Climbing the tallest mountain on earth is no small feat, and is certainly something to be proud of, but it's not without its risk most of which stem from the extremely low Oxygen content in the air in "The Death Zone" above 22,000 ft. Unfortunately, it seems that Neal Muller, a grad student at UPe 's Wharton School succumbed to this lack of O2 and lost some brain cells on the way down. Muller whines in a Washington Post article that he was unable to triumphantly mount the top of the world to to soundtrack of Van Halen, because his iPod died during the climb. Now, my first reaction to this is utter eechle e , followed by anger and depre ion about the state of the human race. I won't addre Muller's arguments here, as Dan over at Mac User has done a tremendous job of that, but I will outline some of his arguments and their flaws. - Muller complai that the hard drive failed; almost 20,000ft above its designed maximum operating altitude, and likely 50 degrees below its minimum operating temperature.
- He complai that because the iPod doe 't use an "open co ection standard," it suffers from a lack of acce orie I su ose that just over 3000 iPod ecific acce ories i 't really that much compared with... wait... no, thats actually a lot.
- Argues that the iPod is a "flash-in-the-pan": I gue 85% market share and 5 years of growth don't count for much.
In addition to contradicting with evidence every single one of this moro arguments, Dan poses a really great questio what the hell was this guy doing listening to his iPod on Everest? When you're doing something which kills as many people as summiting Everest does, you should probably be paying attention to your surroundings i tead of worrying about how many stars to give the currently playing track.
It's really sad to see that some people really are so stupid as to make these kinds of arguments, and disa ointing that the WP would post such drivel. In any case, check it out, if only to laugh at this guys utter cluele -ne .
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