It's not like Steve Jobs is preventing others from using that money. Or that anyone, for that matter, that "has" a lot of money is denying that use to other people. The only money that sits still is the money stuffed under your mattress. If you have invested it or stored it at a bank, or purchased anything really, then it is being used for all sorts of purposes like loans, paying people's salaries, R&D, etc...

Your salary has no doubt been made possible by other people's money.

Steve Jobs money is what makes a portion of that upper-middle class possible, and if they are giving regularly to causes as you suggest, then it's all good in the end.

I wish I had mod points, that was quite funny.

If they complied from the start, there wouldn't have been any press at all. Now they have it.

Just like at most businesses, it's not the engineers who get it right from the start that get credit. It's the ones who screw things up and then heroically fix it later that get all the kudos.

no charge for using the wifi-use-only email, btw.

you can email books/mags or whatever to a wifi-use-only email addr at amazon to have it sync'd to your kindle 3 via wifi.

Calibre does infact have recipes for popular newspapers and magazines, including The Economist. The recipes are written in python, and you can use existing ones as templates for writing your own if your favorite site doesn't have one already.

50 points for the first person to build a micro linux box that caches access to a spindle disk with this SSD, having the micro linux box exposed via sata to a host.

Are you kidding? Apple is shoehorning themselves in as a new middle man where the previously was none! They are adding to the costs to bring a book to a market (30%), and one way or another consumers will suffer for it.

If Kindle leaves the iphone, it won't hurt apple, but it will hurt consumers.
If Amazon is allowed to recoup the 30% by charging higher prices, then the loss would simple be the effort to implement the option at all.

I doubt Amazon would just eat the cost as there are many economic analyses questioning if amazon even has a profit margin at all on their ebook sales.

On the flip side, to be compliant with the rules, it might be as simple as not having a "buy books" button in the app.

That is incredibly naive. Big difference between theory and practice.

are you the timecube guy?

it does on my mac. two fingers does scrolling.

I switched to Mac last year, and it's mostly been a good experience. However, one of the things that really bugs the snot out of me is that nearly every application you download and install wants to be put in the /Applications folder. This by itself wouldn't be a problem except Apple makes you authenticate to elevated privileged to put anything in there.

A lot of apps you simply drag them to the /Applications folder (which is included as a shortcut/symlink in the image you download), but many apps use an Installer.

Having to authenticate to install an app is the normal mode of operation on Mac. So your average everyday mac user is just going to click OK and authenticate without thinking twice anytime that authentication dialog pops up. The dialog could say, "This application needs to authenticate in order to convert the bytes on your drive to 0x0", and people would still click "Authenticate" and happily type in their password.

It would be simple to write a trojan that mimics the installer app, reporting back the user's password or installing a key logger.

Well, it lines their pockets until they spend it. It's not like that money was removed from the economy.

space the instructions further apart so that one or two bit flips won't map to another instruction.

This is why the liberal democrats/government regulation fanatics are so very much misguided. In their world, they are freely entitled to the fruits of your labor, effectively punishing you for being productive.