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Comment: Re:money (Score 1) 190

by Reaperducer (#36085498) Attached to: Who Owns Your Social Identity?

She's more than a researcher at Microsoft -- she's what you might call a pundit for the intertubes (aka a public intellectual). She wields a lot of influence with a lot of organizations.. So in terms of picking a fight with someone online, I'd say she's just probably somewhere near PJ at Groklaw in terms of Bad Idea (tm).

Never heard of her. Or PJ. You must be using a very narrow definition of influential.

Comment: Re:That's scandinavians for you .... (Score 1) 601

by Reaperducer (#35183788) Attached to: After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest

i would like to see same kind of thing happen in america. or, any other country for that matter.

It happens in America all the time. The fact that you don't know this indicates you spend too much time reading Slashdot, and not enough time reading the New York Times.

How's that "new media" working out for ya?

Comment: Re:Another slashvertisement (Score 1) 408

by Reaperducer (#34786384) Attached to: Mac OS X 10.6.6 Introduces App Store

Introducing adjectives like "alleged" and "claimed" is another indicator of biased language

No, not in most cases. Only if you have a really bad understanding of the English language.

"The police have arrested Stewbacca. He allegedly molested a collie."

No bias there. It's explaining the allegations that led to the arrest.

You should spend more time learning by reading a newspaper, and less time being a dumbass on the internet.

Comment: Re:Makes no sense (Score 1) 408

by Reaperducer (#34786124) Attached to: Mac OS X 10.6.6 Introduces App Store

"How do I watch my vacation video on this?"

The one you shot on your iPhone? Just point the iPad's browser at the MobileMe account where you uploaded it to from your iPhone. Or use the YouTube app if you uploaded it from your iPhone to YouTube. Or just e-mail it to your iPad and watch it from the Mail app.

If it's the one you shot on your Flip (the most popular way to do it these days), use the YouTube app.

If you shot it some other way, I have a question for you: What's a tape? Was that one of those things that goes around in circles and you put a stick on it to make music in the olden days?

Comment: Re:Well (Score 1) 408

by Reaperducer (#34785848) Attached to: Mac OS X 10.6.6 Introduces App Store

That's a good thought. I wonder if the seed that sprouted into the Mac app store started with the devolution of Versiontracker.

I mean, there are thousands of Mac users at Apple. It's not like they didn't notice that the internet's biggest clearinghouse for Mac software turned into crapola almost overnight. It affects them as much as it affects the end users.

Now I'm starting to think that the Mac app store was a more brilliant move than I realized. It's also restored my faith that Apple isn't going to get out of the computer business anytime soon. A project like this only enhances the value of Macs to the end users.

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