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Delicious satire. - Kari Silvennoinen

It's sad that Spotify has to resort to these underhanded tactics, but I guess that's the cold, hard business reality of the "social community web 2.0". - Kari Silvennoinen

FWIW, there are way too few arrows going to 12. - Kari Silvennoinen

FWIF, there are way too few arrows going to 12. - Kari Silvennoinen

Spoiler: The human psyche considers surprises as cognitive failures. - Kari Silvennoinen

The internet, she's a harsh mistress. - Kari Silvennoinen

Seriously, wtf. - Kari Silvennoinen

"Hi and thanks for your comment. We strive for accuracy at this blog and the author had in fact mixed up the units and they should be bits instead of bytes. We sincerely hope this confusion did not totally ruin your assignment. The actual theoretical data transfer rates should be: 0G: Size of data packet was limited by what your carrier pigeon could handle 1G: Depends if you used 1st or 2nd class stamp. 2G: 9.6 kbits/s or so. 2.5G (GPRS): 56 - 114 kbits/s. 2.75G (EDGE): up to 560 kbit/s 3G (UMTS): up to 2 Mbit/s 3.5G (HSDPA): 1.8 - 14.4 Mbit/s 4G: Whatever the marketing department dreamed up last night. Tech IT Easy regrets the error." - Kari Silvennoinen

Hotellingin laki iskee jälleen. - Kari Silvennoinen

The tentacle pr0n must flow… - Kari Silvennoinen

for teh lulz. - Kari Silvennoinen

"On software side of robotics, Microsoft has been busy building a software development platform for robots, which is interesting. Probably so that T-1000 can run Windows, and so we'll know how to BSOD it. If anyone has access, I recommend Gates' article on Scientific American on robots. It's from 2006, but it's still quite relevant. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article......" - Kari Silvennoinen

"My fellow Mac developers are laughing at the Mac App Store guidelines," developer Jonathan Rentzsch told Ars last October after Apple divulged app submission details. "They're reporting that apps they've been shipping for years—a number of them Apple Design Award-winning—would be rejected from the Mac App Store." - Kari Silvennoinen

This is why rarely talk business on Twitter. That, and because I like post-rationalizations. - Kari Silvennoinen

I'm ashamed to note that Postal 2 had Capture the Babe mode years ago. And yes, it was a funny variation from the normal Capture the Flag - especially if you played as a team of catholic priests. - Kari Silvennoinen

The sooner these recommendation engines figure out that listening to Finnish rock doesn't mean that I like all Finnish music the better. - Kari Silvennoinen

"I think this album proves that NiN's approach with Ghosts was better (fixed cost, lots of stuff) than Radiohead's name-your-price-scheme. That's quite interesting, but proves the point that you usually make profitable business if you can price your stuff right. As for publishing your own music on the various sites on the net, I think TuneCore ( http://www.tunecore.com/ ) seems to be quite straightforward and it comes with a quite good testimonial from Trent Reznor himself =) However, I think the question about how an unestablished band can make good money with these schemes remains unanswered." - Kari Silvennoinen

Or, on the dangers of extrapolation. - Kari Silvennoinen

"Okay, so I was wrong about how quickly Nokia surrendered..Looks like Nokia threw the towel in when it comes to smartphone innovation and services. This was probably a big victory for the hardware guys at Nokia. Then again, hardware has been Nokia's strength. There are many more happy faces at 1 Infinite Loop and at Mountain View, though. Time will tell if Vanjoki was right." - Kari Silvennoinen

"I think I should let you be my editor for my blog posts. You captured the points I tried to make without spending better part of an hour researching oil platforms, suicides off the Golden Gate and weather at North Sea." - Kari Silvennoinen

So, 20 years and we still don't get URLs. - Kari Silvennoinen

Is it already that time of the month again? It's getting tedious to keep one's Facebook privacy in check. - Kari Silvennoinen

"No doubt there are such cases, but without any evidence I'm really hard pressed to believe that they make any dent in the numbers. We're talking about tens of thousands of people even in smaller countries and I'm quite sure that there are more facebook profiles for dogs than for sexual predators." - Kari Silvennoinen

I just love monopolies. If this is true, Apple better not screw my access the Economist on iPhone. - Kari Silvennoinen

The enemy of my enemy is mathematically my friend. - Kari Silvennoinen

Quora should probably look at how sites like Reddit handle spam and smurfing. - Kari Silvennoinen

To summarize, the Peter Principle is teh bomb. - Kari Silvennoinen

"Yeah, I didn't have time, but it would have been quite easy to add broadband penetration rate / internet usage by population numbers in the chart and I would assume they correlate heavily with Facebook penetration. The internet is the best thing ever for stats junkies like me." - Kari Silvennoinen

The mobile carriers are really trying to avoid being bit-pushers, which is what they'll inevitably become. - Kari Silvennoinen

Fail. - Kari Silvennoinen