NES Four Score? It was alright. But the wireless NES Satellite was even better.

The late eighties and early nineties were a blur of pizza, pop and four-player Super Spike V'Ball.

The lower panel is magnetic and comes in different colours.

It's a fricken computer, not a monitor.

Good catch.

Agreed, that is brutal spelling. And proofing.

I tried posting a reply once already but it may have been lost in the ether. I still don't get this commenting system.

Anyway, thanks for clarifying development for multiple cores prior to GCD. To clarify my comment, I was attempting to point out that the open sourcing of GCD has nothing to do with the ease of use with which developers can now code for multiple cores. Creating GCD obviously provides developers with better multi-core tools, but what open sourcing does is allow developers on platforms other than Mac OS X to implement. That's the real story here. Hopefully improvements to GCD by the open source community will make their way back to Mac OS X. I think the author of the post may not understand the difference between open sourcing code and providing developers with a library that facilitates their work.

This post doesn't make any sense. Developers were able to write software for Macs that used multiple cores before Grand Central Dispatch. And developers were able to use to Grand Central Dispatch before it was open sourced. Developers were free to get at those cores already. Open sourcing Grand Central Dispatch doesn't necessarily make that any easier.

Agreed. I have one at home and we really find it convenient. We use it to rent movies fairly often because it's easy to use and the playback interface is much better than our cable company's on-demand service. And we use it to play music over our home stereo system. I do like the local storage space for music because both my girlfriend and I have notebook computers that are not always turned on or in the house.

I think it's obvious it was a technical issue and that Apple is just covering it up until they can overcome the issue and release an updated iPod Touch. There is no other reason for them to include a camera in the Nano and not the Touch, unless they are worried about cannibalizing sales of the iPhone 3GS. I concede that is possible, but I think the iPhone 3GS has other features, like cellular and GPS capabilities, that differentiate it sufficiently from the iPod Touch.

AppleInsider reported a rumour regarding last minute manufacturing difficulties with the iPod Touch camera just prior to the Apple event:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/07/technical_issues_could_delay_ipod_camera_upgrade.html

Engadget didn't rip open the iPod Touch. This is a blog. They post links to other sites for your convenience.