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Thor set one of Thor's replies as an official response to "How does moderation work?" in Get Satisfaction

Thor reported a problem in The Satisfactory on May 30, 2007 19:59:

Footer links are broken

Looks like "http://" should be inserted in front of the links.

Thor asked a question in The Satisfactory on May 30, 2007 19:55:

Consider reloading the page after signing out to clear avatars and other personal information.

Currently it's using Ajax to do the logout, but without a page reload the effect isn't realized on the page.

Thor asked a question in The Satisfactory on May 30, 2007 19:55:

Consider reloading the page after signing out to clear avatars and other personal information.

Currently it's using Ajax to do the logout, but without a page reload the effect isn't realized on the page.

Thor asked a question in The Satisfactory on May 30, 2007 19:51:

Consider reloading the page after signing out to clear avatars and other personal information.

Currently it's using Ajax to do the logout, but without a page reload the effect isn't realized on the page.

Thor replied on May 30, 2007 18:43 to the question "What do you mean you like to "shrink existing markets?" Don't you want to grow new markets?" in First Round Capital:

Josh Kopelman has a great explanation of what this means on his must-read blog, Redeye VC. The post is called Shrink a Market!. Here's a quote:

At Half.com...we quickly learned that most readers of fiction books finished reading the book within two weeks after purchase. So we launched a very simple feature on our site. Say you purchased a John Grisham book from half.com for $15 (versus a market price of $30). Two and a half weeks later you would receive an email from Half.com offering “your money back” – users simply had to check a box and we would list their book for sale for $15. The vast majority of users would relist the book for sale -- and we found that for best selling books, we would sell the exact same copy of a book four times. That is, Buyer A would buy the book for $15, read it and sell it to Buyer B for $15, who would then read it and sell it to buyer C for $15, who would read it then sell it to Buyer D. Of course, we would take commissions from every sale – say $3 – and shipping charges – say $2 – from each sale. So for the four transactions, the out of pocket cost to the buyers would be $20. Now if half.com didn’t exist, you can assume that the books would have been purchased through traditional channels for $30 each – for a total out of pocket cost of $120. Think about it. For every $1 of sales on half.com, we took $6 away from the existing traditional channel - another example of asymmetrical competition.

Thor replied on May 30, 2007 18:29 to the idea "I'd love to see First Round do a reality show (vlog?) set in its offices..." in First Round Capital:

Good luck getting founders to sign video releases! Then again, if it's the price of admission to pitch it just might work.

Thor asked a question in First Round Capital on May 30, 2007 07:25:

How does the First Round team feel about software patents?

In general, do you think pursuing software patents are worth the trouble and cost at an early stage in a company, or are the effort/resources better spent on growing the business? Do they create real enterprise value or are they primarily defensive in nature? What are the circumstances in which they'd be worth the distraction?

Thor asked a question in Apple on May 30, 2007 02:42:

Why is my Macbook Pro so damned hot?

I can barely keep it on my lap after it's been on for awhile.

Thor reported a problem in Apple on May 29, 2007 22:11:

My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it

It normally wakes up just fine, but sometimes the screen remains off. For some reason it's not recognizing the trigger to end sleep mode. The solution for me is either to hit the brightness key (F2) a bunch of times (this worked on my old Powerbook), or hold down the shift button while touching the trackpad or space key (Macbook Pro).

Thor reported a problem in Apple on May 29, 2007 22:02:

There is white noise on the audio out jack when I have an HDMI cable plugged in

For some reason the signal gets incredibly noisy when I have my Macbook Pro plugged into my HDTV via the HDMI cable. It's introducing audio interference where there normally is none.

Thor started a conversation in EFF on May 25, 2007 05:39:

The Open Rights Group looks like the UK version of the EFF

They're younger (2 years old) and are lot less developed, but they seem to share the same mission. Their wiki describes them like this:

"The Open Rights Group is a fast-growing NGO focused on raising awareness of issues such as privacy, identity, data protection, access to knowledge and copyright reform."

I wonder if they have any kind of relationship with the EFF.

Thor asked a question in Apple on May 23, 2007 22:38:

How do I connect up my new Apple TV to my Samsung 36" FR-3242?

I just bought it and it doesn't work.

Thor shared an idea in Apple on May 22, 2007 18:41:

Touch screens for MacBooks

I'd love to have touchscreen for sketching and using multi-touch interfaces like this: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

Thor replied on May 22, 2007 00:14 to the discussion "Just want to say, Apple rocks!" in Apple:

Apple definitely knows how to give us folks the warm fuzzies. I wrote about this recently, suggesting that every business should steal something from the Genius Bar concept.

Thor replied on May 09, 2007 05:29 to the question "How does this differ from a message board?" in Get Satisfaction:

This link doesn't seem to be active.

Thor asked a question in Cingular on May 08, 2007 23:54:

When is the iphone coming out?

I'm dying for one.

Thor replied on May 02, 2007 22:12 to the discussion "Cingular wasted a ton of money on me" in Cingular:

Let's see...at $12/hour they spent $8 on the call when it should have cost $0.40. Cingular/AT&T has 65 million subscribers. Assuming that 1/3 have a problem of this magnitude each year they are losing an avoidable $162 million/year because of badly designed customer service systems.

You'd think they'd have internal quality assurance that would catch this kind of thing!

Thor replied on May 02, 2007 20:22 to the question "Cingular has a forum, but why do they make it impossible to find from their main site?" in Cingular:

The Cingular forums remind me of the Island of Misfit Toys:

Thor replied on May 01, 2007 19:46 to the question "Can we customize the look and feel?" in Get Satisfaction:

Great feedback. We're actively refinining (read: toning down) the visuals and are considering places for customization. Stay tuned!