WTF is this obsession with "movies made in the last 10 years"? Why does a movie have to be new for you people to like it? Is your cultural imagination really so limited that you are unable to enjoy something that is not specifically crafted to cater to your current cultural ideals and norms? Netflix has an amazing back catalog with thousands of movies far better than any of the elephant dung that Hollywood as produced in the last ten years.
Excuse me, but WTF are you talking about? This argument works for, say, a guitar or microphone cable that is on a stage being stepped on; I shred about fifteen $10 cables in the lifespan of a $50 Monster cable. This argument makes no sense, however, for home theater. What kind of wear and tear is the cable going to have sitting in one place? Even if the $10 Monoprice cable broke down after 5 years (which it won't), you won't make your money back on a $100 Monster cable for 50 years.
This. We need tort reform in a big way. Lawyers and plaintiffs that bring frivolous lawsuits to court should have to repay the defendant for legal fees and lost wages. Heavy punitive damages should be levied against the bastards for abusing the court system. Lawyers who still don't get it ought to be disbarred permanently. That would end this in a hurry.
You are missing the point. The main argument for the metric system is NOT because it is standard, regardless of what TFA says. The reason we should switch to the metric system is the same that the rest of the world has already -- it simply makes a whole lot more sense. Everything is base 10, and if you know what the basic unit of measurement is you can very easily figure out how to go between units simply by moving a decimal place. Imperial measures, on the other hand, are totally psychotic. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5,280 feet to a mile. It is the type of nonsense that we would expect to see in Dr. Seuss story, not it real life.
Who is talking about hemorrhaging money? Pretty much all of the evidence shows that if the record industry adapted with the times their profit margins would increase.
China has never claimed to be anything but repressive, though. The U.S. has always claimed to fully support freedom of speech, yet is repressing speech. So, U.S. = hypocrites, China != hypocrites. This is not to say, however, that the U.S. suppression of speech is anywhere even close to the suppression in China.
This. My personal belief upon looking at human history is that if something is not prohibited by the laws of physics and a large enough number of people want to do it, then we eventually figure out how to do it. Case in point -- just imagine telling someone in 1950 that we would put a man on the moon. Or go back to 1990 with a modern smartphone. Just because something is difficult and not possible with current technology only means that we need to get our asses in gear and find the technology to do it.
I don't think that it is fair for us to expect John to have made clear, specific predictions. It is fair, however, to expect a clear prediction before we consider it to be at all convincing. The predictions contained in the Bible (and in the works of Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, the Koran, etc) all are so nebulous as to be applicable to virtually any time in history, rendering them utterly useless. Is there any way that John of Patmos could have understood what he was seeing were he transported to the future? Maybe not. He would, however, have had to do a much better job communicating the fact that he had access to knowledge that he could not have otherwise had before I am remotely impressed.
The Catholic Church has NEVER been concerned with truth in any way, shape, or form. They have, without fail, when confronted with a conflict between church dogma and reality, fought reality kicking and screaming until they were FORCED to accept the truth. Case in point, they didn't get around to forgiving Galileo until the late 20th Century. They have the nerve to call themselves "progressive" for accepting the truth of the Theory of Evolution -- more than 100 years later. Today, there is overwhelming proof that proper sex ed and condom usage drastically reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS, yet they outwardly lie and say that condoms increase the risk of AIDS simply because birth control conflicts with their silly fairy tales. They deserve no credit for the pursuit of truth whatsoever, they deserve mountains of scorn for the centuries of damage that they have done and continue to do to the real search for truth.
RTFA -- This point is addressed there. It would be all well and good to just keep one version of the software around, but vendors such as Adobe and Intuit go out of their way to break compatibility between versions. If, say, you want to keep your old version of Quickbooks, it will work just fine for you until you decide to share the files with your accountant. If he has a newer version, you are SOL. This is absurdly shitty, anti-consumer business practice and I think the best way to fight it would be for professional organizations representing the trades that use it (graphic designers, accountants, etc.) to try to force better terms on the software companies. Software should ALWAYS be backward compatible with files from older versions, and should have an option to save a file to be compatible with the old version whenever possible.
...that's enough with the April's Fools Jokes. Can we actually get a real story on the front page at some point today? Also, am I alone in thinking that these sorts of "jokes" are completely pointless at this point? I mean, everyone expects it and can spot them from a mile away. Isn't the point of an April Fool's joke to, you know, fool people?
