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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 12:11 PM) Hm. The ps3 ability would save me $6/mo in the basement over the Genie Mini Client. I am intrigued. I would still think that they would try to get their money by something like the number of devices connected to that DVR and not necessarily base it on whether you are using the Genie Mini Client as one of those or not. But, who knows?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 17, 2013 -> 11:12 AM) DirecTV Genie Review I thought this could be applicable given conversations around these here parts recently. To add a bit to that, they showed off a bit more at CES 2013. You will soon be able to use some Samsung TVs, PlayStation 3's, and probably other RVU capable devices to access the HR44 DVR. That means if you have one of those devices, you won't need an extra box hooked up to it to access anything on the DVR. DirecTV Genie DVR RVU Server

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 12, 2012 -> 11:15 AM) I'm a Republican generally but differ a lot from the current party, which has gotten to be a little too extreme socially for my tastes. That said, I have zero interest in starting the circle jerk that would inevitably ensue from participating in this thread. ^^^ I echo this as well. Great to see how the thread started off with an immediate attack... Showed exactly which direction it would go. Usually I enjoy a lot of your posts Y2HH since they are generally thought out, but that was ridiculous. There is no way that you can get any type of creative conversation with that type of an attitude.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 21, 2012 -> 11:58 AM) I actually played around with one, and it was disturbingly laggy. I really like the windows 8 on the lumia. But on a bigger device that I want to do more I found it frustrating. Just curious, was it before or after they released a patch on November 13. It was supposed to address that very issue: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57549437...ks-performance/

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 20, 2012 -> 04:51 PM) I'm pretty sure we're gonna get the nexus 10.1. But the Galaxy S Tab talk is making me thing twice. Has anyone liked the surface? Poor windows. I think a lot of people have liked the surface. The problem is, where do you go to even take a look at one? They are only in Microsoft stores and online. I'm not spending that type of cash when I can't even try the thing out at all. Also, their app store is still lacking. It will get much better because it is Windows, but still needs more apps.

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 20, 2012 -> 03:23 PM) Anyone hear about any crazy Black Friday deals? Here is where I've been checking the tech Black Friday deals. Scroll on down to the Tablet section to take a look at it: GizModo

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 4, 2012 -> 07:31 PM) Been using it for a while -- with a touchscreen, it's a great OS. Without it, it's really not. It works, and it does everything it's supposed to do, but just not as intuitive with a mouse/keyboard as the old start bar was. It's not meant for a desktop that doesn't have touch. For the short term, this is a bad idea...but long term, which I have to believe is Microsofts vision, ALL screens will eventually be touchscreen, and when that happens, this will work very well. It will have short term growing pains, however, as it does NOT work the same, and I often find it infuriating to do what should be simple things. Again, if the monitor was touch based, it would be simple. But with a mouse, it's not the same. ^^ This has been my experience with it as well. Although, I am getting used to using it with a mouse. It is difficult to get going at first because there is nothing that gives you visual cues as to what you can use. In order to get to different things, you have to hover your mouse over a location for the hidden menu to pop up. Once you know it is there, that's fine, but nothing tells you that there is a hidden menu when you put your mouse in X location at first.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 31, 2012 -> 01:03 AM) right now leaning towards. the inspiron 17Se mid level model for the 2gb nvidia graphics card. probably will pass on 3d screen I'm looking at laptops myself, but am personally holding off because it looks like the market is about to be flooded with Windows 8 laptops. Based upon my initial impressions of Windows 8, I'd want something with a touch screen. It just seems so much more slick using swipes than a mouse. I'm waiting for a tablet/laptop hybrid that comes with Windows 8 and runs on the AMD Hondo chip or Intel's clover trail chip. My initial reading on them say that the tablet alone on those will get 10+ hours of battery life. A lot of these are also set up to allow the keyboard charge up the tablet when you attach it, which could extend the battery life another 3-5 hours.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:04 PM) Swing-states change. Should I move to another state every four years based on what polls shows may be a swing-state? Why shouldn't I have equal say in the Presidency regardless of where I live? But there's nobody doing this "selecting." Everyone gets one vote regardless of where you live and what your concerns are. The voting population is self-selecting what issues are the most important. That is the core of democracy. I don't see how the EC actually advances any new viewpoints and I haven't seen any good arguments in this thread for that case. What viewpoints does focusing so heavily on Ohio bring (11.5M) that having some campaigning in Illinois (12.8M) wouldn't? Why should Romney have to write off every Republican vote in Illinois and ignore the state entirely? What good does this do for anyone besides those who happen to be living in what is a swing-state in this particular election? Illinois Urban % - 88.49 Ohio Urban % - 77.92 http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/2010urbanruralclass.html There are some interesting statistics out there. In the whole US population, 80% lives in Urban locations. It would be very easy to override any concerns that a rural area would have (ie farming). IMO the EC flattens out the curve so that the biggest loudest group doesn't always override what could be very legitimate concerns from another segment of the population. Everybody's voice should be heard regardless of whether or not there is a bigger group advocating their voice.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 02:43 PM) That's not really analogous to what I said. Why should individual Ohio voters (in both rural and urban areas) have the power of being in what's most likely to be the deciding state while rural voters in Illinois will essentially have no voice? edit: It's also not a "select group" but a "majority of the citizens of the country" who, generally speaking, choose where they want to live. I can decide if I want to live in Chicago or Strawn and which issues I care about regardless of where I live. What I can't do is choose that my state is close enough that my vote will have any meaningful impact on the race. So, you can choose where to live, but not where you live?... Anyhow, it is a select group because metropolitan people have different issues and concerns that they deal with compared to rural people. So, they have certain concerns that are selected out of a larger subset of possible concerns. If you really wanted diversity, you would strive to get more diverse opinions on the issues from a wider range of groups. Instead this is more of a how come "MY" opinion doesn't count more than it already does? Why does someone with a different viewpoint have an affect on what "I" want? It's a good thing to have more viewpoints. That's my opinion as to why the electoral college appears to help out with that (I haven't looked at Jake's responses yet, but I am all for anything that advances a wider range of diverse opinions being heard).

