If children can handle Roald Dahl's work, they can handle anything Doctor Who throws at them, and I feel sorry for any kid, British, American, or otherwise English-native speaking who didn't grow up on Roald Dahl's work.

I started using it a week or so ago, and have noticed a striking difference. I'd all but forgotten what it felt like to actually want to go to sleep because I spent so much time at night in front of a big LCD monitor. When I started using f.lux, I started actually feeling tired at night, and found myself going to bed earlier and earlier. It would usually take me a week or more to adjust to sleeping 3 hours earlier than I'm used to, and it would never stick. When I started using f.lux, I was going to bed hours earlier after a few days. Now it takes getting extremely absorbed in a conversation or work to keep me up late, and it's nice being able to wake up before the crack of noon without feeling like a bomb went off in my head. Even if it's the placebo effect, though, it's worth it to be able to turn on my monitor in the middle of the night without being blinded by it.

No. In fact, you couldn't be more wrong. The founders of the US thought democracy was a terrible idea that would lead to tyranny of the majority, so they specifically set out to create a republic with a system of checks and balances to make it more difficult for that scenario to play out. Thomas Jefferson himself is famed for stating, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

Yeah! Just like what happened with operating systems back when PCs took off!

You probably haven't been to kindergarten, or you might have learned that two wrongs don't make a right.

It's not the best hardware ever, but it is an improvement over the DS Lite in enough ways to justify its existence. More storage, SD card slot, cameras, etc. It can't play GBA games, which were obsolete years ago. Oh noes!

First, the cables aren't proprietary. They're standard USB cables with one proprietary connector. The other connector will work with any standard USB port. Second, no one praises Apple for doing this, it's just that the benefits of the iPod outweigh the drawback of needing a special connector for it.

I can still play disc-based games on my 360 and Wii, and I can still play DS games in my DSi. As for my iPod, there were never physical media games for it otherwise, so who the fuck cares? The issue isn't downloadable games, it's having to pay to download games you already bought for the previous iteration if you want to play them on the new one. So far, I haven't had to re-buy any games for my iPod Touch or 360.

That's a red herring.

If you sincerely want to to that, knock yourself out. You are one of the rare few with an interest in the PSP Go who isn't getting shafted by it by making you have to re-buy your games if you want to play them on it. By all means, enjoy your handheld that costs more than a brand new console.

Apple drops support for legacy stuff from time to time. This might be a retaliatory move, but it's more likely they just don't want to waste the time and money on something a tiny fraction of their userbase needs, especially when it's something a third party (or Palm, you know, the makers of the OS in question) could write a sync app for.

OpenDNS is "free-as-in-ad-driven". You don't have to pay for it, but they need to make their money somehow, so they have their own special page when you type an invalid domain in the location bar, with text ads on. Comcast, on the other hand, which the end user is already paying for, is trying to inflict the greedy bastard business model they use for TV (hooray for paying for content that's 1/3 ads!) on their ISP customers.

Yeah! Things were so much better and more efficient in the US before fire departments became government-run! Just think, back then you got to find a local fire department and pay them to cover you, then call them specifically in an emergency. Now you have to dial 911 and they'll send out whatever is needed! It's mind-bogglingly ineffecient!

Oh yeah, and how about those interstate freeways? Don't you miss the good old days in which you couldn't easily and quickly travel large distances in your car? Fuck, think of all the poor truckers who'll never get to experience driving a thousand miles along winding, narrow highways and surface streets!

Bullshit. I never owned an SNES, and I never even played Super Metroid until around 2002, and it's still an amazing game.

An even better example, Cave Story, is one of the finest games I've ever played, and it was released in 2004. The only "nostalgia" factor that could be argued is the Metroid-esque format and pixel graphics, which is pretty moot. People don't love it because it reminds them of older games, they love it because it's a fun, challenging, beautiful game that Pixel obviously put a lot into.

I think TFA makes some great points. A big problem with most of these Flash platformers is that they're all pretty art with little substance gameplay-wise. I've played Scary Girl, which is beautiful, but it's not that fun to play.

I wouldn't think so. The other low-stress regions are in the north where the winters are longer and harsher. I'd hazard it's more to do with local culture (and population density) than anything else. Having lived in Hawaii, despite people whingeing about how expensive everything is, it really is a far more laid back place than say, California. I've heard it's pretty laid-back in most of Wisconsin too.

Uh, I don't think you understood what you're replying to. Your analogy applies to pre-cap service, which no one was complaining about. To further your analogy, the addition of the caps is like having gone there for years and typically eaten 2-4 plates, then one day they take your plate away after you've finished your first helping, and tell you there's a one-plate limit. Suddenly, it doesn't seem like nearly as good a deal.

That bei--wait, you mean the Onion, don't you?

We do it because Sony fanboys are almost as fun to troll as furries. :)

Well, it tries to, but it's more like it sees "conut" and thinks the programmer probably meant "wildebeest".