I've "played" one of PlayMesh's titles for a while. PlayMesh offers the same kind of game for iPhones except they don't get on your case about paying them so much. However, they have about ten reskinned versions of the same game running at the same time, all of them cross-promoting each other.
I dropped the game after seeing this article and realizing that the game was good at wasting time but not particularly good at keeping me entertained. It was just the same task over and over with varying strings displayed to describe it.
I finally sold all my equipment, bought as many installations (= money generators) as possible and renamed my account to "FarmMeIAmRich". I think they mark the account as inactive until the next login after I've been farmed to death once but hey, playing piggy bank is still more fun than playing the game.
Use an anonymous account? Never enter anything beyond username and disposable email address. If they require further information, lie. Yes, that defeats the purpose of a social networking site but you're arguably using it as a gaming portal, therefore it's appropriate to skip the social part.
If you do feel the need to void your privacy, use separate accounts for gaming and socializing. Even if your friends add your gaming account to their contact list all that tells Facebook is "this is a person users X, Y and Z know".
the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system
ext2 stores data through the specific pattern of its fragmentation. Defragmenting would be like formatting your hard drive. Bad idea.
It was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License.
Actually, GPL stands for "General Public License", after the late General Reginald Franklin Public, who inspired Richard Stallman to much of his Free Software ideals when both were working on a then-classified national defense project (a device to automatically hack enemy computers that later was scrapped and reformed into the VAX line of computers).
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released.
The GPL has a "mere aggregation" clause. It states that for any program on any computer aggregate with a computer running GPL software ("aggregated") you have to release the full source code to any program running on it. This is why Microsoft has come up with the "Shared Source" initiative - they accidentally installed the GIMP without reading the license.
We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
Note that you are now required to acquire and release the source code for Windows 2000 through whichever means neccessary.
I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source".
Do note that Shared Source exists to satisfy the GPL's "mere aggregation" clause, which also sttes that the license you release the source code under must be GPL-compliant, which is defined as being "at least as draconic as the GPL". That is why the Shared Source license not only incorporates all of the GPL's restrictions but also prevents any company reading any Shared Source-licensed code file, for use in programming or as a reference or otherwise, from making any profits at all ever again (Shared Source License, art. 19.b.ii.).
Your company is committing felony copyright infringement and should turn itself in now before ACTA is enacted, which will equalize the legal repercussions for software and high-seas piracy, temporarily extraterritorialize the premises of infringers and set a mandatory bounty on the infringers' heads. If you don't want people to storm your premises and shoot you at their leisure, you should act now while the penalty is merely twenty years of prison time and a permanent ban from working with computers ever again for your entire company.
Which is why America needs a no-frills mobile provider. If that has remotely the same effect as in Germany, mobile telcos will be demoted to mere service providers and people will be compelled to buy their phone elsewhere because no-frills mobile providers don't sell phones.
Granted, I'd expect the average American ISP to implement technical measures so that only certain (read: their own) phones have access to the data service or just kill off the no-frills provider by not making their networks available to it for a reasonable price. It's the cheapest way to keep doing business as usual.
Even worse: Windows doesn't allow much interaction with Windows that don't currently have the focus. On OS X I often scroll in a windows that doesn't have focus (such as scrolling a manual page in my browser while XCode is in the foreground); Windows assumes that just because I didn't click into the browser window I can't possibly want to scroll it. Well, or you have to enable scrolling without focus and I haven't managed to locate the setting.
Granted, though, not every OS X app supports scrolling without focus. Then again, Thunderbird is the only one I know that doesn't.
1. Children have the right to not be molested.
2. Paedophiles will automatically violate that right for all children in reach.
3. Therefore, paedophiles must always be locked up immediately.
4. Child porn turns people into paedophiles.
5. Everyone who looks at or possesses child porn in any way much pe a paedophile.
6. Therefore we much immediately lock up everyone posessing any depictions of minors naked or in sexual or sexually suggestige positions or situations, explicit ro implied.
Of course, none of the arguments after the first make any sense but they're still used as a base for anti-paedophile populists to denigrate everyone who doesn't fully agree with them as infringing on the rights of all minors everywhere. As the paedophile scare platform is very popular right now, anyone speaking out for a more rational approach will immediately be torn to bits and his opponents will no only declare moral superiority but also portray themselves as defenders of freedom.
