High end consumers have often wanted something unaffordable or unavailable to the masses. In the eighties it was Laserdisc. For a time in the nineties it was DVD, and for while recently it was 1080p Blu-Ray. For awhile it will be 3d Blu-Ray, but that is also coming to the masses.
I predict that movie-theatre-resolution home video will be the next thing. It'll take a few years and will probably start out literally with professional projectors in homes, and then someone will make a high-end consumer-grade version in the same resolution. Eventually TVs will also come in that resolution. Once the videophiles have gotten it and demand slows then the manufacturers will lower prices to get everyone to buy them, reaping the rewards. And the beat goes on.
That argument has been made for decades and has never been proven. Both are interrelated and innovations in either impact the other.
IMHO, Sony should get back to quality comsumer and commercial products again. Format changes have demonstrated that there is always a new market in media players, and people will spend their money if they think the device will do what they expect.
I see one bully here and the top google result is what I would term "blowback". If I felt sorry for anyone, it would be for his children and anyone else with that name who has nothing to do with it.
When I first read that, I thought you had written "brokeback".
I'm confident that even with expensive and difficult processes it'll still happen. Look at some of the treatments for Chron's Disease- there's a med that a friend of mine uses that's massively complex and extremely expensive, but allows her to essentially live a normal life. It's thousands of dollars a month, so something half the price could still be very profitable if it still works properly.
Certainly a lot of generics manufacturers might avoid the more complex drugs, but plenty will take a look, and possibly new companies will get in on the act too.
Back when I was an avid swing dancer, I met a gal who thought that if she learned to do something while drunk then she'd always be able to do it well while drunk.
I guess she thought she was a good swing dancer while drunk, but I couldn't tell the difference between her dancing and her stumbling around drunk...
If you're confused about what a BBS is in general, it was a computer with a modem and automated software designed to answer incoming modem calls and to allow the dialer to interact with the computer. Such computers were called Bulletin Board Systems.
If you're confused about why girl BBSers were messed up, toward the end of the craze, multiline BBSes became commonplace, and teleconference features developed that allowed for real-time text-based chat, similar to IRC. BBS communities got bigger and more diverse as modems became cheaper or became standard equipment in computers, and suddenly non-techie or minimal-techie people, including underage teenage girls, started using BBSes. As the BBS get-together or "GT" became a social event, suddenly a whole bunch of different groups of people were combined but due to the newness of the technology and of the cultural change, rules had yet to really evolve, oversight was nil, and parents weren't really aware of what was going on. A lot of these girls were idolized, some were stalked, and a number were undoubtedly taken advantage of. Essentially many of the girls from the BBS days that experienced this emotional stunting never really recovered from it.
When I started dating I was interested in geeky girls. As I caught only the very tail end of the BBS scene and was not in a position to go to GTs, I didn't know how messed up it was, nor did I know how damaged these women were in part based on their experiences in that scene. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the techie girls of the late nineties were products of this last gasp of the BBS, so pretty much all of the techie girls that I met suffered from this, and were definitely not well suited to relationships.
Nowadays, the ubiquitous nature of the Internet in the lives of the population in general has helped to reduce the ratio of damaged people to everyone else, but it's probably still there, lurking in the background.
I don't really see why that would be. Either you find them or you don't. If you did find them, then I don't think it should matter what medium you used to find them (or if you climbed mountains to get to them).
Because it's not a 0/1 or off/on proposition. If you want to break it down to a formula, generally romantic love = familiarity + affection + lust. You only develop familiarity because you take the time and effort to become familiar with people. Affection can develop through familiarity as well, as one gets used to having someone around, wants to be around that person when they're not around, and misses them when they're not around.
It's a lot easier to get to know people in groups for many of us, and it gives us the opportunity to find out if we have affection for one another before we have the pressure of one-on-one dating. I hypothesize that it's a big contributor to affairs, when one is surrounded by coworkers that appeal and spend a lot more time with them than with one's own spouse or significant other.
