Technology. I love it. by Geezer

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

I'm right there with ya, Geeze. I'm still astonished that I can be on the PS3, racing against people in 7 other countries, all in real time. And I can watch a Blu-Ray movie on it without ever having the disk. Or that my little iPod can sync up with my home and work computers, download my stuff, play it wirelessly at home, work, or in my car, and so many other things.

I know there are downsides to all the technology, but I'm digging the hell out of it myself! And I'm sure I'm not using 1/10th of the capabilities of what I've got.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:12 PM

I'm still amazed with the picture on my (almost outdated) 720p screen & my upconverting DVD player, and frankly, talkin' to you guys like this, to say nothing of conversing with peeps from OTHER COUNTRIES, still blows my mind.
In 1973 we got our first colour TV- I'd never seen Godzilla in GREEN before!!! Star Trek was WOWWWW!!!

We are pilgrims in an unholy technological land, my friends.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:49 PM

And here's me, running standard S-Video off an old non-flatscreen TV with an analog receiver I got on the cheap just prior to digital conversion, since I don't watch TV anyways, rolling regular DVD's through a dirt cheap no frills DVD player, since my PS2's laser is dyin on me.

I'm such a luddite.

-F

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:52 PM

Dude, you can get a Walmart credit card & get lots of new tech- if they gave one to me, anyone can get one! Just pay it off fastisall.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 5:03 PM

Yeah, and with what ? lol.

Really, what I got works well enough, and my attitude is something like "what do I need all that fru-hah for anyways?"...

That, and I hate, hate, hate remote controls - I think they make people lazy, and I find anything that doesn't have console controls and depends utterly on having the remote.. annoyin.
Throwback to the days of lost remotes and dead batteries maybe, but it's how I am.

Plus, after the NIGHTMARE go-round Donny had with trying to get the Blu-Ray player he bought to even play the damn things, multiple firmware issues, and it's paranoiac "copyright" protect shit which goes so overboard he never did get it to work (it's in the bottom of his closet), on top of the same type of issues with Vista on that laptop (in the bottom of my closet) I had for a while...

I prefer something I *KNOW* isn't going to suddenly decide my store-bought DVD is pirated and practically selfdestruct/meltdown on me.
(The Laptop decided my copy of the B-movie DOOM was "in violation" or something and shut off DVD capability, FOREVER... that was the last straw for me.)

-CaveManFrem

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Friday, May 7, 2010 8:09 AM

Good points, Frem. I'm stayin' with what I have as well.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, May 7, 2010 8:15 AM

I'm not. I'm looking towards something bigger already. My 42" is looking a bit small now that I redid the living room. I'm thinking a 55" ought to do the trick...

Yes, it's an addiction. No, I don't want a cure. :)

I don't have a surround sound system. I'll pick one up when I find a decent one that's got wireless speakers. My new obsession is going wireless whenever and wherever possible. That includes the TV. :)

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Friday, May 7, 2010 8:19 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

I was just happy when I set up the wireless reciever for my XBox..

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Friday, May 7, 2010 8:53 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
I don't have a surround sound system. I'll pick one up when I find a decent one that's got wireless speakers. My new obsession is going wireless whenever and wherever possible. That includes the TV. :)

Only problem I had with wireless is that they're not. You don't have speaker wires, but the speakers must be plugged into an electrical outlet. The way mine was going to be set up, speaker wires were less obtrusive than power strips and electrical cords. Wired speakers of comparable quality also worked out cheaper than wireless.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Friday, May 7, 2010 9:24 AM

Yeah, that's going to be the next revolution in home electronics, I think.

A Chinese company recently showed a wireless TV at the Comdex show. And when I say "wireless", I mean it. The monitor stands free of the receiver box, or hangs on the wall. Or in the middle of a room. No cords to the monitor. None. Not even a power cord. Somehow, the power is beamed from the receiver box to the monitor wirelessly. It's a bit amazing, but also a bit disconcerting. I'm not sure I'm comfortable having 110v power jotted around my living room air while I'm sitting in my recliner! :)

For me, speakers plugged into a power strip would be better, since I have plugs behind the couch and chairs where the cords could stay mostly hidden. My real preference would be to run the wires through the attic and have them come out in the upper corners of the room - but that would mean me getting up in the attic, which I really really hate to do. :)

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Friday, May 7, 2010 9:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
I'm not sure I'm comfortable having 110v power jotted around my living room air while I'm sitting in my recliner!