You, sir, suffer from a profound lack of imagination. Sure, today's chips are more than powerful enough for today's applications, but what about tomorrows applications? Do you really think that we have reached the apex of software complexity and are just going to rest on our laurels and make the graphics prettier? With the increases in computing power that we will see in the next 10, 15, and 20 years, we will see an increase in software complexity to match. True AI will become commonplace, rendering everything we know about UI's irrelevant. When we come up with truly three dimensional imaging techs (think the holodeck, not 3DTV bullshit) we will a huge increase in graphics horsepower to run it. We are going to see the ways we interact with our computers and the tasks we can accomplish with them change in ways that we cannot even imagine into the future.
How is this modded insightful? While this argument in favor of war is certainly overused, I can't see how this situation could be resolved with anything other than physical force. We currently have a very strong military force backing up a tyrannical dictator marching towards a city with every intention of murdering every man, woman, and child in the city when they get there. Because they were protesting. Against his tyranny. This sort of thing cannot be tolerated any more. I know it has happened many, many times in the history while we simply watched idly by, but this is no excuse to fail to act now, and we are simply out of options, Gaddafi has forced our hand.
This would be an amazing practice tool. If I were still playing in a band, I would buy this in a heartbeat and incorporate it into my practice routine (which was quite intense, as it must be fore any type of music that takes more than a heartbeat to play).
Wrong. They can and they do. Rationally, we ought to be able to filter out the negative words from those around us, but in reality this is impossible. We are social primates, our entire concept of self is centered around the interactions we have with those around us. This is simply the way things are, and all of your pretentious bloviations on the Internet will do nothing to change this. Unless we do something to cut the head off the serpent, kids are going to continue to fall through the cracks.
Agreed. Although I would like to say that as evolved social creatures, the words themselves can be intensely damaging. While we should not let others' words harm us, they do cut to the core of our self-image, as or self-image is entirely informed by the way others act towards us.
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WTF is this obsession with "movies made in the last 10 years"? Why does a movie have to be new for you people to like it? Is your cultural imagination really so limited that you are unable to enjoy something that is not specifically crafted to cater to your current cultural ideals and norms? Netflix has an amazing back catalog with thousands of movies far better than any of the elephant dung that Hollywood as produced in the last ten years.
Excuse me, but WTF are you talking about? This argument works for, say, a guitar or microphone cable that is on a stage being stepped on; I shred about fifteen $10 cables in the lifespan of a $50 Monster cable. This argument makes no sense, however, for home theater. What kind of wear and tear is the cable going to have sitting in one place? Even if the $10 Monoprice cable broke down after 5 years (which it won't), you won't make your money back on a $100 Monster cable for 50 years.
10 inches ought to be enough for anybody.
That's not what your mom said...
This. We need tort reform in a big way. Lawyers and plaintiffs that bring frivolous lawsuits to court should have to repay the defendant for legal fees and lost wages. Heavy punitive damages should be levied against the bastards for abusing the court system. Lawyers who still don't get it ought to be disbarred permanently. That would end this in a hurry.
You are missing the point. The main argument for the metric system is NOT because it is standard, regardless of what TFA says. The reason we should switch to the metric system is the same that the rest of the world has already -- it simply makes a whole lot more sense. Everything is base 10, and if you know what the basic unit of measurement is you can very easily figure out how to go between units simply by moving a decimal place. Imperial measures, on the other hand, are totally psychotic. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5,280 feet to a mile. It is the type of nonsense that we would expect to see in Dr. Seuss story, not it real life.
Why would it be a bad thing for them to (sorry) take a bite out of Apple? Apple has done nothing but bad lately.
Who is talking about hemorrhaging money? Pretty much all of the evidence shows that if the record industry adapted with the times their profit margins would increase.
Get off my lawn!!
This. If a bank is that lax with privacy/security policy, everyone responsible belongs in a federal PMITA prison.
More like "The pot, never claiming to not be black, informs the kettle that it is also black, or at least, grey, and not as white as it claims to be."
China has never claimed to be anything but repressive, though. The U.S. has always claimed to fully support freedom of speech, yet is repressing speech. So, U.S. = hypocrites, China != hypocrites. This is not to say, however, that the U.S. suppression of speech is anywhere even close to the suppression in China.
Yep. I'm sure we can expect a formal correction from the NYPD any day now...
