I really don't want to get drawn into a debate on news networks when that wasn't my point, however I must point out these two things against my better judgement:
I often snicker at "leans right" type comments, because quite frankly, I don't see them as being "right" on the "News" portion of the show. Hanity, Beck and even O'Reilly are commentary, not News, which is where the Liberals typically complain.
But those people ARE Fox News. Jon Stewart had a good bit on that a while back where he basically said what I have been saying forever... All the people you know of as Fox News who come on a prime hours are commentary, even to their own admission. The rest of the news shows are basically no names that come on during off hours. That is fine, in and of itself, but not when you proclaim you are 'Fox News: Fair & Balanced and 1/2 your hosts rant about every other news network being liberal talking points.
The difference, Hanity is admittedly a "conservative", while Dan Rather keeps trying to foist his "independance" and "objectiveness" in journalism.
Same thing here, he hardly admits any bias. He is part of Fox News, telling us all the truth that the "liberal media" won't show. Fair & Balanced, but not really.:P
Because ultimately there is no such thing as "unbiased news".
Here I totally agree with you. I don't think the left is innocent either. Personally I read the BBC and The New York Times online and my local paper. I also watch The Daily Show if it can be considered news:P. I am sure I get plenty of bias in there, I know this.
I just dislike the 'Fair & Balanced' naming on Fox News. I also have an automatic dislike for them because the only time I see Fox News is when some friends and I go to a local burger place. They have a big screen TV, we usually go on the weekends and watch some of the college football games while we eat. However, every other weekend or so this same family comes in and changes the TV (they never ask either, the employes used to be more annoyed by this than we were, but I guess they gave up) over to Fox News and I have to listen to that junk over football for the rest of my meal. I don't like that:P
Anyway (wow this got long) my point wasn't about if I like Fox News or not, I was just pointing out that neither the OP nor I was saying Fox News was evil, but Fox was cool.
I don't see anywhere in what you are replying to the statements "Murdoch is evil" or "Fox is cool!!!!one!!!1!", so I am not sure how that was a counter to what he was saying. Murdoch's news shows almost always lean right, this is fact. That is what the poster was trying to say. Conservative != evil.
As for the Simpsons and Family Guy, they are comedy shows. Not news shows. While they lean left, they also attack people on the left. Sure they make fun of the right too, and more often, but not exclusively. And again, it is comedy. South Park recently mocked Glenn Beck, I don't think this means that South Park is now a leftist propaganda outlet...
Besides, I don't think Murdoch could can the Simpsons even if he wanted to. I mean Fox has a history of canning good shows to replace them with drivel, but I think the Simpsons has tenure for more or less saving his network on repeat occasions.:P
I have to agree with Pojut. I have seen both the PS3 and 360 versions on the same 42" 1080p TV. There is very very little difference visually, hardly "noticeable".
Just thought I would add that you do get physical feedback when you are clicking. You still click the mouse, the touch sensor is just used to figure out which you are clicking (right or left). That seems to be a common misconception about the mouse.
As for the touch area getting dirty, doesn't really happen much. It is just smooth plastic on the Magic Mouse. Wipe it off and go.
Americans are associated with it... You play an AMERICAN shooting the innocent Russians. So I guess you aren't against the Americans being bad, but that the violence isn't in American. In that case I guess look at GTA or something. Not sure how you got modded insightful.
It seems like most of the people posting here haven't played the game. I mean it takes, what... 5 hours to beat? If you haven't beat it yet its because you don't want to play it. Which is fine... but don't come here and talk about it then when you have no idea what you are talking about. I won't spoil it, but suffice to say the Americans aren't exactly heros in the situation...
Do you have source on this at all? Don't get me wrong, it could be very true, but some Google-fu of 360 sales numbers current gen console sales didn't show anything like this. The closest thing I really found it crazy 360 sale numbers was some estimate from EA and EA isn't really Microsoft so I guess they can say whatever they want there really. I have also never seen huge piles of 360s sitting in stores.
but isn't most everything in Guild Wars instanced off? Even towns and the like based on the number of people? I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered that being the case.
It isn't some people working supplementing those that don't or can't afford something that should be personal responsibility.
Got kids you can't afford medical care for? That shows you couldn't afford kids!!
