"But imagine if, from within the store, I could explain the job, take a quick picture of certain items, and reach out to a community of experts on the subject who could let me know if I really had the right tools for the job or not."
And how do you know if they are real experts or just corporate shills? It is a fact that there is no substitute for actually understanding the problem and solutions yourself.
Most certainly we cannot expect to get the truth from Intel or anyone associated with them.
"The other consideration is that online can sell via volume and make up their sales. Retail cannot do that. Mark-ups are necessary or else they lose money in selling a product."
There are plenty of outfits with retail and mail order that sell at one price. You can bet that they used combined sales volume to get a better price.
While on the issue of price, AMD beats the crap out of Intel. If you decide to but Intel you should first buy a tube of KY for each hand.
Re: Brick and Mortar need to stop "ignoring" online
Try calling Best Buy to find out if something is actually in stock. Take a look at their restocking charges. Try to actually get the great Black Friday deals. Make the mistake of trusting their sales people to give you accurate product information.
A few years ago I decided enough was enough and started buying almost everything online. I save money and aggravation.
For more expensive items the saving in price easily covers next day delivery and more.
For the vast majority of people computer speeds are already far faster than what they need. There are some exceptions such as gamers, some servers and so one. But for the rest AMD based systems deliver far greater value.
There is also a fringe benefit in that every time someone buys AMD their purchase helps keep Intel in check :)
Actually creating new things is fraught with risk. Sucking up to large companies in order to be tossed a few scraps may not be sexy, but if one is a really effective at brown nosing it can provide a good living.
It looks to me like there are many similarities between Intellectual Vultures business model and that of TechDIRT. It will be interesting to see if Sony sees merit in seeking TechDIRT insight.
Sony is all about style. InventorEd.org is designed to deliver substance at low bandwidth because in addition to serving people in developed countries it also serves people in developing countries. Not everyone has low cost connections. And many are using older computers. It also serves visually impaired people and is designed to be easy to navigate with screen readers.
There is no question that Mike Masnick has rightfully pegged Sony and I do appreciate when Mike gets something right as he has in this case.
I have not noticed any puff pieces like Intel and other have had on TechDIRT for Sony. I wonder if this is a marketing tactic to sell Sony some insight? But I do think it is reasonable to consider why Sony and not also Intel?
Or at least well along the path to eventual total failure.
"They're starting on a "denial of existence" push to lower peoples recognition of xperia as being connected to sony and therefore have to force fan-sites to close."
Another good reason to move the website to Experia-Sony-Sucks. If they pull the plug next year and leave all their customers with expensive orphan systems there will be plenty of people interested in using a more aptly named discussion forum.
It seems that Sony knows and acknowledges that they SUCK :)
SonySucks.com
Registrant:
Domain Administrator
Sony Music Entertainment
550 Madison Ave.
New York ny 10022
US domain.admin@sonymusic.com
+1.2128338000
Like most big companies they did not realize that this was futile, see: http://Sony-SUCKS.com/
Hopefully the owner of http://Sony-SUCKS.com/ will work with the people by offering them use of Experia.Sony-SUCKS.com
Attacking fan sites and turning fans into adversaries is just plain stupid.
It would be better to use XperiaX10-SUCKS.net. And while they are at it they should register the name on other top level domains. For an example of this take a look at www.CyberTrialLawyer-SUCKS.com, a site I created about a self professed Super BS lawyer.
One reason for hyphenating is that search engines parse on the hyphen, seeing the terms as separate words. The other is that there is case law regarding the use of sucks in a domain name. The minute you add sucks you remove any possibility of confusion about the trademark.
If Sony registers that domain (they know that they suck) there are an endless number of other possibilities such as XperiaX10-Really-SUCKS.net or XperiaX10-Sony-SUCKS.net. I thing that XperiaX10-Sony-SUCKS might be the best because it ties the trademark and Sony's name to the site.
There was a time when Sony actually produced quality products, but in my experience that time is long past. Sony became Style without Substance, a nice play on SonyStyle.com :) They are good at building attractive products which are by design in really ugly inside.
When you look at Sony you are seeing Apple's eventual fate. In both cases they produce products which are attractive on the surface but limited by design in ways which are meant to extort more money from customers. It is one thing to offer additional value and profit from doing so and quite another to force a user into a shotgun wedding where additional money is extracted without delivering fair value.
