My computer is a Mac, and has been for ten years. My phone is an iPhone. I use an iPad every day, and watch most programming over my Apple TV. I can't imagine a world where Steve Jobs didn't exist.

Alas, the original Nook is not interesting to me. The Simple Touch is the only product in the line that is something I would want.

Thanks for the info! Sounds like it would work. Now I just need B&N to cut their price to below $100.

Thanks for the info. Were any of the books you transferred through ADE DRM-laden?

www.bookpeople.com

Anyone who follows Apple knew that 4G was not going to be in this model. The only feature I was expecting that isn't here is NFC. I'm not clear on what people who think this is a "meh" upgrade were expecting, aside from a new case.

I've always been a Kindle guy, and have a Kindle 3 (which I use alongside the Kindle app on my iPad). However, when I was at my favorite independent bookstore this weekend (BookPeople in Austin), I noticed that they now sell Google eBooks. You can buy them through their website, and Google delivers an ePub file with standard ADEPT DRM, and BookPeople gets a cut of the sale.

I'd like to support good stores like BookPeople while also avoiding purchasing any more multi-pound chunks of paper, but unfortunately my Kindle doesn't read ePubs, and the conversion service won't work with ADEPT "protected" files.

However, my understanding is that Google eBooks can be transferred to a Nook using Adobe's Digital Editions software.

I'm thinking about picking up a Nook Simple Touch -- either the next time there's a sale, if they drop their price due to the new line of cheaper Kindles or if I get some B&N gift cards at Christmas -- if it would actually be possible for me to buy ebooks from BookPeople and still read them on an e-ink device.

Has anyone ever transferred a Google eBook to a Nook using ADE? Any problems or gotchas I should be looking out for?

Same phone I can't hold without a case and same phone I can't set down without placing it on cloth?  WTF

Why can't you set it down without placing it on cloth?  I don't get it.

That glass back scratches when you look at it, let alone set it down on anything.

I have the black bumper case from Apple on my phone, and haven't had any problem with scratches on the back of the device.

Just as I said. A meh upgrade.

By what standard? They nearly doubled the processor's performance. They dramatically improved the camera. The graphics performance received a huge boost, and they likely doubled the RAM to 1 GB. There's virtually nothing inside the 4S that's the same as inside the 4. I am not in the market for an iPhone this year, but this is a substantial upgrade. It's basically the iPad 2 squeezed into the iPhone 4's case.

That's me, and I'm switching to Windows Phone this cycle.

Windows Phone 7 is impressive.

Crazy that the 4S price level stayed the same.

What does that mean for iPhone 5? Does it launch next summer at 299 / 399 / 499 price points?

There will likely not be an iPhone branded "iPhone 5." Logically, the next iPhone would be iPhone 6. Most likely it'll have a name like iPhone LTE. In any case, it'll probably come out next September/October at the same 199 / 299 / 399 price points that Apple has been using for a few generations now.

Well I have a 3GS and was hoping for the iPhone 5 but it looks like we are just getting an iPhone 4 with a better camera and battery life. Not too sure about the voice stuff.  I use Dragon and it's still spotty sometimes.

On the fence now.

It's not just a better camera and battery. It's also a dual core processor that's up to twice as fast as the previous iPhone 4. It likely has 1GB of memory, which is four times as much as in your iPhone 3GS. And the graphics subsystem is dramatically improved.

Just because Apple didn't change the case doesn't mean this isn't a huge upgrade to the hardware -- it is. This is a bigger upgrade than the one from iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS, and akin to the 3GS to iPhone 4 upgrade.

Exactly what I expected. A very solid upgrade, but I'll stick with my iPhone 4 until next year.

Sensationalist headline. Banks have been gouging retailers for years, and now aren't allowed to do so. So instead they're gouging their customers directly. Crappy behavior, now more transparent. Surely some banks will advertise that they don't charge fees, taking customers from the banks that do.

It's only $5 a month. The convenience of my debit card is worth $60 a year.

Punky!

Is that a real picture? What is she so angry about?

Obama promised to bring the troops home if he became president (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RWHiC7K3k&NR=1) and obviously did a complete 180. Given Paul's record, I'd say he could actually be believed on actually doing it when everyone else just talks about it while our deficit continues to get higher and higher every single day.

Obama ran on withdrawing troops from Iraq, and he has withdrawn our combat forces from Iraq, and on doubling down in Afghanistan, which he also has done.

