"And Microsoft should really consider advertising for Mozilla too."
Not really far fetched since Microsoft advertises on Slashdot, which is probably the world's largest collection of rabid anti-Microsofties posting on the net.:)
If crappy Real Player can squeeze out $750 million alone from Microsoft's monopolist/predatory behavior, then obviously Time Warner settled for far less by accepting earlier an equal dollar figure to settle the Netscape case. The damage done to Netscape - and AOL indirectly by the over reliance on IE for Joe Blow's sake - is far more than what Real suffered from.
Real's main problem is with Real itself. Its product, and how it treated its virtual customers, the casual users.
Hmmm...maybe with such sufficient cash reserves, Apple might be tempted to finally sue Real over that nice little DMCA violation it committed last year by cracking Fairplay's DRM. I'd rather see Apple with another $750 million than Real anyday.
"When we have MythTV on the penguin, and even MythTV based LiveCDs, who honestly cares about running a windows PVR?"
People who have ATi graphics cards and/or people who would rather buy such a graphics/DVR capable card from the local Best Buy or CompUSA instead of ordering a specialized Linux supporting card from a more obscure source.
Seriously. When will the big tech companies finally come to the conclusion that the RIAA is a threat to them, and simply buy out each member of the RIAA? None of the RIAA members, Warner Music (now 80% separate from Time Warner), EMI, Universal, or SonyBMG are worth $1 billion. Why doesn't the tech industry come to an agreement to cross license their wares and buy up those various companies and pull out of the RIAA?
$1 billion is chump change for the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo. XM and Sirius also have vested interests, but then again, so do all the other big groups that offer digital music stations such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable (soon to be spun off from Time Warner corporate), Charter, as well as Dish and DirecTV.
If the RIAA and the associated music labels were eliminated, that would knock off 70 cents (U.S.) from the 99 cents fee per download from iTunes. And with that, legitimate digital music purchases would start to move towards parity with the illegal P2P swapping, which would be beneficial to all parties.
In summary, we need visionary CEOs like Steve Jobs and far less Edgar Bronfmans in the business world so that tech and media both grow without stiffing consumers and thus encouraging criminal behavior because of short-sighted pigopolist policies.
"There are still creditors and shareholders who are entitled to whatever value the assets have at liquidation. The copyrights to Apple's software will be of significant value, even if the company goes under (possibly even moreso). Google "fraudulent transfer"."
Then again, it is the Apple brand itself that is valuable about the company. The success of the iPod has nothing to do with OS X and thus the whole OS could be transferred to an open source license under such a nightmare scenario. After all, how valuable is the copyrights/patents on OS X when Apple spends less than $20 million per year on R&D for it? Furthermore, with the licensing agreement Apple and Microsoft have, its not like Apple can sue Microsoft over incorporation of such features into Windows. Otherwise, Apple would've already filed the papers and we wouldn't be seeing the *Aquafication* of Windows Vista.
If Apple was bankrupt already, how would open sourcing the materials hurt any worse?
Besides, who could Apple sell its IP to? Microsoft? Nope. That would be antitrust. HP? Nope, because they won't be in the market for long. Sun? Yeah, right. IBM? No, they sold out to Lenovo already. Red Hat? Not enough money. Novell? Same.
That would leave the option of selling the IP to Sony at an extremely reduced price, or open sourcing it...but not under the GPL.
"There's a lot of "down-time" involved in occupation efforts"
Don't you mean *liberation*? *Occupation* is the charge made against the U.S. and the Coalition forces by those Iraqis sympathetic to either the Baathists (which were deposed and excluded from the government under de-Baathification - just as the West German government was de-Nazified after WWII) or those super humanitarians known as al-Quaida.
Want some freedom fries?:) You too can win Best Buy Bux, iPods, or Sony PSPs with the McDonald's Monopoly game...:)
Newsflash to Slashdot user Dada21, try checking out the Sony PSP before making such a prognostication.
PSP UMD movie discs are selling very well in proportion to the installed base of users.
They are even releasing Series1 of the new *Doctor Who* on UMD in Europe this month!
ps. Video Podcasting is the latest craze. Apple will want to monopolize this and have the whole field associated with itself.
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"and think secret is saying the exact opposite: no vIpod, it's powermac and powerbook updates."
