Samsung, LG and Mitsubishi have been making this class of projector as well. The Samsung units have broken 100 lumens (10 times the brightness of the Optoma).
<p>While some of your concerns are a little reasonable, and some will likely come true (i.e. there will be some strong left leaning types who will call you racist if you disagree with him), some are ridiculous.</p>
<p>Most of the country voted for this guy. So the people you worry about treating you this way, have been here all along, and are not going to suddenly start treating you differently. If anything, people of the left will probably end up being a little less vitriolic as "their side" is now holding the reigns.</p>
<p>And why would you need a rabid hatred of Obama? PLanning ahead, just in case?</p>
"You'll never get a majority of the people to agree to raise their own taxes. "
That's what I thought, until the idiots here in L.A. county passed a 1/2 cent sales tax increase by a 2/3 MAJORITY! For road improvements we will never see. I am totally stunned, and wish I could see/hear the commercials I must have missed that somehow presented this as a good idea.
Your plan will work well where there exist these "good educators", and where said educators are not subject to undue pressure from "bad school administrations and communities".
Where any of those conditions do not exist, you will find it being taught in a non-critically examined and very biased way. Which might be fine for the kids whose parents would mold their opinions this way anyway, but what about the other kids in those schools?
Unfortunately, your 2 examples are in direct contrast to each other. Voting results in a turd that stays around for 4 YEARS, and the stink can linger even longer.
I see this "dead before it gets started" a lot. Blu-ray is ahead of the adoption time curve set by DVD. It certainly has "gotten started". They'd just like it to be quicker, as the profit has gone out of the hardware side of DVD, and is weakening for software.
I'd agree. The older 1.0 and 1.1 profile discs were plenty fast for me on the PS3, but the 2.0 ones sometimes even bog the PS3 down a bit, and it is better than (almost?) every other current player.
For the car and portable system a downrezzed movie that fits on an 8GB SDHC card are sufficent, and that form factor is considerably more convenient than a disc that doesn't even fit in your pocket - and is too fragile to carry that way anyway.
The BD assoc. has figured that out. A small but growing percentage of BD releases now come with "digital copy", a disk with a DRMed WMV or iTunes copy of the movie. Disney's Sleeping Beauty release even came with the film on a regular DVD, "for the kids' room".
Downside is, some studios (Disney) are charging extra for the digital copy. I hope that practice dies. But it won't.
Anecdotal, but yeah. I just bought 2 1TB drives for my home because I have 200 GB of music (all ripped losslessly from my CDs), my wife has a 30 GB photo library, mine is 15GB and growing fast (10 megapixel RAW files are large) and we have home video in the many dozens of GB.
Many of my typical suburban neighbors are the same. In fact, I know at least 20 people who have recently bought 1TB+ drives, and none of them are doing any file trading, or even ripping legitimately owned DVDs. So I guess we'd need to know what percentage of theose drive sales are going to people like me, or people who just buy that size drive because, hey, they're cheap now!
I would bet the number of people who watch blu-ray on a PC of some sort, would give a greater return than the losses to copying by a large margin for some time.
My rationale being, trading and downloading 20-40GB files is going to be a marginal activity for a while yet, and blu-ray authoring plants are a bit out of the reach of "real" pirates. So fully cracked blu-ray losses don't seem like they could offset increased sales and boosting of the format by consumer portability for some time.
Selectively enforced code is still dangerous, as the people doing the selecting are changed out from time to time, and some of them will abuse it. This is the big problem with Obama caving on the telecom immunity legislation. Even if he is elected, and "does the right thing", who's after him?
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And just like with our tax withholding, we are given no interest accumulated on this hour whatsoever. We should be getting 64 minutes minimum.
And so you are correct. I was assuming this was a pocket class unit because of the title of TFS.
This appears to be one of the smaller pico units like the LED unit from 3M, and laser projectors from Microvision and Symbol Tech.
Samsung, LG and Mitsubishi have been making this class of projector as well. The Samsung units have broken 100 lumens (10 times the brightness of the Optoma).
This isn't a pico, it's a pocket projector. Different class. Many of the pico units do use lasers.
No, but once you're the monopoly, your product is free to become horrible.
what do you think would happen to the WORLD if the chinese flooded the market with all the US IOUs they've been stashing away?
