User: tepisch

Marketing, customer service, and patents

On: Interviews: Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson Answers Your Questions

We have a Blendec. As a result of the Will It Blend? videos.

When Blendec received money from their competitor as a result of infringement of an actually innovative patent, what did they do?

They poured that money right back into customer service, by giving away (well, we paid $12 for shipping) one Wildside jar to their existing customers. Which I am now turning that goodwill into more free marketing for them.

This is brilliant on several levels.

Yes, their product is expensive. Yes, the quality is high. The value, in our house, greatly exceeds the cost. Thanks, Tom!

Re:Dangerous, arrr

On: How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser

and we need more pirates anyway. Mod this insightful. THIS is how to deal with global warming. Err, "climate change."

Ramen.

Re:Controllers and USB... and ColecoVision

On: Tom's Hardware Reviews the Xbox

> electrical geeks to hack up an XBOX2USB adapter...

It's already been done:

http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/product_info.php ?c ategory=53&products_id=1665&PHPSESSID=d763 ab40dd9b200ba502dd7f4ef03463

Re:What about i386?

On: Jordan Hubbard (of FreeBSD Fame) Hired by Apple

What about OS X to be released on Itanium? It may sound crazy, but they could choose -not- to support i386 compatability, which is supposed to be slow anyway, and have a 'real' operating system in place well before Microsoft's 3rd or 4th OS release for this platform. (Meaning that NT didn't get exciting until Win2K, Windows until 95 OSR 2 or 98, depending on who you ask). Am I crazy? If so, tell me why...

Too-Ominous comparison?

On: 2600's Response to the DeCSS Decision

...and when they came for the coders, I did not speak up, for I was not a coder.