Didn't bother ole Nickola very much, but then again, he was friggin bonkers.

Me, I *HATE* wireless stuff, a few run ins during it's infancy with worst-possible-moment failure, and stuff like the neighbors stuff having a signal fratricide issue with yours - then there's the security issues...

On the positive side, if some asshat with a wireless stereo gets into shakin my walls with da boom-boom-boom, I just pick up this neat phaser lookin gadget and make that shit stop...

They're workin on an evil, EVIL gadget for anti-vehicular use, on them damn cars with the stereo so loud the idiot in it can't possibly hear it, or a siren, or any bloody thing else... oh but he will hear this, oh yes.

Basically, stun gun battery inside a metal case, with an emitter inside - you pop the safety switch and chuck it, the casing becomes a REALLY potent electromagnet, as in have-trouble-gettin-it-off-with-a crowbar kinda potent, so when it latches onto the car, you won't be gettin it off any time soon, batteries run 2-3 hours in the prototype but we think we can get more out of it...

Then there's the emitter, see, a couple seconds after you pop the switch and chuck it, and the emitter winds up and kicks out this gawdAWFUL noise (it's a screaming baby, recorded and then redistributed electronically over a range of freqs to cause maximum annoyance and irritation) at over 150 decibels - how far over, we're not exactly sure, cause no one wants to dare that unholy racket... oh, and good luck killing the damn thing with anything less than multiple hits from a 20lb sledge.

This evil thing was cooked up on a dare between me and two kids who's dorms are right where these jerks like to cruise back and forth trolling for college chicks - we're wondering if there's a market right now, cause man, the satisfaction value alone!

Click, clunk, and mister boom-boom-boom gets a taste of an aural assault far worse than he's busy delivering - and a lesson in courtesy at the same time.

And I gotta drop these contingency plans at city hall before it closes, so imma outta here.

-F

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Friday, May 7, 2010 11:38 AM

This just came. This is MY technology!!!

It lights up, the nacelles pulsate, the running lights blink, and it has lots of phaser/photon sounds & stuff! Plus: you can set it to light N' blink continuously without any sound at all!

Blu-Ray? Droid phone? Eff 'em.
I have an OS Enterprise!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

The hi-trek Chrisisall

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Friday, May 7, 2010 1:33 PM

Well, Chris - that just might be cooler than a Droid phone. I'm holding out for the Verizon iPhone.

By the way, if you were ever thinking of buying Apple stock, now's a good time; their iPad sales are much stronger than expected, and the iPhone should be coming to Verizon (America's largest wireless carrier) by September. Just about everyone I know who doesn't already have an iPhone with AT&T (and several who DO) is looking forward to this, along with the new iPhone OS 4.0, which will allow multitasking.

In other words, the stock is set to jump again. I'm trying to get things lined up to grab some before it jumps off.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Friday, May 7, 2010 1:46 PM

Sorry, I'm too busy painting the windows on my new Enterprise white! Aside from that, it's nearly perfect! When I'm done, I must play w- er, INSPECT it's perfection some more.

Thanks for the tip, though.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, May 7, 2010 3:49 PM

Now that's one thing I would like to have - a Star Trek TOS cellphone, too bad every time someone comes up with one the jerks in charge of the IP rights get all sue happy instead of buying it out or offering licensing, TOS fans have ever held a grudge about this.

"One to beam up, Mr Scott, this planet sucks."

-F

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Friday, May 7, 2010 3:51 PM

Yeah, the only available ones suck.
My idea is to fit a teeny cell phone into an existing Art Asylum toy.
But... expensive...

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 1:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Now that's one thing I would like to have - a Star Trek TOS cellphone, too bad every time someone comes up with one the jerks in charge of the IP rights get all sue happy instead of buying it out or offering licensing, TOS fans have ever held a grudge about this.

"One to beam up, Mr Scott, this planet sucks."

-F

Right on. I'd have it, just for kitsch factor. It'd be awesome if someone would work WITH the Trekkies and license holders and bring us a working model that looked like the original, complete with the "boopBEEP" sound when you flip it open.

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 7:21 AM