I know an enormous amount of people who openly admit that they are terrible at math and have a hard time comprehending things like math, chemistry, biology and physics. Their own failings (or even reasonably understandable lack of knowledge in areas) doesn't make those fields of science or the generally accepted theories (not hypothesis -- THEORIES) any less real.
And for the religious types... Well, they don't have a foot to stand on. You can't talk about believing in some magical space guy that will send you to a burning hell if you wear multiple textiles simultaneously and don't honor your mom and dad while saying that evolution is completely ridiculous and unfounded on the other hand. That's like saying you believe in mental telepathy but not gravity.
To be fair, that same 48% of Americans, while "rejecting" evolution probably buys into the Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell claim that lesbians cause hurricanes and other natural disasters.
If someone can believe in a literal translation of the bible. Or, in fact, in spirituality, ghosts, ESP and all this other stuff altogether which has little and no supporting evidence whatsoever, then I don't really care what their opinion on scientific hypothesis and theories are as they are no more qualified to dismiss evolution as a generally accepted scientific theory than they are to diagnose a medical condition or than I am to fly up and repair the space station.
However, this statistic certainly goes a long way in illustrating the ignorance in this country that we are ruled by. You can't expect to compete in the world on any level when you are lead around by religious insanity.
And while we're miring in the suck here, keep in mind that these 48% get to vote and their vote counts just as much as the most educated, wise, worldly person in the country. Hurrah for a system which encourages, promotes and maintains the consensus. Even when they're idiots!
This is a great example of why science should be taken out of highschools and substituted with bible study. We don't need our young people gettin' all booksmart and thinkin' they dun got themselves better than all'us in the bible belt of jebus.
I still have yet to understand what fear they have of internet terrorism. When was the last time terrorists killed someone over the internet?! This sounds more like the supposedly disbanded TIA working under the guise of DHS.
By the way, how scary is it that DHS used to be the commonly used acronym associated with "Department of Human Services". And now this...
Good to know that DHS can put its hands in ANYTHING regardless of nature as long as they claim it has some association in some minor (or even non-existent but hypothetical) way.
This would be brilliant in America and is exactly why we will never have any sort of real uprising or revolution in the future. If the government believes they are at serious risk of all of us fat lazy idiots turning off American Idol, putting down our six dollar coffees and storming the offices to toss out a tyranny, they'll just offer us free consoles or televisions or something else in exchange for all of our guns. We're just that dumb to go for it, too.
No rest until we have our freedom! No rest until we have our -- whoa, shit! Free GTA IV! Thanks guys!
I don't see how this is a big deal to begin with. Elderly people today are not the same elderly people as a decade or two ago. Today's elderly people grew up listening to rock and roll and dancing naked in the mud at Woodstock. It's not like today's elderly people were doing the waltz in those old dresses with the enormous wire ass attached to them that the dress poofs out over and lamenting the loss of the horse and buggy. It's not the same jump as taking someone who was born before talkies and held jobs during the great drop of 1929 and getting them into Wii bowling.
Spending real money to buy an image of flowers to send to someone online. This story only proves that an enormous number of people have more money than brains.
There is no content on the 360 to justify the need for 1080p, though (as you pointed out). There are no 1080p games and if there were, that would also mean gaming at 30fps. There are no movies on xbox live in 1080p (and if there were, I sure as hell wouldn't pay for movies from xbox live anyway). And I'm sure not going to buy an XBOX HD-DVD drive when I could just buy a better quality HD/BlueRay player - and that is the only device that I care about connecting via HDMI (presuming I truly can't run 1080p over component, which I am not entirely sure is necessary).
I think the statement made in the article had to have been made by someone uninformed who just assumes "dur.. HDMI good - must have for HD because it has HD in the name!". So the article's claim that the old 360 somehow doesn't support HD as much is ridiculous. With regard to the available content for the XBOX, it supports everything it has to offer.
I'm still waiting for 300 to come out on Blueray though. As soon as it's out, I will finally feel that my home entertainment center was a perfect investment.:D
How many people actually use their agenda crap on their PDA? I've never once used the calandaring or note taking crap. I have a brain for that stuff. And a camera? Yes, I bring along a camera... when I want to go take pictures of something.
