4:3 content, high resolution or not, can be annoying as shit on an HDTV. The longer I own an HDTV, the more I find myself avoiding SD broadcasts for this reason (cartoons or not).
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HD Wii By 2011?
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The majority don't have them NOW. But if Nintendo releases a new console without HD support in 2011 (intending it to last until 2016 at least), it will be a sad joke. It would be like someone pitching a prime time TV show in 1968 and telling the studio "Oh, and we intend to shoot it in black and white for its entire ten-year run, since most people don't have color TV's yet."
It's hard enough to trust casinos even when they're under the scrutiny of a licensing body as serious as the Nevada Gaming Commission, much less when they're under no scrutiny at all (or under some "commission" with no actual legislative or enforcement authority). Casino gambling in general is a sucker bet (even under strict conditions the odds always favor the house), but online gaming and other unregulated gambling is ESPECIALLY so (since you haven't the slightest assurance that you're not being cheated).
I still don't understand why people do this. Are they really THAT desperate to place a bet, any bet? Might as well become a day-trader and play the stock market for your fix. It would be a lot more regulated than most online poker.
You should also block job search sites too, because anyone having to work in an environment like that for any length of time will surely be making use of them.
"when it makes sense to have 3D aspects of the web, that everyone will have already downloaded the plug-in, it's one of the first things you do when you install your machine, and you're able to just jump around and play in a creative space"
Everytime I hear someone propose something like this, I think of VRML and the failed (and misguided) attempt to reskin the web into something it's not.
Yes but WiMax, unlike current cell modem service, is apparently hoping to compete with DSL and cable. If they're going to do that, they need to be prepared to offer similar usage caps to existing DSL/cable providers (a lot more than 5 GB per month).
Oh, come off with the PC policing! Do you actually expect us to pretend that there is an equal distribution of males to females in the geek world of obscure Linux distros? No one's saying that there aren't ANY women into Linux, just that using the feminine pronoun is a little disconcerting in a specific area that is represented by a male to female ratio of at least 9:1.
I love it when an editor or story writer makes a technical error on/. You can actually hear the simultaneous erections of a thousand anal-retentive techies, each typing as fast as they can without even bothering to check if their fellow anal-retentives hadn't already pointed the same thing out in dozens of posts. It's the best sexual gratification most of them are going to get all day.
The problem is that Democrats are nowhere nearly as organized or disciplined as the Republicans. Even if they had a 2/3's majority, they wouldn't be able to do anything with it because they have no party discipline. The Democratic Party is rife with DINO's, pussies who blow around with every change in political winds, and rebels who refuse to fall in line when the party leadership needs them to. Republicans, by contrast, almost always fall in line when the rubber hits the road (even supposed Republican "mavericks" like McCain only offer token resistance, inevitably backing down and siding with the rest of their party when the actual vote comes up).
Just look at the Democratic Party right now in the bailout debate. Even with Wall Street greed and degregulation being virtual Republican trademarks, and even with the Republican President himself asking for a bailout, they've still somehow let a more organized Republican Congress paint *them* as the ones who want to "bail out the greedy Wall Street fat-cats." Once again the more organized Republicans have completely outmaneuvered a seemingly clueless and disorganized Democratic Party. This bailout should be a political no-brainer of a win for the Democrats, instead they're once more on the defensive instead of the offensive.
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Super Virtual Boy! Now, instead of just headaches, your head will literally EXPLODE!
Yeah, but if you're looking for cutesy minigames, the Wii is THE SHIT!!!
4:3 content, high resolution or not, can be annoying as shit on an HDTV. The longer I own an HDTV, the more I find myself avoiding SD broadcasts for this reason (cartoons or not).
The majority don't have them NOW. But if Nintendo releases a new console without HD support in 2011 (intending it to last until 2016 at least), it will be a sad joke. It would be like someone pitching a prime time TV show in 1968 and telling the studio "Oh, and we intend to shoot it in black and white for its entire ten-year run, since most people don't have color TV's yet."
"Actually, 'gEvil (beta)''s joke was based on precisely that idea."
Yeah, and that's why it's called a "joke."
P.S. If you're a lobbyist or a big corporation, please use my secret yahoo mail email address for a personal reply.
In my area it hasn't. I still pay the same amount for a 3 mbit DSL connection today as I did four years ago when I first got it.
Lately, the invisible hand has been shoved right up my greedy bank's ass.
I still don't understand why people do this. Are they really THAT desperate to place a bet, any bet? Might as well become a day-trader and play the stock market for your fix. It would be a lot more regulated than most online poker.
You should also block job search sites too, because anyone having to work in an environment like that for any length of time will surely be making use of them.
"when it makes sense to have 3D aspects of the web, that everyone will have already downloaded the plug-in, it's one of the first things you do when you install your machine, and you're able to just jump around and play in a creative space"
Everytime I hear someone propose something like this, I think of VRML and the failed (and misguided) attempt to reskin the web into something it's not.
A douche that stays in perpetual beta?
Yes but WiMax, unlike current cell modem service, is apparently hoping to compete with DSL and cable. If they're going to do that, they need to be prepared to offer similar usage caps to existing DSL/cable providers (a lot more than 5 GB per month).
Whoever modded this flamebait is a deluded coward more interested in playing the role of progressive than acknowledging the reality around him.
Oh, come off with the PC policing! Do you actually expect us to pretend that there is an equal distribution of males to females in the geek world of obscure Linux distros? No one's saying that there aren't ANY women into Linux, just that using the feminine pronoun is a little disconcerting in a specific area that is represented by a male to female ratio of at least 9:1.
Ha ha!
You didn't see nuthin', got it?
I love it when an editor or story writer makes a technical error on /. You can actually hear the simultaneous erections of a thousand anal-retentive techies, each typing as fast as they can without even bothering to check if their fellow anal-retentives hadn't already pointed the same thing out in dozens of posts. It's the best sexual gratification most of them are going to get all day.
A guy who doesn't question the mistakes of his subordinates no matter how obvious--the perfect quality you want in a potential President.
I'm just glad the mob wasn't behind it (if such a thing as "the mob" did, in fact, exist).
Water, soil, sunlight...does that mean we can grow potatos?
Billions and trillions are only for wars and Wall Street. Anything that doesn't make a bunch of Republicans rich only gets millions.
Not to worry. Flash...ahhhahhha...will save every one of us!
I tried to get an update on how it went. But those people at the hospital burn unit are real douchebags about not bothering the patients.
The problem is that Democrats are nowhere nearly as organized or disciplined as the Republicans. Even if they had a 2/3's majority, they wouldn't be able to do anything with it because they have no party discipline. The Democratic Party is rife with DINO's, pussies who blow around with every change in political winds, and rebels who refuse to fall in line when the party leadership needs them to. Republicans, by contrast, almost always fall in line when the rubber hits the road (even supposed Republican "mavericks" like McCain only offer token resistance, inevitably backing down and siding with the rest of their party when the actual vote comes up).
Just look at the Democratic Party right now in the bailout debate. Even with Wall Street greed and degregulation being virtual Republican trademarks, and even with the Republican President himself asking for a bailout, they've still somehow let a more organized Republican Congress paint *them* as the ones who want to "bail out the greedy Wall Street fat-cats." Once again the more organized Republicans have completely outmaneuvered a seemingly clueless and disorganized Democratic Party. This bailout should be a political no-brainer of a win for the Democrats, instead they're once more on the defensive instead of the offensive.