Filed under: Audio, Video, News, Windows, Macintosh, Web services, Apple
Apple's iTunes-iPod lawsuit
by Ryan Carter Jan 5th 2007
I know a lot of people who aren't very happy when they hear when they hear that the iPod does not work with other music services, or even mad that iTunes music can't be played on other devices. While most of them simply say, "aw shucks" and move on with life, I guess it really upsets some people. People like Melanie Tucker. She is an iTunes user who has now filed a class-action suit against Apple stating that the company violates anti-trust laws. Makes me think of the old (yet obscure) adage, "the sun doesn't shine on the same dog's butt every day." Last time around Microsoft had a bunch of legal matters to take care of, now it is Apple's turn to hack through the nonsense. I see the argument here, sure Apple shouldn't be so shall we say closed-minded, but we have all beat the horse to death on why. What lingers in my mind is what will this do to music in general? Is this more erosion of DRM? If Apple's method is to blame, they will change it and try to reinvent the wheel, at least a wheel that will allow more ubiquitous access to music and devices. Is really worth suing a company over? Are you mad about this issue and wish Apple would be forced to change their ways? I don't know that I care too much either way, but how do you feel. I wish it wasn't so hard to play all my music everywhere, no matter what a music download site has to do to give it to me, that is all I want. What about you?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
