And then there are some of us who actually like that kind of driving. I could drive across the US pretty much straight (with requisite rest-stops and such) and love every minute of it.
The point is that SOMEONE has the HDTV;) The 24" is great if you're a single guy in a small place, especially when you can go elsewhere for the group gaming. It's not as acceptable for a family, friends, etc.
Ugh. At least tell them that HDMI is much easier to use than that SCART crap. Seriously... that thing is a behemoth relic. I do agree that the splitter stuff is nonsense, but that's not the fault of the cable per-se. It's the fault of the studios. Tell your friends/customers that the reason they can't get a cheap HDMI splitter or switcher is because the movie studios think he's a criminal. Lay the blame where the blame is due.
But it's also only 24". As long as you're the only person using it, sure, that's fine. But what about those of us with families and friends IRL? Watching the 24" computer screen on your desk isn't quite as nice as being able to sit on a couch, not to mention multiplayer games on the same screen, which the PC doesn't do very well at all. If it does, it's just by running a console emulator.
The government doesn't have to protect you. They will not protect you unless they want to. A sociopath is someone who is often defined as having a
"Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right.""
The only thing you have ever spoken about is your right to be left alone, and the shit that matters to you, rather than to society as a whole. You don't want to step up and be part of society that holds other people responsible for their behavior. Society only works because EVERYONE works, not because only parts of them work toward certain things and leave everything else to others.
Not anything that fits in the bucket is payload, but anything that IS in the bucket is payload... note to self: stay away from flingy end of trebuchets with SCA people in attendance.
I see you haven't had many dealings with the government. It's much better if people learn how to solve their own little squabbles. Give anyone too much power over the citizenry, and they will abuse it.
It comes down to a belief that either a person can stand up for what's right, or they go crying to someone else to stand up for them. I see that you're the latter. Which is why America is such a shithole any more. Nobody is properly held accountable for their actions because nobody wants to take responsibility, and the government keeps growing larger and more cumbersome because everyone demands that the g-men step in where they're too lazy to act for themselves.
You can only be as bullied as you allow yourself to be. Abdicating even partial responsibility for allowing it simply means you're weak-willed to stand up for yourself and for what's right, and you'll roll over for anyone that tells you to. I seem to remember "I was just following orders" isn't allowed as an excuse for doing immoral things in the military...
You need to go back to school. Try starting with some American history, anthropology and sociology for starters.
What a magical wonderland you live in, where everyone else takes care of you, instead of you taking care of yourself. You have no responsibility for anything, right?
The problem is that assholes exist. You CANNOT CHANGE THIS. No matter how hard you wish against it, assholes and bullies exist.
I'm not saying that bullies are good things. I'm not saying they're desirable. I'm saying you are the only person who really has the responsibility for yourself. You want to be an aloof intellectual... good for you. Someone else wants to be an asshole. Deal with it.
I've got a 61" TV, and playing stuff back from my Canon HF-100, you can't see any pixellation. You can barely even make out individual pixels when it's paused.
The only thing you truly control are your reactions. EVERYTHING else is a force of nature that you cannot control. Your victim mentality means that you will keep blaming things out of your control for your failings to act on the things you can control.
Yes. I'm not saying that girls deserve to get raped. But I will say that a woman that walks around near dark alleys in a miniskirt is a moron, and could do some very simple things to protect herself. Bad people exist. You cannot change that. The ONLY thing you can change is how you protect yourself and how you react.
I didn't conform to social norms. Yet I wasn't bullied, because I just didn't stand for that shit, and I took the time to learn how social relationships worked. You don't have to be like everyone else to understand everyone else. If you don't understand other people, you're setting yourself up to be an outcast. And then you bitch about it happening? Really? "I walked out on this windy cliff, and then the wind came up and blew me over! It's not my fault!" If you're gonna be fucking around on windy cliffs, learn to climb, grab some rope so you don't fall, and learn to protect yourself. It's nobody else's duty to do so.
But you still need to teach the battered wife not to go back to her husband. Many do, in spite of everything. It's the same thing here. Sometimes, blaming the victim is appropriate to a certain degree. The fact that you think differently is a sad statement about society... nobody can ever be wrong if they're losing or if they feel something, right? Almost all people who get bullied continue to be bullied because of choices they make in how to respond to bullies and how to interact with other people. It's VERY hard to be a victim of bullying if you don't allow it. This is about teaching kids (and even some adults) on how to not allow it. It's not hard, it's just that some people like you were just never taught these things and never learned them for themselves.
Life is not sunshine and rainbows except for people who shit on you. You have to create your own place in the world, otherwise other people will create it for you. That is not their fault. It is yours.
Just because a person is a victim doesn't make them blameless. Yeah, you feel bad if someone is shot by a hunter, but should they really have been running around in the woods wearing a deer costume? The problem on BOTH sides is lack of socialization and understanding of social cues. It's not something everyone is born with.
