I've no idea why my biggest weakness seems always to be self doubt in life. I know I am really good at so many things. I always just seem to start things and never once finish. I started to define myself by my profession, what ever it may be, take that away and I now feel like a complete failure. Even though I was never really happy doing any of the career choices/paths I went down. I'm struggling to figure out what I should do, where should I go? The only things that have ever made me happy are the ones I have the most trouble sticking to...
Photography, writing (I've got so many amazing story ideas, and just things to say from what I've been through), cooking, computers/technical skills, mechanical skills. Once I do something once in those, I usually never forget. I never make recipes, I just plan and do it, and can repeat it. Same with just about everything on a long list. I've been gifted with a great memory, but for the longest time since I'm not sure when sometime after I dropped out of Covenant College I feel this fog (and even when trying to start studying again, but I know why I didn't stay there, I never wanted to be there and felt like that's where I should be and people thought I should be), this strange mental barrier. My friends compliment me often and see not only potential, but raw talent, but I am afraid maybe? I walked through serious cancer without blinking and faced it head on, but I have a hard time just waking up and doing the routine? What the hell is that? All these amazing experiences, pain, hardships, and I'm still just a bitchy whiner? I don't feel like anyone that knows me will ever really stand with pride for me. I could make a huge list of talents I could develop, but I don't want to, why? I am already in a bad way right now and thinking about more things I haven't finished isn't helping.
I have no idea what to do with my life right now, and the only place I have to go to talk about it with anyone is a blog I never really started that well with a ton of unfinished/unposted articles and ideas. I don't feel as if I can really open up to anyone, and the people I feel like I can are so far away or just so busy. I don't really want to grasp out to a lot because I feel like I always come back to these same feelings and this same sadness, I'm a broken record doomed to repeat. People talk that you have to know your past, man I'm nothing but my past, and will never be my future.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, February 3, 2012
Zombie Apocalypse Prep...
I started writing this morning and then it got long, so I decided to turn it into a break down and cover various aspects over a week or two.
For starters I'm with cracked.com on this, the hordes will not go on endlessly, and if you do a few things that are good basic prep for a natural disaster along with some other items, you will ride it out if you are smart. Call me an apocalyptic glass half-full kind of guy if you want. Whatever the crazy event that happens be it undead (unlikely), virus of some kind (more likely), or some type of unforeseen Mayan curse (who knows) it can't go on forever. One thing that I will make sure to do, is very careful group selection. For some friends, they are not your friends when this kind of stuff happens, they will screw you over. Upside you learn who to trust fast, I already have a good idea of who's who in this situation. As far as survival instinct goes, make sure you have enough people that can take care of themselves to help out with those that are going through learning. Don't just leave some to natural selection as it were, it's just not wise, and a lame thing to do, you are better then that. I'm not saying make it a charity event, but you know what people can pick things up when they have to, and as long as they have some basic understanding that certain comforts are to the wind, there is hope for those people. You never know who has that warrior instinct naturally, those are the people that have an x-factor that they don't even know about. Besides if the only people in the group are people with your skill sets it will get boring, keeping busy will be important, and teaching others the skills you have, or learning the skills from those that have them will eat up the down time in a productive fashion. Don't waste your time trying to build a jet out of wood, K.I.S.S. KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!
Many people seem to think an always on the move method is the best, I tend to disagree. Moving less and being noticed less are more important, getting a safe area rather then one safe place is more important. Have a few spots to rotate to and maybe a more fortified place as a last ditch option only. If it is a traditional zombie it requires a lot less effort, shows need to be suspenseful so of course they always make out slow moving zombies as these stealth like murder machines that just come out of nowhere, if one of these zombies comes out of nowhere on you, you got what you deserve. The slow zombie will be easy to fool, get some distance or lead them along and then double back, and leave them to hobble about moaning at the moon. Heck the slow ones will be easy enough to gather up like cattle in a impound lot or other high fenced area, gather up the bigger groups in a smart fashion and lock them somewhere. That's one thing that seems mostly absent from a lot of zombie situations, lock them in and not yourself. If there are runner zombies, don't be stupid, set up a guard or, get to a high place and have multiple exits and ways to get out, use one entrance/exit until discovered, then block it off, and use an alternate, having several spots to move to is best, remember that expression don't put all your eggs in one basket? Defensible is good, but options with slightly less defense are better. A giant mall, if you had the resources and man power to take care of access, would actually be good, the stores have pull down fences, you can trap zombies in, and if you are creative and start to get overrun, there are so many easy options. I would go for a bank in a bad area, or just a place with barred windows, a few exits, and a big bonus would be roof access inside the building. I know a few places in my area that would be great, mostly government facilities, but they would require scouting. Sporting goods or gun store, why not? For some reason in shows and movies the only thing you are allowed to do in places with lots of weapons seems to be get a few quick things and then leave. This has not been done simply because it makes to much sense, and it would hurt the zombies feelings. Remember, just because someone is already using that place does not mean you can't work together, contrary to a lot of media people work together better in situations like this, part of good instinct, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Everyone has a good common enemy, the zombie, focus on the zombie don't be a douche bag.
