We have a 42" plasma since 2007 without problem. The limit in lifespan I guess will be a problem eventually, although not the killer. I guess it's that I expect to upgrade TVs by the end of it, preferably to 4k resolution.
The bigger problem is electric usage. This monster uses ~335 watts. My older early 00's HD projection 60" TV uses ~140 watts. Electricity in my area is really expensive in the meantime so this is just a no go.
I know my LED computer monitors use 33% less than even my same sized fluorescent based LCD monitors, so I expect significant enough savings when an if I do upgrade as this is in the main family use with a lot of use. That plus the wife is pushing for an ultra slim model, that would seem to preclud plasma I guess.
Everything manmade is art. I would say cars are a finer art than most paintings in a wall of a museum, since it touches and inspires more people.
But since art is everything (enough people claim), calling something art conversely isn't elevating it, which is what most people want, a pompous label validating either the work or themselves for liking it.
Ebert would have been better off saying that Video Games Can Never Be Cinematic. That's a more defendable position. They have cinematic elements (film-like sequences) but the freedom of the player and increasingly multiple players pretty much ensures more chaos than the order demanded by the art.
I would settle for people learning some more respect for the blue collar jobs amongst us. I suspect the countries with a higher proportion of "dull weirdos" in relation to "idea guys" will be the more prosperous ones in the future. As the old saying goes, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Idea guys are great, but they're like the 1% inspiration. Too many of them around, and you have the "too many chiefs, not enough indians" problem rather quickly.
I have books from the 1880s that are just falling apart despite decent storage. Can they be copied flawlessly or will the damage alway be apparent? And how much effort to copy them well?
Electronic books are extremely resource intensive and require a massive amount of well-maintained centralised infrastructure. It's a huge price to pay for the convenience of "being slightly lighter".
I think making paper and ink, printing and distributing books, and then moving them over and over again, sending them, keeping them in libraries that are heated/air conditioned to some degree, etc are probably quite a bit more resource intensive per book. Newspapers more so. And you know the stories about airlines saving a pound per passenger in some way, unnoticeable to the individual or even all that much per flight, but saving millions per year? I bet the individual transport of books vs ereaders works the same way on gas.
The resource cost per book is linear. Each book adds rougly the same among per page. E-book have a big upfront resource cost for each ereader, and then it sinks down to almost nothing per book.
And yes, an ereader requires some energy to read. But considering a good amount of time some lighting is required to read, the ereader is quite neglible in comparison.
I too, will be sad when things are only digital. But it's more to the nature of copyright vs the nature of digital itself. But I think purely resource wise, you are on the wrong side of the debate. I can't see how paper wins over books in that scenario. The extreme case would be newspapers, and the gas in aggregate that is saved by so many people not picking one up, carrying one around, recycling, getting one delivered on a daily basis, etc must be enormous.
As an avid rider, I think the most dangerous part of biking are all those people that follow rules for pedestrians when it suits them and rules for road traffic when it suits them. As a driver, I'm 5x more cautious with a biker around than a pedestrian, because they are so unpredictable and impatient.
That kinda bothers me the first thing I see is Holodeck technology in that vid. In season 1 of TNG, it was described as fairly new tech, of course that got retconned in Voyager as Janeway reminisces about using one as a child. Now it's in TOS era? I'm one of the few that actually liked Enterprise but even there it bothered me how they didn't make things primitive enough (having a transporter for one, no matter how leery of it they were) because it feels like the writers can't make do without these toys or imaginative enough to make a logical progression of tech. Of course, it starts feeling like the future stops advancing in a couple hundred years, other than being able to go to a higher warp.
While I hesitate pushing the mythbusters as conclusive (sometimes their scientific method is atrocious), I recommend watching their Hindenburg segment. Seems like it would have burned with or without the powder coating although that made it extra harsh.
