Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, and moved to Canada at age 23. He may, or may not, have invented the phone. He was by no definition "US-American".

, HAL (If you can't see the above, multilingual posting doesn't work; ah, the irony!)

Mac Minis: Meriadoc, Peregrin, Samwise
Towers: Shadowfax
Apple laptops: Mithril, Mithrandir, Calisil
Wireless base station: Minas val Parma ;-)
iPhone: Orthanc Stone
iPod: Silmaril
Room for expansion: limitless!

...but the meat is rotten.

Does it make "pew pew pew" noises?

They're all down now. Bwin still works. This affects non-US players. I add my voice to those saying, keep your silly laws within your own borders and get off my poker servers.

I'm in Canada, and only ultimatebet and absolutepoker are FBI'd. Fulltilt and pokerstars work fine. BTW, check out bwin.com! Pretty good site, but needs more north american players. Only problem is the blind dude who designed their poker room colours. Very pretty from a distance, painful to the eyes to actually PLAY! :-(

The powered armour in the book was way better than that in the movie!

I must be missing something about this... I mean, when I was in an airport overseas, and they started to go through my check luggage as part of standard security, my knee-jerk reaction at first was to be a bit freaked. But after 30 seconds of thought I realized that this was GOOD. They were HAND SEARCHING luggage! Plus scanning it. No bombs on that plane! So why do people care about scanners? Is it some kind of weird prudish thing? Or do the scanners do some harm? I'm happy to fly nude. I'll know the chance of someone having a weapon is pretty small!

I don't understand... What's the difference between the heavy equipment operators with free electrons, and those without?

What about Pathways into Darkness? 1993, Mac, also by bungie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness

Yes! Finally! Someone gets it! The power users are going to want their own stuff, and they're picky about it. It's hard to make a mouse that all power users will like. Look at Logitech and Microsoft's offerings! And don't even start on gaming mice. It's easy, however, to design a basic mouse that a hamster can learn to use. Apple Puck notwithstanding. :-)

I'm soooo tired of the multi-versus-one-button mouse debate. Apple debuted the very first commercial, widely available mouse. They chose to have one button over however many the original Xerox PARC mouse had for a very good reason. Getting people to reach out and move a mouse and push a button was a HUGE paradigm shift. If you weren't there and don't remember this era, you don't get an opinion, BTW. :-) Anyway, it was an extremely valid design choice for the first macs. It does seem that Apple stuck to this for WAY too long, refusing to even offer a multi-button option of their own. But, there is something to be said for the design from the point of view of first-time users, even into the 90s. Remember, a lot of people were buying their FIRST computer in these decades. Ok, so, now apple ships multi-button mice. And I will STILL replace them with 8-button logitech devices. But my grandmother won't. Lowest common denominator, people. Now, if Apple would just give me a multitouch pad for my computer.... Can we please never speak of Apple and one-button mice again? Please? You must be at least 35 years old to have an opinion on this subject.

well, they're not technically dead either...