You mean the rules that sell the same pill for 10 cents in india and five dollars here, then make it illegal to buy those pills for 10 cents and ship them back here and sell them for 20 cents?
You mean the rules that made songs that used to become free after 28 years, still be copyrighted after 100 years?
You mean the system that has consistently denied increases in compensation while giving it self a 540% raise (even while driving companies bankrupt and engaging in massive fraud?) ---
The capitalist system works well when there is a shortage of labor. It really sucks when there is even the slightest glut of labor. Right now we have a bit more than a "slight" glut of labor.
We are competing with virtual slave labor and on top of that the normal capitalist process which should be lowering our cost of living has been aborted by large corporations.
I know three college educated people who haven't been able to find a job for over a year. The jobs are not out there and the companies know it and they are taking advantage of the situation.
It doesn't have to be this miserable- it's all artificial.
Exactly- it could be a paradise where folks work on what they want to work on for luxuries while basics like standard clothing and decent food are provided almost free.
Or it could be a slummy hell where no one can get "money" to buy even basic food and are warehoused and viewed as failures by the folks who are doing okay.
In a normal market, that would lead to lower prices.
Even in an abnormal market, it will lead to lower prices eventually.
(There are also more movies than you can ever see now, more tv shows, more books).
Unless the music, book, movie, etc. is spectacularly special, I'll choose the less expensive one first.
I stopped paying over $10 for DVD's several years ago. Actually, I mostly just stopped buying DVD's as I realized they were clogging up the house and I was never going to watch most of them again.
What's pushing daisies, 44 hours? What's season 4 of "The Guild", an hour? What's How I Met your Mother, "88 hours"? What's Batman, animated series (116 episodes- about 2100 minutes) What's Doc Martin, 24 hours? Everybody's War.. 2 more hours (this was solid) Zombies Anonymous.. 2 more hours (this was awesome)
Dr Horrible is on the list. Even free, there is a lot of stuff ahead of it.
TV comes out of a different time budget than iphone video games for the most part. I play a lot of them 20 minutes as I'm going to bed or I have 10 minutes of downtime (waiting for food at a restaurant, at a friends house and they go to the bathroom, etc.).
I'm completely surprised to find out that the recommended distance for a 52" screen with a high quality blu ray signal is 6.5'. I'm astonished people sit 6.5' from a screen that large. Everyone I know watches their TV's from a couch where their head is at least 10' away from the screen. Even 4000 lines (4x blu ray) in the movie theaters on the really big screens turns in to 1/5" pixels. You can see those easily from 10' away.
A blu ray on those screens would have pixels.8" square. A DVD would have pixels about 1.5" square.
I'm willing to grant that people who buy a screen over 4' diagonal and then watch it from 6.5' away can see a difference between bluray and DVD.
Wow... I'm in Houston, I live in a neighborhood of decent $150k houses, I live 8 miles from downtown. My commute (away from downtown) is 14 minutes. I'm working from home today.
I guess it's not that different- the big difference is on the east and west coasts. Everything is bid way up there.
Your target is 500 meters away, turn slightly left. Your target is 100 meters away, turn slightly up and left. recalculating... Your target is 700 meters behind you, make a uturn and proceed west.
I live in a $150k house when I could "afford" a $240k house. But it will be paid for in 3 years- I won't be 55 and I'll be debt free with a couple hundred grand in retirement, a pension, and decent social security payment (if we get it in the end). I wear my dress shirts twice before I take them to the cleaners unless I stain them. I am considering cutting cable TV for netflix and hulu. I cut off my land line phone until they offered me one for $16 a month with 25 calls per month limit (I use it to find my phone when I lose it). I'm considering cutting off my personal cell phone now that I have a work provided iphone.
