I had the same feeling until going to a Real D 3-D movie. They have these orthogonal polarized glasses that look and feel a lot like a pair of Ray-Bans. They even design them to easily fit over any other eye-wear.
One problem, I get taxed for phone service and cable TV and I don't own either. They just classify it as a service and then the service provider taxes me (and adds a hefty fee for processing that tax). It ends up being "free money" for the state government and the provider so it becomes a "good" thing no matter what you or I say.
"Yeah, it does all of these neat things. It can recognize objects, respond to Bluetooth devices, run.Net and do all of these cool graphical tricks that we have spent the last year tinkering with. Actually, it kind of reminds me of wall thingy in Minority Report and functions kind of like the iPhone's multitouch."
"Thats it? Look, if you can make people pay a subscription fee to use software they have written for it or to use any software outside of the OS we might talk. It just sounds like it could be too... Ugh, functional. People putting them in their kitchen, to read recipes, sitting in the game room stealing face time from the 360. Think outside the box. How else can we create a market conquering product?"...
"Wait, Bluetooth! Can you make some dongles that we can sell at $50 a pop?. Maybe a $150 RCA cable and a $200 AV dock?"
"Um, Bluetooth is wireless and it already has a screen."
"Damnit, what good are you? Wait, I've got it! Whoring the iPhone to AT&T worked for Apple! Make a sexy or hip or whatever demo, just remember the bullet points, we have brand recognition in those. My god, I still have it. I'm a f$%^&*@ genius!"
Also he writes for Salon. Comparing anything to a hot topic issue to give the story mass relevance with a "counter culture" attitude is his job. Even if it is something mundane about how keyboards turned on their end are phallic and representative of a gender oppression.
If he were a Slate writer it would have been a pseudo-snarky opinion piece beginning with a statement claiming that Apple is the devil and ending on how Apple is really Jesus Christ. Or if he were an Onion writer he would just state the obvious and add a few over-the-top fictional details. It is just a facet of his publication. I'm sure it is something that he loathes and is only too happy to make fun of after a few beers.
I think you are on to something. Most Mac users I know they come in two varieties. The first is the guy who has always had a Mac and tends to tell the lame, "just buy a real computer" joke way too often. But you can talk to this guy and ask questions about what he does and doesn't like about his OS of choice. Then there is the guy who has always had a Mac and a third of his assets are tied up Apple stock. There is no talking to this guy. If there is a shortcoming in the OS, then it was meant to be there for the betterment of mankind. If something hardware doesn't work with his Mac then it is obviously inferior tech that should be scrubbed from the Earth. His general response to questions about his OS are, "Why are you bringing up these useless things?" or "Why do you irrationally hate Mac?". Of course all of this is understandable. If enough people ask the same questions he won't be able to afford to take a vacation in the summer. Kind of like older (ecomonic) Republicans, their way of life is so tied up something that they can't even question it or else they can stand losing what they hold dear.
At the same time the guy with MS stock will purchase MS no matter what flaws. Granted he will sigh a lot and spend hours find a work around for his computer problems, but hell, that is the MS way. But I guess that passivity is part of belonging to a majority instead of a minority.
Oddly enough the people who bought Red Hat stock back in the 90s don't give a damn about Red Hat now and they are still pissed about getting screwed. Probably didn't sell the stock, but screw it, maybe it'll be worth something some day.
Funny you mention that. A friend and I were watching traffic on my LAN the other day and we noticed SMTP is pretty open on the Wii. It only seems like a matter of time before junk mail starts flying off those things.
Dumb. It is better to deal with current crimes with current laws. Don't create some new law that gives Joe Schmoe a 30 year sentence for leaving his router open (yeah, I know, not in TFA, just pulling out random, non-real world examples) or an 10 year sentence for accessing said open router. All that does is trigger an arms race that only blows the whole thing out of proportion.
If you create a law to protect some of us from the few, pass a law that deals with the few, don't go for a blanket mandate on all or else everyone will retaliate. Anything beyond that is a whole different argument on civil privileges -er rights.
Our legislative bodies bring about further encroachment because that is what they do. They are lawmakers, not sometimes-lawmakers, or lawmakers who only make laws when laws are needed.
Getting them go do something that doesn't increase their power is like telling a spot welder to paint.
Am I the only person who thinks this stinks of politics? Take fairly common knowledge that appears to be dangerous in the wrong hands and post it to a controversial leak site. Bam, they are now in league with terrorism and some greater authority needs to shut them down for the public good.