The problem is that clarity dies with the current "txt" speak. There may not be a place for latin, but there will always be a place for precise language. What is the point of having a language at all if not to communicate? And when that communication is important, precision becomes critical. When someone can't figure out the difference between "loose" and "lose", what hope is there of them being able to clearly communicate an idea? As an example, "Loose the tether" and "Lose the tether" would be significantly different things if someone were designing something with a tether on it.
Wanna bet? Car accidents kill many times the number of people as terrorism, yet where does the money flow? Money goes to scary boogeymen, not rationally analyzed risks.
I don't need a turbo, but I have replaced the alternator and water pump. I can do fairly major repairs on the furnace, but without buying a lot of special tools, I'm limited.
It's not about the specific item. It's about taking the time to learn. Computers and entertainment systems have almost no tool cost, so there's very little excuse. Car repair? That's a couple thousand in tools alone, so I can imagine it being a little bigger hurdle. But the point remains that I can still frame a wall to code, do plumbing, painting, fix my car when I have the tools to do so, provide appropriate first aid response... it's simply a matter of thinking about it. Most people don't want to. There are enthusiasts that will go above and beyond, and I am definitely one with my media PC. But that doesn't mean that the general person shouldn't be able to figure out how to plug a few cables together to get surround sound.
Yup. And people are amazed when they come over and see my media system. They really want one. It's just not easy. The problem is that there are two types of people: Those who fix things, and those who just want things to work. Most people are in the latter category. Thinking is hard for them, if someone doesn't tell them exactly what steps to do it just won't happen. This is not slashdot's audience. It's a completely foreign concept to most of Slashdot. Can you imagine a person actually being HAPPIER if they don't know what's going on? They'd rather pay a lot of money for some twit to come hook up their entertainment center than be forced to think about it a bit? Or heck, even just unclog a toilet? We're a society that is based by and large on people consuming and not creating.
I like Newegg. They have a technical audience, but they say "Hey, we're redirecting you... you'll come back when you're done", and the certificate and everything is right in the address bar like it should be. I've only had one merchant where the VbV page was in an iframe... I checked out the frame to verify it, but as soon as I get my shipment from them I'm going to complain about that experience.
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And then there are some of us who actually like that kind of driving. I could drive across the US pretty much straight (with requisite rest-stops and such) and love every minute of it.
The point is that SOMEONE has the HDTV ;) The 24" is great if you're a single guy in a small place, especially when you can go elsewhere for the group gaming. It's not as acceptable for a family, friends, etc.
Ugh. At least tell them that HDMI is much easier to use than that SCART crap. Seriously... that thing is a behemoth relic. I do agree that the splitter stuff is nonsense, but that's not the fault of the cable per-se. It's the fault of the studios. Tell your friends/customers that the reason they can't get a cheap HDMI splitter or switcher is because the movie studios think he's a criminal. Lay the blame where the blame is due.
But it's also only 24". As long as you're the only person using it, sure, that's fine. But what about those of us with families and friends IRL? Watching the 24" computer screen on your desk isn't quite as nice as being able to sit on a couch, not to mention multiplayer games on the same screen, which the PC doesn't do very well at all. If it does, it's just by running a console emulator.
The government doesn't have to protect you. They will not protect you unless they want to. A sociopath is someone who is often defined as having a
"Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right.""
The only thing you have ever spoken about is your right to be left alone, and the shit that matters to you, rather than to society as a whole. You don't want to step up and be part of society that holds other people responsible for their behavior. Society only works because EVERYONE works, not because only parts of them work toward certain things and leave everything else to others.
Not anything that fits in the bucket is payload, but anything that IS in the bucket is payload... note to self: stay away from flingy end of trebuchets with SCA people in attendance.
I see you haven't had many dealings with the government. It's much better if people learn how to solve their own little squabbles. Give anyone too much power over the citizenry, and they will abuse it.
It comes down to a belief that either a person can stand up for what's right, or they go crying to someone else to stand up for them. I see that you're the latter. Which is why America is such a shithole any more. Nobody is properly held accountable for their actions because nobody wants to take responsibility, and the government keeps growing larger and more cumbersome because everyone demands that the g-men step in where they're too lazy to act for themselves.
You can only be as bullied as you allow yourself to be. Abdicating even partial responsibility for allowing it simply means you're weak-willed to stand up for yourself and for what's right, and you'll roll over for anyone that tells you to. I seem to remember "I was just following orders" isn't allowed as an excuse for doing immoral things in the military...
You need to go back to school. Try starting with some American history, anthropology and sociology for starters.
What a magical wonderland you live in, where everyone else takes care of you, instead of you taking care of yourself. You have no responsibility for anything, right?
The problem is that assholes exist. You CANNOT CHANGE THIS. No matter how hard you wish against it, assholes and bullies exist.
I'm not saying that bullies are good things. I'm not saying they're desirable. I'm saying you are the only person who really has the responsibility for yourself. You want to be an aloof intellectual... good for you. Someone else wants to be an asshole. Deal with it.
