You’re a bit out of date on Mac pricing. A local organization here just got quotes from Dell and Apple, and Apple’s quote was cheaper for equivalent systems.
The Mac I just bought was about 10% higher than the equivalent Windows machine, mostly because it’s an odd configuration.
Thank my lucky stars, I did not miss hotpants. The greatest fashion invention since Spandex. Er, before Spandex. Argh. You know what I mean.
The downside of both hotpants and Spandex of course is that it’s a fashion disaster if worn by the wrong person. Makes you want to gouge your eyes out.
Now back to our regularly scheduled listing of things that we don’t like… I mean things that we accidentally missed in the normal course of human events.
Isn’t that always what happens? Someone starts a thread with a title like,“What color socks do you wear?” Nobody really cares about the color of other people’s socks (and few probably actually pay much attention to the thread), but still, the thread goes on for pages and pages, and morphs into something different from what the OP intended.
That said, OpalCat, your thread is actually a really interesting thread, and a really good question.
Getting back to the proposition of the thread, OpalCat: OJ Simpson passed me by (I was out of the country, and couldn’t understand why this has-been was in the news even in Colombia.) I’ve never seen the police chase; I suppose it’s on YouTube, but police chases are really boring.
I signed up for a Myspace page last night, because there’s a Christian computer wallpaper website whose goods I wanna use, but they only allow unlimited downloads if you link to their site from your blog, website, or…Myspace page.
So, five seconds after I signed up, I had spam! Some guy named Tom announced himself as my friend, all over my page. I wasn’t terribly pissed, because I wasn’t gonna use the page for anything, but I mean, damn, it was blatant.
So I hollered at my daughter in the other room. “Hey, how do I un-friend somebody?” She came over to see. I said, “This guy named Tom just appeared 10 seconds after I signed up, how do I get him off there?”
She thought it was pretty funny, actually. Parental units being out-of-it are always amusing to their young.
guizot - Well, I needed four restroom breaks, but yeah, other than that I saw the whole thing. I didn’t care for the ham-handed romance and found most of the acting cheesy as hell (how Billy Zane’s career survived this, I’ll never know), but I didn’t find anything especially objectionable. If anything, I was disappointed that Cameron took some of the most breathtaking movie sets, backdrops, and sequences I’ve seen in my life and played it so, so safe with an easy-money romantic story.
Damn, I so have to review this…
silenus - See, here’s the thing. The Super Bowl is a huge, massive, emotionally gripping, amazing, incredible, awesome, holy event for a football fan. If you’re not a football fan, spending half a day watching weird commercials, snazzy graphics, and a 15 minute rock opera probably isn’t your idea of a good time. There’s so much bluster about “watching the Super Bowl for the commercials” and how big this day is etc. that the one crucial component, actually giving a damn about football, is too often omitted.
Me? After Steve Young tossed the monkey 60 yards, John Elway left on a high horse, and the Patriots failed to cap off the golden season, I’m really not sure what to root for anymore. You have company.
what do I type here - Oh, come on, that’s hardly unusual. Action RPG isn’t exactly what I’d call a universal genre. I personally played the first two games, both for NES, and never cared to go through that kind of slog again. Furthermore, all of these are strictly for Nintendo systems. How many people do you know that owned an N64?
I know the thread’s moved on a bit, but Eonwe has provided an excellent answer to a question I get asked a lot myself, and I’d like to take a moment to expand upon it, if I may.
For me, one of the things that makes me dislike things that are hugely popular is that they become “less special”, for me at least.
I enjoy a number of TV shows that could be described as “Not widely viewed” in my age group- Red Dwarf, Peep Show, Black Books, Goodness Gracious Me, and a lot of other stuff that you only find on ABC at 11pm on a Tuesday night. 
Sure, these shows are popular, but if you take a fairly average group of twentysomethings (say, the people I work with) and say “So, did anyone watch Black Books on ABC last night?” I can be assured of the sound of crickets chirping and maybe a tumbleweed blowing across the store. And this is part of the appeal for me- I’m free to enjoy these shows the way I want, and for want of a better term they’re “Mine”. I don’t have to share them with hordes of obsessed people who ruin my enjoyment of the show with their overzealousness and general acting like hyperactive teenagers over it.
It’s certainly interesting how, the more popular something in popular culture is, the less likely it is that I’ll like it.
There are some popular current TV shows that I like- The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, South Park and so on, so I’m not saying all popular culture is bad, but I do admit to being an elitist bastard that has naught but disdain for most of the TV shows of the general peasantry. 
Such is my disdain, in fact, that I have banned discussions about Reality TV and The Footy when I’m managing. The customers are stupid enough, I don’t need the staff contributing to it as well. We all agree on the Reality TV point, but it’s taken a few months to get The Footy point across as well…
I actually saw some of the filming off the coast of Baja, but never saw the movie itself. I guess you could say I deliberately let it pass me by in this case. But the fact is that there is so much pop culture going around, and there are only so many hours in a day.
Whether one is embarrassed I suppose is a personal choice.
So what you’re saying is that you’re above such behavior?
I’m 35 years old, and last week was the first time I listened to a Beatles album.
It was Abbey Road. It was pretty good.