36 inches is getting into the range where you could flip it upright, throw a glass tabletop on it, and call it the "Apple coffee table" or whatever. Which would actually be kind of cool for certain games (not tired old FPS, but card games, or words with friends, or...).
Speak for yourself. My first LCD (a 32" Samsung) now resides in my bedroom and it's just fine (people still think it's overkill a lot of the time).
Besides, it's not like I'm in there watching full 1080p with 7.1 surround and all that crap, I'll go in the living room and my 60" if I want to do that. The bedroom TV is for watching CNN in the morning as I'm getting ready for work or a movie at night to fall asleep to. Who the hell wants to be in their bedroom for a long period of time watching TV?
Yes, I truly believe Apple would do that. They make big, big bucks selling $50 adapters that cost $.03 to make. I would not be surprised at all if this thing came with a few HDMI ports and necessitated dongles and adapters for everything else. You know, in the interests of "simplicity" and "clean design".
Oh, I'm sure they're going to come up with every excuse in the book. Many commentators are already backing away from it with a pained expression on their face.
I just hope, when the GOP machine figures out a way to nullify the caucus (can't have a non-war monger President, the military-industrial complex could collapse and then the communists would win!) that Ron Paul decides to run as an independent. I don't know if he'd win, but I'll vote for anyone over Newt Gingrich or any of the other tea-tards on the ballot. I'll vote for Obama over those guys; as much as he fucking pisses me off, at least he's not at war with gays, Muslims, and reproductive rights. That is a deal-breaker for me.
This is how they do it in Wisconsin as well, although February's GOP primary here will be the first time I've ever voted in a primary election in this state before. Still, I would assume that the methods are similar.
What if the Black Death hadn't have occurred? What if Rome had never fallen? What if the Chinese had used gunpowder for more than fireworks? What if Christianity had never caught on? What if Native Americans had thrown off the colonists?
Until we start figuring out how to travel the multiverse, it's all subjective opinion...
Personally, after reading a little about Hollywood accounting years ago, I shed my last tear for Big Celluloid.
Yeah, really. When you read the list of movies that have "lost money" on paper (Forrest Gump, Coming to America, The Lord of the Rings films, Spider-Man, JFK...to name a few) it's hard to take any claims they make seriously.
With all due respect, I think I'll defer to my doctor. She's given me no reason to question her abilities, and the methods she's prescribed have been very successful thus far.
Eating 1,500 calories a day at McDonald's instead of 2,500 isn't going do much good at all. Believe me, I wish it was as easy as eating less. My nutritionist probably does, too. It would probably save her a lot of time and energy explaining to people day in and day out "It's not how much you eat, it's what you eat."
Eating healthy costs more than eating crap. I don't think anyone that buys groceries on a regular basis could dispute that. I really wish it were not so...trust me, I do.
What better quality of life is that? Our poor people have cell phones, cars, cable television, and too much food (poor americans are fat!) for christ sakes. You really cant get an 'enormously better quality of life' yet. Our poor are rich by any standards but the warped bullshit ones.
They're not fat because they have too much food, they're fat because the cheap food is all terrible for you.
A family of four can go to McDonald's and eat dinner for $15. They're consuming 2,000 empty calories in a single sitting. A 2-liter of Coke is $1.29. A gallon of orange juice is $6. See the problem?
Anyone that's actually made a conscious effort to eat better and lose weight quickly realizes how ridiculously fucking expensive it is to do so, and that ignores the time element involved. It takes far more time to prepare a proper meal than it does to hit the drive-through. When you're a wage slave you're not working 9-5, you're working two jobs just to live in the manner we call "first world". That means when you get done your 12-16 hour day at work, the last fucking thing you want to do is spend an hour in front of the stove. So what do you do? Break out the Hot Pockets. Two minutes and here's your dinner, kids.
