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Comment on Little Drummer Boy Chords by Greg

Greg — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:07:52 +0000

Actually, G/D I think it is called but finger it like this, 1st str 3rd fret, 2nd str 3 fr, 3str open, 4th string open, I mute the 5th string with my thumb while fretting the 6th string. With the muted 5th and the d on the 2nd string you get kind of a drone chord. Then to a full 6 string C chord and back to that drone for the first 2 stanzas ( I think that is what they are called. Maybe measures.)
Then play a Dsus ( like a regular D but the F# on the 1st string move to a G.) Then D7, G, then C. Anyways I don’t have my guitar in hand but.those are all the chords. The G/D and Dsus really punch the accompaniment out.

Comment on Google Reader Shared Items 2011-03-30 by Rk

Rk — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:29:10 +0000

Hi, could you please let me know how do you get the google reader shared items to be created a post like this automatically ? I would like to do that too. Thanks.

Comment on Why iTunes sucks. by Mr PC

Mr PC — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:25:04 +0000

Your parents must be soooo proud! What a filthy mouth you have!

Comment on Why iTunes sucks. by Zune desktop 7.0 « Windows Phone Round Up

Zune desktop 7.0 « Windows Phone Round Up — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:45:43 +0000

[...] on a netbook with no issues. I can easily start iTunes bashing but if you’ve used that bloated pile of crap then you know the misery that comes with using the windows version of it. From the way it files [...]

Comment on Thunderbird not responding? Try this. by Aaron Cooper

Aaron Cooper — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:08:24 +0000

Man this is driving me freaking nuts. I can’t get Thunderbird to respond, so I delete all the msf files like some had suggested elsewhere, and then restart and it works for about 5 minutes and then boom, back to being unresponsive. I don’t know what to do at this point.

Comment on Why iTunes sucks. by Olga Lahey

Olga Lahey — Thu, 19 May 2011 06:11:59 +0000

Palms down, Apple’s app store wins by a mile. It’s a huge number of all kinds of apps vs a quite sad number of a handful for Zune. Microsoft has plans, particularly within the realm of video games, but I’m unsure I’d wish to bet on the future if this facet is vital to you. The iPod is a significantly better alternative in that case.

Comment on This blog is moving by *daniel

*daniel — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:40:48 +0000

I’ll see what the analytics look like. I don’t really like closing up comments, as if the blog is hermetically sealed, butif all the traffic’s going elsewhere then… yeah probably.

Comment on This blog is moving by Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:32:56 +0000

Yeah, I can leave this in place. What about closing comments on all entries?

Comment on A quick note on mobiles… by Jonathan Calvello

Jonathan Calvello — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:27:39 +0000

I read this article and it made me remember the X Factor MyStudio.

Comment on Some advice. by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:12:48 +0000

Thanks.

Comment on E-books are too expensive. by daniel

daniel — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:12:35 +0000

You’re telling me they support brick and mortar stores, distribution, printing, and all those associated costs with around $1 per book? I have a real hard time believing that.

Either way. The publishing houses are signing their own death sentences with high pricing. Authors are going to circumvent that, even if that means going indie or whatever. Someone’s going to fill that void… and I already see that in the market.

Comment on E-books are too expensive. by Jason

Jason — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:35:26 +0000

The publishing industry claims the cost of paying the author, and the editor and the typesetter, and several other levels that don’t matter whether the book is printed or not. The printing of the book is ~$1 of the cost of a book.

–Jason

Comment on Unlinking by Chris Hubbs

Chris Hubbs — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:17:33 +0000

Soldier on, my friend. And my new sidebar link is golden. Much obliged.

Comment on Be open. by daniel

daniel — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:43:26 +0000

I’ll have to defer to you on this one, as you actually have the kids and I don’t :)

Comment on Be open. by Chris Hubbs

Chris Hubbs — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:31:19 +0000

I think I agree with you… for the most part.

The tricky part is when the kids see Mom and Dad argue, they’ll immediately then try to slip a wedge in the crack and try to side with the parent who sees things their way. If Mom and Dad are determined to keep a united front with the kids, at least they’ve got to be dreadfully consistent about it.

Let the kids see you argue, but then let the kids see that you’re determined, in the end, to agree and be united. If they sense weakness and a division to be exploited, they’ll be on it in a heartbeat.

Comment on The problem with nuclear power… by daniel

daniel — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:20:18 +0000

I think that might take the analogy a step too far :)

But nuclear power had the exact inverse outcome (conceptually) of a lottery. Instead of a potential huge payoff, you have a potential huge disaster. In both cases the odds of that happening are essentially nil.

The lottery is designed so that someone gets the payoff, to obscure the fact that’s it’s impossible (on an individual level) to get the payoff.

The nuclear industry should be designed so that there are no disasters. Or at least so that disasters are severely mitigated should they happen. To protect human life, for sure, but also also to clarify the fact that it’s impossible (again, on an individual level) to be negatively affected.

Comment on You wake up one day and realize you have a chip in your arm, a chip in your car, a chip in your wallet, and a chip in your computer, none of which is directly controlled by you, and none which you escape. by Ash

Ash — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:17:02 +0000

ITZ ALL READY HERE …. blah blah blah

Comment on A quick note on mobiles… by daniel

daniel — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:48:42 +0000

I see the benefits in both. I understand integrated stacks. I don’t particularly like them (though I don’t mind the experience of using them), but I understand their use case.

But personally, I like to tinker. I don’t like sealed boxes. I think the fewer non-user-serviceable things the better, in the long run.

As for overlap, I don’t really think they do, at least not all the time. I know a lot of really non-technical users who bought Android phone for a combination of reasons, one of which is (usually) that is has a keyboard, has a bunch of apps, and isn’t a Blackberry. (Which reminds me, I forgot about BB in my post above, which probably speaks to how much mindshare BB has among power users).

I also know a lot of non-technical types who bought an iPhone because everyone else has one, or it’s shiny. So there’s that.

That said, I think a lot of the young people buying phones today are a lot more power-userish than you might think.

Comment on A quick note on mobiles… by Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:30:18 +0000

Fair enough.

I agree. We have a bunch of submarkets pretending to be one market. Android is king of the open/fragmented market, and Apple is the kind of the integrated market. As I see it, the people making money in the fragmented market are the handset makers; the people making money in the integrated market are the handset makers and the app developers who play in the integrated sandbox. I think there’s more room to make money in the integrated space, just as there’s more freedom in the fragmented space. We’re fundamentally in the same place we were back in the PC world.

Re: form factor/esoteric features: how many people want those that aren’t already powers users? I expect that the overlap is nearly complete.

Comment on A quick note on mobiles… by daniel

daniel — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:20:15 +0000

Hey, if Daring Fireball can bait, so can I :)

I’m not terribly serious about all the Apple hate. They make nice products. I don’t want them, particularly, but other people do and that’s great.

My main point is that in order for the market to be a truly great place, we need more than Just Apple, and more than Just Android, etc. As long as there’s strong competition on Apple, you, an Apple user, will be better off for it. As long as there’s strong competition on Android, I, as an Android user, will be better off. And so on, and so on.

I also think you missed out on a few types of Android users:

4) Customers who want a form factor or features that Apple doesn’t offer. Larger phones, smaller phones, phones with HDMI-out, phones with a keyboard, etc, etc.

5) Customers who want a nice device that works well. Android offers this too, don’t forget :)