@Charlie W

"I have a 16GB iPod Touch. Its a sick device. I listen to music to and from class. And then in class I can check my email, my stocks, the weather, or anything on the general internet through wifi."

Beware of what you do in class, or else we got another Playstation Pornable case incoming.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/porn/playstation-pornable-plucking-hussies-out-of-thin-air-177476.php
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/02/

Time to visit your psychologist and get some advice about your serious anger and frustration issues.

Oh God, you're right! Those evil maggots! They wanted us to think this was the actual photo of the product, and use that evil scheme to somehow take over the world and turn us into slaves. But we're lucky to have you here. With your amazing powers of insight you've exposed their lies and their pseudo-render-3D-computer-generated illusion and saved us from a great peril. Neo, you're indeed The One.

Well, greetings Mr. Genius. As a graphic designer (but I don't have to be, because most people know this anyway), I have to inform you that most of those product pictures we put in catalogs, brochures, print and presentation materials aren't actual photos, but either 3D renders or very photo-realistic vector drawings, because for most of those gadgets with shiny or complex reflective surfaces it's easier to create a good looking render than to spend an eternity in photo-studio trying to achieve perfect lighting conditions for taking photo without unexpected reflections or light diffractions.

So if you want to enlighten us why this shouldn't have been made in Photoshop, just like a large percentage of other gadget pictures (both existing or conceptual) out there, I'd like to hear it. It might be that you have some revolutionary idea which could prove all of us in graphic design industry wrong.

@Paul
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Many people fail to see the real danger of national health care...

Its not the cost associated, although this is scary. It is not the quality of the service, although this is questionable. It is the power that the government is given over you.

In nationalized health care systems the government has a legitimate reason to control what you eat, how you exercise, what you do with your free time, ect. The government will force you to start taking preventive medications and will strictly control your diet to ensure that their costs are lowest.

People who don't smoke will complain about those that do... because now they have to pay for them.
People that don't skate board will complain about those that do... because now they have to pay for their injuries.
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Well this is just ridiculous. I live in a European country with national health care. All around us are other countries with the same national health care. And guess what? Government doesn't force us to start taking preventive medications. Government doesn't control our diet. People don't complain about smokers or skateboarders. Actually, people are glad that everybody gets the healthcare and people aren't such a bunch of selfish materialistic snobs you think them to be (but then again, I was never in America so I don't know how it is there). It's easier (at least for us Europeans) to live free of worries when you know that you, your friends, your family and cousins and everybody you know won't have to go through hell if they somehow get into a situation where they need healthcare but can't pay for it. And I'll gladly pay some more tax even for those people who would otherwise have to die because they smoked too much or were careless in any other way, than be a selfish moron who thinks they all deserve to die, but at the same time lives every day in fear that if he gets some minor problems with his health, he'll have to put one more mortgage on his home.

Next product in line: EasyButt. You stick it "somewhere" for 24 hours, then connect it to USB, then you don't have to go to doctor anymore.

Aww, thank you Mark for saving us, poor Europeans from the clutches of evil communism. I didn't know you were the secret force which keeps us safe from all the evil in the world (and communism is surely evil, because it's dumb to share, it's much better to be an capitalistic asshole and sell your moral values for money to the highest bidder). I thought you were just a loser with no life in front of a computer, spending his time writing stupid comments on Engadget, but now it seems like I've misjudged you, since you seem to fight communism since the day you were born and Europe would surely be under Stalin's iron fist if it was not for you. Thank you Mark. Thank you very much.

(and yes, I'm a classical liberal socialist and I find both the ideas of extreme communism and extreme capitalism wrong, so when a capitalist claims to have saved me from communism, I don't think it would have been any better if communist claimed to have saved me from capitalism, I don't need neither the first nor the second. And I especially don't need to hear 13-year olds claiming to have saved me from capitalism, since even their fathers still went to college when that war was fought. My grand-grand-grand-grand father also saved an Iraqi from drowning 200 years ago and I don't go now around Iraqi sites claiming "You're being evil to us and you would have drowned if it wasn't for us". That's just ridiculous)

Anyway, back to the topic: Yes, the EU government is rigid, too large and too unefficient, and somebody should solve this stupidity, because we're paying every technical item almost 50% more than the folks in america (not just for american products, but even for the ones made in Japan), just because this unnecessary large bureaucratic body needs money for all those unnecessary employees. But then again, as we can see, every government has it's own problems, so both people from EU and USA should not criticize each others government but try to see errors in their own governing bodies.

I really have no idea why the manufacturers push the pixel limit that much in compact and prosumer cameras at the cost of noise and image degradation. I really wonder who needs that many megapixel. I still do commercial works with my 6 Megapixel Nikon D70 (actually I'm correcting some shots of cookies for a commercial in Lightroom right now), and from my experience I know that 6 Megapixel is enough for quality letter-size (or A4 size) print, while 3 Mpix is enough for standard-size photos. So why to they insist on 8 Mpix monsters with noise levels from hell even at ISO 200? Would it be that hard to produce a 3-4 Mpix compact model with decent quality of images and color up to ISO 1600? I mean, how many of you develop your pictures on letter-sized (or A4 sized) format on regular basis? Who needs those megapixel at the cost of quality?

No, but it plays DOOM!!!

Unbelieveable. Microsoft makes this stupid move and yet most of the comments here are directed against Steve Jobs and iTunes, as if Steve Jobs was personally responsible for Microsoft being a bunch of retards. I personally neither like or dislike Steve Jobs, but what's the point of blaming him for every evil in the world? So what if iTunes offers bad compressed albums for 9,99$? Do they make you buy it? Do they steal you every other opportunity to buy it somewhere else and force you to spend your hard-earned cash in their iTunes store? Not, as far as I know. If you find it's a bad practice to buy music there, then just ignore it and go for alternatives. But writing tons of unrelated comments against El Jobso and iTunes under an article about Microsoft and DRM - I really see no point in this. Yes, El Jobso is probably guilty for all the problems in your life.