There is a list of real inventors in the patent database on www.USPTO.gov. While you are looking at real inventors be sure to study as many patents as possible. There is a gold mine of knowledge in the patent database. I don't want to hear any whining about your not understanding or seeing any value in what you read. Keep trying until you succeed, it will transform you and your world view.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
A patent is given in exchange for sharing knowledge. I was inventing long before I filed the first patent. The reason I did not file earlier is that big business owned several venues where the courts always condoned theft of inventions.
For over a decade I always preserved my inventions as trade secrets. When I built products I went to great lengths to hide the essence of the invention. The end result was that I was not teaching the invention.
One reason that technology has advanced at an ever increasing rate is that inventions are taught via patents.
If the incentive to publish is taken away most inventors will put their efforts into developing technology which lends itself to trade secret protection. Investment capital will flow to those areas.
Everyone needs to understand that existing companies are quite happy to have less disruptive markets, slower advances. Look at telephone companies before the Carterphone decision or at Honeywell cash cow thermostat which did not change for decades until Mike Levine started MagicStat.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Mike Masnick walks and talks like a thinly veiled PR hack. I don't think he ever considers anything which is not inline with an agenda. It sure is strange how his writings promote the agenda of big corporate patent pirates. I am sure that this is just an unfortunate coincidence.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
No, there are probably less than a million active inventors in the US at this time.
"Sure, other people may create things"
There is a huge difference between copying something and being the first to conceive it.
Its good to see that you "INVENTORS" are a special class above mere creators, inventors and innovators."
The people you are calling "creators, inventors and innovators." may create something, as in a product but they sure as hell are not inventing and they have no business calling themselves innovators.
"Don't let those peons and drones drag you down, right?"
Most professions have their drones but some have more, such as programmers. There are programmers who rise to the level of being inventors, but not many. The skills which it takes to be a good programmer are very different than what it takes to be an inventor. Some people have both characteristics but not many. Think of it as the difference between being a paramedic and an emergency room doctor. Clearly the paramedic has skills, but not anywhere what the e-room doctor has.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
This post nicely demonstrates how managers usually lack the ability to create new solutions but are good at combining others solutions (inventions). This is typical of programmers and also large companies. Both groups love to talk about being innovators. The problem is that they rarely actually invent anything and when they do the inventions are usually minor incremental improvements. Just copying others inventions does not make these people and companies innovators.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Innovation In Retail: The Informed Shopper Is A Happier Shopper
"imagine if" we could trust Intel?
And how do you know if they are real experts or just corporate shills? It is a fact that there is no substitute for actually understanding the problem and solutions yourself.
Most certainly we cannot expect to get the truth from Intel or anyone associated with them.
On the post: Innovation In Retail: The Informed Shopper Is A Happier Shopper
Price, AMD beats the crap out of Intel Re:
There are plenty of outfits with retail and mail order that sell at one price. You can bet that they used combined sales volume to get a better price.
While on the issue of price, AMD beats the crap out of Intel. If you decide to but Intel you should first buy a tube of KY for each hand.
On the post: Innovation In Retail: The Informed Shopper Is A Happier Shopper
Re: Brick and Mortar need to stop "ignoring" online
A few years ago I decided enough was enough and started buying almost everything online. I save money and aggravation.
For more expensive items the saving in price easily covers next day delivery and more.
On the post: Innovation In Retail: The Informed Shopper Is A Happier Shopper
SOLD OUT / Re:
On the post: Innovation In Retail: The Informed Shopper Is A Happier Shopper
Informed shoppers dump Intel.
There is also a fringe benefit in that every time someone buys AMD their purchase helps keep Intel in check :)
On the post: Sony Ericsson Shows How Not To Connect With Fans: Forces Shutdown Of Xperia Fan Blog
Re: Re: Re: Re: Why Mike Picks on Sony?
On the post: Sony Ericsson Shows How Not To Connect With Fans: Forces Shutdown Of Xperia Fan Blog
Whoring For Big Companies Is Not New
Actually creating new things is fraught with risk. Sucking up to large companies in order to be tossed a few scraps may not be sexy, but if one is a really effective at brown nosing it can provide a good living.
It looks to me like there are many similarities between Intellectual Vultures business model and that of TechDIRT. It will be interesting to see if Sony sees merit in seeking TechDIRT insight.
On the post: Sony Ericsson Shows How Not To Connect With Fans: Forces Shutdown Of Xperia Fan Blog
Re: Re: Sony, Style Without Substance
On the post: Sony Ericsson Shows How Not To Connect With Fans: Forces Shutdown Of Xperia Fan Blog
Why Mike Picks on Sony?