So I am trying to decide how to break up the big post I started with this morning, I have tons of information on equipment so far and that can be expanded and broken down. So I'm thinking of three or four main parts that will be broken up. Kit: survival items, firearms, weapons, etc. Strategy: good ideas, bad ideas, how to have a sustainable plan of action and implementing it. Places: where to go, ties into strategy and kit. Vehicles: I will most likely cover less on this, but yes, you can have your zombie apocalypse and eat it too? I may add more as I go down the list. Obviously breaking it up will help make it more interesting I hope. I will ask all of the people that read this if I should include links to products and what not (feel free to comment and let me know). I am honestly trying to figure out how detailed to get and what I am leaving out. Yes I was supposed to write about guns, don't worry in the middle of zombie-mania I will do that as part of it will be about guns I will just snap off a post dedicated to it.
For starters I'm with cracked.com on this, the hordes will not go on endlessly, and if you do a few things that are good basic prep for a natural disaster along with some other items, you will ride it out if you are smart. Call me an apocalyptic glass half-full kind of guy if you want. Whatever the crazy event that happens be it undead (unlikely), virus of some kind (more likely), or some type of unforeseen Mayan curse (who knows) it can't go on forever. One thing that I will make sure to do, is very careful group selection. For some friends, they are not your friends when this kind of stuff happens, they will screw you over. Upside you learn who to trust fast, I already have a good idea of who's who in this situation. As far as survival instinct goes, make sure you have enough people that can take care of themselves to help out with those that are going through learning. Don't just leave some to natural selection as it were, it's just not wise, and a lame thing to do, you are better then that. I'm not saying make it a charity event, but you know what people can pick things up when they have to, and as long as they have some basic understanding that certain comforts are to the wind, there is hope for those people. You never know who has that warrior instinct naturally, those are the people that have an x-factor that they don't even know about. Besides if the only people in the group are people with your skill sets it will get boring, keeping busy will be important, and teaching others the skills you have, or learning the skills from those that have them will eat up the down time in a productive fashion. Don't waste your time trying to build a jet out of wood, K.I.S.S. KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!
Many people seem to think an always on the move method is the best, I tend to disagree. Moving less and being noticed less are more important, getting a safe area rather then one safe place is more important. Have a few spots to rotate to and maybe a more fortified place as a last ditch option only. If it is a traditional zombie it requires a lot less effort, shows need to be suspenseful so of course they always make out slow moving zombies as these stealth like murder machines that just come out of nowhere, if one of these zombies comes out of nowhere on you, you got what you deserve. The slow zombie will be easy to fool, get some distance or lead them along and then double back, and leave them to hobble about moaning at the moon. Heck the slow ones will be easy enough to gather up like cattle in a impound lot or other high fenced area, gather up the bigger groups in a smart fashion and lock them somewhere. That's one thing that seems mostly absent from a lot of zombie situations, lock them in and not yourself. If there are runner zombies, don't be stupid, set up a guard or, get to a high place and have multiple exits and ways to get out, use one entrance/exit until discovered, then block it off, and use an alternate, having several spots to move to is best, remember that expression don't put all your eggs in one basket? Defensible is good, but options with slightly less defense are better. A giant mall, if you had the resources and man power to take care of access, would actually be good, the stores have pull down fences, you can trap zombies in, and if you are creative and start to get overrun, there are so many easy options. I would go for a bank in a bad area, or just a place with barred windows, a few exits, and a big bonus would be roof access inside the building. I know a few places in my area that would be great, mostly government facilities, but they would require scouting. Sporting goods or gun store, why not? For some reason in shows and movies the only thing you are allowed to do in places with lots of weapons seems to be get a few quick things and then leave. This has not been done simply because it makes to much sense, and it would hurt the zombies feelings. Remember, just because someone is already using that place does not mean you can't work together, contrary to a lot of media people work together better in situations like this, part of good instinct, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Everyone has a good common enemy, the zombie, focus on the zombie don't be a douche bag.
