Turn the damn thing off entirely, get out and exercise and find that you feel much better, much faster. Sheesh.
Well, that's what I did, smart guy. I stopped watching TV for 6 months. It's kinda hard to go shopping around for an LCD when chronic fatigue pins you to the couch. And believe me, I was bored out of my brains. Especially considering that exercise was also impossible for more than 5-10 min/day.
I guess you can always trust/. to say the obvious without thinking.
That makes me wonder. Will video sources be able to take advantage of these extra colours, or will we have to wait until the HD-DVD/Bluray/DVB/ATSC/whatever successor before we can actually enjoy the improved picture quality?
I agree. The picture quality of a good CRT TV is much better than 90% of the LCD TVs on the market. They were cheaper, lasted longer, and looked better. I wouldn't have touched LCD (or plasma, which was worse) with a barge pole a while ago.
However, I then discovered the effect of CRTs on me. I knew about the radiation that pours out of these things, but I always thought I could withstand a little radiation. In truth, I found out that it was giving me chronic constipation, resulting in crippling gut pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Two hours of TV would leave me exhausted and sick. I had chronic fatigue for two years and I had no idea what was happening.
I've switched to LCD and avoided CRT wherever possible (those things are everywhere!). I've started to pick up my energy slowly, and I no longer get the pains in gut. I know, I hardly believe it myself.
...but I just wanted check we're talking about the same Microsoft here.
This is THE Microsoft, right? The one who breaks CSS support for IE, refuses to use pdf or odf, and once upon a time, whenever you searched "slashdot" on their search engine, fed you a story about possible Linux viruses as the first result?
What exactly do you want then? High definition with games at unheard of prices? With the same ol' control scheme?
Hell, I can barely tell the difference between SD and HD. Well, not in anything but price.
The Wii may be a stupid name, and the price may be a little above cost price. So what? You pay them for the R&D so you can enjoy it. Or you can wait a while and buy in late.
Well said. This is very true and is a symptom of most religions. This is what truly makes America similar to the Middle East. We both think in irreconcilable extremes. We are the black to their white and vice versa.
And that is exactly why I don't think the war on terror will work, or that it is justified. Undermining their culture is our version of terrorism.
(Sorry, I realise we're getting into -1 Offtopic area)
The information about the government has always been restricted by the government itself. Think about it. They make lots of decisions, have lots of information, and short, infrequent press conferences. With an excess of info and a lack of information channels, they have to choose what you hear. And when they neglect to mention something that makes them look bad, I forgive them. I enjoy my privacy too.
What you've done is find ways around small barriers. My point is that there is an enormity in scale of such an overthrow. You need to not only overcome one barrier in the system, but all simultaneously. You have to get past the legal safeguards, the tradition, the protesting masses, the protesting few in powerful positions, etc. If one fails, the plan fails.
That said, I see what you mean with the "conspiricy of personality". That sounds like the easiest way to declare yourself dictator. Of course, it's a lot of work for little benefit, but hey. It's possible, I guess.
OMG! Europe fell? Wow. I didn't read that in the news. When did that happen?[/end sarcasm]
Seriously though, Europe hasn't fallen. Many countries have done very well. I don't know how you define success, but it obviously isn't to do with money, reputation, or glorious history.
And, by the way, I used to be a lot more liberal until I started listening to all these sheep/sheeple comments. I started looking at other people's opinions in a different light, and I started to realise that/.ers are so predictable! They always knee-jerked, they never thought things through, act like total hypocrites, and then try desperately to call everyone else hypocrites who don't agree with them. I never felt more like a sheep than I did as a liberal on/.
That's my point entirely. You have completely confused the symptom with the problem. The problem is that all your rights are gone. The symptom is that police can now demand ID. Another symptom would be that you have to answer their questions even when it's cold and rainy or if you were in a hurry. Just because one symptom occurs, does not mean the problem is occuring.
Producing ID on demand is also not inherently a civil liberty issue. It loses you some privacy, granted, but you don't lose any liberty. You can still do everything you wanted to do before the ID legislation.
Let's think about this for a second, huh? What would the government's motive be in dominating the US?
Power trip? I doubt it. Power trips are very individual, and a huge conspiracy is needed to change the US. Not everyone likes a power trip, and they are experienced individually and selfishly. I don't think groups are capable of feeling a "power trip" as a collective. And it only takes one person who doesn't appreciate it to ruin it for everyone else.
Money? Nope. Real barriers exist to prevent governments paying themselves whatever they want. And besides, money becomes worthless when you have absolute control over it. When that happens, it degenerates into a power trip.
