n if you use cash, the clerk or store owner who
> knows you by name will be able to build a list of things you like to
> buy, or simply by watching what items sell the best.
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Benjamin Krueger
> wrote:
>> I'd like to p
I intended closer to the latter, but the former is interesting too.
On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
> BK> I'd like to pose an interesting question to the list.
>
> Maybe two different questions, though.
>
> Are you asking more like "do we think this kind of data mining is
> unet
I'd like to pose an interesting question to the list. Forbes published an
article today detailing retailer Target's data mining practices. In particular,
Target tracks customer purchase by credit card number (in addition to, of
course, membership cards) and uses that data to glean highly accurat
I don't want to drag the conversation out, so I'll close with this. Go ask your
French/Chinese/Russian/Lebanese/etc grandparent to describe how to configure
his browser to request that pages be served up in his native tongue. If the
answer is anything other than "It already does it without my a
On May 26, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Dave Close wrote:
> "Derek J. Balling" wrote:
>
>> Because that "stupid gear symbol" is rapidly becoming the "language
>> independen
>> t" symbol for "preferences". So if, perhaps, you can't read the language on
>> t
>> he screen at all, you can still find the pl
On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>> http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Restraint+of+Trade:
>>
>> "Contracts or combinations that tend, or are designed, to eliminate or
&g
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>
>>> Radical fundamentalism has not solved any major problems in the history of
>>> the world, at least not so far as I know. Your attempts to apply radical
>
On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> Radical fundamentalism has not solved any major problems in the history of
> the world, at least not so far as I know. Your attempts to apply radical
> fundamentalist ideals to this issue certainly have not helped your case.
This is way ove
On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Josh Smift wrote:
>
> I definitely agree that no one has to buy an iThing, and no one has to
> sell subscriptions to iThing customers, and that Apple is certainly free
> to do stuff like this if they want.
Just because Apple manufactures the iPad and iPhone and (forc
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Arthur Gaer wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>>
>>> Think about it this way -- when Barnes & Noble sets up a book store, do
>>> they allow competing book store chains to come in and set up their o
Wow, this is some great spin Brad. Kudos!
On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
>> So, Apple is protecting their users from being locked into any other content
>> distribution channel. That's not anti-competitive, regardless of h
Chew on this ladies and gentlemen. The real problem isn't that Apple is going
to eat 30% of sales on their own platform. The real problem is that Apple's
contract forbids you from charging *less* for the same product anywhere else,
and forces you to offer content for sale on their platform if i
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