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Comment I use Subscribe and Save (Score 1) 222

Among other things I get 6 cases (12 ea) of SoBe LifeWater, and 3 cases of Ocean Spray Pact water delivered, because it's easier than going to the store myself. Getting them brought nearly all the way home, a variety of flavors, and a good price. It's a clear win for me.

Every month I am amazed at what stupid new tricks Amazon comes up with to make sure they lose money on the transaction. Aren't they supposed to be logistics geniuses? The order I get from them is routinely split into multiple shipments, sometimes multiple shipments on the same day, from the same Amazon warehouse 10 miles away. The most recent order included 2 of the cases being shipped via UPS instead of Amazon delivery even. That can't have been profitable.

Comment A faster connection (Score 1) 740

I remember several years back, someone was working on running a new fiber cable between Chi and NY, that was a literal straight line. Or as straight as absolutely possible, in order to shave milliseconds off of communication times between the cities.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/outfront-netscape-jim-barksdale-daniel-spivey-wall-street-speed-war.html

I'm sure the race to shave times hasn't slowed, since 2010.

Comment I've got no faith in Yelp at all anyhow (Score 1) 168

A year or two back I posted a review of a food truck that was positive about the product, but negative about some of the business practices of the truck. The vendor complained to Yelp, and they pulled the review because it wasn't just about the product itself. Business practices matter as well, at least they should. And the ease that the vendor had in getting a negative review turfed tells me that nothing on Yelp is to be trusted at all.

Comment Re:Season 5 versus Series 5. (Score 1) 215

A season is a 1/4 trip around the sun. He got all the episodes available in that season. What he thought he was buying was Series 5 not season 5. Like how the british TV is named.

When they started "season 5" they said it was going to be in 2 halves, they've always referred to the last 8 episodes as being part of Season 5. So if someone bought a "season pass" for 5, they should have expected to get ALL of season 5.

At least people that bought the DVD/BluRay from Amazon could see exactly what they were getting, when they ordered the "season 5" disc. It clearly didn't have the second half of season 5 included.

Apple

iCade, an Arcade Cabinet Docking Bay For Your iPad 55

schmidt349 writes "ThinkGeek has announced a cool new accessory for that iPad you're too ashamed to be seen buying in the Apple Store. iCade is an arcade cabinet/dock that lets you play all your favorite vintage arcade games at your desk, on the airplane, or in the bathroom with an authentic look and feel. Games are still being licensed, but iCade's launch titles include Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, and everyone's favorite, Super Steve Brothers. Quarters, thick veil of cigarette smoke, and annoying eight-year-olds are not included."

Comment Re:Just kill presentation software (Score 1) 257

That's not so much a critique of presentation software so much as a critique of how people USE it. Whoever sets up the presentations for Steve Jobs, for example, tends to do a pretty good job for his keynotes. I personally use presentation software not to present information to others, but as "cue cards" for myself. Presentation software has its uses, although I would agree with you that most of the time, it's used very, very poorly.

No one has mentioned this yet, so here's a good opportunity to plug Dr. Edward Tufte's The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780961392154&itm=1

Comment Somewhat disingenuous for him to be saying this (Score 1) 637

I saw NIN in concert last summer at Shoreline in Mountain View, CA. And about 20min into the set, security came, and escorted me to the coat check area, and made me surrender my digital camera till the end of the show. It was the ONLY show I went to all summer at that venue that no cameras was the policy. The venue itself doesn't have a policy at all. But the artists can have that as a restriction for their tour.

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