Studies have shown that comprehension levels this type of statement tend to correlate with levels of hair-pointiness.

I'm not a lawyer either, but under our legal system (which is heavily based on the British one) a contract needs to have a meeting of the minds: both parties need to agree on it explicitly, and both parties need to have the same understanding of the implications of it, before it becomes binding. You can't have a contract where information is withheld from one party until after the agreement is made: there can be no "Gotcha" after the fact.
 

A Transformers download? I think you may find that would be leg before... or possibly caught at silly mid on.

Think about it less in terms of "How are we using this to help the students learn?" and more in terms of "How do I get a webcam in every student's bedroom?"

As recent forays into, and furores over, how this kind of tech is used in schools have demonstrated, teachers don't seem to be terribly good with handling these devices when they're in the hands of a student group.

The other point is to choose your university by checking whether the Profs are setting their own books as coursework. If they are, and they're not the leading person in that field, pass, and go to a less corrupt bunch of hacks. In my experience (just finishing my fourth degree) the departments that allow that kind of behaviour are not going to give you a good educational experience.

And the need for this particular tech is a large, spread out population group. Which probably won't exist after the collapse of civilization as we know it.

I doubt THC had anything to do with a rant like that.

And Apple have come out saying that there will be no silly apps anymore, specifically giving fart apps as an example of said silliness, and the lead approver's panda fart apps remain in the store - I would google for a link, but I'm too lazy.

Which is a handy way of giving him a monopoly on the (apparently important, but who would have guessed it) fart app sector of the app store.

Yeah right. Like anyone would read those for the articles . Nice try, but we know it's all about the centerfolds, buddy.

You're paying so Microsoft can pay a graphic designer to develop a cool-looking video bashing the competition, obviously.

If they don't have the money, maybe they should consider using the library to get the book? That's where a lot of my books come from, and they're free...

But they could be using the same scanned ISBN network info to sell the books that are worth something (not many of these books are) at market price, and using the extra cash to buy more books or even help to provide services to the poorer areas of their towns, such as mobile libraries or remedial reading classes. If it was about giving back to the community, that would surely be more valuable? Besides, if it was a straight giveaway, they wouldn't charge for the books at all.

I read the article a couple of days ago (in slate, not salon) and what struck me was the amount of money that is being thrown away here. Just 'cod taxpayer money was used in the first instance, doesn't mean that people shouldn't think about their resources at this stage.

And of course the very concept of concentration camps is a British thing, invented during the Anglo-Boer war in South Africa.

In fact, Apple did. I just got my case for this today, which I chose through the iphone case app. There were a few options, the bumper one being one of them, but I thought "That's not going to stop scratches on the glass back of the phone" so I went with one of these clip-on ones.

I'll get back to you on whether it was a good choice in a couple of days, I guess.

I used to have twin albino rats, which had a genetic defect that caused them to bleed (pus or something) out of their eyes, and be blind (honestly!). They looked like zombies.

Jesus, you just freaked me out way more than TFA's videos. Never go into research like this, OK?