Deluded attempt to make USA great? I don't think so. If this is their motive, then they probably couldn't give a f**k about civil liberties (restricitng or protecting). I doubt that all your liberties would disappear.
And there's also the great difficulty in completely changing the US. Some parts of our liberties can be erroded slowly, but, for example, democracy must be destroyed in one fell swoop. One minute, you're voting, the next, you aren't. Not to mention the enormity of such a conspiricy required to do so.
Forget it. It's not happening. I can't understand why you can't see it.
Read my post again. Notice the that I never said that terrorism is actually effective. Nor do I, for that matter, say that society will inevitably rob you of all your rights. What I did say is that the purpose of terrorism is to destroy society, and the purpose of society is to create law and order by restricitng the rights of its citizens.
Aside from the obvious compatibility issues, doesn't it strike anyone as kinda stupid that these presenters are naked? I mean, by far and away, most human cultures have some form of clothing. It may not be more natural, and it may not show our bodies accurately, but that's who we are. If these aliens want to make contact, that's is what to expect.
Yes!! We must destroy our society in order to save it!
Your ironic comparison between terrorism and infringement of rights is stupid. Terrorism, like it or not, has the capacity to do some lasting damage. It actually works directly against society. Society's purpose is to resist the natural entropic forces that separate people. Fear is one such force, and terrorism is designed to dangerously amplify it. The point of terrorism is that it destroys societies, and can accompish that with very small groups.
Infringing rights, however, is the purpose of the law (and society). Since society has come into fruition, you have lost many inaliable rights. You are no longer allowed to murder, rape, and pillage. Of course, these things need a sense of moderation. I don't want to lose my right to free speech, for example. Never the less, the infringement of rights will not destroy society, it will merely change it. I said it once, I'll say it again. Your comparison is stupid
I agree. The RIAA has a target audience for their premier releases, and it doesn't generally include over 30s.
However, I'd like to add that the population is getting increasingly techno-savvy. I'd imagine that P2P would be on the increase* because of this. And, well, some of them have less inhibition about P2P due to their partially undeveloped decision-making skills and their lack of wisdom.
In other words, I think that music is NOT getting worse (just changing targets), CD sales ARE being hurt by P2P (but that isn't the only factor), and targetting the younger generation IS hurting sales (due to P2P).
* I realise that this is not what the study is showing
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I guess you can always trust
Of course, now you've just poisoned next usage stats. /. does have its own demographic.
That makes me wonder. Will video sources be able to take advantage of these extra colours, or will we have to wait until the HD-DVD/Bluray/DVB/ATSC/whatever successor before we can actually enjoy the improved picture quality?
I agree. The picture quality of a good CRT TV is much better than 90% of the LCD TVs on the market. They were cheaper, lasted longer, and looked better. I wouldn't have touched LCD (or plasma, which was worse) with a barge pole a while ago.
However, I then discovered the effect of CRTs on me. I knew about the radiation that pours out of these things, but I always thought I could withstand a little radiation. In truth, I found out that it was giving me chronic constipation, resulting in crippling gut pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Two hours of TV would leave me exhausted and sick. I had chronic fatigue for two years and I had no idea what was happening.
I've switched to LCD and avoided CRT wherever possible (those things are everywhere!). I've started to pick up my energy slowly, and I no longer get the pains in gut. I know, I hardly believe it myself.
Let me just say, thank christ for LCD.
I much prefer "Laser TV - Plasma Killer".
Killing's all the rage right now, right?
I agree. But if you ever get caught out, there's always the undo close tab menu item.
...but I just wanted check we're talking about the same Microsoft here.
This is THE Microsoft, right? The one who breaks CSS support for IE, refuses to use pdf or odf, and once upon a time, whenever you searched "slashdot" on their search engine, fed you a story about possible Linux viruses as the first result?
Poor naive rsidd.
I like the point. Hate you, but like the point.
Care to justify any of that?
What exactly do you want then? High definition with games at unheard of prices? With the same ol' control scheme?
Hell, I can barely tell the difference between SD and HD. Well, not in anything but price.
The Wii may be a stupid name, and the price may be a little above cost price. So what? You pay them for the R&D so you can enjoy it. Or you can wait a while and buy in late.
Or you could not buy in at all, and just STFU.
Well said. This is very true and is a symptom of most religions. This is what truly makes America similar to the Middle East. We both think in irreconcilable extremes. We are the black to their white and vice versa.
And that is exactly why I don't think the war on terror will work, or that it is justified. Undermining their culture is our version of terrorism.