I've found that most of what's worthwhile in life requires effort. I have a pretty good job, but it required effort to get it. I have a good marriage; it required effort to find and court my wife, and it requires effort to maintain the relationship. I have hobbies that I enjoy, and they generally require effort. If someone wants to find a soulmate by filling out an online questionnaire and submitting a photo, they can generally expect results comparable to the effort they put into the process.
With the exception of my first girlfriend, who was introduced to me by a mutual friend, every relationship I've had has been through putting forth the effort to talk to women, such that they get to know me as I attempt to get to know them.
If one wants to put the same effort as a game of Guess Who? then I guess that's their business, but I don't think they get much latitude to complain when the process doesn't work.
I think you missed the, "...if you don't want to." part. There are people of one's persuasion all over the place, but women generally lacking in older segments (ie non-anime) of Fandom, in particularly nerdy computer enthusiasm, in in-the-flesh role-playing gaming, and lots of other hobbies. One can engage in the masculine hobby of modding out old cars for performance and attract women sometimes. Believe it or not, there's a lot of math and insight required to actually achieve goals in those arenas. I know because I've done that for a hobby once I soured on computers, having made them my profession.
...it's television, movies, glamour magazines, and many other forms of "art" and "culture" that are very heavily pushed upon a market.
It's been my experience that many women that met the physical/appearance standards that are promoted to us were at minimum highly narcissistic, and at worst bat-shit-fucking-crazy. It took me awhile to understand this, and on a techie note, to understand how damaged the former-BBSer women of the early to mid nineties at the tail end of the craze were. Generally damaged, each and every one, and we're not talking scratch-and-dent here either.
People, the dating pool is the pool of people who like to do the same things that you like to do. If there are no eligible people in your social circles, then you need to expand your social circles somewhat. That doesn't mean doing masculine or effeminate things if you don't want to, but you have to do something that you like to do that those you seek also like to do.
In my case it was swing and ballroom dance. It worked so well that I married and MIT graduate.
Until they allay the concerns of being irradiated I don't think I'll be visiting Australia.
Yes, the amount of radiation is theoretically small, but if one flies a lot, getting irradiated frequently is not something I wish to subject myself to, nor is something that I should be forced to undergo, especially when there are no good studies of the effects of the radiation from these machines.
On the one hand I don't want doctors to cram for the exam or to "learn the test".
On the other hand, I've taken standards tests myself for technology subjects, and there's often a lot of inane questions that don't really apply to the actual day-to-day job.
I guess that many organizations are guilty of this. There are probably a half-dozen test-prep organizations for high school students, technical learning, non-technical government licensing, and the like.
One could always split existing hardware between a couple of sites if there's enough duplicate equipment, and suffer moderate outages instead of full-blown darkness, then once the switchover has happened, move the rest.
Or set up a virtual network between the two banks of hardware at different physical locations, and switch the traffic routing and whatever other addressing is necessary, and once the new location is up and working and backfeeding the old location, then down the old location and move the rest...
But I agree, it's stupid to use DRM for a purchased game, especially beyond initial activation at the time of installation. If I remember correctly, the id folks intentionally removed DRM once they'd sold enough copies of their software, and actually credited piracy with increasing the popularity of their games to the point that they became a known force...
I guess I look at piracy differently. Sure, there are some people who would have bought a product that now won't, but there are lots and lots of people who end up with pirated copies of something that never would have purchased it in the first place, or never would have purchased it at a price that the seller is willing to sell it for. One cannot count those kinds of pirates as lost sales, since there never would have been a sale. There is a third case though, where someone pirates something and exposes their associates to it, who then go out and buy it because it appeals to them.
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High end consumers have often wanted something unaffordable or unavailable to the masses. In the eighties it was Laserdisc. For a time in the nineties it was DVD, and for while recently it was 1080p Blu-Ray. For awhile it will be 3d Blu-Ray, but that is also coming to the masses.
