Lots of people care about the Super Bowl. It'll be the most watched TV program of the year. Does that answer your question, or was it intended to be rhetorical?
I don't care about it in the least but I still thought the article was interesting. It's OK if you don't like sports, but don't think it somehow makes you superior.
Yep. I enjoy watching football well enough, but the rampant consumerism around the Super Bowl leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I’ll go to a game day party mainly to hang out with my friends and eat snacks.
Millions upon millions of people. Tens of millions actually. Highest ever was ~111 million people. So, sorry, but you don't represent the majority here, and we don't care what your opinions on football are.
111 million people is not the majority of the U.S., much less the world. Compare what the majority considers real football: the world cup (500 million to 1 billion?) Or the moon landing (14% of world population at the time or 530 million). http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_televisi...
So you're basically saying that you have to beat the world cup or the moon landing in order to say that somone cares about [event]? Seems a bit of a high bar to me.
Whereas if you're just talking about the word 'majority', it's interesting that you consider 14% to be a majority.
I didn't literally mean to say that a majority of the country watches football. Even if I had (incorrectly), It wouldn't change the fact that it's a huge portion of the country watching the same thing at the same time. And as for "real" football, that's really neither here nor there.
I'm sure there are many things mentioned on HN that you do not watch or otherwise participate in. This is the only one you have chosen to comment on, so it would appear that you care about it.
You can do this yourself (you can Google for how-to). The process of stripping Kindle DRM-MOBI format and converting it into ePUB is about as simple as ripping a DVD.
My bank (UBS - it was called Swissbank at the time) ended up buying thousands of NeXT systems during the nineties. We used them for everything - desktops, servers, developement platform. As a desktop - NeXT step was years ahead of the alternatives available at the time (Windows 3.x). I remember logging into my NeXT machine every day and thinking "wow - that's what the computing of the future will be like". At one point, we stopped buying "real" black NeXT systems, and started putting NeXT x86 onto white Compaq computers. Then Windows 95 came along, and the rest was history..
We still have a bunch of old NeXT cubes gathering dust in a store room. I wonder what they would fetch on eBay these days..
Just for the history of the thing, I thought the NeXT together with the Acorn 'Unicorn' were some of the nicest machines made at the time. SGI was neat stuff too but overly massive (I can see why though, given the amount of gear in a 4D70 or personal Iris).
NeXT cubes in working condition still fetch $500 on ebay.
