I'm most looking forward to a phone with an interface actually designed for a normal person to use. Technology can look good, it does just have to be functional!

After two Apple MacBook Pros survived the first day of CanSecWest's 'PWN to OWN' contest, they lowered the barriers as planned since "there has not been a successful attack." Both MacBook Pros were connected to a wireless router and with all security updates installed, but without additional security software or settings. The contest's second-day relaxed rules allowed attackers to place exploit code online and launch drive-by exploits on the Mac's built-in Safari browser.

I never understood what a comment like "I hate apple products" is supposed to mean. It really discredits anything reasonable you have to say. In all likelihood you have an unjustified bias again things apple because of A) a bad experience, B) insuffient funds for a higher starting price point or C) are a MS fanboy. Either way, I do appreciate you new realization that Apple does indeed make some excellent products, perhaps you should give others a try.

Apple already posted the manual earlier this week. http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/AppleTV_UserGuide.pdf

$1,199 CAD = $1,017 USD

Now there really is no reason to not switch to OS X. Apple just needs to start advertising Leopard! It's so bizarre, they advertise Macs and iPods... but not the OS, that's the most important part!

Ken, you should update the wikipedia page on the beanie! Because it states that term is used in the UK, NZ and Australia, and lists several other terms that are used in the US of A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_cap

I love you Americans. You come up with so many names for a toque! Knit cap, fliece cap, knitted hat... it's hilarious to us Canadians. Maybe we just have to wear them so much we came up with a name rather than a description of the item.

But actually it doesn't do what every other MP3 player does, nor the iPod in particular. Zune doesn't do audiobooks, podcasts, games, calendars, gapless playback orhave the ability to purchase videos from its store (not to mention the aforementioned books, podcasts), just the name a few. It is also subject to a painful advertising campaign trying too hard to look cool - at least iPod and SanDisk and iRiver have some class.

Point taken. I re-read the post, and it was pretty incoherent and rambling. I'll apologize for that. I do, however, stand by the fact that I was/am annoyed by Thomas' constant use of the slang for the US $100 bill - if only because he uses it so much that he drives it into the ground. But it's enough on that issue. I also apologize for my ignorance of Benjamin Franklin as NOT being a US President. I am Canadian, and we generally take pride in our knowledge of world history - of course, I would be impressed to find many Americans who know a single thing about Canadian history. But that is an issue of absurdly American-centric history cirriculum in the U.S. education system that I don't want to get in to, nor should be discussed in a tech blog about memory cards. I do fear this post has begun to ramble again, and of course, I do apologize - once again - for that.