Actually, how many people do you know that spend $2000 for a 60' TV and know one attacks their practical use. On the other hand you can spend $1200 for twice the image size.
If you are a cheap-skate like myself, you spend $150 and you have a 100' screen.
and let it ride a bit more man. Im talking about the recent audio trend and mp3's. 5 years ago i bet somebody was trying to convert their whole collection of cd's to mp3. now its a no brainer, and you can store the WHOLE collection on a drive and its quick. and if you want to spend a day and back the WHOLE collection up to DVD then you can. Next year you can back the whole collection up to a media format in an hour. etc.
Wait another year for storage to increase, then definitely go digital. every 2 or 3 years move the digital collection to the current digital storage/video format. 5 years from now your whole collection will be riding around in your wallet on a smart card and if youre worried about the format, you can update/re-archive the whole collection in an hour.
So again, its been 20 years, another 1 to 2 wont hurt. do it then, it will be easy.
so far no one has brought up a slight derivative of this problem that i am often concerned with. im in a slightly rarer position of being able to replace myself with machines, so to speak. i started a job wherein i had nearly 40 hours a week worth of it/data entry type duties to fulfill, but putting my engineering skills to use, i have managed to hone those 40 hours a week down to about 5. from the top, it looks like im a busy bee, but really the scrapers, crons, scripts and scripts that watch scripts, etc. are busy, meanwhile im watching tv. what is my moral duty? and those others in the same situation?
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Actually, how many people do you know that spend $2000 for a 60' TV and know one attacks their practical use. On the other hand you can spend $1200 for twice the image size.
If you are a cheap-skate like myself, you spend $150 and you have a 100' screen.
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and let it ride a bit more man. Im talking about the recent audio trend and mp3's. 5 years ago i bet somebody was trying to convert their whole collection of cd's to mp3. now its a no brainer, and you can store the WHOLE collection on a drive and its quick. and if you want to spend a day and back the WHOLE collection up to DVD then you can. Next year you can back the whole collection up to a media format in an hour. etc. Wait another year for storage to increase, then definitely go digital. every 2 or 3 years move the digital collection to the current digital storage/video format. 5 years from now your whole collection will be riding around in your wallet on a smart card and if youre worried about the format, you can update/re-archive the whole collection in an hour. So again, its been 20 years, another 1 to 2 wont hurt. do it then, it will be easy.
so far no one has brought up a slight derivative of this problem that i am often concerned with. im in a slightly rarer position of being able to replace myself with machines, so to speak. i started a job wherein i had nearly 40 hours a week worth of it/data entry type duties to fulfill, but putting my engineering skills to use, i have managed to hone those 40 hours a week down to about 5. from the top, it looks like im a busy bee, but really the scrapers, crons, scripts and scripts that watch scripts, etc. are busy, meanwhile im watching tv. what is my moral duty? and those others in the same situation?