You're really serious, aren't you? I don't mean about that post, above - I mean in general.
If you join one of those teams, you too might be able to make a similar claim to the Moon, or at least a part of it.
Yeah. One of my dreams as a young man was to go to the moon. Not to claim any of it - just because it's there, forever in the sky tempting me. Probably how my karma led me to working on flight systems and at one point in life, NASA projects. Kinda doubt my arthritis is ever going to let it happen now though.
So no, your claim isn't as valid as Richard Garriott's. That claim has been undone by your elected representatives. If you don't like it, get the Senate to invoke the "escape clause" that gets the USA out of that treaty, but until that happens any such claim can't be legitimately considered. My suggestion is that you run for the U.S. Senate and try to get in there yourself to get that to happen, as the current clowns still don't have a clue about what they gave up nearly 40 years ago.
You don't get accused of being a lot of fun at parties, do you?
My original post was at about 5 PM on St. Patrick's Day and my wife is Irish. Try if you will to imagine my mood when I posted about parking tickets on the moon.
Your original reply was at oh-bright-thirty the morning after St. Paddy's - for me - mine was too, and I still had a sense of humor. Oh, well.
What do you want to lecture me on next? Kumquats? (Hint: traditional comedy insists that funny words are those with K sounds.) Securities and exchange? DNA? The manual of arms for the M16?
Try not to get too mad for me laughing at you. Maybe when you're healthy enough to learn to laugh at yourself, my posts will make a lot more sense to you.
I'm sorry you have such a huge chip on your shoulder and are annoyed at however the land that I live on got into the hands of my countrymen.
I'm sorry you lack reading comprehension. I was dispassionate and factual. I live on the same land, gotten the same way. Did I say I was giving mine back?
Big whoop. If you want it, come get it. Just carry a big gun and be willing to die in the attempt. And don't be surprised if you do die. I'd prefer that you not kill anybody, my family in particular, but if you are that big of an ass I can't stop you anyway.
On one hand, I started out talking about back-pay for parking on the moon. Instead of the punchline, you went for the setup. So - I gave you another setup, this time much bigger, just so I could float the idea that we should conquer the moon, bandido style.
Instead of even coming close to getting that, your idea is that I have no clue about real estate law, I have a chip on my shoulder, and I'm the ass that should take your land by force and I'm going to die in the attempt?
Ha.
Your the big ass if you think I need your land to rake and mow, too, bub. Yeah. I really need that. I'll be sure to use a gun. I'll even come for you in my flying car.
All land is "stolen land" after a fashion if you really get down to it.
No kidding. Exactly what I said in my setup. What? Did I strike some nerve somewhere? Get over it.
...and some silly group like the Lunar Embassy is a joke...
[clap][clap][clap] Well, no shit, Sherlock. What do you think would go with a joke like that? Gee - I dunno - how about using that as the basis for unpaid parking tickets on the moon.
I'm not sure how it is going to happen, but at some point in the future blood will be spilled to defend some piece of real estate off of the Earth.
Yes. I implied that by virtue of our history. You're very evidently not familiar with the concept that a lot of comedy involves something very painful to us - and then twists it. The highest form of it is called slapstick.
As for my personal claim to the Moon, I'll claim the eastern rim of the Tycho crater.
OK! You're finally getting it! A straight line to go along with the gag! AB-BOTT!
Still, there is no way for me to enforce that claim until I get there and try to kick off any squatters. So tell me, what is the difference between a squatter and the person who holds the title? I still say it is whoever has the bigger gun.
Hell - I spoke too fast.
It's time somebody told you the truth - when it comes to being a fun guy, you're about as sharp as a marble. Don't get me wrong - up until now, I've really admired your posts - very, very lucid and cogent. You don't make lots of them and you but the ones you make are generally pretty good.
But you simply lack or have lost all sense of humor.
Stop yelling at me, do those in your real life a favor, take a vacation, talk to the dog, and get one or get it back.
