$4500 is nothing for a real home theater. I have installed $98,000 home theaters. Good projectors start at $11,000 and other gear can get way higher.. Most drop $9,000 in seating alone.
108" draper silver screen. Panasonic 3ccd projector. Kenwood Soverign Surround reciever. I built the speakers into the walls. PC running XBMC connected via VGA. Bluray player connected via DVI/HDMI (Yes it handshakes. Crestron STX-1700 remote Crestron CNMSX-PRO controller. Crestron Dimmer.
Most expensive part was 2X4's for walls, cloth to cover the fiberglass sound control panels, carpet on floor, and 2 couches.
Unless you live in a 300sq foot shipping container, you can do a 96" screen and full surround.
You just need to know what you are doing. Things like powered screens disappear to the top of the book cases, projector on a shelf on the opposite wall, etc....
I have seen awesome home theaters in apartments, the living area transforms to the theater room with a single click of the remote.
Honestly, pay someone to come over and sit behind you talking on their cellphone, kicking your seat, and talking to the screen, "NO DUDE DONT GO IN THERE!"
There are no alternative to a movie theater and never will be.
You've NEVER been in a real home theater have you.
Mine, built for less than $4500.00 with used junk off ebay is better than MOST smaller commercial theaters. Do I get 1st run movies? Nope and dont care either. I have better popcorn, better sound, FAR BETTER picture, and I can pause the movie if I want.
Sorry but going to a theater to watch a movie? How 20'th century nostalgic..
It's why I buy my juju bees at $1.00 for a giant bag and smuggle it in. I'll buy your $21.95 popcorn and $82.50 5 gallon pail of cola... at least buying 1 we all get a fiber and fake butter overdose with a bladder problem...
http://www.pioneerone.net/ is and EXCELLENT show that is paid for by donations and distributed on Bittorrent. They are shooting the rest of season one from money they got from just the Pilot epsiode.
The trick? dont use worthless prima donna overpaid actors. Actors do NOT deserve 5 figures per show or more. Stop paying these asshats more than what they are worth. Also a $4,000,000+ per episode FX budget is simply money laundering... You do not need to pay that unless you are doing stupid crap like having real wales, or buying and cutting in 1/2 a new 777 jetliner.
If I PAY for the content then it had better be commercial free, or damn near free. Google's plan is already a failure as I can pay $1.00 to watch the show commercial free on AppleTV. Why would I pad $2.00 to watch it free on their platform?
Note: there IS a company that still does not have commercials. HBO. They are doing just fine. If I could pay a $10.00 a month subscription fee just for their own content (skip the movies that are on DVD already or first run.. I want their exclusive shows.) I would do it in a heartbeat.
You pay $100.00 a month for cable TV, and then get slammed with so many commercials that 20% of the time you pay for is Advertising. This is excluding the annoying as hell blipverts that are getting more and more invasive and lasting a good minute into the show.
Makes me even more proud that I torrent all that crap and not pay for it.
It's not actually the nerds that are getting sterilized.. It's the hot blonds that are. Geeks and Nerds are anal enough to not use the laptop in a un-optimal position, I.E. on the lap. Therefore they seek out a table or other surface. Or they get "clever" and design a lap support platform that lifts the "lap" top to proper typing height.
Dumb blonds and others that really know very little about proper computer use, leave the thing on their lap and don't have the neurons to communicate "Ow this is hot, get it off me" from their groin area to their brain...
Most of the time it's mis-read as "I'm hungry" or "I have to pee"
IT's these creatures, specifically the MBA or Marketing genus line of these creatures we are looking to protect. They are the ones that need the warnings on Toasters that say not to use in the bathtub, or curling irons that say "do not insert into any orifice"... Which is too vague, most of these creatures dont understand the word orifice, and think it's a type of Spanish dessert.
I have seen guys screw with simple encoding or encryption to create an effect like that before to throw people off.
If you take a message cut it in half, encode the first half with the last half and the last half with the first half you create something that looks wierd to most people and causes them to think it's garbage...
It's not for sending secret info, its more for making a puzzle for someone to discover..
That kind of encoding delivers 16 characters in that space.. add some encryption and most armchairs will declare it has nothing in there.
Honestly, if I had only 33 bits to encode something I'd use a compact encoding to fit the most meaning in it. It seems not many cytologists, even hobbyists have taken a crack at it.
No but it enables douchebaggery like LOCKING the app to one device. Which is Against apple's Eula. If I have 2 iphones 1 ipod and 2 ipads on my single apple account I get the app on all those devices for one purchase price. Problem is many app makers are greedy assholes and want to make it only work on ONE device.