It's easy to point fingers when you're on the other side of the fence. I grew up poor. I had Peanut Butter and Jelly for dinner more often than I can count, and believe me, it wasn't because my mother wasn't working hard. She worked 14 hours a fucking day and was so tired a lot of the time she would sometimes literally fall asleep standing in front of the stove making us Macaroni and Cheese. But hard work doesn't equal success. And success, in this world, definitely does not equal hard work.
As for the rest of the things you take objection to, let's see. Cell phones? How many people have a land line these days? Better yet, if you don't have good credit (as most poor people don't, how can you have good credit if you can't even get credit?) how the hell do you pay the phone company their $300 deposit to get the service turned on in the first place? You don't, so cell phone it is. Could you live without a phone? Could you function in today's world? But somehow, poor people are supposed to be able to? Please.
Cars? How the fuck else are they gonna get to work? Take the bus? What if the bus doesn't go where they work? I mean, the whole country isn't New York City. Most of us don't even have access to that kind of infrastructure. Shit, a lot of cash strapped cities are cutting back on their public transportation systems. So it's either get a car (usually a fucking beater that gets 3 miles a gallon when you're lucky enough to get it running) or not work. Believe me, I wish I lived in one of those places where I could realistically take public transportation. It would take me over an hour, one way, to get to work by bus, with all the transfer points. One hour by bus, less than 15 minutes by car. Not even exaggerating. Maybe you have the time to spare but I'm not lucky enough for that.
And cable, frankly, I call bullshit all over that one. I know hardly anyone that has cable anymore, and of those people that do, almost all of them have it because it's bundled with their internet service. Internet connectivity is almost as necessary to getting by in this world as having a telephone is. My bank, for instance, doesn't even do paper statements anymore. What few things are not primarily online-based are moving that way. I know people that pay their damn rent online now.
But, ignoring all that, if we're going to start holding up the poor of third-world countries and say "Shut up and be grateful for what you have!" than I say it's time to do the same thing for the rich. How many multi-billionaires do you think Somalia has produced? How about Indonesia? Why can't the wealthy here be happy with what the wealthy over there have?
Oh, I see. It's okay to be entitled if you're wealthy. Poor people should just be glad they're not forced to catch stray dogs and cats to eat.
Yeah, I know, but there are far more personal websites out there than Cocacola.com's, if you get my meaning.
Like you said, the odds of someone using their service being in support of SOPA are slim to none. The Cocacola.com's aren't using GoDaddy. They basically gave 99% of their customer base the finger by supporting this stupid shit. What a bunch of idiots...
Yeah, turns out that the vast majority of people that maintain websites are against SOPA. Which is totally obvious considering the demographic. One really wonders what the fuck GoDaddy thought was gonna happen here. This stupid SOPA shit is so totally stacked against anyone that isn't a Huge Media Conglomerate or MAFIAA fuck that they should have expected this response.
Besides, everyone knows they're not sincere with this reversal. They just don't want to lose their customer base. Probably should have thought before they backed legislation that directly harms their customer base, though...
There's a big difference between profiling someone that's acting really weird at an airport and profiling someone by assuming that, for instance, they're Hispanic and therefore should have their immigration status checked anytime they come into contact with a police officer.
If there's reasonable suspicion I'm all for investigation. What I'm not all for, for instance, is assuming that every woman wearing a hijab is a potential terrorist and thus warrants investigation based on that fact alone.
Reasonable suspicion is a grey area, I admit, but that's what the courts are for. The courts have emphatically upheld that simply being of a certain minority is not a valid reason to suspect they are breaking the law. Despite what you may hear as of late, all Muslims are not terrorists.
Why do people never learn? Go read up on Manzanar and the Japanese Internment during World War II. That is the road profiling leads us down. They thought they were doing things in the best interests of the U.S. and its security, too...but it was still wrong, and we can all agree on that (I would hope).
I started boycotting GoDaddy earlier this year when their CEO, Bob Parsons, went to Africa to get his rocks off killing an elephant for sport.
And no, I'm not anti-hunting, but I am anti-hunting endangered animals, especially if there is no cultural norms involved, and I am definitely anti-hunting if your sole motivation is just to kill something for fun.