(Sorry, I realise we're getting into -1 Offtopic area)
The information about the government has always been restricted by the government itself. Think about it. They make lots of decisions, have lots of information, and short, infrequent press conferences. With an excess of info and a lack of information channels, they have to choose what you hear. And when they neglect to mention something that makes them look bad, I forgive them. I enjoy my privacy too.
I do believe it, but I see what you're saying.
What you've done is find ways around small barriers. My point is that there is an enormity in scale of such an overthrow. You need to not only overcome one barrier in the system, but all simultaneously. You have to get past the legal safeguards, the tradition, the protesting masses, the protesting few in powerful positions, etc. If one fails, the plan fails.
That said, I see what you mean with the "conspiricy of personality". That sounds like the easiest way to declare yourself dictator. Of course, it's a lot of work for little benefit, but hey. It's possible, I guess.
OMG! Europe fell? Wow. I didn't read that in the news. When did that happen?[/end sarcasm]
/.ers are so predictable! They always knee-jerked, they never thought things through, act like total hypocrites, and then try desperately to call everyone else hypocrites who don't agree with them. I never felt more like a sheep than I did as a liberal on /.
Seriously though, Europe hasn't fallen. Many countries have done very well. I don't know how you define success, but it obviously isn't to do with money, reputation, or glorious history.
And, by the way, I used to be a lot more liberal until I started listening to all these sheep/sheeple comments. I started looking at other people's opinions in a different light, and I started to realise that
And to you mods out there, I am aware my last two posts on this thread were modded down. I'm not trolling, so cut me some slack.
That's my point entirely. You have completely confused the symptom with the problem. The problem is that all your rights are gone. The symptom is that police can now demand ID. Another symptom would be that you have to answer their questions even when it's cold and rainy or if you were in a hurry. Just because one symptom occurs, does not mean the problem is occuring.
Producing ID on demand is also not inherently a civil liberty issue. It loses you some privacy, granted, but you don't lose any liberty. You can still do everything you wanted to do before the ID legislation.
Let's think about this for a second, huh? What would the government's motive be in dominating the US?
Power trip? I doubt it. Power trips are very individual, and a huge conspiracy is needed to change the US. Not everyone likes a power trip, and they are experienced individually and selfishly. I don't think groups are capable of feeling a "power trip" as a collective. And it only takes one person who doesn't appreciate it to ruin it for everyone else.
Money? Nope. Real barriers exist to prevent governments paying themselves whatever they want. And besides, money becomes worthless when you have absolute control over it. When that happens, it degenerates into a power trip.
Deluded attempt to make USA great? I don't think so. If this is their motive, then they probably couldn't give a f**k about civil liberties (restricitng or protecting). I doubt that all your liberties would disappear.
And there's also the great difficulty in completely changing the US. Some parts of our liberties can be erroded slowly, but, for example, democracy must be destroyed in one fell swoop. One minute, you're voting, the next, you aren't. Not to mention the enormity of such a conspiricy required to do so.
Forget it. It's not happening. I can't understand why you can't see it.
But hey. That's what you get when you confuse symptoms with problems.
Read my post again. Notice the that I never said that terrorism is actually effective. Nor do I, for that matter, say that society will inevitably rob you of all your rights. What I did say is that the purpose of terrorism is to destroy society, and the purpose of society is to create law and order by restricitng the rights of its citizens.
Aside from the obvious compatibility issues, doesn't it strike anyone as kinda stupid that these presenters are naked? I mean, by far and away, most human cultures have some form of clothing. It may not be more natural, and it may not show our bodies accurately, but that's who we are. If these aliens want to make contact, that's is what to expect.
Infringing rights, however, is the purpose of the law (and society). Since society has come into fruition, you have lost many inaliable rights. You are no longer allowed to murder, rape, and pillage. Of course, these things need a sense of moderation. I don't want to lose my right to free speech, for example. Never the less, the infringement of rights will not destroy society, it will merely change it. I said it once, I'll say it again. Your comparison is stupid
I agree. The RIAA has a target audience for their premier releases, and it doesn't generally include over 30s.
However, I'd like to add that the population is getting increasingly techno-savvy. I'd imagine that P2P would be on the increase* because of this. And, well, some of them have less inhibition about P2P due to their partially undeveloped decision-making skills and their lack of wisdom.
In other words, I think that music is NOT getting worse (just changing targets), CD sales ARE being hurt by P2P (but that isn't the only factor), and targetting the younger generation IS hurting sales (due to P2P).
* I realise that this is not what the study is showing