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  1. How is market research relevant? on Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research · · Score: 1

    How is market research relevant to patent squabbles?

    OT: A still open question, how much credit belongs to Jobs? (Has it been documented?) Fans will dismiss the market research as a curse, blasphemy, when perhaps they should be happy about it? Any part of the process that did not require Job's input can be reproduced, and would mean the company could continue its happy, profitable path.

  2. Diggs own grave on The Cost To 'Promote' a Facebook Post: $200 To $500 · · Score: 1

    If people want to pay this, fine. pay. All it does is undermine facebook's already thin legitimacy. Reminds me of when when digg sold off her front page.

  3. Not "Thunderstruck" on Iran Nuclear Agency Not "Thunderstruck" By Virus · · Score: 1

    it was "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap".

  4. slipping away on Will Real Name Policies Improve Comments? · · Score: 1

    A sign that google is slipping. I do not know how people so close to these things, so involved in tech can go so horridly wrong, but it happens a lot. Digg, eg. I have read numerous interviews with Kevin R, never does he admit that selling the front page killed the beast.

  5. Dummify to fill the slots on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Colleges/Universities are in big trouble, they need the bodies. Kids coming up can't cut it, so lower the standards. They cannot read either, and have the attention span of a fruit fly. 20 something gets on your nerves? Look em square in the eye and ask "what is nine times seven?" They will blink twice and stare at you. To reach them, communicate that none from their generation knows this, a legacy of the changes in education. It is not their fault. They are not stupid, it was not required.

  6. Many factors. on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 2

    Many factors. Number one is there really are No Bands around, because there are so few places to play, everywhere. A few in urban centers, but live music was once the thing, everywhere. Feminism, MADD and the trend towards disco/DJ's combined to shut down the live stuff. Dance influence required steady beats, no changes. Female dominated disco/dance meant men followed along, as contrasted to bad boy rockers intent on blowing the doors down, women on the chase. Police state enforcement meant everyone had to tone it down. Busted for drivin while blind. Yuppification of urban hot spots is another force. Greenwich village, eg. Get off my lawn.

    So there are far fewer live performers, less competition, less experience with live, knowing what moves people. If the band sucked, there was another club around the corner, down the street, in the next town. So you needed to not suck. Stuff that develops out of a jam lives/breathes grows, accidentals become changes, etc.

    Modern music on the radio is most often not derived from live work, where the band gets feedback , instead it is constructed piecemeal in a studio. Finally, and to the primary loss, the thousands of hours of interplay between the members does not happen as often, the stuff is made up by one or two people. Repeated plays via corrupted channels forced into specifically limited formats is the final blow. It has been known since the 30's that just play it again reduces the resistance, people end up "liking" the stuff.

  7. Heh. on Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious · · Score: 1

    Insanity helps Facebook's stock value. Summaries should always have a punchline.

  8. Re:I'm capable of being interested in both. on Why You Should Be More Interested In Mars Than the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Yup. TFA points to NASA's fear of failure, leading to failure to inspire. NASA has always been secretive. We never knew how dodgy things were and are. And NASA depends on politics, has no real self determination. Current failures are on the current US political class, the current Admin, who evidently see no value in it. Tool HuffPo labor in typical incoherence, pointing the finger at the shadow on the wall. "Reality". The common thread to me is corrupted institutions. IOC, SEC, FBI, BATF, Justice, EU, U.N. Broken. IOC and NCAA are two of a kind. The current worldwide Boomer legacy. "We Broke it". The IOC political statement of a parade of beds is Classic comedy. This to open a worldwide celebration of health, fitness, pushing the limits of endurance, testing the individual to an extreme. A parade of beds. Makes me think the person(s) responsible were secretly channeling Monty Python, giving the bureaucrats the finger. The joke on them. I hope so. That they do not see this is a major part of the problem. I choose to overlook this to appreciate what it means to the individuals involved in the games. To imagine what it would be like to be there, to be one of them.

  9. Re:Doubtful on USB 3.0 100W Power Standard Seeks To End Proprietary Chargers · · Score: 1

    Apple is about to change their iGadgets connector again, evidently. Top story on Gizmodo right now.

  10. cause and effect issue? on Neuroscience May Cure Videogames Industry's Obsession With Guns · · Score: 1

    Is there a cause and effect issue here? For example, meditation changes our brain. New pathways, connections are made via learning, focusing. We generate this, we drive this and can control it. We somehow decide these directions, if we choose. The specific neural signals are the result of these choices, the result of our activity, driven by personality or consciousness. This take seems to miss the forest for the trees.