People routinely remember telephone numbers for example.
To be fair, I only know one phone number by heart any more, and that is my father's cell phone number, and the only reason I have that one memorized is because he's had the same number for a decade and I memorized it back when land line telephones were common. I wouldn't be able to recall any phone number in my contact's list from memory if my life depended on it. If I ever get locked up I'm so screwed...
Exactly. The weakest point in any security system will always be the user, and unfortunately, the user is the hardest weakness to combat.
Consider forcing password changes at certain intervals: 99% of the time, the new password is the same as the old one with a variation of a single character; e.g., "Flower" becomes "Flower1". Then, next time there's a forced password change, they just set it right the hell back to "Flower", or go up to "Flower2".
Then there's the systems where the password is provided, usually gibberish alphanumeric of a certain character length. Nobody can remember that shit, so what does everyone do? Write it the hell down somewhere, or store it in a text file; usually fucking called "Passwords", because people are retards.
No matter how elaborate your security is, the user will find a way to fuck it up. A door won't be closed, a document won't be shredded, a workstation won't be locked, a security protocol won't be followed, and it's always for the sake of the user's convenience. The more of a pain in the ass it is, the more likely it will be compromised by laziness on the part of the user. That's just how people are; not all of them, but a lot of them.
I mean, stories of people getting hacked or their identities stolen are in the news all the time, and the most common user-created passwords are still ridiculous shit like "1234" and "ABCDEFG". Clearly people would rather accept the risk of a weak password for the sake of convenience. Either that or they really are retarded.
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X rated answer : "Adult" movies?
People still buy porn? I thought the web had pretty much taken that entire market over...
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36 inches is getting into the range where you could flip it upright, throw a glass tabletop on it, and call it the "Apple coffee table" or whatever. Which would actually be kind of cool for certain games (not tired old FPS, but card games, or words with friends, or ...).
I've been pining for one of these things for years. Microsoft Surface 2 Demo
Or, if you're into D&D...
Speak for yourself. My first LCD (a 32" Samsung) now resides in my bedroom and it's just fine (people still think it's overkill a lot of the time).
Besides, it's not like I'm in there watching full 1080p with 7.1 surround and all that crap, I'll go in the living room and my 60" if I want to do that. The bedroom TV is for watching CNN in the morning as I'm getting ready for work or a movie at night to fall asleep to. Who the hell wants to be in their bedroom for a long period of time watching TV?
and finally The People's Republic of Apple®©.
Fixed.
Yes, I truly believe Apple would do that. They make big, big bucks selling $50 adapters that cost $.03 to make. I would not be surprised at all if this thing came with a few HDMI ports and necessitated dongles and adapters for everything else. You know, in the interests of "simplicity" and "clean design".
I'm sure it will all be for the low, low price of $3000 for the 32", $3500 for the 37".
I don't think they should to get involved in this market. Most people already go buy whatever cheap piece of crap Walmart TV they can find. You can get a 32" right now at Walmart.com for $200.
Then again, people have shown their desire to throw money at Apple before...
Oh, I'm sure they're going to come up with every excuse in the book. Many commentators are already backing away from it with a pained expression on their face.
I just hope, when the GOP machine figures out a way to nullify the caucus (can't have a non-war monger President, the military-industrial complex could collapse and then the communists would win!) that Ron Paul decides to run as an independent. I don't know if he'd win, but I'll vote for anyone over Newt Gingrich or any of the other tea-tards on the ballot. I'll vote for Obama over those guys; as much as he fucking pisses me off, at least he's not at war with gays, Muslims, and reproductive rights. That is a deal-breaker for me.
This is how they do it in Wisconsin as well, although February's GOP primary here will be the first time I've ever voted in a primary election in this state before. Still, I would assume that the methods are similar.
Now that Congress has authorized the official use of Cyberwarfare I'm sure they will be.
Although I'm far too cynical to believe that they've restrained themselves before now. That's just making it official...
The Bear Jew does...
