The 40 billion is his cash in hand though. Including stock we're looking at more like 80-100.
No, the 40 billion is not cash he has in hand. That's his net worth, meaning that figure includes the stock he owns. The vast majority of his worth is his stock.
I think school macs are the biggest reason for anti-mac bigotry. I had to use classic Macs at school, and grew to hate them. I hated the OS, I hated the lousy performance, and I hated the tiny screen built into them. Then I moved on to University where I was forced to use PowerMacs - these still used the same unreliable OS and appeared to perform horribly.
A lot of mac fans have recently told me that many school macs are not set up optimally, but that doesn't matter. When you try a mac at school and the thing runs like a two legged dog, and then you try someone's PC at home and see what decent performance is like, you're going to remember that: macs are slow and pcs are fast.
With the introduction of macosx, I've changed my rabidly anti-mac stance, and will be buying one soon... but we're talking almost 15 years of prejudice from only a few hours experience with crap machines.
You may be right about that. I haven't tried one in quite a while. I'm still open to trying one again. I'll have to see how those Mini's turn out.
Have you by any chance scientifically surveyed PC users to find out how many have even *tried* a Mac?
Everyone I went to school with had to use a Mac. The school only had Macs. Many schools I know of are the same way. And nobody that I still hang out with uses a Mac.
I thought not. I haven't either. But I'd be surprised if it much exceeds 2%.
You're probably looking for a percentage of people who tried Macs and bought a PC vs people who tried Macs and bought a Mac afterwards. I don't have those numbers.
I'm not a Mac user, but I don't see the logic in your post.
Nice try at giving yourself some credibility. You're a staunch Mac fan and that's why you posted as an Anonymous Coward.
the funny part is that both Beta and Apple are considered by many to be a technically superior format that lost out to a brutal competitor
I guess you can say "many" people thought that way, but as truth has it "even more" people thought differently.
Mac has 2% of the marketshare. If more people wanted them, they would have bought one. It just turns out that Mac fans are an extremely vocal minority. But loud voices don't help sales numbers.
(I've used Macs but honestly don't like them. User preference, that's all)
The write-up is not PR. It is written by someone who figured out the architecture from a patent. Tell me, what processor on the market today has a main processor and 8 arithmetic units attached in a parallel fahsion. In a home system, most computing power goes into audio, and 2D and 3D visualization, much of which are parallelizable. Tell me which current Intel and AMD processor has the capability of pipelining a video encoding/decoding the same way that Cell does. Tell me which Intel and AMD processor today can produce results for as many vector problems as the Cell can.
The mistake you are making is that you're comparing a processor that only exists on paper and press releases to an actual, physically present processor that has already been designed, tested, marketed, and used by millions of people.
I could write a technical writeup for an imaginary processor that has xxxxx terraflops, only uses 1 watt of electricity, and only costs $5 to make. It's easy to do that stuff on paper because you don't have to deal with the technical hurdles and limitations that reality imposes. Talk is cheap. It's another thing entirely to actually produce the product and have it do all the things you said it would.
What if in the prototype stage they discovered that the working silicon doesn't perform as the design was expected to? What if they can't ramp up the clock speed on it due to unexpected reasons? What if they can make it but it ends up costing them more to produce than anticipated? These are things you have to work out before you can sell an actual product. But a write-up doesn't have to deal with these problems.
That's why I say that talk is cheap. It's easier to talk about something than to do it. Wait until the cell processor does come out and see how it performs. Promising the stars is very easy. Delivering the goods isn't quite so easy...
It doens't work that way. The speed of that laser will appear the same to any observer anywhere. The only thing that will changes is the observed wavelength. Speed does exist, just not absolutely, it will always be percieved differently by different observers (except for the speed of light.)
The universe is stranger than you think.
OR, it's also possible that it works entirely different than that, that Einstein was wrong, and that's the reason that it's a theory and not a law.
Or he could have nailed it right on the head...but I surely wouldn't know the definitive answer.
If you had four legs, your bloated abdomen would be covered with scabs from dragging on the ground all day.
I'm an outcast, as far as Slashdot members go. I've been going to the gym for the last 10 years and I've had the same girlfriend for the last 7 years. No bloated abdomen here. I've also made an amazing discovery that seems to have eluded most Slashdot members- women like MEN that act like MEN.
