That was the old Apple TV. This is the new Apple TV. It has a purpose. As ephemeral as the device's purpose is, only Jobs knows from day to day.

Judean People's Front vs. the People's Front of Judea. It's a Life of Brian reference, blockhead.

Hate to break it to you, but the SciFi channel (as it was then named) had nothing to do with RDM's Battlestar Galactica reboot: it was all Sky One in Britain and Space here in Canada that takes all that credit.

Here's my biggest problem with Apple ca. 2010:

This was a correct statement for Apple during their dark ages in the 90s and up until the iPod. These days, while bringing more attention to form factors such as tablets and smartphones is laudable, what they've done an about face on is the liberal/creative art community: the same community that kept them going for a decade. (I'm not even going to go into the hacker community that gave Apple its start: that's a completely different ball game.)

Sadly, today that's no longer the case: Apple has increasingly been dictating how you should use their devices (i.e. the iOS walled-garden app store), failing to communicate or work with companies that provide that core community (i.e. illustrators, designers, artists of all varieties) their core software (i.e. Adobe), and insisting on the elimination of certain technologies which the entire community has rallied behind as a useful tool and interaction paradigm for their craft (i.e. pen-based tablets). It is for these reasons (and one other*) that I have severe misgivings and issues with present-day Apple.

I commend Apple on their inroads at making computing accessible, but I abhor their behaviour regarding their original demographic. There was a time where if you were going into the arts, in any way, you only did it with a Mac; to install and use Photoshop on a Windows system was appalling, not to mention unstable.

*: I have significant, personal issues with their switch from a POWER Architecture platform to an Intel-based platform; POWER was, and is, a far superior system architecture, as evidenced by the significant use of POWER-based architectures in common computing appliances found in most households (i.e. any current generation video game console).

I'm with you on nailing GW: their treatment of the Damnatus film and crew were despicable.

I would recommend against using Alice right off the bat: it's way too focused on storytelling, and not actual game development. If you want to teach gameplay (as you should), use Microsoft Labs' Kodu available here. It's brilliant, and completely graphical, and anybody can pick it up quickly. I taught it this summer to children aged eight to 14 in a week, and they were capable of building their own games just fine by the end of the week.

The only real way to confirm exactly what you should use in your course is to actually use each package for about a week: know it, learn it, and always be several steps ahead of your class.

I wouldn't mind having Michigan. It would solve all the Windsor/Detroit problems with using the tunnel.

(Disclaimer: I live in Windsor.)

That's not an exclusive statistic, and you know it.

The World Ends With You for the DS has a phenomenal soundtrack too, which also happens to be all over the place.

Cogeco doesn't throttle, or block, anything. They do have bandwidth caps, but they're soft, and they just charge $5/GB over the cap, to a maximum of $30 extra. Most people I know just factor the extra $30 into their bill. Personally, I have never hit my cap, although it's a commercial cap. ^_^ 200 GB/mo.

As a circumcised male, who's father is circumcised, and who's father is too, it's not a health matter (it IS easier to clean than with a foreskin, and children are not known for their cleanliness), it's definitely a cosmetic issue, and it has to do with the child's identity development. Child sees the father's penis (for whatever reason) and it's circumcised while the child's isn't? Child goes "WTF? Why doesn't mine look like that? What's wrong with me?! Am I a freak?! Why am I different?!" (I have had first hand experience seeing this phenomenon in action: my cousin wasn't circumcised, and he freaked out when he saw his my uncle's penis one day after accidentally walking into the bathroom while his dad was getting out of the shower).

Technically, the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive -- N64DD -- predates the PS2 HDD by about two years. But thanks for playing, chumps.

In order to fix the sentence, it has to be changed like so:

See? Fixed!

And suddenly specialized operating systems and wireless systems will start sprouting up shortly after they announce the patches for the network kill switch. And remember, you won't have any ISP service either, because they'll be shut down too. I propose a giant mesh network that exists expressly through the 802.11x standard (or maybe something better) and bluetooth networks, with all traffic encrypted. Suddenly this mesh version of Internet2 will become instantly popular, and then the government is considered largely useless and will be subsequently overthrown. BTW, isn't it true that most internet traffic runs through the US? Wouldn't this cybersecurity czar be able to shut down the entire 'net at the push of a button? I'm not too sure how my government would respond to that (probably with open arms, while we have that idiot as Minister Prime).

I'm sorry, Star Wars Battlefield is probably not the best example of a rebranded concept, even for strategy games. Empire at War (did space battles right, ground battles felt a little too slow), and Rebellion (did galaxy-wide conquest right, failed on the space battles. And don't even look for ground battles -- they just don't exist) are the two that really spring to mind.