"I can say they seem to have an innate sense of fairness"
Bollocks. I say they have an all-consuming demand for fairness, especially whey they believe they have been treated unfairly.
...BUT their concepts of fairness are terribly immature, rudimentary, simple, biased in their favor, and dwell only on the short-term present time frame.
Try picking one child up from school and buying her ice cream. Then pick up the second child, and go out for dinner. Now, only buy the second child ice cream after dinner. The first child think it's UNfair that she gets no ice cream. Even though they both did.
I also played soccer with some 6 year olds. Some kept using their hands to stop the ball as an unintended reflex, others had the ball hit their arms by mistake. No matter. Both sets of kids would argue to their deaths that the ball did not hit their hands. Their "sense of fairness" told them that, since they didn't touch the ball deliberately, it was only fair that it doesn't count.
Businesses without MBAs can all be trusted? But when an MBA rolls in, it all goes to hell?
I don't think a case has been made to prove that assertion, yet. Do you have any citations? Because I've seen douchebag MBAs, and I've seen non-douches. Seems to be a similar cut as the general population.
I've certainly had plenty of folk try to rip me off, scam me, grift me, rob me etcetera who were not MBAs.
Nobody here has a problem with the fact that the actor doesn't get paid for work done 30 years ago. Masnick isn't actually saying Prouse deserves money. The issues are:
- the hypocrisy of the studio to say they just represent the actors and writers, etc, but don't.
- the standard bad math skills and questionable accounting tactics of the studios.
- the fact that the studios then go to DC with the same bad math and accounting, and try to tell us they don't make money because of piracy.
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I agree with your point on hypocrisy. However,
"Samsung made a tablet that is essentially superior to the iPad in every way..."
I've got a Samsung Tab 10.1 and an iPad. I have lots of hardware for the purpose of playing around/testing. Believe me, the Samsung is nowhere near as good as the iPad.
Slow to respond to screen touches, slow to rotate when turned, slow to respond to keyboard (lag), buggy, many apps that 'Force Close', difficult to drag icons because you 'lose' touch with them, complete system hang occurs to me every couple of days from an unused standby state (locks with screen on, black, kills battery). It has dual cameras, but Skype doesn't do video, I need to use Google Talk where I have no contacts in the buddy list.
Now, I know the specs are great, the hardware is slick, the weight and design are impressive. Battery seems strong, and the UI is even pretty good. But the UX is terrible compared to the iPad. And I am comparing it to iPad 1.
And that's from a guy who claims to be impartial, but if you must know, uses Windows computers and an Android phone. Android phone is a much better challenger to iPhone than Android tablet is to iPad.
I'll always bet on the (few) products that obscure complex technology, and replace it with "smoke and mirrors for the clueless." Do it well, and you sell 25 million instead of 2000.
I'm no Ron Paul voter, but there is something wrong with a process that systematically pre-empts a candidate as "not a serious contender". It's especially scary when that candidate does well in polls, debates, and in Ames.
Last time I studied Greek history, grooming the field of options was not the foundation of Democracy.
"Ron Paul has ZERO chance of being elected and is rightfully ignored"
All due respect, but I don't want you, nor Roger Ailes, nor some other boneheaded news director telling me who is, and who isn't viable.
"a lot of these ACs and Mike Defenders are just Mike himself. It's really that desperate around here."
I love this line. I remember back a decade or so when fools accused Mike of writing every article, even the ones I wrote. They said he was "faking" extra persona.
It has never been difficult to find out that I'm a real person, but to actually do a few clicks of research is harder than spewing lies. I do smell desperation here, you are right about that.
So you are agreeing with my comment a few above that Mike is respecting the anonymity of his commenters.
However, taken in aggregate, it IS relevant information that a high proportion of comments comes from the Beltway. Normally, we would expect a more normal distribution. So, this suggests a political agenda may be at play, not just some friendly Techdirt readers who disagree.
What I've seen is Mike often commenting that HE knows the identity of some of the commenters, or HE knows where they are located (with IP-grade reliability), and he offer some anonymized relevant implications from that.
"Try to remember that we're talking about a SINGLE, decent sized motion picture versus 10 jobs added by each of the signatory companies to Mike's letter. "
You might want to move that App Store date forward a bit, because I remember the same experience on my Palm Pilot, where I bought apps from the Palm store, and they appeared as icons on my launcher screen.
You are also involved in deep non sequitur. The Gizomodo claim was that any kind of copying was lazy and unimaginative (L&U). But your answer is that, after some arbitrary 20 year period, then copying someone's work is no longer L&U? So copying old ideas is not L&U, but copy anything fresher than 19yrs 364 days is L&U. How does it suddenly become OK?
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Bollocks. I say they have an all-consuming demand for fairness, especially whey they believe they have been treated unfairly.
