Random Future Stuff

RE OP, wtf is 8k Does that come with smellovision or touchy feely..?

A wee upgrade on yer 4k you maybe don't even have yet?

We have 4k, its amazing for the ice hockey, just cant imagine it being any clearer

I talked the folks into getting an 8k TV last year

Future proofing 😉

8k is just another way of paying more to watch the same schite.

comment by JukeboxJunkie (U10162)
posted 7 hours, 10 minutes ago
I talked the folks into getting an 8k TV last year

Future proofing 😉
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My folks can't see the difference.
How much did the 8K telly set them back mate? they all seem quite expensive just now and there's not much 8K content available.

comment by atheist (U2783)
posted 4 hours, 52 minutes ago
8k is just another way of paying more to watch the same schite.
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yup, marketing at it's finest

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Yes, there are analogies imho.

Music - folk used to spend relatively lots of money on hifi back in the day when there was little radio choice and no digital. CD provided the leap in quality for the vast majority to a level they were happy with. Along comes the internet and compression enabled almost the same quality but with convenience and since then the market has focussed on further convenience rather than quality of delivery.

Ditto photography. Cameras on phones now do what the happy snappers of the day need and decent photo gear is the preserve of the enthusiast.

TV is going the same way. Content and convenience over quality. Roll up screens next.

The virus might put paid to cinemas too as they are fighting with the studios putting releases straight to stream?

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4. Musk wants to set up a colony and mine rare 'earth' metals on Mars.

Is he a rocket?

Are battery cars the way to go or are they betamax whilst we all wait on hydrogen?
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Apparently Mars had life and an atmosphere once according to some.

Nikola Telsa had set up free wireless electricity a hundred years ago, he also developed an electric car that could go 100km on one charge. He invented AC and many other things including, I think, the first Hydro power plant at Buffalo in the U.S...

Unfortunately his sponsors were Oil and Power magnates. This is why we can't have nice things.
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we'll do you know where he kept all his wireless electric plans and we can go into business together

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He just made a machine that can take the energy out of the atmosphere, the Earth's just a huge dynamo - The power is always there, you see it released in lighting storms. Unfortunately I'm too dumb to work out how to harvest it, and I'm surprised the thousands of geniuses on the planet haven't worked it out yet.
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Lightning is too random in location and frequency and too large in magnitude for too short a duration to effectively harness it. Like most manufacturing you want a stable, continuous process.

There's some real smart stuff going on in the electricity market just now with companies buying the rights to some forms of demand so they can sell that demand to the generators in the form of switching things off!

Bizarre, I know! Here's how it works. Say you had a big office block with air con running. When there's a surge in demand the generating companies can generally predict it but it still takes 20-30 seconds to fire up a hydro scheme. If the ref blows for HT early and the kettles go on the office has 'sold' its right to keep the air con running and it gets switched off. The office is not gonna heat up in that time by any degree but by relieving the network of demand it is doing the same as turning on the hydro. Multiply that by 1000s of offices, car chargers etc. then you get cheaper and faster instant levelling of your supply which is manna for elec companies.
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Pacific Gas & Electric don't do upgrades.
This would mean a monitor for every customer?