They have no fees. They aren't tied down to Amazon payments. It looks like you can host projects from anywhere.

It sounds great honestly. The biggest problem is that Kickstarter is already so embedded as the dominant site in crowdfunding, it may be hard for Crowdtilt to get traction.

I recall Ubisoft talking big about copy-protection a decade ago, in particular when they acquired Blue Byte and Thomas Hertzler went on several rants about how strong copy-protections (DRM in today-speak) were the difference between good sales versus poor sales. What a horrible way to assume the behaviour of your customers. I tried to fire up a few of those games recently and the copy-protections made the compatibility issues even more problematic. As a customer, they sold me less of a product and as of today, I'm less happy with Ubisoft than I would be with other publishers.

Now I'm not the boycotting type, so what happens in this scenario is I'm less happy with them, so I want to spend less. Instead of purchasing their games upon release, I wait for the discounts. I save my premium purchases for publishers who either use no DRM, or DRM that is less restrictive. I'm really thrilled with publishers that enable their games to still work years down the road. Valve for instance.

What they've managed to do with this persistent love of intrusive and restrictive DRM, is successfully make my purchases less about the quality of the game and more about the DRM. Self-fulfilling prophecy.

Here's a thought: AT&T should upgrade their network.

That may be a costly endeavour but the mobile market is very lucrative and it can only give them a greater edge in the future.

This whole maximizing-profits by reducing costs thing is making tech companies underperform. It's short-term thinking and exactly how our public corporation system isn't working as well as it should. Can't they start thinking beyond the next financial quarter or two?

In other words, they're being cheap and short-sighted.

I wasn't contradicting the article, I'm just saying it's not a one-shot anomaly that happened in the 70's and then resurfaced years later.

I'd think you'd be able to actually read to catch that, rather than just um, accuse me of not reading. *rolls eyes*

I had a Canon Xapshot purchased in 1989 which I used combined with my Amiga to upload images to FTP sites in the early 90's. It wasn't truly "digital" although it was often referred to as such. More of a video stillshot camera, but still quite convenient for putting images into digital formats.

Not quite the same thing really, but the point is there's been an interest in digital photography for a long time.

I'm going to honestly believe you're just not aware of your own words at times.

Read your own comments throughout this article, to myself and others. Count how many times you told people they just didn't understand liberty or didn't understand economics. Count how many times you took a superior position and used that to degrade the insights and information of people who actually live within the country and with the phones that the article is about.

Now add to that, all of the additional derogatory remarks as SilverEyes just pointed out, where you just gave single-word dismissals or outright insults.

Then, take each time you've called me a liar for addressing what you've said, including just now. Call me out on assumptions, I don't mind, but liar? Maybe you consider that being just direct, blunt or base. Some people consider those endearing qualities. Some do not. It's normal for people to be inaccurate in their assumptions, I have been plenty of times. It's a little harder to stomach when it comes from an immovable object.

What I am criticizing you on, is a lack of nuance or moderation. And yes, a lack of position for the essential understanding of the topic at hand. You can say our disagreements are equal, but your position to me, is out-of-bounds both physically and idealistically.

There's nothing ad hominem about recognizing a position that just doesn't apply. All that's left is to address the lofty ideals and the person making them. Sorry, but it's true. If we were discussing U.S. cellular carriers and U.S. laws, I would probably defer more to your position. Mind you, I'd not have bothered to enter the debate at all.

This isn't just about the esoterics of borders, which I'm guessing (another assumption, I admit) you may feel don't apply in conversations about liberties. It's also about scope and perspective. You talk about micro and macro economies. I don't think you can do so when addressing people from a country with a greater land mass, 1/10th the population and corporations primarily owned by the neighbours.

The reason I've made these assumptions is because you're taking such a well known and predictable stance. You haven't wavered from it and you speak in absolutes. You've given little opportunity to address your opinions in turn in anything but absolutes as well. That's unfortunate.

So yeah, I've been addressing the man who appears to enjoy telling others what systems they should live by. I believe my answers to that particular situation have been quite appropriate.

Exactly.

To me, that's the difference between a religious person and someone more moderate.

The religious believe that some things have no limitations. God, Liberty, Money, Love, Free Market. Take your pick. Push something into the absolutes and the extremes and then things tend to go into crazy land. Bad crazy land usually. I don't think we need point out how, or predict where these things get dangerous, it's enough already that they do. Totalitarianism.

It's the disconnect from reality, in part, which makes it dangerous.

You can have your beliefs, I don't disagree with anyone who has some faith. It's the absolutes that are ridiculous. Moderate your beliefs, otherwise you cannot grow.

It's bizarre to me that this comes forward in the middle of a discussion about locked cell phones. Kind of makes sense though, that the absolutes come out even in the most benign topics. Interjecting beliefs without consideration or understanding of the actual situation at hand.