Because without it, you've become a drone calling people asses, and suggesting they get guns to take over your land (again - for what reason? to cut your grass?), and now you're handing lectures on the theory of real estate law -
all because the absurdity of parking tickets on La Luna Grande is lost on you.
I wish you every good luck and success, compadre. I really do. In the meantime, don't use others, as you have me, to fight with yourself. I can kinda promise you that if you don't follow my advice, you're going to end up quite lonely. And for your sake, I hope I've given this advice in time.
They're called Yahoo! Widgets, they're available now on TVs and BD players from Samsung, Song, LG and Vizio - read that as Samsung and Vizio already owning over 40% of the North American LCD HDTV market already. (Sony, naturally, markets them as Bravia Widgets.)
I've got 'em on my Sammy TV - YouTube, Weather, eBay, Finance, Yahoo Video, free cartoons, Flicker, Twitter - yadda yadda yadda.
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH - bit news - based on Android.
Bigger news: Yahoo! Widgets look suspiciously the same as my Mac Dashboard Widgets - and how many of those are there? And so what codebase do you think they're based on when they look like Apple Widgets, not Yahoo's other web widgets?
How about the fact that with a Sammy TV, for example, you go into your profile, copy down your Yahoo developer ID *from* the TV, go to Yahoo, enter it, and bypass the whole SDK/setup/rigamarole? How about the fact that TVs supporting this already let you sandbox your widget before releasing it?
Not only is there nothing to see here - it's uneven, biased, slanted reporting without a shred of research into a successfully competing - or should I say, pioneering, product.
And if you own a Panasonic with connectivity, you're already using Viera widgets - those are quite rich and are independently developed.
TFA - emphasis on fucking - makes this sound like a breakthrough.
Why isn't it illegal for the school officials to be in possession of nude pictures of underage children?
To you and the people arguing with you, I say you nailed it in one.
Not for prurient reasons.
As I recall, very recently we had to put up with news - again from Pennsylvania! - that a school was using MacBook built-in cameras to illegally spy on children. And that raised the specter of their guilt in kiddie porn, something they didn't count on.
I'm glad I don't live in Pennsylvania, where children are being crushed under the jack-boots of over-self-empowered school systems.
Somebody with a bigger gun might challenge his claim, but he now has something that is his that is there to occupy that land.
As an American taxpayer, there's NASA hardware on the moon that I helped to foot the bill for - so part of it is mine, just as any part of any federal property is mine.
Therefore - my claim to the moon - just as valid as Garriott's. I've got property there, I've paid real money for that property, my government has denounced all claim to land ownership there, and it's as far as my eye can see.
Sounds like legal precedent is completely on my side to me.
I, too, live on land once owned by the Spanish - my children trace then themselves back to one of the Conquistadors (name listed at a national monument, yadda yadda).
Actually, it's land that was once either owned by no one or more accurately, was the sovereign territory of one of what we call a pueblo tribe until raiding expeditions in search of The Seven Cities of Gold raped, murdered and pillaged these native peoples. Naturally, upon defeat, these people were converted to Christianity.
And that's when the Spanish Crown started handing out land grants - to the Conquistadors and to the monks, priests and friars taking such good care of the ignorant heathens - under threat of their immortal souls and under threat of losing their hands and feet (literally), leading to Popé's Rebellion, and that was suppressed, putting the land under the control of the Spanish governor in Santa Fe, answerable to his superior in Mexico city.
Then there's the whole matter of how we got the land away from the Spanish.
You can call on all of the Marines you want, but you're living on stolen land.
In fact, it's specifically because you can call on the Marines, with superior warrior spirit, fighting skills and warmaking technology - up to and including nukes - that you're able to continue to live on stolen land.
And by the way - vast stretches of this land (beyond the imagination of people who've never really been to the Southwest) were included in Spanish land grants where no monk, friar, prist or Spanish soldier ever set foot.
Unless you've done your homework, you're not only living on stolen land, you could very well be living on land granted with no more original authority of occupancy by the Spanish than I have on the moon. (I didn't buy any real estate shares on the moon - I simply followed your legal precedents established by the Spanish - I looked up at it and land-granted it to myself because it was as far as my eye could see.)
