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10/29/09
Only a liberal would buy a car built by UAW workers. Bust a union - buy a Toyota. #xbox
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Detroit is in shambles for a reason. #xbox
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10/29/09
First of all, for the record, my comment wasn't one of my trademark trollmines.
It was a facetious jab at the notion that cars like the Toyota Prius* are in line with the majority of the liberal agenda.
I say the Prius because it is notoriously a "statement" car. Sure, it's SULEV, but it is also a major donor to the GOP because of its staunch anti-union stance. The Toyota, Honda, and Nissan plants in Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi are the reason that the Senators of those States were so firmly against bailing out GM.
I also say this on the heels of last night's "Daily Show" which featured a segment on this kind of product identification. It's kind of silly to boycott a company because its CEO writes an Op-Ed out of line with your liberal views and then buy a car from a company whose corporate practices are even farther out of line.
Welcome to the Internet. You need to settle the fuck down and realize that sometimes, people say facetious things on blogs. How you have managed to live in America in the 21st Century and still not comprehend the notion of "sarcasm" is fucking inconceivable.
*Fair disclosure: I drive a Honda Insight. I drive it because it was free. I do like some of the features in the new Ford models but I like that my car gets 50+ mpg with 78k miles more. #xbox
10/29/09
And how about those American workers. If some of my coworkers are to be used as any indicator then I'd say they're lazy, incompetent sacks of shit who care more about collecting a paycheck then actually doing their job the correct way. And what of the unions? Cars were manufactured long before unions came around and I suspect if the UAW was disbanded tomorrow, we'd still be building cars. Unions are also one of the factors in why car prices are what they are today.
I got a new car once. It was a Ford and it was a piece of shit so sorry, but the whole Buy American thing doesn't really carry as much weight with me anymore.
"unless you idiots start buying ford or GM you will see millions of jobs lost!"
BTW statements like that aren't going to win people over either... #xbox
10/28/09
Is Apple going with something grown in-house or another, updated Symbol product? The article is a bit confusing in the phrasing - admittedly, I also don't know if EasyPay is an in-store reference to the general system of paying without a register or a Symbol brand. #xbox
10/28/09
10/28/09
As a sidenote, Apple "geniuses" have typically been some of the most frustratingly computer-illiterate yet-pretentious ignoramuses that it's ever been my immense displeasure to have the extreme dishonor of conversing with for any protracted length of time. I'm not sure exactly what it is they are certified "geniuses" in, but evidently it has little to do with computers, the internet, or things that human beings do. #xbox
10/28/09
Well, depends on where you go for the geniuses. I went in with one of my friends to the Genius Bar and the guy was all "hurr de hurr, try adding more RAM" and couldn't give an answer for why she was having problems. I could have told her that. On the other hand I have heard of other Geniuses busting out their Linux skills and doing -sudo whatever and fixing stuff on the computer. I'm considering getting a Mac for my next computer for the build quality, but despise the stores and the attitude of the pretentious Mac users (read hipsters). Then again, I hear Lenovo is phenomenal, so we will see. #xbox
10/29/09
Anyway, as the sole member of the IT department for my company, I pick and choose through software and hardware usable for the shop. Last year I was choosing POS systems and as an Apple user myself, I have to say that you really have to WANT to use an Apple for a POS computer - not a lot of great software - at least at the time I researched this. I wonder if the POS software for the Touch is available for purchase. #xbox
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10/28/09
Maybe they wanted to make sure the 'Apple Tax' was calculated correct :-P
- Actual happy Apple user... trying to be funny #xbox
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09/28/09
I sincerely hope this craze goes away soon.
09/28/09
09/28/09
I have seen several movies in 3D in recent months. In all cases I found it distracting and gimmicky. The only reason I saw them, was my inattention at the box office, and I didn't realize they were 3D.
I recently took a survey about a movie I very much want to see, in which one question was "Does knowing that this movie will be released in 3D make you want to:
A)Absolutely see it
B)Maybe see it
3)Don't care / doesn't affect decision
4)Maybe not to see it
5)Definitely not see it.
My answer was emphatically #5. I definitely do not want to see that movie, or any other, in 3D.
