I would love to see someone creating a RPL programming language, like HP calculators. I love that language.
FORTH is programming language with RPL. Look forth.org
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Yes but the UIs are still horrible. Someone needs to make something so easy a retarted monkey could use the thing and probably not even realize "torrents" were powering the thing.
TV-links is far from horrible, click the show you want and start watching. Torrents are a non-starter for regular users. Download a .torrent file from one of many tracker sites and open it with the client on your computer is simply too many steps and it's too different from the experience on limewire etc.
tv-links isn't a horrible experience, but the quality is horrible compared to the dvd-rip and hd-rips that are available abundantly on torrent sites.
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#143A social music site / including music client and music store for classical music. Both last.fm and iTunes suck for classical music, which has a completely different set of concepts from pop music. Composers, conductors, orchestras, choirs, movements, etc. It's a smaller market, and the people are less technically inclined, but they're richer and less likely to pirate music.
Oh, why a social music site? Because discovering new (to you) music is a harder problem than playing, organizing or buying music.
This is a fantastic idea. I may try and implement it in the next few months (depending on how much work there is to do for my college classes) :D
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#144A social music site / including music client and music store for classical music. Both last.fm and iTunes suck for classical music, which has a completely different set of concepts from pop music. Composers, conductors, orchestras, choirs, movements, etc. It's a smaller market, and the people are less technically inclined, but they're richer and less likely to pirate music.
How is Pandora for classical music?
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#145Oh, one more! A web consultancy that advises start-ups about i18n, translation, local laws, cultural differences, etc, so they wouldn't think: "Foreign countries are scary, let's conquer the domestic market first." Then we, the Dutch, could actually have used great sites like Amazon, Facebook, Ebay, and Craigslist instead of the terrible knock-offs that won here, solely because they were available earlier. Seriously,…
Seems like a great idea.
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#146go play on cambrianhouse.com
or Cofoundr.com (yeah, shameless plug)
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, why a social music site? Because discovering new (to you) music is a harder problem than playing, organizing or buying music.
I was thinking of something like that, but I am not familiar with the copyright laws etc even for test listening music. How does last.fm deal with that? Loyalty fees to the big four?
I believe playing a 30 second clip is considered fair use.
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prson is like my friend's idea -- an online marketplace for the contract killing industry. connect hits and hitmen. =P
an illicit social network / market could be huge. host it in Sweden / Amsterdam / offshore (or wherever it's legal). not worth the hassle from the feds though =)
definitely. another friend suggested a facebook app that helps you find drugs.
i have some sketchy friends.
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#149a social network for couples. my married friends complain that they feel like hermits, because it's hard to meet other couples to hang out with. you'd have a shared profile, which is matched with other local couples with similar tastes in movies, music, food, whatever.
Could work for singles too. Instead of a dating site that matches people to each other, it matches people to fun activities and events. Send a bunch of singles or couples to Cocktail-making or salsa dancing class and they've got a common ground to talk about and can still enjoy even if they don't find someone.
that's definitely true.
though part of what i like about it is the idea of two people using a computer together. the internet is so bizarre in that it connects you to others who are far away, but simultaneously isolates you from folks who are nearby.
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Shoutfit, based on its site being down, seems to have possibly failed to heed PG's "don't die" message." I like the name shoutfit, though... Catchy.
The Shoutfit guys were, last I heard, working on BuyThisLook, but it's also non-existent. So they died twice, I guess.
eric, one of the shoutfit guys, recently changed his occupation on linkedin to Hiker at Appalachian Trail (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry).
sounds like pretty much the coolest job ever. =)