Boy, this will REALLY piss off the those entertainment fat cats...

They got upset because transferring a portion of their catalog no longer had a "cost" associated with it. What are they gonna do when transferring their entire catalog no longer even has a time-cost associated with it?

IIIIIIRONYYYYYYYYY.

Most of the games of that era run better under UNIX and WINE. Case and Point - Dungeon Keeper 2 runs beautifully on Mac OS X.

They already have their own lossless format (and it can handle 24-bit as well). it's called ALAC, which is ironically close to your joke..

We have already started trying. Just ask Julian Assange.

The man who sells a phony vacuum cleaner is a liar. The man who buys one is an idiot.

If you use the wrong tool for the job, I call that failing. But it's not the tool that failed. It's you.

bite-proof mosquitoes? I didn't realize that there was a big problem with people biting mosquitoes!

You haven't been to the west, have you?

What the hell? I go to kings games. In LA, in march, on a Saturday afternoon. I've been to hockey games were it was 90 degrees outside. The capitals stadium must have really poor air control if they have problems with that.

Confirming this. In my experience, most jailbreakers do it to run "illicit" apps, rather than to "pirate" legitimate ones. You want to run an emulator? You want to customize your phone in a non apple-approved way? you want to run an X rated app? Jailbreak. Note that I have seen jail broken phones doing all of those things, and in most cases, the apps were all paid for.

If apple allowed an open market, or, at most, did some basic sanity checks (to filter out malicious or incompetent apps that can cause harm), there would not be a jailbreaking problem.

The adoption of a new technology is generally not driven by those who dominate once it is widespread. It tends to be driven by early adopters, who are willing to spend the money to try out a new technology. They either prove it, or they have tons of problems. As soon as somebody proves a technology is viable, a business shmuck at some large company can make a successful pitch that "This is the future, etc, etc...and it's already proven technology so the company doesn't have to worry about hiccups, etc, etc".

That is why Porn killed Betamax. Not because Porn represents a large market share, but because Porn was willing to be an early adopter of VHS. They proved that video sales and rental via VHS was viable. Once that happened, the major video players we unwilling to take a bet on Betamax, no matter how superior it was, because they looked at the Porn industry and saw that VHS was already in use, and therefore, the business plan and technical hurdles were done for them, guaranteed.

We didn't do 1984, but HS Freshman English we read Animal Farm

It's not off topic. There is no topic in the original post...

'how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?'

I say mod this +1 just for having a post which deserves to be modded down, but manages not to fit into any of the -1 categories.

But, But, But...if they name things consistently, people will learn the scheme and be able to properly identify the varying levels of suckage...