What were we using for energy 275 years ago, what will we be using for energy 275 years from now?
We're already looking into anti-matter (and I'm pretty sure that anti-matter wasn't heard on the deck of a warship 275 years ago, nor was the word "Nuclear" but "nuclear" is on board ships now and who knows how soon for anti-matter) and 275 years from now people will be laughing at how we wasted time using silicone to do solar when we could of just harnessed the gravity principle* and used that for cheap and limitless energy.
what's the gravity principle*? Ask me in 275 years.
*(gravity principle is the placeholder for the name of the technology that makes the leap from gunpowder and whale oil to nuclear like we have done by now - just moved up another 275 years to what is accomplished by then).
Well, more like over 30 people. Counting Family and Friends who also would never buy a PS3 and have an X-box, or an X-box and a WII.
come to think of it, I only know one person who has a PS3, and they don't use it for gaming. That use it occasionally to watch a blu-ray disc.
So, coming from my Perspective, the only thing that doesn't make a PS-3 dead last, is that some folks were dumb enough to purchase one to watch Blu-ray discs.
I hate to say this, but I'm not a big fan of playing a game that I have to pay more cash to get items.
So while I hate patent trolls, I'm not going to cry a river for the companies that think they should get more money for stuff that they would of put in the game in the first place.
Books can be replaced for less than 2 cents. I went to the parents house for father's day, and ended up with 24 books, and I already owned six of them in the home collection.
I have to confess I dangled the hook you bit on about about the lake. {snicker}. But hey, I drop a five dollar book in the lake when the canoe rolls, but how much is it going to cost when you roll with your reader in the lake??
Add to that, i have a book in my collection called Magicians of Gor.
Tell me the resale value of your device file vs my hardcopy.:)
I think what you really mean is that you have no interest in reading a book an a PC monitor. That's understandable, PC monitors have shit resolution (in the proper "pixels per square inch" or "ppi" sense). A standard 15.6" laptop screen at 1366x768 has a pixel density of just barely over 100ppi. That's painful for reading. The same 15.6" panel at 1920x1080 just barely goes over 141ppi. People blame the backlight, but they're wrong. The problem is the pixel density. Anything less than 150ppi is painful to read, and really 150ppi is the bare minimum without some extra "smoothing" technology (like eink, where the pixels are not fully uniform).
Some common reading devices and their pixel densities:
* Non-retina display iPhone/iPod: 320x480 @ 3.5" = 165ppi
* Retina display iPhone/iPod: 640x960 @ 3.5" = 330ppi
* Most Android devices are 480x800, with common sizes being 3.8" = 246ppi, 4.0" = 233ppi, 4.3" = 217ppi
* 6" eink readers like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony, etc are 480x800 @ 6.0" = 155ppi (note that eink works better at lower ppi than LCDs to create smooth letter forms, so this isn't as bad as it sounds
* Nook Color at 600x1024 @ 7.0" = 170ppi
* iPad at 768x1024 @ 9.17" = 132ppi, which is too low for reading on an LCD
Try a high-density screen or eink and you might actually like it.
I can read a book wherever and whenever I want to. I won't lose a library and have to buy a new thing to read it again if it breaks, the rechargeable battery dies, the lcd goes, I drop it into the lake I'm fishing in, and the many other ways to destroy the device. Hell, I'll never have to wait for the book to recharge, get infected from the online delivery system, or lose a book because the mothership beams it back up.
In Short, a book is an asset, a drm laden electronic device that is owned by the manufacturer t'isnt.
Sorry, I have no interest in reading a book on a LCD.
If books go strictly to the e-format, I'll just find the online copy (not paying for it) and print it myself.
Course, I don't mind if someone prints it for me - I'll even pay for the book then. I have over 7,000 books. I'm not the only one out there with a decent sized library.
Now, show me someone twenty or under with an extensive paper book collection. People will stop buying paper books and people with paper book collections will die eventually.
Considering that most of them can't read beyond a 3rd grade level that's a bit unfair...
Considering the population statistics of Chicago, that would be bad for the bottom line.
No, I'm afraid that only asshat cellphone users get the boot at Perry's. Sorry that doesn't fit in your narrow little world, but then again, you can't be faulted for as you did confess that you were a moron in the first place.
(that's two arms and two legs - try not to bleed on me;) )
that poor bloke is free to step outside the shop to use the phone too.
Again, it's widely advertised in the shop, it's widely known by the patrons of the establishment that you will be unable to use your cellphone in there.
If the phone is that important to you, the shop even says that you are too important to be in the shop. Go ELSEWHERE!
Perry's sandwich shop in Downtown Chicago has a similar policy - if you're in the store and pull out the cellphone, they turn on a fire alarm siren until you put the phone away.
They have an electronic display that scrolls, and one of the messages is "If you're using a cellphone, you're too important to be here".
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What were we using for energy 275 years ago, what will we be using for energy 275 years from now?
We're already looking into anti-matter (and I'm pretty sure that anti-matter wasn't heard on the deck of a warship 275 years ago, nor was the word "Nuclear" but "nuclear" is on board ships now and who knows how soon for anti-matter) and 275 years from now people will be laughing at how we wasted time using silicone to do solar when we could of just harnessed the gravity principle* and used that for cheap and limitless energy.
what's the gravity principle*? Ask me in 275 years.
*(gravity principle is the placeholder for the name of the technology that makes the leap from gunpowder and whale oil to nuclear like we have done by now - just moved up another 275 years to what is accomplished by then).
Hey, as long as they run a wire to my pleasure center at the same time..... //runs off to build a droud
Well, more like over 30 people. Counting Family and Friends who also would never buy a PS3 and have an X-box, or an X-box and a WII.
come to think of it, I only know one person who has a PS3, and they don't use it for gaming. That use it occasionally to watch a blu-ray disc.