And ThinkSecret seems to think there's a large margin on the iPod Nano, which there is not.
ThinkSecret seems to think that an iPod Video model would rob sales of the iPod Nano despite the fact that the Video model would be at the high price range ($500+) of all iPods, whereas the Nano is not.
This event is a media special event. It makes no sense to invite the media if it is merely an annoucement and last hurrah of the PowerBooks and PowerMacs before the Intel switch.
Most likely, the event will start with a speed bump/dual core announcement for the PowerBooks and PowerMacs. The "one last thing" - and the main event of the presentation - would be the iPod Video, along with the iMovie/iVideo/iWhatever Video store debut. You gotta think about it like the last presentation; the rather mundane Motorola ROKR shown off (well, actually, iTunes 5.0 first), and then the major announcement of the iPod Nano saved for last.
We must all remember that we are in the final stretches before the holiday season. Apple needs to remind consumers that Apple is still hot this holiday season, and thus an iPod Video would serve this well.
Then again, same goes for a G5 powered and HD capable Mac Mini, while they are at it. But I doubt that is meant to be for now.
"The Lynxpro (657990) --- It is comments like yours that makes everyone around the world hate you guys. Americans like you have no sympathy or compassion towards human life. You think you can just go around and "nuke" (i.e. KILL/MURDER innocent people) just for the hell of it. GROW UP. Grow up you little puppy dog... Or is it that you feel so "brave" talking the "big talk.""
I have sympathy for life. I also see the need to take care of nations who are threats to not only their own people but to other nations. North Korea is one example. If it is true that Kim Jong Il's regime is responsible for starving 2-4 million of its own people, then how is my suggestion that the regime gets nuked is less humanitarian if it in turn topples that regime and prevents an all-out war breaking out, which would involve not only killing civilians in both North and South Korea, but also thousands of North Korean and U.S. soldiers? Answer me that, oh anonymous coward.
Furthermore, if Taiwan had nukes, it would keep the People's Republic of China in check and instead of posturing over Taiwan and imperialist claims by the West, the PRC would have to focus inward on its own structural problems, and quite possibly might lead to democracy a little quicker than if the regime just walked all over Taiwan. Furthermore, if Taiwan had nukes, it would mean the U.S. would not have to involve itself in defending Taiwain from PRC intrusion. MAD would keep both Taiwan and the PRC in check, meaning they would work on their relationship and promote better trade amongst each other since a stalemate is counter productive. It might lead to the PRC relenting and allowing Taiwan to join the UN. After all, that means "China" effectively would have 2 seats in the UN, which might favor the PRC in terms of territorial claims against other nations like Japan and Vietnam. Unfortunately, the PRC is blinded to such advantages due to its ideology, which is rampant nationalism.
Funny how you talk about alleged deficiencies regarding bravery yet you post as an anonymous coward. Practice what you preach, oh online coward.
"Steve Ballmer was quoted, "F**K THAT RIAA! I'm GOING TO F**KING KILL YOU TOO!! KILL!!! KILL!! KILLL!!!!!!" Stock prices of major furniture companies went up as well on the news, on forecasts of the increased need for chairs."
I'd pay $25 US to see Ballmer bean Edgar Bronfman in the head with a Herman Miller chair.
Ballmer, what's the PayPal account I'm sending the money to?
Come to think of it, I'd pay $50 to see that. Especially with a "Waterworld" DVD hot glued to the chair.
I'd go even further. I wish Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft sat down and decided to buy all four of the remaining music companies, withdrew them from the RIAA (thereby destroying the hated organization), and signed an agreement not to keep their newly acquired music exclusive to each of their services.
Think about it. None of the majors left, Warner Music, SonyBMG, EMI, or Universal are worth $1 billion. Digital piracy won't end until prices are reduced to realistic levels....say 25 cents US at most for most of the catalog songs. Charge higher prices for higher bit rates, and of course, lossless.
If that were done, digital music would skyrocket, and there wouldn't be a *need* for illicit P2P. The music industry would also be rid of worthless (and clueless) *executives* like Edgar Bronfman who brings no value to the company he owns, but subtracks quite a bit from it.
Personally, if Apple were really smart, they'd be trying to acquire EMI right now. If they bought the company, they could squeeze Apple Records into a realistic settlement over the whole "Apple" name that is never ending, and could finally get the Beatles catalog online officially.
