Duke University Students Receive iPods

DSLAMngu writes "Freshman students at Duke University received their complimentary/paid for (however you want to look at it) iPod portable music players on Thurday. This deal was previously mentioned on /. here. After waiting in line, I eventually got my Duke-engraved iPod at about 9:00 PM with the rest of the freshmen at Brown dorm. I've written about the experience at my blog, and also included a copy of the Program Agreement and some photos of what the students received."

A double whammy for comcast and the RIAA!

[dan_polt]

A choice of 4 mp3's to kill their server with and [entertain] thousands of /.ers
Smooth...

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Blog web design

[Ianoo]

Slightly offtopic, but that blog has to be one of the most offensive web designs I've seen in ages. Background sounds, distracting unreadable colours, it's got them all!

Creative uses?

[d3ity]

How many drunken college students will lose these things around campus?

Re:Blog web design

[maharg]

argghh my eyes !!!

even it.slashdot.org is a relief after that.

Re:Creative uses?

[gavint]

1st year Duke accomodation would seem to be an attractive hunting ground for muggers right now.

You're in college now

[Anonymous Coward]

Try to think less about "blogging" and iPods, and more about "female" things, mmmkay?

Re:The significance

[centipetalforce]

Nah, they just had to post it because it's been three hours or so since the last ipod discussion.

Another milestone for the INTERNET

[karmaflux]

August 21st, 2004: Some kid gets an iPod. He makes a blog entry about it. Slashdot is first on the scene with the scoop! Lack of interest of the rest of the planet seemingly escapes notice.

He got an iPod, guys. I got one too. So does my friend Chris. Enough about the damn iPods.

I'm sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

this will undoubtedly be a redundant comment, but:

Most - annoying - website - evar.

Sure, the design is absoretarded and all... but, MUSIC?

This guy is either oblivious, or just asking for it.

Re:I'm surprised at Duke's admissions standards.

[tiktokfx]

Never mind, I've thought back on the people I went to high school with who went to Duke... this guy fits right in.

Re:Another milestone for the INTERNET

[lewp]

Holy shit! Chris has an iPod too?! Why wasn't I told?

Re:Class of 2008

[DrVxD]

> means the class that will graduate in the year 2008

Apart, of course, from those members of the class who flunk out because they spend too much time posting their blogs about "look I got an iPod" on slashdot...

Re:Blog web design

[xmpcray]

...not to mention animated gifs, static background; moving text, multiple huge images...i just wish there was a frame somewhere in there and this would have been the winner!

Re:The significance

[Mr_Icon]

Sorry, but I still fail to see the significance of this story. What makes a small bunch of kids getting an iPod for free significant.

They are not free. You have to get enrolled at Duke to be able to get one, which is anything but free. In fact, with the cost of Duke tuition, the price of a 20G iPod is more or less a rounding error.

Re:so what..

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, they can start with a fucking dictionary, for one. It's DONOR. A doner is what you order at a Greek place with lots of tzatziki.

Re:A double whammy for comcast and the RIAA!

[parksie]

There I was, happily (trying to) read the page, *blam* up comes Xine...great, I get a video player that crashes Firefox 9 times out of 10 trying to stream mp3s from a heavily-loaded server. Lovely...

Re:Great.

[martinX]

I thought universities were in the business of teaching, not hardware/music distribution.

They are. It's the students who are in charge of music distribution.

Leave your door unlocked and they'll also "distribute" your hardware.

A quick reference for slashdot editors...

[iamdrscience]

News: Students at duke will all receive iPods.

Not News: One kid at Duke received an iPod.

Re:Recording lectures.

[gl4ss]

4) They don't want to be caught talking out of their asses.

it happens you know..

Re:iPod your DUKE!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, please put back autopr0n. I'll paypal you 50 bucks, whatever you want. I need my TGP fix, and autopr0n is still the best source. If you are too lazy, I'll do the port to PHP/MySQL and get it up and running on some 10 dollar a month shared hosting account.

Re:so what..

[hkon]

So what if they received their iPod. In one way or another they will pay for it in their tuition fee.

The difference for the student is largely who "they" are in this context. Consider the difference between "Hey, dad, will you buy me an iPod" and "Hey, dad, I got admitted to Duke".

What, no styrofoam? This is teh sux

[Rescate]

Notice the cheap recycled cardboard in the fourth generation packaging where there was styrofoam in the third edition packaging. This was definitely a cut corner because I really did think the styrofoam was awesome before

Yeah, it totally blew my iPod experience for those three seconds it took me to remove the iPod from its box and throw away the cardboard, instead of throwing away nice shiny styrofoam. Let's go back to having a few million pieces of awesome styrofoam in the garbage, that totally r0x0r!!!

Re:so what..

[upsidedown_duck]

In one way or another they will pay for it in their tuition fee.

Oh, I thought Duke tuition went towards landscaping.

Duke Handing out Murder Weapons

[telstar]

It was the grad student ... in the lab ... with the iPod!

Seriously, Duke just handed out a whole slew of homicides [liquidgeneration.com] waiting to happen.

Re:Keep the sound to you, webmaster from hell

[Milo77]

The first thing I thought was "I guess the slashdot editors couldn't figure out how to get their soundcards working under linux either". If they had, surely they never would have posted that to the front page.

Re:Keep the sound to you, webmaster from hell

[Nodatadj]

What? You think the editors actually READ the articles? Duh

*NEWS FLASH* Hundreds of Muggers Descend on Duke

[StarWreck]

*NEWS FLASH* Hundreds of Muggers Descend On Duke University. Few of the attending Freshmen now retain their iPod. In an unrelated story: Sudden Glut of iPod's on eBay drive price of used iPod's down.

Re:A double whammy for comcast and the RIAA!

[DSLAMngu]

Firstly those are 1:30 clips encoded at too low a bitrate to realistically be considered to be taking any money away from the RIAA.

Secondly I know the numbers don't match up, but the second I change something, it breaks. Right now it ain't broke. So I ain't fixin'.

Thridly, mute.

Finally, yes, it's pretty well-established that I'm an idiot. Thanks.

Re:A double whammy for comcast and the RIAA!

[CountBrass]

Well if you were looking to get an entry into the interface hall of shame [libero.it] then you've certainly made a contender. I kind of assume you weren't looking to make a career of web design? If you were I'd start researching how food coupons work.