I sense much fear in you.
<p>While some of your concerns are a little reasonable, and some will likely come true (i.e. there will be some strong left leaning types who will call you racist if you disagree with him), some are ridiculous.</p>
<p>Most of the country voted for this guy. So the people you worry about treating you this way, have been here all along, and are not going to suddenly start treating you differently. If anything, people of the left will probably end up being a little less vitriolic as "their side" is now holding the reigns.</p>
<p>And why would you need a rabid hatred of Obama? PLanning ahead, just in case?</p>
"You'll never get a majority of the people to agree to raise their own taxes. "
That's what I thought, until the idiots here in L.A. county passed a 1/2 cent sales tax increase by a 2/3 MAJORITY! For road improvements we will never see. I am totally stunned, and wish I could see/hear the commercials I must have missed that somehow presented this as a good idea.
I am going to have to ask you to use the correct term: sea kittens http://www.peta.org/sea_Kittens/
Great. Now I can never eat donut holes again, you insensitive clod!
Your plan will work well where there exist these "good educators", and where said educators are not subject to undue pressure from "bad school administrations and communities".
Where any of those conditions do not exist, you will find it being taught in a non-critically examined and very biased way. Which might be fine for the kids whose parents would mold their opinions this way anyway, but what about the other kids in those schools?
Those same two options apply to your Creator And he is therefore an unnecessary complication to the matter.
Unfortunately, your 2 examples are in direct contrast to each other. Voting results in a turd that stays around for 4 YEARS, and the stink can linger even longer.
I don't know. I work for him, and I am not sure I'd want to see the policies of our company extended to the federal level.
What is needed is a diplomatic process to reach mutual agreement, with concessions on all sides if necessary.
I would totally vote for that, but I can't find it on the ballot. Is it a local measure where you live?
I think the 30% share was by revenue, not units.
I see this "dead before it gets started" a lot. Blu-ray is ahead of the adoption time curve set by DVD. It certainly has "gotten started". They'd just like it to be quicker, as the profit has gone out of the hardware side of DVD, and is weakening for software.
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I'd agree. The older 1.0 and 1.1 profile discs were plenty fast for me on the PS3, but the 2.0 ones sometimes even bog the PS3 down a bit, and it is better than (almost?) every other current player.
For the car and portable system a downrezzed movie that fits on an 8GB SDHC card are sufficent, and that form factor is considerably more convenient than a disc that doesn't even fit in your pocket - and is too fragile to carry that way anyway.
The BD assoc. has figured that out. A small but growing percentage of BD releases now come with "digital copy", a disk with a DRMed WMV or iTunes copy of the movie. Disney's Sleeping Beauty release even came with the film on a regular DVD, "for the kids' room".
Downside is, some studios (Disney) are charging extra for the digital copy. I hope that practice dies. But it won't.
Anecdotal, but yeah. I just bought 2 1TB drives for my home because I have 200 GB of music (all ripped losslessly from my CDs), my wife has a 30 GB photo library, mine is 15GB and growing fast (10 megapixel RAW files are large) and we have home video in the many dozens of GB.
Many of my typical suburban neighbors are the same. In fact, I know at least 20 people who have recently bought 1TB+ drives, and none of them are doing any file trading, or even ripping legitimately owned DVDs. So I guess we'd need to know what percentage of theose drive sales are going to people like me, or people who just buy that size drive because, hey, they're cheap now!
I would bet the number of people who watch blu-ray on a PC of some sort, would give a greater return than the losses to copying by a large margin for some time.
My rationale being, trading and downloading 20-40GB files is going to be a marginal activity for a while yet, and blu-ray authoring plants are a bit out of the reach of "real" pirates. So fully cracked blu-ray losses don't seem like they could offset increased sales and boosting of the format by consumer portability for some time.
But maybe I am missing something.
Is that not what we basically have with food stamps? Everyone has access to a minimum level of food?
Selectively enforced code is still dangerous, as the people doing the selecting are changed out from time to time, and some of them will abuse it. This is the big problem with Obama caving on the telecom immunity legislation. Even if he is elected, and "does the right thing", who's after him?
Even Billy Idol is MIA. As are OMD, most of Adam Ant, and a lot of others.
++ Having Hulu available though our TV put me this much closer to dumping Dish.