"Totally ridiculous. Considering that only four banana republics have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, they don't need a foreign ministry at all. Every other country recognizes the One China as the Red China. Taiwan is not even in the UN. They are the dwarf who pretends to be the giant, but their heydays are long gone."
North Korea is not a member of the UN.
And there are plenty of people in the US that would like to see the US pull out of the UN, and evict the UN out of the US.
"Mainland China could do our children's generation an amazingly kind act by allowing Taiwan to call itself what it already is now, avoiding world war in twenty years."
And give up Tibet with the guarantee that the Western Powers won't put military bases there.
Of course, I guess the Chinese could point a finger at the U.S. and ask why we haven't given Hawai'i back to its people.
"It's a political debate, right up until you consider that one side of the debate represents much more money than the other. Then it's a simple matter of economics."
A simple matter of a rogue CIA group equipping the Taiwainese with some nukes would also solve the diplomatic standoff as well, and allow the U.S. to decouple itself from the thorny situation and without the guilt associated with giving China a free-hand with Taiwain in exchange for the freedom to nuke Kim Jong Il's regime.
"Instead of choosing between pissing off the Chinese or pissing off the Taiwanese you piss both the Chinese and Taiwanese off at the same time. So instead of saying it is or isn't a province of China, you just call it West Hawaii."
"It provides open and fertile ground for new thinkers, nourished by the contributions of the past. This view takes nothing away from our ancestors."
But I think it does cheapen their memories...to say that they could not adapt to our modern world. What that construct does is imply that we have evolved and they are somehow less intelligent than us.
If anything, having an unnaturally old leader might prevent the society from committing the same stupid mistakes over and over due to their ignorance of history or their arrogance to believe that they are exceptional and thus unbound to similar trends that happened before.
"I'd rather live forever in a "Logan's Run" civilization where I could press a button on the telportation sexual meatmarket 'net, and go up and hold her hand and lead her to the bed, asking her, "Would you like to f*ck?"
Aside from the immortality and teleportation aspects, you can already do as you pontificated. Its called "Adult Friend Finder" (.com). Have at it.
"Code-wise, picture if the old COBOL programmers today were kept in the workforce for another dozen decades. I think it's a shame that a langauge as old as my father is still being used by my father at his age. Likewise, if I'm using C++ when I'm nearing 50."
Yeah, but to use the age argument against you, UNIX is far older than Windows. Which OS is more reliable? The logic you used in your argument would imply that Windows should be more reliable because it is newer, but alas, we know quite otherwise.
Probably a better analogy to use would be the QWERTY vs. DVORAK keyboard argument. In the grand scheme of things, DVORAK is newer (although pretty old too at this point) and more efficient than QWERTY, but in the Anglo-American business world, QWERTY isn't going away.
"Battles would be unnecessarily bloodier. And you think this was a good thing? Are you aware of how many people Cromwell needlessly tortured?"
So? He was a brilliant military commander who created the New Model Army, toppled a king, and layed the foundations for the success of the Royal Navy and the eventual British Empire. Do you know how many people Washington had hanged and shot for not retaining discipline during the American Revolutionary War? How about the thousands of Japanese killed by the atomic bombs the United States dropped at the end of WWII? The point is, Cromwell was a genius at military command so I stand by my original statement.
I'm sure if you went back to the Roman Era, you could find a bunch of Celts who would object to any bestowing of titles to Caesar as well on humanitarian grounds. That doesn't change the fact that he was a military genius as well.
"User programmable Fembots now that would be a killer ap eh!"
Yeah, until a war driver busts into your home network and loads up a computer virus on your fembot turning her into a man-hating fembian who refuses to provide you with relief after you dropped your $30,000 worth of drachmas on the latest model because her OS is based upon Windows.
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"And Microsoft should really consider advertising for Mozilla too."
:)
Not really far fetched since Microsoft advertises on Slashdot, which is probably the world's largest collection of rabid anti-Microsofties posting on the net.
If crappy Real Player can squeeze out $750 million alone from Microsoft's monopolist/predatory behavior, then obviously Time Warner settled for far less by accepting earlier an equal dollar figure to settle the Netscape case. The damage done to Netscape - and AOL indirectly by the over reliance on IE for Joe Blow's sake - is far more than what Real suffered from.
