Well, mine too, but that may be because I have my email filtered so only e-mails from people in my contact list should reach me.

Not too long ago however, spammers managed to send me e-mails from me, and all of them got through. I haven't seen those in a while.

Not a bad idea for the 300k farmers to send it back with a note: "Here's the product of your seeds back, we don't want to be sued for copyright as well".

After all we all agree that the result takes longer to reproduce than the 30 secs allowed by "fair use".

You may have the answer in your post. Let's mix nuclear arms and IP lawyers... in a remote location.

I see you're trying to make a point in a ridiculous way.

The more a device reaches consumers, the easier it needs to become. And you almost had a point until you talked about the electricity.

See, not too long ago, a refrigerator required more maintenance than what not. Now, you just open and close the door. The freezer doesn't pile with ice, and you get water and ice right to your glass. That doesn't imply that you don't have to read the manual on how to install it, but operation is quite smooth and could be better if the fridge knew what I wanted and even interfaced with the rest of the kitchen to make my meal.

But yes, it uses electricity and water, go figure.

Good! You'll probably won't remember either that your likelihood of skin cancer is lower.

The problem with Top Gear, is that they are expecting that all the development goes to more powerful engines instead of energy efficient solutions, if they looked at performance from many other perspectives (such as capacity of transporting load per joule or whatever you imagine) then they'll realize that there's market for this stuff.

Seriously, Who wanted a 30G harddrive on an iPod? That seemed overkill for a mobile application. I can also think that if you want to save on gas, you can modify your bike, but there's this group of lazy [/sarcasm] people that don't want to sweat to get to their jobs.

There's market for everything, it doesn't necessarily need to match your needs.

So if I buy it from Apple, do I buy it? or license it? or buy a copy of the license?

Am I allowed to resell it?

I guess you're spot on, on the trick. They seem to license for selling and so they can pick whatever it's appropriate for their benefit. Still, wouldn't that mean that whatever Apple does "selling" is not allowed because they licensed it? So what does the end user is buying?

And I'm glad someone will stomp on those MPAA and RIAA and their bills!!

I really don't know what Best Buy does anymore. They don't carry 13.3 inch laptops unless is Apple. They seem to think that anyone walking into the store want's to buy "what they have" and not "what people needs". I've come a couple of times, and whenever I found the price is right, I buy it. I've bought many hard drives that way.

The same is going to happen with Target, if they keep bringing the stuff that no one needs at a price that doesn't contribute. Many patient people will go around and look for specs, and buy whatever works better for them. Unless they're still thinking in having the impatient 15yo that wants everything instantly, others are willing to wait, check reviews, and prices.

Which takes you to another advantage of online stores (and the reason I use my phone while in the store), reviews! You can check if the thing you have in front of you is just crap.

Yeah, that's exactly what you want to reply back to your adviser when he asks you to review that paper for him.