They should have called this the Zune tablet. At this price-point it is going to fail miserably. I had high hopes that Microsoft might get aggressive to get a toe-hold in the market. I'll give 10 to 1 odds that this thing is a total bust, with the primary blame on pricing.

Or maybe they defied, denied, descried, freeze-dried, hogtied, misguide, pied, plied, popeyed, refried, or just plain tried. We may never know, you insensitive clods!

Who'd have guessed that this is the only page on all of the intertubes that has the word 'blertify'. Better go ahead and copyright that one!

Wow. Everyone on /. is now dumber for having read that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3JzbWVDzac

What I'm saying is that the US spends more per student than any other developed country, yet we consistently score in the bottom quartile in science and math. The entire system is broken, and spending more days per year doing the same dumb crap isn't going to make the system better. http://mat.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-infographic/

The education experiment in the United States has consistently shown that the more resources we throw at it, the worse the results are. If history is any guide, extending the school year will make our children dumber, not smarter.

That is SO last month!

It used to be nice following a biodiesel on the road, with the delicious smell of french fries wafting back at you. Sewage... not so much.

If I'm stuck on an ultra-low calorie diet for the rest of my life, the last thing I'd want would be to live longer and prolong the agony. Somebody give me a cheeseburger, stat!

You had me right up until Sony.

Man I'm glad I don't live next door to you. Wait... is that you Steve?

Or God-forbid, fly on a plane with other commoners!

I know I'll get flamed as the slashdot noob that I am, but what does FIFTY mean?

Something tells me that Staples was angling to carry the new devices in their stores but then got snubbed by Amazon. Ouch.