I predict that movie-theatre-resolution home video will be the next thing. It'll take a few years and will probably start out literally with professional projectors in homes, and then someone will make a high-end consumer-grade version in the same resolution. Eventually TVs will also come in that resolution. Once the videophiles have gotten it and demand slows then the manufacturers will lower prices to get everyone to buy them, reaping the rewards. And the beat goes on.
That argument has been made for decades and has never been proven. Both are interrelated and innovations in either impact the other.
IMHO, Sony should get back to quality comsumer and commercial products again. Format changes have demonstrated that there is always a new market in media players, and people will spend their money if they think the device will do what they expect.
When I first read that, I thought you had written "brokeback".
Of course, given proper context...
I'm confident that even with expensive and difficult processes it'll still happen. Look at some of the treatments for Chron's Disease- there's a med that a friend of mine uses that's massively complex and extremely expensive, but allows her to essentially live a normal life. It's thousands of dollars a month, so something half the price could still be very profitable if it still works properly.
Certainly a lot of generics manufacturers might avoid the more complex drugs, but plenty will take a look, and possibly new companies will get in on the act too.
Back when I was an avid swing dancer, I met a gal who thought that if she learned to do something while drunk then she'd always be able to do it well while drunk.
I guess she thought she was a good swing dancer while drunk, but I couldn't tell the difference between her dancing and her stumbling around drunk...
I guess that Parker and Stone were wrong when they had Cartman suck so bad when singing "Oh Holy Night"...
If you're confused about what a BBS is in general, it was a computer with a modem and automated software designed to answer incoming modem calls and to allow the dialer to interact with the computer. Such computers were called Bulletin Board Systems.
If you're confused about why girl BBSers were messed up, toward the end of the craze, multiline BBSes became commonplace, and teleconference features developed that allowed for real-time text-based chat, similar to IRC. BBS communities got bigger and more diverse as modems became cheaper or became standard equipment in computers, and suddenly non-techie or minimal-techie people, including underage teenage girls, started using BBSes. As the BBS get-together or "GT" became a social event, suddenly a whole bunch of different groups of people were combined but due to the newness of the technology and of the cultural change, rules had yet to really evolve, oversight was nil, and parents weren't really aware of what was going on. A lot of these girls were idolized, some were stalked, and a number were undoubtedly taken advantage of. Essentially many of the girls from the BBS days that experienced this emotional stunting never really recovered from it.
When I started dating I was interested in geeky girls. As I caught only the very tail end of the BBS scene and was not in a position to go to GTs, I didn't know how messed up it was, nor did I know how damaged these women were in part based on their experiences in that scene. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the techie girls of the late nineties were products of this last gasp of the BBS, so pretty much all of the techie girls that I met suffered from this, and were definitely not well suited to relationships.
Nowadays, the ubiquitous nature of the Internet in the lives of the population in general has helped to reduce the ratio of damaged people to everyone else, but it's probably still there, lurking in the background.
Because it's not a 0/1 or off/on proposition. If you want to break it down to a formula, generally romantic love = familiarity + affection + lust. You only develop familiarity because you take the time and effort to become familiar with people. Affection can develop through familiarity as well, as one gets used to having someone around, wants to be around that person when they're not around, and misses them when they're not around.
It's a lot easier to get to know people in groups for many of us, and it gives us the opportunity to find out if we have affection for one another before we have the pressure of one-on-one dating. I hypothesize that it's a big contributor to affairs, when one is surrounded by coworkers that appeal and spend a lot more time with them than with one's own spouse or significant other.
Then, "...the only winning move is not to play."
I've found that most of what's worthwhile in life requires effort. I have a pretty good job, but it required effort to get it. I have a good marriage; it required effort to find and court my wife, and it requires effort to maintain the relationship. I have hobbies that I enjoy, and they generally require effort. If someone wants to find a soulmate by filling out an online questionnaire and submitting a photo, they can generally expect results comparable to the effort they put into the process.
With the exception of my first girlfriend, who was introduced to me by a mutual friend, every relationship I've had has been through putting forth the effort to talk to women, such that they get to know me as I attempt to get to know them.
