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Comment Gate? (Score 1) 409

"Since ISPs are the Internet's gatekeepers". That's the problem. There is no gate. You can't tell us they are the gatekeepers when there is no gate to being with. The internet doesn't work that way, although these morons at the ISPs seem to think it does.

Comment Other music (Score 1) 89

Led Zeppelin is next on Matt's playlist, but his children are convinced that the sharks will be fans of the White Stripes and Wolfmother.

The White Stripes and Woflmother are certainly no AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. It doesn't take a million years of evolution to know that The White Stripes really aren't that good.

Comment Re:My two cents (Score 4, Insightful) 1217

Is it really necessarily to require every student to have a laptop in order to learn?

Albert Einstein didn't have a laptop in school.
Ben Franklin didn't have a laptop in school.
Stephen Hawking didn't have a laptop in school.
Thomas Edison didn't have a laptop in school.
Nikola Tesla didn't have a laptop in school.
Even Bill Gates didn't have a laptop in school.
They turned out okay.

Comment Re:Dear FSF (Score 1) 1634

I do believe that Apple will move OS X to this type of software distribution model. To see it in action all they have to do it look at console gaming. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft require that every line of code you want to run on their machines passes through them first, at which time they take a licensing fee. We have been putting up with that for years, of course. What we love about our personal computers is that we aren't locked down like the game consoles are. However if you are Apple, you are looking at the consoles and their software licensing fees, and wondering how you can get a piece of that pie.

Comment Re:Err, why? (Score 1) 187

The question is not "why?" but it's "why not?". If Nintendo thinks there are few people left on the planet who have not yet bought a DS (like me for instance), then why shouldn't try to make a product that fills that niche? Why not?
If they really want to get the attention of older gamers they should make a "Classic NES" edition like they did with the GBA. That's the only handheld system I own.
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Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet Screenshot-sm 475

DocVM writes "A Nova Scotia farmer is opposing the construction of a microwave tower for fear it will eventually mutate his organic garlic crop. Lenny Levine, who has been planting and harvesting garlic by hand on his Annapolis Valley land since the 1970s, is afraid his organic crop could be irradiated if EastLink builds a microwave tower for wireless high-speed internet access a few hundred meters from his farm."

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