Several years ago, my first SSD drive was OCZ, and I found out some time later that once filled more than half full, the drive started stuttering (data wise), becoming notably much slower than a hdd drive when writing and it was due to OCZ using a cheap and shitty controller. No fixing it, since it was garbage by design. For a little more money, I could have gotten a quality drive from someone else. And that's I did, and I swore off OCZ forever.
Basically Steve Jobs vs Steve Wozniak. Yet I would argue true geniuses need the support structure the Steve Jobs/Edisons/etc can provide to realize their potential.
I'll note that Einstein was against donating his brain to science, so we're still violating this man's wishes, unfortunately.
Not really. Duck tape was actually a generic term from early in the 20th century coming from duck cloth to a variety of strip products using duck cloth backing, some with adhesive, some not.. It fell out of use and was trademarked first in the 1970s, after ductape in fact.
After the war, the duck tape product was sold in hardware stores for household repairs. The Melvin A. Anderson Company of Cleveland, Ohio, acquired the rights to the tape in 1950.[12] It was commonly used in construction to wrap air ducts.[16] Following this application, the name "duct tape" came into use in the 1950s, along with tape products that were colored silvery gray like tin ductwork. Specialized heat- and cold-resistant tapes were developed for heating and air-conditioning ducts. By 1960 a St. Louis, Missouri, HVAC company, Albert Arno, Inc., trademarked the name "Ductape" for their "flame-resistant" duct tape, capable of holding together at 350–400 F (177–204 C).[18]
In 1971, Jack Kahl bought the Anderson firm and renamed it Manco.[12] In 1975, Kahl rebranded the duct tape made by his company. Because the previously used generic term "duck tape" had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand "Duck Tape" and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo. In 1979, the Duck Tape marketing plan involved sending out greeting cards with the duck branding, four times a year, to 32,000 hardware managers. This mass of communication combined with colorful, convenient packaging helped Duck Tape become popular. From a near-zero customer base Manco eventually controlled 40% of the duct tape market in the US.[13][19]
Someone who would smash a $1000 computer to gain $1000 for himself is deemed less contemptible than the one would do it for $1 for himself.
I don't see why that is. You're still costing someone $1000, theft, fraud, whatever you like to call it. What the thief makes in end effect should be irrelevant. It's not like Bernie Madoff is a better guy because he got away with only a fraction of what his pyramid scheme stole.
Are you fucking kidding me? The first one had it's plot holes but it was okay and some stuff only struck you after you walked out of the theater.
The second one was pathetic for anyone with half a brain during viewing. The beginning started well enough until the attack/secret mission, then it was all swiss cheese. Just for example: the head admiral is building a ship 3x the size of anything they have with next to no crew needed, and Scotty can fly to the shipyard from earth in a couple hours, and get in a construction patrol with no big problem.... but it's super secret? And this same admiral secretly puts Khan's men in missiles as some type of ransome rather than holding onto them himself?
And a million WTFs!
It was eyecandy, it was your typical (for the last 10-15 years) epic movie in the vein of Iron Man, etc with Star Trek simply as the setting. Pretty, glitzy, and uninspiring. It sucked to think about.
It made Avatar seem like a written masterpiece, because in reality man going native was a much older theme than Dances with Wolves and it held up under it's own weight.
Was the big problem with Star Wars that it didn't have enough action or glitz and glamor? I don't think so.
Paul Sleman, Colin H. Livingstone, Ernest S. Martin and James E. West successfully lobbied Congress for a federal charter for the BSA–partly as a way to deal with competition from the Lone Scouts of America,[24] which President Woodrow Wilson signed on June 15, 1916
Good old capitalism, when you can't deal with competition, you bribe, er, "lobby" various legislative/government officials to put them out of business.
The BSA is not some poor group that is "forced" to do anything here by big bad government copyright law.
Both the Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of America have a charter from the United States congress.
Maybe having those charters should subject them to being subject to certain civil rights laws as a public organization rather than allowed to be discriminatory like a private group has the perogative to be.