Um, are you aware of all the unpredictable things that can happen to a child that can rack up enormous medical costs? Should we then greatly increase the minimum wage? I don't think those making $7.25 per hour are going to ever really be able to afford children in your view. They also probably won't even really be able to afford to take care of themselves should anything happen to them.
Once all these people die off are you going to come clean my office, pickup my trash, work at McDonald's, and do minimal pay day labor in the fields? After all someone has to do that stuff. If you don't want to I suggest you not look so lowly on those that do it for us. Society has a lot of positions that aren't the best, but still need to be filled. People doing those jobs don't deserve to be spit on by the rest of us.
The have-nots greatly outnumber the haves. When the divide between the two grows too large bad things generally happen.
I was just going to point out that the two things you missed are incredibly easy to find... Not sure how you missed them. On the MacBook Pro page you go to specs and click 17" to find the weight. "6.6 pounds (2.99 kg)".
The extended warranty is listed on the buy page (if you don't buy one I imagine you wouldn't need a warranty:P) It is $349 for 3 years. Can find it under Protection Plan which I think is acceptable wording. True it doesn't say EXTENDED WARRANTY, so I could see how you might miss it if you were just scanning the page it quickly come up with that, but meh. A buyer would have the info there easily.
Not justifying their search (I think it is pretty poor personally) but I did want to point out that if you were going at it like a regular user speccing out a laptop all of the info would have been right there in your face.
At any rate I think the whole price debate that comes up around Macs is pointless. Obviously enough people think it is worth it or Apple wouldn't still be in business. I can't say I care where other people buy their computers:P
Really? I don't see how it is difficult to understand at all. Someone decided they want to try and force users to go all NVIDIA. I don't agree with it, but I can see how some suit would think it is a great idea.
Greedy maybe, but incomprehensible? I think it is pretty easy to understand, they want you to go buy another nVIDIA card. I don't agree with it either, but thats just a silly word choice.
Eh ? It's "new" version that scales poorly for multitasking, for the same reason that OS X's Dock does - it makes switching from one arbitrary window to another a slower and more tedious operation.
I like Windows 7 a lot, but I do think it is odd that they seem (to me anyway) to keep going for the visual parts of OS X rather than the stuff that makes working on it so enjoyable.
"And get this: with Linux, you don't have to reboot after installing new software. "
You have to reboot after installing things just as often as you do on Windows or OS X. I guess since it is an ad it should take some liberties (we all know Apple and Microsoft do) in describing the product, but that just seemed odd to me. Unless he is pitting modern Linux distros against Windows 98 or something.
I don't really think it is all that bad. I use Firefox on my Windows desktop, Firefox on my Slackware desktop, and Safari on my MacBook Pro, neither have any additional plugins or anything like adblock. Just the default pop up blockers. Depends on where you browse I guess.
Actually the latest version of the 360 is (at least from what I have seen) less likely to fail than the PS3. However the stigma of the notoriously unreliable early versions will stick around for some time to come.
It is a real issue and it does seem odd to pick the least reliable system for this, but Microsoft does replace them for free, and at least on the gaming front, reliability has never been a huge deal. People want to ramble on about how it will impact console wars, but the PS2 was easily the most failure prone of the last generation and it was also the best selling. *shrug* People want the software. If the PS2/360 has their games they will put up with failures. I would say the same holds true here. History of MS dev = MS platform for this.
Eh, I don't know about that. I am 10 years older than a 15 year old, but I know games older than myself. The topic game included. It was released just shy of 5 years before I was around, and yet I know of it and played it. When I was a kid friends and I would actually "two player" it. One on the extra pad and one on the joystick. It was actually pretty fun, at least for little kids after it got too dark to play outside.
So that said, I bet plenty of 15 year olds know some older games.
Why? Because that brings up some "Malware on the Rise" and "Malware proof your system" articles? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=linux+malware Brings up some articles just like that. Should we then assume that Linux is a growing haven of security holes and seedy malware? I don't think so and I don't know why you got modded informative.
1) This doesn't impact the Pre. Summary even mentions that.
2) Palm itself pretty much dropped Palm sync. They retired it. I still have a Palm PDA and looking at Activity Monitor right now that is an outdated PowerPC task. Since they are dropping Power PC, I think it has a lot more to do with that than trying to edge out Palm. After all, they would be targeting the Pre and not their older smart phones and PDAs if that was the goal.
