They think people have learned to think "expensive = good", so they price the things up through the roof.
This is a good point, but what the manufacturers are missing is that the "expensive = good" equation adheres to the brand, not the product. This price point just makes Motorola look incompetent at controlling costs.
And yet, every day, straight white men without college degrees work at jobs they find meaningful and fuck women they find attractive.
I knew a guy who placed second in the state wrestling championship in high school, and decided he didn't need college. Then he knocked up his girlfriend and developed a nasty coke habit. Knocked up two other women, one twice. Wrecked everything in his life, and racked up a five figure debt to his dealer.
I knew him about 15 years after this, at the factory at which I was the IT manager. That guy was the inventory supervisor. He had a wife who ran a basement daycare so good that my brother and his wife used her for their firstborn. On his time off he detailed cars--I paid him $80 to detail mine, and he did a fantastic job of it too. He still received an annual beating from his dealer, but was steadily paying off that debt, so the beating was, at that point, just one good punch to the face. He was looking forward to the first bastard he made turning 18 so that the child support would stop and he'd have some extra money. He never missed a payment on any of his four kids.
So, you can be a pathetic basement-dwelling pity junkie, or you can deal with the world as it is, rather than how you fantasize it should be, and make your way in it. It's up to you.
Who started the wars is irrelevant to the question of "did they resolve anything"? No, they didn't, even though Israel stomped the shit out of the countries who started those three wars (yes, I know my mid-east history), and blasted Lebanon into dust several times in response to aggression from Hezbollah. Each time they respond militarily, they win, and nothing much changes. It certainly doesn't bring peace, does it?
Three wars involving Israel since 1945 (and numerous smaller conflicts like the multiple invasions of Lebanon) have done wonders "resolving" things, haven't they?
The app store has over a quarter million apps in it. For anything someone might want to do on an iPad, there's a wide variety of apps.
But secondarily, you're missing the point. Yes, the laptop can do more, but only by being less convenient: bigger, bulkier, more involved to work with. People pay less for a tablet and do the most common activities on it--surfing, email, play angry birds--more easily than on a laptop. Lots of people are very happy to make that tradeoff--more than enough to sustain a tablet market.
The only reason we haven't seen a tablet market before was that the iPad was the first to work really well. In a couple years, other companies will have figured it out and be offering viable competition, just like it took a couple years for good competitors to the iPhone to hit the market.
You refute your second statement with the first. The vast majority of consumers don't care about ownership rights, they care about the convenience of the device and purchasing software for it.
Is it so hard to understand that people have different view points of the world?
It's not hard to understand at all. The fact that I ask questions about why the Pope should be a generally admired figure (the assertion of which, in itself, implies that there's only one acceptable viewpoint on the matter) doesn't mean I think other's viewpoints are either wrong or irrelevent. Offering my reasons why I think that the Pope shouldn't be generally admired doesn't preclude others from having a different viewpoint.
What I can't understand is why people such as yourself don't realize your viewpoint isn't the only viewpoint in existence.
Your reponse would have been much more interesting if you hadn't locked yourself into this irrelevent tangent. On topics like birth control and abortion, I have no problem accepting that the issue is arguable, at least. I think the larger consequences of the church's stance on being against both at the same time present another (arguable) issue. Presenting my viewpoint without a bunch of "reasonable people can disagree...." noise doesn't mean I outright reject the possibility of disagreeing. I'm just presenting my viewpoint.
I'm certainly not advocating raping little boys or gay bashing, but I am against abortion in principal and see abstinence as a valid form of birth control for people who can actually keep their dicks in their pants/legs closed, which clearly isn't everyone.
I'm glad you condemn child rape. The larger point I made by acknowledging that the Catholic Church's record is mixed (implying that the church has done good in the past as well as evil) is that, even if you agree with some of Benedict's positions, he has other positions and actions that should preclude general admiration. If you disagree with that, then disagree with it rather than trying to poison the well by claiming that I'm intolerant.
