And Lockheed is Badass Now. Good engineering.

Here in Florida almost the first thing to get cut in tough times are library hours and budgets. The vast majority of library users are aging out. Many libraries are trying to move to multimedia and electronic content sharing but copyright holders are destroying the buy-once, share-infinite model that libraries thrive on. If a library has to buy a new ebook for every eight times a book use "loaned" then they are doomed. Google books, Project Gutenberg, Amazon and BN are your new libraries.

Liberal arts programs are strangling the future of this country.

Don't assume your skewed views of the world have anything to do with reality. A Leftie distortion field is in effect.

Every hurdle you put between me and inserting my comment reduces the chances that I'll bother. CAPTCHA and "Preview" severely demotivate me. not fond of the timer either.

I had a similar thought. Highly suspicious.

What's the probability that someone breaks into your car and steals computer tapes?

From chasing their tails to chasing Apple's tail. Not a good sign. I had hopes for MS till I heard about this walled garden approach and I tried Win 8. The future does not look good for Microsoft. I'm not anti-MS by any means. I love their Office suite and Visio and Project and many other applications. Kinect and XBox Live are great. My kid loves his Zune. Lately they seem to be making all the wrong decisions though. They should be embracing the future, not trying to force consumers and developers into walled gardens. Like it or not, in the past MS has been very open with their OS and allowing Developers to exploit their products. This is a huge step in the wrong direction.

Yay, now I'll have a bunch of relatives trying to videochat me like they try to chat me now. And I'll get to spend even more time explaining why I couldn't answer (or didn't want to).

I am also a Vine reviewer. Not sure how I wound up on the list other than the fact that I reviewed stuff before I was a Vine member. As you can see my reviews are across the board. Some of my reviews are judged useful and others are not. I can't see any incentive for lying unless they someday pull my Vine status. The only "influence" I could see is if folks felt beholden to Amazon for the free stuff to review. As a reviewer I do notice that few people appreciate reviews critical of the product and people reading book reviews prefer reviews with spoilers in them. Like other venues, the first review have the most influence and the same goes for the first video reviews.