walkabout film 1971

1971 was a very different era, clunkily musically scored in a way to tell the viewer how to perceive
the scenes and moments, some kind of placatory reference to the purity
and romance of tribalism being just a different mirror of our own
culture, The kangaroo butchery and cutting to an urban western butchers
shop cutting lamb chops, all just too heavy handed, Everything in this
film is dragging the viewer about by the nose.

Definitely some 70’s liberalist revert to nature romance agenda, intimating there is a
corruption at the core of western white culture, the nudity in this
film is seventies based and comes off as a little prurient, the scene
with the boy and the girl talking about whether the aboriginal teenager
should wear the boys shirt, and then the camera focussing in on the
aboriginals crotch, while she says no he should not wear a shirt ? >
Christ almighty director – somethings can be implied more subtly ? I mean I know your audience is mainly Australian but really ?

And the 70’s pervy obligatory nude swimming shots ? Christ its so ham-fisted and
awkward ! they way the film flirts with the idea of sexuality in this
film. The little white girl lost falling for the black male aboriginal
setup ? Its as old as the hills, and the feigned flashback to nude
swimming at the end with something more implied ? when she’s with her,
dull Aussie urban husband in the future? you could skim through this
film on 4 x speed and you could still pick out all stereotypical setups
? but compared to the crap thats out there, well, enough said I think
you get the jist of it.

intel desktop cpu feedback

Ok this is the only method I could find for giving you feedback RE – your consumer desktop processor lineup. As an owner of an i7 920. I feel the need to state you are not giving me a valid reason to upgrade ? transistor count on cpu cores has not be increasing in line with moores law for some time ? you keep on ploughing on with upgrading the iGPU on desktop CPU’s full well knowing that if someone is buying a £200 CPU they are more than likely, spending that much again on a dedicated graphics card, now I’m hearing broadwell will have 128mb dram on the die dedicated for the broadwell iris pro graphics ?! why ? if i wanted to waste die area on an amount of graphics memory equivalent to a 10 year old discrete graphics, i would be nuts ?, again for the desktop user this seems pointless ? unless you going create a processor that negated the need for a full size desktop graphics card entirely ? what is the point of this for the desktop pc user ? the only reason most gamers will use integrated graphics might be whilst setting a machine up before the graphics card is installed ? or running secondary monitors ? or for low -end business machines, well they don’t need to game so iris pro is overkill on them ? it seems – since post sandy bridge – there has been no real improvement to the complexity and power, transistor wise of the cpu cores, yes you made great strides with efficiency, but the transistor count on the cpu cores or number of cores has not increased even with fab nm scale reduction ? Also I’m very much angered by you not providing full Package Specifications on intel ark any longer ? where is the die size spec for the newer processors ? you must have been reducing die size, keeping transistor count the same and thereby increasing margin, it can be the only reason you’ve stopped publicising die size information ? Im no doubt getting less of the wafer than ever if I buy haswell ? but your still not offering a higher transistor count or cores to the midlevel desktop consumer, just because amd is not fully competitive with you in max performance per core terms, is no reason to slacken off on cpu transistor count or performance increase for the end user, if broadwell doesn’t have increased cpu performance or more cores at the mid market level i will not be upgrading again in 2014. It’s a relatively simple formula to persuade me to upgrade ? follow moores law, offer me the same die area off the wafer from 2 years ago at the same price as my last cpu, but offer me double the transistor count and near double the performance at the same price point market wise ? Also what went wrong since sandy bridge the IHS’s ability to dissipate heat is reduced massively since ivy bridge onwards, not full IHS contact soldering anymore ? or is it your 3d energy efficient transistor design that is limiting heat dissipation to the IHS and thereby the overclocking max is now worse than sandy bridge ? all these issues need rectifying before anyone with half a brain will bother to upgrade ? theres too much compromise for the desktop cpu user with you trying to morph your product into an APU or cater to smaller form factors. Also BGA mounted cpu’s should not be pursued, the number of times some electronics dies ps3 xbox 360’s it most often comes down to SM BGA failure, and moving the intel desktop CPU to SM BGA seems a mistake to me in terms of reliability, at the end users expense. If your argument is that the iGPU can be utilised by programs in desktop machines for other than graphics work and boost cpu performance, then Im afraid that largely revolves around people re-writing code to take advantage of it ? and therefore isn’t guarantee-ably offering a cpu performance increase to the end user ? anyway get the formula right, because at the moment your lineup nor the explanation behind your decisions is convincing me to upgrade.