My expenses are elsewhere. Charity donations run about $3k a year. That includes (but not every year) red cross, police survivor fund, USO, and relatives in distress financially (lot of that lately). I downhill ski, that runs about $1k a trip (and a ludicrous cost per hour- probably $30 per hour). I buy D&D miniatures (about $500 a year). I can drop $10 on a cigar that I burn up faster than a movie. I have an annual 10 day beach house vacation that usually runs a few grand. I also average a grand a year on wine (and that seems to be increasing slowly as more friends pick up the habit). I probably drop $1k a year on board games too (tho that is decreasing now that I have most of the top games and the new games seem like variations/repeats with new themes). I drop $1k a year on a cellular modem which at most is used 20 days a year. I'm probably going to drop $1k on a cruise next spring.
I used to eat out a lot- I caught and stopped that. I wasn't creating any memories compared to the money I was blowing.
I played Rise of the Triad, Diablo, Doom, Quake, and others TO death and I used to drop about $2k a year on computers but I caught and stopped that (now it's about $1.5k per 3 years).
I don't judge people who spend a lot of money on a big TV. Everyone has to have a hobby. To me, the benefit of DVD's were immediate and obvious. The benefit of Bluray is incremental and teeny. I'm not going to sit 6' from my 52" TV so I can see a difference. I own a 3d bluray player and so far no disks. I got it to play netflix. It was a quality brand (LG) and it was inexpensive (under $150) and had good reviews. I've watched the "HD" netflix content and the difference is imperceptible to me. As I said in the parent post, at one point I read up on the resolving ability of the human eye and did the math and for the way most people I know watch their TV's (over 10') it didn't make a difference on the 46" screens they were getting.
Perhaps when I am ready, I'll upgrade to a wall size screen-- I'll be able to afford it because I'm cheap.
What companies want are cheap slaves. They want to use them like batteries and toss them aside when they get old or sick.
That's why they had laws passed which say labor laws don't apply to computer people (specifically in washington, california, and texas that I know of).
They want 12 hour days. They don't want to pay benefits. They want the work to be accurate.
The executives want no employees, yet still want a mass market they can sell to and get big salaries themselves.
That's ending as the mass market hollows out. Increasingly under 1% of the population takes most the money and doesn't share it. They are destroying their own market by not contributing any employee/customers to it.
Or the math is correct... since Crutchfield recommends sitting 6.5 feet from a 52" screen if you have a high quality signal and no more than 10.8 feet even with a terrible analogue signal.
Why on earth would I need a larger screen? It's big enough as it is and it looks (and sounds) great.
My point is I *CAN'T* tell a difference between 1080i and 1080p, etc.
I used to have the 7 speaker surround and it was just annoying as it required another remote and confused my mom when she came over to dog-sit. And now I have a simple 3 speaker setup that's always on. Not even a sub-woofer any more.
You are an audio/videophile. I get it. It's okay to be an audio/videophile. To measure your vpenis by the resolution of your screen.
I've spent 9 bucks in 7 months. I'm not worried about runaway spending- but if it was WORTH $100, then $100 would be pittance to pay for it (what would that be 8000 hours of entertainment for $100?) Tho actually, $5 bucks of that is an iphone locator. (device locator). It's cool- shows me if I left my iphone at work, home, car, friends house, bar, etc.
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My parent post was on the "arc" you can actually see vs screen size vs distance of screen. Apparently there is a huge crowd of you who buy 55" screens and then plunk them down 8' away on the other side of the coffee table. Okay- resolution makes a difference when it's that close. You want it to feel like a movie theater I guess. I don't. Most of my friends don't. We have 50"ish screens about 10 to 13' away from the TV. TV is something we watch- not something that overwhelms us. That includes my daughter (mid 20's) who has a 46" flat screen 2" thick- and it's across the living room from her couch- so it's about... 12' away.
Apparently some people are sitting under 9' from 70" screens. Holy cow.
The TV or the couch must be in the middle of the room, or else these rooms have an incredibly tiny axis.
My living room is 15' x 12'. My friends living room is 25'x25'. His couch is in the middle of the room, with the 12' area behind it basically unused.
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I went and measured it. My TV is 13' from my head when I'm resting on the couch. It's a foot out from the wall to get that close. That's where it is "comfortable" to me while viewing. I've had friends who took their 50" screen back because it was "too big" and bought smaller screens.
