they say there is a recession....
i dont know anythingnaboutit
....i spent royally this christmas.......
electronics.......and it was so much fun......
hdtv first....
here are the rresults of my extensive research
along with the logic i applied.....
you can makew your own opinions....
assumption number 1
the tv i am going to buy is going to last me or at least 4-5 years.......i mightnot want to afford another one.....
therefore........i would like to buy one which as good as it can get for the amount of money i got........so we will try to get one with top specs.....
so i got down to finding out......
now initially they said that in the hdtv industry, the more you pay the more you get....
dont believe it...
if you are going to buy an hdtv today and you want it to last you some time, here are a few things you have to know...
lcd is more expensive than a plasma
lcd is more energy effecient than a plasma
lcd is lighter than a plasma
lcd is better for well lit or sunlit rooms
so these are a few soft pointers
now for some hard ones
if you plan to use your pc with your tv ----only LCD will do
if you are going to watch only sports/fast moving scenes/ gaming ----- plasmas are better
i went for lcd
only buy a 100hz lcd. nothing less
it might be a little expensive, it is an important update you should have
then it just comes down to looks
i went for a 40 inch 100hz lcd tv
the biggest name in the game is sony
they are the ones all experts compared all other tvs to
i didnt find them attractive...... but suppose that if you dont mind the looks and you can afford them, as they are the most expensive too.....go for it ... you cant go wrong....
i didnt and couldnt......so i looked further
all others were pretty much the same.....
toshibas were probably the next best in terms of reviews......
lgs were just about alright.....
samsungs were supposed to be good.........but some ratings were 6.5/10.........and the general impression was tat looks were better than the product delivered......
sharp/phillips and some others were few........and not much choice in the models.......especially in cardiff.......so i didnt dig deep into them......
i thought i will go for an lg......my mum has got a plasma........and its good.....
but then on reading expert reviews realised that my mums tv had a dead pixel........and thats no good.......so my impression fell a bit.........but now i can compare, the remote control was better on the lg then the samsung i eventually bought.....
anyhow..........i didnt like the toshibas........looks are a big thing for me.........much to natashas annoyance........
then i researched and researched.........and found out that a particular model of samsung.......the le656a...........is a cool thing.........some more research......and then i went for it.......
review.......samsung 40le656a
very good looking.....
very good results to my humble third-world eyes......
excellent communication with pc.....
switching between source inputs was much easier and faster on the lg of my mums than it is here...........but overall very good.......
its just 2 days........so dont know yet........but i will update.......
and by the way.......if there was anyone who read my previous post and threw away their iphone covers.........i really apologise......
the day after i wrote that essay.......my wife dropped my iphone and now it had an ugly tiny bump on one corner of the ceramic.........sad.........but everything has to die someday.........then why not the iphone too??
all through the writing of this post i listened to ELOY........an album called Dawn.....probably one of their first......very good
Sunday 28 December 2008
Thursday 25 December 2008
Cover your iphone??? Why?
should you cover your iphone?
the uger to cover your iphone into some ugly packing,
or rarely, a cover that cant enhance, but alters the perception of the iphone substantially, perhaps better to say that it distorts,
comes from the primitive view of people to protect glass....
i think a smooth surface that serves some purpose becomes fragile by default...
and then our human intellect reflexly wants to prove its dominance over it by wrapping it up....
i believe that those who want to cover their iphone fall into 2 categories....
ignorant.......and insecure.....
we will take the ignorants first....
ignorants are the modernists........they know what is happenning.........and so they say.....a little knowledge is a dangerous thing......
the fear ignorants have is this..........the phone has no buttons........therefore the only mode of communication with the machine.....
therefore......if the screen becomes insensitive to their touch........the machine will will become a paperweight.....and an expensive one........compared to what you can get in the market.....
so......you have to ensure that the screen is always sensitive.......
then they deduce that it responds to touch........therefore.....if something rubs against it all the time......the machine will be forced to respond.......and either it will be hung in a life of persistent response.........or.........it will get tired and give up..........becoming more and more stubborn with time.......
therefore....cover it...........it will be protected against anything touching it all the time........and will give me a life of super touch sensitivity for years and years.......
but thats a misconception......
iphone works on synaptic technology.........unlike the PDAs of billion months ago...........which needed 'pressure' of a tap for the screen to respond...........this screen is built differrently.......
it works on the transfer of electrons from you skin.......those electrons jump from our fingertips and excite the screen...........and so it responds.....
therefore.....if you put it your pocket uncovered..........as far as the screen is concerned........nothing is touching it.....even though tightly packed between your papers, pen and keys......
so covering it to prolong its sensitivity is plain ignorance........