Maybe if I dropped the girlfriend, stopped going to the gym, replaced my contacts with glasses with thick black frames, subscribed to ultra-liberal beliefs, bought a Mac, and started a blog, then I'd fit in. But I remembered that I'm a straight MAN and doing such things would be ridiculous.
Maybe you meant to write "paraphrenics" or "paranoid schizophrenics" instead of just "schizophrenic"? Or maybe you just didn't know the difference and were pretending to know something you didn't? Your choice.
And to think, Summers said that the reason there aren't woman mathematicians at Harvard is because they are biologically inferior. The same excuse was used to by the Nazis to kill Jews. I DO know better, and you should too.
Wow, you're really trying hard to set up a strawman argument. That one is ancient- equate everything to Nazis and you just *must* be right.
Nobody said that women are biologically inferior. He just claimed that it's possible that women could be at a disadvantage in that one specific subject. On the flip side of this argument are the studies showing that women have an *advantage* in verbal skills. They learn to talk earlier than men and have been shown to use more fo their brain when doing verbal tasks. They also do not suffer from schizophrenia nearly at the rate that men do. But I'm sure that some male advocacy groups would get worked up if you stated that in public.
But I'm quoting those "studies" that you seem to hate so much. I trust objective data, not emotionally skewed opinions. I'll believe scientists long before I believe some emotional kid with a chip on his shoulder.
I also was recently admitted into the class of '09 at Harvard. So yeah, I'd say I'm in a position to say something. More so than you. More so than Summers
So a person who hasn't attended Harvard yet is in a better position to talk about a subject than a guy who already graduated from Harvard and is the president of the school? With reasoning like that I'm amazed that they let you in.
More so than any "qualified researcher" trying to validate discrimination
I think that's the entire reason you're getting mad here. You see any data that suggests that there may be (gasp) DIFFERENCES in people as a reason to discriminate. I don't see it that way. I see these possibilities with a clear, open mind and I don't get worked up about it. I wouldn't discriminate against a female student, that would be just absurd. I'd let her abilities do the talking. I would use this data as a tool to *understand* the differences in people, not as a way to discriminate based on those differences.
You seem like a smart kid but you're still young. You haven't put your emotions in check yet. When trying to come to a logical conclusion about something, you can't let your emotions or political views get in the way of that because they can only skew the results. You need to be objective and let the data do the talking; don't let your emotions play a role.
So yeah. Summers is wrong. Quote all the "studies" you want.
Wow, who needs studies performed by qualified researchers in the field when we have some guy named "Capt'n Hector" telling us how it all works?
Sounds like a brilliant idea. Let's just discard all those "studies" performed by "educated scientists" who have "doctorate degrees" and just replace them with emotionally-charged outpours by people like yourself. After all, you know better.
By the way- Feel free to provide evidence of your claim that he was factually incorrect.
"If it's as good as this article claims, the Cell chip could eventually take over the PC market."
And if I had 4 legs, I could outrun a dog.
But I don't, so I can't. And this chip won't be as good as the (overenthusiastic) article claims. It won't take over the PC market.
This chip will take over the PC market the same way that BitBoys took over the graphics card market; the same way that Transmeta took over the mobile CPU market; the same way that the Elbrus 2k took over the desktop CPU market. That way is: deliver endless hype that you can't possibly back up. By the time it hits the market, the hype will be so built up that people won't be able to help but to feel let down by the chip. Then they'll lose interest in the product.
This chip might be fast for the money, and enable them to put 4 cores in a consumer device like the Playstation, but it's not going to outperform (or even match) a CPU like the P4 or Athlon 64.
When will people learn to stop falling for the same tricks?
BTW, you'll do much better in life if you try not to be an embittered, angry, sexist prick.
You might find it surprising that I'm not embittered, angry, or sexist. In fact, I've been with the same woman for 7 years.
That's much better than your average Slashdot member. I think it's due to the fact that most women are attracted to men that actually act like men instead of sensitive crybabies.
He said that it's possible that inate biological differences may explain the difference in performance in math between men and women.
And he's right about that- there have been studies which suggest that men and women's brains are different.
But apparently it's not politically correct to state what has been found in scientific research. If you notice, nobody claimed what he said was factually incorrect, they just said it was inappropriate. The press didn't seem to be too interested in asking experts about the accuracy of his statements, they seemed more interested in asking people about their reaction to the statements.
Here are some links which touch on differences between the male and female brain:
Yes, this action could be viewed as the government wanted to conceal stuff, etc.
