Where to start? How about the sticker price....plasmas 50 inch and up retail for ~20k, so this should be a touch more than that. Refresh rates on them aren't great, but they aren't terrible either.
As far as the people whining about dot pitch, you're a dumbass if you want to sit a foot away from this thing. That's not what it's made for.
Advantages over a projector? Very wide viewable angle, and it's not a reflected picture like a projector is, so the picture doesn't wash out in ambient light.
Advantages over a projection TV? They are very thin, only 5-6 inches thick, so you can hang them on walls like a picture. Just don't use those little plastic anchors, mount it into the studs, please. They are a lot lighter than a CRT the same size, but they are a tad expensive, so you don't want it falling off the wall.
For the/. crowd, a 32-inch plasma that Fujitsu just released might be a touch more realistic. Those go for about $3000. Imagine cleaning off your desk and hanging that on the wall in front of you. It would be great until someone walked down the hall and started whining about the dot pitch....
Short term, this is ok. I had terrible tendonitis in my wrist a few years ago during hockey playoffs. My doctor knew I wouldn't stop playing, so he told me to take 600mg before the game started and then 600mg in the first intermission. I went through 5 games in 10 nights like that. The days in between though, I couldn't close my hand with enough strength to hold a cup of coffee.
If you are taking that much in the long term, you're not using the drug anymore, you're abusing it.
Granted, the/Record Company/ is definatly fixing the costs of CDs, but that does not make theft justified.
Interesting point of view. I personally have no trouble stealing from thieves. Even granting your point when you call it theft, (even though it's not theft), I don't see how that makes me cheap or immoral. If people deal fairly with me, I will deal fairly with them. I don't screw people over for the fun of it. I just like screwing them back when they screw me.
If they had been playing fair in the first place, Napster would have never happened. The whole chickens coming home to roost thing, y'know?
Putting the finishing touches on my application to BYU...maybe I should surf on over and check out their conduct rules...
Good Lord! No sex, no alcohol, no tobacco, no tea, no coffee, no pornography, no foul language, etc. What kind of university is this? Where are the life skills? How am I supposed to get a job in the real world if I don't know how to drink coffee or screw my secretary...Time to apply to Notre Dame instead. I heard that Catholics know how to party!
How the fuck did this end up with a 4? You say the same thing most other people have already said, but add the word Dilber [sic] in there, is that right?
I always knew Karma was random...this just proves it.
They are both the bad guy. The advertisers are guilty of bad taste, and the estates are guilty of bad judgement. I wonder what Lou Gehrig would say if he knew his farewell speech was being used to hawk cell phones or internet services...maybe he'd be making some modifications to his last will and testament?
What next, Jesus and Mohammed getting together for a Budweiser with those "Whazzup" retards? It's proably already in the works, and that would piss me off too, because everyone knows Jesus was a wine drinker.
You thought that the ads with Martin Luther King and Lou Gehrig in them were tasteful? I almost puked. There is something disgusting and slimy happening when a company takes a part of one of the most well known civil rights speeches in American history and puts it in a commerical to try to sell fucking cell phones. The same thing with Lou Gehrig's speech...Alcatel has ensured that I will never ever buy from them for this.
Having said that, the estate of Martin Luther King and I assume the estate of Lou Gehrig also did approve the ads. Why? They got paid.
You are right, "War of the Worlds" wasn't a parody. I didn't make my point as clear as I should have. What I was trying to say was that you can't let the public, whatever the hell that is, to be the ones to decide what parody is or isn't. Just as you shouldn't hold Orson Welles responsible for psychological damage that may have occured because people thought "War of the Worlds" was a newscast, you can't hold Corley responsible for the fact that the public is too dumb to realize that this is a joke.
About getting duped by war of the worlds....I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have fallen for little men from Mars attacking. Call me a skeptic, but I would have thought that something was up. Not saying I wouldn't have loaded my rifle just in case.....
So, according to Bernstein, you're only allowed to use parody when you are sure that people will realize it's a joke?
Looks like it's time to dig up Orson Welles and sue him. All those idiots who actually thought that Martians were invading must have a case, right? Because apparently it wasn't clear to the idio...I mean public that it was a hoax.
When is this going to end? It's getting ridiculous.
Who promised us HDTV years ago. I still don't have it. And now, I don't want it anyways. Besides the occasional sports event and Simpsons episodes, there isn't much I want to watch anyways.
How long is it going to be before people from NBC come into your house, put you in a straightjacket and clip your eyelids open ala "A Clockwork Orange"? After all, they are paying for the ads, so we damn well better watch them, right? Even if we don't want to?
"I'm sorry sir, you can't take those clips off your eyes...that would violate the terms of the amendments that President Gates tacked onto the DMCA. And no, you can't gouge them out either. Enjoy the next half hour of brainless sitcom we are about to show."
I've been the dipshit in the backhoe. I've also been the dipshit digging for fiber lines by hand. In my experience, it's usually the utility marker who messes up.