That sort of gives some legitimacy to my legal claim that is hard to pass up.
The legitimacy of thieves backed up by ability to wage war, the latter being your own words.
From what I've read, pretty much the whole world's land possession is the story of tribes killing and enslaving tribes until nations are established and nations killing and enslaving nations until we have the map we have today.
Whose boundaries are still being redraw as I write this.
So don't hand me the law and ask me to supplicate to any government as if there's something sacred in any of it where land ownership is concerned. You and I are just schmoes born into a scheme where we pay mortgages to bandits, given legitimacy by other bandits and we're making out like the bandits we descended from.
I hereby declare myself: EarlyMon - El Primer Bandido de la Luna Grande!
Join me hermano - the Conquista de la Luna Grande is on!
Uh huh. Well, I don't know a lot about getting laughed out of court. I didn't even get any laughs for the whole idea of owing someone for unpaid parking on the moon.
At one point, Richard Garriott declared himself to be ruler of the moon, based on him being the only non-government entity to own anything physically on the moon.
Actually, you get more detail from color saturation than from raw resolution - counterintuitive perhaps, but true.
Many people claiming greater detail on their 1080p sets may be sitting beyond the resolution point for their eyes - but - the newer set may have superior color, and if transitioning from SD to HDTV (specifically, going above CRT tech), is likely to not have convergence issues.
Add to that the fact that the seating charts spec'd by the SMPTE is an excellent guideline, it's not the bible. Try a test card and see for yourself - you may be seeing much better or much worse than that chart suggests.
I can't find the original ISF statement, but here are two derivative sources:
The stated claim is that the order of importance is: contrast, color saturation, color accuracy and finally - actual pixel-resolution.
One thing that any TV engineer will tell you: you'll see more detail on a TV with excellent color and medium resolution than you will with a TV with so-so color and excellent, high resolution.
Counter-intuitive or not - I know this to be true. I'd actually had a case of watching an SD show where I was certain it was HD - but it was just a case of excellent color. The detail was astounding.
Therefore - another reason that many consumers may be liking 1080p sets could simply be that as these HDTVs improve, they're improving on all fronts - not just resolution.
Thus 90% of people that own a 1080p set cant see that it's any better than a 480p set. and this is why a regular DVD looks as good as a BluRay to most people.
I'd say that 90% of the people that can't see the difference between good and bad sources either have lousy HDTVs (read: "hahaha, I don't black is important" or "tech X is by definition superior tech Y" fanbois) or don't have them set up anywhere close to right ("my TV is calibrated - I set it to what I found on the internet!").
Or they watch lousy movies or have bad eyesight.
The last one's particularly hilarious among HDTV fanbois. After all, everyone is *entitled* to good eyesight, so everyone has it and you're an elitist if you say differently.
Otherwise, I totally agree in principle with what you're saying (sincerely) - just wanted to add a caveat and some spin. Cheers.
That's essentially true, but I don't think movies are simply about story telling -- movies are more about story immersion. You aren't just being told a story, you are experiencing the story through sight, sound (including the associated physical vibration), dialog, etc.
I totally agree.
In this way I think that 3D can be more than just a scam.
Respectfully disagree. While laudable in principle, what's really going to happen is that the studios will study what the candidates are for follow-on 3D Blu-ray sales, compare against the demographic, and devote studios resources to that.
Got a hot new vision in sci-fi and your name's not Abrams or Cameron? You're already having trouble shopping it for producers. Got a producer that wants to back your new, cool vision - and in 3D? I predict you just found the producer who's going to help you with your script and casting beyond your worst nightmare.
When we leave Utopia, it's the studios wieners that have control of what will be presented in 3D, and with props to Noam Chomsky, giving them 3D is like handing over a quart of whiskey and your cars keys to a teenager.
Wake me when 3D improves on movies like Casablanca or Seven Samurai.
A lot's being said about the studios and the movie experience - face it, as already pointed out in at least one other comment, this is also hitting the home theater market as hard as possible this year (with active glasses - whoopie). And that whole trend is driven by more Blu-ray sales.
