Do people challenge your purchasing decisions?
By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2008 at 5:03 pm
A colleague recently took an interest in my N95 phone, having bought himself a different make/model of phone.
This should have been an interesting conversation really, except it seem to be reduced to an ongoing series of bizarre challenging statements, thusly:
”I don’t know why you’d want that feature. I wouldn’t use it…”
“Yes, but I got this phone because I wanted that feature.”
“I don’t see why.”
It’s not the first time this has happened. I’ve been involved in conversations along the lines of “I don’t see why you have got that, the screen would be too small for me,” followed by blank expressions when I explain that I didn’t buy it for them.
I just strikes me as odd. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that everyone has different requirements from any hardware, but that’s just it… I buy things based on my requirements. Telling me I made a bad buying choice because it doesn’t fit someone elses requirement is, I’m going to guess, a non sequitur.
On top of that, it’s people who seem to think that everything is a case of one-upmanship. I was discussing the virtues of Quicksilver (the launch tool for Mac OS) and the conversation came to a halt when someone said “Oh, I don’t use that… I’ve got something better.” I was intrigued… then less so when I discovered it was a very similar application, that worked in exactly the same way! How is that better? It didn’t start the applications any faster, still required keypresses to start an application. I would have been impressed had it been voice controlled, or pre-emptive!
Why is it not possible for people to accept that people make their own decisions for their own reasons? Is it not possible that I buy my own things for my own reasons? It’s my money! If I’d have wanted, for example, an iPhone, I’d have bought and iPhone… and if they dislike my decision so much, perhaps they should buy me one instead!
Rated: 80% (1 votes)
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Google and Viacom - And the point would be?
By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Yes, yes, I know Sharon Jackson has written a blog about this, but I thought I’d chip in with my own two pennies worth.
I’ve just read the same article that Sharon has mentioned and I found this to be the most bizarre moment in IT that I’ve ever come across.
“When it initiated legal action in March 2007 Viacom said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes on the website, which had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm)
Hold on… Viacom want access to the viewing data on ANY video on Youtube!
What for?
If just 160,000 video clips have been viewed 1.5 billion times, how many times do they think ALL THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE will have been watched? Why ANY video on Youtube? What data will be used? How about when someone starts watching a video and then changes their mind? What about approved copyright footage? Or is that excluded from the definition of any video on Youtube? Isn’t “any” the same as “every” in this case?
What is the point of asking for all that data? Who is going to read it? I’m pretty sure that you’d need a big team to read through logs from the 1.5 billion viewers (more than likely not all unique)… could it be the lawyers wanting to drag this hour as long as possible? I’m guessing they’re not doing this pro bono.
Genuinely, the ruling doesn’t make sense. I can understand any requests to see the identities of the uploaders, specifically if it were those who habitually uploaded copyrighted content. But people viewing? Surely not!
Rated: 20% (1 votes)
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