D morgan

Apple are driving me mad

If this email doesn’t look appropriate for you to deal with and you have no actual power to change anything then please pass it on to someone at apple that has vision and balls enough to listen >

what is all this paint by numbers dumbed down to absurdity, select from the minimal rubbish options we give you ? im beginning to hate almost everything you do and stand for as a company ? if theres a single person with any integrity at apple, you need to get on top of the things you are getting wrong, you seem to be lurching from one awful disaster to another?

This support site is rubbish ? whats wrong with a good old form ? I know you have to pay someone with a brain to read it ? the current support pages are the equivalent of some shiny god awful automated telephone system with call waiting desperately trying route you to some rubbish automated FAQ help system ? I went through the process to arrange a call to my mobile and the system said “we are unable to schedule a call for you. please try again or choose a different solution.” ? It seems today that as a company you have forgotten the “user is king” and youre off on your own trip making everything worse with a huge sense of self congratulatory ego in the process, I’ve been using your gear since the apple II, but the last ten years you seem to have been doing nothing but trying my patience, technology and computers are supposed to aid my life not hinder them, and not to be some closed loop walled garden of a digital retail channel for a company grown very greedy and lazy,

if you ever want some unbiased reals views about supporting and using the products and software apple make, you know my email address, if you carry blindly on the way you are I’m going to have switch to being the opposite of an apple evangelist, and recommend against everything your making, to all the people i know, Ive done allot of promotion of apple over the years but recently you’ve give me nothing to shout about.

Tuneup Version 3 auto dumbed down bullshit, stick to V2 until V3 sorted out.

As a person who bought a lifetime license, I have not yet upgraded to version 3 as automagic seems like a disaster in the making, I don’t want your software automatically doing anything from the start without my permission, I need control over how the auto part of the software operates completely.

I have remained on version 2.4.6 and will continue to do so and will get very little value fro my tuneup purchase unless you iron the auto ness and lack of control in version 3 on startup ? please don’t make the errant decision of dumbing down the software to the extent i wont use it because I cant get control over what its doing ?

My library was organised using version2 in a largely manual and overlooking the software actions ways and I don’t want V3 going back over stuff already done and auto correcting it without my say so, on my itunes library ? its bad enough that apple keep making itunes worse (10.6 to 11 was an abortion of gross simplification and dumbing down), I dont need you making your software any worse as well.

The kind of auto i like is where it does its best to judge things and then offers me the choice of the corrections to the item in question and I can select which bits I think the AI in tuneup has made a good decision on ? as most of my library is now organised. also CDDB gracenote etc is full of errors sadly that are very difficult – as a user to get corrected. companies that don’t leverage the contributive power of the users own AI, are wasting a possibly valuable resource.

The parts of your software I do use >
I use the clean tab and its sublevel clean tab pretty exclusively

