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Comment Despicably cheap (Score 1) 155

Amazon and the big publishers have kept the price of books at where they are today, they take a chunk and give a laughable amount back to the author. You want to rail against a $15 ebook being published by one of those guys, I'm all for it, their cut should be considerably less. However if you want to complain about a $8 ebook put out by an author, on their own, who has to do ALL the marketing and ALL the legwork on top of spending a sizable portion of a year to create that book... go fly a kite. You pay $10 to Netflix to get dozens of ours of entertainment a month. You pay $18 to see a movie for 2 hours. You plunk down $20 to drink beer, have some wings and enjoy a 3 hour football game at the bar. $15 for an ebook, which gives you at least 10 hours of entertainment is not unreasonable.

Comment Ideas and stability (Score 1) 134

You'll find most entrepreneurs aren't any smarter or more interesting than managers, but you will find a difference in how they go about 'building something'. Entrepreneurs start from the ground-up, while Managers take what's available and move it in the right direction. It's easy to quickly change if you're a new, light weight company, but corporations have a lot of people and paperwork that has to be chewed through first to get to the same place. Of course the Manager will have a job next year, while the entrepreneur takes a larger risk.

Comment alternative history (Score 1) 185

There must be a lot of this kind of 'backup win/lose' sort of publication, someone should be collecting it all for an alternative history museum. It could be filled with never-launched websites, newspapers printed one way or the other, inventions that never happned because someone beat them to the punch a day earlier. The world is full of paths that never get taken but someone thought ahead and was prepared for the opposite.

Comment missed opportunities (Score 1) 78

Wow, sad to hear this, I have very good memories of begging, borrowing and buying Nintendo Power. As an online marketing professional it's irritating to hear that they're not going to switch to a digital version or a 'nintendo power blogger network', the brand has a huge following and could easily be revitalized in a new medium. It's probably a management fuck up, it usually is.

Comment Flash Key (Score 1) 446

I want a flash drive in the shape of a key and the port to be like a small ignition cilendar, like your car. The flash key has a program that stores all my logins and passwords for me, so when I'm prompted by my browser to enter it I just pull out the key, turn it and it auto-fills my info. Build please?

Comment jobs (Score 1) 395

Yep, go for it, who needs standards? HTML5 employs thousands of website professionals every year! This new split will create even more jobs. Imagine every snot nosed, green behind the ear, kid designer using whatever technology they want to build websites for friends, family and businesses. Then when they break, not in a year or three years, but in say... oh... 48 hours and can't fix it... they hire me! I'm all for this, chaos = cashola!

Comment Availability (Score 1) 1004

It's all about availability, I don't have HBO or cable television so I have to either wait for DVDs or Netflix. I don't see why I have to pay a cable provider for 100 different channels I have no interest in when I want to watch a handful of shows. The industry has to start thinking about individually packaging and selling series like this instead of forcing you to buy into everything at once. If HBO or Showcase had their own streaming service, like Netflix or Hulu, I'd signup in heartbeat.

Comment This just in... (Score 1) 684

This just in: Using a computer all day causes eye strain. This articles is ridiculousness, of course bashing your head against something repeatedly causes brain damage. Did we NOT think that? It's like saying "Dishwashers develop hardened callouses via repeated hot plate exposure." It just comes with the job, if you're worried about brain damage be a cheerleader.

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