As an advertiser, I'd would probably love the idea of not only getting my advertising on your show but having it permanently embossed in that episode and given out for free so that anyone interested can see my ad. It will sort of be like advertisers on early television and radio.
Personally I hold the view that turning Wikipedia into some kind of accredited encyclopedia is absolute non-sense. There are plenty of Wikipedia clones, forks and derivatives out there attempting to do become the next Wikipedia. why try to duplicate their lack of achievement? (Not that I'm knocking the achievements of Wiki clones, forks and derivatives, but I can't think of one whose name is used as a verb.)
If the problem is that Wikipedia isn't a big kids medium who shouldn't specialize in anime trivia then the big kids need to sit down and write some articles, not hem and holler like a potential investor on IPO day. As long as the information is accurate (hell, not even accurate just "true" in the discreet sense) it shouldn't matter what the information is.
-who hasn't been able to laugh at recent Onion articles?
First it was the one about the nation being happy voer the Patriot's Super Bowl loss and now this. They are slowly becoming the most honest news source out there.
I find it odd that free derivatives are making him angry when capitalist have been screwing him over for years. Anyone remember the whole Tengen/Nintendo Tetris debacle back in the late 80s? Anyone remember him getting any money for it?
Yes, they do. If not they aren't responsible for someone blowing up the infrastructure/offices and "accidentally" raping and murdering your family for whatever heresy someone might just have felt like cooking up. This is real politic, not angry letters to city hall.
Building a computer from individual components: Only the mentally deranged don't go out and buy a Mac. Also if you purchase a Dell for less than $2,000 it is proof that you are a sub inbred hillbilly.
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I had the same feeling until going to a Real D 3-D movie. They have these orthogonal polarized glasses that look and feel a lot like a pair of Ray-Bans. They even design them to easily fit over any other eye-wear.
One problem, I get taxed for phone service and cable TV and I don't own either. They just classify it as a service and then the service provider taxes me (and adds a hefty fee for processing that tax). It ends up being "free money" for the state government and the provider so it becomes a "good" thing no matter what you or I say.
"We've made a table."
.Net and do all of these cool graphical tricks that we have spent the last year tinkering with. Actually, it kind of reminds me of wall thingy in Minority Report and functions kind of like the iPhone's multitouch."
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"A table?"
"Yeah, it does all of these neat things. It can recognize objects, respond to Bluetooth devices, run
"Thats it? Look, if you can make people pay a subscription fee to use software they have written for it or to use any software outside of the OS we might talk. It just sounds like it could be too... Ugh, functional. People putting them in their kitchen, to read recipes, sitting in the game room stealing face time from the 360. Think outside the box. How else can we create a market conquering product?"
"Wait, Bluetooth! Can you make some dongles that we can sell at $50 a pop?. Maybe a $150 RCA cable and a $200 AV dock?"
"Um, Bluetooth is wireless and it already has a screen."
"Damnit, what good are you? Wait, I've got it! Whoring the iPhone to AT&T worked for Apple! Make a sexy or hip or whatever demo, just remember the bullet points, we have brand recognition in those. My god, I still have it. I'm a f$%^&*@ genius!"
Wow, a license just to copy to your iPod. Sounds like marijuana tax stamps to me.
I meant to say music tax, not p2p tax. Sorry about that one.
So will this mean that Ma Bell can charge customers for breakage -er a P2P tax processing fee?
Sounds like a nice setup for everyone except the suckers, I mean consumers.
No, but they did get this big check from a cellphone carrier. Does that count?
Games like Dead Rising will play on an NTSC set, but you'll have to squint really, really hard to read any on-screen text.
Speaking of not being politically savvy. A non-technocrat positision on Slashdot? Come on, really?
Also he writes for Salon. Comparing anything to a hot topic issue to give the story mass relevance with a "counter culture" attitude is his job. Even if it is something mundane about how keyboards turned on their end are phallic and representative of a gender oppression.
If he were a Slate writer it would have been a pseudo-snarky opinion piece beginning with a statement claiming that Apple is the devil and ending on how Apple is really Jesus Christ. Or if he were an Onion writer he would just state the obvious and add a few over-the-top fictional details. It is just a facet of his publication. I'm sure it is something that he loathes and is only too happy to make fun of after a few beers.