What if the Black Death hadn't have occurred? What if Rome had never fallen? What if the Chinese had used gunpowder for more than fireworks? What if Christianity had never caught on? What if Native Americans had thrown off the colonists?
Until we start figuring out how to travel the multiverse, it's all subjective opinion...
Personally, after reading a little about Hollywood accounting years ago, I shed my last tear for Big Celluloid.
Yeah, really. When you read the list of movies that have "lost money" on paper (Forrest Gump, Coming to America, The Lord of the Rings films, Spider-Man, JFK...to name a few) it's hard to take any claims they make seriously.
Old school rules.
Yeah, sometimes it really does. Unfortunately this is not one of those times. Now I need to bleach my eyes...
With all due respect, I think I'll defer to my doctor. She's given me no reason to question her abilities, and the methods she's prescribed have been very successful thus far.
Eat less. Works every time.
Eating 1,500 calories a day at McDonald's instead of 2,500 isn't going do much good at all. Believe me, I wish it was as easy as eating less. My nutritionist probably does, too. It would probably save her a lot of time and energy explaining to people day in and day out "It's not how much you eat, it's what you eat."
Eating healthy costs more than eating crap. I don't think anyone that buys groceries on a regular basis could dispute that. I really wish it were not so...trust me, I do.
What better quality of life is that? Our poor people have cell phones, cars, cable television, and too much food (poor americans are fat!) for christ sakes. You really cant get an 'enormously better quality of life' yet. Our poor are rich by any standards but the warped bullshit ones.
They're not fat because they have too much food, they're fat because the cheap food is all terrible for you.
A family of four can go to McDonald's and eat dinner for $15. They're consuming 2,000 empty calories in a single sitting. A 2-liter of Coke is $1.29. A gallon of orange juice is $6. See the problem?
Anyone that's actually made a conscious effort to eat better and lose weight quickly realizes how ridiculously fucking expensive it is to do so, and that ignores the time element involved. It takes far more time to prepare a proper meal than it does to hit the drive-through. When you're a wage slave you're not working 9-5, you're working two jobs just to live in the manner we call "first world". That means when you get done your 12-16 hour day at work, the last fucking thing you want to do is spend an hour in front of the stove. So what do you do? Break out the Hot Pockets. Two minutes and here's your dinner, kids.
It's easy to point fingers when you're on the other side of the fence. I grew up poor. I had Peanut Butter and Jelly for dinner more often than I can count, and believe me, it wasn't because my mother wasn't working hard. She worked 14 hours a fucking day and was so tired a lot of the time she would sometimes literally fall asleep standing in front of the stove making us Macaroni and Cheese. But hard work doesn't equal success. And success, in this world, definitely does not equal hard work.
As for the rest of the things you take objection to, let's see. Cell phones? How many people have a land line these days? Better yet, if you don't have good credit (as most poor people don't, how can you have good credit if you can't even get credit?) how the hell do you pay the phone company their $300 deposit to get the service turned on in the first place? You don't, so cell phone it is. Could you live without a phone? Could you function in today's world? But somehow, poor people are supposed to be able to? Please.
Cars? How the fuck else are they gonna get to work? Take the bus? What if the bus doesn't go where they work? I mean, the whole country isn't New York City. Most of us don't even have access to that kind of infrastructure. Shit, a lot of cash strapped cities are cutting back on their public transportation systems. So it's either get a car (usually a fucking beater that gets 3 miles a gallon when you're lucky enough to get it running) or not work. Believe me, I wish I lived in one of those places where I could realistically take public transportation. It would take me over an hour, one way, to get to work by bus, with all the transfer points. One hour by bus, less than 15 minutes by car. Not even exaggerating. Maybe you have the time to spare but I'm not lucky enough for that.
And cable, frankly, I call bullshit all over that one. I know hardly anyone that has cable anymore, and of those people that do, almost all of them have it because it's bundled with their internet service. Internet connectivity is almost as necessary to getting by in this world as having a telephone is. My bank, for instance, doesn't even do paper statements anymore. What few things are not primarily online-based are moving that way. I know people that pay their damn rent online now.
