Because you can't run MacOS X on a generic laptop (easily or legally). On the other hand, Windows 7 is magnificent and if I have to replace my Macbook Pro I'll probably just buy a Windows 7 based laptop and dual boot with Ubuntu.

Why on Earth would I use this with a portable device? A lot of the times I'm on my notebook I don't have a network connection, but I can still use my applications and be productive until I get around to a net connection and waste my time on the web.

Apple already sells a Netbook. They call it the Macbook Air and it starts at $1500. LOL!

You probably will never see a dime from it. Face it, guys like Steve Demeter got in very early when there was really nothing else to buy on the store so they got most of the purchases. What did he really create anyway... it looks like another god damn puzzle game. There's 10 million different variations of the same "match 3 or 4 like colors in an area to eliminate those objects from the screen" games out there that I can't believe anyone would even pay for that. If the iPhone had Flash support there'd be zero reason to buy 99% of these little puzzle games since you could just play them online via Flash for free.

I won't walk, I'll run away from games that employ strategies like this in the future. I got into a browser game a few years ago called Travian that promised to be "free" and you could buy "gold" if you wanted extras like instant builds or NPC merchant trading or +25% resource production boosts. I quickly realized that if you wanted to be in the top 500 players on a server of about 1500 active players you HAD to buy and use gold or else there was no way to keep up. I got so addicted to it that rather than wait 15 minutes for a resource to build I'd just insta-build it so I could move on to the next building level.

The problem was that by abstracting the currency it made it far easier to spend out of control. You'd pay $25 for 600 gold (~4 cents for each piece of gold) and you'd spend 3 gold (12 cents) to NPC trade, 2 gold (8 cents) to instabuild your queue of up to 2 things at a time (if you had the "plus" feature which added the queue for 15 gold (60 cents) a week), 5 gold x 4 (80 cents) to boost production of iron, wood, clay, and wheat, 3 gold x 2 (24 cents) to boost attack and defense bonuses by 10%, etc. The NPC trading was by far the worst money sink since it was so easy to abuse. You *could* trade with normal players, but nobody really does past the first few weeks of game play (the game round lasts a year) since it is impractical to try and find a trade for tens of thousands of resources... so you NPC trade it instantly for 3 gold (12 cents).

So, at a minimum you'd spend $6.56 a month for the Travian Plus feature plus +25% resource boosts, +10% offensive and defensive bonuses. That at first seems reasonable for running such a cool game, but I was averaging around $100 a month on gold because of NPC trading and instabuilding. My coworker had it worse because his two sons were playing and he was even worse with the instabuilding. His monthly Travian habit, including his two sons' costs were running him around $300/month. FOR A GAME!

So no thanks, I'll take a $15/month subscription fee ANY DAY over a microtransaction arrangement where you need to eventually spend obscene amounts of money just to be in the top players.

So they can keep running Windows Vista until it is EOL'd then. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade to Windows 7 and you could have just as well have waited until after October 22nd to buy your new PC to receive it pre-installed with Windows 7 if it worried you that much that you needed to have it.

Who the hell uses their college e-mail account for anything important unless you're part of the staff? When I was in school I just forwarded my university address to my home account.

That's very confusing. Apparently more than one person in the world is named "Matthew Barton". Why would parents choose such an obviously non-unique name for their child? Isn't this a problem that leads to identity theft and credit problems? I suppose I'm just lucky to be blessed with a name nobody else in the world or the history of the world has ever had so my name is more unique than my social security number.

- Vishna Rembilakalaktimenticus

It specifically excludes music you've purchased from being listed as illegal in the explanation if you pick the choice it doesn't want you to pick. The only thing I see wrong with their explanation is that it excludes legitimately "free" music such as stuff released into the public domain or under something like a Creative Commons license, but for the most part their definition is perfectly acceptable to the target audience (non-technical DoD users).

His point though is that unless you plan on being kidnapped anytime soon, you're probably going to know ahead of time which areas of the country you'll need GPS maps for and would be able to pre-load those for a trip. The sad fact of the matter is that I don't believe the iPhone offers any way to have "map packs" like a traditional GPS so it's an all-or-nothing type deal. I'll stick with a standalone GPS.

Yes, we get it, you're old and you want us to get off your lawn.

What we really need is an open source project to create a newer, better filter so that China can protect its children from porn and smut. If everyone in the open source community worked together I bet we could come up with a much better product that is more cross platform than the over-priced crap they tried to implement.

Apparently the only side-effect are that it susceptible to turning into an airborne virus and it turns you into a rabid vampire-like creature that is sensitive to sunlight and likes to feed on humans. :-(

He was giving it away for free on his Myspace page several years ago, but I can't find it there anymore. Try P2P networks.

I don't want a car that does 0-60mph in 4 seconds though, I want a commuter car that can hold 4 passengers and get me to and from work with a total range of at least 100 miles on a charge. It also needs to be under $25k.