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Yeah I just tell them they can tell me whatever they want to tell me using the same method they used to ask me to download whatever app they wanted me to download.

2 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in

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Exactly. I’m not adding and keeping track of 30 icons just because a few people may be too cheap to pay for texting in some form or fashion or a couple minutes of voice.

If I had a great friend or relative overseas, facebook is inaccessible by them, and a good texting plan didn’t exist, we’d get together on Skype.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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This is why I basically set my boundaries early. I have Facebook, I have SMS, and I have a phone. Pick your poison.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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Based on my experiences with Wal-Mart; no. If people aren’t confused with the system, they’re trying to shove it down their pants.

6 days ago on Square introduces $299 stand aimed at replacing cash registers 1 recommend

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While this Square stand is cheap, they’ll have to offer better rates for the big retailers. A lot of companies lease those gangly PoS terminals rather than buy them outright, because even with that cost the lower percentage offsets it by huge margins. In addition, you can even get those terminals free (or cheap) if your volume is high enough. The reason for the “click here to get a quote” is both because they’re expensive if you want to just buy one, and the price is negotiable depending on your implementation.

Not many retailers care how ugly the PoS system is if it takes money.

6 days ago on Square introduces $299 stand aimed at replacing cash registers 1 recommend

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I would click everyone, with every intention of reciprocation.

8 days ago on Forget sex: how the idea behind Bang with Friends could revolutionize social interaction 1 reply 2 recommends

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If on Google+, you could have a circle jerk.

8 days ago on Forget sex: how the idea behind Bang with Friends could revolutionize social interaction 1 reply 9 recommends

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It’s been seriously quiet outside of NYC then because nothing about it has been reported here, and I’m only a few hundred miles away in PA.

By nothing I mean there was the design phase and now this. But nothing in between.

8 days ago on Is One World Trade Center really the tallest building in the West? 1 recommend

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I wish all my apps would help pay my phone bill…

10 days ago on ESPN wants you to watch more sports, even if it has to subsidize your data plan

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If the cost was the same as ownership, I’d much prefer owning a car.

11 days ago on Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update)

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I wouldn’t mind advanced cruise control, which is basically what this is. I already enjoy taking my foot off the gas for long drives on the highway. I’d love to take a nap without stopping.

12 days ago on Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update)

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I like owning a car.

13 days ago on Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update) 1 reply 1 recommend

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I’ll gladly loan you some money at 35% interest. When it’s time to pay it back, you can use your card since I have Square too.

16 days ago on Square sets its sights on check-ins: 'We can do something better' 1 recommend

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I like the ones that say “If you ignore this you’re a terrible person.”

I ignore them.

17 days ago on UNICEF says Facebook 'likes' won't save children's lives

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Cronyism and protectionism at its finest. Bleh.

19 days ago on Want to turn your car into a taxi? New York City says that's a crime 4 replies 20 recommends

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Well, we do have our experience to back up our opinions that long messages, especially when we’re tired and less accurate than we would be otherwise, are far easier to hammer out on GOOD physical QWERTYs. Autocorrect is great but it’s not a panacea. One simply cannot get away with amateurish typos or use text speak in business emails.

21 days ago on BlackBerry Q10 review: revenge of the keyboard 3 recommends

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They probably needed Vermont’s congressional vote for something else, and this was the carrot.

21 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service

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You’re absolutely right that my statement about it having nothing to do with finances was incorrect. However, what you seem to miss is the fact that it’s far less costly and much easier to dig up a bunch of small towns than it is to dig up a city. Cities have more regulation and more infrastructure in the way. Taking the paths of least resistance makes more sense because they can get the same number of subscribers upgraded by digging up a bunch of easy small towns as they would one difficult city. It also looks better for PR because they can show actual progress to their marketing departments when hundreds of small towns are nearly or completely finished rather than waiting for the handful of major cities to stop stalling.

21 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service

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Don’t confuse the customers’ best interests with the company’s. Comcast et al do not improve their service because they’re altruistic and want you to have the best. They do it when needed to either stop bleeding customers or to get a leg up on another provider, or because some law somewhere requires it. In other words any time they take a bite out of their bottom line it’s because something or someone forced their hand. These companies want profits. Infrastructure upgrades and replacement are very, very expensive profit reducers.

So yes, ideally they would replace all the wiring of every major metro area in the US of A because it would bring a lot of fast internet to a lot of people. But that’s not how life works. It’s expensive to dig up NYC. It’s cheap to dig up Nowheresville Idaho.

22 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service 1 reply

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You’re talking about financially, but you’re not realizing that that has nothing to do with it. If a business wants to improve its service, it’s going to take the paths of least resistance first. In doing so, it has PR and marketing clout to say “look at what we’re accomplishing” and that looks good to customers and helps put pressure on the more difficult regulators by way of their citizens to allow improvements to be made. Once they get the go-ahead, they then tackle the logistics of digging up busy city streets, well established buildings, and tearing out old wiring.

22 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service

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It has nothing to do with bang for buck and everything to do with the local regulatory boards approving the plans and the physical digging up of old and installation of new.

You can hit more people digging up the sidewalks of NYC but you’re going to have a hell of a time doing it compared to digging up the sidewalk of Smalltown USA.

23 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service 1 reply

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It’s easier to update infrastructure of any kind in less populated areas. Not just logistically but also for regulatory reasons.

23 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service 2 replies 1 recommend

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Call me crazy, but I don’t look forward to all states being the same hyperconnected, no solace from the daily hustle locations as each other. There’s something to be said for an area where you can get true peace & quiet.

23 days ago on Vermont telephone company offering $35-per-month gigabit internet service 2 replies 1 recommend

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Sure thing, boss.

/s

27 days ago on CBS invests in streaming video company in response to Aereo threat

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It won’t let you. You have to allow their site to access your location via your web browser, and if it misidentifies your location you have to contact their support.

I didn’t try to circumvent the system but I did try to use the trial and it goes through that first and then tells you it’s only available in metro NYC.

27 days ago on CBS invests in streaming video company in response to Aereo threat 1 reply

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But the Aereo website explicitly says NYC Metro only…it says nothing about New Jersey, Connecticut, or Pike County Pennsylvania. Is Aereo’s own website out of date?

27 days ago on CBS invests in streaming video company in response to Aereo threat 1 reply

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I read the article.

27 days ago on CBS invests in streaming video company in response to Aereo threat

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Aereo’s service is limited to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania

I’m in Pennsylvania and can’t use Aereo. It says it’s only available in metro NYC.

27 days ago on CBS invests in streaming video company in response to Aereo threat 2 replies

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We were just little guys though and stealing bases didn’t come up often. It could have been bad coaching for all we knew. :D

29 days ago on Baseball player 'steals first,' confounding all scorekeeping software

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We were taught that if we’re trying to steal third base, we should assume our teammate is trying to steal second since the ball can only be in one line at a time. It improves the odds of at least someone advancing. On that notion, we were also taught to run like hell towards second if our teammate is trying to take third.

29 days ago on Baseball player 'steals first,' confounding all scorekeeping software