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  • On the post: Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 06:49am

    Re: Re: Re: Logic Fail

    Will CNN give credit to the person who submits data?
    The submitter won't likely care.

    By submittal, does that person lose all rights associated with that data?
    That is assumed.

    Yes, the only reason a morally non-corupt person would send CNN data they gathered is for the thrill of it all
    Right.

    Certainly, there would be no other reason.
    The sarcasm is strong in this one, but you are missing the point. This platform is not about amateurs making a few bucks off their hobby.. this is a platform to enable participants to participate for the thrill of participation.

    Kinda like the comments section of this blog.

  • On the post: Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 06:42am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Seriously though, read the fine print and I guarantee they can do anything they want with your submitted pictures and video, including profit off of it.

    Read that sentence to yourself over and over again.

    Then you might understand just how much you said with those few words.

  • On the post: Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 05:59am

    Re: Re: Re:

    My point is, I am not going to submit content to them for free when I can't use their content for free.

    So? Other's will, cause they have no interest in making commercial use of CNN's "stuff".

    They care about doing fun things, and being a part of reporting the news is fun for them.

    CNNs morality is a not really relevant. Sure, some people like yourself, will avoid this but not for the reasons you are trying to state; You will avoid taking part in this because you don't like CNN.

    And that's fine. There's plenty of people who don't have that opinion, or who find their opinion of the company to be irrelevant when it comes to their decision to have fun or not.

  • On the post: Felicia Day Building Acting Success The Entrepreneurial Way

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 05:49am

    Re: Tossing two cents into the pool...

    The $1,000 to play with Felicia sounds like a good idea, but what if Felicia can't open up time to do so?

    Anyone who can't afford the time to rake in effortless 1000$/hr wages does not have a problem making money.

    And since that was the entire basis of your rant, it looks to me like you were just trying to poke fun at mikes expense.

    Wow, how miserably that failed!

  • On the post: See, The Palm Pre Can Be Offered For Free

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 05:42am

    o rly?

    The Pre is not as good as the iPhone

    Previously, when I read your ramblings on the Pre, you seemed to make it out as if it were lightyears ahead of the iPhone.

    I dismissed your entusiasm as merely a case of gadget infactuation however.

    I saw then, and see now, absolutely nothing special about this "me too" offering from Palm.

  • On the post: Will People Pay CNN To Help Them Report The News?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2009 @ 05:36am

    Re:

    read the fine print and I guarantee they can do anything they want with your submitted pictures and video

    well.. duh... wtf you think people would submit the content for anyways? so it can go dusty while noone does anything with it?

    People WANT their stuff to get featured. it's a thrill for them. Morally non-corrupt people don't care if CNN makes money off it.


    If you didnt want your stuff to get used.. why else would you go through the effort of reporting it?


    /boggle

  • On the post: Part Of The Reason To Buy Is Actually Asking For Money

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2009 @ 12:44pm

    Re:

    clue: artists dont give a crap about grammar

  • On the post: Really @NHL? Is It Necessary To Fill The Whole Background With Legalese?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2009 @ 07:25am

    Why?

    Why are lawyers allowed to interfere with marketing?

    The results can be catastrophic.

  • On the post: Yet Another Ridiculous Jury Patent Award Tossed Out

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2009 @ 03:18am

    This is a problem

    This is a problem... not with the jurors... but with the law.

  • On the post: Why Apple Should Let Other Devices Connect To iTunes

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 06:10pm

    Re: I don't understand the problem

    Some people really like itunes.. some people really hate itunes.

    Some people have ipods and got used to using itunes, and want to continue using itunes to manage their media library, even tho they have purchased additional devices capable of playing back media.

    I don't know who these people are. I hate itunes. I love my ipod. I've tried other software to manage my library.. they sucked at managing my ipod. I have other devices that I could put music on.. (my cellphone is actually branded "walkman") but thats absurd, I never will. The ipod does that so much better, and I would never want to drain my phone battery listening to music.

