My commute is 40 miles each way.

I leave in the dark and come home in the dark.

I can do 99% of my job from a keyboard.

I'd telecommute for TWENTY PERCENT less.

Several things.

I'm over 50 years old.

I've corresponded with Roger Ebert several times over the years.

I like and respect him.

I completely disagree with him on 3D in the cinema.

For me, Toy Story 3 was an excellent example of what is possible. Meet The Robinsons was underrated but also had several excellent scenes where the use of 3D made them work better than 2D could have. For the most part, live 3D has a learning curve that hasn't been mastered yet, but I believe that will change.

I don't own a 3D television...yet, but I think I certainly will in another couple of generations of the technology.

I do wear glasses, but don't have headaches or issues with 3D glasses. Maybe I'm lucky or perhaps my cavemen ancestors were blessed with 3D wiring in their brains.

I quite agree.

And yes, while I (or random miscreant) can see the Fritos or Budweiser truck at the 7-11, they're rarely hijacked or robbed. The Wells Fargo truck is heavily armored and has men with guns.

The relative value is quite different for that which is munchies, that which causes munchies or that which buys munchies.

If the 7-11, Fritos truck, or Wells Fargo truck are assailed, police response and serious media coverage are virtually guaranteed. I don't know that would be the case with the pot grower.

I have had several Mazdas and my son is driving a 2004 Mazda3 currently.

Just last week, I took a look at the current Mazda2, which is indeed rated 35mpg for highway driving. I really don't care if a 2013-14 model gets 70mpg as 35mpg is better than the 25mpg I get with my current car.

I have an 80 mile round trip commute to work, so the "extra" 10mpg is something to consider.

Mostly, I just like the way it looks and drives and it's $3-5000 cheaper than the Ford Fiesta. They're not siblings like the Ford Fusion/Mazda 6 cars; the Mazda2 and Fiesta only share a few parts.

Interesting reading on this subject; enjoying the comments.

I actually did some design work on a 3D television solution that does not require glasses similar to Phillips.

As such, I can agree and disagree on a lot of the posts about TECHNOLOGY, but I won't.

I wholeheartedly agree with "it's the content, stupid!"

Excluding the 800 pound blue gorilla called "Avatar", I would offer two other current films as examples: Piranha 3D and Toy Story 3.

We're a Dell shop at work and by default, all "road warriors" have Computrace installed on their machines.

While it doesn't happen often, we do suffer a loss due to theft now and then.

My experience has been that the local PD is very helpful and sends a copy of the police report to Computrace, exchanges contact data, and at least professes interest in recovering the laptop.

Worst case; we get a check in 6 months if the unit is not found.

I know this is a little late for you now, but if your insurance replaces the unit, you might want to add the $$ for CT.

...may be hazardous to your health.

Apparently, EVERY damn thing that is fun,entertaining, or otherwise distracts us from reality is DANGEROUS.

And you know what? I'm pushing 60 and simply don't give a shit if it kills me anymore.

So, I think I'll pour a drink of good bourbon, load the bong, and watch 3D movies until my eyes explode or the Surgeon General kicks in my door...whichever comes first.

I read about the original research and hadn't heard anything for a while and wondered if HP was still working on this.

Personally, I feel this is OUTSTANDING news. RTFA, they think they'll get 20GB on a square centimeter. And have a viable competitor to flash memory in 3 years.

Instead of "coming on Blu-Ray Tuesday!", it'll be "coming on MR-Chip Tuesday!"

Of course, when they get the 4D version working, that'll change to "coming last week on MR-Chip!"

( And yes, I just copyrighted "MR-Chip"...)

...in a pan of hot motor oil.

I'd had my 3GS for 2 months. Was in my shirt pocket while I was changing the oil in my John Deere tractor.

It was the first oil change on the tractor. I had run the engine for 15 minutes and had just started draining the oil when my hand slipped pulling the filter.

When I yanked my hand back and jumped up, the phone tumbled out of my shirt and did a gainer into the drain pan and sank.

Of course, I burned my OTHER hand fishing the phone out, then dropped the very slick and hot phone onto the concrete driveway.

Blotted the oil off with paper towels and used Q-tips to wick oil from the speakers and dock connector.

Let it dry for 4-5 hours and then checked it out. No harm and it's still working.

Just glad no one witnessed the impromptu slapstick routine in the driveway.

I looked hard at the Sony and Kindle units and got neither.

I use my 3GS, Stanza, and Comixology . Also have the USA Today and NY Times apps for news.

I like the single device aspect, and readibility is good. Not excellent...I'm > 50 and have reading glasses.

So, I'm considering the iPad. I did look at the latest Sony readers at Best Buy just yesterday and I still think color (especially for comics and news) and the larger form factor are what I want.

Actually had to do the phone activation with Win 7 Pro 3 weeks ago.

I had installed the license I got for Xmas on a dual-core Athlon tower. It ran 4 days, then the motherboard decided it no longer had USB ports. (I live on a farm with power made by gophers pedaling bikes apparently)

So, I built a new box, salvaged HDs and GPU from the "mostly dead" PC, and reinstalled Win 7. Got the "couldn't activate Windows" message, so I called the robot in Redmond.

Took 3-4 minutes and I was "legal" once again.

The WAT bit gives me some concern that I could get ID'd as a false positive at some point.

Actually, the iPhone and the iPad DO multi-task, just not with 3rd party apps. Flash is ugly; HTML5 or even SilverLight is a better choice. People have found methods for an iPad camera in the SDK; what else is in there that's not enabled....yet?

The reasons for WHEN and WHAT the iPad is and is not are not technical at all. It's financial. Apple wanted to get in front of the buying public with the iPad before some competing tablets hit the market. The price isn't the $999 some predicted; even the 64GB/3G model is less than that.

If they enabled multi-tasking out of the box, they risk performance and reliability issues with the 1st gen release and lose some revenue from the closed ecosystem of iTunes, etc. and bad press. Basically, I think Apple is gambling a bit until OS 4.0 is ready, at which time they'll allow/turn on all the "stuff" people are crying about being absent.

And no one I know has any problem saying "Gonna play with my Wii" with a straight face.

My 2 cents...

...I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Actually, if this thing ever becomes an actual product, I'll buy one.

I can always get the laser in the aftermarket.

I would not pirate an app for my iPhone or any machine I own.

I have a lot of friends and co-workers with iPhones and I don't think a single one of them has a jailbroken device OR any pirated apps. Considering a fair amount of them (and myself) have the technical ability to do so, I wonder about the "rule", regardless of whether they're Pinch-based apps or not.

And honestly, most of the apps are so cheap that anyone and everyone should just pay the $2. I bought RedLaser for $1.99 a while back and saved far more than that shopping with it the first weekend. Bought Pocket Universe for $2.99 last week and have certainly gotten more than 3 bucks of enjoyment from it.

Pirates...whether they're stealing apps or cargo ships...are the lowest form of life.

Yes kids, the card is FAST, but the better news is DirectX 11 support and the ability to run up to 3 displays at high resolutions.

Tom's Hardware has some metrics on overclocking and power consumption in their review, BTW.

At $600 MSRP, this is not a cheap card, but the performance is pretty amazing.

I'm still using an nVidia 8800 in my primary PC and a 7600 in my backup box, and both do OK with most games. I should point out that I don't have Crysis or many of the games used for benchmarks, with the exception of Left 4 Dead (1 and 2).

COD2, the L4D's, and Borderlands all run fine on my current setups, so I'll wait until something dies before I look at a new nVidia or ATI card.