The profit motive for 3D is huge - it's out and it's not going away, any more than next year's Britney Spears will.
Maybe - maybe - I'll change my mind when someone figures out to incorporate Johnny Lee's head tracking system for *all* viewers in the room.
I'm not reactionary to 3D because it's new - I'm reactionary to it because it's yet one more thing that doesn't hold the studios feet to the fire to give us better movies and better distribution models (read: no DRM), but it sure is lining their coffers like crazy. The more of this that gets consumed, the more they're validated in their practices - simple.
And I note a distinct lack of BD DRM complaints when people discuss Avatar - no, that's all about how it looked in the theater and gee, can't wait for 3D at home.
My favorite quote on that movie came from my local indie newspaper: there's no question that Avatar is a great movie, but only time will prove if it's a good movie.
For me, this phrase has never been truer: nothing to see here, move along.
I'll see you in the balcony - tonight, they're showing Ghost Dog, and I highly recommend it.
Might have depended on the times. I'm from Detroit - once upon a time, that wasn't a big deal, but for a while, Detroiters were hostile to anything foreign. Needed a rental back in the late 80s- they handed me a Mitsubishi. I laughed. Drove it work, parked it far from other cars, and came out to find it torched.
So - maybe I spoke a little out of my ass. Times change. Sad, really.
This whole non-issue is about as exciting - and meaningful - as finding that some Ford workers drive Toyotas and some Subaru workers drive Hondas, or that a Budweiser employer drinks Sam Adams.
you just see americans being moronic far more. if this mature argument doesnt apease you...
Huh.
1. Americans being moronic far more that what? Or who? Have you ever been to more than one continent in your life? I mean - seriously?
2. Is English your third or fourth language? As appeasing isn't at all what you're doing, one simply must point out that that word does not mean what you think it does.
3. The same applies to the expression "mature argument."
It's high time someone told you at least two facts of life, in the form of two things that you, personally, should never attempt:
First, never use a glowing charcoal briquette to judge the temperature of snow - they're two different things.
Second, never use yourself as a reference for judging the intelligence of others - by definition, you are completely unequipped to ever know why not to do that, so you'll simply have to take my word for it.
Remember - no matter when you may think this, or why - no one ever has been or ever will be laughing with you.
By the way - are you popular in Japan? I think they were thinking of you....
Given that I type very quickly, and think even faster - I formulated the post before I even typed it, and I typed it under two minutes.
I'm glad you have a life outside of your mother's basement.
Your lame excuse at an attack on me for being a dolt doesn't really wash. I'd forgotten that post after I'd responded. You're still stewing - which of us needs a life?
A spiritual work set in the middle ages with amazing cinematography and music, Black Angel took the gritty medieval realism of Monty Python And The Holy Grail and returned it to its roots in Mallory, Tennyson and Kurosawa.
I don't know - here's the Holy Grail returned to another root....
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You're really serious, aren't you? I don't mean about that post, above - I mean in general.
If you join one of those teams, you too might be able to make a similar claim to the Moon, or at least a part of it.
Yeah. One of my dreams as a young man was to go to the moon. Not to claim any of it - just because it's there, forever in the sky tempting me. Probably how my karma led me to working on flight systems and at one point in life, NASA projects. Kinda doubt my arthritis is ever going to let it happen now though.
So no, your claim isn't as valid as Richard Garriott's. That claim has been undone by your elected representatives. If you don't like it, get the Senate to invoke the "escape clause" that gets the USA out of that treaty, but until that happens any such claim can't be legitimately considered. My suggestion is that you run for the U.S. Senate and try to get in there yourself to get that to happen, as the current clowns still don't have a clue about what they gave up nearly 40 years ago.
You don't get accused of being a lot of fun at parties, do you?
My original post was at about 5 PM on St. Patrick's Day and my wife is Irish. Try if you will to imagine my mood when I posted about parking tickets on the moon.