But let me bring up a not-so-exciting reason for this. There are people out there who are lunatics and have nothing better to do but to barrage the government with FOIA requests to "uncover" whatever government/alient conspiracy is being waged against them this week.
A small number of people probably consume a huge, totally disproportionate amount of government resources. These aren't people who simply are working on a valid case and want info, these are people who probably submit FOIA requests every month to find out how the president's dog is controlling their mind with a secretly implanted transponder acquired by aliens.
Have you ever met a schizophrenic person? I have, and you CAN NOT convince them that the government/aliens/Jesus is not after them and waging a secret war against them. They are often very intelligent, but they have little to no concept of reality and let me tell you- they have no lack of motivation or persistence. They'll bug the gov with FOIA requests repeatedly.
Here's a link that I saw on another reply on this thread that demonstrates this clearly:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/foia/schwarz.html
"A second case, Schwarz v. United States Department of Energy, Civil Action 99-3234, named an additional 72 federal entities, various subdivisions, and many individuals, a total of 807 separate defendants.21 Plaintiff's FOIA requests in that case related to the Rathbuns, their attorneys, L. Ron Hubbard, an independent or special counsel, Germans, schools in a submarine village in Great Salt Lake, and Rosemarie Bretschneider."
^This is just ridiculous, but a lot of government resources were consumed coming up with that report. Someone with a valid case probably had to wait because the government office was busy trying to disprove this wacko. A school in a submarine village in the Great Salt Lake? At what point can we all agree that a request needs to be ignored?
small screen that you cannot read, half the RAM.. and FM radio that has shitty reception and a build quality that will cause the product to fall apart in 1 year (oh and not to mention, ships with features that do not work yet)
all for the low price of 99 dollars... yeah.. the iPod sucks next to those players.
I never said the Ipod sucks next to those players. On the contrary, it sounds like you're the one who is blindly putting down all other players and only accepting Ipod as a good Mp3 player.
I've noticed this about Slashdot- it seems to attract a crowd of VERY VOCAL Apple zealots. I'd never get so worked up about my computer system or Mp3 player of choice. But the Mac people are fanatical about it, they won't accept any other choice and they'll even attack competing brands.
It's funny- for a group of people who likes to portray themselves as "open minded", they're the most closed minded group of fanboys.
I might get one of these Ipods. Or I might get something else. My mind is open.
When I was in school, I was taught that I won't succeed in life if I didn't lose my unhealthy interest in computers and stop reading books about computers in class.
I ignored them.
Then, years later as I was getting out of school, they started teaching us that "you'll have to go to school to learn computers if you want to succeed in life". I ignored that nonsense, too, because by then I was already very proficient in computers and was doing computer work on the side.
I'm doing just fine now.
I think the moral to the story is that nobody knows for sure what to do until you are talking about it in the past tense. It's so easy to teach the past, but it's hard to predict the future.
You're the type of guy that picked flowers, played with dolls and brushed their hair, aren't you?
Let's get back to reality for a moment.
John Madden football is the best selling video game of all time. Who is going to give up on that? Companies are in business to make money, and they do this by catering to the majority, not listening to eccentric wackos such as yourself.
From reading your post I can get a very good feel for the type of person you are because I've seen these same traits many times before in other people who sound just like you.
You don't like football or any other "manly" sport because you're probably an ultra-liberal wacko who is on a crusade against the mainstream. You come to Slashdot so you can express your odd views in a public forum. You probably spend your time listening to NPR, browsing Craigslist and looking at art instead of drinking beer and watching football on TV. A very high percentage of people I meet that are like you are homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with that- Seinfeld)
To every other realistic, red blooded, meat eating MAN who likes to watch football, drink beer, and look at cheerleaders I say let there be more football games. The more the merrier.
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The 40 billion is his cash in hand though. Including stock we're looking at more like 80-100.
No, the 40 billion is not cash he has in hand. That's his net worth, meaning that figure includes the stock he owns. The vast majority of his worth is his stock.
I have no idea what PSTN is, but I'll welcome it as my overlord anyway.
I think school macs are the biggest reason for anti-mac bigotry. I had to use classic Macs at school, and grew to hate them. I hated the OS, I hated the lousy performance, and I hated the tiny screen built into them. Then I moved on to University where I was forced to use PowerMacs - these still used the same unreliable OS and appeared to perform horribly.