Real's main problem is with Real itself. Its product, and how it treated its virtual customers, the casual users.
Hmmm...maybe with such sufficient cash reserves, Apple might be tempted to finally sue Real over that nice little DMCA violation it committed last year by cracking Fairplay's DRM. I'd rather see Apple with another $750 million than Real anyday.
"When we have MythTV on the penguin, and even MythTV based LiveCDs, who honestly cares about running a windows PVR?"
People who have ATi graphics cards and/or people who would rather buy such a graphics/DVR capable card from the local Best Buy or CompUSA instead of ordering a specialized Linux supporting card from a more obscure source.
"So I guess lawyers have no soul?"
Dare I suggest this link to answer your question with?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_and_Hart
Seriously. When will the big tech companies finally come to the conclusion that the RIAA is a threat to them, and simply buy out each member of the RIAA? None of the RIAA members, Warner Music (now 80% separate from Time Warner), EMI, Universal, or SonyBMG are worth $1 billion. Why doesn't the tech industry come to an agreement to cross license their wares and buy up those various companies and pull out of the RIAA?
$1 billion is chump change for the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo. XM and Sirius also have vested interests, but then again, so do all the other big groups that offer digital music stations such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable (soon to be spun off from Time Warner corporate), Charter, as well as Dish and DirecTV.
If the RIAA and the associated music labels were eliminated, that would knock off 70 cents (U.S.) from the 99 cents fee per download from iTunes. And with that, legitimate digital music purchases would start to move towards parity with the illegal P2P swapping, which would be beneficial to all parties.
In summary, we need visionary CEOs like Steve Jobs and far less Edgar Bronfmans in the business world so that tech and media both grow without stiffing consumers and thus encouraging criminal behavior because of short-sighted pigopolist policies.
"There are still creditors and shareholders who are entitled to whatever value the assets have at liquidation. The copyrights to Apple's software will be of significant value, even if the company goes under (possibly even moreso). Google "fraudulent transfer"."
Then again, it is the Apple brand itself that is valuable about the company. The success of the iPod has nothing to do with OS X and thus the whole OS could be transferred to an open source license under such a nightmare scenario. After all, how valuable is the copyrights/patents on OS X when Apple spends less than $20 million per year on R&D for it? Furthermore, with the licensing agreement Apple and Microsoft have, its not like Apple can sue Microsoft over incorporation of such features into Windows. Otherwise, Apple would've already filed the papers and we wouldn't be seeing the *Aquafication* of Windows Vista.
If Apple was bankrupt already, how would open sourcing the materials hurt any worse?
Besides, who could Apple sell its IP to? Microsoft? Nope. That would be antitrust. HP? Nope, because they won't be in the market for long. Sun? Yeah, right. IBM? No, they sold out to Lenovo already. Red Hat? Not enough money. Novell? Same.
That would leave the option of selling the IP to Sony at an extremely reduced price, or open sourcing it...but not under the GPL.
"If Apple can match the PSP's screen quality and beat its ease of use (by making movies downloadable, perhaps) they might have something."
:)
And if they offer Series1 of the new *Doctor Who* on it since its on PSP UMD...
"There's a lot of "down-time" involved in occupation efforts"
:) You too can win Best Buy Bux, iPods, or Sony PSPs with the McDonald's Monopoly game... :)
Don't you mean *liberation*? *Occupation* is the charge made against the U.S. and the Coalition forces by those Iraqis sympathetic to either the Baathists (which were deposed and excluded from the government under de-Baathification - just as the West German government was de-Nazified after WWII) or those super humanitarians known as al-Quaida.
Want some freedom fries?
"Video is not portable in any successful manner."
Newsflash to Slashdot user Dada21, try checking out the Sony PSP before making such a prognostication.
PSP UMD movie discs are selling very well in proportion to the installed base of users.
They are even releasing Series1 of the new *Doctor Who* on UMD in Europe this month!
ps. Video Podcasting is the latest craze. Apple will want to monopolize this and have the whole field associated with itself.
"and think secret is saying the exact opposite: no vIpod, it's powermac and powerbook updates."
And ThinkSecret seems to think there's a large margin on the iPod Nano, which there is not.