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(Excluding the inevitable holographic imaging)
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Shrek 3D uses the very outdated red/cyan anaglyph, which induces headaches with prolonged use. I can only make it through about half an hour at a time, and generally just watch those types of 3D movies in their optional 2D format. Now, when an episode of Chuck was aired in 3D, they used the new amber/indigo ColorCode3D, which has two major advantages over anaglyph. Firstly, you don't need to be wearing glasses to watch the show. True, you won't get the 3D experience, but the two-color 3D formatting doesn't make it unwatchable to someone who _isn't_ wearing the proper eyewear. It just makes the edges a bit fuzzy, where anaglyph looks like technicolor vomit without the glasses. Second, it's more of a light/dark thing than a two-color thing, and by making one of the lenses amber it gets around the problem where one single type of cone is used to see red, green, and amber. I suspect this latter bit is what causes anaglyph headaches, since that two-color arrangement splits the red and green colors between opposing eyes.
09/11/09
This will die like many other specialty media formats, including DVD-A.
3D is a nice idea that in reality requires way too much capital investment to make sense for the average consumer, especially TODAY's average consumer, who has been burned by the recession and thinks a LOT harder now about what they throw money at. That mentality will continue for a long time after the economy starts recovering.
09/14/09
In it's greed, the consumer electronics industry is biting itself in the ass big time with the push for 3D. Most consumers have not even adopted HDTV yet (and this was before recession), and now the CE industry is already pushing for something much more expensive - 3D goggles, 3D blu-ray player, 3D HDTV, etc. The fact that you need to have all of these components combined just to buy into the entire 3D experience is ludicrous when you examine the out of pocket expenditure it all represents to the end consumer.
True, a small handful of people with money to burn, are going to pony up to the 3D table, but the vast majority simply are not going to fall for it.
And that is before we even address the matter that no one really wants to wear those stupid goggles every time they want to plunk down on the couch and watch a movie.
And that still does not address the issue of this little format war to see which 3D tech will become the dominant supported tech.
Plain and simple, at this stage of development of the technology, none of it should even be considered for release into the hands of consumers. The CE industry still has years worth of work to do before they get to the point where all of the issues are addressed that would make 3D tech not only consumer friendly to use, but also consumer friendly in price.
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Now what was new was what Samsung and others showed at CES in Jan. They had a display that didn't require glasses at all.
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09/11/09
And some of them require power? Seriously? You know, I was playing with a Wii the other day and the batteries died. And I was thinking, "Man, replacing these batteries in the middle of a game is so much fun! I wish I could do this in the middle of a movie!"
Yeah, no. I mean, I'm a 3D purist. I want a damn hologram, k? A real hologram, that I can walk around. One that appears to occupy space on more than two axes. But failing that, if everybody absolutely positively HAS to make faux-3D television and movies, can we please at least have the decency to not wear dumb glasses that make my head hurt? K? K.
09/11/09
Regarding glasses, I think 3d may catch on even if they're required. It's just a matter of getting the quality/price to the right level. I've been waiting for 3d gaming for my entire life (movies, eh, not as much) compared to that, glasses are a non-issue.
09/11/09
My vision is such that the images look the same with and wthout the glasses. (Super blurry.) If everything is going to be in this special 3D-style, what happens for those of us who have trouble seeing the images correctly because of our eyesight? Will there be a second feed that will be in 2D to accommodate us? Or will we be SOL until we can beam the images directly into our brains a la "Batman Forever". (I can't believe I referenced that.)
This is a question that I've been searching for an answer to for a little while. Especially since I've been hearing more and more people say they don't/can't see 3D movies.
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09/10/09
I'm a pessimist so I still figure everyone who owns an LCD or Plasma TV to be an early adopter. In this case pessimist also mean "poor bastard" too. I just don't see the lifespan of new technology made for any sort of long term use when compared to the "old faithful" CRT set.
Maybe it's planned obsolescence, or maybe I just feel that way when every current TV manufacturer continually tries to one-up the competition (not necessarily bad in its own right) giving me the feeling that everything is virgin and untested.
I do know the time will eventually come when I have to purchase one, but for what it's worth (nothing), big, fancy and new TVs aren't for me.