Posts by Jimmy Southgate
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Re Dragon noted up thread.
Its available for iPhone & iPad already in North America. I think they work around it on the lower spec devices by recording & sending the audio to servers for dictation & then send the text back to the device. Im not certain that's true but it seems to work reasonably well, though its hard for me to test it because of my kiwi accent that trips it up.
Oh, and on another point (and apologies if this was mentioned) i'm pretty sure if Apple gets a cut of Kindle downloads its purely from the initial purchase of the app. But then I think that the app is free so it can't be that either.
All this talk of iPad makes me want to buy one after all. Ruh-Roh.
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Dragon requires a network connection so is definately passing a recording back & forth. Doing a 3 sentence paragraph seems to take it about 5-10 seconds, so not as fast as typing, but definately usable. -
it was getting the books that was difficult.
And still is difficult in the NZ iTunes bookstore - there's only the free public domain titles.
I suspect it will end up like the iTunes movies store & be a complete clusterf$%k of arbitrary - this one thing is available but this other thing isn't - type nonsense. But then i'm still fuming that I can't buy Mad Max from iTunes :-)
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They were unenthusiastic web and email users and have taken to it really well.
I've been wondering whether that experience will be an unexpected way that the device shines.
Oh, and as for RSS readers on iOS devices - i'm loving Reeder for iPhone, if its available for iPad its choice.
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Which I thought was silly - first stadium with a roof in NZ would be ideal location for cricket, guaranteed international games.
How high is that roof?
Other than the indoors variety, has any cricket anywhere been played under a roof? Let alone international games.
Bear in mind the rules for international cricket grounds are pretty strict - i'm sure I heard somewhere that Yarrow Stadium is too narrow for ODIs.
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It's a bit hard to generalise that to "rugby is definitely in decline" for the whole country. Which doesn't mean it *isn't*, but doesn't prove that it is.)
I'd love a follow up on that trying to identify just what rugby, and where, was in decline and wasn't.
I ask, because it seems that interest in Super rugby in the franchise centres has been on the wane for a while; but i've been to NPC games where it seems like interest is building.
I wonder whether a game like the Magpies vs Wellington or Canterbury at NPC level would get a bigger crowd at McLean Park than a Hurricanes game.
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Yes, I am being facetious.
That's a relief. Unless you're being facetious now, and weren't earlier.
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We don't use 'modern farming practices' here like they do in the States, we still have this ridiculous sentimental attachment to keeping animals outside.
Are you being facetious? I think it is neither rediculous nor sentimental that we keep animals outside.
As for 'modern farming practices' i'm pretty happy eating grass-feed beef having watched Food Inc. If we can either cut methane or increase production without increasing methane i'm in favour of it - both sound like good ideas to me.
Though i'd agree with whoever it was above that introduced the caveat about our waterways.
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No, no, when we lose, it is our fault, Danielle. We shouldn't ever talk about it.
I thought when we lost it was Graham Henry's fault.
Punching would often (not always) involve another willing participant. Kneeing a player in a ruck not so much.
Not unusual in other sports. A punch in ice hockey will get you in the penalty box, a deliberate knee is likely to get you an early shower.
I still don't really get what the difference is betwixt a deliberate punch & a deliberate knee. At the end of the day the sanction is supposed to discourage violent* behaviour - are they not both violent?
*violent = something intended to hurt/harm/injure that is not a recognised legal method of achieving the aims of the game.
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I've been thinking more about the knee to the head incident...
Do many people get straight red cards for punching someone in the head twice?
Im assuming there's a dust up of some sort fairly often, but I don't recall too many red cards for punching.
Whats really the difference between the two?
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I suspect i'm not alone when I find that increasingly I watch less and less broadcast television.
I wonder whether its primary usefulness nowadays is not in producing great drama that is scheduled & viewed at specific times, but rather in showing live moving pictures of something happening somewhere.
I can't see much other use for the broadcast type of tv (whether or not its actually broadcast) than sports & news essentially.
Other than sport, and perhaps one or two other things, pretty much everything else I watch is through a variety of time-shifted means.
Time-shifting means I never watch advertising, so I figure the only way forward its some kind of subscription or pay per view system to finance what I like to view.