As for Ron Paul, he's a racist, woman-hating, privacy-hating, faux libertarian right-wing radical.

So you think of him exactly the same as you do every single other republican or conservative?

Nope. Very, very few Republicans are racist. George W. Bush certainly isn't a racist. As far as I can tell, none of the major contenders for the Republican nomination are racists, even Perry (though he plays footsie with racists in Texas). But Ron Paul is.

Also, very few Republican politicians pretend to be libertarians, but Ron Paul does. More day to day Republicans pretend to be libertarians when they're actually not, but that's neither here nor there.

Nothing new there, we know you hate every single conservative and republican.

Nonsense. There are plenty of Republicans I greatly admire, including the first President Bush, whose willingness to raise taxes in 1990 was one of the key reasons we balanced the budget at the end of that decade. There is even a Republican nominee for president whom, though I disagree with him on virtually every political issue, I wouldn't see as an existential danger in the White House, even if he would appoint terrible judges (he's polling at around 1%, of course).

I'm also not about to start hating my parents, my aunt, or the vast majority of my friends from high school, just because they're Republicans.

And while I have no respect for American conservatism as a political philosophy, and actively detest the Tea Party fringe movement (which, unlike mainstream Republicanism, does have deep strains of racism running through it), I have little problem with European conservatism. Were I British, I'd likely be a Tory.

Obama promised to bring the troops home if he became president (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RWHiC7K3k&NR=1) and obviously did a complete 180. Given Paul's record, I'd say he could actually be believed on actually doing it when everyone else just talks about it while our deficit continues to get higher and higher every single day.

Obama ran on withdrawing troops from Iraq, and he has withdrawn our combat forces from Iraq, and on doubling down in Afghanistan, which he also has done.

As for Ron Paul, he's a racist, woman-hating, privacy-hating, faux libertarian right-wing radical.

In general, the only change that really bothers me is Greedo firing first. I love the additional windows in the ESB special edition. I like the they got rid of the English words and replaced them with Aurebesh characters. I don't mind the CG rock in front of Artoo. Not fond of the "nooo!" in Jedi. I like the blinking Ewoks.

I'd trade all the changes I don't particularly like, and losing all the changes I do like, just to get Han shooting first. It's the only truly offensive change, in my opinion -- it warps his character arc.

Best to worst:

Deep Space Nine
The Next Generation
Star Trek
Enterprise
The Animated Series
The SNL Sketches that Mention Star Trek
Any TV show that takes place in outer space
Any TV show where the sky is ever visible
All other TV shows
Voyager

It should be noted that the quality of comics today is much higher than it was in 1989. The plotting is more complex, and the writing (generally) better. The quality of paper for the print editions, and the quality of the color and printing is exceptionally better. The basic DC book today is printed in a format nicer than 1989's "Prestige Format," which ran $1.50 an issue back then.

So, all in all, I don't consider $2.99 to be too expensive for a comic book, given today's quality. $3.99 is too much, though. Gosh, for half that I could get a book with no ads and a chromium cover in the early 1990s!

Some comics will be $3.99 (too much, IMO), and in 28 days will drop to $2.99.

Most comics will be $2.99 (about right, IMO), and in 28 days will drop to $1.99.

When I first started reading comics, Superman books were 75¢.

I would have preferred a hard reboot. For folks who don't know a lot of DCU history, this will probably be pretty easy to pick up. For folks like me, who are soaked in DCU history, figuring out what is or isn't "real" backstory anymore is a real headache.

Still, this is crazy ambitious, and I hope it works.

The digital availability is the killer feature for me, but even that aside, I liked JL #1. Jim Lee's art is great, and it was something of a different feel from the "old" DCU. However, like most comics, I feel like there's just too few pages of story in this one. Nice, dramatic pose for the "cliffhanger," but not a whole lot else in this one.

Today is the relaunch of the DC Universe, starting with Justice League #1. I'm eagerly anticipating this release, and ready to download it through my DC app on my iPad when it's released at 2:00pm EDT. In this first month, there's probably between 17 and 20 of the new books I plan to check out. All digitally, of course.

Is anyone else going to be checking the new DC books out? Impressions of JL #1?

We won, so that's fine by me.

Was at my campaign's headquarters in Alexandria. The building shook and waved dramatically. I was on the second floor. It was terrifying.

