Zune Boards - General/Life Discussion

Econ paper

frescamoe — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:36:49 GMT

Ok so for my micro econ class i have to write a 500-700 word paper that describes any concept that we have discussed in class. It also has to do with some social problem.

This is where I was thinking about going with this paper

Its about the Latin term Ceteris Paribus which means "with other things the same" or "all other things being equal or held constant"

I was thinking going along the lines of Zune vs Ipod.

So the constants would be: size,Hard Drive size, applications
The thing that would change would be the software. Like Zune (name) vs Ipod (name) and discuss that one has an advantage over the other because of the name.

I want to know if any of you guys/gals think that this could make a sound argument.

anyone hear of swagbucks?

ChainDrive — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:26:27 GMT

its sorta like lockerz where you just use there search engine to get swagbucks, which you can use for prizes. send me your email and ill invite you tomorow when i get home from school

A Fair Warning when Buying a TV

J2800 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:24:03 GMT

This really only applies to us West Coasters, but anyways here:

Intellectual Warfare: The Video Only Scam

Russian Roulette anyone?

Creative Zune — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:52:59 GMT

Lets play Russian Roulette you go FIRST!^.^

A has a 1 in 6 chance of eating lead; if A survives,
B has a 1 in 5 chance of death; if B survives,
C has a 1 in 4 chance of death; if C survives,
D has a 1 in 3 chance of death; if D survives,
E has a 1 in 2 chance of death; if E survives,
F is dead.

YouTube - Russian Roulette

Altoids

Trogdor — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:57:58 GMT

I am a total altoids addict, I totaled the amount i have eaten in the past 5 months,

I ate a whopping 75 tins.

That is roughly 5625 mints, more like 5500 when you consider the mints I gave to friends and thats figuring in the 8 tins I have enjoyed this month

I am on my 9th and 10th tin this month, I carry both a tin of Cream De' Menthe and a tin of Peppermint

I doubt anyone else here is as addicted to altoids as I am, but does anyone else here enjoy them?

If you could have any super power. What ONE would it be?

Jorvette — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:07 GMT

What would it be?

Mine would be the same one Claire has on Heroes because it is just an awesome Power.

Zune Twitter App

tru3existance — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:43:23 GMT

i didn't know where to put this so i just put it here..

i was using TweetStats [http://tweetstats.com/] and i found "zune application" under interface used.

what application is this?

Happy Birthday Volcomsk!

BroiledVictory — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:55:44 GMT

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Shane!

BroiledVictory — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:55:09 GMT

Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VETTEXL!!!!

Elektrolik — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:37:08 GMT

:woot::woot::woot:
Hope you have a fantastic birthday, hun! :hug:

Vitamin Water

Sebbeh♥ — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:35:39 GMT

Am I the only one why drinks this?

Favorite Flavor: Dragonfruit
Worst Flavor: That citrus one
Meaning to try: Raspberry-apple

Big 5 Index

Azu-nyan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:40:01 GMT

Well, I was sitting in Psych yesterday, scoring a personality test we took and thought "damn, this is annoying, I bet I could write this in C++." So, took a bit of time and came up with this product. Yes, I know it still needs work, it's a WIP. :P
Executable
Source Code
Project Folder

Oh, make sure to post your scores. Scores range from 9-45 on all except Openness, which is 18-90. Here's mine:
Extraversion: 19
Agreeableness: 27
Conscientousness: 15
Emotional Stability: 31
Openness: 60

Also, I may just run some numbers and see what the zB average is. May be interesting, may not, we'll see.

For an explanation of the traits, look here: Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is sick and evil. Copyright laws for Internet leaked...

nathanlawliet — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:53:22 GMT

And it is uglier than I am. Here is the original link:

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. - Boing Boing

In that article at the end is a link to a more in-depth analysis of it, where they found it out from, etc. etc. But here is what that page says.

Quote:

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:

* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)

Look at #2. Without trial or anything, you can be permabanned from the Internet (not meant to be funny), and #4 they want DRM on everything so THEY control the music/whatever it is you listen to/use, not you the consumer.

We can't let this get passed. I mean we've had some bad things before, but this is some serious ****. This is what can destroy the Internet as we know it and ruins the last bit of freedom people have.

EDIT: They've analyzed it further, apparently your kids can go to jail (if this actually gets passed) for making fan art or sharing commercial music.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/04...ret-copyr.html

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire draws spellbinding 18ft picture of New York from me

stkr — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:24:59 GMT

Well whenever I draw from memory, it's certainly nothing like that :lol:. Linkage in the images.

I find this utterly disgusting.

Charge — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:35:27 GMT

I have no understanding of the people that can do this, to anything.

This was all over the news and to my shock it was true.

Whoever did it, is a heartless bastard.

Thugs killed Jack Russell puppy by stamping on its head - Telegraph