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Relationship Status: Single
Political Views: Libertarian
Interests: Travel, Reading (Non-Fiction), New Restaurants, Open Source Software (e.g. Linux), Mac Rumor-Mongering, Biking, and the Law
Favorite Music: Movie Soundtracks, Alternative Rock like Third Eye Blind (An Ode to Maybe, Narcolepsy)) and YourMusic.com
Favorite TV Shows: Reign the Conqueror, SeaQuest DSV, Star Trek TNG, The (New) Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Cheers, Night Court, A-Team, Walker: Texas Ranger, Saved By The Bell
Favorite Movies: I prefer sci-fi and drama. I love Short Circuit 2. Independent video on the net like video podcasts, short parodies, and new media. Classics are great too.
Favorite Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the Dictionary, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Sprockets, a Little Robot
***Favorite Quote: “Live as if you’ll die tomorrow. Dream as if you’ll live forever!” - a happy person like you

“Quiet, like love, is its own reward.” - Long Island Zen by Don Lubov

Self-responsibility = freedom

“It’s all in you.” - Spags

W = UH (Wrong = Ugly or Hard)

“Dreams do come true.” - Disney-Pixar

“Listen to your heart” - not the song

“Never settle.” -S.J.

“Think Different[ly]”…
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So it seems Apple is finding itself the defendant in an antitrust lawsuit of monopolistic proportions.  As quoted:

Plaintiff Thomas Slattery’s lawsuit claims Apple configured the iPod so that it will play only iTunes files and not digital music files from competing vendors of online music. Apple has also encoded its iTunes files so they will only play on the iPod and not any other digital music player, the complaint says.

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With respect to the “tying” allegations, the judge said Slattery was claiming Apple forces people who own iPods to buy music online only from iTunes and also forces iTunes customers to buy iPods to play the music they purchase.

So basically, since you can only purchase songs from the iTunes Music Store for your iPod, and since the iPod is so prevalent, Apple has a monopoly on iPod-compatible music store purchases.  Nevermind that all the other music stores use a proprietary format from Microsoft that Apple is never going to support, regardless of whether they have an online music store or not; it removes the power of consumer choice because, while AAC is an open format, the DRM that Apple attaches to it is not.

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Alumni associations start requesting donations from as little as a year out of graduation.  If you had to a put a dollar figure on your diploma, regardless of what you spent on it, what do you think it has been worth?  Is it going to get less or more valuable in the future?

I really care about this because I’ve switched from a well-regarded private school to a good public school but at both I am not satisfied, not with the costs, but with the process.  If I’m going to continue tell me what you profitted.  Please also talk about “your education’s” impact on your mind.

Thanks!

January 2006 has been Deep Thought’s best month since its conception, boasting 1,755,736 hits, 74,582 unique visits and serving up a whopping 15,209,136 kilobytes (which comes out to 14.5 GB) of data.  The busiest days were the 10th, 11th and 19th, as our coverage of Macworld Expo and Nick’s review of iWeb brought massive piles of visitors to the site (as have the rest of the pieces of his review).

In comparison, the busiest month for Deep Thought before January was September 2005, which saw 1,090,738 hits and 40,667 unique visits.  September saw an average of 36,357 hits per day and 1,355 unique visits per day.  As of this writing, February is already at an average of 43,038 hits per day and 1,982 visits per day, meaning February could possible surpass January for overall traffic.  (Just for comparison, January had averages of 56,636 hits per day and 2,405 visits per day.)

On behalf of the entire Deep Thought staff, I’d like to thank all of you for visiting and leaving your comments.  We continually strive to offer excellent content and numbers like these are working fast to secure our reputation as a significant tech site.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics tells us that a thing exists only in observation. Of course, observation does not require intellect. Consider a pebble falling down the face of a boulder:  the pebble measurably perturbs the gravitational and electromagnetic fields about the boulder, affecting the particles within. Therefore, in the Copenhagen sense, the boulder has observed the pebble.

Let’s play with definitions. I propose that a kind of omniscience is the minimum quality for Godhood. Let us say, God does no less than observe everything in the Universe. An entity that does so is God. So, one sure way of identifying God would be to find such an entity among the things we already know of.

There are a lot of entities. It’s like set theory—you can conceive of any composite as an entity. Now, if I observe some things you don’t and you observe some things I don’t, the entity that comprises the two of us observes the union of things we observe. And us-and-the-boulder observes that pebble too.

So to approach Godhood, just keep adding observers to an entity’s constituents. Thus since, according to the Copenhagen crew, everything that exists is observed, the entity that consists of…
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