A lot of folks who wanted to vote in yesterday's primary elections weren't able to do so because of the resulting traffic chaos.

Obama has achieved many noteworthy and praiseworthy things. He has also failed remarkably on matters fiscal, mostly because of his apparent fear of raising taxes on the middle class. All in all, the country is better that he, and not John McCain, is in the White House right now. Would it be better if Hillary Clinton was president? Perhaps. But her incompetent campaign closed the door on that possibility.

I look forward to voting for Obama in 2012.

And I hope I can vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Or maybe Andrew Cuomo.

Marvel has treated those of us who started reading the Ultimate line when it came out like crap. First, that Ultimatum storyline which slaughtered dozens of main characters with no real pay off, and now they kill Peter Parker in a lame, emotionally jarring way. Are they really ending Peter's storyline with an unheroic, rather pathetic death?

Death has been fairly permanent in the Ultimate line. But I suppose I won't find out from first hand sources if that's the case here. I'm out. Marvel can take the scraps of the once-awesome Ultimate universe and go pound sand for all I care.

Once a region with profoundly backwards, detestable widespread beliefs, always a region with profoundly backwards, detestable widespread beliefs?

Way to stereotype guys. 

Is it stereotyping if it's the truth? From race oppression to integration to overt, pervasive religiosity in public life to deep-set anti-gay sentiment, is there any social issue the South hasn't been on the wrong side of long after the rest of the nation moved (or has begun to move) on?

Once a region with profoundly backwards, detestable widespread beliefs, always a region with profoundly backwards, detestable widespread beliefs?

Why do the origin story again? After an origin movie's been made, even if you reboot, why not just presume the audience knows the general "how" of your characters coming about, and just have fun with the characters. It's not like every writer retells Spider-Man's origins when he or she is given scripting duties for the comic....

Same here -- pvt for a invite.

WTF?  Why wasn't I informed of this?!?!?  I am going to need proof.  Plus you've taken away the only thing that made me unique on these forums!!!! 

Seriously, man. I'm standing right here.

[Spoiler]

Saw it last night. Enjoyed it a great deal. Not sure if non-GL fans will appreciate it. To them, it will likely seem rather like a cookie cutter superhero action film. I thought Blake Lively was rather flat, but the other actors did well. Loved the effects for the Guardians, Kilowog and Tomar-Re (as well as Salakk's cameo).

Spoiler for Hiden:

I thought one of the major problems was that the villain was rather weak. Like Galactus in Rise of the Silver Surfer, an amorphous, "very threatening" cloud provides a poor foil for the hero. They'd have done better going with Atrocitus or a classic GL villain like Evil Star or Legion. Also, he was a bit too easy to defeat. Hector wasn't a good enough substitute, in my opinion.

Back when I first started considering majoring in film in college, I wrote a "Green Lantern" screenplay to try my hand at writing a movie. Of course, my career went in a different direction, but I'd like to think that in some parallel universe they made my script into this movie.

Arg. Well, I'm seeing it anyways cause I like GL and Ryan Reynolds both... plus, if he flops that hurts the proposed Deadpool movie!

Ditto!

As long as Ryan Reynolds takes his shirt off, I'm in!

+1

The fact that it's Green Lantern, the best superhero ever, is a major bonus, but Ryan Reynolds ensures that it'll be watchable no matter what.

major spoiler about a major actor filming a scene for the movie.  I'll leave it as a link for people to decide whether or not they want to read it.

Wow, they are really putting Jack Black in as King Tut? That's wild.

I clicked through the page, it downloaded the .aa file to my Mac, and it opened and played in iTunes. I wonder why it was more complicated for y'all. In any case, awesome book!

Gah, I wish I could just get over my dislike for Reynolds.  It LOOKS like it's going to be fun, but every time I see his smug face I just want to grab a yellow ring and go all Qwardian on his ass.

He's so pretty!

I'm sort of wishing they'd done this Ultimates-style, and launched an Earth-2011 or whatever new universe as their day & date project. It'd be cleaner, and I liked the Ultimate Marvel universe a great deal more than Earth-616 (until Ultimatum ruined it).

Yeah. I'm not a fan of Teen Titans stuff. Also, the description, like that of Superboy #1, makes me wonder about continuity, as it sounds like they've rebooted Wonder Girl. I also think of Tim Drake as being around 20, not a teen anymore.