A lot of mac fans have recently told me that many school macs are not set up optimally, but that doesn't matter. When you try a mac at school and the thing runs like a two legged dog, and then you try someone's PC at home and see what decent performance is like, you're going to remember that: macs are slow and pcs are fast.
With the introduction of macosx, I've changed my rabidly anti-mac stance, and will be buying one soon... but we're talking almost 15 years of prejudice from only a few hours experience with crap machines.
You may be right about that. I haven't tried one in quite a while. I'm still open to trying one again. I'll have to see how those Mini's turn out.
It's even funnier when you have someone like you trying to pass yourself off as a man.
You're one of those "metrosexuals" aren't you?
Have you by any chance scientifically surveyed PC users to find out how many have even *tried* a Mac?
Everyone I went to school with had to use a Mac. The school only had Macs. Many schools I know of are the same way. And nobody that I still hang out with uses a Mac.
I thought not. I haven't either. But I'd be surprised if it much exceeds 2%.
You're probably looking for a percentage of people who tried Macs and bought a PC vs people who tried Macs and bought a Mac afterwards. I don't have those numbers.
I'm not a Mac user, but I don't see the logic in your post.
Nice try at giving yourself some credibility. You're a staunch Mac fan and that's why you posted as an Anonymous Coward.
the funny part is that both Beta and Apple are considered by many to be a technically superior format that lost out to a brutal competitor
I guess you can say "many" people thought that way, but as truth has it "even more" people thought differently.
Mac has 2% of the marketshare. If more people wanted them, they would have bought one. It just turns out that Mac fans are an extremely vocal minority. But loud voices don't help sales numbers.
(I've used Macs but honestly don't like them. User preference, that's all)
The write-up is not PR. It is written by someone who figured out the architecture from a patent. Tell me, what processor on the market today has a main processor and 8 arithmetic units attached in a parallel fahsion. In a home system, most computing power goes into audio, and 2D and 3D visualization, much of which are parallelizable. Tell me which current Intel and AMD processor has the capability of pipelining a video encoding/decoding the same way that Cell does. Tell me which Intel and AMD processor today can produce results for as many vector problems as the Cell can.
The mistake you are making is that you're comparing a processor that only exists on paper and press releases to an actual, physically present processor that has already been designed, tested, marketed, and used by millions of people.
I could write a technical writeup for an imaginary processor that has xxxxx terraflops, only uses 1 watt of electricity, and only costs $5 to make. It's easy to do that stuff on paper because you don't have to deal with the technical hurdles and limitations that reality imposes. Talk is cheap. It's another thing entirely to actually produce the product and have it do all the things you said it would.
What if in the prototype stage they discovered that the working silicon doesn't perform as the design was expected to? What if they can't ramp up the clock speed on it due to unexpected reasons? What if they can make it but it ends up costing them more to produce than anticipated? These are things you have to work out before you can sell an actual product. But a write-up doesn't have to deal with these problems.
That's why I say that talk is cheap. It's easier to talk about something than to do it. Wait until the cell processor does come out and see how it performs. Promising the stars is very easy. Delivering the goods isn't quite so easy...
Funny. I've been with my wife for 6, and I certainly don't "act like a man"
LOL
In an innovative move, I have patented innovation. And then in another one of my patented moves, I patented the concept of patents.
It doens't work that way. The speed of that laser will appear the same to any observer anywhere. The only thing that will changes is the observed wavelength. Speed does exist, just not absolutely, it will always be percieved differently by different observers (except for the speed of light.)
The universe is stranger than you think.
OR, it's also possible that it works entirely different than that, that Einstein was wrong, and that's the reason that it's a theory and not a law.
Or he could have nailed it right on the head...but I surely wouldn't know the definitive answer.
If you had four legs, your bloated abdomen would be covered with scabs from dragging on the ground all day.
I'm an outcast, as far as Slashdot members go. I've been going to the gym for the last 10 years and I've had the same girlfriend for the last 7 years. No bloated abdomen here. I've also made an amazing discovery that seems to have eluded most Slashdot members- women like MEN that act like MEN.
Maybe if I dropped the girlfriend, stopped going to the gym, replaced my contacts with glasses with thick black frames, subscribed to ultra-liberal beliefs, bought a Mac, and started a blog, then I'd fit in. But I remembered that I'm a straight MAN and doing such things would be ridiculous.
