Laser? LASERS?!?! *Phasers* please! Now excuse me while I hyperventilate in the corner over this...

You don't get the reference. McCain's campaign *said* that Obama called Palin a pig because he said, in reference to McCain's policies being too similar to George W's "You can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig."

Now, the only way to construe that as calling someone a pig is through some kind of self imposed jedi-mindtrick of deliberate misunderstanding. So, its McCain *saying* she was called a pig, not anyone *actually calling* her one.

@Dave: No, McCain's policies are the pig. If you remember from the presidential debates, or a townhall meeting, Obama was answering a question about McCain, and was jabbing at how his policies are the same as Bush's (not discussing the veracity of such a statement). Obama's response to McCain's policy was "you can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig".

The Republican Party, since at the time they were literally sitting around trying to find ways to misconstrue things, decided that, since Obama was running against McCain, and Palin was McCain's partner, and since Palin is a woman, and because women wear lipstick, Obama must be calling her a pig. And, they proceeded to get huffy and offended. Good thing Obama didn't mention the whore of Babylon, or Mother Goose, or anything else that might be misconstrued multiple, multiple times as an attack on her.

I had no idea this was happening, but BestBuy just sent me DLC codes for Rita, Day in the Life, and Oh! Darling because I bought the game from them a couple weeks ago.

I do loves me some free DLC.

Does this pet offer some buff or advantage to the player, or is it purely cosmetic? Is it transferable? Is there any balance issue?

It may sway your decision, if you haven't heard yet, that Lego RockBand can transfer its songs into RockBand 2, just like RockBand 1, meaning that your RockBand 2 music ecosystem will be around 150 songs from those three titles together.

I spoke with Chaim a few times while I was at Maxis. He was a very nice guy.

He also removed any pressure I might have felt to "dress up," so to speak. Whenever I felt that my wrinkled t-shirt and sandals might not be cutting it, he'd walk in barefoot and wearing pajamas.

If these are cmos sensors, does that mean that you can theoretically use this for Surface applications?

For those of us in the know, i.e. connections to Apple Retail, there's been a none-too-subtle concerted effort to on the part of M$ retail to actively court away managers, sales staff, and geniuses to work at their stores, with additional bonuses if you can recruit your former teammates as well.

M$ pays quite a bit better, and I personally know of at least one mgr lvl employee who has switched over, and several more (non mgr) who have have been approached.

So, it really is not just one manager, its a real drive to poach away Apple's talent. Makes good business sense, and might actually get Apple to pay better, or start promoting internally (which they're also bad at).

The india initiative was some combination of a mistranslation, and/or a deception, and/or grossly unrealistic expectations.

After XO wanted to be the first sub-$100 laptop, and clocked in around $180, Some Indian group decided they would make a $10-12 laptop. Then, they hemmed and hawed a few times, re-estimated the costs up, and changed the actual hardware specs.

What the ended up with is a small desktop box costing around $70-80 that is a lot like the Geode reference designs AMD made. You need to plug it in, and bring your own keyboard, mouse, and monitor. How this would be useful for students who can't afford a computer to start with is beyond me.