Actually no. EE/CS in the embedded world changes daily. Everything is always new and it's a wild west of discovery out here. New ways of controlling things, new software designs for smart buildings, energy conservation, etc...
Every 6 months, what was "the standard" is then out of date and thrown away as useless. If you are not on top of the changes and learning every single day you end up falling behind.
The world of chemistry is NOT like that. the lab grunt does not get to discover or make innovative decisions or research an idea. you get to do the same thing you did last month... Oh and take out the trash...
you are not in the club of liked submitters. Honestly the number of crap submissions that get picked over well thought out and very well cited ones is nuts to the point that I simply stopped submitting stories here. Its a waste of time.
What dumbass let's a kid stupid enough or immature enough to put it in their nose or eat something, near a rare earth magnet?
Kids can learn with low power iron powder magnets that are flexible. When they are mature enough to not stick crap in their mouth or nose or ear, then you let them near bigger stuff.
It's like brain dead stupid parents that buy a 3 year old a laser pointer. What dumbass does that?
Actually stuff like that... Yes I made nitroglycerin in my dad's garage... is what drove my interest in chemistry and what made me get a degree in chemistry.
Problem is they dont tell you that a chemist's job is boring as hell. 90% of all chemistry degrees at the BS level = glorified gopher. I gave up and went for EE and CS after 5 years of wasting time in a lab.
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$4500 is nothing for a real home theater. I have installed $98,000 home theaters. Good projectors start at $11,000 and other gear can get way higher.. Most drop $9,000 in seating alone.
108" draper silver screen.
Panasonic 3ccd projector.
Kenwood Soverign Surround reciever.
I built the speakers into the walls.
PC running XBMC connected via VGA.
Bluray player connected via DVI/HDMI (Yes it handshakes.
Crestron STX-1700 remote
Crestron CNMSX-PRO controller.
Crestron Dimmer.
Most expensive part was 2X4's for walls, cloth to cover the fiberglass sound control panels, carpet on floor, and 2 couches.
Unless you live in a 300sq foot shipping container, you can do a 96" screen and full surround.
You just need to know what you are doing. Things like powered screens disappear to the top of the book cases, projector on a shelf on the opposite wall, etc....
I have seen awesome home theaters in apartments, the living area transforms to the theater room with a single click of the remote.
There's craigslist for that.
Honestly, pay someone to come over and sit behind you talking on their cellphone, kicking your seat, and talking to the screen, "NO DUDE DONT GO IN THERE!"
I only torrent files where someone took 600 hours to rotoscope blurs over all product placement.
There are no alternative to a movie theater and never will be.
You've NEVER been in a real home theater have you.
Mine, built for less than $4500.00 with used junk off ebay is better than MOST smaller commercial theaters. Do I get 1st run movies? Nope and dont care either. I have better popcorn, better sound, FAR BETTER picture, and I can pause the movie if I want.
Sorry but going to a theater to watch a movie? How 20'th century nostalgic..
Problem is that 30 minute tx shows need to be $0.50 and 1 hour shows $0.99
And shows like Colbert and Daily Show will run you $32.00 a month.
Still less than CableTV, but still overpriced. I'll continue to torrent them from my private tracker list instead.
You can.
Get a Satellite dish and receiver that is supported by them and buy your channel subscription. Buddy does it with his C band dish.
He pays for $110 a YEAR for 38 premium channels from Starz, HBO and Cinemax.
It's been this way for decades.
It's why I buy my juju bees at $1.00 for a giant bag and smuggle it in. I'll buy your $21.95 popcorn and $82.50 5 gallon pail of cola... at least buying 1 we all get a fiber and fake butter overdose with a bladder problem...
Actually they are getting reall good as well...
http://www.pioneerone.net/ is and EXCELLENT show that is paid for by donations and distributed on Bittorrent. They are shooting the rest of season one from money they got from just the Pilot epsiode.
The trick? dont use worthless prima donna overpaid actors. Actors do NOT deserve 5 figures per show or more. Stop paying these asshats more than what they are worth. Also a $4,000,000+ per episode FX budget is simply money laundering... You do not need to pay that unless you are doing stupid crap like having real wales, or buying and cutting in 1/2 a new 777 jetliner.
You sir are 100% correct.
If I PAY for the content then it had better be commercial free, or damn near free. Google's plan is already a failure as I can pay $1.00 to watch the show commercial free on AppleTV. Why would I pad $2.00 to watch it free on their platform?
