Don't forget that the bulb life on the average "PowerPoint Projector" is around 2000 hours. The cheapest retail projector ($1000) range could take a new bulb that cost in the neighborhood of $250. So figuring only one 2 hour movie a night you won't even get a year out of one bulb. Figure you'll end up spending around $1000 on a projector and in 3 years a $1000 in bulbs. In the long run, you're better off spending the $2 grand that a good large screen TV will cost.
Well yes but the writeup clearly mentions this is to be enacted on digital cable. Eventually Digital Cable will be the only option as many communities will only offer digital to new subscribers. Once the majority of the population flips over to new boxes who cares if you piss off grandma and a few late adopters. Damn them. They'll buy digital and like it. So it's a good thing if we try to head off charging $90 for 500 channels of which the average household will only want to watch a small handful. Really, I resent having to pay for channels in languages I don't speak and religious channels I don't believe in. Well I do like to leave Sister Angelica on, she scares the piss out of my wife. Something about that woman is pure evil. As for Fox News I resent having to pay for that crap too. If it was Fox NEWSPRINT it would be unsuitable for wrapping fish.
Why am I paying for channels that broadcast in Arabic, Hindu, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish? When all I really want is the Navajo channel.
You're missing the point. It's digital cable so for everyone it means a new box. For the cable company to update premium services and PPV remotely means your box is addressable already. This is trivial for the hardware to handle.
If Fox does bring it back I hope they don't put it on at 7pm Sunday. Football and Nascar runs long... Kill Futurama. They never gave the show a chance to grow an audience outside of Sci-Fi fans. And yet they give Oliver Bean the cherriest slot behind Simpsons. I loved that crapfest when it was called 'The Wonder Years'.
And who is liable for the first person who dies from an infection from this device? There's a reason why you rub the skin with alcohol before and after a shot. I see no safety precaution here. I also see no mention of sterility for the device itself.
I have no interest in watching boring gay men turn other men into women. I have no interest in watching angry minorities rail against the white man or show the white man that their differences are only skin deep. I miss the days of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' and 'CHiPs' where every action packed moment was car a chase and a crash. And strangely enough I hate NASCAR. There's really nothing on TV for me. Except for 'Arrested Development'. But Fox is probably hard at work looking for an excuse to cancel that one.
My best friend doesn't have a computer at home because of the day job. Of my friends in IT, about half have no computer at home and the other half have 10base/T ports and punch down blocks in every room including the bathroom. There seems to be no middle ground.
But then the code doesn't get cleared from the computer. The check engine light is still on. When you go to get it inspected you fail for not having a clean computer system.
If you'd like harder games then that's fine. Just so long as there are cheat codes to get me beyond some infuriatingly complex task that's holding up an otherwise fine story line. I'm still trying to smash up all the god damned stores at the mall in Vice City. And I mean still as in I've pretty much given up on playing the game and just fly the helicopter around and snipe cars from the tall buildings.
One of the things I hated about the early games was the fact that they are so unforgiving. At some point the reward loses it's appeal and other games come along.
So if I get this and a Honda Human, they could be the parents. Then if I get some Sony Asimo and Aibo's I have the collest premise for a family style reality show ever.
What about the retiree who does in fact only have a taxable income of 20G's but has saved in tax free bonds for the last 20 years. No income reported on the interest. In the case of my grandparents that interest is more then enough to cover the close to $15,000 in monthly expenses. Not everyone reporting a small income with a large lifestyle is ripping you off.
I can't set the DVD player to record the Simpsons and I don't have a land line telephone so I can't get Tivo. The VHS tape is my only savior. And your average WalMart shopper doesn't want to pay $10 a month for the service when Tivo doesn't come with Cheers 'n' Jeers and a crossword like in The TV Guide. That's why Videotape won't die for a long time to come.
VHS - will still be around, until DVD recorders get under $100
Not if they stop making them. VHS will go the way of the Betamax machine. Expensive. At that point people will just pay the $300 for Tivo and a DVD burner.
I agree with you on the bloated apps. I don't see any difference in performance between the old Win98 300Mhz and the new WinXP 2Ghz machines.
What kind of microscope will this be, standard or inverted? Will you be taking snapshots or full motion video? What will your lighting be? Brightfield, fluorescence, DIC, Hoffman correction or what? Will you be trying to take long shutter speed high gain exposures to capture fine details in low light? Does your microscope have a camera port built in or is it a bare bones "student" microscope?
I'd start with what I expect in an image and build a system from there. If you just want to take simple pictures of things close up you might also consider dumping your current microscope and going with this.
