I like to play games really quick on the computer that do not require me being connected to the internet, so if i take my laptop somewhere and I can't connect I can still play the game.

Apple has to be in control of EVERYTHING, which I must admit gives them a great opportunity to make some great stuff, but the iPhone OS is a platform and I think that it should be allowed to create apps for it, also it would be a Godsend if someone made it so you could drag and drop and get rid of iTunes.

I am writing a paper for a class at my university and the thesis basically says that Piracy will help in the democratic process of media consumption, the teacher told me that I could not convince her that stealing is okay, and I that got me thinking, while it is stealing, my first reactions are 1. They got much more money than they'll ever need, 2. The artist makes about 2% of those overall sales and most artist have to live off of concerts and t-shirt sales. These are the common fallbacks, but I think we will have to look deeper if we are gonna make it less punishable to pirate media.

I think of times like the Boston tea party, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence (I am in a history class right now) Both were flat out illegal, and both were fought over, attempting to punish what had been done.

Yes it is illegal, yes it is wrong, but so what, I don't think I should pay a lot of money for something that can distributed so quickly and easy with so little overhead, I don't think I should have to pay to be bombarded with marketing and agenda loaded news. Most of all I am sick of all the bands and movies and show that have people saying they are just struggling artist and they are all about the "music" and then they are the opposite of what they sing about.

If my economy thoughts are right, then the market is moving towards services, which I was not happy about at first, but after more thought I believe that more jobs will come about, you could have more local bands covering weddings and birthdays and stuff. Okay now I am just rambling, but I thank people for their replies.

That seems like a lot of work, just tap into the feed that will ever vigilantly keep surveillance on that grave, I think more and more people are becoming aware of the zombie epidemic!

I am not gonna make remarks that are uber pro-piracy, but I will say this about the RIAA, they should have seen this many years ago, they were just stubborn.

The market for blank media was not going to go away, and it was going to be filled with downloaded music, now regardless that it is illegal to download copyrighted material did not slow anyone down. And just like the article mentioned, it only soiled the name of those who tried to stop it, yeah I am talking about how people like Metallica a whole lot less.

Being Pro or Anti piracy aside I do not feel for the RIAA losing money (if in fact they did lose any money, and if that money was a substantial amount) because they blatantly starred the changing times in the face ignored all possible opportunities it could have afforded them, and now, just like the banks and the auto industry they will cry about how the oldschool ways don't work anymore.

I am glad that hard drives and blank CD's and DVD's are so cheap now a days!

Linux can be ported to many devices and run emulators that is all I need for the moment, of course I will always want more.

Joomla! is a pretty rocking little CMS you got to admit.

It is a weird concept, since I own an iPhone, but there are just some things that a laptop does better than a phone or mobile device. I got an FTP app and the iconic notes app and the social networking apps, I thinking communication apps will be dominate since the phone is a communications device.

Do you think that this will be addressed in Linux before it will anything else? MS has not been on the ball twice now, Windows ME and Vista. And Linux is being used a lot in servers, which wouldn't really need a solid state drive as much as a laptop would.

Yeah you are right about not having to update much, but I am a nerd, I have to see what I can get away with, I have disciplined myself with this iphone, but the Holy Grail (in my mind) for the iphone would be.....drag and drop functionality...if I could just move music on and off, and even more so pictures! That alone would be great. If there was a pure linux OS on the iphone, I KNOW that some guys and/or girls would make so many cool things for that phone.....I am drooling right now I can't wait, anyone know a good Linux iphone project I can donate to? (I only need one kidney)

*I can already SSH into it I want the whole OS un-touched by Apple, and then I can say "Thanks for the slick hardware" I hate iTunes with a passion, and I had the first iphone and hacked it and life was wonderful all around, and then the hack broke and endless time was put into it, and I decided when I get the second one I will never hack it, but wait until they get the complete Linux OS (so nothing over the air will hurt my hacked phone, which I believe an over the air update from Apple, or maybe just something in one of the native apps, ruined my first hacked iphone.) Just think of all the possibilities of Linux on it, you can have it run light for performance, you can toggle all the setting separately (like the 3g which you can now, the Edge, the wifi, the phone itself so you can just have an internet device...to save big on the phone bill when out of the country...)

Mostly I want the MacOS kernel gone so that iTunes won't delete all my music every time it does anything, Apple thinks that every iPhone user will have his or her own PC or Mac (they would prefer Mac) and screw up the settings. My wife and I have iphones and we screw each others phones up and then I said "forget it" and put Linux back on the only laptop we own. To me Linux is equal to flexibility and portableness, it will just work, and it will work on almost anything and is not retarded by any one company. Hope that answers that, I like to ramble at times, but I really like Open Source and think people ought to look into it more. I can talk about Linux and other Open Source apps for hours, my blog is HERE

I cannot wait for Linux to be on the iPhone....or for a polished Android, you would think that it is a no brainer which will come first, but you really never know with how slow and stubborn the mobile market is at adapting.

That's true, I remember that in Texas, and once I said yes I was asked what flavor, that was weird.

I get that, but this seems like an instance where the words "Operating System" is trying to be trademarked. It is a thing! Coke and Pepsi are not trying to trademark the word "soda" or "beverage" frosty, cold cola beverage.... I could go for one of those...

Wow, what a very odd yet arousalingly entertaining response, I guess I just didn't know what I had, thank you! Though I don't know if the ex would take offense, but since she has been found I suppose the others may ask her...