It will be quite profitable, just like the WarCraft boardgame, the latter of which has already seen one expansion. I won't try to explain why it's good, since you wouldn't understand anyway. The only thing that is obvious is that you don't know what you're talking about.
That was a bullshit question submitted by a leftist reporter.
This is false, but it is the standard distortion peddled by administration backers. Thomas Wilson (the National Guardsman who asked the question) is on record as saying that he himself came up with the question, not the "leftist" reporter. (Leftist here, of course, being anyone who dares question our divine leaders.) Here's a link for you.
Without Mr O'Donnell's soundbites, the article is less inflammatory. Unfortunately, it then becomes simply uninteresting, so it's obvious why said soundbites are in there. 8-)
I don't own a flat screen TV, but I would like one. Not because I want to be on the cutting edge or because I want to impress my friends, but because:
LCDs in particular consume less power than CRTs
CRTs take up too much room in my small house
I don't consider either of those to be particularly "emotional" reasons.
Folks, I realize that digital picture frames are "cool", but may I please present another perspective?
Until we figure out a way of generating clean, renewable power, perhaps this isn't the time to be coming up with more and more ways of consuming power for trivial applications, such as digital picture frames and blowup lighted Christmas figures that run an electric blower motor all night(!) Just consider it, please.
It's just as interesting to come up with ways of reducing household power consumption.
My country seems to have decided as a whole that actually manufacturing anything is so... passe.
Instead, we're pretending that the so-called "New Economy" actually produces something useful. Despite the bursting of the dot-com bubble, this illusion persists even today.
However, since we still need real manufactured goods, we run massive trade deficits with China and others.
And what do we try to export to offset this? "Intellectual Property", a largely illusionary concept created to protect the assets of industries that would not exist today if the sorts of "property rights" they espouse had existed over the last several decades.
Yep, we're trying to trade "the emperor's new clothes" for actual goods. Do you think the rest of the world is going to be dumb enough to take the trade? I don't.
And if they don't, we're going to "apply pressure", so I'm led to understand. Let me get this straight. Given that we don't produce anything real ourselves, if we stop importing these goods we'll have... nothing. Whereas if other countries refuse to buy "Intellectual Property" (ie paying tribute to others for ideas that they already have in their possession), then they simply use the "ideas" they already have for free. Which position would you rather be in?
Your 250 GB hard drive is more than twice as big as the entire iPod. I know you think they make it that big just for the hell of it, but it's not so. Smaller = more difficult to make = more expensive.
If Apple was selling a 5 pound iPod with the size of a small notebook computer and a battery life of 1-2 hours, and they still charged $300, you would definitely have a point.
Not that they don't make great profits on it, but the comparison to a commodity 3 1/2 hard drive is offbase.
I have a co-worker who keeps going on about flying cars being the future.
Who would want these things flying over their heads at a few hundred feet? They'd be noisy as hell, and they'd be dangerous to boot! As it is, we have small planes occasionally crashing in neighborhoods. Imagine if the number of small vehicles in the air went up by a couple of order of magnitudes! One small mistake or breakdown in an urban area and boom...
And will these vehicles ( especially the vertical take-off and landing versions ) use less fuel than a regular car? I suspect not. Just what we need, a way to accelerate our energy crunch.
The conversation was never worthwhile (at least with you) because you are simply incapable of seeing outside your box. At least it makes you feel superior, but I also pity you.
You're absolutely right! Ridiculous indulgences like 40 hour work weeks, worker rights, government regulated health standards, health insurance, etc, are anachronistic in the brave new world of tomorrow!
Yes, your ancestors spent generations fighting for a better life and an end to corporate exploitation of the work force, but so the f*ck what? We should just throw it all away right now in a desperate race to the bottom so that we can all compete! Because competing means paying the least possible amount to gain the greatest amount of profit so we can reinvest capital, in order to... to... keep paying the least possible amount to gain the greatest amount of profit!
Flamebait? Just how do you figure? After all, in order to compete, we have to reduce our wages by an order of magnitude. Suggesting that we can work our way out of that is crap, predicated on some bizarre elitist viewpoint that motivated folks here can do more than motivated folks anywhere. So we have to reduce wages catastrophically. Which will make everyone poor. Which will throw us into a depression, bankrupting our already bankrupt government, and putting everyone at the whim of the few employers offering any sort of wages whatsoever. Say bye bye to any decent lifestyle. Or you could just save a step and move to India/China and enjoy what those countries have to offer. Assuming they'll let you.
We don't *have* to import all this shit! Read the article and think for once! Cheaper imported goods do NOT make up for having no job! You cannot have free-trade global marketplace when you have vast disparities in costs and standards of living!
You, like everyone else in the US, have bought into the "grow or die" paradigm. It's blazingly obvious that that is not sustainable. Scream "zero sum" all you want, but you are being sold a pyramid scheme. Yes, it's done well for us for the last century. That's a blip on the radar of history. It has coincided with the oil age, another anomaly. This insane insistance on constant economic growth is going to destroy us all.
Easy: it hasn't happened yet. It'll be the one where we posthumously argue about whether you were the biggest jackass on Slashdot, or just one of the biggest jackasses.
What a moron. People buy Porsches because they love to drive, and they love the performance they get out of it. People buy Kias because they're too cheap to buy a good car.
I'd just like to say that I agree with dickless, here, completely.
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It will be quite profitable, just like the WarCraft boardgame, the latter of which has already seen one expansion. I won't try to explain why it's good, since you wouldn't understand anyway. The only thing that is obvious is that you don't know what you're talking about.
Have fun in front of your monitor!
That was a bullshit question submitted by a leftist reporter.
This is false, but it is the standard distortion peddled by administration backers. Thomas Wilson (the National Guardsman who asked the question) is on record as saying that he himself came up with the question, not the "leftist" reporter. (Leftist here, of course, being anyone who dares question our divine leaders.) Here's a link
for you.
Why do you hate the troops?
Keep in mind with the exception of perl harbor no war has ever been fought on american soil since the civil war
Oooh! I remember that! That was when the Japanese announced they were rejecting version 6 and sticking with version 5.8.5 indefinitely...
I don't own a flat screen TV, but I would like one. Not because I want to be on the cutting edge or because I want to impress my friends, but because:
I don't consider either of those to be particularly "emotional" reasons.
As far as the US Patent Office is concerned, you just did. Now it's just a matter of paperwork...
Folks, I realize that digital picture frames are "cool", but may I please present another perspective?
Until we figure out a way of generating clean, renewable power, perhaps this isn't the time to be coming up with more and more ways of consuming power for trivial applications, such as digital picture frames and blowup lighted Christmas figures that run an electric blower motor all night(!) Just consider it, please.
It's just as interesting to come up with ways of reducing household power consumption.
The batteries in the hybrids sold today are Nickel Metal Hydride. Thanks for playing and continuing to pump out the FUD.
And you have the presence of mind to post while this is happening? Truly, you are a Jedi!
My country seems to have decided as a whole that actually manufacturing anything is so ... passe.
... nothing. Whereas if other countries refuse to buy "Intellectual Property" (ie paying tribute to others for ideas that they already have in their possession), then they simply use the "ideas" they already have for free. Which position would you rather be in?
Instead, we're pretending that the so-called "New Economy" actually produces something useful. Despite the bursting of the dot-com bubble, this illusion persists even today.
However, since we still need real manufactured goods, we run massive trade deficits with China and others.
And what do we try to export to offset this? "Intellectual Property", a largely illusionary concept created to protect the assets of industries that would not exist today if the sorts of "property rights" they espouse had existed over the last several decades.
Yep, we're trying to trade "the emperor's new clothes" for actual goods. Do you think the rest of the world is going to be dumb enough to take the trade? I don't.
And if they don't, we're going to "apply pressure", so I'm led to understand. Let me get this straight. Given that we don't produce anything real ourselves, if we stop importing these goods we'll have
You should be ashamed.
Your 250 GB hard drive is more than twice as big as the entire iPod. I know you think they make it that big just for the hell of it, but it's not so. Smaller = more difficult to make = more expensive.
If Apple was selling a 5 pound iPod with the size of a small notebook computer and a battery life of 1-2 hours, and they still charged $300, you would definitely have a point.
Not that they don't make great profits on it, but the comparison to a commodity 3 1/2 hard drive is offbase.
Um yeah because the BBC certainly isn't biased against us.
Yikes! So the state-run television of our #1 ally is biased against us? We are doing well!
I understand. So, all of the Fox News pundit programs are political advertisements too, right?
I'm sure your double standard is justified.
I have a co-worker who keeps going on about flying cars being the future.
Who would want these things flying over their heads at a few hundred feet? They'd be noisy as hell, and they'd be dangerous to boot! As it is, we have small planes occasionally crashing in neighborhoods. Imagine if the number of small vehicles in the air went up by a couple of order of magnitudes! One small mistake or breakdown in an urban area and boom...
And will these vehicles ( especially the vertical take-off and landing versions ) use less fuel than a regular car? I suspect not. Just what we need, a way to accelerate our energy crunch.
What a bunch of nonsense.
The conversation was never worthwhile (at least with you) because you are simply incapable of seeing outside your box. At least it makes you feel superior, but I also pity you.
You're absolutely right! Ridiculous indulgences like 40 hour work weeks, worker rights, government regulated health standards, health insurance, etc, are anachronistic in the brave new world of tomorrow!
... to... keep paying the least possible amount to gain the greatest amount of profit!
Yes, your ancestors spent generations fighting for a better life and an end to corporate exploitation of the work force, but so the f*ck what? We should just throw it all away right now in a desperate race to the bottom so that we can all compete! Because competing means paying the least possible amount to gain the greatest amount of profit so we can reinvest capital, in order to
Flamebait? Just how do you figure? After all, in order to compete, we have to reduce our wages by an order of magnitude. Suggesting that we can work our way out of that is crap, predicated on some bizarre elitist viewpoint that motivated folks here can do more than motivated folks anywhere. So we have to reduce wages catastrophically. Which will make everyone poor. Which will throw us into a depression, bankrupting our already bankrupt government, and putting everyone at the whim of the few employers offering any sort of wages whatsoever. Say bye bye to any decent lifestyle. Or you could just save a step and move to India/China and enjoy what those countries have to offer. Assuming they'll let you.
We don't *have* to import all this shit! Read the article and think for once! Cheaper imported goods do NOT make up for having no job! You cannot have free-trade global marketplace when you have vast disparities in costs and standards of living!
You, like everyone else in the US, have bought into the "grow or die" paradigm. It's blazingly obvious that that is not sustainable. Scream "zero sum" all you want, but you are being sold a pyramid scheme. Yes, it's done well for us for the last century. That's a blip on the radar of history. It has coincided with the oil age, another anomaly. This insane insistance on constant economic growth is going to destroy us all.
In the new era, there will be a 119 man crews in bunker 1410 feet from the launch pad.
When I heard this sad news, I drank myself silly, kicked my dog, and shot out my TV. Then I posted on Slashdot.
First post!
Oh, so it runs the latest version of SCO, then?
Actually, don't, unless you happen to be energy independent somehow. Otherwise, you're just wasting energy for absolutely no reason.
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This is the world's biggest dork-fest.
Like the Honda Civic that looks just like any other Civic?
This is insightful?!
Your photoshop skills suck!
Yes? What ABOUT my "a whore"?
Oh, wait! I, Richard Stallman, HBT!
Easy: it hasn't happened yet. It'll be the one where we posthumously argue about whether you were the biggest jackass on Slashdot, or just one of the biggest jackasses.
What a moron. People buy Porsches because they love to drive, and they love the performance they get out of it. People buy Kias because they're too cheap to buy a good car.
I'd just like to say that I agree with dickless, here, completely.