I might use deduper or find artwork if it didn’t even 2.4.6 give the impression its going to auto remove the duplicates, or auto correct the artwork you want description that describe what user control is available, does deduper auto delete ? i don’t want to run it, as I don’t want it to auto delete anything. is it finding absolute duplicates named duplicates does it check for bit-rate duplicates and select which is the better quality ? where are my controls as a user over this ? In fact autopilot features in 3 should all be completely disable-able and when running auto have two modes / control over it, mode one that requires full confirmation for changes , per album confirmation or no confirmation ie full auto, that will give the user full control, ok supposedly your app has the ability to undo its actions but in a way i don’t like the idea of the app keep track of every action it does so it can then undo it, sounds unnecessarily complex, I am using other apps sometimes to get track orders and rename files and do some basic metatag changes before putting through tuneup, as some tracks are to rough for tuneup to get right without external manual intervention, usually where the tracks are labelled track1 track 2 etc and its only the folder that has the album name and info necessary to label the tracks correctly, obviously their cddb track timings should resolve this kind of stuff but sometimes some manual work has to be done which I don’t mind, but I would concentrate efforts on making it find info for the some of the worse mp3 files where maybe the only pre-existing tag info is track timing length and the fact their in the same folder together.

Tuniverse is a wasted programming effort for my use . I’m not interested in apps using cpu cycles or bandwidth wasted on features that endlessly want to use those resources without my permission for non core features, if i want to find concerts and venues i will do that by other means, don’t try to become some one stop shop platform thing, every useless app and website are trying that diversification jig and its irritating, and it divides your strengths.

Where to spend your programming energy>

KISS> ie spend your energy on the core features of the product, until it feels fast smooth, accurate and polished. then I will be able to recommend it to everyone. I would prefer all your effort to go into making the results better quality, the quantity of tracks that can be dragged & cleaned at once in the clean panel without crashing to be maximised etc. the deduper to offer to remove the lower quality duplicate, or the artwork finder to offer to replace a lower quality artwork with a better on for that matter offering full size, side by side artwork comparisons as sometime larger is more compressed or blurrier and not alway better quality etc, AI will find it hard to determine image quality truthfully other than analysing file size dimension and compression which dont always tell the whole story ? The opportunity for user to contribute to corrective information something that is now daftly difficult with cddb, as so many variants of CD’s have come out with track listings, it might be better for tuneup to prefer to 2 or 3 possible album tagging for a set of tracks ? certainly I like the auto part of the software to offer corrections rather than just going ahead and doing them. Also I want a way to mark tracks to be ignored by tuneup after its come across them, as they maybe tracks I’ve created, user content obscure website podcasts etc other stuff that will be impossible for tuneup to correct as it doesn’t exist in any database etc.

Second Life Marketplace , lack of relevance in search results

bad search results relevance wise

Ok this is feedback re the marketplace, my sales on xstreetsl used to be like once a day, since the changes LL wrought, moving xstreetsl into the marketplace and then removing magic boxes and implementing their new system, all these disturbances now mean, I seem to get no sales per day, that is my experience of the impact of LL’s decisions, obviously SL avatar numbers have changed allot since then, so it cant all be lain at your door re the changes you have implemented, but the effect is dramatic, Now this bothers me, but a much more damaging problem is the lack of relevance of search results in the Marketplace ?
for example – humour me –
do a search for banana or any fruit orange etc, fruit happen to be the things that I sell.

The fact that the specific individual banana objects, barely turn up on the first pages and instead island sets and clothing coming up instead shows how awful the search results formula is, even when set to filter by relevance, how are people supposed to find relevant objects except by wading through multiple pages of mainly unrelated stuff, I know this cant be helping sales for anybody’s objects. The results it returns on page when I search for banana ? > a stripy b&w shirt top is coming up, well before a banana fruit of any description let alone the banana i am selling, This needs resolving, I certainly also find it ridiculous the top level categories and a “food” category does not even figure in that? you’ve buried it under Recreation and entertainment ? why ? who would think to look there ? The net gist of my arguments is that marketplaces search results are effectively making it look like there are very few such bananas on second life or any relevant objects, ie the quality of the search results are really very poor when it comes to being relevant to the search criteria used ? LL really need to work on this. This could be resolved by a not relevant to search results button ? which Marketplace learned form or ranking single keywords higher than overuse of unrelated multiple keywords ? whichever way at the moment the search results in marketplace arent very good, and im not just saying this for my own benefit im saying it for the benefit of the search results in general.

