Don't worry, you should be able to get counseling from those DEC employees that thought the same thing when those toys, Personal Computers, started showing up and people would claim that they could eventually be the best workstation for serious work.
You have it backwards. These kinds of studies are not done to show that men are better at anything than women. They are to show that women are superior to men, and why men should be relegated to the low paid, low respect fields. They are to show that the only reason that women are not in their rightful place as men's overlords is because men are evil.
Who watches movies *with* someone on a PC. That just sound horrendous. Maybe if it was an HTPC hooked to a TV, but SmartTVs and Roku type boxes are cheap enough now that having a PC for watching movies is just silly. I have a streaming heavy household. Easily over 100 hours a week of streaming. We are also a PC heavy household. 6 PCs for 3 people. (Well technically 4, but one is under a year old.) We are lucky if even 1 hour a week of our streaming is done from a PC.
At that time, the iPad just might be the best content creation tool. The iPad is just a computer with the peripherals that put it into the marketing group of 'tablet'. The processors being used in them are becoming more and more powerful. Just as the PC has reached a point where the hardware is 'good enough', there is no reason to believe that the iPad will not reach a similar level eventually. Even before that point, the software will be more important than the hardware. If enough of the software tools makers decide that all the money is in iPad software, then that is where the software will be written. Will that ever happen? Who knows. Either way, there is no reason to believe that iOS (or Android) based computers could not overtake OSX/Windows based computers as the content creation leaders.
I would say the opposite. Heck, don't you still need to physically plug your iPhone into your Mac to transfer music from the hard drive to your phone? Then there are the half baked features like screen sharing. Sure, under windows, you have to buy the pro version, but the built in screen sharing on Mac is unusable. I'm not even sure how they made it so bad since it is just VNC.
I found the opposite. I used to build all of my PCs. Then about 8 years ago, I found that it would cost me twice as much to build a machine than it would to just buy a prebuilt system from one of the big players. Windows XP was pretty stable, so it came down to the cost in time of removing all of the crap that the prebuilts added vs the much higher cost of buying components. So, I spent a few years buying prebuilts instead of building myself. I am now back to building myself. The prebuilts quality is so horrendous, and warranty support so bad that the cost savings of buying a prebuilt just isn't there anymore.
In all likelihood, keyboard attachments (often in a clamshell form factor) will become more widely available, which will mean that a tablet and a netbook/laptop will become the same thing. PCs, Tablets, PDAs, Laptops, Netbooks, Consoles.... They are all fundamentally the same thing. The primary difference is what accessories (built in or add-ons) it has and the marketing segment it gets put in. Often which label gets applied is literally a matter of what year it currently is.
Case in point. People will argue adamantly that a Wii is a console, not a computer. Yet, I can plug in a keyboard, launch an application and literally use it as a C64 or Amiga. The functionality is identical and they literally run the same binaries. When the C64 and Amiga were released, they were most definitely 'Computers', not 'consoles'. Today, a compatible machine is a 'Console', not a 'Computer'.
Point being, what we are currently calling 'Tablets' are increasingly becoming more powerful. They are getting more peripherals. How is an iPad with one of these not a laptop?
You must not have been paying attention when Madonna hit the scene. She was singing the same generic pop music as every other pop musician at the time. The only reason that you would recognize her music is because she has become a pop icon.
While I am not a fan of the overused Autotune sound, your argument is one that I would use to describe why I avoid live albums and prefer studio albums. If the music is good, I don't really care if the musician has the title of sing/guitarist/drummer or sound engineer.
I tend to be the opposite. I avoid live albums because I don't really care how good the band really is. I only care how good the music is when it gets to me.
It should, but the premise is wrong. Piracy has always "been a problem". Iron Maiden built their reputation at a time that was not only rampant with piracy, but in a time when the legal system would laugh you out of the courtroom if you tried to sue anyone but a large scale for profit operation.
The other posterboy band would be Metallica. The band that built a reputation and fan base on piracy, and then became the face of the anti-piracy movement.
Good job of showing his point. Are you a Democrat that really is what he described, or are you a Republican than is pretending to be a Democrat that proves his point?
If it is anything but trivial to fix the firmware, the device was badly engineered. A second backup firmware image that will put the device into a state that it can load the current good image from is a solved problem.
Sorry. Cadbury is way worse. We actually have Cadbury quality chocolate here in the US. It is basically sold only around Easter when people care more about the shape of the chocolate than the taste. We refer to it as crappy Easter chocolate.
I have noticed the opposite. People buy these kinds of TVs because they have money to burn. People bring up penis size because they want to convince others that they are secure in their manhood.
Exactly. The study the AC linked to is clearly BS. They state right in their methodology section that they only count accidents that happened while someone was on the phone. All of the 'cell phones are dangerous' studies have the same kind of problem.
No, it claims that one trip to a museum increases their critical thinking skills. There study is making an extraordinary claim. Their methodology does not support that claim. Maybe if you didn't rely on that single visit to a museum to supply you with your critical thinking skills, you could look at their methodology and see why it is BS.
Yes, that is what I am getting at. You said that in New York state, if a woman tells a man that she only consents if he uses birth control and a man has sex with her anyway, it is a class E felony. There is no excuse for not holding women to the same standard.
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Don't worry, you should be able to get counseling from those DEC employees that thought the same thing when those toys, Personal Computers, started showing up and people would claim that they could eventually be the best workstation for serious work.
You have hit on what seems to be the more likely explanation.
