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  1. Let them sell them. by Raymond+Luxury+Yacht · · Score: 2 · on Tiny, Secure Music/Data CDs Due in the Fall
    "Labels may see DataPlay as a way to get ahead of the trend in ultrasmall MP3 portables -- and a new way to sell music in a format fully protected from copying."

    Let them sell the little buggers to their black little hearts content. *shrug* Nothing can make me or anyone else buy them.

    I and all users would have a choice. Either:
    • Stick with larger CD's and current hardware technology, and continue to have the freedom to compile our own mixes if we want.

    OR
    • Purchase new and quite likely over priced technology which would restrict the use of said smaller media.


    Now... I'm not going to any MENSA meetings, but you really have to be rucking fetarded to either puchase these mini cd's or think that average public would be stupid enough to buy them.

    hmmm... on second thought... Full House was on the air for 8 years.
  2. MERF by SteveR · · Score: 1 · on Techno-Charities?
    donate to MENSA

    Or more specifically, the Mensa Education & Research Foundation, which promotes research on intelligence and intellectual giftedness.

  3. Re:we offer financial aid by Tassach · · Score: 2 · on ArsDigita University
    I'll agree that performance on standardized tests is a somewhat reliable indication of how well someone will be able to adapt to a rigorous academic program. However, why rely only on SAT? Wouldn't it be just as effective to simply say "You must have recieved a score in the top 2% of a well-accepted academic achievement test"? Wouldn't the same objectives be achieved by accepting, for example, Mensa membership as a prerequsite?

    Likewise, as in the job world, having a hard requirement for having a Bacheleor's degree may exclude some very bright people who already have achieved an equivilent (or superior) level of understanding through self-learning and practical experience, but just don't have a piece of paper to prove it.

    If you are going to set up a non-traditional program like, why limit yourself to traditional selection criteria? I can understand your desire for exclusivity, but why not use this opportunity to try out new approaches for achieving that goal?

    Speaking for myself, I'd love to apply for your program -- it sounds very exciting to me. Unfortunatly, I never finished my BS degree (but somehow still managed to become a hard core SQL/OOP geek). While I do meet the other requirements, I'd still have to figure out how to support my family and pay my mortgage for a year without working. [And, frankly, Calculus makes my head hurt :-)] I guess I'll just have to follow along on the web.


    "The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'

  4. Re:Sell non-source adjunct products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How Do You Fund an OpenSource Project?

    sorta like herding cats eh ? now where did i hear that one before ?

  5. MENSA workout by TedC · · Score: 1 · on Sinclair Does Linux

    Did anyone follow the link to MENSA and take the MENSA workout? The obvious answer to #10 is 8, but this can't be right, because a circle doesn't really have any "sides". I must be looking at the problem wrong...