I've got a 61" TV, and playing stuff back from my Canon HF-100, you can't see any pixellation. You can barely even make out individual pixels when it's paused.
The only thing you truly control are your reactions. EVERYTHING else is a force of nature that you cannot control. Your victim mentality means that you will keep blaming things out of your control for your failings to act on the things you can control.
Yes. I'm not saying that girls deserve to get raped. But I will say that a woman that walks around near dark alleys in a miniskirt is a moron, and could do some very simple things to protect herself. Bad people exist. You cannot change that. The ONLY thing you can change is how you protect yourself and how you react.
I didn't conform to social norms. Yet I wasn't bullied, because I just didn't stand for that shit, and I took the time to learn how social relationships worked. You don't have to be like everyone else to understand everyone else. If you don't understand other people, you're setting yourself up to be an outcast. And then you bitch about it happening? Really? "I walked out on this windy cliff, and then the wind came up and blew me over! It's not my fault!" If you're gonna be fucking around on windy cliffs, learn to climb, grab some rope so you don't fall, and learn to protect yourself. It's nobody else's duty to do so.
But you still need to teach the battered wife not to go back to her husband. Many do, in spite of everything. It's the same thing here. Sometimes, blaming the victim is appropriate to a certain degree. The fact that you think differently is a sad statement about society... nobody can ever be wrong if they're losing or if they feel something, right? Almost all people who get bullied continue to be bullied because of choices they make in how to respond to bullies and how to interact with other people. It's VERY hard to be a victim of bullying if you don't allow it. This is about teaching kids (and even some adults) on how to not allow it. It's not hard, it's just that some people like you were just never taught these things and never learned them for themselves.
Life is not sunshine and rainbows except for people who shit on you. You have to create your own place in the world, otherwise other people will create it for you. That is not their fault. It is yours.
Just because a person is a victim doesn't make them blameless. Yeah, you feel bad if someone is shot by a hunter, but should they really have been running around in the woods wearing a deer costume? The problem on BOTH sides is lack of socialization and understanding of social cues. It's not something everyone is born with.
Perhaps she wasn't comparing the 28mph to a 5pmh with current bumpers, but a 5mph perfectly inelastic collision? Can't tell for sure.
The problem is that clarity dies with the current "txt" speak. There may not be a place for latin, but there will always be a place for precise language. What is the point of having a language at all if not to communicate? And when that communication is important, precision becomes critical. When someone can't figure out the difference between "loose" and "lose", what hope is there of them being able to clearly communicate an idea? As an example, "Loose the tether" and "Lose the tether" would be significantly different things if someone were designing something with a tether on it.
Passenger? What's that? This is America, jackass. My Hummer feels crowded with just me in it.
</sarcasm>
Wanna bet? Car accidents kill many times the number of people as terrorism, yet where does the money flow? Money goes to scary boogeymen, not rationally analyzed risks.
I don't need a turbo, but I have replaced the alternator and water pump. I can do fairly major repairs on the furnace, but without buying a lot of special tools, I'm limited.
It's not about the specific item. It's about taking the time to learn. Computers and entertainment systems have almost no tool cost, so there's very little excuse. Car repair? That's a couple thousand in tools alone, so I can imagine it being a little bigger hurdle. But the point remains that I can still frame a wall to code, do plumbing, painting, fix my car when I have the tools to do so, provide appropriate first aid response... it's simply a matter of thinking about it. Most people don't want to. There are enthusiasts that will go above and beyond, and I am definitely one with my media PC. But that doesn't mean that the general person shouldn't be able to figure out how to plug a few cables together to get surround sound.
Yup. And people are amazed when they come over and see my media system. They really want one. It's just not easy. The problem is that there are two types of people: Those who fix things, and those who just want things to work. Most people are in the latter category. Thinking is hard for them, if someone doesn't tell them exactly what steps to do it just won't happen. This is not slashdot's audience. It's a completely foreign concept to most of Slashdot. Can you imagine a person actually being HAPPIER if they don't know what's going on? They'd rather pay a lot of money for some twit to come hook up their entertainment center than be forced to think about it a bit? Or heck, even just unclog a toilet? We're a society that is based by and large on people consuming and not creating.
I like Newegg. They have a technical audience, but they say "Hey, we're redirecting you... you'll come back when you're done", and the certificate and everything is right in the address bar like it should be. I've only had one merchant where the VbV page was in an iframe... I checked out the frame to verify it, but as soon as I get my shipment from them I'm going to complain about that experience.
We've already had Wangs... I don't think there's anywhere to go but up ;)
The lawyer is just Old Man Smithers in a costume. Those meddling kids kept him from getting away with it.
You're in the UK. That shit happens and the cops aren't punished. Ergo, you don't have those rights.
And in that eventuality, I'll stick with my old games or indie games. A-list titles are largely shit with a pretty facade anyway.