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Sorry I incorrectly had a link to slingbox instead of AppleTV in my above post .. it's fixed now

Absolutely. Internet-enabled TVs are coming out. As I said entertainment boxes like playstation 3, microsoft's xbox and the wii all have internet (or network) access in one way or another and all support media playback. In the mean time, all these companies are selling various boxes that allow you to stream movies from your PC to watch on your TV. I've had the D-link dsm-520 for a while until recently I switched to a full fledged dedicated home-theater pc (HTPC) that is connected directly to my tv. You can buy HTPCs but right now they are a lot of headache to set up correctly (especially with linux) and Vista has it's own pains. I'm sure Apple will continue to expand its AppleTV line of products (check it out if you haven't!). So actually I think you are going to spend less and less time at your PC as the internet grows! Actually there has been a lot of talk about how the "PC" may be disappearing from existence since for the first time now laptop sales have been higher than desktops but I think this discussion is somewhat moot since I still consider the laptop to be a PC. What I find myself doing more is watching online content on TV (stuff I pick and choose rather than what broadcasters force upon me) while using my laptop to do all sorts of other more "PC" things.

Wait wait wait wait wait ... no one else found this statement questionable? Come on Ashot ma man ... tell me how believing in God is logical or how you can get to it scientifically. I would really like to hear this.

Lots of good input so far and here are my 2 cents which compared to euros aren't worth much these days 1. Don't buy Blu-ray yet unless you really feel the need for it. DVD's are so common that I doubt too many things will be "blu ray only" (not at least anytime soon). Even if something is blu-ray only, I think it won't be difficult to find the regular version on the internet. Blu-ray is really really overpriced right now (just like anything new that is electronic). 2. Unless you have bigger than 42" screen, the higher quality of blu-ray is not going to be as noticable as regular dvds. 3. If you must buy a blu-ray player, a playstation 3 might be a better deal overall as it also has many other features such as playing things over the network and accessing the internet. Blu-ray is sony's baby so you know playstation is going to be well supported. 4. If you ask me, all these physical media formats (cd, dvd, blu-ray) are at the end of their lives. The way the internet has been going, and at the same time the rate at which magnetic (hard drive) as well as flash memory storage costs have been dropping, media distribution is all shifting to online. It's been almost 6 months that I have not used any DVDs ... I get pretty much all my movies, shows, and other media through the internet (often much higher quality than DVD). I don't think I personally will ever buy a blu-ray player unless I end up buying something (like a new laptop) that comes with it as a built-in feature. Microsoft's xbox and sony's playstation now have the ability to get movies over the internet and NetFlix the big movie rental business here in the US recently made their online movie viewing unlimited (no time limits anymore). A lot of tv and entertainment eletronic manufacturers are also in the process of releasing a lot more internet enabled tv's and set top boxes so it's all pretty much in motion. I am not sure of the exact state of things in Europe though but judging by how quickly things like YouTube have been growing in Europe, I also think it's more a matter of 'when' than 'if' in your part of the world. Are they "shoving" blu-ray down our throats? ... Probably no more than any other standard. In this case Sony was extremely aggressive and by going after the big media companies, they pretty much muscled everyone else (especially Toshiba with HD-dvd) out of the market. I guess they learned their lesson really well from the Betamax days. It's a great advance but still, as I said, along a technology domain that is about to die completely ... of course I could be wrong. I think I saw an 8-track player in Azat's volvo

What motivation does Google have to do this? Google already has had to take some videos down from YouTube after Turkey completely blocked out YouTube traffic since the videos insulted their "turkishness" ... it's not hard to imagine what Turkey is going to do if you put something like that on the google front page You might have more luck with google.am though ... the whole point there would be to make the site more popular in Armenia and having something like that, will definitely increase traffic (at least in the short term).

Yah it's still the same phone. I was reading today that the new 3G (much faster internet data rates) iphones are supposed to go into production by May. Not sure how easy it will be to use them as a modem for a PC though. Knowing Apple, it will probably be really hard to do much with it.

