As a current PhD student (and an American studying in America), I learn with dozens of colleagues from abroad. Not necessarily 90%, but certainly close to 60%. (I'm also in humanities, so that may change the experience.) However, in watching the drive and the commitment that so many of these students have, I see a huge chasm between them and the American students. The American students often (though not always) have an aura of entitlement about them, while the internationals really fight to achieve. I think the biggest difference between emigrant students and domestics isn't ability, but willingness to see something through that requires that much diligence and commitment.
The errors I've had haven't come from AllOfMP3 directly, but rather their connections with their pay services. I can't get the money put into their accounts to show up on AllOfMp3. And when you try to contact their (All...) Customer Service to resolve/aid in the issue, there's nobody home to help.
More importantly, why'd the RIAA target people with nothing to sue for? Like a college student has $50,000 laying around to pay in fines. Go after businesses or the colleges hosting the servers facillitating. Billy the frosh doesn't have assets, RIAA, he's just got $16,000 in debt! What do you expect to get beyond Hot Pockets and a half-eaten bag of Cheetos?
So let's review: in an age where America is rattling sabres with other countries regarding [denying] their ability to build or operate a nuke facility , how are we taking the moral high ground to open new ones of our own? Doesn't this seem a bit hypocritical?
Yeah, a back-door Russian site does what it does well, but there are so many errors constantly plaguing the system that it's all but unusable. And the way current laws are being examined to stop oversea purchasing/distribution of MP3 files, AllOfMP3's lifespan draws shorter every day.
Great list, but we've already got one--it's called a computer. The IPhone isn't (yet) meant to be an all-encompassing technology. It's just successfully blending together some of the things Apple has historically done well--multimedia. To include "THX stereo" would take up more space than the rest of the system, and the PC Card slot is already reaching antiquity; what would you even plug into it with USB, firewire, and ethernet connections already built into the system.
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As a current PhD student (and an American studying in America), I learn with dozens of colleagues from abroad. Not necessarily 90%, but certainly close to 60%. (I'm also in humanities, so that may change the experience.) However, in watching the drive and the commitment that so many of these students have, I see a huge chasm between them and the American students. The American students often (though not always) have an aura of entitlement about them, while the internationals really fight to achieve. I think the biggest difference between emigrant students and domestics isn't ability, but willingness to see something through that requires that much diligence and commitment.
The errors I've had haven't come from AllOfMP3 directly, but rather their connections with their pay services. I can't get the money put into their accounts to show up on AllOfMp3. And when you try to contact their (All...) Customer Service to resolve/aid in the issue, there's nobody home to help.
More importantly, why'd the RIAA target people with nothing to sue for? Like a college student has $50,000 laying around to pay in fines. Go after businesses or the colleges hosting the servers facillitating. Billy the frosh doesn't have assets, RIAA, he's just got $16,000 in debt! What do you expect to get beyond Hot Pockets and a half-eaten bag of Cheetos?
So let's review: in an age where America is rattling sabres with other countries regarding [denying] their ability to build or operate a nuke facility , how are we taking the moral high ground to open new ones of our own? Doesn't this seem a bit hypocritical?
Yeah, a back-door Russian site does what it does well, but there are so many errors constantly plaguing the system that it's all but unusable. And the way current laws are being examined to stop oversea purchasing/distribution of MP3 files, AllOfMP3's lifespan draws shorter every day.
Great list, but we've already got one--it's called a computer. The IPhone isn't (yet) meant to be an all-encompassing technology. It's just successfully blending together some of the things Apple has historically done well--multimedia. To include "THX stereo" would take up more space than the rest of the system, and the PC Card slot is already reaching antiquity; what would you even plug into it with USB, firewire, and ethernet connections already built into the system.