The lack of controlled fuel delivery is exactly why Big Oil (TM) wants to kill EV's. Their entire business model based on top down control from the well thru to the local filling station goes down the tubes (think MP3 downloads vs. CD's). Imagine CC operated EV charging stations all over the place with lots of different operators. Just take the cost from the power company and mark it up a little. Could be McDonalds or 7-11 or a city parking meter or your own home's solar panels. No longer is the cost of transportation controlled by Shell, BP, Exxon etc. This is a huge threat to some of the worlds biggest companies, so expect to see it killed.
I worked for an ISP that was hosting a M$ site ...
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It was one of there secondary sites, something like blah.microsoft.com. The ISP was supposed to be hosting it on a colo NT box as part of an outsourced hosting contract. Well the site crashed constantly and the support team got sick of the late night pager calls and moved it over to a BSDI box with Apache and spoofed the server headers to read IIS, never told the M$ guys.
Exactly. A properly mastered DVD from a good or restored negative will look better than a 35mm print that has been run through the projector 2000 times. The other thing I love about DVD is seeing classic films in stunning quality. The DVD restorations of some the Hitchcock movies come to mind. I'm not sure they ever looks that good 45 years ago. Most often this isn't even possible in the theater.
The display device and DVD player make a huge difference as well. I find that front projection (especially DLP) looks much more natural and film like than plasma or LCD flat panels. Something about the way a reflected picture looks as compared to a direct view picture. Also, a 90-100" picture 10' back feels just as big and true to life as in a theater. However your living room has to be completely dark which is can be problematic with the wife.
The other big jump in picture quality I got was going to a DVI out DVD player with quality deinterlacing, it really shows what DVD can do.
Anyway, point is unless theaters change their ways, I think they'll be headed down the same road as the music buiness. In the long run the studios really don't care if you buy their product in the theater or on DVD, just as long as you do. Eventually they will cut the theater owners loose and start releasing in the theaters and on DVD simualtanously.
After I picked up am Infocus projector for $1200 from Costco that was it for theater going for me. 92" picture, quality is as good or better than film.
The last movie I saw in the theater was LOTR ROTK, the audio cut out three times, people were talking and there were ENDLESS commercials before the movie. After that no more. It really has nothing to do with the movies (although many are bad), it's the theater experience, it just sucks. I can even walk/streetcar to 2 multiplexes from my house and I won't do it.
Now, $2 movie with a beer and a burger at McMenamins theater pub is another matter.
Both myself and my S.O. have been diagnosted with ADHD and find that the "your just":
A. Undiciplined B. Lazy C. Just different D. All of the above
(take your pick) explination really fustrating. You really don't know what it's like until you've been in our headspace.
Now as for medication. I agree in a perfect world being intellegent and ADHD would be great. We could be the thinkers, excentric scientists and artists. Unfortunately we live in a world that demands that we "stay focused" and have great "organizational skills", so the practical considerations must be taken into account.
That being said I belive there is an over diagnosis in children (hey kids are a real PITA and can be hard to manage) and an under diagnosis in adults. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 31 since I have found many ways to cope and be successful.
Oh look something shiny... (couldn't resist that one)
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The lack of controlled fuel delivery is exactly why Big Oil (TM) wants to kill EV's. Their entire business model based on top down control from the well thru to the local filling station goes down the tubes (think MP3 downloads vs. CD's). Imagine CC operated EV charging stations all over the place with lots of different operators. Just take the cost from the power company and mark it up a little. Could be McDonalds or 7-11 or a city parking meter or your own home's solar panels. No longer is the cost of transportation controlled by Shell, BP, Exxon etc. This is a huge threat to some of the worlds biggest companies, so expect to see it killed.
It was one of there secondary sites, something like blah.microsoft.com. The ISP was supposed to be hosting it on a colo NT box as part of an outsourced hosting contract. Well the site crashed constantly and the support team got sick of the late night pager calls and moved it over to a BSDI box with Apache and spoofed the server headers to read IIS, never told the M$ guys.
Exactly. A properly mastered DVD from a good or restored negative will look better than a 35mm print that has been run through the projector 2000 times. The other thing I love about DVD is seeing classic films in stunning quality. The DVD restorations of some the Hitchcock movies come to mind. I'm not sure they ever looks that good 45 years ago. Most often this isn't even possible in the theater.
The display device and DVD player make a huge difference as well. I find that front projection (especially DLP) looks much more natural and film like than plasma or LCD flat panels. Something about the way a reflected picture looks as compared to a direct view picture. Also, a 90-100" picture 10' back feels just as big and true to life as in a theater. However your living room has to be completely dark which is can be problematic with the wife.
The other big jump in picture quality I got was going to a DVI out DVD player with quality deinterlacing, it really shows what DVD can do.
Anyway, point is unless theaters change their ways, I think they'll be headed down the same road as the music buiness. In the long run the studios really don't care if you buy their product in the theater or on DVD, just as long as you do. Eventually they will cut the theater owners loose and start releasing in the theaters and on DVD simualtanously.
After I picked up am Infocus projector for $1200 from Costco that was it for theater going for me. 92" picture, quality is as good or better than film.
The last movie I saw in the theater was LOTR ROTK, the audio cut out three times, people were talking and there were ENDLESS commercials before the movie. After that no more. It really has nothing to do with the movies (although many are bad), it's the theater experience, it just sucks. I can even walk/streetcar to 2 multiplexes from my house and I won't do it.
Now, $2 movie with a beer and a burger at McMenamins theater pub is another matter.
Both myself and my S.O. have been diagnosted with ADHD and find that the "your just":
...
A. Undiciplined
B. Lazy
C. Just different
D. All of the above
(take your pick) explination really fustrating. You really don't know what it's like until you've been in our headspace.
Now as for medication. I agree in a perfect world being intellegent and ADHD would be great. We could be the thinkers, excentric scientists and artists. Unfortunately we live in a world that demands that we "stay focused" and have great "organizational skills", so the practical considerations must be taken into account.
That being said I belive there is an over diagnosis in children (hey kids are a real PITA and can be hard to manage) and an under diagnosis in adults. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 31 since I have found many ways to cope and be successful.
Oh look something shiny
(couldn't resist that one)