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You can do word processing and spreadsheets on iPad. It's fine for folks who have those light, generic needs. But it's no enterprise solution. Now, with Windows, your world opens up, but then you run into those Windows issues. No walled garden here, so viruses and patching kill the magic...

Yep. Windows 8 should be a real game-changer. Tablets will be much more of a productivity device at the workplace.

Well, they want it to be a big-budget affair, which means you have to commit to targeting big audiences, which means you keep things fast and familiar. In short, you really have to engross viewers to get them to invest in a thinking-man's action film with variable pacing.

Well, people just go to the mall and hang out, period. And the Apple store is a hip place to do it. Much hipper than the Microsoft store, if our Apple commercials are any indicator (those guys are such nerds!). Of course, an Apple store need not be in a mall. The one in New York is also crowded...

Well-said. The iPad is simply fashionable to have, just as the Apple store is generally not populated with people looking to consume anything. Just there because it's a trendy place to be.

Went into a comic shop the other day. It's refreshing to see comic book covers that actually look like comic book covers, not trying to be movie posters. Would be nice to actually see comics targeted at younger audiences now (or "kids of all ages", shall we say). LSH is a perfect example of a...

Well, I don't know anything about the creative team behind John Carter. I know that the kind of respect that Peter Jackson had for LotR or Nolan has for Batman is nothing to be taken for granted. Usually, it's just an attempt to leverage an IP, and it gets distorted and retrofitted into...

Specifically, the line about "dripping with a sense that yours is the one that is right" is what I was referencing. I don't have a particular pet product or brand. Yes, I was saying the part you got right was that I said that. The part you don't have right is the inference that I'm just having...

If you are interested in being civil, then do not act the part of the grand inquisitor, trying to draw out the dire inner thoughts of others so that you can then be justifiably outraged at them. If you avoid starting fights, you don't have to get your ire up. You can just let things slide. Of...

I'm just busy...and lethargic :) It's tempting to just pop the Windows 7 Ultimate DVD in and go for a clean start. I don't know of any productivity use I might have for Mac OS that would be more advantageous, but I'd hate to miss out on something.

Wow, that's genuinely encouraging! It ain't the millions they used to sell, but it's noteworthy. Bully for them. Are they still selling like that, or was that purely first-issue fever?

I owned an iPhone for a couple years myself. They were the phone to beat for a while, so I made a two-year investment. At work, they gave a handful of techs an Apple laptop to work with. It's very attractive, and a lot lighter than the HP laptops they usually assign, but it's mostly been sitting...

You continue to serve as Exhibit A. Predicting that iPad 3 sales would be "stupidly high" didn't warrant an indignant response of any kind, vulgar or otherwise. Your dispostion that it was a red flag being waved in front of your face, followed by your bitter and angry vituperations, are all...

I haven't held my reasons out at all for you to inspect, so your own impartial judgment on the subject is pretty much worth nil. Let's bottom-line this: you saw me use the phrase "stupidly high", and that one utterly innocuous phrasage appeared on your HUD as some incendiary slander against that...

I think my response to Umbran pretty well sums up my thoughts on the issue of canocity. If you're doing a painstaking recreation, then stuff is included for the sake of inclusion. If you're heavily pruning and rewriting, then obviously saying something was in the original source material isn't...

Up to this point, I think you provide a very valid point of view. It's not like an iPad is a bad device. A tablet is pretty much a luxury gadget, not something with a lot of productivity usage. That's an area where the "walled garden" approach excels. But the lack of savvyness is not merely a...

There's nothign confusing or hard to follow about a guy beating up giant white CGI apes. Note that there's a big difference deciding that the villain's motivations don't matter--because they're villains, after all, and villains like to conquer and kill--and stating that their nature and origins...

In other words, not a "stupidly large" amount. :)

In a perfect world--or, for that matter, in the Asain markets--you'd see numbers that indicate customers are promoting healthy competition between brands rather than slavish devotion to one or--what is even more prominent--blind consumption of whatever has the most buzz at the moment. We...

Comic book fandom is now less about characters than they are about a cult-of-personality that revolves around the creative team that, to the minds of their fans, can do no wrong. So don't get worked up about the Watchmen characters being reutilized. Instead, get hyped about what writer will be...