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 02:38 PM) You think that we should grant people in rural areas more powers because...I haven't heard a good answer. You act like cities are some homogenous block that all votes a single way. This way if a city is 53% republican and 47% democratic, all get their voices heard. Cities wouldn't be over represented, they would get perfectly represented because more Americans live there. And because more Americans live there, they should always have the biggest say, right? I'll take note of this for any arguments that you make in favor of minority rights. Also, let's take a look at a map: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyin...tical_landscape Just Google rural vs metro concerns and you have a whole list. I answered your question already about getting a more diverse representation from the whole nation. It has been ignored.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 02:33 PM) Right, so why should so much of the election be determined by a select group of people who happen to live in cities that in no way represent nor have similar concerns to the rest of the country? It is a farce to say that their voice is not heard in those areas already. That was what I was specifically was addressing. I can easily turn that question around like so.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 02:28 PM) It wouldn't matter if "New York" made up their mind if we didn't have the electoral college. If the, say, Republican candidate, worked to more in NY to get 47% of the vote, that would be huge to to add to their coalition of republican voters across the country. New York and Illinois dont' vote 100% democrat, California has a HUGE Republican base and Texas has a much larger amount of democrats than Montana has republicans. This way those people can be more motivated to participate. Instead their votes are largely null. To conclude, the rest of the country can cry me a river about getting bullied by metropolitan areas. LOL, changed it for better accuracy on your opinion from what I have read so far.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 02:09 PM) Why should Obama and Romney care more about Ohio and Pennsylvania citizens than Illinois, New York and California citizens? How does that not represent focusing on a few particular areas to the exclusion of all others? As you say vandy, the President runs one branch and controls nominations to another. Why should the residents of Ohio have such a disproportionate impact on the election in 2012? Just because, as a whole, they are about split? Do I really need to tell you that Illinois, New York, etc have already pretty much made up their mind? There is a reason that a big part of the state of Illinois would like to split off from Chicago. It is because their concerns are not addressed. In Illinois, it is all about Chicago. Chicago/Cook county picks everything regardless of the concerns of those in the other parts of the state. That in itself is a small subset of exactly what would happen in the National election. There are all kinds of examples of this exact thing happening within individual states. See New York City and the rest of New York as well as East Washington State vs West Washington State as more examples.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 01:50 PM) These issues would still be represented in Congress, which is where they actually matter. What will Obama or Romney do specifically for Ohio that they wouldn't do if it was a truly national election? Great. Good to know that representation would be in only 1 of 2 of the elected branches. And since the President has such a large say in the appointment of Supreme Court justices, there goes the 3rd branch as well... I would like the President to actually have a concern for other parts of the country. If we are talking "National", then the President should have concerns for the entire "Nation", not just the larger subset that lives in large cities on the coasts. It is always a bad idea to focus in on one area. A leader of the nation should have a broad view of the concerns of the entire nation.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) Now there's no reason to campaign in California or Chicago or New York. Instead the only thing that matters is OH or PA or FL. Actually, it would be a complete shift in the issues. It would turn into "should we build more roads or have more subways?". You'd effectively remove any voice for a large amount of issues that should be represented. I'm surprised that any liberal would be in favor of removing the ability for a minority population to have their concerns addressed...