Your original reply was at oh-bright-thirty the morning after St. Paddy's - for me - mine was too, and I still had a sense of humor. Oh, well.
What do you want to lecture me on next? Kumquats? (Hint: traditional comedy insists that funny words are those with K sounds.) Securities and exchange? DNA? The manual of arms for the M16?
Try not to get too mad for me laughing at you. Maybe when you're healthy enough to learn to laugh at yourself, my posts will make a lot more sense to you.
I'm sorry you have such a huge chip on your shoulder and are annoyed at however the land that I live on got into the hands of my countrymen.
I'm sorry you lack reading comprehension. I was dispassionate and factual. I live on the same land, gotten the same way. Did I say I was giving mine back?
Big whoop. If you want it, come get it. Just carry a big gun and be willing to die in the attempt. And don't be surprised if you do die. I'd prefer that you not kill anybody, my family in particular, but if you are that big of an ass I can't stop you anyway.
On one hand, I started out talking about back-pay for parking on the moon. Instead of the punchline, you went for the setup. So - I gave you another setup, this time much bigger, just so I could float the idea that we should conquer the moon, bandido style.
Instead of even coming close to getting that, your idea is that I have no clue about real estate law, I have a chip on my shoulder, and I'm the ass that should take your land by force and I'm going to die in the attempt?
Ha.
Your the big ass if you think I need your land to rake and mow, too, bub. Yeah. I really need that. I'll be sure to use a gun. I'll even come for you in my flying car.
All land is "stolen land" after a fashion if you really get down to it.
No kidding. Exactly what I said in my setup. What? Did I strike some nerve somewhere? Get over it.
...and some silly group like the Lunar Embassy is a joke ...
[clap][clap][clap] Well, no shit, Sherlock. What do you think would go with a joke like that? Gee - I dunno - how about using that as the basis for unpaid parking tickets on the moon.
I'm not sure how it is going to happen, but at some point in the future blood will be spilled to defend some piece of real estate off of the Earth.
Yes. I implied that by virtue of our history. You're very evidently not familiar with the concept that a lot of comedy involves something very painful to us - and then twists it. The highest form of it is called slapstick.
As for my personal claim to the Moon, I'll claim the eastern rim of the Tycho crater.
OK! You're finally getting it! A straight line to go along with the gag! AB-BOTT!
Still, there is no way for me to enforce that claim until I get there and try to kick off any squatters. So tell me, what is the difference between a squatter and the person who holds the title? I still say it is whoever has the bigger gun.
Hell - I spoke too fast.
It's time somebody told you the truth - when it comes to being a fun guy, you're about as sharp as a marble. Don't get me wrong - up until now, I've really admired your posts - very, very lucid and cogent. You don't make lots of them and you but the ones you make are generally pretty good.
But you simply lack or have lost all sense of humor.
Stop yelling at me, do those in your real life a favor, take a vacation, talk to the dog, and get one or get it back.
Because without it, you've become a drone calling people asses, and suggesting they get guns to take over your land (again - for what reason? to cut your grass?), and now you're handing lectures on the theory of real estate law -
all because the absurdity of parking tickets on La Luna Grande is lost on you.
I wish you every good luck and success, compadre. I really do. In the meantime, don't use others, as you have me, to fight with yourself. I can kinda promise you that if you don't follow my advice, you're going to end up quite lonely. And for your sake, I hope I've given this advice in time.
No joke.
PS - The keyboard remotes are coming out this year, announced in January, to match the sets from their manufacturers - no Logitech add-on required.
Nothing against Logitech - but no way is this anything more than ME TOO dressed up as news.
What a fucking sham that the /. editors allowed this - guess they can't know everything.
I call shenanigans.
TFA says, with emphasis on the F, that such offerings exist, but are quite limited and Google will open it all up.
Uh huh. Yeah. How about this - http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/
They're called Yahoo! Widgets, they're available now on TVs and BD players from Samsung, Song, LG and Vizio - read that as Samsung and Vizio already owning over 40% of the North American LCD HDTV market already. (Sony, naturally, markets them as Bravia Widgets.)
