“People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced.”
I suspect these are the same people who generate a lot of wealth using the global platform. Also suspect they’ll find, build, and utilize alternative ways to jack in. (Without all that pesky tax stuff.)
28. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Thinking |
Tags: pirates, technology |
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The game opens with the player executing a Mumbai-style assault upon an airport. .
Update: Video is now embedded here:
27. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Tags: mumbai, video game |
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Pretty cool presentation of structured data.
Right now, Tracked is focusing on a social component that lets people share that dead data. It has live (read social) stuff but crammed into a box on the bottom right. Not good enough. Really needs to marry this dead data to live stuff.
Also, the presentation stack is cluttered. Probably a good idea to ditch the basic stock market overview (with top performers boxes on the left) in favor of live information.
22. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Review |
Tags: innovation, review |
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Nils nails it.
In other words, the goal is to turn the most socially and politically devastated country on earth, one rife with hostile religious fanatics, into a kind of Asian Switzerland. No duh that’s going to take a lot more troops and resources.
Let’s be blunt: this is completely insane as an objective–insane in the same way that jumping out of an airplane with no chute is insane. Nation-building of this sort has never succeeded anywhere, and not for lack of trying. What’s more, if that’s the objective, then the resource commitments that McChrystal is asking for are bathetically modest. The 40,000 extra troops that McChrystal wants aren’t going to come anywhere close to doing the trick.
Attempting to build, literally from the ground up, a functioning nation-state sounds like the logical conclusion for Barnett-ian strategy. Is the point when this fails when nation-states jump the shark?
21. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Tags: barnett, mcchrystal, nation-state |
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