Outside of Catholic bashing by competing denominations, why should someone admire the Pope, either the office itself or Benedict personally? Aside from the extremely mixed record of the Catholic Church, Benedict was personally involved in covering up sex abuse scandals in Europe. When he wasn't doing that, he was pushing a conservative brand of Catholicism that rejected both abortion and birth control, and is rigidly anti-gay. He's not a moral exemplar, he hasn't accomplished great works of charity or mercy, and he's generally a force for nothing but the preservation of a worldwide institution's survival and autonomy.
Why must open books be required for public investment?
Because the government, in its wisdom, realized that people actually fall for con men's tricks, so they try to outlaw the more obvious ways of grifting people. In the case of the stock market, the people falling for the con have all the money in your parent's 401K in their pocket, so this is more than just protecting the trader.
Why does it bother you that Person X might invest in Person Y's venture?
It doesn't bother anyone for X to invest in Y's venture. It bothers (or should bother) everyone when a scam artist gets away with it.
If you want to piss away your cash on three card monte, there's still plenty of opportunities around for you to get screwed.
The deal is a minimum $2MM buy-in to get shares in a private company that doesn't have to tell you anything publicly (i.e., there's no independent verification of anything they're saying in the pitch) and that peaked a year ago, meaning its sole asset (i.e., users and credibility) is on the downslope. You're locked in for two years, while GS takes 10% off the top in fees and cash deposit, and they can walk at any time.
GS decided to not offer the deal to American investors because it would have tripped a regulation that says that, if you have too many private investors, you're acting like a publically traded company and must disclose like one. That's the complex and outdated regulation that you think is holding back America?
Looks to me like the SEC saved a bunch of American more-money-than-brains nouveau riche from getting held down and sodomized by a bunch of GS traders who are spilling their scotch on you because they're laughing so hard.
Anyone who takes this deal is paying huge for a massive ass-reaming
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the fact that people like Theo and Linus are jerks doesn't count
Why not? That's the main reason right that there are so many variants of basically the same thing. Everyone has their own idea about the best way it should be, few are sufficiently humble or diplomatic to accept consensus decisions, and so you get a million shades of red.
You can argue that the continual splintering is worthwhile--natural selection of projects, in effect--but you can't deny that the basic motive behind most forks is "fuck you if you won't do it my way".
I am serious, and there's nothing wrong with various solutions proposed here to address the groundswell of GRAR! at the status bar's move to the URL bar. I'm just recording my vote against the twit above who seems to think that because he hates it, everyone hates it.
Most, if not all, of the AAA game industry uses C++, as does Microsoft Windows from about 2000 on, along with Active Directory and SQL Server.
I'm sorry, you were saying something about how C++ is just academic wankery? Why is the games industry and Microsoft not satisfied with plain old vanilla C, then?
To take one stab at an answer: because anyone building anything major in C invariably implements part or all of an object or templating system to manage the complexity.
Do you think crazy people don't take any cues from their environment? That their craziness is entirely unique and self-generating and never references what they see and hear every day?
The beginning of the end of her presidential aspirations was her reality TV show, where she completely trashed the notion that she's any sort of real-life Alaskan. She can't hunt, and she can't fish, without flying six hundred miles to a hunting tourist camp, where she's shepherded around by a bevy of guides who actually reload her rifle for her after she misses six times.
Hunting/sportsman forums have been tearing her apart ever since. She destroyed her own image as a "Mama Grizzly". She actually soured her own base on herself. Totally unforced error.
early reports are that the suspect is hispanic and shoutted something in another language (presumabbly spanish if they are hispanic) before the shooting.
Bullshit. The gunman was tackled while running away, and immediate and verified reports were that he's white, twenties, and clean cut. The whole "La Raza" angle is defensive politics by the Tea Party and the GOP who know that this is a textbook case of violent rhetoric whipping up a mob, one of whom actually acts on it. Whether or not that's truly the case, the right wing knows they've got a perception problem and immediately dove into the political side on their own.
A representative is not supposed to be merely a voting conduit for the currently-polled state of her constituents. The whole point of electing representatives is to put someone in place who's actually familiar with the issues and exercises her judgement, because the vast majority of her constituents will likely not be as informed.