One bad thing about politics is that they're not a matter of logic or even rhethoric. They are the practical application of The Art of Being Right, essentially being a perverted form of rrhethoric. The goal is not to make a compelling case but rather make your opponent look like an idiot by telling truisms and half-truths and using logical fallacies to "disprove" his arguments.
Both are examples of capitalism, just in different places. Capitalism in business is okay - if it gets out of hand it's balanced by regulation. Even though it leads to less than ideal situations like the "shareholder value is God" mentality of corporations, the worst transgressions can be caught.
Capitalism in government is extremely bad. It's simply corruption. Unfortunately, it's widespread - examples being any government official who takes donations (especially those who need them to even reach the office).
A regulated capitalism is just fine for business but government should not be subject to influence through money.
In Germany the Telcos are actually trying to make the market more competitive, not less. We used to have few choices*: T-Mobile, Viag Interkom, Mannesmann Mobilfunk and E-Plus. Probably a few more that I can't remember. Viag was bought by Telefónica Europe and turned into O2 and Mannesmann was absorbed by Vodaphone. A few years later, explosion.
Off the hand I can now enumerate T-Mobile, O2, Vodaphone, E-Plus, BASE, Simyo, Congstar, Fonic, vybemobile, Aldi Talk, BILDMobil, blau.de, klarmobil.de, EWE Tel... Let's look at what we have here.
The traditional mobile telcos: T-Mo, O2, Vodaphone, E-Plus
Just like what you'd expect, these are the big corporations selling access to their service.
The off-brands: BASE (E-Plus), Simyo (E-Plus), Congstar (T-Mo), klarmobil.de (T-Mo), Fonic (O2)... the list goes on
These daughter companies usually sell no-frills plans: They don't offer any physical presence and sell somewhat cheap, extremely simple data plans like "all calls to everywhere cost ten Cents per minute". The plans are often prepaid and only cover the bare minimum of what you can do with your cellphone (more advanced functionality is there but expensive).
If they don't sell no-frills plans they sell flatrates. Either way, easily understood price structures are usually the focus of their marketing, with slogans like "because simple is simply simple" or the somewhat bizarre "no hidden costs, no hidden llama".
Simyo was the first such no-frills company; after competitors lost a lawsuit against E-Plus (on the grounds that Simyo was not merely a new plan but a true innovation) everyone and their dog decided to have one as well. In fact, the second such offering came from a partnership between O2 and Tchibo - a company that mainly sells coffee.
Third-party brands: Aldi Talk, BILDMobil, EWE Tel, vybemobile, many others
I said "everyone and their dog" and I mean it. Supermarkets, tabloids, energy providers, TV stations, online communities and even eBay are all selling access to one of the big providers' mobile network.
Of interest is vybemobile, offered in part by Universal Music. The twist to their offering is that you get ring tones, demo versions of songs etc. as part of the package.
German mobile providers are reproducing like tribbles and the market has special offers for just about any taste. With supermarkets and newspapers angling in on it it's also fiercely competitive, leading to very reasonable prices. Byzantine pricing structures used to be commonplace but have been all but killed thanks to the no-frills companies.
Will this also work in the States? Probably not. Whereas most of Germany is covered by all networks, the same isn't true in the States. Also, while Simyo has allowed E-Plus some inroads into the market, it has also triggered a race to the bottom with prepaid no-frills offers and (both prepaid and postpaid) flatrates being aggressively priced to get a slightly bigger slice of the pie. This does not mesh well with selling subsidized phones and including expensive services.
Still, if one provider tries it you can be sure to have everyone else follow suit (or succeed with their lawsuit, cementing the oligopoly forever).
* I'm not listing debitel as they don't have their own network, even though they are the biggest mobile provider in Germany. debitel operates by selling access to other providers' networks.
Fixed-hardware devices might be the answer. Take, for instance, the Pandora: It comes with a specified (if replacable) Linux distro on specified hardware using specified userland tools. As far as writing for it goes, it's equivalent to a game console, even though it's also a full-fledged ultraportable PC.
This makes things very predictable. Developers have a common baseline against which they can develop so they can make their applications fairly polished. Users don't have to mess around with the intricacies of Linux - the default configuration should provide them with adequate functionality while not exposing them to unneccessary danger.
