12 MP actually is not just unnecessary in this case, it actually will reduce the quality of the pictures. The sensor will be the same size as it would if the camera were 3MP or 6MP, just with a whole lot more, uhh... pixels, making every little sensor on there that much smaller. This means NOISE. Lots and lots of grainy, nasty digital noise. Especially in low light. Forget about using this thing anywhere but in broad daylight.

Well... considering the fact that the biggest baddest 3d games have yet to show much real benefit from DX10 over DX9, I can't see why DX9 will be insufficient for the next couple of generations of netbooks -- Hell, DX7 would probably be sufficient, I am pretty sure that anything that even requires DX9 would require far more raw horsepower than you would be getting from your netbook. Why waste money on DX10? This is one of the dumbest things I have read on engadget in a long time. They may as well be complaining that their netbook won't play Crysis.

How do they make the best hardware? Whether or not the iPod/iPhone are the best that there is in their respective markets is debatable, but I see nothing that differentiates Mac hardware other than a higher pricetag. I have to agree with you on the software, OSX is a thing of beauty for sure, but why would someone be a complete idiot to not get a Mac when then have $1000? For $1000 I could go onto Newegg and buy parts to build myself a monster PC and then put Linux on it. Or I could buy an entry-level Mac. Why would I be an idiot for choosing to get a whole lot more bang for my buck? Mactards like you give all the sensible Mac users (who recognize that they pay a premium for design aesthetics and a nice OS) a bad name.

Lets count the ways that this things fails shall we?

1 -- Way overpriced. A 400 Disc CD changer is about $200, and the only thing different is the CD drive vs. the Blu Ray drive. Call the Blu Ray Player $400, and this stupid thing STILL costs more than 3x what it should.

2 -- You could do it cheaper and better with a media server. Nobody has 400 Blu Rays now, so MOST of the spaces in here would be filled with DVDs. If you throw 5 1 TB hard drives in your PC you will have a much more well organized, much cleaner, much easier, and drastically cheaper solution.

3 -- Did I mention that a 400 disc changer is useless? Unless they have something in there scanning the disc metadata and cataloging all of them in there, it is going to be a huge headache scanning through the discs. It is infinitely easier to go pick up the box off the shelf, and put it in the player (assuming that you insist on using physical media, that is).

This thing is just more fail than I can really handle.

"What happens to all the turd*nix lovers then?"

You do know that the Chrome OS is Linux right? Now get back on the short bus...

You spy on your kids like that? Why? What are you hoping to accomplish? Your kids NEED a degree of privacy, dude, or they will never develop properly. If you try to hold their hands until they are out the door, they will have no idea how to actually deal with the real world. That being said, if you have specific cause for concern, then it is your job as a parent to step in and do whatever needs to be done to steer your kids back on the right track. Under normal circumstances though... please, leave their phones and bedrooms alone.

They have started screaming bloody murder --

http://blog.peta.org.uk/2009/carnivorous-robot-pleased-to-eat-you/comment-page-1#comment-8821

I think everyone here owes them a comment or two ;-).

I can't say I have a Walkman anymore, but I still do listen to cassette tapes quite often -- certain types of music (i.e. late 70's/early 80's punk) just don't sound right in any other format, the grittiness adds to flavor. I don't think that there is one "right way", some things sound better tape, some sound better vinyl (old R&B, hip hop, classic rock, country), some things sound better on CD (metal, techno). For the most part, though, I think that the music is the most important part. For anything portable, you can't beat the convenience of digital -- the collection on my iPod would take up about 700 cassette tapes. It is really silly to be totally dogmatic about formats, but it is nice to be able to enjoy all of them for what they are.

Yes the pixels are all wrong, and I've seen many a 'shop in my day...

What? First of all, I can't see what that Bible verse has to do with the LHC. Second of all, I can't see why we should let your bronze age superstitions hold back Scientific progress in the 21st Century. Seriously, that book was written by goatherders before the scientific method was invented. If you want to believe it and disavow yourself from science -- fine. Stop using your computer, stop going to the doctor, go live in the woods somewhere and leave the rest of us alone while we move into the future.