I think you are on to something. Most Mac users I know they come in two varieties. The first is the guy who has always had a Mac and tends to tell the lame, "just buy a real computer" joke way too often. But you can talk to this guy and ask questions about what he does and doesn't like about his OS of choice. Then there is the guy who has always had a Mac and a third of his assets are tied up Apple stock. There is no talking to this guy. If there is a shortcoming in the OS, then it was meant to be there for the betterment of mankind. If something hardware doesn't work with his Mac then it is obviously inferior tech that should be scrubbed from the Earth. His general response to questions about his OS are, "Why are you bringing up these useless things?" or "Why do you irrationally hate Mac?". Of course all of this is understandable. If enough people ask the same questions he won't be able to afford to take a vacation in the summer. Kind of like older (ecomonic) Republicans, their way of life is so tied up something that they can't even question it or else they can stand losing what they hold dear.
At the same time the guy with MS stock will purchase MS no matter what flaws. Granted he will sigh a lot and spend hours find a work around for his computer problems, but hell, that is the MS way. But I guess that passivity is part of belonging to a majority instead of a minority.
Oddly enough the people who bought Red Hat stock back in the 90s don't give a damn about Red Hat now and they are still pissed about getting screwed. Probably didn't sell the stock, but screw it, maybe it'll be worth something some day.
Funny you mention that. A friend and I were watching traffic on my LAN the other day and we noticed SMTP is pretty open on the Wii. It only seems like a matter of time before junk mail starts flying off those things.
Dumb. It is better to deal with current crimes with current laws. Don't create some new law that gives Joe Schmoe a 30 year sentence for leaving his router open (yeah, I know, not in TFA, just pulling out random, non-real world examples) or an 10 year sentence for accessing said open router. All that does is trigger an arms race that only blows the whole thing out of proportion.
If you create a law to protect some of us from the few, pass a law that deals with the few, don't go for a blanket mandate on all or else everyone will retaliate. Anything beyond that is a whole different argument on civil privileges -er rights.
Our legislative bodies bring about further encroachment because that is what they do. They are lawmakers, not sometimes-lawmakers, or lawmakers who only make laws when laws are needed.
Getting them go do something that doesn't increase their power is like telling a spot welder to paint.
Non-sense. It is the means to build such a thing what what we should worry, not having a simple understanding of how it works.
Am I the only person who thinks this stinks of politics? Take fairly common knowledge that appears to be dangerous in the wrong hands and post it to a controversial leak site. Bam, they are now in league with terrorism and some greater authority needs to shut them down for the public good.
Actually I completely agree with this idea.
As an advertiser, I'd would probably love the idea of not only getting my advertising on your show but having it permanently embossed in that episode and given out for free so that anyone interested can see my ad. It will sort of be like advertisers on early television and radio.
"Why is it the same people who were convinced that HD-DVD was going to take off now suddenly think that download media is going to be the thing?"
Because they are tired of buying the same content for different media?
Personally I hold the view that turning Wikipedia into some kind of accredited encyclopedia is absolute non-sense. There are plenty of Wikipedia clones, forks and derivatives out there attempting to do become the next Wikipedia. why try to duplicate their lack of achievement? (Not that I'm knocking the achievements of Wiki clones, forks and derivatives, but I can't think of one whose name is used as a verb.)
If the problem is that Wikipedia isn't a big kids medium who shouldn't specialize in anime trivia then the big kids need to sit down and write some articles, not hem and holler like a potential investor on IPO day. As long as the information is accurate (hell, not even accurate just "true" in the discreet sense) it shouldn't matter what the information is.
I can't agree more.
-who hasn't been able to laugh at recent Onion articles?
First it was the one about the nation being happy voer the Patriot's Super Bowl loss and now this. They are slowly becoming the most honest news source out there.
I find it odd that free derivatives are making him angry when capitalist have been screwing him over for years. Anyone remember the whole Tengen/Nintendo Tetris debacle back in the late 80s? Anyone remember him getting any money for it?
Yes, they do. If not they aren't responsible for someone blowing up the infrastructure/offices and "accidentally" raping and murdering your family for whatever heresy someone might just have felt like cooking up. This is real politic, not angry letters to city hall.
Building a computer from individual components: Only the mentally deranged don't go out and buy a Mac.
Also if you purchase a Dell for less than $2,000 it is proof that you are a sub inbred hillbilly.
Car repair: The dealership, please.
Hayes Commands: Those who use dialup must DIE!
Actually this makes sense. Torture them and then drive them mad. From what I gather the Hague doesn't accept testimony from those deemed incompetent.