So, coming from my Perspective, the only thing that doesn't make a PS-3 dead last, is that some folks were dumb enough to purchase one to watch Blu-ray discs.
I have an X-Box and a WII - Will never ever buy from Sony again.
I hate to say this, but I'm not a big fan of playing a game that I have to pay more cash to get items.
So while I hate patent trolls, I'm not going to cry a river for the companies that think they should get more money for stuff that they would of put in the game in the first place.
MI5/Spooks had an episode where the woman had a bomb implanted in her, and she was supposed to blow up a bunch of dignitaries.
I disagree - the usage was perfectly cromulent.
Books can be replaced for less than 2 cents. I went to the parents house for father's day, and ended up with 24 books, and I already owned six of them in the home collection.
I have to confess I dangled the hook you bit on about about the lake. {snicker}. But hey, I drop a five dollar book in the lake when the canoe rolls, but how much is it going to cost when you roll with your reader in the lake??
Add to that, i have a book in my collection called Magicians of Gor.
Tell me the resale value of your device file vs my hardcopy. :)
Why? Are your eyes that special?
I think what you really mean is that you have no interest in reading a book an a PC monitor. That's understandable, PC monitors have shit resolution (in the proper "pixels per square inch" or "ppi" sense). A standard 15.6" laptop screen at 1366x768 has a pixel density of just barely over 100ppi. That's painful for reading. The same 15.6" panel at 1920x1080 just barely goes over 141ppi. People blame the backlight, but they're wrong. The problem is the pixel density. Anything less than 150ppi is painful to read, and really 150ppi is the bare minimum without some extra "smoothing" technology (like eink, where the pixels are not fully uniform).
Some common reading devices and their pixel densities:
* Non-retina display iPhone/iPod: 320x480 @ 3.5" = 165ppi
* Retina display iPhone/iPod: 640x960 @ 3.5" = 330ppi
* Most Android devices are 480x800, with common sizes being 3.8" = 246ppi, 4.0" = 233ppi, 4.3" = 217ppi
* 6" eink readers like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony, etc are 480x800 @ 6.0" = 155ppi (note that eink works better at lower ppi than LCDs to create smooth letter forms, so this isn't as bad as it sounds
* Nook Color at 600x1024 @ 7.0" = 170ppi
* iPad at 768x1024 @ 9.17" = 132ppi, which is too low for reading on an LCD
Try a high-density screen or eink and you might actually like it.
I can read a book wherever and whenever I want to. I won't lose a library and have to buy a new thing to read it again if it breaks, the rechargeable battery dies, the lcd goes, I drop it into the lake I'm fishing in, and the many other ways to destroy the device. Hell, I'll never have to wait for the book to recharge, get infected from the online delivery system, or lose a book because the mothership beams it back up.
In Short, a book is an asset, a drm laden electronic device that is owned by the manufacturer t'isnt.
Sorry, I have no interest in reading a book on a LCD.
If books go strictly to the e-format, I'll just find the online copy (not paying for it) and print it myself.
Course, I don't mind if someone prints it for me - I'll even pay for the book then. I have over 7,000 books. I'm not the only one out there with a decent sized library.
Now, show me someone twenty or under with an extensive paper book collection. People will stop buying paper books and people with paper book collections will die eventually.
Considering that most of them can't read beyond a 3rd grade level that's a bit unfair...
Yes, I do have a point, your entire premise is idiotic.
If a shop throws you out for not wearing t-shits or shoes, it's entirely legal.
If a shop makes it impossible for an asshat cellphone user to ruin other peoples experiences, that's also entirely legal.
and I bought the bleach to clean out the gene pool, can I have your mothers address?
Considering the population statistics of Chicago, that would be bad for the bottom line.
No, I'm afraid that only asshat cellphone users get the boot at Perry's. Sorry that doesn't fit in your narrow little world, but then again, you can't be faulted for as you did confess that you were a moron in the first place.
(that's two arms and two legs - try not to bleed on me ;) )
that poor bloke is free to step outside the shop to use the phone too.
Again, it's widely advertised in the shop, it's widely known by the patrons of the establishment that you will be unable to use your cellphone in there.
If the phone is that important to you, the shop even says that you are too important to be in the shop. Go ELSEWHERE!
You don't have to confess to being a moron. Really.
But I accept your surrender of the lack of a constitutional remedy for volume.
Can you show me where the constitution regulates volume?
k-thanx.
p.s. Do you often hear loud whooshing noises just above your head?
Yeah, Lunchtime the line's usually out the door and a bit down the street.
Good on yah - Can't wait to see you post how ineffective your tactics were :)
Anyone who wants to come can. Just like the sign, "no shirt, no shoes, no service" is legal - "no cellphones" is legal too.
If you can't abide by the rules of the shop? Then guess what, you're not going to get what you want.
It's not an assault, It's free speech - nothing in the constitution regulates volume.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/perrys-chicago
It's well known that they do it. the police wouldn't be much help cause they eat there too.
This link works ok for now if you want the most of the older interface (hover is broke)
http://www.netflix.com/WiHome?fcld=true
Perry's sandwich shop in Downtown Chicago has a similar policy - if you're in the store and pull out the cellphone, they turn on a fire alarm siren until you put the phone away.
They have an electronic display that scrolls, and one of the messages is "If you're using a cellphone, you're too important to be here".
I'm thinking that CERN is going to be a vastly expensive and overrated coffee club for the flake of the month club after reading this article.
And if you check what I post - you'll see that I don't actually troll or flamebait. //waiting for the outrage