So wouldn't that corporate profit margin benefit from more people using itunes to download music? People spend a lot more on music over their two year phone contract than they did on the phone itself and the music sales are giving apple a much higher margin than the iphone.

Just because it's on the web doesn't mean it's free. It's not a hard concept to get permission before you use something. If you can't get permission you don't use it. Stripping the owners info and republishing does not introduce a work into the public domain.

Your strongest technical contributors are likely to be your weakest managers. Management is about the people as much as their jobs and the personality traits that develop into a great engineer are generally very different than those that develop into great managers.

There were a lot more albums worth buying back then. 10 out of 12 songs would be worth owning now you get 2, no wonder we only want to trade 1 song at a time we'd be wearing out the tapes fast forwarding through all the crap. The RIAA dropped their standards for what they distribute and blame us for not dropping our standards in what we pay for.

I've had plenty of instances where i needed to rack up much larger phone bills than that. I've had all 4 major US carriers and have always managed to find the spot where the other 3 work and mine is roaming but I'm not going to lose a contract over it. My SSN proves that I'll pay the bill I no matter how big it is so my Phone Carrier, Credit Card company, etc... give me the level of service i expect every time.

Funny, I've seen the opposite from Lenovo. Hibernated un-dock works fine but re-docking is faster to shutdown & reboot.

The malware industry has barriers to entry just like anything else, until we can make $x it's not worth any investment. OSX user base isn't big enough to generate $x yet. Even after that when x is 20% of y why not get $y for the same investment.

Microsoft & their partners also advertise bounties on exploits encouraging people to try and find them first so they can be patched, this adds to what is found considerably. I've never seen Apple pay for but have seen them deny holes that were handed to them.

I've seen OSX exploits that didn't require any more interaction from a user than those aimed at windows in farm environments; no reason something similar isn't out there on a site we've never gone to.

Firewalls and proxies exist because some of us know better than to think our OS is secure.

It's really going to suck to be the builder and grocer someday when they have to take care of the authors, musicians, artists and programmers because all of those commodities are apparently supposed to be free.

Reputable and accredited schools don't allow professors to profit off of their own book being required for the course. many schools actually extend the policy to requirements of other professors within the same school. The money your professor would have made by requiring you to buy his book for his class was donated (often to a departmental scholarship). If it's a good text and used by other colleges he can keep that money but nothing from his school.

Sorry, I totally read you wrong... So yeah, it's a scam, paying for a month (and especially a year) up front should get you some sort of discount.

It won't... but it will prevent that user from ever opening a file they've renamed since it will no longer have an extension.

Lucky you, our unlimited pass costs exactly what both ways 20 days a month cost, the only advantage really is you don't have to buy the fair every day.

Don't drive a Ford Enormous on your daily commute and learn to drive a stick.
My car costs me:
      $250 / month car payment
      $600 / year insurance
      $25 per tank of gas (2 per month 35mpg average)
      = $4250 oil changes, tires, car washes whatever you want to tack on keeps it under $5k and I can go anywhere any time. I'd be happy to take light rail to and from work but not at 10x the cost of me driving.

Every time you install any new software it takes default over certain file types why is a browser any different. if you don't want IE8, next time you open your previously default browser it will check this and you can set it back. Even my mom knows to click the orange fox instead of the blue E when she wants to "get on google"

And apple has never selectively used facts for their propaganda? Oh wait, Apple doesn't bother to get any facts they just make them up.

Itunes being a requirement to use your ipod is worse than windows coming with IE - IE can be replaced.