They're cramming so much crap into cellphones that most people don't even use. I'd rather pick the two or three items I WOULD use and bring those along rather than one device with eight functions (six of which I don't care about at any one time) that does all of them poorly.
I think people like the idea of being able to blog from their cell phone along with 800 other services (and really, why do we care if you're going to blog about standing in line at the DMV from your phone?!) more than they like the actual services.
I know I don't use any feature from my Treo other than... well.. making a phone call. I think I used the camera one time, though.
early adopters stuck with an older model of the console that offers less in the way of high-definition support That is a ridiculous statement. In what way is the non-Elite XBOX systems offering less support for high definition? Simply because they didn't come with an asstastic HDMI cable?!
There's no way in hell I'm going to buy one. I want my phone to do one simple thing. Make calls. A nice little phone that makes calls and has a long battery life. Then, for my music, I want an ipod. Not a crappy 2gb phone-merged piece of crap. I want a 300gb ipod (yes, I can dream).
Why do I need to have fifty devices all in one? All you end up with is fifty half-assed devices. Take a queue from the unix world and provide devices that do one thing and do that thing incredibly well. I'm not going to pay $500 for a brick of suck plus a couple hundred a month for all the extra pointless services.
And yes, I own Apple products - including a 17" powerbook and a 30" ACD yadda yadda.
Installing systems with no patches or older patches and putting them online will open them up to a lot of vulnerabilities. No kidding, Einstein?! Maybe that's why patches were released for them later, huh?
What's with all the lame Second Life articles? There are a lot of other MMOs around that do not suck and they don't get an article every day or two on here. This "game" is so terribly bad that I can only imagine the Second Life guys are paying Slashdot more than Intel is for that Opinion Center sponsorship.
I mean, seriously, why so much attention for a game where the first two things that happen when you login are some loser wanting you to go offline with them to engage in "sex chat" for cash and someone trying to sell you random crap? And its suckiness is only further proven by the fact that so many corporations and organizations try to exploit it for some sort of advertising purpose - like the world really is eager to log into Second Life to attend a virtual 3D chat style advertisement for why I should witch my company to HP products.
Yeah, you go ahead and get started with bringing that trend to the forefront. Meanwhile, I will continue not to get my ass beat whenever I go outside.:)
Actually, this makes me wonder - are friends going to be redefined?
It used to be that you had very few friends and these were people close to you that you spent time with regularly. Now, it has been redefined to any person that you play with on xbox, chat with on instant messaging or add to your myspace page because you both like the same crappy band.
I wonder if "friend" will even mean what it means today in another generation or two.
I prefer to play with my wii by myself. And I'm most certainly not interested in calling some telephone number while playing with my wii. I tried that before and it got REALLY expensive.
If the human race was wiped out, there'd be no more books, television, radio, music, videogames, internet, porn, sex, parties, politics. What the hell would be the point to living?!
Yeah, the mangled title warps the entire premise, which is that there is a new weapon against superbugs that doesn't involve creating more super-antibiotics to fight the super bugs (which of course will just eventually lead to a massive super bug some day that will kill you before you can treat it since everyone is a big baby and rushes out to get antibiotics at the first sniffle).
Of course, the same can also be said about when you see an AOL user. But it sometimes just means they're less experienced or have a simpler need and use of the web. For me, however, "yahoo account" makes me immediately think "possible fraud or troublemaker", because on my site over the last eight years, yahoo accounts have become the throwaway troublemaker's best friend.
I am not a huge fan of gmail, either. It's a great service but I hate the interface. I use it as a backup to my email server that I run on my hardware sitting at the colo in case that is ever down - and thanks to pop.gmail.com, I don't ever have to use the gmail interface.
I think it says something about a person when they would rather subject themselves to a crapload of advertisements and shoddy complex interfaces designed to shove them into a million different pay services like Yahoo's interface does when they could have a relatively unintrusive interface and advertising situation for free elsewhere.