Note: there IS a company that still does not have commercials. HBO. They are doing just fine. If I could pay a $10.00 a month subscription fee just for their own content (skip the movies that are on DVD already or first run.. I want their exclusive shows.) I would do it in a heartbeat.
You pay $100.00 a month for cable TV, and then get slammed with so many commercials that 20% of the time you pay for is Advertising. This is excluding the annoying as hell blipverts that are getting more and more invasive and lasting a good minute into the show.
Makes me even more proud that I torrent all that crap and not pay for it.
It's not actually the nerds that are getting sterilized.. It's the hot blonds that are. Geeks and Nerds are anal enough to not use the laptop in a un-optimal position, I.E. on the lap. Therefore they seek out a table or other surface. Or they get "clever" and design a lap support platform that lifts the "lap" top to proper typing height.
Dumb blonds and others that really know very little about proper computer use, leave the thing on their lap and don't have the neurons to communicate "Ow this is hot, get it off me" from their groin area to their brain...
Most of the time it's mis-read as "I'm hungry" or "I have to pee"
IT's these creatures, specifically the MBA or Marketing genus line of these creatures we are looking to protect. They are the ones that need the warnings on Toasters that say not to use in the bathtub, or curling irons that say "do not insert into any orifice"... Which is too vague, most of these creatures dont understand the word orifice, and think it's a type of Spanish dessert.
You assume a lot.
I have seen guys screw with simple encoding or encryption to create an effect like that before to throw people off.
If you take a message cut it in half, encode the first half with the last half and the last half with the first half you create something that looks wierd to most people and causes them to think it's garbage...
It's not for sending secret info, its more for making a puzzle for someone to discover..
Only if you did not encode it.
01=A .....
10=B
11=C
That kind of encoding delivers 16 characters in that space.. add some encryption and most armchairs will declare it has nothing in there.
Honestly, if I had only 33 bits to encode something I'd use a compact encoding to fit the most meaning in it. It seems not many cytologists, even hobbyists have taken a crack at it.
Why do you have it Year, Day, Month?
Nokia
I see way more nokia smartphones in company use than windows mobile phones. WAY WAY more.
In fact outside the USA, nokia dominates over ALL OTHER PHONE MAKES. ALL OF THEM.
iphone and android put together are a tiny blip to Nokia outside the USA
No but it enables douchebaggery like LOCKING the app to one device. Which is Against apple's Eula. If I have 2 iphones 1 ipod and 2 ipads on my single apple account I get the app on all those devices for one purchase price. Problem is many app makers are greedy assholes and want to make it only work on ONE device.
In the past yes...
But RIM owns the business and corporate market hard. Microsoft has ZERO chance of cracking the Blackberry nut unless RIM does something super stupid.
There be that White Chair Whale!!! We must Throw it!
Doesnt help that they have Ahab at the wheel.
Actually no. EE/CS in the embedded world changes daily. Everything is always new and it's a wild west of discovery out here. New ways of controlling things, new software designs for smart buildings, energy conservation, etc...
Every 6 months, what was "the standard" is then out of date and thrown away as useless. If you are not on top of the changes and learning every single day you end up falling behind.
The world of chemistry is NOT like that. the lab grunt does not get to discover or make innovative decisions or research an idea. you get to do the same thing you did last month... Oh and take out the trash...
you are not in the club of liked submitters. Honestly the number of crap submissions that get picked over well thought out and very well cited ones is nuts to the point that I simply stopped submitting stories here. Its a waste of time.
Broken glass and old razorblades are a good start.
Another is give the kid a nice assortment of pool chemicals and a portable propane torch.
Great way to learn...
What dumbass let's a kid stupid enough or immature enough to put it in their nose or eat something, near a rare earth magnet?
Kids can learn with low power iron powder magnets that are flexible. When they are mature enough to not stick crap in their mouth or nose or ear, then you let them near bigger stuff.
It's like brain dead stupid parents that buy a 3 year old a laser pointer. What dumbass does that?
The only reason we have safe laboratories today is because in the 1970's, science kits killed the careless ones.
you sir are my hero.
I also am sick of the coddling of the population to eliminate natural selection.
Actually stuff like that... Yes I made nitroglycerin in my dad's garage... is what drove my interest in chemistry and what made me get a degree in chemistry.
Problem is they dont tell you that a chemist's job is boring as hell. 90% of all chemistry degrees at the BS level = glorified gopher. I gave up and went for EE and CS after 5 years of wasting time in a lab.