You can argue that any particular vote was the wrong one, but it's non-sensical to say "she voted against the polls for her district, therefore she's a whackjob", especially when she gets re-elected after casting an unpopular vote.
I actually looked at Free Republic just before it crashed, expecting to find a lot of celebratory messages. Most of the messages were just bland "I'm praying for her" type well-wishing, with a smattering of "The Tea Party Movement is totally going to get blamed for this" (really? You think?) and there were a few "Obama had her gunned down to create a martyr".
It's long term affects are unevaluated because of the ability of viruses to mutate.
I wanted to add: This is patent nonsense.
First, most vaccines contained killed virus, which can't mutate because it's dead.
Second, live virus vaccines are, as you observe, weakened. They trigger a fast and effective response from your immune system that wipes them out easily, so they don't get a chance to mutate. There have been no recorded cases of mutated viruses originating from vaccination.
Third, for most vaccines we have literally decades of experience and millions upon millions of people who've received them by which to evaluate their long-term effects, which have proven to be none except for the elimination of a lot diseases.
BTW, Thiomersal was never demonstrated to be harmful. It's not mercury, it's a mercury compound that has been demonstrated repeatedly to have no effect on the human body. It's eliminated from your system within weeks and does not add to the body's accumulated mercury. It was largely discontinued as a precautionary measure due to Wakefield's now totally discredited paper and irrational public hysteria. Thanks to anti-vaxxers we've now lost a quite effective preservative and antiseptic, though.
I'm aware of all this. I was sarcastically mocking your scare-mongering use of the words, as if the many decades during which vaccines have proven to be effective and massively beneficial counted for nothing because they contain OMFG VIRUS DNA!
Every time I worked a cash register, I was taught to put the money given to me by the customer on top of cash drawer, keeping it separate from the cash, until change had been given, just to avoid this. "No, you didn't give me a twenty, you gave me this ten right here."
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They think people have learned to think "expensive = good", so they price the things up through the roof.
This is a good point, but what the manufacturers are missing is that the "expensive = good" equation adheres to the brand, not the product. This price point just makes Motorola look incompetent at controlling costs.
Rush Limbaugh has a regular audience of 20 million for his radio show. I have no problem calling them idiots.
And yet, every day, straight white men without college degrees work at jobs they find meaningful and fuck women they find attractive.
I knew a guy who placed second in the state wrestling championship in high school, and decided he didn't need college. Then he knocked up his girlfriend and developed a nasty coke habit. Knocked up two other women, one twice. Wrecked everything in his life, and racked up a five figure debt to his dealer.
I knew him about 15 years after this, at the factory at which I was the IT manager. That guy was the inventory supervisor. He had a wife who ran a basement daycare so good that my brother and his wife used her for their firstborn. On his time off he detailed cars--I paid him $80 to detail mine, and he did a fantastic job of it too. He still received an annual beating from his dealer, but was steadily paying off that debt, so the beating was, at that point, just one good punch to the face. He was looking forward to the first bastard he made turning 18 so that the child support would stop and he'd have some extra money. He never missed a payment on any of his four kids.
So, you can be a pathetic basement-dwelling pity junkie, or you can deal with the world as it is, rather than how you fantasize it should be, and make your way in it. It's up to you.
Who started the wars is irrelevant to the question of "did they resolve anything"? No, they didn't, even though Israel stomped the shit out of the countries who started those three wars (yes, I know my mid-east history), and blasted Lebanon into dust several times in response to aggression from Hezbollah. Each time they respond militarily, they win, and nothing much changes. It certainly doesn't bring peace, does it?
Three wars involving Israel since 1945 (and numerous smaller conflicts like the multiple invasions of Lebanon) have done wonders "resolving" things, haven't they?
The app store has over a quarter million apps in it. For anything someone might want to do on an iPad, there's a wide variety of apps.
But secondarily, you're missing the point. Yes, the laptop can do more, but only by being less convenient: bigger, bulkier, more involved to work with. People pay less for a tablet and do the most common activities on it--surfing, email, play angry birds--more easily than on a laptop. Lots of people are very happy to make that tradeoff--more than enough to sustain a tablet market.
