I must agree. Plasma Rocks. We have a 42" unit that cost only AUD$2688 (about USD2100) and I continue to be blown away by the PQ. Half Life is now 30k-60k hours. LCD's have higher colour saturation but all seem to suffer from edge artifacts. DLP reverse projection are yuk (mainly in the viewing angle) Forward projection is great if you have light control on your room. Plasma is the best current technology. I predict LCD will eventually take over, then perhaps OLED in 5-10 years.
Ultimately the IRAQ war is about dollar hegemony. In 1999 Sadam started selling Oil in Euros which caused Bush's minders to have a fit. The USD is Fiat, as are all foreign currencies now. Fiat means its only backed by a govenments goodwill, and not Gold as it used to be before currencies floated in the 70's. The USA needs almost $2 Billion/day to flow in, which only comes from people buying US securities such as stocks, bonds and currency. It has managed to do this up until now buy making the major oil producers price oil soley in USD. So if Australia wants to buy a ship of Arabian oil, Australia must buy USD from the open market by selling goods, services or its own currency. See how important it is now to the USA to ensure oil is controlled, because it artificially keeps their fiat dollar valuable. There are now roumers IRAN will start selling oil in EUROS, and perhaps Russia. There has also been a marked slow down by foreign governments buying US dollars and assets. So what may happen?
First interest rates will start going up (to try attract more investment in US assets), but this could tank the overinflated US property market. This is a real possibility because of the almost zero savings in the US, and the loss of blue collar jobs. A tanking property market will mean consumer spending cuts off. This causes loss of confidence by foreign investors and a possible run on the dollar. The US must print lots of real and electronic money to pay its debtors who own yeilding assets such as bonds. Thus starts a weimer like hyperinflation. Will it happen? Well nothing is guarunteed, but I'd be betting in the next 5 years, the US enconomy will tank big time causing a lot of pain and wealth redistribution in many western countries.
For a previous poster, no weight sensing is ever used. It is always induction loops.
Queensland exports STREAMS http://www.mainroads.qld.gov.au/MRWEB/Prod/Content.nsf/DOCINDEX/STREAMS
This allows both computer algorithms and humans to change each traffic light in the entire city. Thus if flow problems build up, humans can intevene to change flow patterns.
In fact, it is faster to travel some of our main roads in peak hour than it is late at night when lights are generally switched to local control mode rather than coperative streaming.
Note our city (Brisbane) is now also changing over to LED traffic lights (they look great!)
Its always amazed me that ever since a heatsink was wacked on a CPU, that an internal temperature shutdown circuit was not implemented. I use sub $1.00 chips in designs that have this feature, yet a $400 CPU doesn't.... and now all AMD is giving is a crummy diode junction!! I 'spose in the end, a thermally destroyed CPU means one more sale!!
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I must agree.
Plasma Rocks. We have a 42" unit that cost only AUD$2688 (about USD2100) and I continue to be blown away by the PQ. Half Life is now 30k-60k hours.
LCD's have higher colour saturation but all seem to suffer from edge artifacts.
DLP reverse projection are yuk (mainly in the viewing angle)
Forward projection is great if you have light control on your room.
Plasma is the best current technology.
I predict LCD will eventually take over, then perhaps OLED in 5-10 years.
So does posting anonymously make you an anonymous gutless coward?
Use an electric razor!! I changed over from razors a year ago and won't be looking back!
Ultimately the IRAQ war is about dollar hegemony. In 1999 Sadam started selling Oil in Euros which caused Bush's minders to have a fit.
The USD is Fiat, as are all foreign currencies now. Fiat means its only backed by a govenments goodwill, and not Gold as it used to be before currencies floated in the 70's.
The USA needs almost $2 Billion/day to flow in, which only comes from people buying US securities such as stocks, bonds and currency. It has managed to do this up until now buy making the major oil producers price oil soley in USD. So if Australia wants to buy a ship of Arabian oil, Australia must buy USD from the open market by selling goods, services or its own currency. See how important it is now to the USA to ensure oil is controlled, because it artificially keeps their fiat dollar valuable.
There are now roumers IRAN will start selling oil in EUROS, and perhaps Russia. There has also been a marked slow down by foreign governments buying US dollars and assets. So what may happen?
First interest rates will start going up (to try attract more investment in US assets), but this could tank the overinflated US property market. This is a real possibility because of the almost zero savings in the US, and the loss of blue collar jobs. A tanking property market will mean consumer spending cuts off. This causes loss of confidence by foreign investors and a possible run on the dollar. The US must print lots of real and electronic money to pay its debtors who own yeilding assets such as bonds. Thus starts a weimer like hyperinflation.
Will it happen?
Well nothing is guarunteed, but I'd be betting in the next 5 years, the US enconomy will tank big time causing a lot of pain and wealth redistribution in many western countries.
For a previous poster, no weight sensing is ever used. It is always induction loops.t .nsf/DOCINDEX/STREAMS
Queensland exports STREAMS http://www.mainroads.qld.gov.au/MRWEB/Prod/Conten
This allows both computer algorithms and humans to change each traffic light in the entire city. Thus if flow problems build up, humans can intevene to change flow patterns. In fact, it is faster to travel some of our main roads in peak hour than it is late at night when lights are generally switched to local control mode rather than coperative streaming. Note our city (Brisbane) is now also changing over to LED traffic lights (they look great!)
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No thanks Bill....
Its always amazed me that ever since a heatsink was wacked on a CPU, that an internal temperature shutdown circuit was not implemented. I use sub $1.00 chips in designs that have this feature, yet a $400 CPU doesn't.... and now all AMD is giving is a crummy diode junction!! I 'spose in the end, a thermally destroyed CPU means one more sale!!