I guess I could be wrong, but this mostly just reads like some bad FUD / troll article and it seems based on the commends so far people are buying into that:(
I don't think it is that odd because every one I know who has had a 360 die on them (oddly not a large number considering how many of my friends have 360s, though I was one of the unlucky ones) got it replaced for free even if it was very old. So yes you are out a console for a few weeks, but then you get a new one at no cost to you. That probably factors in. "Yeah it might break, but I will get a new one!"
Are you seriously attempting to draw parallels between a man who has, more or less, dedicated his career towards opposing euthanasia and has been awarded for his efforts to improve health care to the Nazi eugenic practices? I hope not..
What, if any basis do you have for thinking the Obama healthcare program will bring about compulsory sterilization, "racial hygiene", and euthanasia to remove 'undesirables' from the gene pool? Did you not understand the differences between the two or are you just trying to take quotes out of context in an attempt to spread FUD to an idea you dislike?
Stuff like this is exactly why I used the word frightening in my first post.. people playing with ideas they don't even remotely understand is well... just that.
The fact that this was modded interesting is rather frightening. If anything Obama's policies are more like those found in several areas of modern Europe mixed with a bit of the new deal from here.
On the other hand, the Nazi government (while it certainly did barrow elements from the left) was rather aligned with the right. As early as 1933 it had become a dictatorship and began to violently suppressed all opposition. It was also openly aligned with eugenics and racism. Other ideas were outlawed. Your ability to make such a comment would not have existed.
So no, Obama doesn't resemble the "early Hitler". If he did, he wouldn't need to debate with people about his healthcare changes. Also if you didn't notice this was a Flickr decision... not an Obama one.
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I really don't want to get drawn into a debate on news networks when that wasn't my point, however I must point out these two things against my better judgement:
:P
:P. I am sure I get plenty of bias in there, I know this.
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I often snicker at "leans right" type comments, because quite frankly, I don't see them as being "right" on the "News" portion of the show. Hanity, Beck and even O'Reilly are commentary, not News, which is where the Liberals typically complain.
But those people ARE Fox News. Jon Stewart had a good bit on that a while back where he basically said what I have been saying forever... All the people you know of as Fox News who come on a prime hours are commentary, even to their own admission. The rest of the news shows are basically no names that come on during off hours. That is fine, in and of itself, but not when you proclaim you are 'Fox News: Fair & Balanced and 1/2 your hosts rant about every other news network being liberal talking points.
The difference, Hanity is admittedly a "conservative", while Dan Rather keeps trying to foist his "independance" and "objectiveness" in journalism.
Same thing here, he hardly admits any bias. He is part of Fox News, telling us all the truth that the "liberal media" won't show. Fair & Balanced, but not really.
Because ultimately there is no such thing as "unbiased news".
Here I totally agree with you. I don't think the left is innocent either. Personally I read the BBC and The New York Times online and my local paper. I also watch The Daily Show if it can be considered news
I just dislike the 'Fair & Balanced' naming on Fox News. I also have an automatic dislike for them because the only time I see Fox News is when some friends and I go to a local burger place. They have a big screen TV, we usually go on the weekends and watch some of the college football games while we eat. However, every other weekend or so this same family comes in and changes the TV (they never ask either, the employes used to be more annoyed by this than we were, but I guess they gave up) over to Fox News and I have to listen to that junk over football for the rest of my meal. I don't like that
Anyway (wow this got long) my point wasn't about if I like Fox News or not, I was just pointing out that neither the OP nor I was saying Fox News was evil, but Fox was cool.
I don't see anywhere in what you are replying to the statements "Murdoch is evil" or "Fox is cool!!!!one!!!1!", so I am not sure how that was a counter to what he was saying. Murdoch's news shows almost always lean right, this is fact. That is what the poster was trying to say. Conservative != evil.
:P
As for the Simpsons and Family Guy, they are comedy shows. Not news shows. While they lean left, they also attack people on the left. Sure they make fun of the right too, and more often, but not exclusively. And again, it is comedy. South Park recently mocked Glenn Beck, I don't think this means that South Park is now a leftist propaganda outlet...
Besides, I don't think Murdoch could can the Simpsons even if he wanted to. I mean Fox has a history of canning good shows to replace them with drivel, but I think the Simpsons has tenure for more or less saving his network on repeat occasions.
