You didn't understand the true "edge-based" genius of Beckstrom's Law. Applied to Pizza it would be:
"The value of all the worlds pizzas equals precisely the value that each pizza eater attaches to their pizza."
Yeah, this is the funniest slashdot article I have seen in a while. It becomes even funnier considering that this dude is actually serious about his conjecture. First, I thought it was a mere April's fool joke.
He seems to have "resigned" according to his website. Maybe he can use his new found spare time and improve his seminal finding!
True. I have a first generation iPod Touch and it hasn't got a mic. However, people have managed to get an external mic working with it, just google for touchmod, these guys have done awesome stuff! They also have made a VOIP client for the Touch, quite some time ago.
Minor nitpick unrelated to your argument: A lot of aluminum smelting plants and large paper mills have their own power generation facilities or have entered into some sort of co-op for generating the power they need rather than paying a power company.
Which is why Iceland has a huge aluminium smelting industry. They build these plants literally right upon builing water, so the energy comes well cheap for them.
Distance is always an important factor, even in IT.
Only great masters of style can succeed in being obtuse. -- Oscar Wilde Most UNIX programmers are great masters of style. -- The Unnamed Usenetter