I've got 'em on my Sammy TV - YouTube, Weather, eBay, Finance, Yahoo Video, free cartoons, Flicker, Twitter - yadda yadda yadda.
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH - bit news - based on Android.
Bigger news: Yahoo! Widgets look suspiciously the same as my Mac Dashboard Widgets - and how many of those are there? And so what codebase do you think they're based on when they look like Apple Widgets, not Yahoo's other web widgets?
How about the fact that with a Sammy TV, for example, you go into your profile, copy down your Yahoo developer ID *from* the TV, go to Yahoo, enter it, and bypass the whole SDK/setup/rigamarole? How about the fact that TVs supporting this already let you sandbox your widget before releasing it?
Not only is there nothing to see here - it's uneven, biased, slanted reporting without a shred of research into a successfully competing - or should I say, pioneering, product.
And if you own a Panasonic with connectivity, you're already using Viera widgets - those are quite rich and are independently developed.
TFA - emphasis on fucking - makes this sound like a breakthrough.
That happened in January 2009. Assholes.
I think the subject line says it all, but I want a transporter that puts me in two places at once, then destroys the first me leaving the copied me.
Spoiler alert, stop now if you haven't seen it:
The name of the movie is The Prestige - it was on the Sci-Fi or some such channel recently. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH6CoVlD5xc
Why isn't it illegal for the school officials to be in possession of nude pictures of underage children?
To you and the people arguing with you, I say you nailed it in one.
Not for prurient reasons.
As I recall, very recently we had to put up with news - again from Pennsylvania! - that a school was using MacBook built-in cameras to illegally spy on children. And that raised the specter of their guilt in kiddie porn, something they didn't count on.
I'm glad I don't live in Pennsylvania, where children are being crushed under the jack-boots of over-self-empowered school systems.
I agree - prosecute them as child pornographers.
PS -
Somebody with a bigger gun might challenge his claim, but he now has something that is his that is there to occupy that land.
As an American taxpayer, there's NASA hardware on the moon that I helped to foot the bill for - so part of it is mine, just as any part of any federal property is mine.
Therefore - my claim to the moon - just as valid as Garriott's. I've got property there, I've paid real money for that property, my government has denounced all claim to land ownership there, and it's as far as my eye can see.
Sounds like legal precedent is completely on my side to me.
I, too, live on land once owned by the Spanish - my children trace then themselves back to one of the Conquistadors (name listed at a national monument, yadda yadda).
Actually, it's land that was once either owned by no one or more accurately, was the sovereign territory of one of what we call a pueblo tribe until raiding expeditions in search of The Seven Cities of Gold raped, murdered and pillaged these native peoples. Naturally, upon defeat, these people were converted to Christianity.
And that's when the Spanish Crown started handing out land grants - to the Conquistadors and to the monks, priests and friars taking such good care of the ignorant heathens - under threat of their immortal souls and under threat of losing their hands and feet (literally), leading to Popé's Rebellion, and that was suppressed, putting the land under the control of the Spanish governor in Santa Fe, answerable to his superior in Mexico city.
Then there's the whole matter of how we got the land away from the Spanish.
You can call on all of the Marines you want, but you're living on stolen land.
In fact, it's specifically because you can call on the Marines, with superior warrior spirit, fighting skills and warmaking technology - up to and including nukes - that you're able to continue to live on stolen land.
And by the way - vast stretches of this land (beyond the imagination of people who've never really been to the Southwest) were included in Spanish land grants where no monk, friar, prist or Spanish soldier ever set foot.
Unless you've done your homework, you're not only living on stolen land, you could very well be living on land granted with no more original authority of occupancy by the Spanish than I have on the moon. (I didn't buy any real estate shares on the moon - I simply followed your legal precedents established by the Spanish - I looked up at it and land-granted it to myself because it was as far as my eye could see.)
That sort of gives some legitimacy to my legal claim that is hard to pass up.
The legitimacy of thieves backed up by ability to wage war, the latter being your own words.
