Who, in their right mind, could possibly think that terrorizing SIXTH graders is a good idea? This sort of stunt would be a poor choice with teenagers but with children? Are you joking?
I hope, at the very least, that some of the teachers involved with this stunt lose their jobs, let alone face criminal charges.
Is it just me or does this strike others as "lalalalalalalalalalalaI'mnotlisteninglalalalalala la!" Way to ignore the vast majority of solid information out there and try to put a rose on a pile of shit.
At what point do judges step up and slap around plaintiffs who are obviously abusing the legal system? How frivolous does a lawsuit need to be (such as this "free publicity" lawsuit) before a judge will say enough is enough?
How can you consider a phone with a fully-functional web browser in an era where people can write fully-fuctional web applications a "totally closed platform." Write a web app. Browse to said web app. Presto. I might agree with "more or less closed platform", but "totally" is FUD.
$70 worth of storage? Ok, I confess, I don't buy raid storage (being a graphic designer and all), but 5M songs at 10 meg-ish each is 50M meg. According to Apple's own xserve RAID page (http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/), their storage is $1.31 per gig. 50M meg is approximately 48800 gig so the storage space costs in the area of $65000. Now, admittedly they get it cheaper than what they sell it for (being the manufacturer and all), but the storage space appears to be far from $140 worth of storage. I could be wrong, given that I don't buy xserve RAID storage and all, but I question your $140 claim for 5M songs worth of storage...
They gave us something we didn't want in the first place, and now they're using the taking away of it to justify a higher price? WTF?
Do people read the articles? The 30 cent pricce increase is because of the higher quality encoding (thus larger file size requiring more storage space and bandwidth - the expenses the 30 cents is intended to offset). You aren't getting the same product without DRM. You are getting a better quality product without DRM. Better quality = higher price.
If we just had Star Trek's teleporters we wouldn't need cars.
If we had world peace, we wouldn't need weapons of war.
There are a lot of needs that wouldn't need to be filled, just if...
Is it even legal to fire someone without reason? Wouldn't this open them up to a massive class-action wrongful termination lawsuit? These aren't layoffs (since the positions are being immediately refilled with lower-paid personnel) and they aren't being terminated for performance-related reasons. I can't imagine this is legal but I don't know the US labour laws...
why should i be given fines and increased insurance because other people cant handle it.
Because you're wrong - you can't handle it. You've handled it _so far_ but you're increasing your risk while driving distracted. Period. You may never get into/cause an accident, but your risk of doing so is higher than mine.
Bah. Ignore me. I'm wrong. Me stoopid. sigh....
(and Slashdot's stupid time limit on additional posts is not letting me immediately correct my mistake...)
Read the article you link to. Submariners have NEVER been to the bottom of the trench. If any person has been to the bottom of the trench, they were dead long before they got there. From the article, "Using echo sounding, the Challenger II measured a depth of 5,960 fathoms..." Nothing manmade has ever been to the bottom of the trench and returned.
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Well, how common are school fires?
I think statistically they are in the same neighborhood.
Feel free to mod me as "troll," but bwahahahahahahahahaha!! Now that was funny. Statistically in the same neighborhood. Right. Good one.
Who, in their right mind, could possibly think that terrorizing SIXTH graders is a good idea? This sort of stunt would be a poor choice with teenagers but with children? Are you joking?
I hope, at the very least, that some of the teachers involved with this stunt lose their jobs, let alone face criminal charges.
Is it just me or does this strike others as "lalalalalalalalalalalaI'mnotlisteninglalalalalala la!" Way to ignore the vast majority of solid information out there and try to put a rose on a pile of shit.
At what point do judges step up and slap around plaintiffs who are obviously abusing the legal system? How frivolous does a lawsuit need to be (such as this "free publicity" lawsuit) before a judge will say enough is enough?
How can you consider a phone with a fully-functional web browser in an era where people can write fully-fuctional web applications a "totally closed platform." Write a web app. Browse to said web app. Presto. I might agree with "more or less closed platform", but "totally" is FUD.
I, for one, welcome our future alien bacteria overlords.
When in doubt, treat them all like criminals.
I love watching big business bully governments to do their bidding. That is, after all, what democracy is all about, right?
Der. Ignore me. Not enough coffee today...
$70 worth of storage? Ok, I confess, I don't buy raid storage (being a graphic designer and all), but 5M songs at 10 meg-ish each is 50M meg. According to Apple's own xserve RAID page (http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/), their storage is $1.31 per gig. 50M meg is approximately 48800 gig so the storage space costs in the area of $65000. Now, admittedly they get it cheaper than what they sell it for (being the manufacturer and all), but the storage space appears to be far from $140 worth of storage. I could be wrong, given that I don't buy xserve RAID storage and all, but I question your $140 claim for 5M songs worth of storage...
How to dodge RICO charges: 101
1) Bribe officials.
2) ???
3) Profit
You're right. Silly me. The storage space for 5 million songs is immaterial. Yup.
They gave us something we didn't want in the first place, and now they're using the taking away of it to justify a higher price? WTF?
Do people read the articles? The 30 cent pricce increase is because of the higher quality encoding (thus larger file size requiring more storage space and bandwidth - the expenses the 30 cents is intended to offset). You aren't getting the same product without DRM. You are getting a better quality product without DRM. Better quality = higher price.
I love hearing about stories like this. It's always nice to know that our hard-earned tax dollars are being well-spent in truly making society better.
sigh...
If we just had Star Trek's teleporters we wouldn't need cars. If we had world peace, we wouldn't need weapons of war. There are a lot of needs that wouldn't need to be filled, just if...
Hitler was evil. Google's NDA is not. I don't think that word means what you believe it does.
"But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own an iPod, and I hope we'll get him to own a Zune."
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Way to target the right demographic with your music player. I think that deserves to be on the list of best quotes EVAR!
"...because enterprises won't be able to write applications for the phone."
It's too bad that companies can't write apps that run on websites.
It's too bad that the iPhone won't be able to browse websites with a fully-functional web browser.
Oh. Wait.
Oddly, sales of blank CDs went up dramatically in China shortly after the release of Vista.
Discipline by teachers? They aren't allowed to discipline their students - they risk a lawsuit from the parents.
Discipline by parents? They're too busy to deal with their kids. That's what the TV and internet is for.
Wow. Even up here in Canada, I can hear the RIAA's wails of terror over this news.
Good.
Is it even legal to fire someone without reason? Wouldn't this open them up to a massive class-action wrongful termination lawsuit? These aren't layoffs (since the positions are being immediately refilled with lower-paid personnel) and they aren't being terminated for performance-related reasons. I can't imagine this is legal but I don't know the US labour laws...
"... it is a marketers dream for targeted advertising."
Yeah. Because the ability to have people send you more unwanted advertising is a feature everyone looks for when buying a new phone.
why should i be given fines and increased insurance because other people cant handle it.
Because you're wrong - you can't handle it. You've handled it _so far_ but you're increasing your risk while driving distracted. Period. You may never get into/cause an accident, but your risk of doing so is higher than mine.
Bah. Ignore me. I'm wrong. Me stoopid. sigh.... (and Slashdot's stupid time limit on additional posts is not letting me immediately correct my mistake...)
Read the article you link to. Submariners have NEVER been to the bottom of the trench. If any person has been to the bottom of the trench, they were dead long before they got there. From the article, "Using echo sounding, the Challenger II measured a depth of 5,960 fathoms..." Nothing manmade has ever been to the bottom of the trench and returned.