Also, all games for the Pandora will state that they run on the Pandora. Pandora users will know it runs on their system and Linux users who know about the Pandora will know that the game runs on ARM Linux, has a resolution of 800x480, supports a USB HID with six axes and six buttons and might require a touchscreen to play properly.
The latter is expert knowledge but the former is "a game for my handheld runs on my handheld", maybe followed by "if I install the latest firmware". Compatibility doesn't get much easier than that.
Granted, the Pandora is a small-scale effort do deliver the next homebrew-friendly handheld but it still shows how going to a fixed platform can make compatibility a virtual non-issue. If you want to install random Linux software not included in the distro's repository or the device's app store you still need to do legwork but that's nothing your average user is going to want.
It's mostly guesswork. The only thing I can offer is that I have a WRT45G V4 (equivalent to a WRT45GL V1) runnin a somewhat old version of OpenWRT and it handles several hundred connections (for example from two simultneously operating BT clients) fairly well. I still wouldn't go over about 500 connections total but that gives enough room for some fairly heavy usage.
Actually, not only does that not apply to all countries but AFAIK not even all US states have at-will employment. Depending on where you are, getting fired over a sex video on the internet is a great reason to sue. (However, most bosses are smart enough to find some very minor infraction, blow it out of proportion, have you complain about it and then fire you for being disruptive and creating a hostile work environment. Or some such.)
The siblings are right. Anything involving lots of connections will cause a cheap router to hand or reboot. o yourself the favor and get one intended for many connections. IIRC, the WRT45GL series ought to be able to handle the load but you should read up on it.
It's those damn rebels. You construct one little device with the power to destroy a planet and immediately you have dozens of those little pissants insisting on doing "trench runs" and dropping explosives down any vent they can find. It's really annoying.
A few days ago my Sennheiser CX300 (in-ear headphones) broke and, due to a recommendation by a friend with respect to their longevity, I decided to buy myself the v-moda vibe (also in-ear headphones, even though they do sound like a sex toy). The price I paid was 43 EUR (~64 USD), S/H included.
The build quality of the vibe is fairly good, with pretty much everything but the cables being made of metal. The cables are the usual thin stranded wire, covered by what v-moda asserts to be kevlar, which is covered by a layer of clear plastic (which apparently is only the case if you buy it in the "Flashblack" color scheme). One improvement of the cables over the CX300's is that the surface is smoother, causing the vibe to generate fewer friction sounds. Unfortunately, the cable isn't any longer than the Sennheiser's, measuring only about 115 cm (~45.5 in) plug-to-earphone. Also, the plug is not angled, like most headphones', but straight, which might not be to everyone's taste.
You also get a faux leather carrying bag, a cable wrapping helper made from silicone and six silicone ear fittings (three sizes each in transparent and black) - all in all a rather decent set of extras.
The vibe is one of the few headphones with a plug that doesn't slip out of a unibody MBP's audio jack at the slightest touch. It generally forms very solid connections with the jacks you plug it into, which prevents accidental unplugging.
Sound-wise it tends to emphasize the bass and, slightly, the highs. In my opinion this means a downgrade in audio quality from the more balanced CX300 as I value clear mid-range frequencies but someone interested in an affordable open in-ear headphone with a solid bass could certainly give the vibe a try.
If I had to buy again, I'd probably go with the CX300, though - if I could still find one. Pretty much all retailers have switched over to the more expensive CX-300 II. Longevity might still make the vibe the better deal but only time will tell that.
PROS:
- good accessories package (especially the double set of fittings)
- smooth, supposedly damage-resistant cables
- plug doesn't slip out of MBP audio jack
CONS:
- emphasize on bass (not a concern if you want that)
- cable could be a bit longer
The iSight used to be a standalone product; Apple just happened to integrate it with their computers. They then kept the name because, hey, brand recognition also works for individual products.
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I've "played" one of PlayMesh's titles for a while. PlayMesh offers the same kind of game for iPhones except they don't get on your case about paying them so much. However, they have about ten reskinned versions of the same game running at the same time, all of them cross-promoting each other.
I dropped the game after seeing this article and realizing that the game was good at wasting time but not particularly good at keeping me entertained. It was just the same task over and over with varying strings displayed to describe it.
