Content is a thing that exists, whether you have a business model or not. Business model is the system or method you use to make money from a product or service, in this case the product/service is e-reader content.

I'm confused. They say they're monitoring social networking sites for unlawful activity, but what exactly is unlawful about a water fight? They're defeating their own logic with their statements.

Sounds like you're missing his point entirely. He's not even remotely saying that knowing the processor is important. He's saying the kinds of people who do more research when buying a device (people who know what processor is inside is one way of qualifying that) are less likely to be confused about something utterly basic like knowing the difference between an iPhone 4 and a phone with 4G. People who realize a basic truth, knowing the details helps you make better choices and achieve better results, are going to have the curious mind and appreciation for facts and information to know that "phone version 4" and "a phone with 4G service" aren't the same thing. Now I don't necessarily agree with him saying that Android users are smarter than iPhone users, but there are huge chunks of people who buy the Apple product only because it's more expensive and because they're hungry to be recognized as owning the "cool" or "luxury" brand. Me, I don't give a shit what other people think about my phone. I had an iPhone 3G for a while, now use a Galaxy S, but will probably get an iPhone 5 simply because Android is too glitchy and buggy and immature of a platform to run like it should. It's too busy stumbling over itself to work properly.

Because a lot of that "crap" multiplies the functionality of the device. You may chose to only use yours as a phone, but that doesn't mean any other functionality is useless or unwanted by other users of the platform.

I had the same thought... "yet another reason? who the fork relies on FB to STORE their photos?"

Riiight, because Geohot is the only one who thinks it's great that someone got hired to do what they love. Nope.

He probably looks like the guy in the Geohot video that he released. And probably has the same first and last name as Geohot. And if that stuff wasn't enough, he could always show them some documentation from getting his socks sued off by Sony.

You're implying a distinction when there isn't one. Office politics and making connections requires social skills, and when you develop social skills and use them instinctively, you will develop connections and probably get involved in office politics whether you want to or not.

That sucks, you were working in IT but got stuck processing applications.

Uff, I would kill to have one of those 60GB models...backwards compatible, AND card readers for every memory card under the sun. One of my friends has one and I hate him for it.

Why can't you play it? Does your computer explode if a console is the house? Mine doesn't, maybe it's true for yours as well.

Ha, I forgot FF XIV even existed...

My girlfriend LOVES the Tomb Raider games, in spite of the T&A. She loves the mythological aspects combined with the platforming/puzzle gameplay. Tomb Raider Underworld was so freaking buggy though, she gave up on it several times over the course of a year.

Hah, at first read I thought you said "network media steamer," to which my internal thought-reply was "network media steamer? Did Sony make it?"

Agreed. Once again, as seems to be the norm everywhere I look, people are conflating "what I like" with "caring what other people think about me and my stuff." The two aren't the same, and except for some robotic, moronic folks that exist in our world, we don't decide we like something just because of its influence on what other people think about is. I'm always butting heads with certain of my friends who buy into the whole "Apple products are just for people who want to look cool" mentality. They all know I'm a knowledgable person, but for some reason they ignore me when I explain that most Mac users buy them for the functionality and other aspects of hardware/software...just like with any other product.