That's because exposure to shrapnel is pretty unlikely. Exposure to women will happen. Women are not fantasy and we interact with them every day and it would be nice if they weren't treated like objects of desire 24/7 rather than the between 9pm-3am that it is supposed to be.
I'm waiting for the punchline here, because nudity is pervasive in European media (at least when I was growing up) and I got desensitized to nipples. They're about as exciting as men's nipples, like the nipples I seen in the mirror every day. It's actually shockingly sad you would compare a simple nipple to gory body shrapnel.
I mean, you could take your argument and apply it in favor of women wearing burkas.
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We have a 42" plasma since 2007 without problem. The limit in lifespan I guess will be a problem eventually, although not the killer. I guess it's that I expect to upgrade TVs by the end of it, preferably to 4k resolution.
The bigger problem is electric usage. This monster uses ~335 watts. My older early 00's HD projection 60" TV uses ~140 watts. Electricity in my area is really expensive in the meantime so this is just a no go.
I know my LED computer monitors use 33% less than even my same sized fluorescent based LCD monitors, so I expect significant enough savings when an if I do upgrade as this is in the main family use with a lot of use. That plus the wife is pushing for an ultra slim model, that would seem to preclud plasma I guess.
Everything manmade is art. I would say cars are a finer art than most paintings in a wall of a museum, since it touches and inspires more people.
But since art is everything (enough people claim), calling something art conversely isn't elevating it, which is what most people want, a pompous label validating either the work or themselves for liking it.
Ebert would have been better off saying that Video Games Can Never Be Cinematic. That's a more defendable position. They have cinematic elements (film-like sequences) but the freedom of the player and increasingly multiple players pretty much ensures more chaos than the order demanded by the art.
I would settle for people learning some more respect for the blue collar jobs amongst us. I suspect the countries with a higher proportion of "dull weirdos" in relation to "idea guys" will be the more prosperous ones in the future. As the old saying goes, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Idea guys are great, but they're like the 1% inspiration. Too many of them around, and you have the "too many chiefs, not enough indians" problem rather quickly.
I have books from the 1880s that are just falling apart despite decent storage. Can they be copied flawlessly or will the damage alway be apparent? And how much effort to copy them well?
I think making paper and ink, printing and distributing books, and then moving them over and over again, sending them, keeping them in libraries that are heated/air conditioned to some degree, etc are probably quite a bit more resource intensive per book. Newspapers more so. And you know the stories about airlines saving a pound per passenger in some way, unnoticeable to the individual or even all that much per flight, but saving millions per year? I bet the individual transport of books vs ereaders works the same way on gas.
The resource cost per book is linear. Each book adds rougly the same among per page. E-book have a big upfront resource cost for each ereader, and then it sinks down to almost nothing per book.
And yes, an ereader requires some energy to read. But considering a good amount of time some lighting is required to read, the ereader is quite neglible in comparison.
I too, will be sad when things are only digital. But it's more to the nature of copyright vs the nature of digital itself. But I think purely resource wise, you are on the wrong side of the debate. I can't see how paper wins over books in that scenario. The extreme case would be newspapers, and the gas in aggregate that is saved by so many people not picking one up, carrying one around, recycling, getting one delivered on a daily basis, etc must be enormous.
As an avid rider, I think the most dangerous part of biking are all those people that follow rules for pedestrians when it suits them and rules for road traffic when it suits them. As a driver, I'm 5x more cautious with a biker around than a pedestrian, because they are so unpredictable and impatient.
That kinda bothers me the first thing I see is Holodeck technology in that vid. In season 1 of TNG, it was described as fairly new tech, of course that got retconned in Voyager as Janeway reminisces about using one as a child. Now it's in TOS era? I'm one of the few that actually liked Enterprise but even there it bothered me how they didn't make things primitive enough (having a transporter for one, no matter how leery of it they were) because it feels like the writers can't make do without these toys or imaginative enough to make a logical progression of tech. Of course, it starts feeling like the future stops advancing in a couple hundred years, other than being able to go to a higher warp.
