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• I need a good christmas gift for myself! :-) In reply to: "Crave giveaway of the day: $500 Newegg.com gift card"

  December 3, 2009

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• I'm sorry, the fact that I can walk in to any Apple Store in the country and have someone diagnose a problem with my computer and even fix it (sometimes for free, sometimes not, depending on the problem and whether or not you have Apple Care) is virtually priceless. Having the capability to have an expert look at your computer and then look you in the eye to tell you what's going on is something that's worth the "Apple Tax".
  
  I understand where Microsoft is coming from, but I agree with you Ina: I'm more than willing to pay the extra money for the piece of mind I have. I'm a switcher. I used to be a PC-only household. Now I have three macs and one linux machine. And honestly, I'm happier for it. In reply to: "Time for an audit of Microsoft's 'Apple Tax'"

  April 9, 2009

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• I'm intrigued as to why people would be upset about this? Obama is trying to find ways to decrease our dependence on foreign oil. One of the ways to do that is to push the US automakers to create cars that depend on using less gas.
  
  And I'd venture to say that the the reason why the clean tech cars haven't been popular to date is because the manufacturers (like GM) haven't had any incentive to make them enticing. Hell, if I had the money, I'd buy a Tesla right now. GM has better resources to mass produce cool cars at an inexpensive price... they just chose not to because it would have (initially) negatively affected their bottom line. In addition, the kickbacks they get form the oil companies would have gone the way of the do-do bird.
  
  I think this is a good plan. You guys have to remember, Obama's only been in office for 100 days. It took Bush 8 years to get us in to this mess; the clean up is not going to happen fast and it's not going to be cheap. We're not going to get out of this mess by not spending money. In reply to: "Obama: U.S. auto industry must lead on 'clean cars'"

  March 30, 2009

  2 replies

• These are real people.
  As a former photobucket employee I can honestly tell you that
  one of the differentiators of Photobucket is the human review.
  And yes, they actually do employ real people who go over and
  scan the photos; it is not software screened. Photobucket
  evaluated a lot of software during the process of determining
  how to do it's content moderation and found little that was good
  enough to depend on; so instead, they built a team to do it. And
  that team is filled with some of the bravest people I've come
  across in the web 2.0 industry.
  
  I can't stop you from assuming what you'd like, anon8mizer.
  However, the amount of effort the content moderators put in to
  reviewing every photo that goes on the site is astounding. So
  don't take credit away where credit is more than due. Everyone
  makes mistakes; it's more important how we deal with and learn
  from those mistakes. In this case, I think Photobucket handled it
  properly. In reply to: "Photobucket says it erred in censoring diapered babies"

  March 13, 2008

  1 reply

• Who cares if Sony copies well???
  The REAL irony is that no one ever said Nintendo wasn't an innovator. I'll be the first to admit that Nintendo comes up with some pretty decent ideas (although, let's be honest, the Dual Shock is the best controller ever invented).
  
  However, all the innovation in the world is for naught if you can't follow up that innovation with good business strategy. Nintendo followed up it's innovation with ****-poor business strategy. They completely screwed up their last two console generations by making it next to impossible for third-party publishers to put anything out on their platforms.
  
  I'll always buy the Nintendo console for Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. But those are all first party titles. Nintendo froze out the third party publishers that made them great during the days of the NES and the SNES. Whatever else you want to say about Sony, they embraced all the publishers out there and told them to build whatever they wanted.
  
  And a wise man once said, "if you build it, they will come." And Sony had publishers build a helluva lot of stuff figuring that one of the 1000 PS2 games released every year is going to be of interest to someone. In the same time it takes Sony to put out those 1000 titles, Nintendo releases a meager 200 titles. For those of you that say they prefer the quality titles over the quantity, I only have this to say: there's only so much you can play Pikmin before you long for something (anything) new.
  
  Sony may not think up all the brilliant ideas, but I'll be damned if they haven't had a superior business strategy these past two console cycles. And if Nintendo doesn't start embracing third party publishers again then they would have learned nothing from their ludicrous failures over the past decade. In reply to: "Nintendo said to accuse Sony of stealing controller idea"

  May 20, 2006

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