This. My personal belief upon looking at human history is that if something is not prohibited by the laws of physics and a large enough number of people want to do it, then we eventually figure out how to do it. Case in point -- just imagine telling someone in 1950 that we would put a man on the moon. Or go back to 1990 with a modern smartphone. Just because something is difficult and not possible with current technology only means that we need to get our asses in gear and find the technology to do it.
Nah, I remember one time this guy told me that 640K ought to be enough for anybody, and that is certainly still true today.
Yes, but they also said that Obama is the anti-Christ, and everyone knows that he was born in Kenya!
I don't think that it is fair for us to expect John to have made clear, specific predictions. It is fair, however, to expect a clear prediction before we consider it to be at all convincing. The predictions contained in the Bible (and in the works of Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, the Koran, etc) all are so nebulous as to be applicable to virtually any time in history, rendering them utterly useless. Is there any way that John of Patmos could have understood what he was seeing were he transported to the future? Maybe not. He would, however, have had to do a much better job communicating the fact that he had access to knowledge that he could not have otherwise had before I am remotely impressed.
The Catholic Church has NEVER been concerned with truth in any way, shape, or form. They have, without fail, when confronted with a conflict between church dogma and reality, fought reality kicking and screaming until they were FORCED to accept the truth. Case in point, they didn't get around to forgiving Galileo until the late 20th Century. They have the nerve to call themselves "progressive" for accepting the truth of the Theory of Evolution -- more than 100 years later. Today, there is overwhelming proof that proper sex ed and condom usage drastically reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS, yet they outwardly lie and say that condoms increase the risk of AIDS simply because birth control conflicts with their silly fairy tales. They deserve no credit for the pursuit of truth whatsoever, they deserve mountains of scorn for the centuries of damage that they have done and continue to do to the real search for truth.
RTFA -- This point is addressed there. It would be all well and good to just keep one version of the software around, but vendors such as Adobe and Intuit go out of their way to break compatibility between versions. If, say, you want to keep your old version of Quickbooks, it will work just fine for you until you decide to share the files with your accountant. If he has a newer version, you are SOL. This is absurdly shitty, anti-consumer business practice and I think the best way to fight it would be for professional organizations representing the trades that use it (graphic designers, accountants, etc.) to try to force better terms on the software companies. Software should ALWAYS be backward compatible with files from older versions, and should have an option to save a file to be compatible with the old version whenever possible.
...that's enough with the April's Fools Jokes. Can we actually get a real story on the front page at some point today? Also, am I alone in thinking that these sorts of "jokes" are completely pointless at this point? I mean, everyone expects it and can spot them from a mile away. Isn't the point of an April Fool's joke to, you know, fool people?
You, sir, suffer from a profound lack of imagination. Sure, today's chips are more than powerful enough for today's applications, but what about tomorrows applications? Do you really think that we have reached the apex of software complexity and are just going to rest on our laurels and make the graphics prettier? With the increases in computing power that we will see in the next 10, 15, and 20 years, we will see an increase in software complexity to match. True AI will become commonplace, rendering everything we know about UI's irrelevant. When we come up with truly three dimensional imaging techs (think the holodeck, not 3DTV bullshit) we will a huge increase in graphics horsepower to run it. We are going to see the ways we interact with our computers and the tasks we can accomplish with them change in ways that we cannot even imagine into the future.
This.
How is this modded insightful? While this argument in favor of war is certainly overused, I can't see how this situation could be resolved with anything other than physical force. We currently have a very strong military force backing up a tyrannical dictator marching towards a city with every intention of murdering every man, woman, and child in the city when they get there. Because they were protesting. Against his tyranny. This sort of thing cannot be tolerated any more. I know it has happened many, many times in the history while we simply watched idly by, but this is no excuse to fail to act now, and we are simply out of options, Gaddafi has forced our hand.
This would be an amazing practice tool. If I were still playing in a band, I would buy this in a heartbeat and incorporate it into my practice routine (which was quite intense, as it must be fore any type of music that takes more than a heartbeat to play).
Wrong. They can and they do. Rationally, we ought to be able to filter out the negative words from those around us, but in reality this is impossible. We are social primates, our entire concept of self is centered around the interactions we have with those around us. This is simply the way things are, and all of your pretentious bloviations on the Internet will do nothing to change this. Unless we do something to cut the head off the serpent, kids are going to continue to fall through the cracks.
Agreed. Although I would like to say that as evolved social creatures, the words themselves can be intensely damaging. While we should not let others' words harm us, they do cut to the core of our self-image, as or self-image is entirely informed by the way others act towards us.