You have it backwards. These kinds of studies are not done to show that men are better at anything than women. They are to show that women are superior to men, and why men should be relegated to the low paid, low respect fields. They are to show that the only reason that women are not in their rightful place as men's overlords is because men are evil.
Who watches movies *with* someone on a PC. That just sound horrendous. Maybe if it was an HTPC hooked to a TV, but SmartTVs and Roku type boxes are cheap enough now that having a PC for watching movies is just silly. I have a streaming heavy household. Easily over 100 hours a week of streaming. We are also a PC heavy household. 6 PCs for 3 people. (Well technically 4, but one is under a year old.) We are lucky if even 1 hour a week of our streaming is done from a PC.
At that time, the iPad just might be the best content creation tool. The iPad is just a computer with the peripherals that put it into the marketing group of 'tablet'. The processors being used in them are becoming more and more powerful. Just as the PC has reached a point where the hardware is 'good enough', there is no reason to believe that the iPad will not reach a similar level eventually. Even before that point, the software will be more important than the hardware. If enough of the software tools makers decide that all the money is in iPad software, then that is where the software will be written. Will that ever happen? Who knows. Either way, there is no reason to believe that iOS (or Android) based computers could not overtake OSX/Windows based computers as the content creation leaders.
I would say the opposite. Heck, don't you still need to physically plug your iPhone into your Mac to transfer music from the hard drive to your phone? Then there are the half baked features like screen sharing. Sure, under windows, you have to buy the pro version, but the built in screen sharing on Mac is unusable. I'm not even sure how they made it so bad since it is just VNC.
I found the opposite. I used to build all of my PCs. Then about 8 years ago, I found that it would cost me twice as much to build a machine than it would to just buy a prebuilt system from one of the big players. Windows XP was pretty stable, so it came down to the cost in time of removing all of the crap that the prebuilts added vs the much higher cost of buying components. So, I spent a few years buying prebuilts instead of building myself. I am now back to building myself. The prebuilts quality is so horrendous, and warranty support so bad that the cost savings of buying a prebuilt just isn't there anymore.
In all likelihood, keyboard attachments (often in a clamshell form factor) will become more widely available, which will mean that a tablet and a netbook/laptop will become the same thing. PCs, Tablets, PDAs, Laptops, Netbooks, Consoles.... They are all fundamentally the same thing. The primary difference is what accessories (built in or add-ons) it has and the marketing segment it gets put in. Often which label gets applied is literally a matter of what year it currently is.
Case in point. People will argue adamantly that a Wii is a console, not a computer. Yet, I can plug in a keyboard, launch an application and literally use it as a C64 or Amiga. The functionality is identical and they literally run the same binaries. When the C64 and Amiga were released, they were most definitely 'Computers', not 'consoles'. Today, a compatible machine is a 'Console', not a 'Computer'.
Point being, what we are currently calling 'Tablets' are increasingly becoming more powerful. They are getting more peripherals. How is an iPad with one of these not a laptop?
You must not have been paying attention when Madonna hit the scene. She was singing the same generic pop music as every other pop musician at the time. The only reason that you would recognize her music is because she has become a pop icon.
While I am not a fan of the overused Autotune sound, your argument is one that I would use to describe why I avoid live albums and prefer studio albums. If the music is good, I don't really care if the musician has the title of sing/guitarist/drummer or sound engineer.
Counterpoint. Madonna.
I tend to be the opposite. I avoid live albums because I don't really care how good the band really is. I only care how good the music is when it gets to me.
It should, but the premise is wrong. Piracy has always "been a problem". Iron Maiden built their reputation at a time that was not only rampant with piracy, but in a time when the legal system would laugh you out of the courtroom if you tried to sue anyone but a large scale for profit operation.
The other posterboy band would be Metallica. The band that built a reputation and fan base on piracy, and then became the face of the anti-piracy movement.
Good job of showing his point. Are you a Democrat that really is what he described, or are you a Republican than is pretending to be a Democrat that proves his point?
Most misquoted line of the election. The whole thing makes the Democrats look worse than the Republicans.
It's not just you.
More like 1800's chick porn.
Of course. That is why Santa always brings more presents to rich kids than poor ones. What kind monster would question Santa Claus?!?!?!?
If it is anything but trivial to fix the firmware, the device was badly engineered. A second backup firmware image that will put the device into a state that it can load the current good image from is a solved problem.
And as time went on, they didn't add that class for boys, they dropped it for girls.
Sorry. Cadbury is way worse. We actually have Cadbury quality chocolate here in the US. It is basically sold only around Easter when people care more about the shape of the chocolate than the taste. We refer to it as crappy Easter chocolate.
I have noticed the opposite. People buy these kinds of TVs because they have money to burn. People bring up penis size because they want to convince others that they are secure in their manhood.
Exactly. The study the AC linked to is clearly BS. They state right in their methodology section that they only count accidents that happened while someone was on the phone. All of the 'cell phones are dangerous' studies have the same kind of problem.
No, it claims that one trip to a museum increases their critical thinking skills. There study is making an extraordinary claim. Their methodology does not support that claim. Maybe if you didn't rely on that single visit to a museum to supply you with your critical thinking skills, you could look at their methodology and see why it is BS.
Yes, that is what I am getting at. You said that in New York state, if a woman tells a man that she only consents if he uses birth control and a man has sex with her anyway, it is a class E felony. There is no excuse for not holding women to the same standard.