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) The vast majority of Americans live on the coasts, though? There are completely different concerns in rural areas compared to metropolitan areas. If you only ever care about the majority, then they can just run over any minority. Sounds like the American dream to me...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) Instead of swing states, the election will be concentrated in higher populated areas. Say hello to the coasts choosing the presidency every election. Nobody in "fly-over" country would have their concerns listened to.

I think my week was already decided after that first game. Aaron Rodgers, Matt Forte, and Brandon Marshall all on one team. That was a brutal game.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 10:14 PM) And there was much cursing. And then, much rejoicing ^^^This. What was that??

QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 12:32 AM) Now this team needs to shake it out and get the funk off them and rattle off 3 or 4 in a row. Hopefully this is the start of a nice Gavin run of dominance we know he's capable of. If the Sox alternate good and bad months they could still win the division with how s***ty it is. April: Bad. May: Good. June: Bad. July: Good. August: Bad. September: Good. Haha That would be the only way this team could make the playoffs cause a run like that all season would drive us fans f***ing bonkers haha Wouldn't that mean October: Bad ? I'd hope they break that up a bit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:23 PM) Apparently there already had been a warning according to Farmio. I kept hearing say "If" there had been a warning. There had not been a warning that they knew about, and they were looking for one.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 11, 2012 -> 01:27 AM) The comment was Christianity compared to Judaism. Before Christianity there was no such as thing as father, son, holy ghost, there was no devil, there was no god on earth, there was no resurrection, there were stories of an all powerful god. When you compare the figure Moses to Jesus, its just such a difference. All of Moses power derived from God, he lived like what 150 years, he was able to use magic, yet he is not a God, he was just a man who freed the Jews from Egypt. He is not considered a God because of the First Commandment, Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before me. Furthermore, Moses is fallible, and is punished by being banned from Israel, even thought he did so much good for the Israelites Yet Jesus, who does not even free the Jews from the Romans (the entire point of the Messiah) is considered a God. This is not even getting into Saints performing miracles, tithing or even touching half the books in the Bible. Jumping the Shark means that everything has been done so you have to come up with something ridiculous, ie Fonzi jumping the shark as a Happy Day's plot. If you were to watch a TV show that was "Old Testament" and one day it changed to "New Testament", it would be a jumping the shark moment. It fundamentally alters the entire premise of the religion in a way that (imo) just is not reconcilable with the Old Testament. All of a sudden it goes from having this prankster vengeful God who interacts with random humans, to a God who has a son who dies for everyone's sin, even though for the first thousand episodes that plot line was never mentioned. If God was so pissed about the Original Sin, why did he seemingly get over it and then punish humans for a bunch of other random things, never bringing up Adam and Eve again? Its not like in the middle of flooding the Earth he starts to b****ing to Noah about Eve. When hes killing all of the Egpytians and drowning them in the Red Sea, he never seems to tell Moses that it really doesnt matter because youre all screwed. Its just a completely different show based on plot lines that would be unimaginable if you were living in the Old Testament show. I think it flows beautifully from the old to the new testament. If you really want to actually discuss that sort of thing and are actually interested, I could more easily do it through PMs where I can give references to different things that come up. For instance, there are some fascinating traits of some Jewish customs in particular with passover dinner that point directly to a Triune God as well as to Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection (if at all familiar, think of the 3 matzahs). I didn't get a chance to study Judaism while in college (mainly Islam, Christianity, and Eastern Religions), but I think it would be pretty cool study to see the all of the connections.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 15, 2012 -> 11:03 AM) Well and her mother's affidavit claiming she didn't actually know until the coaches told her. Of course the mother claimed that, it makes it easier to sue and make this whole thing a big deal. We don't know any of the facts here, but the mother's claim that is used to make her own case needs to have more detail behind it.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 12:31 PM) Whenever you feel bad or guilty about pirating music or movies just watch a few episodes of cribs and youll feel better. Stealing is stealing regardless of who you take it from... Should the guy who had a lobster at KWs should feel better because of how much KW has?