Thanks for writing this. I think the genesis of the movement toward computers in the classroom was old people who recognized their own unfamiliarity with computers and the resulting fear and ineptitude of and with anything computer related. The obvious answer, to them, was to make computers more prolific in the classroom, to build that familiarity. They failed to understand the computer's extremely long list of uses. It's not *just* a tool, it's *the* tool of the 21st century. They didn't need to encourage computers in the classroom because kids were going to get their own computers, for their own entertainment purposes. Getting over a fear of computers is a feat necessary for older generations, not newer. The real fear for newer generations lies in the classroom subject matter, the same way it always has.

What's wrong with ScriptNo? Works fine for me.

Never experienced the two-player bug, but that does not mean the single player game was designed poorly. I beat the game on single player, and while extremely tough it was certainly not poorly designed or fundamentally broken.

"The new iPad" is not the name... it's just the iPad. They are backtracking on their decision to add a number suffix to the iPad in the first place. The iPhone and the iPad are exceptions to Apple's loosely-applied rule of avoiding version numbers on hardware. For instance, every new version of the iMac is simply called the new iMac. So now I'm guessing the next iPhone will not be "iPhone 5", but rather, "iPhone".

You forgot to mention that Valve will have its box for sale, and its form factor and default software will be tailor made for TV use. The UI will probably be centered around a game pad. So not only do you have the specs, you have a marketable product.

And to reinforce what you already said: To the non-technical, buying a gaming PC is tricky. Countless people have no doubt been burned whey they bought a $300 PC hoping it would play the latest games, only to be disappointed when their on-board video card turned everything into a slide show. Or maybe they listened to the salesman at Best Buy who convinced them that to really play games smoothly they were going to have to drop at least $1,500. So you could deal with all that mess, or you could spend $300 on an XBox and KNOW you're good to go. Valve knows that if buying a gaming PC were as easy as buying an XBox that they could potentially see a lot more customers.

With prolific obstacles come a proliferation of solutions. The availability of breathalyzer hacks will skyrocket.

...so it's easier to make it a difficult experience for the grab and go customer who just want to buy four of the laptop with a $5 markup and leave none for customers who might potentially want to buy other items to go with it.

That seems to be a common thread among failing businesses: They all have well-reasoned excuses to intentionally inconvenience their customers.

Mythbusters actually did an episode where they covered a car (much bigger than a golf ball, of course) in golfball-like dimples. Much to their surprise, it increased the gas mileage. Do you know how to explain that? You seem to know what you are talking about.

As much as I like Torchlight, it's not as good as D1 or D2, same team or not. The atmosphere, the weapons and spells, the music... none of it is quite as good. Still very good though.

I'm not understanding this post. Any time a movie is shown in 3D, there are 2D showings of the same movie right along side it.