The instructions for the interface took about 15 minutes to wade through.. dynamic energy balancing between weapons, shields, different ship type upgrades, overloaded weapons- looks like a glorious cross between Net Trek and "Star Fleet Battles". Appears purely solo.
Typical good comment: Super Awesome! First game I ever felt I had to write and let others know about. Great Game! Try the light version to see if you like the concept.
Typical bad comment: Game has a lot of potential. I don't get it. Game could be awesome. Too hard. Enemies are overpowered. Needs to be dummed down some. Understanding it is hard.
hehe. I hate it when I make a mistake like that. Which I do more frequently as I get older.
I hope the F-22 fighter pilot is a hot female pilot like in the movies in this case.
I use word daily, I use OO a little less than daily (work reasons). I know OO lacks features that word has... which I don't use in word. That was my point.
What gets me is they are a MULTI billion dollar company and this isn't the first time they've been caught this way to save a few thousand bucks to find/generate new data.
It reminds me of the miserly rich man who says, "how do you think a man like me GOT to be a man like me".
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You mean the rules that sell the same pill for 10 cents in india and five dollars here, then make it illegal to buy those pills for 10 cents and ship them back here and sell them for 20 cents?
You mean the rules that made songs that used to become free after 28 years, still be copyrighted after 100 years?
You mean the system that has consistently denied increases in compensation while giving it self a 540% raise (even while driving companies bankrupt and engaging in massive fraud?)
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The capitalist system works well when there is a shortage of labor. It really sucks when there is even the slightest glut of labor. Right now we have a bit more than a "slight" glut of labor.
We are competing with virtual slave labor and on top of that the normal capitalist process which should be lowering our cost of living has been aborted by large corporations.
I know three college educated people who haven't been able to find a job for over a year. The jobs are not out there and the companies know it and they are taking advantage of the situation.
It doesn't have to be this miserable- it's all artificial.
Exactly- it could be a paradise where folks work on what they want to work on for luxuries while basics like standard clothing and decent food are provided almost free.
Or it could be a slummy hell where no one can get "money" to buy even basic food and are warehoused and viewed as failures by the folks who are doing okay.
No, Mr Anonymous. these cars have drivers in them and are at traffic lights.
I think the drone is moving above the ground car and taking pictures at the same time!
Cool and creepy both!
In a normal market, that would lead to lower prices.
Even in an abnormal market, it will lead to lower prices eventually.
(There are also more movies than you can ever see now, more tv shows, more books).
Unless the music, book, movie, etc. is spectacularly special, I'll choose the less expensive one first.
I stopped paying over $10 for DVD's several years ago. Actually, I mostly just stopped buying DVD's as I realized they were clogging up the house and I was never going to watch most of them again.
The same maroon suburban is there both in street view and the 100' aerial view. I guess the drone follows the street view car around.
Looks like under 100' to me.
What's pushing daisies, 44 hours? .. 2 more hours (this was solid)
What's season 4 of "The Guild", an hour?
What's How I Met your Mother, "88 hours"?
What's Batman, animated series (116 episodes- about 2100 minutes)
What's Doc Martin, 24 hours?
Everybody's War
Zombies Anonymous.. 2 more hours (this was awesome)
Dr Horrible is on the list. Even free, there is a lot of stuff ahead of it.
TV comes out of a different time budget than iphone video games for the most part. I play a lot of them 20 minutes as I'm going to bed or I have 10 minutes of downtime (waiting for food at a restaurant, at a friends house and they go to the bathroom, etc.).
I'll chime in but the other guy caught my point.
I'm completely surprised to find out that the recommended distance for a 52" screen with a high quality blu ray signal is 6.5'. I'm astonished people sit 6.5' from a screen that large. Everyone I know watches their TV's from a couch where their head is at least 10' away from the screen. Even 4000 lines (4x blu ray) in the movie theaters on the really big screens turns in to 1/5" pixels. You can see those easily from 10' away.
