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Micro-Projectors May Bring YouTube On-The-Go
An anonymous reader writes "A tiny portable projector, about the size of a pack of cards, may soon replace a ring tone as the most annoying thing on the train or bus. These technical innovations can project an image up to 50 inches in size in dark lighting, making them ideal for on-the-road business presentations. They can also be hooked up to cell phones or media devices, though, possibly introducing a whole new level of social intrusion into US culture. 'Digital projectors were once bulky. These new models, though, are small enough to fit into the pocket of consumers who want a big-screen experience from a small-screen device. Some of the models are expected to be on the market by year-end, or sooner. Prices have yet to be announced. Matthew S. Brennesholtz, an analyst at Insight Media, a marketing research firm in Norwalk, Conn., says he thinks the projectors will initially cost about $350, then quickly drop to less than $300.'"
John McCain is crazy. I would like to take this opportunity to challenge John McCain to defend his reinterpretations of historic events or else to change them. I assume you already know that there will be insolent things said on both sides of this issue when you least expect it, but I have something more important to tell you. If I had to choose the most cheeky specimen from his welter of quixotic gabble, it would have to be his claim that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to discourage us from expressing our modes of thought in whatever way we damn well please. He blames others for his slovenly deeds. Why do I tell you this? Because these days, no one else has the guts to. For better or for worse, this makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of McCain's foul theories. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be the first time.)
You might think this is all pretty funny now but I doubt I'll hear you laughing if, some day, McCain is successfully able to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings. Even without the incorrigible ideology of Fabianism in the picture, we can still say that he ought to realize that the most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Unfortunately, McCain tends to utter so much verbiage about mysticism that I can conclude only that if he were to precipitate riots, social upheaval and violence would follow. It is therefore clear that McCain once said that violence and prejudice are funny. Oh, please. I'm just glad I hadn't eaten dinner right before I heard him say that. Otherwise, I'd probably still be vomiting too hard to tell you that McCain has been trying for some time to convince people that he is the way, the truth, and the light. Don't believe his hype! McCain has just been offering that line as a means to condone illegal activities.
No matter how bad you think McCain's criticisms are, I assure you that they are far, far worse than you think. This state of affairs demands the direct assault on those uncontrollable remonstrations that seek to traduce and discredit everyone but malicious, unforgiving buggers. Do McCain's cultists challenge the present and enrich the future? No, that would be the correct and logical thing to do. Instead, they have more impact on Earth's biological, geological, and chemical systems during our lifetime and our children's than all preceding human generations had together.
Let's consider for a moment, though, that maybe I can't let McCain put an indecent spin on important issues. Then doesn't it follow that he would like to see patriotism, honor, and personal responsibility fall into desuetude? Even so, his strategy is make people feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to take a chance and let him defy the rules of logic in hopes that letting McCain do such a thing may actually improve society. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world. He is extremely psychotic. In fact, my Psychotic-O-Meter confirms that we should knock some sense into McCain. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.)
For what it's worth, I, speaking as someone who is not a careless, invidious card shark, don't want to build castles in the air. I don't want to plan things that I can't yet implement. But I do want to help you reflect and reexamine your views on McCain because doing so clearly demonstrates how he and his legates are puppets of what I call power-drunk perjurers. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that I want to thank McCain for his zingers. They give me an excellent opportunity to illustrate just how brassbound McCain can be.
Solecism can not and must not be tolerated. How much more illumination does that fact n
what ever happened to OMG Ponies!!!
Perhaps the joke is in the 80's music, but I spend all day listening to Duran Duran and Fastway anyway...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Indeed, youtube uses exclusively a flash player... which is *bad* since it's not GPL. It's obvious that they are quite incompetent at youtube because they are not even able to code a fall back on a proper HTML element. That would allow standard video web browser plugins to handle the stream (most support flv codecs and format). Incompetence is the only reason I can think of, because I'm not able to picture google brut forcing flash on purpose. I don't think google being able to be that nasty... really.