Bitcoin is speculators dream – a car with with no breaks that will careen from tree to tree

The danger with Bitcoin is its a car with no breaks, its the perfect speculators currency that can bubble up and fizz pop, purely unrelated to anything but belief in it. Cartoon style careen from tree to tree. Its not enough for a virtual token of currency to be limited in supply it must have a secondary measure of utility other than that of pure speculation. Gold also has its real world uses. Bitcoin has no use but speculation ? and therefore is not a civil currency. The people who whore the markets out for their own selfish profits, dont need any more speculative toys to play with !

speculative behaviour in its unfettered form is a cancer on society

speculative behaviour in its unfettered form is a cancer on society nought more than putting 200 dollars on red the end of the spin and the the week its worth 900 dollars, that has to be the ultimate speculators currency, and where ultimate speculation runs, misery is soon to follow either for the investor or those who suffer the consequences of it. For instance with bitcoin, being that its based ultimately on speculative belief in its value, and that value thats invested in it is taken from some other token of value and placed in bitcoin instead, in that sense they’re are the losing currencies, who value is stripped form them to fund it, the problem being that those established currencies are already weak, pure speculation where the value of something multiplies by a factor of 4 in a week without in any way having reduced entropy in the human world in any useful way, are exactly that speculative currencies behave like and are therefore easily recognisable, And if governments don’t reign in or control such speculation in society it will ultimately erode at the hard won spine of steady measured fiscal prudence, which is already battered enough and destroy the non speculators and small savers value. Unfettered speculation is a cancer if we don’t limit it, the world will be full of gibbering morons just waiting for the next crap to speculate on.

ibooks author – crap for other platforms 4:3 apsect ratio locked – waste of time

Perhaps companies should consider that technology and software platforms should not be about artificially constraining people and locking them into your walled garden of a cash till ? perhaps do something decent for technology users for once which is open and shareable between all platforms, after all apple has massively lifted from open source software projects for its own use without adding much back to the community ?, rather than just considering your own profits. The idea ibooks author has been programmed to only work with the aspect ratio of iOS devices ? how does it handle the taller aspect ratio of the iPhone 5s then let alone other devices. Your basically dooming users whose lives are already burdened enough – with unnecessary complexity, to have to use different software for different devices and platforms and layout everything out many many times in different software ? This is far worse than the situation need be ? but its not just apples fault either adobe are rubbish at the create once publish many idea as well, in fact this whole thing has stagnated for 6 years, from what I can see with nobody providing a decent solution to the ‘create once publish many’ platforms problem, apple your platform doesn’t live in a vacuum nor do your users wish to, it ain’t healthy. Why should I waste my time creating my content in your software if that means I’m locked into your platform with those files from then on ? its not in my interests thats for sure to only be able to sell my ebook on the iOS platform ?

indesign completely shit at create once publish many formats

My god has anything been more hair-pulling than converting a spreads based facing pages print document to a non facing pages single portrait page ebook edition ? yeuck – vomit – 10 years to make this right and adobe still cant organise this properly, the process is so manual and indesign interferes and balls’es the whole thing up such thats it probably easier to create a whole new document from scratch.

advertisers responsibility

keep telling yourself your own philosophical mantra – on no day – will it ever be true – remember promotion as long as its promoting something that has a large well of underlying substance and function is alright. The problem with advertising, its its often helping to push the idea of fashion and temporary-ness and vapidness as the product, and sadly that mentality is entering the tech arena to, thats why he says ‘move on’ because advertising, markets and products today are all temporary slash and burn agricultures with no integrity.

function first form second always, especially when it comes to technology, you don’t land on the moon by purely pursuing form. science and function have to be very solidly defined first, and then form is brought into play to make something palatable to the eye, too often design starts with the reverse of this process, i think its a legacy of the streamline design era. Advertising has to be aware of the pitfalls and not market bad products for the sake of being paid.

tech companies are too greatly wanting to get away from specs and ui refinement, and declare everything as some kind of lifestyle rubbish.