Posts by Gareth Ward
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Your NEIGHBOUR wired in an active sub outlet for your back yard? You, sir, have accomodating neighbours. In my hi-fi past I was always a fan of something smaller in an active sub for music systems (rather than h/t) - usually 10", max 12". But then I was never looking to install one outdoors where I expect the infinite room size would demand something heftier.
I still think AirPlay is one of the best things Apple has done (btw does the OS-level work across all machines? I know the video mirroring only works on the latest hardware). I recently found a post I wrote in April 2010 describing the wonders of wireless streaming my Airport Express had provided and chuckled at this:
I searched intensively but am yet to find what I believe would be the ultimate stereo for this - an optical-in DAC/power amp combo in a Bose SoundDock form. You could just plug one in at each room with an Airport Express and voila, multiroom audio with house-wide remote control ability (on your iPhone or just buy an iPod Touch for it). Hell, someone could potentially get Apple to let them licence the Airport Express trickery and build that into the unit as well. “Here millions of people what have iTunes, an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and a wifi network - plug one of these $699 units into a powerpoint in any room you want music in and you’re done” seems like a hell of a sales pitch.
I continue to await my royalties cheque from Bob Mansfield - don't make me enter the patent war Bob!
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?, in reply to Danielle,
Fuckers.
This is an awfully depressing page: http://www.comedycentral.co.nz/shows/
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?, in reply to wendyf,
I can't find the Daily Show.
I'm assuming he means on The Daily Show website - the NZ Comedy Central channel doesn't run it anymore as far as I'm aware (f*&% knows why)
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By the way, what surprises me with the Romney tape is the focus on his "47% entitlement" lines. It's actually the "and so my job is not to worry about those people" line that blows me away - here's a man intending to be President who claims his job is not to worry about 47% of the population?!
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Only managed to see the first and third ones there, but man Stewart gets fired up in that last one. Haven't seen him like that for a while...
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It doesn't answer the moral question of why it's proper to threaten beneficiaries with financial sanctions for the good of their children, but not WFF recipients
Which would still not answer the moral question of why it's proper to legally force the kids of people that "receive direct tax/payment assistance" into ECE but not my 4 year old*?
I have a few "upstanding middle class" friends where one parent has chosen to stay at home with their kids until they hit school age - apparently they're saintly parents caring for the best interests of their child. The exact same family around the corner that receives a benefit and does the same thing are now filthy lawbreakers who must be punished.*who goes voluntarily but that's a very different thing. I receive no WFF credit or benefit beyond, ya know, civilization.
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Russell Brown,
Anyway, I thought about replying to Fran’s comment on the the Herald site, but it’s just getting unpleasant now. And I think it's being poorly handled by their editors.
The fact it's being played out within their own comments is laughable...
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Fran O'Sullivan now having at go at Bryce Edwards in the Herald comments on his latest roundup. Quite the little public spat they've all got going on, isn't it...
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to Matthew Poole,
today's brain fart about the Conservative Party only needing to do 1.35 "percentage points" better than their 2011 2.65% in order to cross a 4% threshold. That may be true, but it's more enlightening to point out that it requires a 50.9% increase in the number of votes the Party receives for that to happen.
Or that the margin of error on the poll is 3.6%...
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Speaker: How the Key transcription gaffe…, in reply to Phil Lyth,
Re invoking a person's name, there are a lot of people called Alec Ross on twitter. I am still surprised he found my mention of his name (not his Twitter handle.)
Social media monitors like Radian6 would certainly be tuned to something like that - they can do a lot with paid access to the Twitter firehose (as well as these very blog comments). It's almost certain that US State et al use one of those tools...