Yeah, I don't care what Yahoo! offers. It's still Yahoo! email. I know how I snicker whenever I see someone email me from a yahoo address. Having a Yahoo! email account is a lot like having one of those K-Mart $5.95 dial up internet services.
Not to mention, just because you don't have college credentials or a degree doesn't mean you aren't still a skilled, knowledgable and experienced professional in that area or that you are not a layman with extensive knowledge on it.
The idea that only educational professionals or those with - for example - PHDs would be trusted or that they'd be trusted above everyone else is borderline offensive and elitist.
On the other hand, such qualifications should not be ignored, either.
I thought GPL3 had been out for ages at this point. You mean it's still just a draft? Talk about the glacial speed and progress of committees. How long has GPL3 taken so far - and it's still not completed?
Religious nuts, liberal nuts and conservative nuts are all fucking lunatics and they only look even worse then they point fingers at the others as if they're superior. It's laughable. However, your comparison is not a fair one. Ann Coulter is a political commentator who writes books about politics and society and appears regularly on television news programs to contribute her analysis and thoughts on political and societal matters. Alec Baldwin is a fucking actor. That comparison would be similar to saying that because nobody gets upset when Eminem sings about sticking his wife in a trunk, that nobody should mind if Joe Biden says all wives should be locked in trunks.
Now, if Ann Coulter was merely an entertainer with a big mouth, we'd have a better comparison. However, she is a satirist (a pathetic one at that) who is afforded the attention, air-time and presentation of being a legitimate analyst and commentator.
I have no idea what is or isn't on Baldwin's page, because . . . well, why the hell would I ever care enough about Baldwin to read his wikipedia entry? But anything that may have become a relatively hot issue or public incident - even if only for a short time - should be up for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. I see a lot of people on Wikipedia debate content based on "but will this incident matter in the world fifty years from now?". I don't see how that is relevant. The question is - was it relevant in the time that it happened? If the justification for inclusion of content in an encyclopedia today is whether or not the contents or events or facts and statements in it are relevant today, then Wikipedia would be about two percent of the size it is now.
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I know an enormous amount of people who openly admit that they are terrible at math and have a hard time comprehending things like math, chemistry, biology and physics. Their own failings (or even reasonably understandable lack of knowledge in areas) doesn't make those fields of science or the generally accepted theories (not hypothesis -- THEORIES) any less real.
And for the religious types... Well, they don't have a foot to stand on. You can't talk about believing in some magical space guy that will send you to a burning hell if you wear multiple textiles simultaneously and don't honor your mom and dad while saying that evolution is completely ridiculous and unfounded on the other hand. That's like saying you believe in mental telepathy but not gravity.
To be fair, that same 48% of Americans, while "rejecting" evolution probably buys into the Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell claim that lesbians cause hurricanes and other natural disasters.
If someone can believe in a literal translation of the bible. Or, in fact, in spirituality, ghosts, ESP and all this other stuff altogether which has little and no supporting evidence whatsoever, then I don't really care what their opinion on scientific hypothesis and theories are as they are no more qualified to dismiss evolution as a generally accepted scientific theory than they are to diagnose a medical condition or than I am to fly up and repair the space station.
However, this statistic certainly goes a long way in illustrating the ignorance in this country that we are ruled by. You can't expect to compete in the world on any level when you are lead around by religious insanity.
And while we're miring in the suck here, keep in mind that these 48% get to vote and their vote counts just as much as the most educated, wise, worldly person in the country. Hurrah for a system which encourages, promotes and maintains the consensus. Even when they're idiots!
This is a great example of why science should be taken out of highschools and substituted with bible study. We don't need our young people gettin' all booksmart and thinkin' they dun got themselves better than all'us in the bible belt of jebus.
I still have yet to understand what fear they have of internet terrorism. When was the last time terrorists killed someone over the internet?! This sounds more like the supposedly disbanded TIA working under the guise of DHS.
By the way, how scary is it that DHS used to be the commonly used acronym associated with "Department of Human Services". And now this...
Good to know that DHS can put its hands in ANYTHING regardless of nature as long as they claim it has some association in some minor (or even non-existent but hypothetical) way.
