World Series of Cousin Banging? Is that what they're calling coronation these days? You might want to check who's ruling your country before you make any incest jokes towards Americans, eh wot?
You conveniently ignored my points about the World Baseball Classic (which in fact does field a Cuban national team) and the regionalism of baseball a la Sumo wrestling. Is it because you don't have any good arguments? Hey, I knew that already!
But, Japan could hold a World Championship of Sumo because that's where all the highest level of competition of the sport is found. Why is this hard for you to understand?
(as I understand it knowing very little about baseball)
Well, that's obvious. There are a ton of Cuban defectors that play in Major League Baseball. Like when a Brazilian signs with Arsenal, for example.
There's also the World Baseball Classic, which is the international competition every 4 years, very much much like the World Cup in soccer.
Having a national championship is fine but calling it the world series would be like Britain calling the F.A. cup the "World Cup" in football.
No, football is an international sport. Baseball is a regional sport, with very few exceptions. Would you object to Japan holding the world championships of Sumo? Because guess what, all the best Sumo players end up in Japan.
It's the US definition, similar in meaning to their definition of 'world' in 'world series baseball'.
The best baseball players in the world play in Major League Baseball-whether they be American, Dominican, Japanese, Korean, etc. So what's wrong with calling it the World Series?
The big problems I see is input lag and the processing being done on the Xbox. That leaves less processing for the actual game itself, and the lag issue probably won't get much better until Microsoft releases new specs for the Xbox to handle the kinect.
MS won't release an updated Xbox 360. There might be an Xbox 720 before too long, but if you have to wait that long before you're willing to buy a Kinect, that probably means it's a failure. Not to mention, who knows if the next-gen Xbox will be able to play your current-gen Kinect games?
I have a friend who just got divorced as well. He says "she became a different person" and "she's crazy now" but, oddly enough, everyone else picked up the warning signs before they got married. Of course, he didn't want to hear them until she was carousing around with a guy from her work.
Never trust the person telling those kind of stories. Inevitably, they won't accept that there were flaws in their partner until the turning point. That's because they were too in love or too determined to get married, no matter what.
OK, I watch too much streaming Netflix, that means I'm not entitled to what I paid for. But if I watch 20 movies a week on TBS, that's just fine. Thanks for clearing that up.
USB solved a problem-a cheap, hot-swappable universal interface for printers, scanners, keyboards, and mice. Before USB, each one of those devices had a separate connection with its own separate connection.
DisplayPort doesn't solve any problems except 'how can we avoid paying royalties to Intel?'. End-users don't care about that. The uptake from PC manufacturers has been tepid at best. Look at the mishmash choices for DisplayPort you have from Lenovo or Dell...very confusing. Outside of the monolithic Apple world, consumers don't have a reason to choose DisplayPort.
And forget the PC market for a minute. In the TV market, which is what this article is discussing, there is even less reason to prefer DisplayPort. HDMI already does pretty much everything consumers want (from a technical or consumer-rights standpoint, it sucks, but that's a different discussion). So why would consumers pay extra for DisplayPort TVs, which barely exist on the market? There has to be reason for consumer uptake. USB had several tangible, easily-understood advantages. DisplayPort doesn't.
Insurance only works when the costs of the ill are distributed among the well, if you have only sick people buying it then it gets very expensive very fast because the cost is slightly more than the average cost of treatment for policyholders.
So then, wouldn't make sense to force all those healthy people who refuse to get insurance until they're very sick to buy it? Those are the vast majority of people entering the insurance pool...working-class people like waiters and cashiers who are young, healthy, but either don't make enough to buy insurance or choose not to.
It seems to me this whole thing was a plan to drive health care costs up even more so that the government would be in a better position to promote a single payer system.
Please. The reform is forcing healthy people to buy insurance, which will increase the pool of healthy clients, driving the overall costs down for insurance companies. Americans already pay the most for health insurance and get the least back out of any first world country, and this bill won't change that much. But it's tough to argue it's going to be a net loss for the insurance companies.
