you are locked in waiting and waiting for prices to start rising.

However if you think hyper inflation is on the way the smart way to play it is to buy as many properties as you can and let inflation burn away your dollar dept while you are left with real assets.

Re: When will housing bottom?

aac74 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:20:51 -0000

Because of the liquidity it's almost impossible to have a bear stock market last more than 3 years. This is not the case for property where a sustained down market could easily last 5 years or more. I would say the smart money will not return before 2012 to property.

Even if inflation goes off like a rocket I don't see property prices keeping pace and thus you are loosing money. In the 70s in the UK property prices were rising 5% while inflation was double digit. Thus property was not seen as an investment opportunity.

Gold, construction stocks, utilities and asian stocks all look to be better bets for the medium to long term.

Re: UK interest rates raised to 5.75%

aac74 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:19:34 -0000

If they are facing difficulties due to these historically low rates then they can't afford their mortgage and should have bought a cheaper house (or not bought a house at all).

Unemployment is a much bigger problem, these days no ones job is safe outside the public sector.

Re: The value of an idea

spostareduro — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:05:43 -0000

Great discussion and I agree. I don't take offense to disagreement, it's natural and makes the world go round. I can use your insight as pieces of a bigger picture. I learn from you too. :-)

I was making reference only to the generalization of 'ideas'..

Ideas aren't impractical in and of themselves. Sometimes it takes quite a while for ideas to materialize, sometimes yes they are stolen (ok, maybe more than sometimes. It's already happened to me) sometimes they are improved upon by someone else etc..

When those things occur, it's not the ideas that were impractical, it's typically due to faulty implementation. or, sadly enough, because we trust in ones we shouldn't trust. (stolen ideas)

Re: The value of an idea

spostareduro — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:31:38 -0000

Like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich..

The bread is still bread. The peanut butter is still peanut butter. Neither of them are any different that the original.

Not like typical media today, (social, TV, radio etc)..

Much of the media seem to enjoy distortion.

They have bread. They have peanut butter. When nobodys looking, they scrape the peanut butter off the bread and give us baloney instead.

Re: The Serious Games Blog: Dual-display e-book reader lets you flip pages naturally

aac74 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:33:22 -0000

nope, I think it's just a prototype for now.

Re: US Mortgage Reset Chart

aac74 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:15:46 -0000

sure, add away :)

Re: How To Play World of Warcraft With Nintendo Wii

aac74 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:49:25 -0000

More info here:

http://homepage.mac.com/ianrickard/wiimote/

Re: Shocker ! Nearly all degree courses in video gaming at British universities leave graduates unfit to work in the industry

aac74 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:19:33 -0000

The only advice I can give is:

a) he must find out what he is good at and enjoys (same thing really because if you are good at something you enjoy it and will work at it and get even better).
b) educational courses that are focused and give practical experience are more valued than generic courses that leave the student with little to show for their efforts.
c) the best courses will help a student get real work experience with real companies and it is experience that is most valued by employers.
d) enjoy study but do not let yourself become distracted from the practicalities of the real world of work
e) talk to as many people as you can in the area you are interested in. What did they study ? How did they get work experience ?
f) always have a plan so that you know where you are and if you are on track to your goals.

Re: Catch the brainwaves of Jeff Quipp

spostareduro — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:39:31 -0000

They charge outrageous amounts of money to accomplish that. It's taking advantage of us.

Re: Quo Vadis Blogosphere?

spostareduro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:41:06 -0000

oh..haha..my bad *rolls eyes* (i always have to talk outta line..its my *uhem* forte' i believe. like a calling). ;-)

Re: Quo Vadis Blogosphere?

spostareduro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:43:36 -0000

Like espresso...all day, everyday, 32 hrs a day. ;-)

Re: With great social media power should come great responsibility

spostareduro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:39:54 -0000

haha!

Re: The Spore Creature Creator Demo is Now Available For Download - Mac and PC

aac74 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:03:43 -0000

To be fair the macbook is not sold as games machine. However I tried the creature creator on a basic $400 xp desktop with an nvidia 7600GS card and it runs great.

Plus it will run on the latest macbooks, airs and mini that have Intel GMA X3100 graphics.

Re: louisgray.com: Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What's Next

aac74 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:49:55 -0000

yep Friendfeed is the third hosted/centralised comment system with disqus and intense debate.

Would be great to have all these systems in one place.

Re: ePerks Pulls The Trigger: I am being Sued.

spostareduro — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:40:14 -0000

you're welcome, good luck.

Re: Why the Military Needs the Gaming Industry

aac74 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:57:53 -0000

The robot looks like it's made of old cardboard but I bet it still cost a million dollars !

Re: Lego Magic Kiosk

aac74 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:43:19 -0000

Thing about augmented reality is that at the moment it's very much a cool new thing to show to people. The first time you see it, like the first time you played Doom, it's totally amazing.

However the novelty wares off very quickly and then you are left with, 'what is this good for'? How is it so different from virtual reality, but with a more interesting backdrop ? Doing AR with a screen is very fiddly and using goggles you are back to the same problems VR had.

I'm sure like VR there will be lots of niche applications, but AR will not be a mass market tool.

Re: Lego Magic Kiosk

aac74 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:06:38 -0000

Yep found a pic of CNN's Augmented Reality:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monoki/2165007234/

Re: The Power of Twitter

aac74 — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:42:32 -0000

You sound like you have mental health issues :(

Re: The Power of Twitter

aac74 — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:12:40 -0000

As long as you don't follow too many people (I would say 100 at most) you shouldn't have any problems digesting the information. I think friendfeed will be a strong competitor. I use twhirl to view twitter and friendfeed together side-by-side. Friendfeed has just introduced a 'rooms' feature that lets you create IRC/jaiku style channels, thus filtering information into topics:

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/serious-games

Re: Social media experts - it’s all relative.

spostareduro — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:44:23 -0000

teamwork.