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Go a head and down mod me I can afford the Karma.
Don't forget that the bulb life on the average "PowerPoint Projector" is around 2000 hours. The cheapest retail projector ($1000) range could take a new bulb that cost in the neighborhood of $250. So figuring only one 2 hour movie a night you won't even get a year out of one bulb. Figure you'll end up spending around $1000 on a projector and in 3 years a $1000 in bulbs. In the long run, you're better off spending the $2 grand that a good large screen TV will cost.
Well yes but the writeup clearly mentions this is to be enacted on digital cable. Eventually Digital Cable will be the only option as many communities will only offer digital to new subscribers. Once the majority of the population flips over to new boxes who cares if you piss off grandma and a few late adopters. Damn them. They'll buy digital and like it. So it's a good thing if we try to head off charging $90 for 500 channels of which the average household will only want to watch a small handful. Really, I resent having to pay for channels in languages I don't speak and religious channels I don't believe in. Well I do like to leave Sister Angelica on, she scares the piss out of my wife. Something about that woman is pure evil. As for Fox News I resent having to pay for that crap too. If it was Fox NEWSPRINT it would be unsuitable for wrapping fish.
Why am I paying for channels that broadcast in Arabic, Hindu, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish? When all I really want is the Navajo channel.
You're missing the point. It's digital cable so for everyone it means a new box. For the cable company to update premium services and PPV remotely means your box is addressable already. This is trivial for the hardware to handle.
If Fox does bring it back I hope they don't put it on at 7pm Sunday. Football and Nascar runs long... Kill Futurama. They never gave the show a chance to grow an audience outside of Sci-Fi fans. And yet they give Oliver Bean the cherriest slot behind Simpsons. I loved that crapfest when it was called 'The Wonder Years'.
And who is liable for the first person who dies from an infection from this device? There's a reason why you rub the skin with alcohol before and after a shot. I see no safety precaution here. I also see no mention of sterility for the device itself.
I have no interest in watching boring gay men turn other men into women. I have no interest in watching angry minorities rail against the white man or show the white man that their differences are only skin deep. I miss the days of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' and 'CHiPs' where every action packed moment was car a chase and a crash. And strangely enough I hate NASCAR. There's really nothing on TV for me. Except for 'Arrested Development'. But Fox is probably hard at work looking for an excuse to cancel that one.
My best friend doesn't have a computer at home because of the day job. Of my friends in IT, about half have no computer at home and the other half have 10base/T ports and punch down blocks in every room including the bathroom. There seems to be no middle ground.
Way off topic but I let my wee-wee do all my thinking.
Independence Day.
But then the code doesn't get cleared from the computer. The check engine light is still on. When you go to get it inspected you fail for not having a clean computer system.
I loved it when it was an episode of "Max Headroom". So it is true. All art eventually does become reality.
One of the things I hated about the early games was the fact that they are so unforgiving. At some point the reward loses it's appeal and other games come along.
So if I get this and a Honda Human, they could be the parents. Then if I get some Sony Asimo and Aibo's I have the collest premise for a family style reality show ever.
Come on it had to be said!
Ummm... OK a female of the robot species. Seems pretty easy. Or do you want a female robot in humanoid form? That will take longer.
I have a can of compressed air that say's this test will become useless before it's even implimented.
What about the retiree who does in fact only have a taxable income of 20G's but has saved in tax free bonds for the last 20 years. No income reported on the interest. In the case of my grandparents that interest is more then enough to cover the close to $15,000 in monthly expenses. Not everyone reporting a small income with a large lifestyle is ripping you off.
Good work.
I know I'm trolling. No need to remind me.
That's the most beautiful thing I've heard all day. Where do I sign up for your daily newsletter.
I can't set the DVD player to record the Simpsons and I don't have a land line telephone so I can't get Tivo. The VHS tape is my only savior. And your average WalMart shopper doesn't want to pay $10 a month for the service when Tivo doesn't come with Cheers 'n' Jeers and a crossword like in The TV Guide. That's why Videotape won't die for a long time to come.
Not if they stop making them. VHS will go the way of the Betamax machine. Expensive. At that point people will just pay the $300 for Tivo and a DVD burner.
I agree with you on the bloated apps. I don't see any difference in performance between the old Win98 300Mhz and the new WinXP 2Ghz machines.
Microelectrodes for electrochemistry is just so out dated now that we have Fluorescent Confocal Microscopy.
I'd start with what I expect in an image and build a system from there. If you just want to take simple pictures of things close up you might also consider dumping your current microscope and going with this.