Except that no one uses DisplayPort. It was basically invented in order to avoid paying royalties to Intel, who holds patents on HDMI and DVI. There are more TVs with VGA ports at this point, and that's unlikely to change.
When did US ISPs ever make a habit of taking down their customer's websites? And who really believes this won't be used for joe jobs and overly aggressive corporations angry with bad reviews or their products? Are you really interested in paying your ISP to police your amazon.com reviews?
For now yes. The next MacOS release will require signed applications and guess what.... only Steve gets to sign.
Yeah, Obama's secret Muslim death panel task force called the Trilateral Commission and told them to exclude all non-signed applications from Mac OS X 10.7. Also, Steve Jobs is a Reptar.
Yeah, everyone knows the true humorists just regurgitate Simpsons or Family Guy quotes. How dare he suggest that 'reading comprehension' jokes are hackneyed! I, for one, welcome our new reading comprehension joke overloads!
I'm not comfortable deciding what is "pointless" for someone else.
It's blatantly obvious he wasted his life. When a guy blows himself by smoking next to a gasoline barrel, do you think "What a waste" or do you think "Hmm, I'm sure glad I didn't get in the way of that guy's self-actualization!"? Be honest now.
I wonder what his wife and child thought of it?
I know, like, who can really say, maaaan? I'm sure they felt awesome about it. The wife was like "Man, I always wanted my husband to desert me in order to pursue some dick-waving goal that he can use to impress his golfing buddies." and the kid was like "It sure is great growing up without a father! "
Some would say that sending men to the moon was a pointless risk.
And don't even compare this to space exploration. Climbing Everest has nothing to do with expanding our knowledge of the world. It's been done thousands of times, and the vast majority who do it do it for pride. Which is fine. But when they screw up, let's not pretend they were trying to improve the world.
It takes a great deal of courage to even think of putting yourself through this much hardship, and even a greater deal of courage to do so while having wife and kid. For me, this qualifies as a Hero as well.
And if he was skydiving without a parachute? Would you consider that heroic as well?
And on a side-note, where would the world be without people trying to do seemingly impossible things just because it was their dream or downright silly at the moment
What a sappy thing to say. One person's dream might be educating the poor. Another's might be coating himself in bear grease and singing the soundtrack to Grease at a City Council Meeting. All dreams are not created equally, friend.
These are most likely the types that actually will become true heroes if the situation would call for it.
And you know this how? 'Probing the boundaries of reality'? Please. His single motivating factor was pride, plain and simple. He wasn't probing the boundaries of reality any more than the woman who died from water poisoning in an attempt to win a Wii game console.
They made choice, who are you to judge them about that?
Wait, I'm confused. You just got done telling me that this guy is a hero because he recklessly risked his life. But you're telling me not to judge him? Yes, he made a choice: a terrible choice that had tragic consequences for himself and his family. Again, not unlike the woman who died drinking too much water in order to win a Wii. Why isn't she a hero?
You joke, but I remember when I watched an IMAX documentary on Mt. Everest. One of the guys had climbed it several times, but he messed up and got stuck somewhere halfway up where he would definitely freeze or starve to death. He left behind his pregnant wife, and they played some of their last conversation. After the final conversation, the narrator called the guy a hero. I remember that pissing me off even as a kid. How can someone who pointlessly risks his life when he has responsibilities to a wife and child be called a hero? People who climb Mt. Everest aren't heroes, they're thrillseekers who border on suicidal. Which is fine, but let's be honest about it.
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World Series of Cousin Banging? Is that what they're calling coronation these days? You might want to check who's ruling your country before you make any incest jokes towards Americans, eh wot?
You conveniently ignored my points about the World Baseball Classic (which in fact does field a Cuban national team) and the regionalism of baseball a la Sumo wrestling. Is it because you don't have any good arguments? Hey, I knew that already!
No.