From what I've read, pretty much the whole world's land possession is the story of tribes killing and enslaving tribes until nations are established and nations killing and enslaving nations until we have the map we have today.
Whose boundaries are still being redraw as I write this.
So don't hand me the law and ask me to supplicate to any government as if there's something sacred in any of it where land ownership is concerned. You and I are just schmoes born into a scheme where we pay mortgages to bandits, given legitimacy by other bandits and we're making out like the bandits we descended from.
I hereby declare myself: EarlyMon - El Primer Bandido de la Luna Grande!
Join me hermano - the Conquista de la Luna Grande is on!
At best this can only be considered a JOKE gift.
Uh huh. Well, I don't know a lot about getting laughed out of court. I didn't even get any laughs for the whole idea of owing someone for unpaid parking on the moon.
Bravo! Bravo! :-D
You've missed some memos....
http://www.thesixtyone.com/bootstothemoon/
http://www.moon-boots.com/
With all the bluster, I say it's mine until you get boots on the ground to displace my claim - kinda like Iraq or Afghanistan.
I, for one, speaking for many, certainly hope you're not advocating a surge to La Luna Grande!
What are you - a sponsored link on Google?
If this bridge or that Florida of which you speak is not listed on eBay, then I'm not taken in by your scam!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Acre-of-land-on-the-Moon-the-perfect-gift-say-the-BBC_W0QQitemZ230443051912QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_WeirdStuff_RL?hash=item35a779eb88#ht_4253wt_1080
At one point, Richard Garriott declared himself to be ruler of the moon, based on him being the only non-government entity to own anything physically on the moon.
Oooooook.
http://www.lunarembassy.com/
http://www.lunarregistry.com/
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/11/20/lunar.land/
One thing's clear: he's about to owe someone, somewhere, for parking.
Actually, you get more detail from color saturation than from raw resolution - counterintuitive perhaps, but true.
Many people claiming greater detail on their 1080p sets may be sitting beyond the resolution point for their eyes - but - the newer set may have superior color, and if transitioning from SD to HDTV (specifically, going above CRT tech), is likely to not have convergence issues.
Add to that the fact that the seating charts spec'd by the SMPTE is an excellent guideline, it's not the bible. Try a test card and see for yourself - you may be seeing much better or much worse than that chart suggests.
I can't find the original ISF statement, but here are two derivative sources:
http://www.cnet.com/hdtv-resolution/
http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter
The stated claim is that the order of importance is: contrast, color saturation, color accuracy and finally - actual pixel-resolution.
One thing that any TV engineer will tell you: you'll see more detail on a TV with excellent color and medium resolution than you will with a TV with so-so color and excellent, high resolution.
Counter-intuitive or not - I know this to be true. I'd actually had a case of watching an SD show where I was certain it was HD - but it was just a case of excellent color. The detail was astounding.
Therefore - another reason that many consumers may be liking 1080p sets could simply be that as these HDTVs improve, they're improving on all fronts - not just resolution.
Thus 90% of people that own a 1080p set cant see that it's any better than a 480p set. and this is why a regular DVD looks as good as a BluRay to most people.
I'd say that 90% of the people that can't see the difference between good and bad sources either have lousy HDTVs (read: "hahaha, I don't black is important" or "tech X is by definition superior tech Y" fanbois) or don't have them set up anywhere close to right ("my TV is calibrated - I set it to what I found on the internet!").
Or they watch lousy movies or have bad eyesight.
The last one's particularly hilarious among HDTV fanbois. After all, everyone is *entitled* to good eyesight, so everyone has it and you're an elitist if you say differently.
Otherwise, I totally agree in principle with what you're saying (sincerely) - just wanted to add a caveat and some spin. Cheers.
That's essentially true, but I don't think movies are simply about story telling -- movies are more about story immersion. You aren't just being told a story, you are experiencing the story through sight, sound (including the associated physical vibration), dialog, etc.
I totally agree.
In this way I think that 3D can be more than just a scam.
Respectfully disagree. While laudable in principle, what's really going to happen is that the studios will study what the candidates are for follow-on 3D Blu-ray sales, compare against the demographic, and devote studios resources to that.