I have not noticed any puff pieces like Intel and other have had on TechDIRT for Sony. I wonder if this is a marketing tactic to sell Sony some insight? But I do think it is reasonable to consider why Sony and not also Intel?
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Sony is a Failure / Re: Well
"They're starting on a "denial of existence" push to lower peoples recognition of xperia as being connected to sony and therefore have to force fan-sites to close."
Another good reason to move the website to Experia-Sony-Sucks. If they pull the plug next year and leave all their customers with expensive orphan systems there will be plenty of people interested in using a more aptly named discussion forum.
It seems that Sony knows and acknowledges that they SUCK :)
SonySucks.com
Registrant:
Domain Administrator
Sony Music Entertainment
550 Madison Ave.
New York ny 10022
US
domain.admin@sonymusic.com
+1.2128338000
Like most big companies they did not realize that this was futile, see: http://Sony-SUCKS.com/
Hopefully the owner of http://Sony-SUCKS.com/ will work with the people by offering them use of Experia.Sony-SUCKS.com
On the post: Sony Ericsson Shows How Not To Connect With Fans: Forces Shutdown Of Xperia Fan Blog
Sony, Style Without Substance
It would be better to use XperiaX10-SUCKS.net. And while they are at it they should register the name on other top level domains. For an example of this take a look at www.CyberTrialLawyer-SUCKS.com, a site I created about a self professed Super BS lawyer.
One reason for hyphenating is that search engines parse on the hyphen, seeing the terms as separate words. The other is that there is case law regarding the use of sucks in a domain name. The minute you add sucks you remove any possibility of confusion about the trademark.
If Sony registers that domain (they know that they suck) there are an endless number of other possibilities such as XperiaX10-Really-SUCKS.net or XperiaX10-Sony-SUCKS.net. I thing that XperiaX10-Sony-SUCKS might be the best because it ties the trademark and Sony's name to the site.
There was a time when Sony actually produced quality products, but in my experience that time is long past. Sony became Style without Substance, a nice play on SonyStyle.com :) They are good at building attractive products which are by design in really ugly inside.
When you look at Sony you are seeing Apple's eventual fate. In both cases they produce products which are attractive on the surface but limited by design in ways which are meant to extort more money from customers. It is one thing to offer additional value and profit from doing so and quite another to force a user into a shotgun wedding where additional money is extracted without delivering fair value.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
List of Real Inventors
It is time to stop wallowing in ignorance.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Re: Re: Sharing is Necessary
For over a decade I always preserved my inventions as trade secrets. When I built products I went to great lengths to hide the essence of the invention. The end result was that I was not teaching the invention.
One reason that technology has advanced at an ever increasing rate is that inventions are taught via patents.
If the incentive to publish is taken away most inventors will put their efforts into developing technology which lends itself to trade secret protection. Investment capital will flow to those areas.
Everyone needs to understand that existing companies are quite happy to have less disruptive markets, slower advances. Look at telephone companies before the Carterphone decision or at Honeywell cash cow thermostat which did not change for decades until Mike Levine started MagicStat.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re:
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Re: Programmers
No, there are probably less than a million active inventors in the US at this time.
"Sure, other people may create things"
There is a huge difference between copying something and being the first to conceive it.
Its good to see that you "INVENTORS" are a special class above mere creators, inventors and innovators."
The people you are calling "creators, inventors and innovators." may create something, as in a product but they sure as hell are not inventing and they have no business calling themselves innovators.
"Don't let those peons and drones drag you down, right?"
Most professions have their drones but some have more, such as programmers. There are programmers who rise to the level of being inventors, but not many. The skills which it takes to be a good programmer are very different than what it takes to be an inventor. Some people have both characteristics but not many. Think of it as the difference between being a paramedic and an emergency room doctor. Clearly the paramedic has skills, but not anywhere what the e-room doctor has.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: As a programmer
Isn't it long past time that people on TechDIRT actually invest a bit of time into understanding what they comment on?
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Troll Bait
2) Mike Masnick is very selective in what facts he tries to push, lying by omission.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Sharing is Necessary
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Re: Re: As a programmer
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
On the post: Debate On Software Patents Fails To Convince Silicon Valley That Patents Increase Innovation
Re: Re: Re: Re: As a programmer
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.
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