But, Japan could hold a World Championship of Sumo because that's where all the highest level of competition of the sport is found. Why is this hard for you to understand?
(as I understand it knowing very little about baseball)
Well, that's obvious. There are a ton of Cuban defectors that play in Major League Baseball. Like when a Brazilian signs with Arsenal, for example.
There's also the World Baseball Classic, which is the international competition every 4 years, very much much like the World Cup in soccer.
Having a national championship is fine but calling it the world series would be like Britain calling the F.A. cup the "World Cup" in football.
No, football is an international sport. Baseball is a regional sport, with very few exceptions. Would you object to Japan holding the world championships of Sumo? Because guess what, all the best Sumo players end up in Japan.
It's the US definition, similar in meaning to their definition of 'world' in 'world series baseball'.
The best baseball players in the world play in Major League Baseball-whether they be American, Dominican, Japanese, Korean, etc. So what's wrong with calling it the World Series?
The big problems I see is input lag and the processing being done on the Xbox. That leaves less processing for the actual game itself, and the lag issue probably won't get much better until Microsoft releases new specs for the Xbox to handle the kinect.
MS won't release an updated Xbox 360. There might be an Xbox 720 before too long, but if you have to wait that long before you're willing to buy a Kinect, that probably means it's a failure. Not to mention, who knows if the next-gen Xbox will be able to play your current-gen Kinect games?
What could possibly be more anti-human than operating your privately owned machine alone?
Posting about it on Slashdot?
Actually, I prefer taking my dates to Pepperbee's. They have a real passion for customer service there.
That's one part of a story.
I have a friend who just got divorced as well. He says "she became a different person" and "she's crazy now" but, oddly enough, everyone else picked up the warning signs before they got married. Of course, he didn't want to hear them until she was carousing around with a guy from her work.
Never trust the person telling those kind of stories. Inevitably, they won't accept that there were flaws in their partner until the turning point. That's because they were too in love or too determined to get married, no matter what.
OK, I watch too much streaming Netflix, that means I'm not entitled to what I paid for. But if I watch 20 movies a week on TBS, that's just fine. Thanks for clearing that up.
Ahhh, misogyny coupled with libertarian delusions of grandeur. A Slashdot perfect storm!
USB solved a problem-a cheap, hot-swappable universal interface for printers, scanners, keyboards, and mice. Before USB, each one of those devices had a separate connection with its own separate connection.
DisplayPort doesn't solve any problems except 'how can we avoid paying royalties to Intel?'. End-users don't care about that. The uptake from PC manufacturers has been tepid at best. Look at the mishmash choices for DisplayPort you have from Lenovo or Dell...very confusing. Outside of the monolithic Apple world, consumers don't have a reason to choose DisplayPort.
And forget the PC market for a minute. In the TV market, which is what this article is discussing, there is even less reason to prefer DisplayPort. HDMI already does pretty much everything consumers want (from a technical or consumer-rights standpoint, it sucks, but that's a different discussion). So why would consumers pay extra for DisplayPort TVs, which barely exist on the market? There has to be reason for consumer uptake. USB had several tangible, easily-understood advantages. DisplayPort doesn't.
And how many DisplayPort TVs are at your work?
Also, DisplayPort is far from common even in the PC world.
Insurance only works when the costs of the ill are distributed among the well, if you have only sick people buying it then it gets very expensive very fast because the cost is slightly more than the average cost of treatment for policyholders.
So then, wouldn't make sense to force all those healthy people who refuse to get insurance until they're very sick to buy it? Those are the vast majority of people entering the insurance pool...working-class people like waiters and cashiers who are young, healthy, but either don't make enough to buy insurance or choose not to.
It seems to me this whole thing was a plan to drive health care costs up even more so that the government would be in a better position to promote a single payer system.
Please. The reform is forcing healthy people to buy insurance, which will increase the pool of healthy clients, driving the overall costs down for insurance companies. Americans already pay the most for health insurance and get the least back out of any first world country, and this bill won't change that much. But it's tough to argue it's going to be a net loss for the insurance companies.
