Posts by DarkRail

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider  Extending the idea into the future, the iPad could one day be used as a "central command" for the digital home, an idea already being tested by home automation companies. Usually,...

Quote: Originally Posted by cpetrauskas  They only thing I find missing in my whole RSS toolchain is a good iOS way to manage my subscriptions. Neither the Google mobile or desktop interfaces on iOS Safari are very...

Quote: Originally Posted by Inkling I may adopt the same "five seconds of hate" policy I have for those links that pop up when your cursor merely passes over a word on a webpage. When these sorts of irritating ads pop us, I...

Quote: Originally Posted by tt92618 In the end, this is all about what consumers want as a segment, not about what you want individually. Sorry, but we aren't to a place where tools like this can let you opt out of ads and pay a...

Quote: Originally Posted by mstone You must be joking. Let me ask you one question? What search engine do you use for that austere clarity? Until today, I used Google Maps on my iPhone. I'm not telling you you're wrong, just that...

Quote: Originally Posted by mstone What is it about this that people don't understand. It is a simple nondescript icon. Takes up no more space and a regular map pin, very insignificant. You have to click on it to see the ad and it is...

Apple is unique in that it generally makes money without annoying us to death. Most companies (and especially most websites) have business strategies based around annoying ads. I've heard the ZuneHD gives you a little ad every single...

I dislike DRM as much as the next guy, but DRM'd textbooks sound like a great model. Right now students typically pay outrageous prices for dirty, beat-up, used textbooks. Then, a few months later, they sell those textbooks back at a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber . . . there goes that big laptop contract at BYU! ;-) Now that's funny! But seriously, Apple's decision has made me a very proud stockholder indeed. I agree with their position that this is...

For me: $2.87 per movie. I'm interested in what other people are paying. Anyone else want to do the math? NOTE: To calculate that number, I pulled up my Netflix history and counted how many movies I had actually received during...