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About not a geek
I am really not a geek - I'm 40 and own a retail business in Arizona - about as square as you can get. That said, I do love tech and the Verge!
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pssst – I actually agree with you about the big government part and taxes, I’m just not sure the IRS thing really went all the way up the chain of command.
I outgrew my tinfoil hat a few years ago, and ever since I take everything from both sides of the aisle with more than just a little grain of salt.
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Recommended Mordenak's comment in Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads
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“Altruistic”?! I think that’s exactly the opposite of what we’re saying. Altruism has nothing to do with this. Google is a for-profit business with a fiduciary to shareholders and stake holders to do what they feel will maximize their profits. If they believe that allowing MS to build this YouTube app is not in their best interest, they are duty-bound to do everything in their legal power to shut it down.
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Just cancelled Spotify, signed up for this and bought more Google stock. Yipee Kai O
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How is this “trying to screw Microsoft and its customers”? If Microsoft updates the app to meet the YouTube TOS, Google will let it ride. It’s not like they’re saying, “under no circumstance can you build a YouTube app.”
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Um, because there aren’t enough users to make it worth their development time and costs. Fair has nothing to do with this, it’s about profit.
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Add this to the IRS-Tea Party scandal and you’ve got the beginnings of a great week for the far-right conspiracy theorists.
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Once again BB proves to be the ultimate masters of way too little, way too late.
We’ve already got our messaging needs more than taking care of. Thanks for the offer though. -
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Recommended Lando Calrissian's comment in Message received: is BBM for Android and iPhone a sign of strength... or desperation?
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Recommended CyberAngel's comment in Lumia 928: first impressions of Verizon's Nokia flagship (hands-on)
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Recommended skruis's comment in Lumia 928: first impressions of Verizon's Nokia flagship (hands-on)
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I wonder how long it will take to roll out to US BB10 users, all 27 of them?
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I hear the French solved this hundreds of years ago
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And WP fans rejoice . . . All 24 of them.
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Seems like a bit of an escalation, but I think I can get on board. Making the phones valueless, as the article suggests, isn’t going far enough . . . let’s make them downright dangerous.
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Forget lock, we should obviously be working toward catastrophic self-destruct. Someone takes my phone, I want the battery to melt in the thing while emitting a piercing siren
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I know they would lose their ms funding, but I really wish they would put this hardware out with Android (stock, while you’re at it). I have nothing against WP, I’ve simply chosen Google. WP hasn’t been a real victory for them, so what would they have to lose by throwing down some Android love?
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Wait a minute, wasn’t Newt also selected to get Google Glass? Is the selection revocable?
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Recommended sweenish's comment in Windows Blue: Microsoft promises changes based on feedback and a holiday release
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EA’s stock was up 17% today on news and earnings, so the market seems to have found a little faith . . .I guess we’ll see how long it lasts.
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I don’t wear a tinfoil hat, but this is a little bit crazy. I have a hard time seeing how looking at my email is any less a search than listening on on my phone calls, which requires a warrant.
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Agreed. This is product placement. Gamemakers should be charging for it, just like the movies and tv do.
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I really don’t get all the fuss. I’m running 8 on a three year old Samsung laptop with decidedly mid-range specs (definitely no touch-screen) and after a few days getting used to it, I’ve had no complaints. Admittedly, I don’t use any of the whatever the hell I’m supposed to call metro apps, but I now prefer 8 to 7. I won’t use an option that would give me back the start button, I prefer the start screen.
I know no one cares, but with all the bitching and moaning, I figure the forums can use a little balance. I hope Microsoft keeps moving forward, not back. -
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Recommended jtfields's comment in Senate passes nationwide online sales tax bill
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As an online/bricks and mortar retailer, this doesn’t make me happy. In essence this is taxation without representation. A sales tax in a locale where I have a physical location makes sense. Those funds are used to fund projects that come back and enhance my ability to do business. Local roads, police, etc. I become a tax collector for other states where those funds are going to benefit my competitors in that locale.
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Recommended TeutonicTenifer's comment in First 3D-printed gun fired on video, blueprint files available to download
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Reading comments like yours makes me think the first amendment’s protection of free speech might Alston have been a misunderstanding.
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Touche! I salute you
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Recommended greatestNothing's comment in Custom Android software turns every notification into a Facebook-style Chat Head
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I do know that, but that’s my point. Once I started buying elsewhere, I wasn’t going back. Buying habits, once formed, are hard to break. The first one to lose the drm wins.
