Why can't we build them ourselves? Just because you're stuck with only buying from Apple, why must we limit ourselves. Brandname computers are a complete ripoff. I can save hundreds of dollars buying from either a mom and pop store or picking up the pieces as I go along. I'm sorry you've never heard of Avantech; they make great cases, but not whole computers.
I'm just your average college student from a small town moved to the capital of the State. I too was horrified by what had happened yesterday and today I finally feel the need to speak. I've been reading through the comments and saw people write that we needed to strike the terrorists back yesterday. That would have been all well and good had we known whom the terrorists were. Sure it could be bin Laden, but we don't really know. For all we know, it was a group of National Terrorists, not an international group. Please don't go pointing fingers before the facts are out. Enough people have died already. More innocents do not need to be taken from us. Yes, I am saddened by what happened, but we also need to move on. Move on, but never forget. We cannot sit on our haunches and dwell over something that happened in the past.
As for privacy issues... how well would facial recognition work when anymore it is just a (relatively) simple operation to have your facial features changed? Sorting through hundreds of thousands of phone calls, emails, and whatnot every day just doesn't seem feasible to me. A lot of man hours would be wasted. The simple truth is that airline security is very poor right now. I'd much rather be physically searched (patted down) whenever I flew than have my face scanned every time and a computer glitch and mistake me for someone I'm not. But then again, I'm just a college student from a small town... on one really listens.
Your college could go the way of DeVry (where I'm going now in Columbus) and not even have dorms... my roomates and I set up our own network easily. Less of a cost to the university and less of a hassle for the techies at the school.
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Why can't we build them ourselves? Just because you're stuck with only buying from Apple, why must we limit ourselves. Brandname computers are a complete ripoff. I can save hundreds of dollars buying from either a mom and pop store or picking up the pieces as I go along.
I'm sorry you've never heard of Avantech; they make great cases, but not whole computers.
... if the link actually worked. *waits 20 seconds*
I'm just your average college student from a small town moved to the capital of the State. I too was horrified by what had happened yesterday and today I finally feel the need to speak. I've been reading through the comments and saw people write that we needed to strike the terrorists back yesterday. That would have been all well and good had we known whom the terrorists were. Sure it could be bin Laden, but we don't really know. For all we know, it was a group of National Terrorists, not an international group. Please don't go pointing fingers before the facts are out. Enough people have died already. More innocents do not need to be taken from us. Yes, I am saddened by what happened, but we also need to move on. Move on, but never forget. We cannot sit on our haunches and dwell over something that happened in the past.
As for privacy issues... how well would facial recognition work when anymore it is just a (relatively) simple operation to have your facial features changed? Sorting through hundreds of thousands of phone calls, emails, and whatnot every day just doesn't seem feasible to me. A lot of man hours would be wasted. The simple truth is that airline security is very poor right now. I'd much rather be physically searched (patted down) whenever I flew than have my face scanned every time and a computer glitch and mistake me for someone I'm not. But then again, I'm just a college student from a small town... on one really listens.
Your college could go the way of DeVry (where I'm going now in Columbus) and not even have dorms... my roomates and I set up our own network easily. Less of a cost to the university and less of a hassle for the techies at the school.