Comment Seriously... (Score 1) 2
...does anyone use tablet PCs anymore ?
I've never owned one, but I always thought the idea was pretty cool. Forc- I mean encouraging students into a single choice seems somewhat silly.
Submission + - Students required to buy iPhones 2
Norsefire writes: "New incoming freshmen at the University of Missouri School of Journalism are being required to purchase iPhones to enable them to download lectures and to check facts on the internet while reporting from a news scene. After complaints, the school explained that it is requiring "web-enabled, audio-video player" devices, but while Blackberrys and Zunes are acceptable they are "not preferred"."
Submission + - SPAM: Could 'Terminator' happen? Vernor Vinge answers 1
destinyland writes: "A science magazine asks an MIT professor, roboticists, artificial intelligence workers, and science fiction authors about the possibility of an uprising of machines. Answers range from "of course it's possible" to "why would an intelligent network waste resources on personal combat?" An engineering professor points out that bipedal robots "are largely impractical," and Vernor Vinge says a greater threat to humanity is good old-fashioned nuclear annihilation. But one roboticist says it's inevitable robots will eventually be used in warfare, while another warns of robots in the hands of criminals, cults, and other 'non-state actors'. "What we should fear in the foreseeable future is not unethical robots, but unethical roboticists.""
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Comment Re:Bu-Bu-But the free market rules! (Score 1) 708
Hokie may have been unclear, but his point is that those industries are government-regulated and are NOT truly free-market.
"Republican dogma" is typically against the government-regulation part.
If cable companies were able to openly compete, free of government regulation, then they would have overlapping markets, where consumers could choose between companies, and they would actually HAVE to be competitive. In theory this would mean more speed and lower costs.
"Republican dogma" is typically against the government-regulation part.
If cable companies were able to openly compete, free of government regulation, then they would have overlapping markets, where consumers could choose between companies, and they would actually HAVE to be competitive. In theory this would mean more speed and lower costs.
