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March 26, 2008 12:24 PM PDT

The Digital Home 8: Tom's 25 percent rule

by Don Reisinger
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In this week's episode, Don chats with CNET's Tom Merritt about why Apple and Google will be hated one day and whether or not the XM-Sirius merger should happen. After that, Don sits down with Microsoft's marketing manager to discuss Office 2008 for Mac and in his solo rant segment, Don tells you why he's fed up with anti-piracy types.
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Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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by aubrey_q March 26, 2008 9:48 PM PDT
Don, another great podcast. I especially liked the rant at the end of the show. I rip all my movies to a NAS and play them through a modded Xbox. I don't have to worry about my kids scratching the heck out of the discs.

I remember reading about some executive that said "You want a backup? Buy another copy of the movie. That's your backup". What a moron, huh?

On a separate note, can you interview the CEO of Seagate? I can't remember his name but he'd be a great interview. He talks down-to-earth and if I'm not mistaken he was the guy who was quoted as saying "people need hard drives to store their porn", or something like that. This guy would be great on your show. You can ask him about SSDs, media storage for streaming, etc.

Thanks again for another great podcast.
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by aztec92154 March 27, 2008 9:09 AM PDT
AWESOME rant at the end of the show! The best show yet.
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by bob02903 March 27, 2008 10:26 AM PDT
Don!

Stupendous podcast! So very glad you had Tom on your show, he's a gem. As for the "rant" that was the last third of the show, I know I'm truly biased, but I think it was award-worthy! :-)

What can we all do to spread the word of how the media-buying public are not criminals, and clarify the evils of the DMCA?

Bob
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by Julio_N March 27, 2008 12:43 PM PDT
There was a story back in December, about the posibility of Jonathan Ive taking over when Jobs left.

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/12/08/will-jonathan-ive-replace-apples-steve-jobs/
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