But, ignoring all that, if we're going to start holding up the poor of third-world countries and say "Shut up and be grateful for what you have!" than I say it's time to do the same thing for the rich. How many multi-billionaires do you think Somalia has produced? How about Indonesia? Why can't the wealthy here be happy with what the wealthy over there have?
Oh, I see. It's okay to be entitled if you're wealthy. Poor people should just be glad they're not forced to catch stray dogs and cats to eat.
Jesus wept...
What the fucking hell is wrong with people???????
Yeah, I know, but there are far more personal websites out there than Cocacola.com's, if you get my meaning.
Like you said, the odds of someone using their service being in support of SOPA are slim to none. The Cocacola.com's aren't using GoDaddy. They basically gave 99% of their customer base the finger by supporting this stupid shit. What a bunch of idiots...
Yeah, turns out that the vast majority of people that maintain websites are against SOPA. Which is totally obvious considering the demographic. One really wonders what the fuck GoDaddy thought was gonna happen here. This stupid SOPA shit is so totally stacked against anyone that isn't a Huge Media Conglomerate or MAFIAA fuck that they should have expected this response.
Besides, everyone knows they're not sincere with this reversal. They just don't want to lose their customer base. Probably should have thought before they backed legislation that directly harms their customer base, though...
There's a big difference between profiling someone that's acting really weird at an airport and profiling someone by assuming that, for instance, they're Hispanic and therefore should have their immigration status checked anytime they come into contact with a police officer.
If there's reasonable suspicion I'm all for investigation. What I'm not all for, for instance, is assuming that every woman wearing a hijab is a potential terrorist and thus warrants investigation based on that fact alone.
Reasonable suspicion is a grey area, I admit, but that's what the courts are for. The courts have emphatically upheld that simply being of a certain minority is not a valid reason to suspect they are breaking the law. Despite what you may hear as of late, all Muslims are not terrorists.
Why do people never learn? Go read up on Manzanar and the Japanese Internment during World War II. That is the road profiling leads us down. They thought they were doing things in the best interests of the U.S. and its security, too...but it was still wrong, and we can all agree on that (I would hope).
I started boycotting GoDaddy earlier this year when their CEO, Bob Parsons, went to Africa to get his rocks off killing an elephant for sport.
And no, I'm not anti-hunting, but I am anti-hunting endangered animals, especially if there is no cultural norms involved, and I am definitely anti-hunting if your sole motivation is just to kill something for fun.
People routinely remember telephone numbers for example.
To be fair, I only know one phone number by heart any more, and that is my father's cell phone number, and the only reason I have that one memorized is because he's had the same number for a decade and I memorized it back when land line telephones were common. I wouldn't be able to recall any phone number in my contact's list from memory if my life depended on it. If I ever get locked up I'm so screwed...
"Guns. Lots of guns."
Exactly. The weakest point in any security system will always be the user, and unfortunately, the user is the hardest weakness to combat.
Consider forcing password changes at certain intervals: 99% of the time, the new password is the same as the old one with a variation of a single character; e.g., "Flower" becomes "Flower1". Then, next time there's a forced password change, they just set it right the hell back to "Flower", or go up to "Flower2".
Then there's the systems where the password is provided, usually gibberish alphanumeric of a certain character length. Nobody can remember that shit, so what does everyone do? Write it the hell down somewhere, or store it in a text file; usually fucking called "Passwords", because people are retards.
No matter how elaborate your security is, the user will find a way to fuck it up. A door won't be closed, a document won't be shredded, a workstation won't be locked, a security protocol won't be followed, and it's always for the sake of the user's convenience. The more of a pain in the ass it is, the more likely it will be compromised by laziness on the part of the user. That's just how people are; not all of them, but a lot of them.
I mean, stories of people getting hacked or their identities stolen are in the news all the time, and the most common user-created passwords are still ridiculous shit like "1234" and "ABCDEFG". Clearly people would rather accept the risk of a weak password for the sake of convenience. Either that or they really are retarded.