What sites use Silverlight, though?

This isn't meant to run high-end apps. They explicitly said, it's for people who spend most of their computing time on the web.

Moron.

Most folks find the small screen of a cell phone/iPhone too cramped to be comfortable for long reading sessions. Others find the contrast & backlighting very hard on the eyes. Hell, the last PDA I enjoyed reading on was my grayscale Handspring device.

I have to wonder just what the heck you read, then.

Speak for yourself!

No. The way it works on the Xbox is, once you purchase a game & download it, it just works on that console. The system actually checks an identifier for your console when you first purchase the game on Live, and ties that to it. If you later install the game onto a different console, you must sign in to Live on that console before it will launch.

yes, that means if you buy a newer Xbox and transfer/redownload your purchases, you have to log into Live whenever you want to play that content. It is possible, however, to call up Microsoft and get them to switch your account to the new console, so you don't have to keep logging in... but then the original console goes to the "must log in to play" on your purchases.

Consoles are "just toys" too, when you get right down to it, so I'm not sure what the complaint is.

Chrome 1 has been out of beta for months. Chrome 2 has been in beta, and is now out of it.

Wait for the torrents and hope you don't get a virus with it. Compared to that, a Live ID is worth it.

And yet, Amazon is having a press conference Wednesday, all signs point to exactly this larger Kindle being real.

Sucks to be you.