who doesn't understand how the world works. Do you think the burden of proof is on the FDA to prove that a drug *isn't* safe? No, the burden is on the company to prove that it is safe, and that's exactly what the majority of people in the country voted for. Tyranny does not mean what you think it means.

At what point did /. become infested with such whiny delusional little children?

Everyone will be forced to cut their grass using scissors--that will create lots more jobs, right?

Put another way, you're an idiot. Automation is a good thing.

management--but it is hardly marketing manipulation to inflate your brand by doing good things and then being honest about it.

Here are your options:

1. Manufacturing in the USA, with manufacturing using robots, creating low thousands of well-paid jobs for Americans.

2. Manufacturing in China using hundreds of thousands of low-paid Chinese jobs.

3. Manufacturing in the USA without robots, but with hundreds of thousands of minimum-wage part-time jobs--and all Apple products increase in price by 30%.

Apple is currently doing #2 and transitioning to #1. Are you really upset that they didn't pick #3?

Honest question.

music has DRM.

iPhones and can only display web pages created on a Mac. That kind of thing...

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"The only two things that differentiate America from the rest of the world are the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and an almost fanatical devotion to the gun."

Countries make their own laws, so legally they can shut down whoever they want; so we're just talking about ethics here. I don't find anything ethically wrong with pre-emptively shutting down an enterprise they (very reasonably, given the history and public comments of the proprietor) consider to encourage intellectual property piracy.

Don't try to deny it, that only makes you look more guilty.

See how that works? It's pretty easy to accuse anyone of a future crime.

That's exactly the response I got when I asked my non-technical physical assistant wife how she could possibly not be curious how the television works.

It's an excellent response, really, and points out something fundamental. There are *lots* of fields out there, each one has deep knowledge. Most of the practitioners in those fields are occasionally perplexed about why more people aren't curious about their little corner of the world. Most of them are not, however, as obnoxious about this as the people on Slashdot.

Nice of you to log in before posting. Bonus points if you double-down.

but I think $3000+ is about right for 1000 sq ft in a reasonable part of San Francisco, it goes up quickly from there.

The point is, though, that if you are trying to map your current Midwestern (for example) lifestyle to the Bay area or Boston or NYC or whatever, then you are always going to reach ridiculous conclusions like you need to make 3x your salary. That's about as ridiculous as me saying that it would cost me much more to live in Ohio than it does in NYC because I'd have to pay for airfare every weekend to see Broadway shows and I'd have to install my own subway line to have a convenient no-car commute.

Your lifestyle is *different* in different places. You aren't going to get a 2000 sq foot house with a 2 car garage in San Fran. Depending on your situation, you probably aren't even going to get a 1000 sq ft apartment--you'll probably get a couple roommates for a 1500 sq ft place. However, you also get to live in one of the nicest places in the country. There are lots of ways to extract value per dollar.

How about this for two equivalent models:

iPad 32GB with 2560x1536 pixels : $599
4xMicrosoft Surface 32GB tablets to yield a combined >2560x1536 pixel count : $1996

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iPad looks like a much better deal to me.

Or, how about we just compare them the way a consumer will:

cheapest iPad: $499
cheapest Microsoft Surface: $499

"The iPad has a nicer screen but the Surface comes with more storage (32GB vs. 16GB). The iPad probably works better and has more apps--decision, iPad."