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• You're not locked in
  If you don't want to buy songs from iTunes, you still have your
  choice of every CD retailer within driving distance (or internet
  ordering distance, for that matter). iTMS is a convenient
  alternative to CDs and it comes with more restrictions
  (restrictions imposed on the service by the music companies).
  It's one option, and not one you're required to take.

  March 28, 2007

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• 256 KB
  The article actually states each core has 256 kilobytes of memory. Not megabytes. 256KB. The clarification notes underneath the main article text points this out as well.

  October 1, 2006

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• Advantage Handed
  Uhm, isn't Microsoft already "first to market with its Xbox 360 next-generation console" since it's out already and the PS3 kind of isn't? Or was this article written before November...?

  February 19, 2006

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• Two Things offhand
  One - this would have been a good article to have appeared,
  say, five years ago. Web publishing of comics is an accomplished
  thing at this point (still evolving, of course, but an enormous
  creative movement for some years now) and talking about the
  transition from print to Web is tacit admission that you haven't
  been paying attention.
  
  Two - Animation is not the future of comics, comics is the future
  of comics. Again, this point has already played out. The tools for
  animating comics have been around for years and the ones that
  want to animate have become animated, leaving thousands of
  regular, old comics doing their thing and being comics. The
  tools and publishing media may change, but writing and
  drawing comics is its own art form and is not animation and is
  not going to disappear in favor of something else. Again, this is
  the kind of argument that is only made by someone who hasn't
  been paying attention to the actual evolution of this form up to
  this point. Adding a blog to a massively syndicated comic like
  Dilbert, which has been available in print and online for years,
  does not constitute any kind of shift or development in the art
  form OR its distribution.
  
  You want to know about webcomics? Read some webcomics.

  February 2, 2006

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• Pigheadedness
  Glaser is being emotional and entirely misses the point. The sole
  purpose of the iTunes Music Store is to sell iPods. That is all it's
  ever been intended to do and every decision Apple has made
  regarding it supports that purpose. As a revenue model on its
  own, it is simply not worth it - Apple makes very little money on
  the music sold. Opening it to other players and other
  applications dilutes and defeats that purpose, and that is why it
  hasn't happened. Introducing other arguements and issues is
  politics and debate tactics, intended to muddy the waters and
  stir up response.

  December 5, 2005

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• Pachter is clueless
  "I don't think there are 4 million people in the world who really want to play online games every month," said Michael Pachter, a research analyst for Wedbush Morgan, a securities firm. "'World of Warcraft' is such an exception. I frankly think it's the buzz factor, and eventually it will come back to the mean, maybe a million subscribers."
  
  "It may continue to grow in China," Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense."
  
  That's the most clueless evaluation of human nature (not to mention existing statistics) I've read in a long time.
  
  -Allen

  September 11, 2005

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• Pachter is clueless
  "I don't think there are 4 million people in the world who really want to play online games every month," said Michael Pachter, a research analyst for Wedbush Morgan, a securities firm. "'World of Warcraft' is such an exception. I frankly think it's the buzz factor, and eventually it will come back to the mean, maybe a million subscribers."
  
  "It may continue to grow in China," Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense."
  
  That's the most clueless evaluation of human nature (not to mention existing statistics) I've read in a long time.
  
  -Allen

  September 11, 2005

  4 replies