Posts tagged with:people

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

Matt Rosof explains why Google does a lot of stuffing of their own products in their search Regardless of whether Google faces new charges, the thing to keep in mind is that Google is a for-profit company. Its products have to be good, otherwise nobody will use them. But they also serve the larger business […]

There are so much gas consumption topics on the Forester forum I think people did not do enough research before buying one. To whomever may want to buy a new Subaru Forester or other gas SUV, here are some points: the two liter engine is great if you drive like a granny. slow on the […]

I’ve had my eyes on a Subaru Forester for a few years now. I totally hate the new models, the third and forth generation look more like every other SUV on the market as Subaru needed to appeal to people thinking the Forester is a station wagon. The strategy worked, and Subaru is a top […]

A few people sent me this link because one of the item on the list is “Zoso”, one of the symbols from Led Zeppelin’s album IV (or Runes, or ZOSO, or Led Zeppelin, whatever is called). It’s funny.  Of course, I know all about it, I’ve been asked myself what does it mean a few […]

Turkish authorities have in recent weeks asked Google to block the videos from YouTube’s Turkish website, the people familiar with the matter said. But amid a national scandal over corruption allegations, Google refused to comply because it believes the requests to be legally invalid, the people added. It’s nice to transform yourself into a judge. […]

So Sony is selling its Vaio division to some investment fund, because it’s loosing so much money and Sony wants to cut costs. Vaio is a good line of laptops, too bad it is so bad. What I would do is instate a bonus system for people working at Vaio: if you come up with […]

One of my biggest annoyances is that Gmail has not one font to use in the email body. People write with black, with blue, with Sans Serif, with Tahoma, with Arial, and the emails are looking bad all the time. Uniformity would be good in this case. It really would. I searched userscripts.org for a […]

44% decrease in reach for all Facebook pages. WOW! Just wow. Ok, everybody understands that Facebook has the right to do whatever it likes and it has worked hard to gather people on the site. But the pages have worked hard to gather likes and create interesting conversations. And from the user’s point of view: […]

First, two quotes from an article by Kirk Tuck: The vast majority of buyers of all cameras, DSLR’s, mirror less, high end compacts, etc. were hobbyists  and amateur photographers who, after years of pursuing some sort of competence in the craft have come to the conclusion that the whole art genre of photography is somewhat […]