If one wants to put the same effort as a game of Guess Who? then I guess that's their business, but I don't think they get much latitude to complain when the process doesn't work.
I think you missed the, "...if you don't want to." part. There are people of one's persuasion all over the place, but women generally lacking in older segments (ie non-anime) of Fandom, in particularly nerdy computer enthusiasm, in in-the-flesh role-playing gaming, and lots of other hobbies. One can engage in the masculine hobby of modding out old cars for performance and attract women sometimes. Believe it or not, there's a lot of math and insight required to actually achieve goals in those arenas. I know because I've done that for a hobby once I soured on computers, having made them my profession.
...it's television, movies, glamour magazines, and many other forms of "art" and "culture" that are very heavily pushed upon a market.
It's been my experience that many women that met the physical/appearance standards that are promoted to us were at minimum highly narcissistic, and at worst bat-shit-fucking-crazy. It took me awhile to understand this, and on a techie note, to understand how damaged the former-BBSer women of the early to mid nineties at the tail end of the craze were. Generally damaged, each and every one, and we're not talking scratch-and-dent here either.
People, the dating pool is the pool of people who like to do the same things that you like to do. If there are no eligible people in your social circles, then you need to expand your social circles somewhat. That doesn't mean doing masculine or effeminate things if you don't want to, but you have to do something that you like to do that those you seek also like to do.
In my case it was swing and ballroom dance. It worked so well that I married and MIT graduate.
...Zuckerberg et al. don't know what "Leak" means...
Until they allay the concerns of being irradiated I don't think I'll be visiting Australia.
Yes, the amount of radiation is theoretically small, but if one flies a lot, getting irradiated frequently is not something I wish to subject myself to, nor is something that I should be forced to undergo, especially when there are no good studies of the effects of the radiation from these machines.
At least I'm not a member of the AA-AAA...
An organization for drunks who drive...
Don't practice your alliteration on me!
Uh, there's this thing called Residency, which is a big difference compared to IT work...
On the one hand I don't want doctors to cram for the exam or to "learn the test".
On the other hand, I've taken standards tests myself for technology subjects, and there's often a lot of inane questions that don't really apply to the actual day-to-day job.
I guess that many organizations are guilty of this. There are probably a half-dozen test-prep organizations for high school students, technical learning, non-technical government licensing, and the like.
Sounds like the whole thing is a jaw-dropping experience!
Wendy's got rid of my favorite $0.99 Double Stack. BURN THEM!!!
One could always split existing hardware between a couple of sites if there's enough duplicate equipment, and suffer moderate outages instead of full-blown darkness, then once the switchover has happened, move the rest.
Or set up a virtual network between the two banks of hardware at different physical locations, and switch the traffic routing and whatever other addressing is necessary, and once the new location is up and working and backfeeding the old location, then down the old location and move the rest...
But I agree, it's stupid to use DRM for a purchased game, especially beyond initial activation at the time of installation. If I remember correctly, the id folks intentionally removed DRM once they'd sold enough copies of their software, and actually credited piracy with increasing the popularity of their games to the point that they became a known force...
I guess I look at piracy differently. Sure, there are some people who would have bought a product that now won't, but there are lots and lots of people who end up with pirated copies of something that never would have purchased it in the first place, or never would have purchased it at a price that the seller is willing to sell it for. One cannot count those kinds of pirates as lost sales, since there never would have been a sale. There is a third case though, where someone pirates something and exposes their associates to it, who then go out and buy it because it appeals to them.
...of the expression, "I may have Alzheimer's, but at least I don't have Alzheimer's," will change...
How about sound though? When we put in the new dual-pane windows at the previous house we had a marked drop in external sound inside the house.
As close together as many modern tract homes are, I wouldn't want to hear my neighbor fart like I fear would be the case.
I'm thinking that the tract-home builders will start using this new glass for the windows in the cheapass houses they build...
How about a Republican "Standards Document"?
http://whitehouse12.com/republican-party-platform/
http://whitehouse12.com/republican-party-platform/