Posts by rodlee

YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

What's even worse..

Is The Register nudging me back into political stuff when I just want to get away from it for a while!

Google, Amazon pass on UK Digital Services Tax by hiking ad prices, fees at same rate the government takes

They're bluffing!

In the long run if digital advertising costs more, alternative channels become more attractive, and/or knowledgeable advertisers will do less of it , provided of course that they know what their marginal return on advertising spend is.

Re: No surprise here

Er.. no. Demand and supply curve are two separate functions. It's their intersection that determines price and quantity exchanged.. Advertisers choose to buy more or less according to their perceived marginal revenue, at least they would if they knew what they were doing.

Forget Khan and Klingons, Star Trek's greatest trick was simply surviving

Startrek the 70s PDP10 computer game

What hours were spent in the seventies by our software team playing Startrek on a quarter million pound Dec PDP10! You could turn your phasers on Klingons or Romulans from a 300 baud teletype, and on a VT50 it gave rise to early use of awesome applied to a piece of code.