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by ajscherer 16y ago
You're not a bad person for wanting that. If your argument is that he is insulting you, and that is wrong, then I agree with you. My point was that people should only expect to make money by doing something other people are willing to pay
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by ajscherer 16y ago
It doesn't look like he said nobody should make any money. He said that nobody should install non-free software, which if everyone did as RMS wanted (they won't) would imply that one couldn't make money selling non-free software. Why is it
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by ajscherer 16y ago
"it makes sense" is a weak reason to accept an idea.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I wish I had found that sad. Thanks to the Jim Rome show all I could think of was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGNW5ltWowA
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by ajscherer 16y ago
" I may be wrong. but if 'm not willing to play a video game to find that out, I should say so." "It is quite possible a game could someday be great Art." I can't fathom how one could come away from that article thinking that Ebert believe
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I don't believe I've ever had fun buying PC software, but that platform went somewhere. What is your reason for believing the smartphone market is different?
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by ajscherer 16y ago
In many similar situations people don't have reservations. Guaranteeing they receive a product requires them to be one of the first people through the door when the store opens. Taking reservations may have created the false impression th
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Who said anything about forcing Apple to do anything? The blog post wasn't talking about suing Apple or asking the government to step in. It was merely criticizing a system they find slimy and contrary to the interests of Apple's customer
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Do Mac owners find they get along better with other Mac owners? I ask this because I suspect the reason for using (and creating) this site isn't necessarily that the user feels more likely to meet someone he/she will get along with. I susp
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by ajscherer 16y ago
The most obvious one I can think of is that bodybuilding alters your physical appearance, and that is an important component of attraction for almost everyone. If you go to a site called FitnessSingles you expect the people you meet there
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I think this points out a huge problem with the App Store. It shows that if a large company feels threatened by your app, all they have to do is send a legal threat to Apple and your app is toast. If users were free to acquire software for
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by ajscherer 16y ago
"A good idea for a movie doesn't mean it's a good movie. A bad idea for a movie doesn't mean it's a bad idea." This is exactly what I meant when I said that the quality of an idea is a marginal factor in the success of an endeavor. I fully
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by ajscherer 16y ago
"You can only hold the opinion that a particular movie concept is a good or bad idea if you don't understand what a movie is or what an idea is." This is ridiculous. Does he honestly believe that a movie about me eating a bowl of shredded
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I don't understand why this is perceived as being about self-esteem rather than sportsmanship. It isn't like kids are so dumb they aren't going to know when they are getting their asses kicked, or that they will take pride in a win achieve
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by ajscherer 16y ago
It is curious that he believes this transformation will be unleashed by the iPad. The reason he gives: "The iPad has a browsing capability that allows you to see any content on the Internet, legal or not, and consume it from just about any
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Fusion has 5 blades and Gillette didn't make a razor with 4. Also, in my experience the additional blades (or some other aspect of the newer Gillette razors) do make it easier to get a better shave. I was floored the first time I tried Mac
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by ajscherer 16y ago
That is a problematic definition as well. First, intended by whom? Is alcohol a drug if I drink it to get hammered, and not a drug if I drink it because I'm thirsty? Or is it the intention of the producer that matters, in which case how
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by ajscherer 16y ago
That's the worst part! It's a tired ad hominem and completely irrelevant to the discussion they were having. Jobs' argument for Apple's decisions should be convincing regardless of the accomplishments of the person he is (voluntarily) arg
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by ajscherer 16y ago
There are obvious benefits to "curated computing", but is there any evidence that the App Store wouldn't work if users were free to use software from other sources? If not, if the App Store would be completely undermined by giving users th
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by ajscherer 16y ago
It's blocked for me here at work (as I sit sipping my Diet Coke). What is the reason?
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by ajscherer 16y ago
The article isn't asserting that people won't like an iPad if you buy it for them. It is asserting that (most) people like your parents won't decide to go buy an iPad. Were your parents planning to buy an iPad anyway, or did you buy it for
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by ajscherer 16y ago
How did the researches measure peoples' happiness levels?
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by ajscherer 16y ago
You don't have to decide. Earnestness and seriousness are synonyms.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I totally missed the attribution to time.com. I thought the article was just formatted weird. I agree the full Time article is better, but it still doesn't address the billion people it mentions going hungry.
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by ajscherer 16y ago
It is interesting that half of your solutions to Winer's pain points involve buying additional products from Apple. I think some of Winer's complaints are a bit silly, but I also think there is a very good case to be made that a netbook is
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by ajscherer 16y ago
I agree with maybe half the things the author is saying, but I hate the way he tries to group them all together into some larger narrative of "the way we live has become synthetic and corrupted and we need to go back to a more natural way o
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by ajscherer 16y ago
What good is being afraid going to do?
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by ajscherer 17y ago
No, I don't think so. That doesn't seem to fall into any of the categories of things that have made me happy. I've accomplished a few things that I think "should" make me happy, but for whatever reason I don't feel any lasting difference
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by ajscherer 17y ago
Lets ask him how much better that makes him feel.
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by ajscherer 17y ago
Those 30 million people were reclassified from normal to overweight. People with BMIs between 30 and 31.9 would've been reclassified from overweight to obese, but I see no indication that there were 30 million of them.

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