Of course I believe in some things. I believe if I put raw meat on the fire, it will be cooked and ready to eat in a matter of minutes. It is a hypothesis that that has been tested by myself and many others (ask Mosjan) many many times and it has never failed. So I believe in the ability of fire to cook raw meat. Could it perhaps be God that is causing the meat to cook? Sure. But what reason is there to believe it? Where are we coming from ... where are we going ... what is after death etc etc ... I do NOT know. That doesn't mean I haven't thought about it and it doesn't mean I am stupid. I just don't know.

Esa yerku dari a aghotum em konyaki yev khorovatsi hamar. Verje mi or dalu a Astvats e. Du spas ... ke tesnes.

I think I actually understood it pretty well that was exactly my point. Those people are saying it's their faith to pray and not seek medical help. She says it's stupid then asks for others not to judge her beliefs. Why is one base-less belief better than another? If we believe in God enough that we want to pray to Him, then why should we not respect people who believe in God even more and want to pray to Him even more (instead of seeing a doctor for example)? If you are going to say simply praying is not as harmful as not going to the doctor, I will argue that in the long run, praying and then going to the doctor is MORE harmful because at least in the other case, natural selection takes care of the problem

You may have any faith you want but the point of threads like this, at least for me, is to question things that don't make sense. And your faith makes absolutely no sense to me other than being a mechanism that somehow makes you feel better about things. If that's why you pray, fine. But how can you say what those people did (i.e. pray for their kid until she died) is stupid, while at the same time you want me not to say your prayer is stupid? Either you can't say their actions were stupid and expect me to behave like you, or you can keep on saying those people in the news article as well as the Jehova Witnesses are stupid, and allow the same kind of freedom for me Can't have it both ways.

Would you ever do this to your kid over this belief? Or did these people not pray hard enough? Or did God want this to happen?

It all depends where the 'comma' goes ... thousands of years of bickering and fighting over this one little comma.

Nairi, I forgive you.

No. Natural means "within the laws of nature"... What does it mean "laws of nature"? Does that mean within the realm in which we can perceive existence? Yes Ok so after all this exchange, based on your answers, we have established that God is not natural which means God is not within the realm in which we can perceive existence. If God doesn't exist within the realm in which we can perceive existence, then how can you possibly say He exists?

What is testament to creation?

Verizon xv6700 which is basically a PDA with phone options. I recently upgraded the software to windows mobile 6 (WM6). With Verizon's EVDO data connection and connecting a laptop to the phone using USB, I often get over 600Kbps down and around 120-130Kbps upload. Sometimes the download is a bit faster. With bluetooth connection between the laptop and the phone, it's somewhat slower but still great for most things (WM5 used to lock up in bluetooth so haven't had much of a chance to test wm6).

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside about cel phone banking I think for me it's basically a matter of getting a browser that's secure enough to do it. Otherwise, the rest is pretty simple since I already have a pretty good internet connection on my phone.

Wait wait wait .. I'm all confused now ... I thought we colored eggs on Easter to symbolize the bunny eggs that were covered by jesus's blood under the cross ... now you're telling me it's some sort of fertility fest? As much as I hate the name "easter", I love the name Zatik. And I prefer to call it A-Zatik ... the day of Azat. ... and one more thing ... I don't know about you all but I'm still going to be alive the next time this mess with coloring eggs this early in March repeats.

The tent pic was on the North side of Lake Powell, about 300 miles south of Salt Lake and about 120 miles east of Zion (close to 300 miles by road). The jeep picture is from moab which is probably about 150 miles north west of the camp site at powell. This is the view I had from the tent (that's the moon) and I took it kind of half asleep with one eye half open ... I'm surprised it even came out half decent http://www.seapahn.us/gal/powell/sunormoon.jpg

Just Utah ... far from people on a night when the moon is full. If all goes well, I'll be stepping back into that picture again this August ... oooooo I can't wait.

Another reason why people are stupid.

and then ... http://www.seapahn.us/gal/powell/thecolorofnight.jpg

http://www.seapahn.us/misc/moab04/moab_rim1.jpg

Might be nice if you post what you found ... in case someone else goes looking for the same thing ...

Had no explanation? He is a Turkish national ... they need more explanation?