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Tyson Williams — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:22:13 -0000

Sounds like an interesting report which I would love to read, but $499 price tag is pretty scary. I am sure for a big ass marketing firms is just a pocket change so they can re-sell it in their own packaging when they will be ready.

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davidcrow — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:27:23 -0000

LOL, 
 
'I didn't sell out, Son, I bought in. Keep that in mind.' & Christopher MacDonald as the Dad in SLC Punk

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bryce johnson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:26:31 -0000

At least your baby won't think your a sellout for a good 16 years or so :-) 
 
You will be an argyle wearing superhero. 
 
I'm pretty sure my kid will figure it out when she is about 8 or 9. She'll listen to all my old punk rock records and then one day I'll hear, 'Daddy why do you feed the machine?' 
 
That is when my brain will snap and I'll go work in a bowling alley like Homer did on The Simpsons only to be forced back to consulting. I'll have a desktop picture collage of baby pictures that says 'Do it for her' and listen to old Bad Religion records and think well at least I'm not a horny old pervert like Graffin.

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davidcrow — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:18:14 -0000

Joe, 
 
All of your statements are correct. I am a Macintosh user. I now work for Microsoft. I am a former employee of a university. And I support charging for research. 
 
I'm not suggesting that all research should be conducted under the guises of selling PowerPoint slides and reports for $500. There is a lot of interesting commercial research like the <a href="http://www.adaptivepath.com..." target="_blank">Adaptive Path's reports</a> or <a href="http://www.nngroup.com/repo..." target="_blank">NN/g reports</a>. There is a lot of research like the work at <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/" target="_blank">MSR</a> that costs more than $500.

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Joe Clark — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:01:28 -0000

Not only are you a Macintosh user who now works for Microsoft (where they chastise you for one or two stray words), you are a former employee of a university who supports charging hundreds of dollars for research.