Zygna has office chairs? Based on the anecdotal accounts I've heard of them, I assumed they had their employees sitting on milk crates.

I did not say the (current (no longer to be mistaken with the G3)) iMac was expensive. I said it was not cost effective in the context of other solutions, where it's a 32,500% cost increase compared to $4 worth of velcro.

Ah. I did a google search for iMac G3, and accidentally clicked on a sponsored link from Apple.com, which touted its shiny new $1300 base price iMac. I don't follow the Apple products very closely, but I probably should have looked closer before making my post.

You are proposing a $1,300 solution. The average solution so far seems to be hovering around $20, with some as low as $3. There are some cost efficiency problems with your solution.

The problem there is that Apple's CEO would cheat and use dirty tricks to win.

I found this to be generally uninspired. You can do a lot more with wind if you're reasonably gifted in math and imagination.

Well, from the looks of the article, her testimone prevented someone from facing jail time. And clearly someone needed to be jailed. A simple and obvious solution, if you ask me. </sarcasm>

When I look back at the code I created in college, compared to what I was capable of after a few years of real world development experience... The difference is pretty stark. I understand the get-em-while-they're-young approach, to influence development decisions later in life. But if they're betting the success of their platform on the output of students with limited-to-no real world experience, I fear for the quality of the apps in their store.

There's nothing stopping kids from learning and writing Objective C applications from within Raspberry Pi. GCC is capable of compiling them, and Linux is capable of running them. They can then use what they have learned at a later time in life, using Apple's proprietary libraries, to "make them money" as you wish.

I'm sure many schools will be thrilled to hand out Apple devices to six year olds, just as soon as Apple makes one that costs less than $30.

I think it's because a significant subset of users would automatically flag porn, but not many flag copyrighted material.

I have between 0 - 25 % total storage as solid state, but I own more solid state drives than rotational storage devices. This is because of my tendency to look for the smallest possible SSD I can find to use for a computer's OS, while I keep all of my data on NAS.

"Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 30, 2012."

This is an Audi sports car. This isn't a Caravan or a Taurus or a Prius. The kind of people this is marketed to are those that love fast cars, and more often than not racing. And Audi is very, very much in touch with that kind of audience (take a look at the last few years of Le Mans Winners for reference.)

A large part of the thrill and love for performance vehicles is the sound they make, so rich enthusiasts (the kind that would actually buy something like this) would be very disappointed if this car didn't sound like a car. Take a look at the video. They spent three years engineering the sound, and they need that kind of effort and detail to the sound if they want to be competitive in their target market.

I'm sorry, but you're not going to be able to slap on a couple mp3's of synthesized rocket ship sounds and expect to sell a high end performance vehicle.