Ralph

Thanks for saving me the typing, John. My sentiments exactly.

Grammar nazi: "not to distant future"; should be "not too distant future" (last paragraph).

Looks like a blast of a film. I'm a big fan from my kid years (the 70s) and my kids have been eating up the previews (and Hot Wheels) so we'll all be there this Saturday afternoon, just like IRON MAN last weekend.

As someone who has been fighting to get a Fusion Virtual Machine to see a printer on the Airport Extreme network (the Virtual Machine can access the web via the AEBS but not the printer connected to same) I'm very hopeful about v2.

(FWIW, at the office, it can see the Windows networked printers fine.)

The answers you post aren't quite enough. Of course, a newer iPod will (typically) be better depending on what you get (newer battery, faster drive, higher capacity). However, it's not usually as cut & dry as that.

My aunt broke the iPod she got from me not long ago (heavy handed, she broke the click wheel by jamming it down when it wouldn't respond fast enough; also the dock connector by yanking the cable out when it wouldn't unclick; yup, she is the bane of all electronics). She kept pestering me about fixing it and I told her not to spend over $50 fixing any regular iPod (rules are different with the Shuffles and nanos thanks to their price point).

So the two-prong answer of "fix it - why waste money on a new one" or "new iPods are so shiny" is, admittedly, tongue-in-cheek. A true answer has a few more variables. I wouldn't recommend anyone spend more than $50 or so to repair any larger-capacity iPod, and no money to repair any smaller capacity iPod. (This assumes said iPod is out of warranty.)

YMMV, as always.

Love the bonus scenes after the credits. Being a fan of soundtrack music, I usually always stay and listen to the music and watch all the credits; the bonus scenes are, well, a nice bonus.

Not unrelated; take a look at the IMDB entry for Downey Jr.; he's appearing as Tony Stark in THE INCREDIBLE HULK. Tie that in to the bonus post-credits scene with Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury, and the whole S.H.I.E.L.D. thing, and I believe they're gearing up for something bigger.

As soon as I saw the HULK tie-in, I saw the Hulkbuster armor in my head. I am a nerd.

Someone on the linked site said maybe 10 million is worldwide and 6 million is US. Not too far of a stretch, as there's a lot of iTunes Stores and some may be country-exclusive.

It's 38i.biz, not 381.biz

http://38i.biz/tricorder/

It's 38i.biz, not 381.biz

http://38i.biz/tricorder/