Maybe you meant to write "paraphrenics" or "paranoid schizophrenics" instead of just "schizophrenic"? Or maybe you just didn't know the difference and were pretending to know something you didn't? Your choice.
Yes, I meant paranoid schizophrenics.
And to think, Summers said that the reason there aren't woman mathematicians at Harvard is because they are biologically inferior. The same excuse was used to by the Nazis to kill Jews. I DO know better, and you should too.
Wow, you're really trying hard to set up a strawman argument. That one is ancient- equate everything to Nazis and you just *must* be right.
Nobody said that women are biologically inferior. He just claimed that it's possible that women could be at a disadvantage in that one specific subject. On the flip side of this argument are the studies showing that women have an *advantage* in verbal skills. They learn to talk earlier than men and have been shown to use more fo their brain when doing verbal tasks. They also do not suffer from schizophrenia nearly at the rate that men do. But I'm sure that some male advocacy groups would get worked up if you stated that in public.
But I'm quoting those "studies" that you seem to hate so much. I trust objective data, not emotionally skewed opinions. I'll believe scientists long before I believe some emotional kid with a chip on his shoulder.
I also was recently admitted into the class of '09 at Harvard. So yeah, I'd say I'm in a position to say something. More so than you. More so than Summers
So a person who hasn't attended Harvard yet is in a better position to talk about a subject than a guy who already graduated from Harvard and is the president of the school? With reasoning like that I'm amazed that they let you in.
More so than any "qualified researcher" trying to validate discrimination
I think that's the entire reason you're getting mad here. You see any data that suggests that there may be (gasp) DIFFERENCES in people as a reason to discriminate. I don't see it that way. I see these possibilities with a clear, open mind and I don't get worked up about it. I wouldn't discriminate against a female student, that would be just absurd. I'd let her abilities do the talking. I would use this data as a tool to *understand* the differences in people, not as a way to discriminate based on those differences.
You seem like a smart kid but you're still young. You haven't put your emotions in check yet. When trying to come to a logical conclusion about something, you can't let your emotions or political views get in the way of that because they can only skew the results. You need to be objective and let the data do the talking; don't let your emotions play a role.
So yeah. Summers is wrong. Quote all the "studies" you want.
Wow, who needs studies performed by qualified researchers in the field when we have some guy named "Capt'n Hector" telling us how it all works?
Sounds like a brilliant idea. Let's just discard all those "studies" performed by "educated scientists" who have "doctorate degrees" and just replace them with emotionally-charged outpours by people like yourself. After all, you know better.
By the way- Feel free to provide evidence of your claim that he was factually incorrect.
"If it's as good as this article claims, the Cell chip could eventually take over the PC market."
And if I had 4 legs, I could outrun a dog.
But I don't, so I can't. And this chip won't be as good as the (overenthusiastic) article claims. It won't take over the PC market.
This chip will take over the PC market the same way that BitBoys took over the graphics card market; the same way that Transmeta took over the mobile CPU market; the same way that the Elbrus 2k took over the desktop CPU market. That way is: deliver endless hype that you can't possibly back up. By the time it hits the market, the hype will be so built up that people won't be able to help but to feel let down by the chip. Then they'll lose interest in the product.
This chip might be fast for the money, and enable them to put 4 cores in a consumer device like the Playstation, but it's not going to outperform (or even match) a CPU like the P4 or Athlon 64.
When will people learn to stop falling for the same tricks?
BTW, you'll do much better in life if you try not to be an embittered, angry, sexist prick.
You might find it surprising that I'm not embittered, angry, or sexist. In fact, I've been with the same woman for 7 years.
That's much better than your average Slashdot member. I think it's due to the fact that most women are attracted to men that actually act like men instead of sensitive crybabies.
He said that it's possible that inate biological differences may explain the difference in performance in math between men and women.
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And he's right about that- there have been studies which suggest that men and women's brains are different.
But apparently it's not politically correct to state what has been found in scientific research. If you notice, nobody claimed what he said was factually incorrect, they just said it was inappropriate. The press didn't seem to be too interested in asking experts about the accuracy of his statements, they seemed more interested in asking people about their reaction to the statements.
Here are some links which touch on differences between the male and female brain:
http://www.womens-health.org/hs/facts_brain.htm
http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-200
Yes, this action could be viewed as the government wanted to conceal stuff, etc.