I finally sold all my equipment, bought as many installations (= money generators) as possible and renamed my account to "FarmMeIAmRich". I think they mark the account as inactive until the next login after I've been farmed to death once but hey, playing piggy bank is still more fun than playing the game.
Pshh. Anyone could say that. If your alleged friend even exists, he%$($/&(NO CARRIER
Use an anonymous account? Never enter anything beyond username and disposable email address. If they require further information, lie. Yes, that defeats the purpose of a social networking site but you're arguably using it as a gaming portal, therefore it's appropriate to skip the social part.
If you do feel the need to void your privacy, use separate accounts for gaming and socializing. Even if your friends add your gaming account to their contact list all that tells Facebook is "this is a person users X, Y and Z know".
ext2 stores data through the specific pattern of its fragmentation. Defragmenting would be like formatting your hard drive. Bad idea.
Actually, GPL stands for "General Public License", after the late General Reginald Franklin Public, who inspired Richard Stallman to much of his Free Software ideals when both were working on a then-classified national defense project (a device to automatically hack enemy computers that later was scrapped and reformed into the VAX line of computers).
The GPL has a "mere aggregation" clause. It states that for any program on any computer aggregate with a computer running GPL software ("aggregated") you have to release the full source code to any program running on it. This is why Microsoft has come up with the "Shared Source" initiative - they accidentally installed the GIMP without reading the license.
Note that you are now required to acquire and release the source code for Windows 2000 through whichever means neccessary.
Do note that Shared Source exists to satisfy the GPL's "mere aggregation" clause, which also sttes that the license you release the source code under must be GPL-compliant, which is defined as being "at least as draconic as the GPL". That is why the Shared Source license not only incorporates all of the GPL's restrictions but also prevents any company reading any Shared Source-licensed code file, for use in programming or as a reference or otherwise, from making any profits at all ever again (Shared Source License, art. 19.b.ii.).
Your company is committing felony copyright infringement and should turn itself in now before ACTA is enacted, which will equalize the legal repercussions for software and high-seas piracy, temporarily extraterritorialize the premises of infringers and set a mandatory bounty on the infringers' heads. If you don't want people to storm your premises and shoot you at their leisure, you should act now while the penalty is merely twenty years of prison time and a permanent ban from working with computers ever again for your entire company.
Which is why America needs a no-frills mobile provider. If that has remotely the same effect as in Germany, mobile telcos will be demoted to mere service providers and people will be compelled to buy their phone elsewhere because no-frills mobile providers don't sell phones.
Granted, I'd expect the average American ISP to implement technical measures so that only certain (read: their own) phones have access to the data service or just kill off the no-frills provider by not making their networks available to it for a reasonable price. It's the cheapest way to keep doing business as usual.
Even worse: Windows doesn't allow much interaction with Windows that don't currently have the focus. On OS X I often scroll in a windows that doesn't have focus (such as scrolling a manual page in my browser while XCode is in the foreground); Windows assumes that just because I didn't click into the browser window I can't possibly want to scroll it. Well, or you have to enable scrolling without focus and I haven't managed to locate the setting.
Granted, though, not every OS X app supports scrolling without focus. Then again, Thunderbird is the only one I know that doesn't.
Well, the argumentation goes like this:
1. Children have the right to not be molested.
2. Paedophiles will automatically violate that right for all children in reach.
3. Therefore, paedophiles must always be locked up immediately.
4. Child porn turns people into paedophiles.
5. Everyone who looks at or possesses child porn in any way much pe a paedophile.
6. Therefore we much immediately lock up everyone posessing any depictions of minors naked or in sexual or sexually suggestige positions or situations, explicit ro implied.
Of course, none of the arguments after the first make any sense but they're still used as a base for anti-paedophile populists to denigrate everyone who doesn't fully agree with them as infringing on the rights of all minors everywhere. As the paedophile scare platform is very popular right now, anyone speaking out for a more rational approach will immediately be torn to bits and his opponents will no only declare moral superiority but also portray themselves as defenders of freedom.
One bad thing about politics is that they're not a matter of logic or even rhethoric. They are the practical application of The Art of Being Right, essentially being a perverted form of rrhethoric. The goal is not to make a compelling case but rather make your opponent look like an idiot by telling truisms and half-truths and using logical fallacies to "disprove" his arguments.