Insightful? A health care rant on this story? I think the correct mod would have been off-topic, but hey, I could be wrong.
I have to agree with Pojut. I have seen both the PS3 and 360 versions on the same 42" 1080p TV. There is very very little difference visually, hardly "noticeable".
Just thought I would add that you do get physical feedback when you are clicking. You still click the mouse, the touch sensor is just used to figure out which you are clicking (right or left). That seems to be a common misconception about the mouse.
As for the touch area getting dirty, doesn't really happen much. It is just smooth plastic on the Magic Mouse. Wipe it off and go.
Americans are associated with it... You play an AMERICAN shooting the innocent Russians. So I guess you aren't against the Americans being bad, but that the violence isn't in American. In that case I guess look at GTA or something. Not sure how you got modded insightful.
It seems like most of the people posting here haven't played the game. I mean it takes, what... 5 hours to beat? If you haven't beat it yet its because you don't want to play it. Which is fine... but don't come here and talk about it then when you have no idea what you are talking about. I won't spoil it, but suffice to say the Americans aren't exactly heros in the situation...
I dunno LOTS of things use ARMs. Two huge sellers that come to mind are Nintendo DSs and iPhones/iPod touches
Do you have source on this at all? Don't get me wrong, it could be very true, but some Google-fu of 360 sales numbers current gen console sales didn't show anything like this. The closest thing I really found it crazy 360 sale numbers was some estimate from EA and EA isn't really Microsoft so I guess they can say whatever they want there really. I have also never seen huge piles of 360s sitting in stores.
The only really silly sales claim I have seen this gen was a few from Sony http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/12/
but isn't most everything in Guild Wars instanced off? Even towns and the like based on the number of people? I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered that being the case.
It isn't some people working supplementing those that don't or can't afford something that should be personal responsibility. Got kids you can't afford medical care for? That shows you couldn't afford kids!!
Um, are you aware of all the unpredictable things that can happen to a child that can rack up enormous medical costs? Should we then greatly increase the minimum wage? I don't think those making $7.25 per hour are going to ever really be able to afford children in your view. They also probably won't even really be able to afford to take care of themselves should anything happen to them.
Once all these people die off are you going to come clean my office, pickup my trash, work at McDonald's, and do minimal pay day labor in the fields? After all someone has to do that stuff. If you don't want to I suggest you not look so lowly on those that do it for us. Society has a lot of positions that aren't the best, but still need to be filled. People doing those jobs don't deserve to be spit on by the rest of us.
The have-nots greatly outnumber the haves. When the divide between the two grows too large bad things generally happen.
I was just going to point out that the two things you missed are incredibly easy to find... Not sure how you missed them. On the MacBook Pro page you go to specs and click 17" to find the weight. "6.6 pounds (2.99 kg)".
:P) It is $349 for 3 years. Can find it under Protection Plan which I think is acceptable wording. True it doesn't say EXTENDED WARRANTY, so I could see how you might miss it if you were just scanning the page it quickly come up with that, but meh. A buyer would have the info there easily.
:P
The extended warranty is listed on the buy page (if you don't buy one I imagine you wouldn't need a warranty
Not justifying their search (I think it is pretty poor personally) but I did want to point out that if you were going at it like a regular user speccing out a laptop all of the info would have been right there in your face.
At any rate I think the whole price debate that comes up around Macs is pointless. Obviously enough people think it is worth it or Apple wouldn't still be in business. I can't say I care where other people buy their computers
Really? I don't see how it is difficult to understand at all. Someone decided they want to try and force users to go all NVIDIA. I don't agree with it, but I can see how some suit would think it is a great idea.
In addition, for some incomprehensible reasons,
Greedy maybe, but incomprehensible? I think it is pretty easy to understand, they want you to go buy another nVIDIA card. I don't agree with it either, but thats just a silly word choice.
Eh ? It's "new" version that scales poorly for multitasking, for the same reason that OS X's Dock does - it makes switching from one arbitrary window to another a slower and more tedious operation.
I agree with you, but only because they didn't bother to steal what goes along with the dock now in OS X. By itself I could see it being tedious if you had a lot going on. However combine it with Spaces and Exposé (and Quicksilver, though that isn't really part of the OS) and you have, imo, the best environment for working with lots of open apps. That hover over preview thing doesn't cut it.
