Comment Re:The irony, it burns. (Score 5, Informative) 268
What burns even more is that the MS Product Manager's real name is Nick. It was a typo.
Submission + - The Cult of Kindle (zdnet.com)
DaMan writes: Will the "Cult of Kindle" help guarantee Amazon's success in the ebook reader market? ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 thinks so:
But then I realized that the Kindle had a cult. The Cult of Kindle. A group of people willing to give it a five star rating just because someone else didn't, willing to back up every design, engineering and marketing decision that Amazon made, willing to defend the Kindle with their last dying breath. The Kindle doesn't cost money, it saves money. That 0.75 second flash as the pages turn isn't a downside because it gives you an opportunity to take in the previous page. It doesn't harm your eyes, in fact, it fixes them. Ergonomic issues that other reviewers have bought up are dismissed by the Cult of Kindle as flaws with the reviewer, not the device. The Kindle is perfect, and the Kindle 2.0 will be a little more perfect.
Submission + - Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights 1
An anonymous reader writes: As protests
mount over the Canadian DMCA, law professor Michael Geist is now reporting
that the government plans to delay addressing fair use and consumer
copyright concerns such as the blank media tax for years. While the
U.S. copyright lobby get their DMCA, consumers will get a panel to
eventually consider possible changes to the law. Many Canadians
are responding today with a mass
phone-in to Industry Minister Jim Prentice to protest the policy
plans.
Journal SPAM: An American Footballer in London 10
As some of you may know - the NFL played a game in England last week. It was a regular season game that counted - not just an exhibition. Apparently an attempt to gain an audience in Europe. But the players were allowed to do interviews, and it forces one to wonder if more damage was done than good. Here's a quote from one of those interviews as it appeared on the BBC web site.
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