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Duke University Students Receive iPods
DSLAMngu writes "Freshman students at Duke University received their complimentary/paid for (however you want to look at it) iPod portable music players on Thurday. This deal was previously mentioned on /. here. After waiting in line, I eventually got my Duke-engraved iPod at about 9:00 PM with the rest of the freshmen at Brown dorm. I've written about the experience at my blog, and also included a copy of the Program Agreement and some photos of what the students received."
Smooth...
Slightly offtopic, but that blog has to be one of the most offensive web designs I've seen in ages. Background sounds, distracting unreadable colours, it's got them all!
How many drunken college students will lose these things around campus?
Try to think less about "blogging" and iPods, and more about "female" things, mmmkay?
Nah, they just had to post it because it's been three hours or so since the last ipod discussion.
August 21st, 2004: Some kid gets an iPod. He makes a blog entry about it. Slashdot is first on the scene with the scoop! Lack of interest of the rest of the planet seemingly escapes notice.
He got an iPod, guys. I got one too. So does my friend Chris. Enough about the damn iPods.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
this will undoubtedly be a redundant comment, but:
Most - annoying - website - evar.
Sure, the design is absoretarded and all... but, MUSIC?
This guy is either oblivious, or just asking for it.
Never mind, I've thought back on the people I went to high school with who went to Duke... this guy fits right in.
> means the class that will graduate in the year 2008
Apart, of course, from those members of the class who flunk out because they spend too much time posting their blogs about "look I got an iPod" on slashdot...
Not everything that can be measured matters; Not everything that matters can be measured.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
Well, they can start with a fucking dictionary, for one. It's DONOR. A doner is what you order at a Greek place with lots of tzatziki.
I thought universities were in the business of teaching, not hardware/music distribution.
They are. It's the students who are in charge of music distribution.
Leave your door unlocked and they'll also "distribute" your hardware.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
News: Students at duke will all receive iPods.
Not News: One kid at Duke received an iPod.
4) They don't want to be caught talking out of their asses.
it happens you know..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Dude, please put back autopr0n. I'll paypal you 50 bucks, whatever you want. I need my TGP fix, and autopr0n is still the best source. If you are too lazy, I'll do the port to PHP/MySQL and get it up and running on some 10 dollar a month shared hosting account.
So what if they received their iPod. In one way or another they will pay for it in their tuition fee.
The difference for the student is largely who "they" are in this context. Consider the difference between "Hey, dad, will you buy me an iPod" and "Hey, dad, I got admitted to Duke".
Notice the cheap recycled cardboard in the fourth generation packaging where there was styrofoam in the third edition packaging. This was definitely a cut corner because I really did think the styrofoam was awesome before
Yeah, it totally blew my iPod experience for those three seconds it took me to remove the iPod from its box and throw away the cardboard, instead of throwing away nice shiny styrofoam. Let's go back to having a few million pieces of awesome styrofoam in the garbage, that totally r0x0r!!!
In one way or another they will pay for it in their tuition fee.
Oh, I thought Duke tuition went towards landscaping.
-- "Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke!" - Moe Szyslak
It was the grad student ... in the lab ... with the iPod!
Seriously, Duke just handed out a whole slew of homicides waiting to happen.
The first thing I thought was "I guess the slashdot editors couldn't figure out how to get their soundcards working under linux either". If they had, surely they never would have posted that to the front page.
What? You think the editors actually READ the articles? Duh
*NEWS FLASH* Hundreds of Muggers Descend On Duke University. Few of the attending Freshmen now retain their iPod. In an unrelated story: Sudden Glut of iPod's on eBay drive price of used iPod's down.
... and in the DRM, bind them.