(10) Technologies That Deserve To Die

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Just a curiosity and a little personal experience. The curiosity is during the Calif. energy crisis some high energy users (e.g. alumimum manufacturing) had long term contracts for low cost energy and found it cheaper to shut down and sell their rights to electrictricty on the open market.

I have an all electric apartment with a time of day meter that has probably saved me many thousands over the years. It is not very hard, to cope with: I have the fridge on a timer (cycles on and off during the day - on all night), shower off-peak, watch the A/C during the day in the summer and that is pretty much it.

Bill

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:46:08 -0500, "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Gave us:

And all at no higher than 60Hz most likely. And they DO have a persistence issue, whether YOU see it or not.

I suppose the newer 75Hz models might be bit better, but, I like a good, crisp, huge CRT flat face monitor for my CAD work, as well as for games.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:08:12 -0500, JW Gave us:

You're a goddamned idiot.

You're a repetitive little monkey.

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Now tell me, what kind of movie content are you obtaining that has a framerate faster than 60Hz?

BTW, checking my monitor info, I see that I'm running at 74Hz. The physical framerate of the LCD isn't rated, but I do not see motion artifacts of any kind.

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-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards

I have a 20.1" NEC with a 75 refresh rate .. no lag there .. great for video editing!! It is a pivot, so I can use it in either landscape or portrait orientation (which is great as is displays the whole page when composing brochures and the like!) (software is 35 bucks to make it work) As to crisp , how does 1280 x 1024 grab ya (default setting)

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:50:51 -0500, JW Gave us:

I got nine inches of "repetitive little monkey" for your lame ass, little girl.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:55:44 -0500, "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Gave us:

You don't know much about displays.

They spent ten years getting refresh rates up, and your lame ass is thinking in the stone age if you think 60Hz is OK, particularly for CAD or gaming.

Much less Putting up a DVD presentation, windowed.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com (DarkMatter):

Are you ever going to contribute something *worthwhile* and productive to the group? We can get endless quanta of bickering and name-calling from other, more entertaining sources...

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 00:05:38 -0500, "Mark Jones" Gave us:

As if your E-1 grade baby bullshit assessments have any credence.

Hey!, you should be in movies!....

Hard to beat the tubes...I am still hooked on them too....I have an HDTV Sony flat screen that has a great picture...but ....this will probably start another thread!!

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:33:34 -0500, "Mark Jones" Gave us:

Soylent Green is people...

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw that again recently and man what a contrast to the type of science-fiction there is today, but still a heck of a concept. Full-scale Hannibal Lechter???

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-) Web Site -

You're a reiterating little chimpanzee.

I guess that'll be a "no", then. Imagine my lack of surprise.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 03:20:19 -0500, "Bill Garber" Gave us:

Some slices taste better than others.