No, it means clearly you need to get out of your mother's basement and find something engaging to do with your life.

Yes, probably off-topic, but I've found myself saying exactly that in pretty much every conversation I've had regarding religion, politics, and economic policy for the last five years. It's sad to see it's now infected technology.

+1. I LOL'd. Would LOL again.

I just bought my first ever Apple product, a MacBook Air with Lion. I have been woefully unimpressed with the illogic of many of its features, the inconsistencies in use and design, and some of the downright irritating PITA aspects. Talking with my friends who are long time Apple users, it seems a good 90% of my complaints were all introduced with Lion. Many of of those power-users are of the same opinion as you. It's got some nice features but this will be the only Apple computer I'll be buying for a good long time.

Would you feel better if I said you "earned" being victimized? You smoke two cartons of Camels a week in this day and age, and you don't just deserve cancer, you earned it. You evidently put a lot of effort into pretending that the fact that your cancer was all but inevitable somehow didn't apply to you. Enjoy your winnings!

Any opinion referencing "refresh rate" when talking about film can be safely ignored.

No, but it does take someone who understands addiction to understand how addiction works. And it's pretty clear to anyone who who has ever regularly used caffeinated substances the parent poster isn't one of them.

And once again, I'm tethered to a screen. PC wins this one.

Unless you're using the above mentioned HDMI on a bigger screen. Now you want higher resolution. PC wins again.

Computer gamers - which I believe is what started this thread - use them extensively. PC again.

True, however the concept of being stuck without a keyboard when you do need one hasn't gone away. This is a tie. Size and portability are a huge plus for small platforms but even something simple as typing an essay is frustrating to the point of distraction on a table.

Very, very slowly - and it's not like they've stopped developing desktop and laptop CPUs. Point PC - for now.

And a tie. I'll reiterate the AC's point because it's true: there are many areas that a tablet or phone simply cannot match a PC for even something as seemingly trivial as web browsing.

I recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Firefox just plain broke. I'm a tab-whore and it would literally take 10 minutes before Firefox became usable. It was not unusual to see a 1.4G Firefox footprint. I switched to Chrome and I was so happy to see 30M and 50M threads here and there. But then as I started completing my migration I noticed that tabs started loading slower and slower. Now, with the exact same session loaded, Chrome is using about 20% more memory than Firefox ever did. It's an absolute pig. I'm either going to have to change my browsing habits or find another new browser.

I'd say that an MBA is considerably less useful than an English degree. At least with an English degree, an employer can be fairly certain the candidate can put together a coherent sentence, think critically and analytically, and understands perspective. With an MBA about the only thing they're assured of is your ability to draw a nice seating chart.

So you're saying the concept of work is so morally repugnant that it triggers an innate aversion that can only be overcome through repetition, realistic simulation, and live-fire drills? (I actually read those studies).

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if non-technical business leads can move their technology needs to the "cloud" without any involvement from IT, then that company shouldn't have had an IT department in the first place. Why would you have an accounting department if an hourly hire from AccuTemp using Quicken can do the job? I have no problem with business doing this. I also have no problem with these managers going to prison for skirting auditing laws, and IT telling them to go screw themselves when they have a problem with the tools they need or use to access their stand-alone technology. The late 90s were replete with department level IT initiatives that fairly uniformly ended up in failure. When business realized they had lost control of their data, their security, and their employees, they reigned it all back in. Evidently some people don't learn.

It's pretty unambiguous. "The atheists" means all of the "atheists." "Some atheists" or "some of the atheists" can mean two or three or some subset, but "THE atheists" means all of them. It's called a generalization. Unless of course you'd be okay with paying someone to fill the hole in your backyard, and after they've thrown in a shovel or two of dirt, they quit because they "filled the hole." I imagine "the atheists damn near crucified" you because the kind of illogical contortions you have to make to get to a statement like yours is the same kind of thinking that leads to most theistic beliefs.

Man, am I getting sick of this. Would you like me to post the list of salaries from my school district here? Over 78% of the teachers in our school district make over $50K a year for 9 months of work. 12% of our teachers are making over $100K for 9 months of work. Illinois averages $58K for 9 months http://teacherportal.com/salary/Illinois-teacher-salary

I'm sure there are plenty of teachers out there making crappy hourly rates, but that's YOUR fault, not theirs. If you don't value your kid's education enough to shell out the bucks, you deserve what you get.

Oh, that's just great. So the people who want to stop the in-school abstinence programs and teaching creationism in biology just need to get more violent?