Dude, Jobs position is whatever fills his wallet the most at a given moment, if he could buy Adobe today, tomorrow he will be praising flash and every iPhone sold will have it pre-installed.

They think by turning all the market to digital downloads or, furthermore, all rented stuff that you don't really own and/or can be switched off is the answer to have total control and do as they please, well here's the news: Digital content is easily copied and distributed, and as we have seen to date, everything can be cracked / circumvented / ripped
I think this kind of move where you get pushed and forced to do the big companies bidding will only lead, as it always have, to increase piracy.
People is not going to let themselves be pushed around with unfair charges and conditions and countermeasures are more at hand than ever.

Since you're posting anonymously what the hell does it matter if you are modded down?
I'm the one who should be worried to respond to your post

FTFA

Number two,it's not a standard [HTML] . The way I say it's not a standard is if you take any of the most popular web browsers and point them at a specific HTML page, they'll all produce different results.

This is not because HTML is not a standard i'ts that some browser makers don't care to support it because (their marketing prople think) they can get more economical benefit from nor doing it, just like this guys pontificate about the stuff they create as being the most wonderfulest when it's so blatantly obvious they're primarily motivated by the profitability not the quality or the accessibility, for them standards are good as long as they're the ones ho make it. They could as well be working at apple and give the exact same answers, just replace one trademark for another.

RTFA
it's for URBAN areas where people already crap in plastic bags and throw them helicopter style, this addresses the sanitation/disease problem.

This could laughable if you are very superficial about it, but economical success or hype is not necessarily related to a good product, actually if you could perform a really impartial feature by feature (design, software, usability, DRM, format management, compatibility, value, etc) comparison between music players I'm sure the iPod will not come as the best, so back in the day, minus the hype and the financial success, the comment is actually quite logical.

I've been working with digital images for a long time and I can tell you this: this is too good to be true
You can't get professional results even when trying to interpolate 5% extra data, and even though I guess this is not oriented to professional quality images, it will just make crappy images good enough to recognize the points of interest, it will be acceptable to that point but then there's the Obama sample, I have seen the printed image (in the dead tree version of the mag) and it certanly looks faked, there's some detail that couldn't have beeen retrieved, not with the current algorithms, actually as some have pointed out, the lapel pin data is not present at all so how could you recreate that, sounds to me like something more from the realm of magic than math, hence fake!

Google slogan : "Don't be evil"

Google slogan in 5 years : "Don't be soooo evil"

Google slogan in 10 years : "Just don't be as evil as Satan himself"

Google slogan in 20 years : "All your arses are belong to us"

It's OK Mr Burns... but some people actually can.

This would greatly affect all 3 users of this Zune thing.

If Dell / HP tech support is crappy, and those are well established companies, imagine how this will be.
Even with TechCrunch behind it and at $200 the stuff seemed dubious, now without, with all this litigation and at $500... I think I'm gonna pass.

You're right, should've RTFA first.
But in my country, there's vendors who are advertising (heavily) the fact that they sell their phones unlocked, they're trying to capture as much users as possible, others offer unlimited access but with hidden fees and stuff, but others advertise (again, heavily) they have real unlimited access, that's competition.
Someone said in another comment that this is like going back to y2k, he must have not read the article either, but on the other hand the current state of cellular networks is somewhat comparable to landline access in those days, the difference is that phone access came after everybody was accustomed and expected unlimited access, Vendors offered it and then they couldn't handle it, hence this announcement.
I think the trend is going to be the same: technology will allow faster transfers and competition will do the rest.

It's a business opportunity for other ISPs to offer unlimited access and compete with these greedy assholes.

GOOFUS objectively observes that there's not enough data to support that climate change actually exists that i'ts unnatural or that humans have something to do with it.
GALLANT claims the world is warming as a direct result of human activity, because his associates can profit from paranoia and could use some "dog wagging" from the environmental crimes their companies commit.


There. Fixed that for you.