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		<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 14:16:38 GMT" name="whyAmateurReviewersAreBetter" pgfnum="9784" text="Why amateur reviewers are better" type="thread">
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 14:16:49 GMT" pgfnum="9785" text="1. Amateurs don't have relationships with the vendors to protect. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 14:19:58 GMT" pgfnum="9786" text="2. The reviews don't all come the week before the product is announced. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 14:20:03 GMT" pgfnum="9787" text="3. They aren't rehashes of press releases. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 14:20:09 GMT" pgfnum="9788" text="4. They reflect actual experience using the product, over a period of weeks instead of minutes, in the case of some professional reviews. "></outline>
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		<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 13:18:19 GMT" name="techDesignCantMoveThatFast" pgfnum="9777" text="Tech design can't move that fast" type="thread">
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 13:18:27 GMT" pgfnum="9778" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/15-current-technologies-child-born-today-never-142409696.html&quot;&gt;Interesting piece&lt;/a&gt; that lists 15 current technologies that a child born today will never use. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 13:23:32 GMT" pgfnum="9779" text="Some of the predictions are wrong. Mice will not be replaced by touchscreens unless people's arms are re-designed. People forget that human biology is part of the system. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 13:23:39 GMT" pgfnum="9780" text="Cars have the same controls today they had when I was a kid. I was 57 earlier this month."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 13:23:51 GMT" pgfnum="9781" text="If Microsoft really thinks they're getting rid of windows (with a lower-case W) they're going to learn the hard way the world does not care what they think. Same with Apple and Ubuntu. I'm guessing the companies are smarter than that. And thankfully we can fork Ubuntu if they make that mistake."></outline>
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