This would be brilliant in America and is exactly why we will never have any sort of real uprising or revolution in the future. If the government believes they are at serious risk of all of us fat lazy idiots turning off American Idol, putting down our six dollar coffees and storming the offices to toss out a tyranny, they'll just offer us free consoles or televisions or something else in exchange for all of our guns. We're just that dumb to go for it, too.
No rest until we have our freedom! No rest until we have our -- whoa, shit! Free GTA IV! Thanks guys!
I don't see how this is a big deal to begin with. Elderly people today are not the same elderly people as a decade or two ago. Today's elderly people grew up listening to rock and roll and dancing naked in the mud at Woodstock. It's not like today's elderly people were doing the waltz in those old dresses with the enormous wire ass attached to them that the dress poofs out over and lamenting the loss of the horse and buggy. It's not the same jump as taking someone who was born before talkies and held jobs during the great drop of 1929 and getting them into Wii bowling.
Spending real money to buy an image of flowers to send to someone online. This story only proves that an enormous number of people have more money than brains.
There is no content on the 360 to justify the need for 1080p, though (as you pointed out). There are no 1080p games and if there were, that would also mean gaming at 30fps. There are no movies on xbox live in 1080p (and if there were, I sure as hell wouldn't pay for movies from xbox live anyway). And I'm sure not going to buy an XBOX HD-DVD drive when I could just buy a better quality HD/BlueRay player - and that is the only device that I care about connecting via HDMI (presuming I truly can't run 1080p over component, which I am not entirely sure is necessary).
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I think the statement made in the article had to have been made by someone uninformed who just assumes "dur.. HDMI good - must have for HD because it has HD in the name!". So the article's claim that the old 360 somehow doesn't support HD as much is ridiculous. With regard to the available content for the XBOX, it supports everything it has to offer.
I'm still waiting for 300 to come out on Blueray though. As soon as it's out, I will finally feel that my home entertainment center was a perfect investment.
How many people actually use their agenda crap on their PDA? I've never once used the calandaring or note taking crap. I have a brain for that stuff. And a camera? Yes, I bring along a camera... when I want to go take pictures of something.
They're cramming so much crap into cellphones that most people don't even use. I'd rather pick the two or three items I WOULD use and bring those along rather than one device with eight functions (six of which I don't care about at any one time) that does all of them poorly.
I think people like the idea of being able to blog from their cell phone along with 800 other services (and really, why do we care if you're going to blog about standing in line at the DMV from your phone?!) more than they like the actual services.
I know I don't use any feature from my Treo other than... well.. making a phone call. I think I used the camera one time, though.
There's no way in hell I'm going to buy one. I want my phone to do one simple thing. Make calls. A nice little phone that makes calls and has a long battery life. Then, for my music, I want an ipod. Not a crappy 2gb phone-merged piece of crap. I want a 300gb ipod (yes, I can dream).
Why do I need to have fifty devices all in one? All you end up with is fifty half-assed devices. Take a queue from the unix world and provide devices that do one thing and do that thing incredibly well. I'm not going to pay $500 for a brick of suck plus a couple hundred a month for all the extra pointless services.
And yes, I own Apple products - including a 17" powerbook and a 30" ACD yadda yadda.
This whole article is under an idiotic premise.
Installing systems with no patches or older patches and putting them online will open them up to a lot of vulnerabilities. No kidding, Einstein?! Maybe that's why patches were released for them later, huh?
What's with all the lame Second Life articles? There are a lot of other MMOs around that do not suck and they don't get an article every day or two on here. This "game" is so terribly bad that I can only imagine the Second Life guys are paying Slashdot more than Intel is for that Opinion Center sponsorship.
I mean, seriously, why so much attention for a game where the first two things that happen when you login are some loser wanting you to go offline with them to engage in "sex chat" for cash and someone trying to sell you random crap? And its suckiness is only further proven by the fact that so many corporations and organizations try to exploit it for some sort of advertising purpose - like the world really is eager to log into Second Life to attend a virtual 3D chat style advertisement for why I should witch my company to HP products.
