Woz was a technical genius but it's Jobs's design and marketing vision that has enabled Apple to revolutionize electronics not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times: first with the Apple I and II, secondly with the Macintosh, thirdly with the iPod, and now with the iPhone.

If Packard-Bell was bought by Acer it may have a shot at redemption. Acer makes good kit. I reluctantly, queasily bought my sister an eMachines PC for Christmas, only to find out that while not specced at the top of the line, it is a solidly built piece of equipment nearly identical, in some respects, to certain Acer machines. Turns out eMachines was acquired by Gateway was acquired by Acer.

You can't defeat Jetman.

That's because at Apple, design is law. Engineering exists to support design.

I think I read that book. It was by Dan Brown, not Grisham, and called Digital Fortress. Yes, it was terrible.

'Cause that's where the staff do tasks for you.

Humor in games seems only a problem with Western franchises, where being gritty and gory is almost a requirement. Anyone who's played a few Japanese games -- Katamari Damacy, any of the Mario RPG series, for instance -- will see that they've become quite facile with humor in a game context.

In Gokujou Parodius there is a point in the high-speed highway level where a "falling rocks" type road sign will appear, and moments later rocks will tumble out of the sky to crush your ship. Then a "deer crossing" type of sign will appear and you have to dodge the hail of falling deer. After that a sign with just an exclamation point appears, and I bet you can guess what happens next.

Three massive exclamation points tumble out of the sky.

It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen in a video game, and I laughed so hard I was completely thrown off.

A version of Prince of Persia (2008) with the AI for "Tails" from Sonic driving the Elika character would have served us as well. Elika wasn't a companion; she was a prop. She magically appeared when you needed to use her to clear a long-distance jump, and similarly instantly teleported when you cratered.

Heck, The Sands of Time on PS2, a far less powerful hardware profile than the Wii, had a far more interesting in-game companion in Farah. And that's to say nothing of Team Ico's PS2 games, both of which featured companions that were both integral to gameplay and displayed sophisticated behavior.

"Godwin's Law'd!!!!"

"OW! my appeal to emotion!"

At first I thought it was an IM chatbot that tried to sound like someone from the Hannah Montana demographic.

Yes, but no one will believe that it can be until a crazed ex-federal agent stages a "fire sale" in order to prove it. And then disaster will be narrowly averted because Bruce Willis kicks his ass.

Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down;

Drop it in a 35-foot hole in the ground;

Cover it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine;

Then burn all the clothes you may have worn at any time in your LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE...

Theoretically interesting, but doesn't align with the facts.

Barbara Blackburn, until her passing the world's fastest typist, typed Dvorak exclusively. She couldn't stand QWERTY and certainly couldn't achieve the speeds she did with QWERTY.

Logitech as best all-around keyboard? Logitech keyboards are garbage, almost invariably. The keys feel like stiff pudding and the designers decided to get "creative" with the layout.

This list should have only two entries:

1) IBM Model M

2) DasKeyboard