I doubt Apple would release something with a measly 4GB storage (the smallest "current" touch is 8GB at $199) and a pitiful 5 hour battery life for a device of that size.
A 64GB touch is $399. Having one scaled up to that size with some beefed up specs would make $500 a reasonable price point.
Advanced Audio Coding. It's part of MPEG4. Apple *HAD* used DRM, but it wasn't part of the AAC spec itself. Now (in the US) the music is DRM free and has been for some time.
After delivery the baby is taken to a secure facility where it cannot do harm to society and is then only released after 21 years. Anyone outside of the secure facility under the age of 21 (who is not currently being transported directly to a secure facility) should be shot on sight to prevent their mere presence from endangering society.
This way there will be no children for lawmakers to think of and the children will have 21 years all nice and protected from the evil scary real world. Win-win.
I suppose little kids wouldn't appreciate Tarantino's style of dialog but that shouldn't stop them from enjoying the film.
I grew up watching Terminator, Rambo, Conan, Predator and their like. No harm done there. Kill Bill would probably be better for them in the long run compared what passes for kid shows these days.
Ya, those cargo and tanker ships are a real threat to the fishing...
If their gripe is with foreign ships fishing in their waters they should be going after the frakking fishing ships, not the merchant ships well outside their territorial waters.
So what you are say is that pirates pirate because they don't want to be pirates but the big bad evil companies keep forcing them to pirate by not releasing exactly what the pirate wants for a price (free) the pirate is willing to pay?
Don't forget all those cars loaded up hard drives full of pirated material.
Cars capable of carrying hard drives must be banned or the car companies should get out of the car business if they aren't going to take copyright seriously!
Your high performance glider probably has a much bigger wingspan than the 8ft of the jetpack.
Taking off from the ground isn't all that interesting. It just means he'd need enough extra thrust and fuel to get off the ground and up to his target height. If you're really going to get into a snit about it all he'd need is to tack on some JATO/RATO units to do that but that doesn't test the endurance of the main jetpack, so meh, not a big deal in my book.
And I'm sure the Bell X-1 breaking the sound barrier was no big deal because it was dropped from a mothership as well.
Look at what those numbers are divisible by: 12 can be divided evenly by 2,3,4 or 6. 36 can be divided evenly by 2,3,4,6,9,12,18. 5280 can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30, 32, 33, 40, 44, 48, 55, 60, 66, 80, 88, 96, 110, 120, 132, 160, 165, 176, 220, 240, 264, 330, 352, 440, 480, 528, 660, 880, 1056, 1320, 1760, 2640. The important ones being 2,3,4,5,6,8,10.
Plus metric measurements are generally too small (cm) or too big (m) to be practical for day to day uses.
So if you look at it from a pencil and paper math era perspective having the nice fractions was a plus. ( It's why we (thankfully) don't have metric time. 60 is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20, and 30. 100 is only divisible by 2,5,10,20,25, and 50. The Babylonians were onto something.)
Google,T-Mobile, and the G1 are the most awesomest awesome ever conceived of.
Well, until they actually gain some appreciable market share and then we must deride them for the very same things we praised them for once we find the next geeky savior of the world.
If you purchased a specific device from the ISP to connect to the ISP and then installed an unsanctioned OS on it in violation of the TOS you'd still be the guilty one.
Or was I supposed to generalize it to any computer to make the analogy fit what you were aiming for but not the original situation?
And isn't it that the particular xbox 360 is banned from Live, not your account?
So your subscription is still valid. Your 'hobbyist' xbox is banned but you could sign up a clean one and continue on with life.
I'm no fan of MS but I hope they crush this class action lawsuit. They provide a service. 'You' did something that broke the terms of the service agreement. They boot the offending hardware off of the service. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to pick out the guilty party here.
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I doubt Apple would release something with a measly 4GB storage (the smallest "current" touch is 8GB at $199) and a pitiful 5 hour battery life for a device of that size.
A 64GB touch is $399. Having one scaled up to that size with some beefed up specs would make $500 a reasonable price point.
Advanced Audio Coding. It's part of MPEG4. Apple *HAD* used DRM, but it wasn't part of the AAC spec itself. Now (in the US) the music is DRM free and has been for some time.
Wait, Apple put DRM back on music? When did that happen?
We should ban children entirely.
After delivery the baby is taken to a secure facility where it cannot do harm to society and is then only released after 21 years. Anyone outside of the secure facility under the age of 21 (who is not currently being transported directly to a secure facility) should be shot on sight to prevent their mere presence from endangering society.
This way there will be no children for lawmakers to think of and the children will have 21 years all nice and protected from the evil scary real world. Win-win.
