Also if you have any property, vehicle, stocks, retirement account, etc. ANYTHING that can be sold or converted to cash you are considered to be able to afford an attorney.

I can't speak for the RHCP tracks, but I downloaded a dozen or so tracks I already have on CD and exist as both FLAC and LAME MP3s on my computer on the day of the announcement to see what the difference is. I could immediately tell a difference with the Master for iTunes tracks, better or worse, I'm not sure yet. They are easy to pick out in A/B testing, the most glaring difference is in the mid-bass area 80-120hz is noticeably boosted in the rock tracks I downloaded.

Right, so what I described is NOT a Harley or a Vespa, correct? You would have to add more thing to it, correct? It would also have to meet certain safety requirement which further drive up it's cost and drive down it's fuel economy. And you can see that I didn't compare it to a Harley or Vespa. I compared it to the standard 4 door family car and the standard truck. Are you saying that a Vespa really replace the standard car for a family of 4?

Are there businesses currently using iPhone 4Ss as embedded video display devices? Good dog I hope not. If so, I agree that they would save a ton of money by installing Raspberry Pi's. But they should be using AppleTVs in that case instead, which is a better comparison. How much is it to add on wifi, ir receiver / remote, and 8gb of flash to the Raspberry Pi? The cost is about the same and while the Raspberry Pi has a better GPU, the AppleTV has a much better CPU.

For the record I think the Raspberry Pi is an amazing piece of technology, but saying that it beats the iPhone 4S in performance and cost when it cannot do ANYTHING out of the box without buying additional parts (it's runs XBMC, great! Are LCD displays free with purchase of the Pi?) is very misguided statement.

Are you saying that the Raspberry Pi is as fully functional as an iPhone 4S? If not, then you're completely missing my point.

Let's put this another way:

There's a new kit car announced. It has a 100cc engine and a small frame attached to four wheels. This "car" gets 100mpg and costs $500. It has no seats, no steering wheel, no roof, no doors, no airbags, no windshield, etc.

Is it fair to compare this "car" in terms of fuel economy and price to a brand new Corolla or F150?

If someone starts going on about "It's a fraction of the cost and gets 4x the economy! That's the real story here!" Wouldn't you think they were a little nuts?

Um... The Raspberry Pi is also missing a touch screen, 16gb of flash, more memory, wifi, bluetooth, 3g radio, camera, battery, decent battery life and a nice shell to wrap it all up in. But all of those things are free, right? I could find a dozen GPUs that put the iPhone 4S to shame and are cheaper, but we're not really comparing the same thing, are we?

I'm think that his wife was expecting a white one and he ordered 2 black ones. "Don't worry honey, I'll get you a white one." "You better."

The user will know that the account is dead and just create another one. If you can string them along for a while and they think that the site is broken maybe they'll just leave instead.

I had one friend that messed with the brightness/contrast controls on a photocopier for an entire afternoon and managed to get a readable copy out of the Simcity code list. The copy also copied very well I remember.

Pen and paper are illegal if you're using them to count or try to gain an advantage. So are the casino's own chips, drinks, ice cubes, scraps of paper, etc if you're using them in that way. The law is intentionally vague with it's wording, mainly so it doesn't have to re-written everytime a new technology is developed. Any "instrument" is illegal. Please note that you brain is not an instrument, but the casino can still ban you from their property for any reason.

You can do this with MPEG-2 already. I can shove 4-5 2 hours movies on a standard Single-Layer DVD that plays in my son's $99 Wal-mart portable DVD player. I'm sure the quality isn't great, but you can't really tell the difference on a 7" screen in the back of the car anyways.

You make it up in volume

That's true, and it is really unfortunate. In fact, to go back to the original story posted here, I groan when I hear that PETA has made headlines, because you can usually count on it being some sort of divisive, sensationalist asshattery. But I'm happy with what they're doing here--it's interesting and potentially effective.

For what it's worth, in my experience the irrational vegan militants are indeed a minority of the people who take this position. If you're interested in reading a rigorous (but pretty easy to digest) philosophical defense of the consideration of animal welfare, I'd recommend checking out "Practical Ethics," by Peter Singer. It's satisfying to read a careful, intelligent approach to a topic that's often discussed in the worst possible ways...

How long should it have taken? Is there some standard for how long a new language and VM are supposed to take to implement?