Traveller

Well, either A) MS will launch Windows 7 on the Netbook with dual storage, or B) Apple will do it and force MS to capitulate.

And what's more is, CNN presents the news story as though it's very close. So close that you're looking at programmable matter in this simulation. They make a mention at the end of the clip that it's not ready yet, but still have no idea if what you're looking at in even remotely realized yet. (Which it isn't if you know about such things)

I got a call from my parents yesterday saying "WOW did you see this?? And I had to burst their bubble telling them it's not even remotely real yet, that it's a computer simulation. Had to go hunting on the net for the original video since there is no source listed on the CNN Website.

Stoopid CNN.

VA said:

"At the end of the day, the consumer decides what they want to drink."
Only when offered actual choices. When you walk into a restaurant and they say they don't offer healthier choices than "Coke in 100 Flavors" or "Pepsi" and each of their associated sub-products, and you ask the question do you have real, fresh squeezed lemonade, or locally made root beer, or even something so simple as juice and you're told "No, we just have Coke, Water, and Iced Tea or Hot Tea" you're left with what amounts to miserable choices for your family. These consumers -- i.e. people who actually want to buy things and help the economy -- wanting something natural or handmade that we can drink, not something produced by mixing a bunch of chemicals together and hoping your liver and kidneys survive long term exposure.

"I'm so tired of people blaming corporations for producing unhealthy food."
Then continue to be tired and whiny about it. Corporations do produce unhealthy food. It's a fact, get over it. As a consumer I'd like natural foods to make a comeback. It'll help my family live longer. If you want to suck down Coke or Pepsi, feel free. When you die from cancer, don't forget to donate your will to cancer research so the researchers can come right back and tell you it was caused by drinking chemical-flavored soda products.

"If you don't like it, don't eat it - and most of all, don't bitch to the entire world cause no one gives a $hit!
If they were putting these dispensers in a Kindergarten classroom, I might agree with you."
They are putting soda dispensers outside of public classrooms, in the same building in fact as the students you'd like to protect -- and in many cases it's one of just a few things to drink in the school besides water, milk and orange or apple juice. Parents do give a $hit, and as consumers a good chunk of us who care about our kids give a $hit.

"Also, by driving innovation like Coke is doing, they are actually reducing packaging waste. I think is more efficent and beneficial to have one machine that can dispense 100 flavours instead of walking into a Subway and choosing from 100 different bottled drinks in a fridge."
I completely agree with this statement. I think it's fine to finally dispense with the lie that there is anything other than chemicals in something that says 10% fruit juice from concentrate, when all that really means is, we had some fruit juice, we distilled it into a chemical, modified it to make it more juicy and more sweet, mixed it with 6 different kinds of sugar and put it back on the shelf for you to consume. If they want to stop the excess litter, that's outstanding. Remind me of that however, once we recover from the thousands of plastic cups that we have to get from somewhere, which will further rely on petroleum to produce.

"Anyways, stop crying and go back to planting trees you environmental hippie douche."
You are whining again. Please don't whine when someone speaks truth to you, and leave the ignorance at the door please. This is the reading room, where we actually read and understand the points being made.

I don't get it. How can anyone love these disgusting designs? I've barely seen any leave the shelves anywhere I've seen them sold in the old versions, now these these are even worse. Cmon JBL, you're getting lazy... This is soooooo Circa 2000 :D

>How come apple doesn't get this kind of deal?!
>Imagen that deal with an iPod...

Simple. Apple doesn't own the music. Universal owns the music. If Universal wants to give you their entire catalog for the cost of a subscription, that is their prerogative. I am sure they are getting advertising revenue or statistics from the use. If I had to guess it's free to the phone but pay per song or pay per album on the PC.

Regardless, since Apple doesn't actually own any music, they can't actually give anything away. They have to pay for it, which they aren't going to do for you. :) Or, they have to get you to pay for a subscription but convince Universal that a subscription through Apple is a good resale idea.

Universal doesn't want Apple playing in this playground, so you don't get what you want via your ipod plus subscription. ;D

-J

I welcome our railgun-toting hummer overlords.

Can't wait to see what it does for crowd control. When I'm not in the crowd that is.

That is an excellent point. However, at least at this stage, there's a place for them to start. They have to start this system somewhere. Obviously proving ownership is going to be somewhat difficult. I would guess there's a resolution system that will be in place, and it'll be interesting to see how it'll work.

This probably won't be so bad a solution. Realistically, instead of asking Youtube/Google to go looking and comparing, etc... they're handing out the tools for the copyright owners to do their own dirty work. I'm really happy about that, because even though this solution isn't perfect, and will probably break when it comes to mash-ups, the simple fact is that Google and YouTubes resources shouldn't be considered limitless. Just like AOL, they can't be even remotely responsible for what users posts. They can do their best to keep up but ultimately they are not in the business of protecting the copyright holder's copyright, but they've done the right thing for small and large copyright holders to get the job done right if it's something a company or individual wants to enforce. Sounds to me like other companies out there who help target copyright thieves will be getting more business real soon now. Buy your stock now ;D

Oh rest assured. Everyone sees the similarity, but people just have yet (as far as we know, since a ton of mac folks continue on without spyware checkers and anti-virus/worm software) to really experience anything nasty appearing or doing significant damage.

I for one welcome our gesture-watch-toting overlords.