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@Stndsh0: The gay virus requires a hard substrate to survive on, but requires wool as a food source. Consequently, it thrives on knitting needles.
Of cousre men, being men, will inevitably pretend to sword fight with said knitting needles and inevitably stab themselves and each other, leading to infection. Thusly, they turn gay.
Women don't stab each other with knitting needles, hence the incidence of lesbianism is not statistically correlated to incidents of knitting in the female population.
@jepzilla: That makes sense now, thanks. What would happen if a man stabbed a woman with a knitting needle or vice versa? Would we just get two married people?
@Golf_Nut: Lucky? He doesn't have the acting skill. He only got this franchise because there's no good child actors and now that he's an adult we can see the wrong choice was made :P
@Golf_Nut: He was in a play during that time called Equus. Given the subject matter and what was asked of him as an actor, I'd imagine he's doing things other than HP already that sound a bit different than what he has done in the HP movies.
@Golf_Nut: Actually apprently he went full frontal. At 17. I have no interest in the play based on its subject matter so I've not seen his performance.
Could someone explain to me exactly what's going on? I don't want to sound like Kal-El here, but this seems oddly insignificant to be live-blogging about. I'd just like to know what makes this more significant than other blu-ray releases or Harry Potter films.
@Jason Chen: The counterargument is that it's only the third ever Blu-Ray BD-Live Q&A because such things are kind of silly. To each their own, though, and I could definitely see how such a thing would fit in on this site. It's an interesting concept, I suppose.
@WestwoodDenizen: As is the case with any other post, if you don't like it, go to the next one. Asking why we posted about something or saying something isn't newsworthy is just a waste of everyone's time.
@Jason Chen: Sorry, Jason. My question about the significance of this wasn't rhetorical. I really wanted you or someone else to answer me, and you did.
@:negated:: seriously... I was all about the CrunchPad and the "grassroots" development process that went into it... Hell, I was even excited about the prospect of hacking OSX onto the thing to pre-empt the iTabletThing.
But having seen this guy in action and reading some of the materials Arrington has posted on TechCrunch I'm going to pass too...
This looks... terrible. As a $200 - $300 web surfing gadget, i was willing to listen. As a $500 12.1" touchscreen... thing... i really don't think its something i'd ever even look at. And i'm a total gadget whore. I see absolutely NO value in this whatsoever. I can't even imagine why i would want to carry around such a specialized piece of hardware... only in my house. Its useless anywhere there isn't a wi-fi connection. Plus, is the browser even any good? Just cause it has a browser doesn't mean its useable. Hell. Blackberry has a built in browser...
@riccochet: The whole point of the Crunchpad was that $200 was the sweet spot. Anything more and you might as well get a netbook or mobile phone. At $500, I'd rather wait for an Apple tablet.
I just don't see how they can charge $500 for this... all the parts are probably off the shelf. The processor is most likely an Arm processor or something similar, a 12" touch screen, and 4 gig SSD? They are using their own OS, so no licensing fees to Microsoft, is the additional cost of this device due to R &D? To be honest, unless their OS has some awesome abilities that will show off later, using Android might of been the way to go on this device... save the money on developing your own OS. Do they think that its 2007? I just see this device as a complete fail, in every conceivable way. Even at $299 I would have a problem buying it, but I see how they would of at least gotten uneducated buyers excited about a 12" tablet for the same price as an Ipod Touch... but this doesn't even play music does it? Does it support flash playback? Can I stream movies? I just don't get it.
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How does liking knitting make you gay?
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Of cousre men, being men, will inevitably pretend to sword fight with said knitting needles and inevitably stab themselves and each other, leading to infection. Thusly, they turn gay.
Women don't stab each other with knitting needles, hence the incidence of lesbianism is not statistically correlated to incidents of knitting in the female population.
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Nah. Michael Gambon said he used to be gay. Yeah. "Used to be". He was forced to quit because it made his eyes water.
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I didn't see the play and I will wait till I actually see him in something else before judging him.
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But having seen this guy in action and reading some of the materials Arrington has posted on TechCrunch I'm going to pass too...
JooJoo... more like DouchePad.
What an ass...
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May as well join the party.
Too expensive/overpriced by $200.
Too many corporate woes.
Bad pre-order name.
Green screen creating some FUD.
Plain ol' Superfail.