...BUT their concepts of fairness are terribly immature, rudimentary, simple, biased in their favor, and dwell only on the short-term present time frame.
Try picking one child up from school and buying her ice cream. Then pick up the second child, and go out for dinner. Now, only buy the second child ice cream after dinner. The first child think it's UNfair that she gets no ice cream. Even though they both did.
I also played soccer with some 6 year olds. Some kept using their hands to stop the ball as an unintended reflex, others had the ball hit their arms by mistake. No matter. Both sets of kids would argue to their deaths that the ball did not hit their hands. Their "sense of fairness" told them that, since they didn't touch the ball deliberately, it was only fair that it doesn't count.
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What BBB Accreditation Means
The business in question has a fixed address and contact info.
The business in question has paid its BBB bill.
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Businesses without MBAs can all be trusted? But when an MBA rolls in, it all goes to hell?
I don't think a case has been made to prove that assertion, yet. Do you have any citations? Because I've seen douchebag MBAs, and I've seen non-douches. Seems to be a similar cut as the general population.
I've certainly had plenty of folk try to rip me off, scam me, grift me, rob me etcetera who were not MBAs.
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Shit My Author Says
The Shit My Dad Says guys should sue Ellison. Gotta protect their trademarks and fanciful characters.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: A good salesman can sell ice water to anyone...
Why doesn't anyone want to mime-workout over tablet video conference?
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- the hypocrisy of the studio to say they just represent the actors and writers, etc, but don't.
- the standard bad math skills and questionable accounting tactics of the studios.
- the fact that the studios then go to DC with the same bad math and accounting, and try to tell us they don't make money because of piracy.
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Re: Re: A good salesman can sell ice water to anyone...
"Samsung made a tablet that is essentially superior to the iPad in every way..."
I've got a Samsung Tab 10.1 and an iPad. I have lots of hardware for the purpose of playing around/testing. Believe me, the Samsung is nowhere near as good as the iPad.
Slow to respond to screen touches, slow to rotate when turned, slow to respond to keyboard (lag), buggy, many apps that 'Force Close', difficult to drag icons because you 'lose' touch with them, complete system hang occurs to me every couple of days from an unused standby state (locks with screen on, black, kills battery). It has dual cameras, but Skype doesn't do video, I need to use Google Talk where I have no contacts in the buddy list.
Now, I know the specs are great, the hardware is slick, the weight and design are impressive. Battery seems strong, and the UI is even pretty good. But the UX is terrible compared to the iPad. And I am comparing it to iPad 1.
And that's from a guy who claims to be impartial, but if you must know, uses Windows computers and an Android phone. Android phone is a much better challenger to iPhone than Android tablet is to iPad.
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Re: Marketing versus engineering
And that is awesome.
I'll always bet on the (few) products that obscure complex technology, and replace it with "smoke and mirrors for the clueless." Do it well, and you sell 25 million instead of 2000.
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Yes. They would all look like they got their ass handed to them by Paul.
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Last time I studied Greek history, grooming the field of options was not the foundation of Democracy.
"Ron Paul has ZERO chance of being elected and is rightfully ignored"
All due respect, but I don't want you, nor Roger Ailes, nor some other boneheaded news director telling me who is, and who isn't viable.
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Re: new ceral
You are going to get a letter right now from these guys:
http://patentlaw.typepad.com/
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I love this line. I remember back a decade or so when fools accused Mike of writing every article, even the ones I wrote. They said he was "faking" extra persona.
It has never been difficult to find out that I'm a real person, but to actually do a few clicks of research is harder than spewing lies. I do smell desperation here, you are right about that.
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So you are agreeing with my comment a few above that Mike is respecting the anonymity of his commenters.
However, taken in aggregate, it IS relevant information that a high proportion of comments comes from the Beltway. Normally, we would expect a more normal distribution. So, this suggests a political agenda may be at play, not just some friendly Techdirt readers who disagree.
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Citation please.
What I've seen is Mike often commenting that HE knows the identity of some of the commenters, or HE knows where they are located (with IP-grade reliability), and he offer some anonymized relevant implications from that.
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Where is this one filmed? Toronto or Vancouver?
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5 + 0 = 5
- 1 Banana
- 12oz Orange Juice
- Fruit Loops
- Ridiculous Trademark Suit
Ridiculous lawsuits. Part of this nutritious breakfast!
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You are also involved in deep non sequitur. The Gizomodo claim was that any kind of copying was lazy and unimaginative (L&U). But your answer is that, after some arbitrary 20 year period, then copying someone's work is no longer L&U? So copying old ideas is not L&U, but copy anything fresher than 19yrs 364 days is L&U. How does it suddenly become OK?
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Fake implies a lack of the active ingredient.
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