I'll let you off with a warning this time then.

If you had bothered to read the rest of his post, you'd realize that the sentence you quoted was laced so thick with sarcasm that it approached the legal limit.

What about all the shows that are carried by a single main character? You think Firefly could have continued if Reavers ate Mal? Heck, in that example, Mal isn't even a single main character that carries the show...but it would have collapsed without him. You know...assuming it had survived long enough to try.

Sun doesn't and cannot release a JVM for Apple Macintosh thanks to an agreement that Sun & Apple signed in the distant past (or last week or somewhere in between, I don't know). All I know is that Apple makes their own JVMs for their own OS, and they don't update very often at all.

If anything is misleading, it's the "100% reliable" part. It's only 100% reliable against unpatched JVMs. Everybody else has patched their JVM except Apple.

Well, the guy DID just get done making Cloverfield. He's probably thinking about how steady all the work is for this film.

Contact had a lot of that too.

This is the part where I regret discussing a TV series where I haven't yet watched the Season Finale. . .

For a couple hundred bucks, you can have enough storage to save all the ripped movies again, thus saving you the time and trouble (non-trivial amounts of both) of ripping them again if your primary storage device fails.

Do you really place no value on your time?

And you know that there are no backups somewhere how?

They image someone's "mental state" onto a drive and obviously there's no backup at that moment, but then he files it into the library or whatever and then backups are made.

I know this is what happens because I just made it up.

<sarcasm>No, I'm sure that you signed away any rights which you might expect to have as a user of the device in order to get your hands on the device. Either that or you broke a seal which implied consent with a contract removing all of said rights from you. It's not your iPhone, you paid for the privilege of advertising for Apple, endorsing their products, and also looking reasonably cool with a slick piece of handheld hardware.

You will submit to Apple now, stop dissenting.</sarcasm>

Is HTTP in and of itself perfectly legal?

Sure.

But what percentage of HTTP traffic do you think is non-infringing?

And what percentage of HTTP users have never used it for any infringing purpose?

I don't think anybody's arguing this point. Everybody seems to acknowledge that it's within Apple's rights to run their store the way they want. We may not agree that it's the best business decision, but that fact is irrelevant because it's their decision to make.

In other news...Windows XP has higher system requirements to run comparably to Windows 2000.

But you build a brick wall with bricks. One could also say that he built the wall with brick, but the distinction there is the concept of the material used to build (brick, wood, stone, Lego), or the individual pieces which come together to form the wall (bricks, planks, stones, Legos.)