I really think it would be the other way around:

Men would be more willing to work silly hours for women than pizza...

AOL never really had an application platform. Merely a content platform.

I contend that its much easier to switch from one content platform to the other (eg: from AOL or compuserver to WWW) than to switch from on application platform to the other (eg: windows to MacOS)

We've got to fail before we can learn the lessons.

So far there are not enough projects in the clouds to fail and learn from.

So yes a lot of people is going in the cloud and they will see whats there... Many will fail, the one that dont maybe awesomely rewarded (or not)

Nobody forced anybody to buy anything.... Unless you claim Steve Jobs has psychic powers that forced you to buy iPhones....

I'm actually amazed that you could shoot a bullet at a drive, and the drive would not shatter in 100 pieces...

... when they say all this nuke stuff are just for electricity ?

"Sure, we get nukes from North Korea, but come on, they are so bad they are only good for generating electricity, just like the Americans do with the Soviet nukes!"

I only agree 70%.

Because some people think its fun.
And that they can learn things from it.
Some people think learning is fun.

In the past, I've used an old 386 laptop to run my own bootloader that would go in protected mode... that was 10 years ago though, and I didnt have a job or a family...

Now I would rather do something else, but it still fun for some people...

Maybe they didnt enjoy it.

Why do you think people enjoy music and songs ? Most likely, not because its reproduced faithfully, or because they care about the nuances.

Almost nobody cares about the nuances, they like beats and bass or dancy tunes, gansta lyrics or love stories, stuff that is accessible and they can relate to.

Sure, some people care about that little uptick from the violin on the 3rd measure of the 6th symphony of whoever that you can only hear with an hi-fi system in a quiet room. But most people just listen to music to either give them some energy for their workout, have fun at parties or concert, or drone the sounds of their miserable commutes, dreary jog run or boring life.

Same reasons people eat fast food instead of fine cuisine I guess.

I think he meant you pay taxes once you get a job... But obviously if you are defaulting on a student loan, you are probably not paying much taxes either...

So what are you waiting for to blow the whistle ?

There should be plenty of journalists, or congressmen wanting to investigate this.

In the Old English version of course!

Okay, I read Beowulf, translated, and frankly I dont know what the story is about. And frankly I only did it because I'm a geek...

This is for high school students, and I would think Beowulf would be the best way to scare everybody away. Its way too hard... unless we are talking about the movie script...

For a college level class, sure, but high school ? A mention about it sure (to show that fantasy is not a recent genra) but a mandatory read, no thank you.

I'm curious though, do you feel like you learned anything ? Or was it just fun and interesting and made it a welcome break compared to the rest of your high school experience ?

I mostly read scifi and/or fantasy because I find it entertaining and interesting, not really to learn the political, sociological or philosophical lessons that might result...

I enjoyed King and Stephenson as much as Bradury or Vonnegut...

Thats totally non true. The main function of iTunes is to organize your music and buy music/videos from the store.

Yet they take express measure to make sure that hardware competitors cannot access their music store in a easy way.

They purposedly disabled a feature of the palm pre that enable the palm pre to work with the dominant music store. You dont need to prevent then to work "at all" to be abusing your position. Disabling a feature is probably enough to qualify.

You realize that the main reason they provide the iTunes Software for zero cost, is that they intend to make money on the music you buy from the store ?
And you do realize that there are no easy way to transfer music or videos from iTunes to any other devices than an Apple one ?

Well, you could argue that Apple is using its monopoly on the music store side (iTunes) to push its hardware (ipods and iphone). ( Not that I believe you will be succesful in arguing this position, but I think that would be the premise here)

Zune software wont sync your ipod, but Apple does not even try to make their iPod works with it, and Microsoft did not do anything to prohibit apple from doing so, whereas Palm really tried to make it work, and Apply really did something to prohibit it. So your comparison is moot.

There is a big difference i think between:
1- NOT implementing something to make it work
2- implementing something to make it NOT work