ThinkSecret seems to think that an iPod Video model would rob sales of the iPod Nano despite the fact that the Video model would be at the high price range ($500+) of all iPods, whereas the Nano is not.
This event is a media special event. It makes no sense to invite the media if it is merely an annoucement and last hurrah of the PowerBooks and PowerMacs before the Intel switch.
Most likely, the event will start with a speed bump/dual core announcement for the PowerBooks and PowerMacs. The "one last thing" - and the main event of the presentation - would be the iPod Video, along with the iMovie/iVideo/iWhatever Video store debut. You gotta think about it like the last presentation; the rather mundane Motorola ROKR shown off (well, actually, iTunes 5.0 first), and then the major announcement of the iPod Nano saved for last.
We must all remember that we are in the final stretches before the holiday season. Apple needs to remind consumers that Apple is still hot this holiday season, and thus an iPod Video would serve this well.
Then again, same goes for a G5 powered and HD capable Mac Mini, while they are at it. But I doubt that is meant to be for now.
"The Lynxpro (657990) --- It is comments like yours that makes everyone around the world hate you guys. Americans like you have no sympathy or compassion towards human life. You think you can just go around and "nuke" (i.e. KILL/MURDER innocent people) just for the hell of it. GROW UP. Grow up you little puppy dog... Or is it that you feel so "brave" talking the "big talk.""
I have sympathy for life. I also see the need to take care of nations who are threats to not only their own people but to other nations. North Korea is one example. If it is true that Kim Jong Il's regime is responsible for starving 2-4 million of its own people, then how is my suggestion that the regime gets nuked is less humanitarian if it in turn topples that regime and prevents an all-out war breaking out, which would involve not only killing civilians in both North and South Korea, but also thousands of North Korean and U.S. soldiers? Answer me that, oh anonymous coward.
Furthermore, if Taiwan had nukes, it would keep the People's Republic of China in check and instead of posturing over Taiwan and imperialist claims by the West, the PRC would have to focus inward on its own structural problems, and quite possibly might lead to democracy a little quicker than if the regime just walked all over Taiwan. Furthermore, if Taiwan had nukes, it would mean the U.S. would not have to involve itself in defending Taiwain from PRC intrusion. MAD would keep both Taiwan and the PRC in check, meaning they would work on their relationship and promote better trade amongst each other since a stalemate is counter productive. It might lead to the PRC relenting and allowing Taiwan to join the UN. After all, that means "China" effectively would have 2 seats in the UN, which might favor the PRC in terms of territorial claims against other nations like Japan and Vietnam. Unfortunately, the PRC is blinded to such advantages due to its ideology, which is rampant nationalism.
Funny how you talk about alleged deficiencies regarding bravery yet you post as an anonymous coward. Practice what you preach, oh online coward.
"Steve Ballmer was quoted, "F**K THAT RIAA! I'm GOING TO F**KING KILL YOU TOO!! KILL!!! KILL!! KILLL!!!!!!" Stock prices of major furniture companies went up as well on the news, on forecasts of the increased need for chairs."
I'd pay $25 US to see Ballmer bean Edgar Bronfman in the head with a Herman Miller chair.
Ballmer, what's the PayPal account I'm sending the money to?
Come to think of it, I'd pay $50 to see that. Especially with a "Waterworld" DVD hot glued to the chair.
"...three cheers for Microsoft!"
I'd go even further. I wish Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft sat down and decided to buy all four of the remaining music companies, withdrew them from the RIAA (thereby destroying the hated organization), and signed an agreement not to keep their newly acquired music exclusive to each of their services.
Think about it. None of the majors left, Warner Music, SonyBMG, EMI, or Universal are worth $1 billion. Digital piracy won't end until prices are reduced to realistic levels....say 25 cents US at most for most of the catalog songs. Charge higher prices for higher bit rates, and of course, lossless.
If that were done, digital music would skyrocket, and there wouldn't be a *need* for illicit P2P. The music industry would also be rid of worthless (and clueless) *executives* like Edgar Bronfman who brings no value to the company he owns, but subtracks quite a bit from it.
Personally, if Apple were really smart, they'd be trying to acquire EMI right now. If they bought the company, they could squeeze Apple Records into a realistic settlement over the whole "Apple" name that is never ending, and could finally get the Beatles catalog online officially.
