I have a variety of machines, mainly using a powerbook and a desktop PC. The PC is relegated to a few duties and the odd bit of work I can't do on the powerbook, the PC mostly gets used for racing & flight sims. Surveys like this one are pretty irrelevant and misleading: what you use depends a great deal on your relationship to technology. PCs are an easy decision for the bulk of consumers who simply see a less expensive way to get online.

When I was given a Kindle I found it interesting but not truly captivating. I found myself far more concerned with what electronic book distribution means long term and it was not a cheery vision. Governments will find it far easier to control the acquisition and distribution of knowledge in a society where print is inherently subversive. When books can be pulled at will we are in serious danger.

The Liberal Party is notorious for promising things in Opposition that they have no intention of following through with. Ultimately the Liberals will promise cash to the poor Provinces that will come out of the pockets of the rich Provinces, return to power and forget about Net Neutrality.

AT&T owes iPhone customers nothing: they have a monopoly and can price accordingly. Fanboys should know the release cycle of Apple products by now and get their contracts accordingly.

I don't think people really understand what the background is with the language issue. 50 years ago French speakers couldn't shop in their own language in may places: company stores hired Anglos only. Montreal was a great city if you spoke English, Yiddish or even Italian but for a Francophone it was a nightmare until the Quiet Revolution. The majority of the Province was Francophone, yet the economy was strictly managed by Anglos only and education was left to the Catholic Church in a deal designed to keep the population compliant. There were many Quebecois complicit in this, Duplessis being the primary criminal, but it is the Church and the Anglos who did the bulk of the work. What we are experiencing now is the tide of absurdity going the other way as the Government continues to expand the linguistic bigotry that Bill 101 gave us. My Grandmere would probably be happy that the battle now is about something as irrelevant as video games, shows how much things have changed.

65,000 feet is within the engagement envelope of a number of SAMs. The weapons it flies above are the lighter, more portable weapons utilised by lighter forces, the kind the US likes to fight.