Both are examples of capitalism, just in different places. Capitalism in business is okay - if it gets out of hand it's balanced by regulation. Even though it leads to less than ideal situations like the "shareholder value is God" mentality of corporations, the worst transgressions can be caught.
Capitalism in government is extremely bad. It's simply corruption. Unfortunately, it's widespread - examples being any government official who takes donations (especially those who need them to even reach the office).
A regulated capitalism is just fine for business but government should not be subject to influence through money.
I dunno. It's pretty sadistic.
In Germany the Telcos are actually trying to make the market more competitive, not less. We used to have few choices*: T-Mobile, Viag Interkom, Mannesmann Mobilfunk and E-Plus. Probably a few more that I can't remember. Viag was bought by Telefónica Europe and turned into O2 and Mannesmann was absorbed by Vodaphone. A few years later, explosion.
Off the hand I can now enumerate T-Mobile, O2, Vodaphone, E-Plus, BASE, Simyo, Congstar, Fonic, vybemobile, Aldi Talk, BILDMobil, blau.de, klarmobil.de, EWE Tel... Let's look at what we have here.
The traditional mobile telcos: T-Mo, O2, Vodaphone, E-Plus
Just like what you'd expect, these are the big corporations selling access to their service.
The off-brands: BASE (E-Plus), Simyo (E-Plus), Congstar (T-Mo), klarmobil.de (T-Mo), Fonic (O2)... the list goes on
These daughter companies usually sell no-frills plans: They don't offer any physical presence and sell somewhat cheap, extremely simple data plans like "all calls to everywhere cost ten Cents per minute". The plans are often prepaid and only cover the bare minimum of what you can do with your cellphone (more advanced functionality is there but expensive).
If they don't sell no-frills plans they sell flatrates. Either way, easily understood price structures are usually the focus of their marketing, with slogans like "because simple is simply simple" or the somewhat bizarre "no hidden costs, no hidden llama".
Simyo was the first such no-frills company; after competitors lost a lawsuit against E-Plus (on the grounds that Simyo was not merely a new plan but a true innovation) everyone and their dog decided to have one as well. In fact, the second such offering came from a partnership between O2 and Tchibo - a company that mainly sells coffee.
Third-party brands: Aldi Talk, BILDMobil, EWE Tel, vybemobile, many others
I said "everyone and their dog" and I mean it. Supermarkets, tabloids, energy providers, TV stations, online communities and even eBay are all selling access to one of the big providers' mobile network.
Of interest is vybemobile, offered in part by Universal Music. The twist to their offering is that you get ring tones, demo versions of songs etc. as part of the package.
German mobile providers are reproducing like tribbles and the market has special offers for just about any taste. With supermarkets and newspapers angling in on it it's also fiercely competitive, leading to very reasonable prices. Byzantine pricing structures used to be commonplace but have been all but killed thanks to the no-frills companies.
Will this also work in the States? Probably not. Whereas most of Germany is covered by all networks, the same isn't true in the States. Also, while Simyo has allowed E-Plus some inroads into the market, it has also triggered a race to the bottom with prepaid no-frills offers and (both prepaid and postpaid) flatrates being aggressively priced to get a slightly bigger slice of the pie. This does not mesh well with selling subsidized phones and including expensive services.
Still, if one provider tries it you can be sure to have everyone else follow suit (or succeed with their lawsuit, cementing the oligopoly forever).
* I'm not listing debitel as they don't have their own network, even though they are the biggest mobile provider in Germany. debitel operates by selling access to other providers' networks.
A cautionary note to any American visiting Europe with their kids: Never turn on the TV. Ever. I mean, that's afternoon TV stuff over here.
But the American aversion to nudity has already been covered in depth; I don't think we can add anything of value.
Fixed-hardware devices might be the answer. Take, for instance, the Pandora: It comes with a specified (if replacable) Linux distro on specified hardware using specified userland tools. As far as writing for it goes, it's equivalent to a game console, even though it's also a full-fledged ultraportable PC.
This makes things very predictable. Developers have a common baseline against which they can develop so they can make their applications fairly polished. Users don't have to mess around with the intricacies of Linux - the default configuration should provide them with adequate functionality while not exposing them to unneccessary danger.
