America allows its citizens to question the morality of such research openly. I don't know that Iran and North Korea would. It's probably not a perfect litmus test, but it goes a long way.
Of course, the key question is: how long does it take to copy a 17MB file? Particularly in Soviet Russia with Natalie Portman, for one, welcoming the new hot grits overlord for YOU, insensitive clod.
Not only that, but how much land would be opened up to agriculture if all our fuel came from crops? Would forests be leveled, swamps drained, topsoil eroded, etc?
Everything comes at a prices, monetary or otherwise. Most environmentalists (or at least, journalists writing on environmentalism) don't seem to grasp this.
Hm, I've been using iTunes since... well, for two years at least. In that time I've used UltraSound and SpinDoctor and many other music apps and it's hardly been a 'pain in the ass'. It has occaisionally required a little bit of organizing by hand, generally due to my own mistakes, but hardly 'a pain in the ass'.
So what's the big deal? The last time I checked, everything was in three spatial dimensions. (Granted, a lot of people are very shallow in the third...)
Branded products in general should not be sold on school premises. Schools should not take money from corporations under any circumstances.
Yeah, because the government gives them enough money, riiiiight
1) The government gives them our money. The government can only take and destroy wealth, it cannot create it.
2) $10K per student is, what, $250K-$300K per classroom. There is enough money, but it's being spent by people who couldn't be trusted with snake control in Ireland.
We had to do all our programming by having a Viking take a battle axe to particular monks in a line to represent ones and zeros. The cost of computing was enormous. Those Vikings didn't work cheap, and the price of monks went up every year. Then when Constantinople fell to the Turks,...
Oh, I've had enough of this. I never wanted to be a geek. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!
Not to be cruel or anything. But what has gotten into Americans/Japanese about this irrational fear of dying and the desire to be breathing (not necessarily alive) for incredibly long periods of time.
It's an increasingly secular age, and some people just have to believe in some form of heaven.
It was meant to be a joke, because, well, it's all the standard/. arguments against Apple. It's odd (though understandable) how many have taken it as a troll. It's less odd (though quite sad) how many took all this seriously.
Ah well. The longer I live, the more I realize that we ignoble hairless apes haven't really left Olduvai, have we?
1) One button mouse
2) I can't afford one because I'm too lame to have a good job
3) Quicktime should be open source
4) Ogg Vorbis? Hel-LO!!!
5) I can't run 12-year old software on it
6) They should give it away for free
7) No x86 (though this is actually a plus
Lord, I hope not. WebObjects is about the coolest thing since they re-invented unsliced bread. It's one of those things that costs a few bucks but is worth every darned penny you spend on it.
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No, probably more like Beni-Hana.
Everything comes at a prices, monetary or otherwise. Most environmentalists (or at least, journalists writing on environmentalism) don't seem to grasp this.
(With apologies to Bob Ryan and Stephen Fry ... something I never thought I'd say.)
The man attended an Ivy League school. Based on working with Ivy Leaguers, I'd say that his braindeadedness was in the kitty a loooong time ago.
Uh, no. Nothing is foolproof because fools are just too damned clever.
No, wait, on second thought, I really don't want to know.
(And no, I do not work for Klipsch, much as I'd like to.)
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Branded products in general should not be sold on school premises. Schools should not take money from corporations under any circumstances.
Yeah, because the government gives them enough money, riiiiight1) The government gives them our money. The government can only take and destroy wealth, it cannot create it.
2) $10K per student is, what, $250K-$300K per classroom. There is enough money, but it's being spent by people who couldn't be trusted with snake control in Ireland.
We had to do all our programming by having a Viking take a battle axe to particular monks in a line to represent ones and zeros. The cost of computing was enormous. Those Vikings didn't work cheap, and the price of monks went up every year. Then when Constantinople fell to the Turks, ...
Oh, I've had enough of this. I never wanted to be a geek. I wanted to be ... a lumberjack!
Ugh, mod me down as "-1 Disgusting".
It's an increasingly secular age, and some people just have to believe in some form of heaven.
Ah well. The longer I live, the more I realize that we ignoble hairless apes haven't really left Olduvai, have we?
1) One button mouse
2) I can't afford one because I'm too lame to have a good job
3) Quicktime should be open source
4) Ogg Vorbis? Hel-LO!!!
5) I can't run 12-year old software on it
6) They should give it away for free
7) No x86 (though this is actually a plus