The only reason we haven't seen a tablet market before was that the iPad was the first to work really well. In a couple years, other companies will have figured it out and be offering viable competition, just like it took a couple years for good competitors to the iPhone to hit the market.
You refute your second statement with the first. The vast majority of consumers don't care about ownership rights, they care about the convenience of the device and purchasing software for it.
Is it so hard to understand that people have different view points of the world?
It's not hard to understand at all. The fact that I ask questions about why the Pope should be a generally admired figure (the assertion of which, in itself, implies that there's only one acceptable viewpoint on the matter) doesn't mean I think other's viewpoints are either wrong or irrelevent. Offering my reasons why I think that the Pope shouldn't be generally admired doesn't preclude others from having a different viewpoint.
What I can't understand is why people such as yourself don't realize your viewpoint isn't the only viewpoint in existence.
Your reponse would have been much more interesting if you hadn't locked yourself into this irrelevent tangent. On topics like birth control and abortion, I have no problem accepting that the issue is arguable, at least. I think the larger consequences of the church's stance on being against both at the same time present another (arguable) issue. Presenting my viewpoint without a bunch of "reasonable people can disagree...." noise doesn't mean I outright reject the possibility of disagreeing. I'm just presenting my viewpoint.
I'm certainly not advocating raping little boys or gay bashing, but I am against abortion in principal and see abstinence as a valid form of birth control for people who can actually keep their dicks in their pants/legs closed, which clearly isn't everyone.
I'm glad you condemn child rape. The larger point I made by acknowledging that the Catholic Church's record is mixed (implying that the church has done good in the past as well as evil) is that, even if you agree with some of Benedict's positions, he has other positions and actions that should preclude general admiration. If you disagree with that, then disagree with it rather than trying to poison the well by claiming that I'm intolerant.
Outside of Catholic bashing by competing denominations, why should someone admire the Pope, either the office itself or Benedict personally? Aside from the extremely mixed record of the Catholic Church, Benedict was personally involved in covering up sex abuse scandals in Europe. When he wasn't doing that, he was pushing a conservative brand of Catholicism that rejected both abortion and birth control, and is rigidly anti-gay. He's not a moral exemplar, he hasn't accomplished great works of charity or mercy, and he's generally a force for nothing but the preservation of a worldwide institution's survival and autonomy.
Why must open books be required for public investment?
Because the government, in its wisdom, realized that people actually fall for con men's tricks, so they try to outlaw the more obvious ways of grifting people. In the case of the stock market, the people falling for the con have all the money in your parent's 401K in their pocket, so this is more than just protecting the trader.
Why does it bother you that Person X might invest in Person Y's venture?
It doesn't bother anyone for X to invest in Y's venture. It bothers (or should bother) everyone when a scam artist gets away with it.
If you want to piss away your cash on three card monte, there's still plenty of opportunities around for you to get screwed.
Are you serious? Are you for real?
The deal is a minimum $2MM buy-in to get shares in a private company that doesn't have to tell you anything publicly (i.e., there's no independent verification of anything they're saying in the pitch) and that peaked a year ago, meaning its sole asset (i.e., users and credibility) is on the downslope. You're locked in for two years, while GS takes 10% off the top in fees and cash deposit, and they can walk at any time.
GS decided to not offer the deal to American investors because it would have tripped a regulation that says that, if you have too many private investors, you're acting like a publically traded company and must disclose like one. That's the complex and outdated regulation that you think is holding back America?
Looks to me like the SEC saved a bunch of American more-money-than-brains nouveau riche from getting held down and sodomized by a bunch of GS traders who are spilling their scotch on you because they're laughing so hard.
Anyone who takes this deal is paying huge for a massive ass-reaming
the fact that people like Theo and Linus are jerks doesn't count
Why not? That's the main reason right that there are so many variants of basically the same thing. Everyone has their own idea about the best way it should be, few are sufficiently humble or diplomatic to accept consensus decisions, and so you get a million shades of red.
You can argue that the continual splintering is worthwhile--natural selection of projects, in effect--but you can't deny that the basic motive behind most forks is "fuck you if you won't do it my way".