But let me bring up a not-so-exciting reason for this. There are people out there who are lunatics and have nothing better to do but to barrage the government with FOIA requests to "uncover" whatever government/alient conspiracy is being waged against them this week.
A small number of people probably consume a huge, totally disproportionate amount of government resources. These aren't people who simply are working on a valid case and want info, these are people who probably submit FOIA requests every month to find out how the president's dog is controlling their mind with a secretly implanted transponder acquired by aliens.
Have you ever met a schizophrenic person? I have, and you CAN NOT convince them that the government/aliens/Jesus is not after them and waging a secret war against them. They are often very intelligent, but they have little to no concept of reality and let me tell you- they have no lack of motivation or persistence. They'll bug the gov with FOIA requests repeatedly.
Here's a link that I saw on another reply on this thread that demonstrates this clearly:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/foia/schwarz.html
"A second case, Schwarz v. United States Department of Energy, Civil Action 99-3234, named an additional 72 federal entities, various subdivisions, and many individuals, a total of 807 separate defendants.21 Plaintiff's FOIA requests in that case related to the Rathbuns, their attorneys, L. Ron Hubbard, an independent or special counsel, Germans, schools in a submarine village in Great Salt Lake, and Rosemarie Bretschneider."
^This is just ridiculous, but a lot of government resources were consumed coming up with that report. Someone with a valid case probably had to wait because the government office was busy trying to disprove this wacko. A school in a submarine village in the Great Salt Lake? At what point can we all agree that a request needs to be ignored?
small screen that you cannot read, half the RAM.. and FM radio that has shitty reception and a build quality that will cause the product to fall apart in 1 year (oh and not to mention, ships with features that do not work yet)
all for the low price of 99 dollars... yeah.. the iPod sucks next to those players.
I never said the Ipod sucks next to those players. On the contrary, it sounds like you're the one who is blindly putting down all other players and only accepting Ipod as a good Mp3 player.
I've noticed this about Slashdot- it seems to attract a crowd of VERY VOCAL Apple zealots. I'd never get so worked up about my computer system or Mp3 player of choice. But the Mac people are fanatical about it, they won't accept any other choice and they'll even attack competing brands.
It's funny- for a group of people who likes to portray themselves as "open minded", they're the most closed minded group of fanboys.
I might get one of these Ipods. Or I might get something else. My mind is open.
I think the problem is that other small, low cost players from other manufacturers do include a small screen.
So it woul dbe like comparing the Kia to another econobox that does have features that the Kia is missing.
That way we can kill two birds with one stone, and save twice as much money for the next space telescope.
Everyone was hoping that this would replace Suprnova.
Sad news- it doesn't.
The dead memory of Suprnova has been replaced by a spyware infested program that is marketed under the guise of being a Suprnova replacement.
If you like clogging your system up with programs such as Cydoor, be my guest. But if not, reject this filth.
3. Do I need a serial? No, you DO NOT need a serial to use eXlite, simply close the serial window that pops up on startup
When I was in school, I was taught that I won't succeed in life if I didn't lose my unhealthy interest in computers and stop reading books about computers in class.
I ignored them.
Then, years later as I was getting out of school, they started teaching us that "you'll have to go to school to learn computers if you want to succeed in life". I ignored that nonsense, too, because by then I was already very proficient in computers and was doing computer work on the side.
I'm doing just fine now.
I think the moral to the story is that nobody knows for sure what to do until you are talking about it in the past tense. It's so easy to teach the past, but it's hard to predict the future.
You're the type of guy that picked flowers, played with dolls and brushed their hair, aren't you?
Let's get back to reality for a moment.
John Madden football is the best selling video game of all time. Who is going to give up on that? Companies are in business to make money, and they do this by catering to the majority, not listening to eccentric wackos such as yourself.
From reading your post I can get a very good feel for the type of person you are because I've seen these same traits many times before in other people who sound just like you.
You don't like football or any other "manly" sport because you're probably an ultra-liberal wacko who is on a crusade against the mainstream. You come to Slashdot so you can express your odd views in a public forum. You probably spend your time listening to NPR, browsing Craigslist and looking at art instead of drinking beer and watching football on TV. A very high percentage of people I meet that are like you are homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with that- Seinfeld)
To every other realistic, red blooded, meat eating MAN who likes to watch football, drink beer, and look at cheerleaders I say let there be more football games. The more the merrier.