  11. perhaps he saying don't fordet? on History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it is because the Bradbury quote about "why 451" is fresh in my mind? I take from this that the author is saying, don't forget this guy. Describing a future he sees, and does not like? Gates may in the end get the "better man" historian vote, if this requires some recognition of others, some societal requirement. Some discovery of the world around him. Jobs was an almost mythical, legendary, individual force of nature.

  12. Re:Obsolete? on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 1

    Thats the good question. Hopefully they have a shuttle/spaceplane of some kind too. This is surprise good news.

  13. Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1

    "meeting that consisted of 3 people, president Obama, vice president Biden, and (At the time) CIA director Leon Panetta."... Next paragraph Mr. Obama asked “Should we shut this thing down? according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room." So Mr Panetta did not necessarily sneak out of the room with the info in his shorts. That was the other guy.********* But how would they "shut it down"? Besides issuing a press release, perhaps tell Siri, "Stuxnet Off!" ? Once this stuff is released, isn't control lost? There is an app for that.************ This is unconventional at best, sign of despeartion. But he has kept faith with the WoT, to my surprise. Unfortunately, nobdy seems to care.************ OT non question, what happened to the war protesters?

  14. What is a DVD? on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    I think I head of then once.

  15. Re:Dangers are Relative on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    France long ago banned nazi related shtick. This is in line with that. Right now tolerance is a one way street. Our good nature used against us. Live and let live vs live my way or die. The two views are incompatible, one must go. I would grant a little latitude now, make some tough decisions, stay vigilant.

  16. Lintzen on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    lintzen is persuasive. Agree: 1) CO2 is a green house gas 2) Adding CO2 warms, predicted at about the 1deg C we have recorded. Problem is, IPCC and other Climate models overstate projected temp gains because the theorized "positive feedbacks" are not happening. It is getting trivially warmer. No catastrophe. Until someone produces a model that correctly predicts, I will remain skeptical.

  17. Terrorism was made for TV/media 40 years ago. on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred · · Score: 1

    Terrorism was made for TV/media 40 years ago. A PR war. Backing off because of fear of bad PR concedes this fight to those who want to look bad. It is how they intimidate others, enforce their will. More media/more attention already has enabled more bad actors, so common now as to be unremarkable. Beheading? Acid bath? Nothing new, never mind. Piss story is man bites dog, plays to western insecurities and fear. Pure fear underlies this entire piece. What will the neighbors say?

  18. Re:Of course it is! on Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces · · Score: 1

    Plus friends reporting bad behavior is a change? Traditionally it was mind your own business, or the "best friend" was the playee. A good question to me, has behavior changed, or do we just get a truer picture of our SO?

  19. Re:The Sanctity of Life on How Doctors Die · · Score: 0

    More and more these "excessive treatment" items are appearing, part of the big sell to save Obama care. All of it leads inevitably to denial of care by Gov't services, and an obligation to die. The "Fine by me, as long as you pay for it all yourself" attitude expressed as "cost savings" for care deemed fuitile by Gov't bean counters. This is the predicted nightmare of gov't mandates. In the long run, the 1% will buy their own, the rest will be given a bed in which to die, just do the responsible thing and don't wait too long, there is a long line.

  20. Re:Good on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: 2

    A ship carries a boat.

  21. Re:Suuuure, it was "found" on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Except they have the actual gadget, and they took it apart. This is not the Apple way. Most seem to agree, it looks like the real deal, so what is baffling everyone is Apple's reputation for control. How could this happen? The gut, widespread reaction seems to be collective cognitive dissonance. "They meant to do that". But imagine that this thing did actually get away? What is it worth to a competitor? Someone made a bit of a calculation error. "Math is hard". Aha! Breasts. Breasts are always involved in the big stupid. Because they are capable of mind control. Like now, you completely forgot what I was talking about.

  22. Re:FAIL! on This Is Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Two phones? FUD voted to 5 at the new and improved /. Not interesting.

  23. Re:Just let Ebooks die already on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    I am holding out for a device with a new dual screen, both LCD and eReader. Until then, the old XP tablet is fine. For me it is the white, not the light that is the problem, so I switch to gray background on everything. Murdock is anti-competitive, like all corporations, but it is surprising that they do not recognize they are competing with free. Napster was a lifetime ago. The one that ticks me off the most is schoolbooks and college texts. This is an place to save a lot of money, nationally. Just let the local systems decide how to manage it, but require that the books be available in electronic form.

  24. Re:I bought an MSI with Windows on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    We are talking about a massive fail effectively vs XP, having starting the segment as the leader. Think the numbers linux vs XP are skewed? Once 7 hits, expect complete skewering.

  25. Re:Difficult design. on Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two · · Score: 1

    That thing will absolutely break,I agree. That was my first thought when I saw the model. It just looks completely wrong.