Or the install/distribution model? There are valid reasons why people don't want to mess with Linux. many don't want to get all into the technology. They just want something that works, works well, and works easily.

Look at the Mac. It's UNIX, but people don't know or care. It's about the experience and the value they receive.

I used classical music as a white noise generator. I can't concentrate when listening to music with lyrics, but I needed something to overwhelm the noise. The nice thing is that you get cultured in the process. You can get the 100 best works of ___ for relatively cheap.

It's like a car company offering a stabilized phonograph in your car, for your ultra-high fidelity analog listening pleasure, and then not being able to make the interface between the phonograph and the stereo work and bailing and having the phonograph input through an FM band transmitter that plays through the radio.

I have a Canon T3i and have tried to shoot 720P 60FPS video with cheap class 10 cards and the camera pukes after a second or so.

It only works well with a Sandisk class 10 card.

Engine sounds like a ducted fan.

Look at how thick the rear wing is (look at where the wing and body meet). Definitely not supersonic. Also, major directional stability issues.

...as a result of someone taking out a personal vendetta against me, I can say that the system obviously has flaws.

The Amazon Verified Purchase system is a decent idea and perhaps something that should be taken farther. Maybe not lock the system down to just AVPs, but perhaps change the weighting system.

...the importance of extension at the point of contact.

Kooks reject climate science, therefore all who reject climate science are kooks.

In 4th grade I learned that that piece of "logic" doesn't hold water.

Is the amount of altered land mass even 4.3%?

...that all the continents were lumped together into one big continent?

I'm no geologist, but that doesn't seem to pass the sniff test.

I'm not saying that continental drift didn't occur, but I have a hard time believing that everything started out as one giant continent (given the current state of affairs, for one thing).

The idea that you could end unemployment by spreading the work around assumes that people are fungible -- that they are completely interchangeable -- which they most certainly aren't. While it may sound like a good idea for Craig and Nate to share the job of coding System X, the fact is that Nate is 10X better at programming than Craig is.

In fact, it's arguable whether Craig can even do the job at all.

Maybe it's just me, but when I thought about this I thought about companies that are trying to patent genes. Shouldn't you have to have created something to be able to declare it as your IP? IMO that applies to this and to naturally-occurring genes.

They are on the way. Evidently, a shipment went missing.

Been there done that with music.

The difference, though, is how many times do you listen to the same piece of music (thousands) versus watch the same movie (maybe 10 times except for Top Gun ;-)) versus read the same book (twice?).

When people talk about this, I'm not sure they are always comparing apples and apples.

I do the same thing.

I hate to buy books unseen and found "The Talent Code" on the Internet in PDF format -- it's top-10, which has to make me think that may be a strategy -- and read it and then paid for it by buying the eBook version through the Apple store. I think that's what many/most people will do. They won't begrudge your charging a reasonable price (e.g. $5 or $10). I know I don't. Also, $5 or $10 is a LOT more per copy than you're going to make versus going through a traditional publisher.

But it's harder to do/takes balls when you're on the seller side.

There's also the issue of having enough server capacity in case you get /.ed.