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LCD Price Fixing?
bilsaysthis asks: "Bill Kearney poses a really interesting question, one which I've been puzzled by for a while too: 'What's with prices on LCD displays? On one hand a laptop can be had with UXGA resolution display for $1000. Try buying that display alone and you'll find it's also around $1000. Then there's how much they're gouging for the same resolution in an LCD television.'" Sadly enough, as much as I want one of these for my wall, the market is willing to bear these prices. How long will it be before this hardware becomes affordable?
[cough] karma whore.... [cough]
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I'm reminded of an acquaintance of mine from high school, who bought a Geo Metro and added so many car mods (ground effect, huge stereo, etc.) that his alternator couldn't keep up. He bought a new alternator, which destroyed the car's fuel economy, which is basically the only reason to buy a Metro.
You know, I joke about that whenever a Civic pulls up next to me with a subwoofer I heard a mile away, but I never thought that someone would actually do it.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
My Corolla's headlights dim to the beat of the music, and I'm proud.
So there. I think I'll add a type-R sticker to the back and some speed holes next week so it'll go faster.
Some of us just want a good stereo in a low-cost, tight package. The Metro would definitely provide that with some upgrades, just like my Corolla did for me.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
That's what happened to my second Zaurus!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Some of us ride pedal bikes because we care about the environment. Have you looked at the rising asthma statistics recently? Have you noticed the problem America has with acid rain? Have you noticed how you're dependent on foreign oil imports? *sighs*
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(posted as AC to avoid karma whoring, I have better things to do with my time).
Although only by a minute amount, the time you spent posting this AC compared the time you would have spent posting this under your own name was greater.
What the fact that I took time to point this out says about me is an excersize left up to the reader.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You know what Stuart? I like you, you're not like the other people here... in the trailer park.
Some of us ride pedal bikes because we care about the environment. Have you looked at the rising asthma statistics recently? Have you noticed the problem America has with acid rain? Have you noticed how you're dependent on foreign oil imports? *sighs*
What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
For the record, it was probably your friend's amps causing the brown outs; neon ground effects don't pull that many amps.
What he needed was probably a thing they call a 'stiffening cap'. A big 5 farad capacitor to absorb the amps power spikes. They make some real nice ones with built in volt meters and what not just for this application.
Seems suspect to me a high output alternator would affect fuel mileage that much.