Have you ever read one of the forms you get when have a utility locate done? It reads like a EULA. Basically, they aren't responsible for anything. In Alberta, you're responsible if you don't hand expose everything within 1 metre of the markings. Of course, it's cheaper to take chances than to do that.
Which is fine until you pull up a yellow plastic pipe....
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As far as the people whining about dot pitch, you're a dumbass if you want to sit a foot away from this thing. That's not what it's made for.
Advantages over a projector? Very wide viewable angle, and it's not a reflected picture like a projector is, so the picture doesn't wash out in ambient light.
Advantages over a projection TV? They are very thin, only 5-6 inches thick, so you can hang them on walls like a picture. Just don't use those little plastic anchors, mount it into the studs, please. They are a lot lighter than a CRT the same size, but they are a tad expensive, so you don't want it falling off the wall.
For the /. crowd, a 32-inch plasma that Fujitsu just released might be a touch more realistic. Those go for about $3000. Imagine cleaning off your desk and hanging that on the wall in front of you. It would be great until someone walked down the hall and started whining about the dot pitch....
If you are taking that much in the long term, you're not using the drug anymore, you're abusing it.
Interesting point of view. I personally have no trouble stealing from thieves. Even granting your point when you call it theft, (even though it's not theft), I don't see how that makes me cheap or immoral. If people deal fairly with me, I will deal fairly with them. I don't screw people over for the fun of it. I just like screwing them back when they screw me.
If they had been playing fair in the first place, Napster would have never happened. The whole chickens coming home to roost thing, y'know?
Good Lord! No sex, no alcohol, no tobacco, no tea, no coffee, no pornography, no foul language, etc. What kind of university is this? Where are the life skills? How am I supposed to get a job in the real world if I don't know how to drink coffee or screw my secretary...Time to apply to Notre Dame instead. I heard that Catholics know how to party!
How the fuck did this end up with a 4? You say the same thing most other people have already said, but add the word Dilber [sic] in there, is that right?
I always knew Karma was random...this just proves it.
They are both the bad guy. The advertisers are guilty of bad taste, and the estates are guilty of bad judgement. I wonder what Lou Gehrig would say if he knew his farewell speech was being used to hawk cell phones or internet services...maybe he'd be making some modifications to his last will and testament?
What next, Jesus and Mohammed getting together for a Budweiser with those "Whazzup" retards? It's proably already in the works, and that would piss me off too, because everyone knows Jesus was a wine drinker.
You thought that the ads with Martin Luther King and Lou Gehrig in them were tasteful? I almost puked. There is something disgusting and slimy happening when a company takes a part of one of the most well known civil rights speeches in American history and puts it in a commerical to try to sell fucking cell phones. The same thing with Lou Gehrig's speech...Alcatel has ensured that I will never ever buy from them for this.
Having said that, the estate of Martin Luther King and I assume the estate of Lou Gehrig also did approve the ads. Why? They got paid.
You are right, "War of the Worlds" wasn't a parody. I didn't make my point as clear as I should have. What I was trying to say was that you can't let the public, whatever the hell that is, to be the ones to decide what parody is or isn't. Just as you shouldn't hold Orson Welles responsible for psychological damage that may have occured because people thought "War of the Worlds" was a newscast, you can't hold Corley responsible for the fact that the public is too dumb to realize that this is a joke.
About getting duped by war of the worlds....I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have fallen for little men from Mars attacking. Call me a skeptic, but I would have thought that something was up. Not saying I wouldn't have loaded my rifle just in case.....
So, according to Bernstein, you're only allowed to use parody when you are sure that people will realize it's a joke?
Looks like it's time to dig up Orson Welles and sue him. All those idiots who actually thought that Martians were invading must have a case, right? Because apparently it wasn't clear to the idio...I mean public that it was a hoax.
When is this going to end? It's getting ridiculous.
This is 2001. I want thought control. I remember reading Firefox when I was a kid and thinking how cool that would be. Plus, no carpal tunnel worries!
Who promised us HDTV years ago. I still don't have it. And now, I don't want it anyways. Besides the occasional sports event and Simpsons episodes, there isn't much I want to watch anyways.
How long is it going to be before people from NBC come into your house, put you in a straightjacket and clip your eyelids open ala "A Clockwork Orange"? After all, they are paying for the ads, so we damn well better watch them, right? Even if we don't want to?
"I'm sorry sir, you can't take those clips off your eyes...that would violate the terms of the amendments that President Gates tacked onto the DMCA. And no, you can't gouge them out either. Enjoy the next half hour of brainless sitcom we are about to show."
I've been the dipshit in the backhoe. I've also been the dipshit digging for fiber lines by hand. In my experience, it's usually the utility marker who messes up. Have you ever read one of the forms you get when have a utility locate done? It reads like a EULA. Basically, they aren't responsible for anything. In Alberta, you're responsible if you don't hand expose everything within 1 metre of the markings. Of course, it's cheaper to take chances than to do that. Which is fine until you pull up a yellow plastic pipe....