Grado is an awesome company. I have a pair of SR-125s that I absolutely love. Plus, when I caught the cable on something and ripped it out of one of the cans, they only charged like $25 to fix it.
Why all the hate? At least reserve judgement until you HEAR the headphones.

I absolutely do not understand people that entrust personal and/or confidential information to something they don't have the slightest idea how to use. If your data is that important (and/or you don't have an IT staff to keep your stupidity in check) take 5 minutes to learn about how to protect yourself. Honestly, you may have been able to sell your consulting data for $54m, but chances are the person with your machine doesn't give a rat's ass about all the data you've accumulated on Northeast Asian security. Removing the drive is one screw on a laptop, if even that.

I actually just purchased a plasma yesterday (replacing a 19" Sony I've had since 1992...still works great). It might lure more people over if there was a decent amount of content available. I'm definitely not impressed in that arena. Plus the plasma makes the disgustingly low quality of Comcast's standard def programming abundantly evident.

Nice.

The ad is pretty clever as far as banner ads go, and I don't really have a problem with ads that don't make sound unless I click on them. Although the second time I clicked on it, it repeatedly stopped and started over again. That got annoying real quick.
btw, I subscribe to your RSS feed and read it in NetNewswire. I never even see the ads, although they are definitely frustrating when I'm forced to use the site for one reason or another.

that video was freaky...with the girl in the dress and braces licking the lollipop and looking at torsos of naked men...

The piece of glass is held in place with magnets. if you are taking the machine apart, the first step is removing it with a giant suction tool. So yeah, there's definitely a gap of air between the LCD and the glass. I'm still not so sure this qualifies as a design flaw, however.

John-
I'd say mucking with the modem firmware IS causing irreparable damage. I mean, it obviously is if you can restore the ipod and bring it into an Apple Store and they can still tell that you tried to unlock it.

Wait, am I reading you right? You're saying that these people didn't have a choice in buying an iphone?
I have one, but I don't remember any guns being held to my head when I was making the purchase.

I have a 4 year old Gateway that will sometimes refuse to acknowledge an external monitor until I restart the machine. I can sit and refresh all day to no avail. Is this news? OF COURSE NOT, SO WHY IS ENGADGET WRITING ABOUT THE MBPs doing the same thing?

And anyway, my money is that it is something that can be resolved via a firmware update or an archive and install...what ever happened to people actually troubleshooting something before whining about how a product is crap?