Uhhh as a former student, this seems pretty silly. I haven't had any problems with XP or the Office 2003 Suite at all. What are these people expecting Windows to do, pull their personal info, poll it to Microsoft through WGA, and have Microsoft check College enrollment records?

I do know of one other reason why people would be afraid of WGA, though.

*dial*
Help, my office is on fire, sen... what? You're not the fire department, ok, ok... ok, bye.
*>>*
Help, my office is on fi... Roy? Well, can you call the fire department and tell them the of... what do you mean you bought an iPhone shuffle too?! Fine... FINE... bye.
...
*gets on computer*
*opens e-mail*

"Subject: Fire.

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road..."

no, that's too formal.
*deletes text, starts again*
"Fire! fire! help me! 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly, Maurice Moss."

Houston has a tunnel system and bus system/light rail. It could certainly be better, but it's something.

I know I've been out of college for a little while now, but do people actually blow through TVs that fast these days? At the risk of sounding old, that just seems wasteful.

Get off my lawn!

This can pretty much apply to all laptops in general. Most major manufacturers still gouge at a ridiculous level on increasing the RAM pre-installed in a laptop. Apple may be the leader of the pack in overpricing, but unfortunately, all of them do it to some extent.

This makes a lot of sense, especially in a supply limited environment where one can't simply make an additional copy of the product at little to no cost.

Will those $0.69 primarily be the karaoke tracks?

Besides the current near impossibility of building a clone instead of using existing DNA, he made that statement because the method for sequencing is only 99.3% accurate. So basically, you completely missed his point, since he was saying he understood they may not need 100% accuracy (not cloning), but wondered where something with a 99.3% sequencing accuracy would be applicable.

I'm willing to bet Ford will still be around and doing OK at that point.

That's a shame, since this (likely temporary) problem is a result of Microsoft shoehorning new features that are intended for new hardware onto their old players. A great treat for the consumer and something standing in stark contrast to many other companies' modus operandi.

So it's only the players used to watch Anime?

It's the 10th anniversary of the registration of povray.org