That's great.
Except that no one uses DisplayPort. It was basically invented in order to avoid paying royalties to Intel, who holds patents on HDMI and DVI. There are more TVs with VGA ports at this point, and that's unlikely to change.
You can't revolt against Bog Brother
Bog Brother: Swamp Thing's lesser known brother.
When did US ISPs ever make a habit of taking down their customer's websites? And who really believes this won't be used for joe jobs and overly aggressive corporations angry with bad reviews or their products? Are you really interested in paying your ISP to police your amazon.com reviews?
For now yes. The next MacOS release will require signed applications and guess what.... only Steve gets to sign.
Yeah, Obama's secret Muslim death panel task force called the Trilateral Commission and told them to exclude all non-signed applications from Mac OS X 10.7. Also, Steve Jobs is a Reptar.
Yeah, everyone knows the true humorists just regurgitate Simpsons or Family Guy quotes. How dare he suggest that 'reading comprehension' jokes are hackneyed! I, for one, welcome our new reading comprehension joke overloads!
C'mon moderators, give this guy a break. That was actually pretty funny. I don't think he was seriously trolling.
I'm not comfortable deciding what is "pointless" for someone else.
It's blatantly obvious he wasted his life. When a guy blows himself by smoking next to a gasoline barrel, do you think "What a waste" or do you think "Hmm, I'm sure glad I didn't get in the way of that guy's self-actualization!"? Be honest now.
I wonder what his wife and child thought of it?
I know, like, who can really say, maaaan? I'm sure they felt awesome about it. The wife was like "Man, I always wanted my husband to desert me in order to pursue some dick-waving goal that he can use to impress his golfing buddies." and the kid was like "It sure is great growing up without a father! "
Some would say that sending men to the moon was a pointless risk.
And don't even compare this to space exploration. Climbing Everest has nothing to do with expanding our knowledge of the world. It's been done thousands of times, and the vast majority who do it do it for pride. Which is fine. But when they screw up, let's not pretend they were trying to improve the world.
It takes a great deal of courage to even think of putting yourself through this much hardship, and even a greater deal of courage to do so while having wife and kid. For me, this qualifies as a Hero as well.
And if he was skydiving without a parachute? Would you consider that heroic as well?
And on a side-note, where would the world be without people trying to do seemingly impossible things just because it was their dream or downright silly at the moment
What a sappy thing to say. One person's dream might be educating the poor. Another's might be coating himself in bear grease and singing the soundtrack to Grease at a City Council Meeting. All dreams are not created equally, friend.
These are most likely the types that actually will become true heroes if the situation would call for it.
And you know this how? 'Probing the boundaries of reality'? Please. His single motivating factor was pride, plain and simple. He wasn't probing the boundaries of reality any more than the woman who died from water poisoning in an attempt to win a Wii game console.
They made choice, who are you to judge them about that?
Wait, I'm confused. You just got done telling me that this guy is a hero because he recklessly risked his life. But you're telling me not to judge him? Yes, he made a choice: a terrible choice that had tragic consequences for himself and his family. Again, not unlike the woman who died drinking too much water in order to win a Wii. Why isn't she a hero?
You joke, but I remember when I watched an IMAX documentary on Mt. Everest. One of the guys had climbed it several times, but he messed up and got stuck somewhere halfway up where he would definitely freeze or starve to death. He left behind his pregnant wife, and they played some of their last conversation. After the final conversation, the narrator called the guy a hero. I remember that pissing me off even as a kid. How can someone who pointlessly risks his life when he has responsibilities to a wife and child be called a hero? People who climb Mt. Everest aren't heroes, they're thrillseekers who border on suicidal. Which is fine, but let's be honest about it.
Before you judge the product by the label, you should try the WebOS. I'm not kidding when I say it's the best mobile phone OS out there.