Thanks for that Ouya reference. The first I've heard of it and now I think I need to contribute $99 to get a hold of one. Q is overpriced. Google TV was way overpriced. Maybe Google thinks it's name holds as much cache as Sony used too?

So the CW is willing to show a 1 night presentation of a movie starring the stars of "How I Met Your Mother" and "Castle" produced and directed by the guy who directed the mega-blockbuster "Avengers" movie on some random Tuesday nigth in Oct? Which is during the baseball playoffs. Wow, really going out on a limb there.

There will not be a 7" iPad Mini b/c: 1. the screen resolution will match up to the iPhone not the "retina display" iPad 2. it would cut into iPad sales 3. Nobody would buy a $200 iPod Touch w/ 3.5" screen for only $50 less than a $250 iPad Mini or an iPhone if they wanted a small screen I am very much looking forward to upgrading my 3.5" iPod Touch to the New iPod Touch w/ 7" screen.

And we're also safe from green gargantuas from the sea and brown gargantuas from the mountains.

I've never considered putting on "parenting" software. I'm more concerned the software company is likley to screw up my computer - and hence my kids - then anything they'll come across on the internet. They are on the computer adn the internet alot, have been for years, and I've never been worried. What is it that your afraid of that you need software to protect your kids? Do you view too much porn and pop-ups are crowding you screen? do you view a lot of child porn and you don't want you kids to find your stash? What is it you are proctecting them from? Don't let them sleep over MJ house, shower w/ old men or give out personal info. Nothing they see will actually cause them to go blind.

What, no love for Chrome 20? Shouldn't that be some kind of milestone?

But the data only plan will cost as much, probably more, than a calling plan and data plan combined. And if you buy a cellphone w/o a calling plan the smartphone is called a "tablet", not a phone. I'm sorry, it just isn't a phone anymore. I use my iPod Touch all the time for phone calls - Google Voice combined with some random Talk app I found" - but I never call it a phone. Because it isn't a phone.

1. Is there a jammer for the jammer? If not, shouldn't somebody be working on making one? 2. Have the South Koreans ASKED the North to stop or are they just whining about it on Facebook? IF they asked and the North said "no", well it really goes against everything I beleive in but I would do something violent. Does the south have pinpoint accuracy (or there abouts) missiles that could take the trucks out? I don't think bombing the entire city would be a good idea. Maybe the Navy seals need some sequel material?

I remember starting grad school 20 years ago spending $1,400 on a little 1 piece Compaq Presario and thinking - "Good thing for credit cards or nobody could buy a computer." And then I realized - there will always be "the next big thing' in technology for people to spend money on. Bigger tvs. Even bigger tvs. Flat screen tvs. 3D tvs. Sony Walkmans, mp3 players, iPods, iPads, notebooks, Netbooks, cell phones, smart phones, dial-up, broadband. I'm not saying it's all for the worse, nor am I putting on my tinfoil hat, but I'm pretty sure theirs a good correlation between the explosion of consumer electronics and the explosion of credit card debt.

I have a 32" tv in my bedroom and a 52" tv in my living room, but in a phone booth I think 26" would be more than enough.

Thanks to the US govt people can stop worrying about the trilateral commission and smoking old men in dark back rooms. Who needs conspiracy theories are theorists when the govt. can do anything it wants right out in the open. We're all criminals and pirates. Well except for white collar criminals, their just good capitalists.

But how many Xbox360 versions have come out in those 6 years? I'm no expert, but they've added HDMI, several bigger hard drives, had an "Arcade" version along with several other names, and now the whole packaging it with the Kinect to make it more like a new system. And then you have the firmware updates allowing for online streaming and other things. I'm guessing an early Xbox360 out of the box is very different than the one you'ld buy today. So yes, the "traditional lifespan" for a console generation is 5 years, but this hasn't been a traditional generation for the Xbox360 or to a lessor extent the PS3. The Wii is almost unchanged unless you count sneakily dropping Gamecube support, and as that idiot Pachter said should have been updated in 2009. I'm not ready for a new Sony system either, but I like all the changes this one has had.

I got stopped and searched at one of these checkpoints in 1988, 24 years ago. We were nowhere near the border, about 30 miles away, somewhere in Arizona. There weren't any dogs, just some guys in uniforms and mirrored Cool Hand Luke sunglasses. We had to get out of the car while they searched it. So, this isn't new, and it isn't near the border. And they don't stop doing it b/c it works. Probably shouldn't call it "border" patrol though, more like "rape your rights' patrol.

I know there is a lot going on in this article that is technically over my head, but I wish people would stop talking about "glasses free" 3D like it's some futuristic flying car. The 3DS has been out for a year, and it has 3D tech for game playing, photo taking and video recording in a $170 kids toy. I know there are a couple of cell phones also. I'm sure the fiber optic stuff is great and all, but glasses free 3D is here now.

Considering how often I back stuff up, but how rarely I ever use those backups, I'll gladly take 1,000 times faster backups even if it means slower read speeds than we have now. Really, I'ld take that trade-off in a heartbeat.