A blu ray on those screens would have pixels .8" square. A DVD would have pixels about 1.5" square.
I'm willing to grant that people who buy a screen over 4' diagonal and then watch it from 6.5' away can see a difference between bluray and DVD.
What we are doing in afghanistan has nothing to do with democracy.
The U.S. is a representative republic within our boarders and an undemocratic thug outside our borders.
It's been shown over and over.
I don't know how we got here so quickly from Eisenhower. He warned us... but it did no good.
Wow...
I'm in Houston, I live in a neighborhood of decent $150k houses, I live 8 miles from downtown. My commute (away from downtown) is 14 minutes. I'm working from home today.
I guess it's not that different- the big difference is on the east and west coasts. Everything is bid way up there.
I looked it up and there is satellite air to ground but no satellite air to air. (even for over the horizon stuff).
Your target is 500 meters away, turn slightly left.
Your target is 100 meters away, turn slightly up and left.
recalculating...
Your target is 700 meters behind you, make a uturn and proceed west.
Already happening. Google diapers.com and business week.
Who buys your product?
It's not an age thing, since my daughter's TV (46") is about 12' away. So is it geographical?
I mean with 6', I don't see how you can fit in a coffee table and still have room for your legs. The couch takes up 3' alone.
What area of the country are you in?
both a big screen, a large room, and ....
damnit...
I meant to say.. our THREE, three requirements for watching a movie are a big screen, a large room, and glasses, and a comfy chair...
damnit...
Among the elements required for watching a movie are, a big screen, a large room, and glasses, a comfy chair, good lighting, ...
That issue (losing resolution) is starting to seriously bug me.
Looks like I may have to drop about $1100 to get the resolution I want.
Fair comments.
I live in a $150k house when I could "afford" a $240k house. But it will be paid for in 3 years- I won't be 55 and I'll be debt free with a couple hundred grand in retirement, a pension, and decent social security payment (if we get it in the end). I wear my dress shirts twice before I take them to the cleaners unless I stain them. I am considering cutting cable TV for netflix and hulu. I cut off my land line phone until they offered me one for $16 a month with 25 calls per month limit (I use it to find my phone when I lose it). I'm considering cutting off my personal cell phone now that I have a work provided iphone.
My expenses are elsewhere.
Charity donations run about $3k a year. That includes (but not every year) red cross, police survivor fund, USO, and relatives in distress financially (lot of that lately).
I downhill ski, that runs about $1k a trip (and a ludicrous cost per hour- probably $30 per hour).
I buy D&D miniatures (about $500 a year).
I can drop $10 on a cigar that I burn up faster than a movie.
I have an annual 10 day beach house vacation that usually runs a few grand.
I also average a grand a year on wine (and that seems to be increasing slowly as more friends pick up the habit).
I probably drop $1k a year on board games too (tho that is decreasing now that I have most of the top games and the new games seem like variations/repeats with new themes).
I drop $1k a year on a cellular modem which at most is used 20 days a year.
I'm probably going to drop $1k on a cruise next spring.
I used to eat out a lot- I caught and stopped that. I wasn't creating any memories compared to the money I was blowing.
I played Rise of the Triad, Diablo, Doom, Quake, and others TO death and I used to drop about $2k a year on computers but I caught and stopped that (now it's about $1.5k per 3 years).
I don't judge people who spend a lot of money on a big TV. Everyone has to have a hobby. To me, the benefit of DVD's were immediate and obvious. The benefit of Bluray is incremental and teeny. I'm not going to sit 6' from my 52" TV so I can see a difference. I own a 3d bluray player and so far no disks. I got it to play netflix. It was a quality brand (LG) and it was inexpensive (under $150) and had good reviews. I've watched the "HD" netflix content and the difference is imperceptible to me. As I said in the parent post, at one point I read up on the resolving ability of the human eye and did the math and for the way most people I know watch their TV's (over 10') it didn't make a difference on the 46" screens they were getting.
Perhaps when I am ready, I'll upgrade to a wall size screen-- I'll be able to afford it because I'm cheap.