Also, all games for the Pandora will state that they run on the Pandora. Pandora users will know it runs on their system and Linux users who know about the Pandora will know that the game runs on ARM Linux, has a resolution of 800x480, supports a USB HID with six axes and six buttons and might require a touchscreen to play properly.
The latter is expert knowledge but the former is "a game for my handheld runs on my handheld", maybe followed by "if I install the latest firmware". Compatibility doesn't get much easier than that.
Granted, the Pandora is a small-scale effort do deliver the next homebrew-friendly handheld but it still shows how going to a fixed platform can make compatibility a virtual non-issue. If you want to install random Linux software not included in the distro's repository or the device's app store you still need to do legwork but that's nothing your average user is going to want.
It's mostly guesswork. The only thing I can offer is that I have a WRT45G V4 (equivalent to a WRT45GL V1) runnin a somewhat old version of OpenWRT and it handles several hundred connections (for example from two simultneously operating BT clients) fairly well. I still wouldn't go over about 500 connections total but that gives enough room for some fairly heavy usage.
Actually, not only does that not apply to all countries but AFAIK not even all US states have at-will employment. Depending on where you are, getting fired over a sex video on the internet is a great reason to sue. (However, most bosses are smart enough to find some very minor infraction, blow it out of proportion, have you complain about it and then fire you for being disruptive and creating a hostile work environment. Or some such.)
The siblings are right. Anything involving lots of connections will cause a cheap router to hand or reboot. o yourself the favor and get one intended for many connections. IIRC, the WRT45GL series ought to be able to handle the load but you should read up on it.
Yeah, those graphics experts could have done something more worthwile like ending war or curing cancer!
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul~
SCNR
I enjoy rope skipping as much as the next guy but what does it have to do with the LHC?
It's those damn rebels. You construct one little device with the power to destroy a planet and immediately you have dozens of those little pissants insisting on doing "trench runs" and dropping explosives down any vent they can find. It's really annoying.
A few days ago my Sennheiser CX300 (in-ear headphones) broke and, due to a recommendation by a friend with respect to their longevity, I decided to buy myself the v-moda vibe (also in-ear headphones, even though they do sound like a sex toy). The price I paid was 43 EUR (~64 USD), S/H included.
The build quality of the vibe is fairly good, with pretty much everything but the cables being made of metal. The cables are the usual thin stranded wire, covered by what v-moda asserts to be kevlar, which is covered by a layer of clear plastic (which apparently is only the case if you buy it in the "Flashblack" color scheme). One improvement of the cables over the CX300's is that the surface is smoother, causing the vibe to generate fewer friction sounds. Unfortunately, the cable isn't any longer than the Sennheiser's, measuring only about 115 cm (~45.5 in) plug-to-earphone. Also, the plug is not angled, like most headphones', but straight, which might not be to everyone's taste.
You also get a faux leather carrying bag, a cable wrapping helper made from silicone and six silicone ear fittings (three sizes each in transparent and black) - all in all a rather decent set of extras.
The vibe is one of the few headphones with a plug that doesn't slip out of a unibody MBP's audio jack at the slightest touch. It generally forms very solid connections with the jacks you plug it into, which prevents accidental unplugging.
Sound-wise it tends to emphasize the bass and, slightly, the highs. In my opinion this means a downgrade in audio quality from the more balanced CX300 as I value clear mid-range frequencies but someone interested in an affordable open in-ear headphone with a solid bass could certainly give the vibe a try.
If I had to buy again, I'd probably go with the CX300, though - if I could still find one. Pretty much all retailers have switched over to the more expensive CX-300 II. Longevity might still make the vibe the better deal but only time will tell that.
PROS:
- good accessories package (especially the double set of fittings) - smooth, supposedly damage-resistant cables
- plug doesn't slip out of MBP audio jack
CONS:
- emphasize on bass (not a concern if you want that)
- cable could be a bit longer
Well, duh. Section (b)(iii) clearly states that any content you post "needs moar DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU".
No, D3's secret level will be full of rabid Deckard Cains asking you to stay a while and listen.
Garbing them in what? Does anyone know what the latest in marketing log fashion is?
The iSight used to be a standalone product; Apple just happened to integrate it with their computers. They then kept the name because, hey, brand recognition also works for individual products.
It's a somewhat unusual case mod. /. gets the occasional case mod story and this one is no different.