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Isn't this what Joel Spolsky referred to as a leaky abstraction? -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

My issue is that if you want to track my habits, track my purchases, my downloads, etc, then make the data available to me as well.

It'd be great to see a geographic breakdown of where my friend's band is most popular. It'd be fairly novel to see musical trends e.g. a resurgance of raggae downloads in Brooklyn.

If you're going to track my data, at least make the results available to me as well.

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Jim
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But it's not like you're unaccountable for $67 million. Product doesn't make it to market; do you think you get to buy a jetski now?

Anything that isn't used first and foremost goes back to the investors. And if the investors think you botched the development, they may sue you.

Any VC funding is a *huge* liability and should only be pursued if absolutely necessary. Listen to Jason Fried's opening presentation at South by Southwest for more about this philosophy ( http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.2 0060311.Opening.Remarks.mp3 ).

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While not perfect, the media is a crucial factor in the check and balances system. Once the media is supressed, branches of the government have free reign. -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

A thanks to Teotihacan for finding this. I'm sure that eventually several sysadmins would have failed security audits because of this. -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

This problem isn't just specific to the games industry. Media outlets are increasingly directed by their coporate owners and have become more of a pre-sale hype machine than anything else. This is why it is all the more important that we have bloggers; individuals who don't have financial ties to the development companies and who will offer a more objective opinion. -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

Cisco obviously has the technology, it's the marketing that needs to change. I guarantee that my mother would have trouble identifying Cisco's core technology and even if she knew of their domain, would have trouble identifying them as a brand she should look for at Best Buy. -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

Eventually we're going to bump into limits yet again with the coax cabling, so why not still go forth with the fiberoptic plans? -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

I would love to have some sort of integrated control center. I want to be able to turn off the bathroom's plug-in in case my girlfriend left her curling iron on. I want to see the state of the oven and how long that turkey has been cooking. As devices get smarter, it would be nice to have some sort of standardized plug-in protocol where each device exposed certain, adjustable properties. -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

The thumb naturally makes a ciruclar motion, lending itself best to the click wheel design. When I am forced to use a directional navigation system, its as if my fingers are forced to hold positions that don't feel natural. Anyone else get this feeling? If the device were $100 cheaper, and all things else comparable, I could probably be uncomfortable. Anything less though, why bother? -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/

I guarantee half of those bots are a result of some rogue ActiveX installation that most moms didn't know enough to click "don't install". Do everyone a favor, and just shut off ActiveX entirely. -- Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/