I (and, I think, Microsoft) think of this Surface devise as a sort of beta test. There's not nearly enough software, so the ONLY people using them are early adopters, and MS knows that. Like the XBox, they're willing to throw money at this until it turns a profit.

If you need *all* the live sports, go for it. If you only have one particular sport (and it's not NFL), consider a subscription for just that sport, which might be cheaper. (Might. If it's a nearby team, you probably will be blacked out in favor of local network coverage.)

Glad to hear it (I subscribe to Hulu Plus because it's cheaper than a DVR), but the network I *really* want to see on there is FX.

If you're using something like this turret, you've already burned all the white flags you can find.

http://youtu.be/ But how effective are they against xenomorphs?

I like the idea of Richard K. Morgan's "corpsemites" — semi-intelligent animals that burrow into the bodies of the dead, then reanimate their limbs from the inside with their own tentacles for nefarious purposes.

I'm at work, so I tried watching it with the auto-generated YouTube closed-captioning instead:

In other shocking news, losing your visionary CEO tends to lead to a lack of visionary products.

"This product is a tablet, which is why the keyboard is optional." That's like saying the Facebook app on iOS is optional — technically you're correct, but when all the marketing behind the Surface makes a big show of the keyboard cover and laptop-like functionality, they'd darned well better be able to deliver an…

Apple already has done something to rectify this — Guided Access (http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/#accessibility) — "It allows a parent, teacher, or administrator to limit an iOS device to one app by disabling the Home button, as well as restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen."

I'm not sure it's fair to call it a $130 Apple tax when everyone knows Amazon is making zero profit on their hardware.

I was hoping for something under $300, but I guess that's where the iPod Touch comes in.

Are you sure she wasn't doing it for the museum's website or something?

I'd say that a scientific peer-review journal would be worthless if you always had to be approved by the publisher before you got reviewed by your peers. Getting published isn't proof that your theorem is valid; it's the first step in sharing your theorem with a wide audience which may or may not validate it.

Why is it so hard to believe that some writers like Apple products for entirely personal reasons? Millions of other people do.

Cloud DVR storage? Not a good idea for those of us on limited bandwidth, i.e., almost all consumers. I can see the ongoing uploads sucking up so much of the DSL that I can't use it for anything else while the show is recording.

At least once, on any movie I consider worth buying.

I was good at math, right up until they introduced differential equations, which is calculus done backwards where you have no fixed algorithms to solve with and your problems have an infinite number of solutions. For a logical, well-ordered brain, it was just too much.

For Christ's sake, so what? Anybody who's dumb enough to leave a smartphone in their butt pocket deserves what they get.

Here we see somebody posting nasty replies on an article which ADMITS it doesn't know what the chip really does.