I like Windows 7 a lot, but I do think it is odd that they seem (to me anyway) to keep going for the visual parts of OS X rather than the stuff that makes working on it so enjoyable.
"And get this: with Linux, you don't have to reboot after installing new software. "
You have to reboot after installing things just as often as you do on Windows or OS X. I guess since it is an ad it should take some liberties (we all know Apple and Microsoft do) in describing the product, but that just seemed odd to me. Unless he is pitting modern Linux distros against Windows 98 or something.
I don't really think it is all that bad. I use Firefox on my Windows desktop, Firefox on my Slackware desktop, and Safari on my MacBook Pro, neither have any additional plugins or anything like adblock. Just the default pop up blockers. Depends on where you browse I guess.
Actually the latest version of the 360 is (at least from what I have seen) less likely to fail than the PS3. However the stigma of the notoriously unreliable early versions will stick around for some time to come.
It is a real issue and it does seem odd to pick the least reliable system for this, but Microsoft does replace them for free, and at least on the gaming front, reliability has never been a huge deal. People want to ramble on about how it will impact console wars, but the PS2 was easily the most failure prone of the last generation and it was also the best selling. *shrug* People want the software. If the PS2/360 has their games they will put up with failures. I would say the same holds true here. History of MS dev = MS platform for this.
Eh, I don't know about that. I am 10 years older than a 15 year old, but I know games older than myself. The topic game included. It was released just shy of 5 years before I was around, and yet I know of it and played it. When I was a kid friends and I would actually "two player" it. One on the extra pad and one on the joystick. It was actually pretty fun, at least for little kids after it got too dark to play outside. So that said, I bet plenty of 15 year olds know some older games.
http://www.google.nl/search?q=malware+mac says it all. Now get those ads off the air.
Why? Because that brings up some "Malware on the Rise" and "Malware proof your system" articles? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=linux+malware Brings up some articles just like that. Should we then assume that Linux is a growing haven of security holes and seedy malware? I don't think so and I don't know why you got modded informative.
1) This doesn't impact the Pre. Summary even mentions that.
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2) Palm itself pretty much dropped Palm sync. They retired it. I still have a Palm PDA and looking at Activity Monitor right now that is an outdated PowerPC task. Since they are dropping Power PC, I think it has a lot more to do with that than trying to edge out Palm. After all, they would be targeting the Pre and not their older smart phones and PDAs if that was the goal.
I guess I could be wrong, but this mostly just reads like some bad FUD / troll article and it seems based on the commends so far people are buying into that
this isn't a technical limitation, this is an imposed limit by Microsoft. They want you to purchase a more expensive version to use more memory.
32 and 64 cost the same, so not sure what you are trying to get at here.
I don't think it is that odd because every one I know who has had a 360 die on them (oddly not a large number considering how many of my friends have 360s, though I was one of the unlucky ones) got it replaced for free even if it was very old. So yes you are out a console for a few weeks, but then you get a new one at no cost to you. That probably factors in. "Yeah it might break, but I will get a new one!"
Are you seriously attempting to draw parallels between a man who has, more or less, dedicated his career towards opposing euthanasia and has been awarded for his efforts to improve health care to the Nazi eugenic practices? I hope not..
What, if any basis do you have for thinking the Obama healthcare program will bring about compulsory sterilization, "racial hygiene", and euthanasia to remove 'undesirables' from the gene pool? Did you not understand the differences between the two or are you just trying to take quotes out of context in an attempt to spread FUD to an idea you dislike?
Stuff like this is exactly why I used the word frightening in my first post.. people playing with ideas they don't even remotely understand is well... just that.
The fact that this was modded interesting is rather frightening. If anything Obama's policies are more like those found in several areas of modern Europe mixed with a bit of the new deal from here.
On the other hand, the Nazi government (while it certainly did barrow elements from the left) was rather aligned with the right. As early as 1933 it had become a dictatorship and began to violently suppressed all opposition. It was also openly aligned with eugenics and racism. Other ideas were outlawed. Your ability to make such a comment would not have existed.
So no, Obama doesn't resemble the "early Hitler". If he did, he wouldn't need to debate with people about his healthcare changes. Also if you didn't notice this was a Flickr decision... not an Obama one.
I also got my start with the 83, then moved to the 89. I though it was a great into to programming.