I am serious, and there's nothing wrong with various solutions proposed here to address the groundswell of GRAR! at the status bar's move to the URL bar. I'm just recording my vote against the twit above who seems to think that because he hates it, everyone hates it.
Wrong. I'm quite happy to have the status bar gone/relocated.
Most, if not all, of the AAA game industry uses C++, as does Microsoft Windows from about 2000 on, along with Active Directory and SQL Server.
I'm sorry, you were saying something about how C++ is just academic wankery? Why is the games industry and Microsoft not satisfied with plain old vanilla C, then?
To take one stab at an answer: because anyone building anything major in C invariably implements part or all of an object or templating system to manage the complexity.
For most Canadians, a city of under 250,000 is a hick town.
I'm from Regina, Saskatchewan. I can confirm this. It's definitely a hick town.
Do you think crazy people don't take any cues from their environment? That their craziness is entirely unique and self-generating and never references what they see and hear every day?
The beginning of the end of her presidential aspirations was her reality TV show, where she completely trashed the notion that she's any sort of real-life Alaskan. She can't hunt, and she can't fish, without flying six hundred miles to a hunting tourist camp, where she's shepherded around by a bevy of guides who actually reload her rifle for her after she misses six times.
Hunting/sportsman forums have been tearing her apart ever since. She destroyed her own image as a "Mama Grizzly". She actually soured her own base on herself. Totally unforced error.
The shooter is white, mid-twenties, and clean cut. He was tackled trying to run away, and is now in police custody. There's no dispute on this.
Bullshit. The gunman was tackled while running away, and immediate and verified reports were that he's white, twenties, and clean cut. The whole "La Raza" angle is defensive politics by the Tea Party and the GOP who know that this is a textbook case of violent rhetoric whipping up a mob, one of whom actually acts on it. Whether or not that's truly the case, the right wing knows they've got a perception problem and immediately dove into the political side on their own.
A representative is not supposed to be merely a voting conduit for the currently-polled state of her constituents. The whole point of electing representatives is to put someone in place who's actually familiar with the issues and exercises her judgement, because the vast majority of her constituents will likely not be as informed.
You can argue that any particular vote was the wrong one, but it's non-sensical to say "she voted against the polls for her district, therefore she's a whackjob", especially when she gets re-elected after casting an unpopular vote.
I actually looked at Free Republic just before it crashed, expecting to find a lot of celebratory messages. Most of the messages were just bland "I'm praying for her" type well-wishing, with a smattering of "The Tea Party Movement is totally going to get blamed for this" (really? You think?) and there were a few "Obama had her gunned down to create a martyr".
It's long term affects are unevaluated because of the ability of viruses to mutate.
I wanted to add: This is patent nonsense.
First, most vaccines contained killed virus, which can't mutate because it's dead.
Second, live virus vaccines are, as you observe, weakened. They trigger a fast and effective response from your immune system that wipes them out easily, so they don't get a chance to mutate. There have been no recorded cases of mutated viruses originating from vaccination.
Third, for most vaccines we have literally decades of experience and millions upon millions of people who've received them by which to evaluate their long-term effects, which have proven to be none except for the elimination of a lot diseases.
BTW, Thiomersal was never demonstrated to be harmful. It's not mercury, it's a mercury compound that has been demonstrated repeatedly to have no effect on the human body. It's eliminated from your system within weeks and does not add to the body's accumulated mercury. It was largely discontinued as a precautionary measure due to Wakefield's now totally discredited paper and irrational public hysteria. Thanks to anti-vaxxers we've now lost a quite effective preservative and antiseptic, though.
I'm aware of all this. I was sarcastically mocking your scare-mongering use of the words, as if the many decades during which vaccines have proven to be effective and massively beneficial counted for nothing because they contain OMFG VIRUS DNA!
An awkward grift is an awesome thing to behold.
Every time I worked a cash register, I was taught to put the money given to me by the customer on top of cash drawer, keeping it separate from the cash, until change had been given, just to avoid this. "No, you didn't give me a twenty, you gave me this ten right here."