Why take two years to produce incompetent results when you can be just as incompetent in a few months?
See, I made a post without resorting to the "let's patent... uh.. air!" posts that are about to flood this page.
Yeah, you go ahead and get started with bringing that trend to the forefront. Meanwhile, I will continue not to get my ass beat whenever I go outside. :)
Actually, this makes me wonder - are friends going to be redefined?
It used to be that you had very few friends and these were people close to you that you spent time with regularly. Now, it has been redefined to any person that you play with on xbox, chat with on instant messaging or add to your myspace page because you both like the same crappy band.
I wonder if "friend" will even mean what it means today in another generation or two.
I prefer to play with my wii by myself. And I'm most certainly not interested in calling some telephone number while playing with my wii. I tried that before and it got REALLY expensive.
If the human race was wiped out, there'd be no more books, television, radio, music, videogames, internet, porn, sex, parties, politics. What the hell would be the point to living?!
Yeah, the mangled title warps the entire premise, which is that there is a new weapon against superbugs that doesn't involve creating more super-antibiotics to fight the super bugs (which of course will just eventually lead to a massive super bug some day that will kill you before you can treat it since everyone is a big baby and rushes out to get antibiotics at the first sniffle).
Of course, the same can also be said about when you see an AOL user. But it sometimes just means they're less experienced or have a simpler need and use of the web. For me, however, "yahoo account" makes me immediately think "possible fraud or troublemaker", because on my site over the last eight years, yahoo accounts have become the throwaway troublemaker's best friend.
I am not a huge fan of gmail, either. It's a great service but I hate the interface. I use it as a backup to my email server that I run on my hardware sitting at the colo in case that is ever down - and thanks to pop.gmail.com, I don't ever have to use the gmail interface.
I think it says something about a person when they would rather subject themselves to a crapload of advertisements and shoddy complex interfaces designed to shove them into a million different pay services like Yahoo's interface does when they could have a relatively unintrusive interface and advertising situation for free elsewhere.
Yeah, I don't care what Yahoo! offers. It's still Yahoo! email. I know how I snicker whenever I see someone email me from a yahoo address. Having a Yahoo! email account is a lot like having one of those K-Mart $5.95 dial up internet services.
You mean, make it right, the third time...?
Not to mention, just because you don't have college credentials or a degree doesn't mean you aren't still a skilled, knowledgable and experienced professional in that area or that you are not a layman with extensive knowledge on it.
The idea that only educational professionals or those with - for example - PHDs would be trusted or that they'd be trusted above everyone else is borderline offensive and elitist.
On the other hand, such qualifications should not be ignored, either.
I thought GPL3 had been out for ages at this point. You mean it's still just a draft? Talk about the glacial speed and progress of committees. How long has GPL3 taken so far - and it's still not completed?
Religious nuts, liberal nuts and conservative nuts are all fucking lunatics and they only look even worse then they point fingers at the others as if they're superior. It's laughable. However, your comparison is not a fair one. Ann Coulter is a political commentator who writes books about politics and society and appears regularly on television news programs to contribute her analysis and thoughts on political and societal matters. Alec Baldwin is a fucking actor. That comparison would be similar to saying that because nobody gets upset when Eminem sings about sticking his wife in a trunk, that nobody should mind if Joe Biden says all wives should be locked in trunks.
Now, if Ann Coulter was merely an entertainer with a big mouth, we'd have a better comparison. However, she is a satirist (a pathetic one at that) who is afforded the attention, air-time and presentation of being a legitimate analyst and commentator.
I have no idea what is or isn't on Baldwin's page, because . . . well, why the hell would I ever care enough about Baldwin to read his wikipedia entry? But anything that may have become a relatively hot issue or public incident - even if only for a short time - should be up for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. I see a lot of people on Wikipedia debate content based on "but will this incident matter in the world fifty years from now?". I don't see how that is relevant. The question is - was it relevant in the time that it happened? If the justification for inclusion of content in an encyclopedia today is whether or not the contents or events or facts and statements in it are relevant today, then Wikipedia would be about two percent of the size it is now.