"Totally ridiculous. Considering that only four banana republics have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, they don't need a foreign ministry at all. Every other country recognizes the One China as the Red China. Taiwan is not even in the UN. They are the dwarf who pretends to be the giant, but their heydays are long gone."
:)
North Korea is not a member of the UN.
And there are plenty of people in the US that would like to see the US pull out of the UN, and evict the UN out of the US.
Tongue tied?
"Mainland China could do our children's generation an amazingly kind act by allowing Taiwan to call itself what it already is now, avoiding world war in twenty years."
And give up Tibet with the guarantee that the Western Powers won't put military bases there.
Of course, I guess the Chinese could point a finger at the U.S. and ask why we haven't given Hawai'i back to its people.
"I hate to say it but this type of thing was predicted in Dianetics."
Tom Cruise, is that you?
"If Taiwan is so independent why doesn;t it have a seat on the UN ?"
Why isn't the US part of the World Criminal Court?
Why isn't Norway and Iceland members of the European Union?
Why hasn't Atlantis melted all of Antartica's ice that its buried under?
And most importantly...
Why hasn't an American cable channel picked up (new) Doctor Who yet?
"It's a political debate, right up until you consider that one side of the debate represents much more money than the other. Then it's a simple matter of economics."
A simple matter of a rogue CIA group equipping the Taiwainese with some nukes would also solve the diplomatic standoff as well, and allow the U.S. to decouple itself from the thorny situation and without the guilt associated with giving China a free-hand with Taiwain in exchange for the freedom to nuke Kim Jong Il's regime.
"Instead of choosing between pissing off the Chinese or pissing off the Taiwanese you piss both the Chinese and Taiwanese off at the same time. So instead of saying it is or isn't a province of China, you just call it West Hawaii."
Or still the property of Japan.
"It provides open and fertile ground for new thinkers, nourished by the contributions of the past. This view takes nothing away from our ancestors."
But I think it does cheapen their memories...to say that they could not adapt to our modern world. What that construct does is imply that we have evolved and they are somehow less intelligent than us.
If anything, having an unnaturally old leader might prevent the society from committing the same stupid mistakes over and over due to their ignorance of history or their arrogance to believe that they are exceptional and thus unbound to similar trends that happened before.
"I'd rather live forever in a "Logan's Run" civilization where I could press a button on the telportation sexual meatmarket 'net, and go up and hold her hand and lead her to the bed, asking her, "Would you like to f*ck?"
Aside from the immortality and teleportation aspects, you can already do as you pontificated. Its called "Adult Friend Finder" (.com). Have at it.
"Code-wise, picture if the old COBOL programmers today were kept in the workforce for another dozen decades. I think it's a shame that a langauge as old as my father is still being used by my father at his age. Likewise, if I'm using C++ when I'm nearing 50."
Yeah, but to use the age argument against you, UNIX is far older than Windows. Which OS is more reliable? The logic you used in your argument would imply that Windows should be more reliable because it is newer, but alas, we know quite otherwise.
Probably a better analogy to use would be the QWERTY vs. DVORAK keyboard argument. In the grand scheme of things, DVORAK is newer (although pretty old too at this point) and more efficient than QWERTY, but in the Anglo-American business world, QWERTY isn't going away.
"Battles would be unnecessarily bloodier. And you think this was a good thing? Are you aware of how many people Cromwell needlessly tortured?"
So? He was a brilliant military commander who created the New Model Army, toppled a king, and layed the foundations for the success of the Royal Navy and the eventual British Empire. Do you know how many people Washington had hanged and shot for not retaining discipline during the American Revolutionary War? How about the thousands of Japanese killed by the atomic bombs the United States dropped at the end of WWII? The point is, Cromwell was a genius at military command so I stand by my original statement.
I'm sure if you went back to the Roman Era, you could find a bunch of Celts who would object to any bestowing of titles to Caesar as well on humanitarian grounds. That doesn't change the fact that he was a military genius as well.
"User programmable Fembots now that would be a killer ap eh!"
Yeah, until a war driver busts into your home network and loads up a computer virus on your fembot turning her into a man-hating fembian who refuses to provide you with relief after you dropped your $30,000 worth of drachmas on the latest model because her OS is based upon Windows.