What companies want are cheap slaves. They want to use them like batteries and toss them aside when they get old or sick.
That's why they had laws passed which say labor laws don't apply to computer people (specifically in washington, california, and texas that I know of).
They want 12 hour days.
They don't want to pay benefits.
They want the work to be accurate.
The executives want no employees, yet still want a mass market they can sell to and get big salaries themselves.
That's ending as the mass market hollows out. Increasingly under 1% of the population takes most the money and doesn't share it. They are destroying their own market by not contributing any employee/customers to it.
Or the math is correct... since Crutchfield recommends sitting 6.5 feet from a 52" screen if you have a high quality signal and no more than 10.8 feet even with a terrible analogue signal.
you win some, you loose some.
typing too fast. I get a little fast and lose with punctuation in those situations.
No but apparently the people sitting 6.5' from a 52" screen must be.
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-btv1k8ewsdn/learn/learningcenter/home/TV_placement.html
52" 6.5-10.8 feet
Why on earth would I need a larger screen? It's big enough as it is and it looks (and sounds) great.
My point is I *CAN'T* tell a difference between 1080i and 1080p, etc.
I used to have the 7 speaker surround and it was just annoying as it required another remote and confused my mom when she came over to dog-sit.
And now I have a simple 3 speaker setup that's always on. Not even a sub-woofer any more.
You are an audio/videophile. I get it. It's okay to be an audio/videophile. To measure your vpenis by the resolution of your screen.
I've spent 9 bucks in 7 months. I'm not worried about runaway spending- but if it was WORTH $100, then $100 would be pittance to pay for it (what would that be 8000 hours of entertainment for $100?)
Tho actually, $5 bucks of that is an iphone locator. (device locator). It's cool- shows me if I left my iphone at work, home, car, friends house, bar, etc.
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My parent post was on the "arc" you can actually see vs screen size vs distance of screen. Apparently there is a huge crowd of you who buy 55" screens and then plunk them down 8' away on the other side of the coffee table. Okay- resolution makes a difference when it's that close. You want it to feel like a movie theater I guess. I don't. Most of my friends don't. We have 50"ish screens about 10 to 13' away from the TV. TV is something we watch- not something that overwhelms us. That includes my daughter (mid 20's) who has a 46" flat screen 2" thick- and it's across the living room from her couch- so it's about ... 12' away.
From here:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-btv1k8ewsdn/learn/learningcenter/home/TV_placement.html
Apparently some people are sitting under 9' from 70" screens. Holy cow.
The TV or the couch must be in the middle of the room, or else these rooms have an incredibly tiny axis.
My living room is 15' x 12'. My friends living room is 25'x25'. His couch is in the middle of the room, with the 12' area behind it basically unused.
--
I went and measured it. My TV is 13' from my head when I'm resting on the couch. It's a foot out from the wall to get that close. That's where it is "comfortable" to me while viewing.
I've had friends who took their 50" screen back because it was "too big" and bought smaller screens.
Empire Ascendant.
The instructions for the interface took about 15 minutes to wade through.. dynamic energy balancing between weapons, shields, different ship type upgrades, overloaded weapons- looks like a glorious cross between Net Trek and "Star Fleet Battles". Appears purely solo.
Typical good comment:
Super Awesome! First game I ever felt I had to write and let others know about.
Great Game! Try the light version to see if you like the concept.
Typical bad comment:
Game has a lot of potential.
I don't get it.
Game could be awesome. Too hard. Enemies are overpowered. Needs to be dummed down some. Understanding it is hard.
hehe. I hate it when I make a mistake like that. Which I do more frequently as I get older.
I hope the F-22 fighter pilot is a hot female pilot like in the movies in this case.
I use word daily, I use OO a little less than daily (work reasons). I know OO lacks features that word has... which I don't use in word. That was my point.
What gets me is they are a MULTI billion dollar company and this isn't the first time they've been caught this way to save a few thousand bucks to find/generate new data.
It reminds me of the miserly rich man who says, "how do you think a man like me GOT to be a man like me".