While I hesitate pushing the mythbusters as conclusive (sometimes their scientific method is atrocious), I recommend watching their Hindenburg segment. Seems like it would have burned with or without the powder coating although that made it extra harsh.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/hindenburg-minimyth.htm
Well, until Uefi fucks that option over as well.
Several years ago, my first SSD drive was OCZ, and I found out some time later that once filled more than half full, the drive started stuttering (data wise), becoming notably much slower than a hdd drive when writing and it was due to OCZ using a cheap and shitty controller. No fixing it, since it was garbage by design. For a little more money, I could have gotten a quality drive from someone else. And that's I did, and I swore off OCZ forever.
The american airlines should just carry things to their logical conclusion, sedate everyone, and then stack them like firewood.
Heh, I actually don't like working on macs.
My iPad has higher resolution than my desktop: 2048x1536, whereas my computer has been stuck on 1920x1080 for years.
Otherwise I agree.
Why does this have to be on anything but the driver display? At worst, puke it out onto a SD card.
Basically Steve Jobs vs Steve Wozniak. Yet I would argue true geniuses need the support structure the Steve Jobs/Edisons/etc can provide to realize their potential.
I'll note that Einstein was against donating his brain to science, so we're still violating this man's wishes, unfortunately.
Not really. Duck tape was actually a generic term from early in the 20th century coming from duck cloth to a variety of strip products using duck cloth backing, some with adhesive, some not.. It fell out of use and was trademarked first in the 1970s, after ductape in fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
I don't see why that is. You're still costing someone $1000, theft, fraud, whatever you like to call it. What the thief makes in end effect should be irrelevant. It's not like Bernie Madoff is a better guy because he got away with only a fraction of what his pyramid scheme stole.
And seriously, make time for him. This is not a substitute. It's a way to contact him on the weekdays.
Are you fucking kidding me? The first one had it's plot holes but it was okay and some stuff only struck you after you walked out of the theater.
The second one was pathetic for anyone with half a brain during viewing. The beginning started well enough until the attack/secret mission, then it was all swiss cheese. Just for example: the head admiral is building a ship 3x the size of anything they have with next to no crew needed, and Scotty can fly to the shipyard from earth in a couple hours, and get in a construction patrol with no big problem.... but it's super secret? And this same admiral secretly puts Khan's men in missiles as some type of ransome rather than holding onto them himself?
And a million WTFs!
It was eyecandy, it was your typical (for the last 10-15 years) epic movie in the vein of Iron Man, etc with Star Trek simply as the setting. Pretty, glitzy, and uninspiring. It sucked to think about.
It made Avatar seem like a written masterpiece, because in reality man going native was a much older theme than Dances with Wolves and it held up under it's own weight.
Was the big problem with Star Wars that it didn't have enough action or glitz and glamor? I don't think so.
It's not good today. Smartphones consume a lot of power (relatively). 5w aint going to cut it for fast charging. Fuck this shit.
Yes, but the question is "What is the smallest unit in existence?" Will it be atoms? Quarks? Something even smaller we have not even theorized yet?
That sounds like a contract. Last time I checked, you had to be of legal age to enter into a contract.
Learn some history, BSA lobbied for a charter from Congress specifically to get the competition out of business:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America#Federally_chartered_corporation
Good old capitalism, when you can't deal with competition, you bribe, er, "lobby" various legislative/government officials to put them out of business.
The BSA is not some poor group that is "forced" to do anything here by big bad government copyright law.
Maybe having those charters should subject them to being subject to certain civil rights laws as a public organization rather than allowed to be discriminatory like a private group has the perogative to be.
I'm waiting for the punchline here, because nudity is pervasive in European media (at least when I was growing up) and I got desensitized to nipples. They're about as exciting as men's nipples, like the nipples I seen in the mirror every day. It's actually shockingly sad you would compare a simple nipple to gory body shrapnel.
I mean, you could take your argument and apply it in favor of women wearing burkas.