    So I'm just stuck using itunes. /sigh

  • On the post: Why Apple Should Let Other Devices Connect To iTunes

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 06:02pm

    Re: Re: Re: Um, what?

    Tee-Hee! The word I was looking for is "paramount", oops! Not sure how I made that mistake.

  • On the post: New Zealand Says You Can't Use Your Mobile Phone For Navigation While Driving

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 05:47pm

    huh

    Gee, I wonder what lobbying group paid for this legislation.

  • On the post: Why Apple Should Let Other Devices Connect To iTunes

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 04:45pm

    Re: Um, what?

    And yes, it would be philanthropic of Apple to open the ecosystem. It would also hurt profits.

    Wasting developer resources to sabotage another companies attempt at seamless interoperability during a very public pissing contest over who's hardware is allowed to have the "premium user experience" is absolutely a blow to the reputation of Apple, whom, if I recall correctly, consider their image to be penultimate to their success.

    You think they spend all that money making fun of windows in their ads cause they want to be known as evil overlords?

    Plain and simple.. this was a stupid move on Apples part.

  • On the post: Why Apple Should Let Other Devices Connect To iTunes

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 03:21pm

    Re: my 2 cents

    IMO there are several PMP units on the market that are superior to the iPod.

    No, there aren't. But there are plenty of apple haters who pretend there are.

  • On the post: Why Apple Should Let Other Devices Connect To iTunes

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 01:39pm

    Re: Re: Let me get this straight

    itunes music sales have been profitable to them for a very long time now. they state so in their quarterly announcements.

  • On the post: Google, Rocky Mountain Bank Ask Judge To Restore Deactivated Gmail Account

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 08:05am

    Re: Maybe...

    More likely the user flagged the email as spam when he recieved it without ever reading it, and after a couple days the spam folder was emptied.

    Of course.. we'll never know.. unless someone (google.. the court.. the bank...) tells us.

    But why would they want to do that?

  • On the post: When Connecting With Fans, Be Careful What You Promise

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 07:44am

    Neumann's real problem

    Neumann's real problem is he found something fans really want.

    Not much of a problem really.

    Sure, he might have underestimated how popular his idea would be.. But what he got was an overwhelmingly happy reaction from his fans.

    And he's not in the least bit upset.

    Noone said CwF was supposed to be a resource free endeavor.


    But perhaps next time, Neumann will say "the first 100 people to send me a pic of you pre-ordering" instead of "anyone who sends me a pic of you pre-ordering".

    But I doubt he will walk away from this experiment displeased with its results.

  • On the post: EU Worried About IP Harming Innovation… But Gets It Backwards

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 06:21am

    The problem with incumbents..

    The problem with incumbents.. is they have all this money from being the incumbent...

    The startups just don't have the same resources.

    How can we convince our politicians (in all sectors) that disruptive startups are a good thing for the economy as a whole, and we should encourage them when the gigantic encumbants have their ear and are whispering the exact opposite to them?

  • On the post: The Los Angeles Kings Hires A Reporter To Cover… Themselves

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 06:15am

    Re: What about play by Tweet?

    noone seriously cares about reporting via tweet.

  • On the post: Could Artists Help Newspapers? (And Vice Versa)

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2009 @ 05:14am

    much head scratching here

    I just don't see how this is any different from a simple cartoon strip.

    The funny section is just a "value add" for consumers.. This arrangement doenst seem to be any different from the arrangement on all the other comics in the paper, and I fail to see how this is really going to do anyone any good.

    Well, I see the artist doing the video(?) getting his name out, thats a good thing. It's like he's getting a free commercial put out once a month.

    For the paper however... The funny pages.. are not a solution to their problem. Exclusivity agreements are not how the papers will save themselves.

    This is not a CwF for the paper... nor is it any real RtB.

    It looks more like a desperate attempt to stay relevant.. and keep people coming back to their site at least once a month.

    /shrug

    I don't see the harm in this arrangement.. it's just not groundbreaking by any means. This is more of the same old same old.

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