Got a hot new vision in sci-fi and your name's not Abrams or Cameron? You're already having trouble shopping it for producers. Got a producer that wants to back your new, cool vision - and in 3D? I predict you just found the producer who's going to help you with your script and casting beyond your worst nightmare.
When we leave Utopia, it's the studios wieners that have control of what will be presented in 3D, and with props to Noam Chomsky, giving them 3D is like handing over a quart of whiskey and your cars keys to a teenager.
All in my opinion.
Wake me when 3D improves on movies like Casablanca or Seven Samurai.
A lot's being said about the studios and the movie experience - face it, as already pointed out in at least one other comment, this is also hitting the home theater market as hard as possible this year (with active glasses - whoopie). And that whole trend is driven by more Blu-ray sales.
The profit motive for 3D is huge - it's out and it's not going away, any more than next year's Britney Spears will.
Maybe - maybe - I'll change my mind when someone figures out to incorporate Johnny Lee's head tracking system for *all* viewers in the room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
I'm not reactionary to 3D because it's new - I'm reactionary to it because it's yet one more thing that doesn't hold the studios feet to the fire to give us better movies and better distribution models (read: no DRM), but it sure is lining their coffers like crazy. The more of this that gets consumed, the more they're validated in their practices - simple.
And I note a distinct lack of BD DRM complaints when people discuss Avatar - no, that's all about how it looked in the theater and gee, can't wait for 3D at home.
My favorite quote on that movie came from my local indie newspaper: there's no question that Avatar is a great movie, but only time will prove if it's a good movie.
For me, this phrase has never been truer: nothing to see here, move along.
I'll see you in the balcony - tonight, they're showing Ghost Dog, and I highly recommend it.
http://xkcd.com/652/
A 4-33 ringtone? Sounds like the perfect companion to my new Pomegranate!
Might have depended on the times. I'm from Detroit - once upon a time, that wasn't a big deal, but for a while, Detroiters were hostile to anything foreign. Needed a rental back in the late 80s- they handed me a Mitsubishi. I laughed. Drove it work, parked it far from other cars, and came out to find it torched.
So - maybe I spoke a little out of my ass. Times change. Sad, really.
Well said.
This whole non-issue is about as exciting - and meaningful - as finding that some Ford workers drive Toyotas and some Subaru workers drive Hondas, or that a Budweiser employer drinks Sam Adams.
Marry me?
With a name like AmeliaMurderBot, how could I resist and why would I want to?
Here's an engagement present that I made just for you:
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you just see americans being moronic far more. if this mature argument doesnt apease you ...
Huh.
1. Americans being moronic far more that what? Or who? Have you ever been to more than one continent in your life? I mean - seriously?
2. Is English your third or fourth language? As appeasing isn't at all what you're doing, one simply must point out that that word does not mean what you think it does.
3. The same applies to the expression "mature argument."
It's high time someone told you at least two facts of life, in the form of two things that you, personally, should never attempt:
First, never use a glowing charcoal briquette to judge the temperature of snow - they're two different things.
Second, never use yourself as a reference for judging the intelligence of others - by definition, you are completely unequipped to ever know why not to do that, so you'll simply have to take my word for it.
Remember - no matter when you may think this, or why - no one ever has been or ever will be laughing with you.
By the way - are you popular in Japan? I think they were thinking of you....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu8rpP29bIk
Given that I type very quickly, and think even faster - I formulated the post before I even typed it, and I typed it under two minutes.
I'm glad you have a life outside of your mother's basement.
Your lame excuse at an attack on me for being a dolt doesn't really wash. I'd forgotten that post after I'd responded. You're still stewing - which of us needs a life?
A spiritual work set in the middle ages with amazing cinematography and music, Black Angel took the gritty medieval realism of Monty Python And The Holy Grail and returned it to its roots in Mallory, Tennyson and Kurosawa.
I don't know - here's the Holy Grail returned to another root....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc
Space epic.... coincidence? I think not!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc