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...Computing Became Fun As the world prepares for the release of the iPad, the young - who may have seen the company only as the colossus behind the iMac, iPod and iPhone family of products and the iTunes and App stores that service them - might be surprised to know how hard the life of an Apple lover once...
Additionally, anyone who has worked with Microsoft’s software activation system knows how much of a pain it can be to convince the corporate colossus in Redmond that you’re actually not trying to pirate anything—you just want to reinstall your legal copy of Windows. By contrast, when I decided to wipe my hard drive clean and just “start over” with my Mac, the computer didn’t bother me every time it started up about “checking in” with Microsoft?...
...bubbling under: in role-playing games and anime, video games like Myst and Thief and comic books like Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Look at the dirigibles and clockwork mechanisms in Philip Pullman's alt-Victorian The Golden Compass. Recall the steam-driven, Kenneth Branagh--piloted arachnid colossus in Will Smith's Wild Wild West...
...Ideal viewing conditions, as it turns out. I grew fond of the titular characters, in particular Kate, who seemed to stand like a colossus over their Pennsylvania tract home, constantly corralling and cajoling her uncountable - and, to the layperson, indistinguishable - children into doing relatively simple things, each of which became a hellish exercise in the improbable simply because of the logistics. Sixteen little shoes had to be found and tied before the family could even leave the house. That they weren't a pack of barefoot shut-ins was a testament to Kate's indomitable will...
...will struggle to deliver on two key issues of major importance south of the border: the sale of U.S. assault weapons and immigration reform. The statements played into the hands of skeptics who argue that despite the more liberal face, it is still business as usual for the gringo colossus. "There were a lot of words and pats on the back," wrote political commentator Ciro Gomez Leyva. "It is not nothing, but neither does it amount to very much." (See pictures from Mexico's drug wars...