"only expensive if you're always going to toys r us for the overpriced crap that gets lost in 2 days"

False. We almost never buy our three-year-old anything unnecessary. She has plenty of toys, but they were all gifts from relatives. We go to the library a lot.

And now for the killer. We spend $1000/month on daycare/preschool for her. Toys R Us doesn't hold a candle to that.

Maybe your ability to pack the car efficiently is because you "have packed a car for a road trip countless times in [your] life"

My mother-in-law is the same way. We bought our kid a bunch of Legos for christmas a couple years ago. MIL comment? "Oh, good thing I didn't get her Legos then!"

Blah.

Another person who has no idea what "freedom of speech" means. Did the US Government fire Brendan Eich? No. Ergo, freedom of speech does not apply.

"But if you plan to watch a lot of TV over the Internet, don't expect to save money forever."

Let me stop you right there. If you live in certain areas of the country and pay for Netflix, it's likely you aren't watching ANY TV over the internet with the recent CDN/peering issues going on.

Am I the only one who finds this less amusing than it could be, given Google's astounding lack of foresight on killing Reader and other services? I'm surprised they didn't put a disclaimer on Google Nose saying "Google Nose will be closing April 2, 2013."

What the...? Then we learned and put impenetrable doors between the cockpit and the cabin. Box cutters won't work anymore. Next straw man please?

My understanding is that all browsers on iOS are required to use WebKit. Mozilla uses Gecko. Being open source isn't the issue.

Precisely why would Microsoft Office need DirectX? a 3D spreadsheet maybe? Maybe a really awesome animated book report?

You gave up on the service you didn't use.

OK.

Stop trying to drag us into the past. The future is now. You just think of the numbers and they'll appear in the spreadsheet.

I don't know. Some bullshit I read on a tech blog.

Apple just invented this option. Linux never had it. Apple invented it because I saw in an Apple commercial that it's a cool new feature that they just invented.

Yeah, and they're mightily pissed? And then what are they going to do? They're going to go purchase a new Apple computer because the old one's broke. Which is exactly what Apple wants everyone to do -- purchase one of their toys every single year.

The reason they don't want it on DVD is because a physical medium is outside their control. /rant

Are you kidding me? Did they think that customers would want to have their every move logged into their phones? No.

This was by design. It took the collective efforts of some hackers finding out the technical aspects of it; a subsequent public uproar; and a nastygram from a US Senator. This isn't some benign misreading of consumer demand. Apple knew exactly what the hell they were doing.

You thought this was short? It took them a week to respond, let alone whatever they're doing to mitigate it.