Puberty, that was my first thought when I read that headline too. Not just the sexual aspect, though thats a factor but all that hormone change is hard on kids, good luck keeping focusecd on tehnical subjects while your adult bodily functions fluctuate and develop.

I would think I, as being an awkward kid got hrough this stage by using my interests in computers as a distraction through a that time.

Makes me want to break out an emulator and play a few rounds of Choplifter. :-)

I've read to the effect they provide Macs for free as production props/units. Given macs are in favor for Video/Design/Production work im sure many a compnay jumps at the chance to save up to a couple grand on laptops and desktops. Im sure another influence is they are much more photogenic than most PC laptops.

Mac or Linux - doenst even hae to be a new mac, probbaly be better to run snow leopard or lion over mavericks. Either that or Linux.

Being PC comptible is obvverated in the non-techie/retired generation. Most do email facebooks, some surfing and some light word processing. If they do thier own accounting then it would be the Mac as it has quicken/quickbooks.

But for most folks Linux would do the job. Both OSs are less suceptible to malware and do a great job for the jobs most older gernation would put it to.

I got a few robotic paperhandling printing machines, a robotic dish cleaner, the partment has a robotic clothes waher and clothes dryer. I'm sure most folks have similar robots at home and at work.

San Francosco, Musee Mecanique (pier 45) - also includes lots of interesting nicleodeon players and other coin operated diversions.

Las Vegas, Pinball Hall of Fame (1610 E. Tropicana) - now this is one of the best places to get a Pinball Fix as well as some other mechanical arcade (like those mechanical driving, and bulldozer/crane games) and a few videogames.

Pacific Pinball Museum, Alameda, CA (1510 Webster Street) - Havent been to this one but given thier exhibits at the Maker Faire they seem to offer a more instructuve/educational bent above having playable machines.

If you want to go inkjet there are great deals out there. the trick is to shop for the ink first before buying the printer. The best deal can be had if you can find a printer that has a good supply of cloned ink cartridges - not refills. For about $40 bucks on some printers you can get 20 or more ink cartrides. Once you find models with cheap ink then look at the reviews ofr the printer to make sure it isnt a dog. One example: Canon Pixma MX892, great printer, lots of 3rd party inexpensive ink that just works.

Second reccomendation, don't buty a network printer without some sort of display, nothaving a display to report network or other printing problems just is asking for additional time trying to figure out what is wrong with your printer.

.. then again, maybe not.

Then again, how about merging the two - one player builds and manages the city, the other takes advantage of the populace...

Carbonated water - It's What Plants Crave!

Yeah, so besides pushing in toxic who-knows-what to get at the gas we will add in tremendous amounts of some who knows what it will do CO2 back into to the mix. So, now the earths surface is like some giant rug we are sweeping our grime into.

Before that, its been a year or three.... but Today I had to set up someones dial-in settings. Still works like a champ!

Can't you guys just let us have a menu where we can select a program from a list of all the ones already installed and let us put our crap on the desktop?

Every GUI OS designer wants to present stuff stylishly and enforce some good file housekeeping paradigm, must of us users just want to be able to select (not find) our installed programs and store files were we expect them.

Screen organization and the other stuff of elementary is nice, if you are going to be inspired by Apple, include letting us put stuff on the desktop and give us a thing like "applications folder" were we can quickly browse installed programs.

I'm kinda thinking single drivers might have some benefit from having a phone conversation while driving at night in order to keep awake. Isn't that one of the methods (CB Radio) truckers use to break the monotony?

I vote for Eddie Deezen!

"Hey, what does this do?!?!"

He's definitely not a nerd, and just a windows guy.

He likes it, he says its nice and light, cool, and runs quite a long time on the battery. Most of what he does is just internet stuff so that works.

He cant print directly to his printer, but he can go through his windows PC. Mainly he sees it as a great travel laptop as if its taken he can recover via Google and its not a major financial loss. I think for those who have a desktop and need a capable yet inexpensive travel laptop, this will probably hit the mark.