{"id":42,"date":"2005-03-20T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-03-20T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T05:36:10","slug":"staples-and-the-state-of-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Staples and the state of tech."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>alking through the local Staples store today, I mesmerized about the current state of computer technology. I happened to run into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/hpinfo\/newsroom\/press_kits\/2004\/declaunch\/images\/m1170.jpg\">HP Mediacenter PC<\/a>, a Windows PC heavily focussed on digital media (as you may tell from that picture).\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t get. In which part of the house is that PC supposed to be installed? The living room? The bed room? Should it be on its own desk? I&#8217;m asking this because I find that  <em>remote control<\/em> (that comes with it) confusing. I associate a remote control with my TV. And why play DVD&#8217;s on a laptop or computer at home if you can do the same on a player and a big screen TV on a comfortable couch. What&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the local Staples store today, I mesmerized about the current state of computer technology. I happened to run into an HP Mediacenter PC, a Windows PC heavily focussed on digital media (as you may tell from that picture). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}