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Re: Can Your PC Even Run VR Well? Unlikely, Says Nvidia

phillyharper — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:42:04 -0000

You've made some pretty major mistakes in this article. First of all, it's Samsung's Gear VR, and secondly I think you mean 1.5 million units, not 1.5 billion....

Re: Anonymous have been exposed as hypocrites who use sweatshops. Watch them try to wriggle out of it

phillyharper — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:01:03 -0000

Are you suggesting I'm the CEO of Anonymous? The problem here is, I think, that they are not an organisation. They're not organised at all by anyone person or group, it's simply an idea that exists in people's minds.

No one encourages anyone to buy the masks, people just bought them in the same way that an article goes viral on twitter.

You can't exactly call 'twitter' a coherant organisation can you? It's just a bunch of people using a platform.

Re: Chiang Mai, Thailand: Peace in the Golden triangle

phillyharper — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:31:09 -0000

Dear 'Travel Writer'. Your article is about finding yourself? Spirituality? Body and Soul? You stayed at the Four Seasons - this is as far from spirituality as toast is from fine cuisine. You might as well have stayed at the slough Premier Inn and ordered a Thai take-away. Maybe the wat from the delivery man would offer some authenticity?

"Getting into this self-improvement thing, I then went to the Wat Suan Dork temple and had a chat with a Buddhist monk about life. "Mind is master of body," said 30-year-old Tippanagorn. "Body and mind can compare to car and driver." Are you for real? Is this the best you could come up with? You went to a wat and spoke to a monk who told you that Mind is master of body AND you thought this revelation was of such magnitude that your readers would be enthralled to learn of it? Not only is it lacking even a slither of creative delivery, it's entirely vacuous of content.

In a telling attempt to add authenticity to your trip you booked on a cookery course at the Four Seasons? Did you book it with a holiday rep? Did they give you a courtesy call at 8:30am and bring you breakfast in bed? "So spiritual maaaaan, the room had air conditioning and everything."

It appears to me that you don't know the first thing about travelling.

Re: Tackling the infograffiti problem

phillyharper — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:16:08 -0000

I think you'll find that infograffiti is a media activism movement started six ways ago.

http://reddit.com/r/infogra...

Re: Should I be teaching SEO?

phillyharper — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:06:14 -0000

As a University graduate, the one thing that really annoyed me about my course was the lack of solid skills I came out with.

"But it's education for education's sake" was the response I was often met with, "it's about bettering yourself as a person."

That's all well and good, but the £16,000 I spent would have been better spent travelling the world for 3 years if "bettering myself" was the only goal. I went to University for better prospects, and when I left I was still fighting an uphill battle to find the work I wanted.

It's a nice thought to have education for educations sake but the reality is that students spend three years getting drunk and throwing parties and only by their third year does the thought "what am I actually going to do with my degree?" cross their mind.

I'd have to do some proper research on this, but I get the impression this is a common experience for many students.

With the working world moving as fast as it does, I wonder if Universities are actually the best or most efficient way of getting people into the work force. There are too many courses covering too many useless topics. If you're serious about doing research, go to University, if you want to get on in the workplace, learn your skills elsewhere and save your money.

Re: Twitter (isn’t) the hardest avenue to crack

phillyharper — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:59:28 -0000

Well new in the sense that I wrote it today. Topic wise it's old, but, must we always discuss the news? Where's the room for the old's?

Re: How to explain Glastonbury

phillyharper — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:03:22 -0000

It has everything to do with my cock.

Re: Dumpster Diving

phillyharper — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:09:35 -0000

Just installed some spangly plugin on my blog, which means that you lovely folks can comment on phillyharper.com with your facebook account and have that comment appear in your news stream. How about that...

Re: How the Swine Flu Was Spreading … On Facebook

phillyharper — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:14:28 -0000

Twitter and facebook are really coming into their own with helping to track the spread of swine flu. I wrote a nice piece on it and I think everyone here would really like it!

:-D

http://blog.fluidcreativity...

Re: Swine Flu Hysteria: 10,000 Tweets Per Hour

phillyharper — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:20:50 -0000

I liked your piece about how to track swine flu online, but you missed a trick by failing to mention sickcity.org, it seems to be doing a pretty good job of using twitter to moniter the health situation.

Have a look at my blog and retweet if you like it. Thanks guys.

http://bit.ly/ZgLqE

Re: HOW TO: Track Swine Flu Online

phillyharper — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:19:16 -0000

I wrote a piece about how to track swine flu online, you've missed a major trick by missing off sickcity.org

Check out my piece at the fluidblog and retweet it if you like it.

http://bit.ly/ZgLqE