Big Ice D

John B

I think evidence was presented that LED is not efficient for this type of application compared to other technologies, so I will impugn away. Questioning decisions made by those in seats of authority is citizens duty. I'm sorry if you were sitting on the Advisory Board and took other peoples biased facts and figures at face value. Maybe you should have done more of your own research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_bulb_%28disambiguation%29 is a good start...sodium vapor among others looks good ...no?) to present to the Board, rather than listening to presentations of what must have been some form of lobbying from Cree,Progress,and other interested parties.Instead of awarding contracts to change lighting systems to improve Raleigh's environment, maybe the "Board" should get focused on real issues facing the citizens and improve/build a mass transit for the Triangle. Too bad Cree doesn't make light rail systems huh?

The company manufacturing/supplying the LED's, is based in RTP, and it's founders are grads of NC STATE(in Raleigh) so I'm sure there is some kind of local business kick back going on. I'm sure there was some "buddy lobbying" to get this passed in the Raleigh City Budget. Its a shame when people disguise insider handshakes as Environmentalism.

But hey... who needs improvements to real infrastructure, like mass transit to decongest that hellish traffic and improve air quality, when we have shiny new lights in our parking garages! Politics....it's a shady business...even when lit by LED ;)

...and BTW Glenwood needs a helluva lot more improvement than Hillsborough.

I tried to DL Perfect Storm HD.The first time it started then told me I needed to clear space. So I did, as prompted. It then wouldn't restart the DL through the resume instructions provided on XBLM. I tried to delete the space it said was occupying as an "incomplete DL" of PerfectStorm. I wouldn't let me delete the unfinished movie of the Hard drive but it wouldn't resume DL ing either!? So I rebooted the 360and poof..it was gone...as well as my M$ points I spent on it!!!! So I added more points and tried again...nothing...it tok my points but never started..again. Troubleshooting, I tried V is for Vendetta ...Which I don't really care to see...and it seems to be DLing @ a snails pace-1hr=9%. AND when you play Gears of War...on local campaign...the DL pauses ? WTF? I like the concept, but it really needs some polish/more content/and WAY FASTER DL. These movies are available on the torrent sites for free and faster, and on indemand cable/sat for cheaper....I hope they figure this out cause it could really be sweet if done right.

Pricing is a little iffy too. $6 for a new HD movie can work for awhile, but they need to extend the viewing period by a few days or lock it up with DRM for ownership on a locally networked Vista Harddrive for somewhere between 9.99-19.99.A subscription service would be the best solution in the long term to compete though...probably coming when they get more content.Figure the studios are saving a ton by not having to pacakge their content into a box or burn it to media. Maybe they will pass the savings on to us!?

These losers have a better chance of getting laid than getting a PS3 on launch day. Which is really slim anyhow, so don't get your float points revved up just yet fanboys. Just walk in the store and buy a 360 and Gears of War and have fun instead of freezing. If I still had my HD projector I would drive down to the BB and project GOW onto the side of the building from my car to make all the losers second guess their wasted time. I still might do it with my LCD, but it wont look as cool sitting in my trunk as it would on the building.

Absolutely, they need to offer a Season for say ....9.99-12.99? Most likely 19.99 to start...Isn't that about what a box set of a Season of a typical show retails for on DVD?

Baby steps. Eventually all the "cable" companies (Time Warner,Comcast,etc.)will just be another utility service, just providing the information line. Cable won't be able to compete as a "content" delivery service any longer.They will hang on for a few years for late adopters. The only thing that saves them now is the established ties they have with the networks. Lucky for Ted Turner he owns alot of content to sell. Most phone companies have at least positioned themselves to diversify into the wireless information line market. This about content delivery, and all the big boys are coming to play.

1.MS/360/Marketplace/Zune/Vista Hardrive
2.Apple/iTV/ITMS/Ipod(ish device)/mac
3.Sony/PS3/Connect(or whatever the hell that network is)/PSP/sony linux-ish OS?

Content companies like the movie/TV studios love it. All locked up nice and neat from their servers to your little box. Hell, it wouldn't shock me if once the market grows, Studios ended up saying "screw you NBC I'm taking this sitcom to M$ as LIVE network exclusive."

One problem they forgot about though..the Pirates are lurking in the mist waiting for the booty.

mmmmmmmmmmm. Scrapple....all that's not fit for a hotdog.

Come on Cingular! They better pick this damn thing up and give it to me for sub $200 with a contract renewal, I wonder if it has video playback capapilities/player.

the remote controlled car( as robotic as that Plastic body on a Robosapien IMHO) in The Dead Pool was was much more destructive, and had a cooler co-star and theme song.

I can deal with being called LeForge so others can't tell I'm watching the Spice Girls movie again, if they really worked well. The design definately looks better than some of that other junk. In the mean time my lappy provides a pretty damn good res/size combo...where is that damn "true" video ipod anyhow? ;)