now lets go to the insecure ones......
the insecure ones want to protect their phone.........from scratches.......smudges.....spills.....cracks.....sorrow......tears..........and bad girlfriends......
the logic is simple...........cover it......and it will look like new.......for ever and ever........
perhaps its this desire of things for ever and ever that makes us do things in general......
well.........it will be like new............but it definately wont look like new............because you cant look at it anyway..........its covered....isnt it?
fact no. 1.........in 2 years time..........iphone will be history........by 2011........iphone will be the thing of billions and billions of months ago.......
thats the way we do things these days.....
fact no 2..........nothing looks better on a beautiful body than its own skin................most covers are plain ugly........very few are passable if not insulting............but they completely change what the iphone stands for.............
so why cover it............its at its most beautiful when its naked........keep it that way.........and scratches......well..........life is too short......if its insured......thats as far you can go for protection.........more then that is obsession...............in fact......the only argument i can think of for covering it is when it is all scratched..........
to conclude..........i dont understand why people cover their iphones......
and i want to urge everyone to throw away all their covers and use iphones as they came.
(now that i have calssified humanity of the basis of their attitudes towards the aesthetics of their phones, i might also add that all of the above was just a christmas-day-at-work-so-lets-kill-time way of putting my dying lexicon through the oiling machine.......)
}during the writing of this post-renaissance retro metro essay, my ears provided excellent nourishment to my multithinking brain by the music of Jethro Tull, Michael Schenker, Hans Raj Hans, and some obscure bollywood music.{
the uger to cover your iphone into some ugly packing,
or rarely, a cover that cant enhance, but alters the perception of the iphone substantially, perhaps better to say that it distorts,
comes from the primitive view of people to protect glass....
i think a smooth surface that serves some purpose becomes fragile by default...
and then our human intellect reflexly wants to prove its dominance over it by wrapping it up....
i believe that those who want to cover their iphone fall into 2 categories....
ignorant.......and insecure.....
we will take the ignorants first....
ignorants are the modernists........they know what is happenning.........and so they say.....a little knowledge is a dangerous thing......
the fear ignorants have is this..........the phone has no buttons........therefore the only mode of communication with the machine.....
therefore......if the screen becomes insensitive to their touch........the machine will will become a paperweight.....and an expensive one........compared to what you can get in the market.....
so......you have to ensure that the screen is always sensitive.......
then they deduce that it responds to touch........therefore.....if something rubs against it all the time......the machine will be forced to respond.......and either it will be hung in a life of persistent response.........or.........it will get tired and give up..........becoming more and more stubborn with time.......
therefore....cover it...........it will be protected against anything touching it all the time........and will give me a life of super touch sensitivity for years and years.......
but thats a misconception......
iphone works on synaptic technology.........unlike the PDAs of billion months ago...........which needed 'pressure' of a tap for the screen to respond...........this screen is built differrently.......
it works on the transfer of electrons from you skin.......those electrons jump from our fingertips and excite the screen...........and so it responds.....
therefore.....if you put it your pocket uncovered..........as far as the screen is concerned........nothing is touching it.....even though tightly packed between your papers, pen and keys......
so covering it to prolong its sensitivity is plain ignorance........
now lets go to the insecure ones......
the insecure ones want to protect their phone.........from scratches.......smudges.....spills.....cracks.....sorrow......tears..........and bad girlfriends......
the logic is simple...........cover it......and it will look like new.......for ever and ever........
perhaps its this desire of things for ever and ever that makes us do things in general......
well.........it will be like new............but it definately wont look like new............because you cant look at it anyway..........its covered....isnt it?
fact no. 1.........in 2 years time..........iphone will be history........by 2011........iphone will be the thing of billions and billions of months ago.......
thats the way we do things these days.....
fact no 2..........nothing looks better on a beautiful body than its own skin................most covers are plain ugly........very few are passable if not insulting............but they completely change what the iphone stands for.............
so why cover it............its at its most beautiful when its naked........keep it that way.........and scratches......well..........life is too short......if its insured......thats as far you can go for protection.........more then that is obsession...............in fact......the only argument i can think of for covering it is when it is all scratched..........
to conclude..........i dont understand why people cover their iphones......
and i want to urge everyone to throw away all their covers and use iphones as they came.
(now that i have calssified humanity of the basis of their attitudes towards the aesthetics of their phones, i might also add that all of the above was just a christmas-day-at-work-so-lets-kill-time way of putting my dying lexicon through the oiling machine.......)
}during the writing of this post-renaissance retro metro essay, my ears provided excellent nourishment to my multithinking brain by the music of Jethro Tull, Michael Schenker, Hans Raj Hans, and some obscure bollywood music.{
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