I suppose little kids wouldn't appreciate Tarantino's style of dialog but that shouldn't stop them from enjoying the film.
I grew up watching Terminator, Rambo, Conan, Predator and their like. No harm done there. Kill Bill would probably be better for them in the long run compared what passes for kid shows these days.
Ya, those cargo and tanker ships are a real threat to the fishing...
If their gripe is with foreign ships fishing in their waters they should be going after the frakking fishing ships, not the merchant ships well outside their territorial waters.
So what you are say is that pirates pirate because they don't want to be pirates but the big bad evil companies keep forcing them to pirate by not releasing exactly what the pirate wants for a price (free) the pirate is willing to pay?
Slig, it's what's for dinner.
Well, we have companies here in the states that ban pocket knives but allow their employees to use multi-ton murder machines (vehicles).
One blog. Two cases. Everything links back to the one blog. I think we've just promoted another molehill up to mountain status.
Don't forget all those cars loaded up hard drives full of pirated material.
Cars capable of carrying hard drives must be banned or the car companies should get out of the car business if they aren't going to take copyright seriously!
The big bad tax cheats and evil terrorists do the same thing.
A completely legit paper trail would still be of interest because of that.
If someone is trying too hard to follow the law they are obviously hiding something.
Only third party apps are barred from running in the background.
Apple apps can and do run in the background which is why any AV company would have to work with Apple.
Do I need to break out a .5dm x 1dm and beat some sense into people?
See, just doesn't roll off the tongue. 5cm x 10cm doesn't either.
Now 2x4, that's nice, simple, sounds good and gets the point across.
Because it was the free market and private enterprise that was doing the scamming?
And if they are willing to pull this on the gov't then it really doesn't bode well for the rest of us peons.
So jets don't generate thrust? News to me.
Your high performance glider probably has a much bigger wingspan than the 8ft of the jetpack.
Taking off from the ground isn't all that interesting. It just means he'd need enough extra thrust and fuel to get off the ground and up to his target height. If you're really going to get into a snit about it all he'd need is to tack on some JATO/RATO units to do that but that doesn't test the endurance of the main jetpack, so meh, not a big deal in my book.
And I'm sure the Bell X-1 breaking the sound barrier was no big deal because it was dropped from a mothership as well.
Look at what those numbers are divisible by:
12 can be divided evenly by 2,3,4 or 6.
36 can be divided evenly by 2,3,4,6,9,12,18.
5280 can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30, 32, 33, 40, 44, 48, 55, 60, 66, 80, 88, 96, 110, 120, 132, 160, 165, 176, 220, 240, 264, 330, 352, 440, 480, 528, 660, 880, 1056, 1320, 1760, 2640. The important ones being 2,3,4,5,6,8,10.
Plus metric measurements are generally too small (cm) or too big (m) to be practical for day to day uses.
So if you look at it from a pencil and paper math era perspective having the nice fractions was a plus. (
It's why we (thankfully) don't have metric time. 60 is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20, and 30. 100 is only divisible by 2,5,10,20,25, and 50. The Babylonians were onto something.)
"2) Public vengeance - creates a lawful society by creating lawful just punishment for heinious crimes"
Vengeance, just, and lawful do not go together. A just and lawful society has impartial laws and vengeance is anything but impartial.
Public vengeance creates nothing more than a bloodthirsty mob which doesn't care who (as long it isn't them) gets punished as long as someone does.
Throw enough charges at someone and eventually *something* will stick.
There's enough laws out there that everyone has broken at least one of them or some "interpretation" of one.
Well, you see, Apple is Teh Evil.
Google,T-Mobile, and the G1 are the most awesomest awesome ever conceived of.
Well, until they actually gain some appreciable market share and then we must deride them for the very same things we praised them for once we find the next geeky savior of the world.
If you purchased a specific device from the ISP to connect to the ISP and then installed an unsanctioned OS on it in violation of the TOS you'd still be the guilty one.
Or was I supposed to generalize it to any computer to make the analogy fit what you were aiming for but not the original situation?
I'd wager that those functions have "*requires an active connection to Xbox Live" somewhere near them in the manual.
And isn't it that the particular xbox 360 is banned from Live, not your account?
So your subscription is still valid. Your 'hobbyist' xbox is banned but you could sign up a clean one and continue on with life.
I'm no fan of MS but I hope they crush this class action lawsuit. They provide a service. 'You' did something that broke the terms of the service agreement. They boot the offending hardware off of the service. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to pick out the guilty party here.
They are also the two leading exporters of crazy ideas (California) and crazy people (Texas).
Plus if they weren't states the rest of the U.S. would have them over a barrel when it comes to energy and other resources.