But you can't PR an educator into buying 30,000 multimedia devices for their students. Electronic Textbooks yes, web-tablets... not so much.

Or you could get the software developers to design their software better?

I play World of Warcraft on my Netbook all the time. Not too bad when you're running dailies that include mostly flights back and forth.

Maybe they should make a space barge that goes around taking care of space junk...

There's a movie there somewhere, I know it!

Yeah, I think it'll be located between shoes and electronics, right by the bathrooms. :-)

You sound like an idiot when you say it wrong.

Now, make like a tree... and get out of here!

... no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.

Yeah, but you only get a 16 squad total battle at 8 squads per army army on a 120" diagonal play mat... But I hear ya. :-)

It's an artifact type in the CM system. Don't feel bad, we don't have any of those around here either.

Combine simple users like your Mother in law with some of the power users I've heard of and you'd have a pretty good bump indeed. There are bots out there to play those games for you. Assuming a search on each word entered * 35 words per puzzle * 50 puzzles a day you're looking at 1750 searches per account per day. Some people run multiple accounts on there so lets say 10 accounts * 1750 searches and you've got a computer making 17,500 searches a day.

Some of this might slow down since they're requiring tax information for anyone receiving more than $600 in prizes per year, but most people I know of on that site are just hoarding tickets 'till the new calendar year.

I wasn't able to keep either my Father or my Father-in-law on my console after they died.

Part of me really felt bad about deleting their Miis, but I didn't want to see them walking around every time I booted up my Wii.

There's a version after Mom 1.0?

Well... not in the US anyways... http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/02/18/could-2d-barcode-power-mobile-phone-in-us/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

Burma Shave There, FTFY. :-)

They're not aliens if they're in their own country. :-P

Auto landing has been around since the 70s. I remember a full page newspaper ad announcing that "Auto-landing is here." IIRC, in order to be able to prove their Auto-pilot is capable of auto-landing the airlines are required to have periodic auto-landings done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland