with his fun with Siri it makes me realize how far we have to go. Some of the questions he asked while easily answerable by a person because we understand the question and relationship of the actors in question but Siri cannot understand that. Siri is like a smart pet, you treat it at that level its fine. However any four year old will whoops its ass in even the simplest of questions.
I don't care what system you choose, I can have all the receipts I want in any form I want, when I get home I have no more proof my vote even mattered as I have no guarantee that another vote or votes were not fraudulent.
So not only present a receipt that cannot be used to intimidate (why I really dislike all attempts to make union acceptance votes open in the US - card check) while assuring those who are voting that their vote doesn't get wasted by fraudulent votes entering the system.
So, perhaps your vote plus all others accounted for in a form decipherable by a computer?
Still politicians are doing their best to keep us from even asking people to have valid IDs to vote with. How can you get a real system where those asking for one are intimidated by being called out as racists/bigots and the like simply by asking for one person one vote verification and how do you do that without ID? ( and I don't mean to be mean, but other than a picture ID how do you help people who are not all that bright?)
As in, they pay back up to half the loan if the student defaults. If the student cannot make the minimum payment the school makes up the difference. Then they might actually start rejecting people who obviously have no chance in their dream field instead of selecting students based on who can get a loan.
Simply because it still requires you to tell it which mode it is in, heating or cooling. The motion sensor is a gimmick as many will not have these items in areas where the traffic is during the day. I certainly have not seen a house with one in the kitchen, breakfast area, office, or bedroom outside of the master, so how useful is that? Let alone, do you have pets? How will it know a bird in a cage is there (I don't have one, but a motion sensor won't pick it up either)
Comfort range should be independent of the season, meaning I can accept certain lows at specific times of the day and likewise certain highs. I could care less what the season is though psychologically seventies in the winter do feel warmer than seventies in the summer.
Seems to be following the standard course for famous people, they get puffed up to near god like levels and then we kick them into the gutter as everyone with a bone to pick gets their 15 minutes of fame.
While I like some of his products and his influence on design is without question I never would excuse half what he is rumored to have done. That being said, he's dead. Give it a few years and maybe we will get closer to the truth
because you don't rack up nearly a hundred billion dollars in reserves if your not trying to make money. They can claim all they want " it is about the items and not the bottom line " but if that were the case they would not be exploiting the price points they are using.
Face it, it goes with the mystique but somewhere under the layers there is the truth and of course there is that near one hundred billion dollars.
Which means instead of lampooning organizations like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street we need to take from them the best of their ideas and act on it.
It means for Americans doing your best to get candidates who do not have a D or R next to their name some traction.
It means for those in Europe figuring out how to get out from under Brussels - best of luck, I don't know your politics.
Whatever it is, you won't do it through tax laws so please no, they need to pay more, corporations merely hide the heavy taxation the population is under, see indirect taxes.
So, anytime you see a politician wanting to expand your benefits be wary, the money comes from somewhere and if its not paid its owed and those to whom we owe call the shots.
Flippant remarks like yours depress me when they are rated insightful. Either there is far to wealth envy on Slashdot or people are just mad and take it out anyway they can.
Look, the guy is what, seventy years old. He has made a lot of choices in his life and some of them were obviously very good.
Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be permanent, I know I have worked a few in my life including having to do some after getting out the service. Guess what, it was a lot of incentive to do better. It also meant working more than one until I could get better.
The majority of people working minimum wage are teenagers. The majority reason for getting only minimum wage is you have no job skills. Less than 2% of all adult worker earn minimum wage, two thirds of that is in food service. Part time workers are five times more likely to earn minimum wage.
So, how does having access to government loan programs raise these people up? If anything its probably going to put them further in debt and for longer with debts that cannot be discharged. Colleges, private and state, have all figured out how to exploit the market place and have done the job of convincing many people they need a degree to get anywhere. That is not true. Finally, if you get a soft degree (non engineering for example) do not expect to get paid as much as someone who worked for the better degree.
What is true is that you don't become successful overnight. You don't earn you highest salary starting out. Most people don't peak until their 40s yet today everyone wants to be in the big house with fancy cars in their 20s. Get real.
People have unreasonable expectations out of life. There is an investment. Some times things go wrong. The key is, adjust. It sucks. I spent four plus years below the poverty level but family and friends helped. I give back now.
when they first implemented their subway system between gates. It has changed a few times since then but being a product of that generation many of us used to comment on it all the time in BBS days.
Personal favorite female voice on a computer was the voice used in Mechwarrior 2.
Simple really, because the guys in power now may not be the guys in power tomorrow and things they have done may not be acceptable later.
Plus accidents do and will happen. If these troops were forced to defend themselves they should not have to do so with the specter of prosecution hanging over their heads. The bad guys aren't beyond using innocents to setup a situation
As in, Fisker is connect to an Al Gore group and Tesla is connected to Google leaders who are major fund raisers for......
So just like Solyndra, none of this was about viability, this was all about who is connected to whom, follow the money. It is nothing more than politics as usual
another way is to understand that a lot research we fund today is already in the best interests of the groups getting the funds to do so. Many large corporations receive hundred of millions if not billions to develop technology they are already working on, selling, and profiting on. Another large part of funding goes to politically connected friends to companies that had no future but sound damn good until you look under the covers.
HUD condemned thousands of families into high rise squalor after local politicians took over their homes for politically connected friends to build into office towers and industrial parks. The cover up was getting out of their homes which were defined as ghettos and the like and saving them by putting them prison style in cement monsters. By the way, they have only existed since 1965
The Department of Energy has overseen what great advances? Started by Carter in 1977 and presided over the death of US Nuclear energy programs and practically no progress on any other fronts for how many years? Most of the advances to coal and such came from trying to overcome restrictions imposed by other agencies.
Department of Education, again founded during Jimmy Carters Presidency has overseen explosive growth in costs for educating the children of the US with what results? Horribly poor results.
So while it is easy to do a hit piece on Ron Paul (believe he has lots of other ideas that can be labled kook ville) there are areas where he is right. Research won't stop when these government organizations go away. We already suffer from a lot of duplicate/triple/etc number of efforts all within the government. Hell we have departments which undermine each other.
So don't laugh it off with a cute one line phrase, that cheapens the discussion. The truth is, the US government has grown too large to manage. An example, there are over TWO THOUSAND aid programs available to provide the needy with money and other support - TWO THOUSAND. We spend SIX TRILLION DOLLARS or more per year when you combine all levels of government in the US and for what?
So go look at each department he wants to axe, then ask yourself. Can it be done under another department. Can it be done at the state level. What has this department given us and at what cost. Far more productive than a snide one liner
When consumption of goods becomes third party in nature the costs explode. This happened in medical care when employers and the government started to pick up the tab. People didn't realize the costs of services and they have become used to not caring. As a result the services got more expensive over time, usually outstripping inflation.
Student loans and student aid did the same thing. They separated the costs of education from the student. Oh sure the student knew they were going to pay but they didn't have to pay NOW and that was key. They had to make installment payments. That reduces the psychological sting all that money made.
Schools then abused that through incredible marketing both direct and indirect. By having all sorts of support industries to include the press and such espouse all the benefits a high dollar education conferred. The one fact they left out was, the majority would never succeed. Everyone is not equal and the same education does not mean all parties have the same out come.
As for the OWS, go read their site. If that doesn't frighten off people here then I would be shocked. It all centers around having GOVERNMENT become more oppressive. They want, want, want, want, and want. There is no talk about what they will do for others only what others should be compelled to do.
Some times the pathetic attitude of people here really disappoints me.
Even with his billions he can't lift the world out of recession, he has the same hamstring everyone does, government. How do you propose solving government induced poverty? Spend his billions trying to overthrow petty tyrants? How do you expect him to sort out which start ups have a possibility at success let alone are not scams or will simply succumb to the corrupt governments of the countries they are in?
You seem to ascribe a lot of guilt to one man who actually is trying do good. Did you ever consider that he has evaluated his options and is taking the choice that provides the best bang for the buck?
What are you doing, please don't say that since you don't have X amount of money you cannot help.
The great thing about calling it Global Climate Change is that it is anything the speaker wishes it to be. Any condition can be ascribed to it. Any weather phenomenon that makes the news can be included.
It you make your terms generic enough there isn't much that escapes your grasp.
Have you read the OWS home page? Its an oppressive governments dream list. It can be summed up as, we want the government to do this to SOMEONE ELSE.
Its an over the top greed fest demanding others give to people who are in the protester class and take from others while silencing them as well.
That the unions joined in is hilarious because they are part of the unholy trinity that runs our society. Politicians, Corporations, and Labor Unions, control the mess and have laws to support their needs. They don't care about the marchers except how to best exploit them.
Did you notice for how long Washington ignored the marchers until they found a means to exploit them? They then moved in their operatives to try to take it over.
Funny how every bad deed ascribed to the Tea Party has been witnessed and caught on camera with the OWS marchers. From uttering racist words to damaging public property (not to mention pissing/shitting on cars?). Oh get real.
The marches in other parts of the world mean something important, the ones here seem to be a bunch of spoiled brats and trouble makers who are attention starved and selfish. I am, you owe me, is their motto.
Comparing them to the Arab Spring is insulting to all those over there who risked their life for what they marched for, those marching here risk a hang nail
and the message being spread "officially" is anything but what many think it is. Go read their home page and you will see demands that government do this, that, and that, to all sorts of parties. Yet you see no demands to get government off the backs of people - all they want is it on the backs of people they don't like.
I am all for people demonstrating their displeasure at the ballot box, we have a working democracy (republic) because we respect the system. It certainly needs an over haul in parts but not as being suggested under the guise of a popular protest.
Really, go read their site, the other day the first five or so WE WANT (I mean these guys come off as "WE ARE, THEREFOR YOU OWE US) were to use the oppressive power of government even more.
That doesn't fit what we are told they are truly marching for.
I prefer to say "they have failed to convince Congress" to write a tax exception/grant that is applicable to the methods they have available for protecting their profits.
As in, our entire tax system is a sham to benefit the big three, politicians, big corporations, and unions. Much of the laws passed in this country serve those same three interest.
So when people go off on a tirade about corporations avoiding taxes or not paying enough there a few things they need to consider.
1) NO CORPORATION PAYS ANY TAXES. - They only collect taxes for the government in an indirect taxation scheme used to prevent the average man from fully realizing their true tax burden.
2) The tax system servers only the politicians and those in their favor.
There is no complicated problem, it is a simple problem. We have a tax system which has far too many rules. The rules exist to obfuscate the system to the point that the population does not comprehend the taxes they pay. It also allows for actions like we are seeing with the IRS which are simply shake downs which I bet will mysteriously fixed within a year or so with some new tax law
While H.Cain's proposal is a bit simple and not well defined; claiming he will let us "know" in a week, it does have one thing we are desperately missing, clarity. I really don't like the idea of giving Washington access to a National sales tax but the idea of low taxes, no loopholes, and no double taxation are marvelous.
I guess I am not understanding the issue here but how is adding touch points reducing the failure rate? Regardless that is fixing a problem that does not really exist.
I know people who ride competitively, reliability is key and introducing more components that can break or add weight is not going to get acceptance. Modulation is key and I really doubt you can simulate that with any wireless system.
Some are worse than others. Some love to paint with a broad brush using open ended phrases like your "Climate Change Skeptics".
Skeptic about which claims? There are hundreds of climate change issues and there equally hundreds of opposing opinions. Each side has their facts so where does a skeptic fall? I tend to agree with some and disagree with others yet under your banner I am lumped in with the kooks.
There is a whole industry out there which only tries to assign guilt, much of it to gain moral superiority but quite a bit is built on making a profit. Climate change discussions didn't get very far until some very large companies learned how to use politicians to make a lot of money off of it. Look at GE, poster child of abusing this process, we give them two billion dollars to further develop wind technologies which is already in their best interest to do so? They then pile on the deductions to have nearly an effective zero rate of taxes?
The real climate skeptics should be applauded because most of science is being used to hide an agenda whose only goal is to pad specific pockets. Its well funded and marketed and much of it has governments behind it because the politicians love money.
Wait, I can already do that and its not exactly going to threaten a game console. If anything most of the games on the iPad feel as if I am dealing with a Readers Digest Condensed "Game". There are some involved games, one of them imported from DOS days named Ascendancy, but for most part the market is saturated with games which spam you with pay upgrades. I certainly don't want to see that model become prevalent in consoles.
Then comes hardware, Apple hasn't shown any urge to provide real gaming hardware at any level. Graphics has always been an afterthought, even the latest and greatest iMacs are far behind what the PC world has. While they may/may not be ahead of current consoles most of those are five years old and are due replacements.
So what does Valve expect? A jacked up Mini with a real graphics controller? What will the interface be? Surely not touch screen, it won't translate well at all to the big screen.
What I do see is probably a misguided attempt to sell TVs with built in Apple TV components and touch screen remotes sized between phone and iPad. But a game console?
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It was a real easy answer,
#4. Blame Bush
Though you were being nice we have gotten worse than your list.
1) Have Secret Laws.
2) Have Secret Courts
3) Use intimidation and threat of force to keep them
4) Blame Bush
5) Stay in Power, I mean profit
with his fun with Siri it makes me realize how far we have to go. Some of the questions he asked while easily answerable by a person because we understand the question and relationship of the actors in question but Siri cannot understand that. Siri is like a smart pet, you treat it at that level its fine. However any four year old will whoops its ass in even the simplest of questions.
until you take people out of the equation.
I don't care what system you choose, I can have all the receipts I want in any form I want, when I get home I have no more proof my vote even mattered as I have no guarantee that another vote or votes were not fraudulent.
So not only present a receipt that cannot be used to intimidate (why I really dislike all attempts to make union acceptance votes open in the US - card check) while assuring those who are voting that their vote doesn't get wasted by fraudulent votes entering the system.
So, perhaps your vote plus all others accounted for in a form decipherable by a computer?
Still politicians are doing their best to keep us from even asking people to have valid IDs to vote with. How can you get a real system where those asking for one are intimidated by being called out as racists/bigots and the like simply by asking for one person one vote verification and how do you do that without ID? ( and I don't mean to be mean, but other than a picture ID how do you help people who are not all that bright?)
As in, they pay back up to half the loan if the student defaults. If the student cannot make the minimum payment the school makes up the difference. Then they might actually start rejecting people who obviously have no chance in their dream field instead of selecting students based on who can get a loan.
Simply because it still requires you to tell it which mode it is in, heating or cooling. The motion sensor is a gimmick as many will not have these items in areas where the traffic is during the day. I certainly have not seen a house with one in the kitchen, breakfast area, office, or bedroom outside of the master, so how useful is that? Let alone, do you have pets? How will it know a bird in a cage is there (I don't have one, but a motion sensor won't pick it up either)
Comfort range should be independent of the season, meaning I can accept certain lows at specific times of the day and likewise certain highs. I could care less what the season is though psychologically seventies in the winter do feel warmer than seventies in the summer.
Seems to be following the standard course for famous people, they get puffed up to near god like levels and then we kick them into the gutter as everyone with a bone to pick gets their 15 minutes of fame.
While I like some of his products and his influence on design is without question I never would excuse half what he is rumored to have done. That being said, he's dead. Give it a few years and maybe we will get closer to the truth
because you don't rack up nearly a hundred billion dollars in reserves if your not trying to make money. They can claim all they want " it is about the items and not the bottom line " but if that were the case they would not be exploiting the price points they are using.
Face it, it goes with the mystique but somewhere under the layers there is the truth and of course there is that near one hundred billion dollars.
Which means instead of lampooning organizations like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street we need to take from them the best of their ideas and act on it.
It means for Americans doing your best to get candidates who do not have a D or R next to their name some traction.
It means for those in Europe figuring out how to get out from under Brussels - best of luck, I don't know your politics.
Whatever it is, you won't do it through tax laws so please no, they need to pay more, corporations merely hide the heavy taxation the population is under, see indirect taxes.
So, anytime you see a politician wanting to expand your benefits be wary, the money comes from somewhere and if its not paid its owed and those to whom we owe call the shots.
Flippant remarks like yours depress me when they are rated insightful. Either there is far to wealth envy on Slashdot or people are just mad and take it out anyway they can.
Look, the guy is what, seventy years old. He has made a lot of choices in his life and some of them were obviously very good.
Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be permanent, I know I have worked a few in my life including having to do some after getting out the service. Guess what, it was a lot of incentive to do better. It also meant working more than one until I could get better.
The majority of people working minimum wage are teenagers. The majority reason for getting only minimum wage is you have no job skills. Less than 2% of all adult worker earn minimum wage, two thirds of that is in food service. Part time workers are five times more likely to earn minimum wage.
So, how does having access to government loan programs raise these people up? If anything its probably going to put them further in debt and for longer with debts that cannot be discharged. Colleges, private and state, have all figured out how to exploit the market place and have done the job of convincing many people they need a degree to get anywhere. That is not true. Finally, if you get a soft degree (non engineering for example) do not expect to get paid as much as someone who worked for the better degree.
What is true is that you don't become successful overnight. You don't earn you highest salary starting out. Most people don't peak until their 40s yet today everyone wants to be in the big house with fancy cars in their 20s. Get real.
People have unreasonable expectations out of life. There is an investment. Some times things go wrong. The key is, adjust. It sucks. I spent four plus years below the poverty level but family and friends helped. I give back now.
when they first implemented their subway system between gates. It has changed a few times since then but being a product of that generation many of us used to comment on it all the time in BBS days.
Personal favorite female voice on a computer was the voice used in Mechwarrior 2.
if they can prove reassembly in orbit is viable then it suggests that the space industry needs to standardize to facilitate this.
Simple really, because the guys in power now may not be the guys in power tomorrow and things they have done may not be acceptable later.
Plus accidents do and will happen. If these troops were forced to defend themselves they should not have to do so with the specter of prosecution hanging over their heads. The bad guys aren't beyond using innocents to setup a situation
Green is new the buzzword for hiding payments to political allies.
http://dev.publicintegrity.org/2011/10/20/7152/energys-risky-1-billion-bet-two-politically-connected-electric-car-builders
As in, Fisker is connect to an Al Gore group and Tesla is connected to Google leaders who are major fund raisers for ......
So just like Solyndra, none of this was about viability, this was all about who is connected to whom, follow the money. It is nothing more than politics as usual
http://peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/custom/Apple-vs-Samsung-1-Hardware-Design.html
http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/
Who needs a development group when you can just wait for Apple to design it for you?
another way is to understand that a lot research we fund today is already in the best interests of the groups getting the funds to do so. Many large corporations receive hundred of millions if not billions to develop technology they are already working on, selling, and profiting on. Another large part of funding goes to politically connected friends to companies that had no future but sound damn good until you look under the covers.
HUD condemned thousands of families into high rise squalor after local politicians took over their homes for politically connected friends to build into office towers and industrial parks. The cover up was getting out of their homes which were defined as ghettos and the like and saving them by putting them prison style in cement monsters. By the way, they have only existed since 1965
The Department of Energy has overseen what great advances? Started by Carter in 1977 and presided over the death of US Nuclear energy programs and practically no progress on any other fronts for how many years? Most of the advances to coal and such came from trying to overcome restrictions imposed by other agencies.
Department of Education, again founded during Jimmy Carters Presidency has overseen explosive growth in costs for educating the children of the US with what results? Horribly poor results.
So while it is easy to do a hit piece on Ron Paul (believe he has lots of other ideas that can be labled kook ville) there are areas where he is right. Research won't stop when these government organizations go away. We already suffer from a lot of duplicate/triple/etc number of efforts all within the government. Hell we have departments which undermine each other.
So don't laugh it off with a cute one line phrase, that cheapens the discussion. The truth is, the US government has grown too large to manage. An example, there are over TWO THOUSAND aid programs available to provide the needy with money and other support - TWO THOUSAND. We spend SIX TRILLION DOLLARS or more per year when you combine all levels of government in the US and for what?
So go look at each department he wants to axe, then ask yourself. Can it be done under another department. Can it be done at the state level. What has this department given us and at what cost. Far more productive than a snide one liner
He always made a big show of his blood and usually very attractive female body guards.
Did he have the decency of getting them out of harms way when it all started going to hell?
It also is a replay of the mortgage market.
When consumption of goods becomes third party in nature the costs explode. This happened in medical care when employers and the government started to pick up the tab. People didn't realize the costs of services and they have become used to not caring. As a result the services got more expensive over time, usually outstripping inflation.
Student loans and student aid did the same thing. They separated the costs of education from the student. Oh sure the student knew they were going to pay but they didn't have to pay NOW and that was key. They had to make installment payments. That reduces the psychological sting all that money made.
Schools then abused that through incredible marketing both direct and indirect. By having all sorts of support industries to include the press and such espouse all the benefits a high dollar education conferred. The one fact they left out was, the majority would never succeed. Everyone is not equal and the same education does not mean all parties have the same out come.
As for the OWS, go read their site. If that doesn't frighten off people here then I would be shocked. It all centers around having GOVERNMENT become more oppressive. They want, want, want, want, and want. There is no talk about what they will do for others only what others should be compelled to do.
Some times the pathetic attitude of people here really disappoints me.
Even with his billions he can't lift the world out of recession, he has the same hamstring everyone does, government. How do you propose solving government induced poverty? Spend his billions trying to overthrow petty tyrants? How do you expect him to sort out which start ups have a possibility at success let alone are not scams or will simply succumb to the corrupt governments of the countries they are in?
You seem to ascribe a lot of guilt to one man who actually is trying do good. Did you ever consider that he has evaluated his options and is taking the choice that provides the best bang for the buck?
What are you doing, please don't say that since you don't have X amount of money you cannot help.
The great thing about calling it Global Climate Change is that it is anything the speaker wishes it to be. Any condition can be ascribed to it. Any weather phenomenon that makes the news can be included.
It you make your terms generic enough there isn't much that escapes your grasp.
Have you read the OWS home page? Its an oppressive governments dream list. It can be summed up as, we want the government to do this to SOMEONE ELSE.
Its an over the top greed fest demanding others give to people who are in the protester class and take from others while silencing them as well.
That the unions joined in is hilarious because they are part of the unholy trinity that runs our society. Politicians, Corporations, and Labor Unions, control the mess and have laws to support their needs. They don't care about the marchers except how to best exploit them.
Did you notice for how long Washington ignored the marchers until they found a means to exploit them? They then moved in their operatives to try to take it over.
Funny how every bad deed ascribed to the Tea Party has been witnessed and caught on camera with the OWS marchers. From uttering racist words to damaging public property (not to mention pissing/shitting on cars?). Oh get real.
The marches in other parts of the world mean something important, the ones here seem to be a bunch of spoiled brats and trouble makers who are attention starved and selfish. I am, you owe me, is their motto.
Comparing them to the Arab Spring is insulting to all those over there who risked their life for what they marched for, those marching here risk a hang nail
and the message being spread "officially" is anything but what many think it is. Go read their home page and you will see demands that government do this, that, and that, to all sorts of parties. Yet you see no demands to get government off the backs of people - all they want is it on the backs of people they don't like.
I am all for people demonstrating their displeasure at the ballot box, we have a working democracy (republic) because we respect the system. It certainly needs an over haul in parts but not as being suggested under the guise of a popular protest.
Really, go read their site, the other day the first five or so WE WANT (I mean these guys come off as "WE ARE, THEREFOR YOU OWE US) were to use the oppressive power of government even more.
That doesn't fit what we are told they are truly marching for.
I prefer to say "they have failed to convince Congress" to write a tax exception/grant that is applicable to the methods they have available for protecting their profits.
As in, our entire tax system is a sham to benefit the big three, politicians, big corporations, and unions. Much of the laws passed in this country serve those same three interest.
So when people go off on a tirade about corporations avoiding taxes or not paying enough there a few things they need to consider.
1) NO CORPORATION PAYS ANY TAXES. - They only collect taxes for the government in an indirect taxation scheme used to prevent the average man from fully realizing their true tax burden.
2) The tax system servers only the politicians and those in their favor.
There is no complicated problem, it is a simple problem. We have a tax system which has far too many rules. The rules exist to obfuscate the system to the point that the population does not comprehend the taxes they pay. It also allows for actions like we are seeing with the IRS which are simply shake downs which I bet will mysteriously fixed within a year or so with some new tax law
While H.Cain's proposal is a bit simple and not well defined; claiming he will let us "know" in a week, it does have one thing we are desperately missing, clarity. I really don't like the idea of giving Washington access to a National sales tax but the idea of low taxes, no loopholes, and no double taxation are marvelous.
I guess I am not understanding the issue here but how is adding touch points reducing the failure rate? Regardless that is fixing a problem that does not really exist.
I know people who ride competitively, reliability is key and introducing more components that can break or add weight is not going to get acceptance. Modulation is key and I really doubt you can simulate that with any wireless system.
Some are worse than others. Some love to paint with a broad brush using open ended phrases like your "Climate Change Skeptics".
Skeptic about which claims? There are hundreds of climate change issues and there equally hundreds of opposing opinions. Each side has their facts so where does a skeptic fall? I tend to agree with some and disagree with others yet under your banner I am lumped in with the kooks.
There is a whole industry out there which only tries to assign guilt, much of it to gain moral superiority but quite a bit is built on making a profit. Climate change discussions didn't get very far until some very large companies learned how to use politicians to make a lot of money off of it. Look at GE, poster child of abusing this process, we give them two billion dollars to further develop wind technologies which is already in their best interest to do so? They then pile on the deductions to have nearly an effective zero rate of taxes?
The real climate skeptics should be applauded because most of science is being used to hide an agenda whose only goal is to pad specific pockets. Its well funded and marketed and much of it has governments behind it because the politicians love money.
Wait, I can already do that and its not exactly going to threaten a game console. If anything most of the games on the iPad feel as if I am dealing with a Readers Digest Condensed "Game". There are some involved games, one of them imported from DOS days named Ascendancy, but for most part the market is saturated with games which spam you with pay upgrades. I certainly don't want to see that model become prevalent in consoles.
Then comes hardware, Apple hasn't shown any urge to provide real gaming hardware at any level. Graphics has always been an afterthought, even the latest and greatest iMacs are far behind what the PC world has. While they may/may not be ahead of current consoles most of those are five years old and are due replacements.
So what does Valve expect? A jacked up Mini with a real graphics controller? What will the interface be? Surely not touch screen, it won't translate well at all to the big screen.
What I do see is probably a misguided attempt to sell TVs with built in Apple TV components and touch screen remotes sized between phone and iPad. But a game console?