So I am trying to decide how to break up the big post I started with this morning, I have tons of information on equipment so far and that can be expanded and broken down. So I'm thinking of three or four main parts that will be broken up. Kit: survival items, firearms, weapons, etc. Strategy: good ideas, bad ideas, how to have a sustainable plan of action and implementing it. Places: where to go, ties into strategy and kit. Vehicles: I will most likely cover less on this, but yes, you can have your zombie apocalypse and eat it too? I may add more as I go down the list. Obviously breaking it up will help make it more interesting I hope. I will ask all of the people that read this if I should include links to products and what not (feel free to comment and let me know). I am honestly trying to figure out how detailed to get and what I am leaving out. Yes I was supposed to write about guns, don't worry in the middle of zombie-mania I will do that as part of it will be about guns I will just snap off a post dedicated to it.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Guns...
I enjoy shooting as a hobby and sometimes hunting. It is weird how some people react to that, and when questioned about why they are so leery or weird they have no good reasons. It's like someone with an irrational fear of anything. Some person, in the previously mentioned person (or persons) life, clearly must have fed them boogey man tales about guns or any person that owns one. I asked someone if they had been shot or witnessed a violent crime involving a gun because their reaction was so strong. Strangely enough they claimed to have never seen a gun in person before, touched one, or had known anyone that experienced any such acts they could think of. I was puzzled and ask why the harsh judgment and apparent distrust they seemed to have for me after mentioning my hobby, they pretty much admitted they had no good reason, but they just felt like the mere fact I owned a gun would somehow corrupt me as if it were a cursed talisman from a bad pulp comic. I have gotten several people I have dated into the idea of shooting and they enjoyed it. Quite a few friends have asked that I take them and I give them the safety break down, take them to the range, and not had a single person walk away all weirded out. Everyone enjoyed the experience, some even purchased a firearm of their own and have a new hobby, a few even said they felt like they couldn't be prepared for the inevitable zombie hordes without a basic lesson, and a few just wanted to say they had the experience, but would go again if I offered. I chalk some people's reaction up to being akin to a caveman trying to figure out a car, and then promptly destroying the metal abomination that must clearly be the source of all evil. I suppose it comes down to this strange delusion that some people must possess that an inanimate object can be pure evil and corrupt.
I remember some show having a joke about that, wish I remembered which show and what it was, either way it was laughable, oh the show was a cartoon no less. So essentially children's programming is more advanced than the thought process of some adults minds, awesome. I know some people that were raised with moron parents that they admit brainwashed them with irrational stupidity, I enjoy showing those people firearms safety and then sharing the experience of shooting with them. Plain targets to start, then I usually get silly targets like zombies, puppies, or kittens (jk about the puppies, I may not be about the kittens...) and people really get a kick out of that. I always try to reinforce that guns are a tool and like any tool can be abused. People don't think twice about having crazy kitchen knives, haven't they seen any movies? Those things are dangerous and crazy people that are axe murderers use them! So using silly logic, anyone that owns a knife is a demon possessed, mask toting, super killer. Just look at what happened when Freddie owned more than one! He turned them into a furious murder glove of destruction and could enter people's dreams. Yes I know I am making the point in a very ridiculous fashion, but people's reeling reactions at the mention of a gun is along those lines, my sister in law has that reaction to snakes, even fake ones. She is irrationally scared to tears of the things, and I can understand why, she grew up in the country and spent lots of time on a farm where rattlesnakes were all over. As a young person the experience of fear like that can have long term reactions. I don't like wasps, my dad doesn't either, he is really bad, one got in the car once I thought we were all going to die, I honestly should be able to find something comedic about it, but that experience of him losing his shit proper and almost going off the road was terrifying. I understand that fear, but fear that has no traumatic event or anything experienced and felt like that is not healthy. Paranoid crap like that is how idiots in the early 1900s were brainwashed into thinking the Jews were to blame for everything...
I'm not talking about Hitler here, this goes back to ole Henry Ford buying The Dearborn Independent, here's a link to the articles http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/intern_jew.htm
The first link has better incite to Ford and how he viewed this, and provides some back history about the reluctance
of some people at the Dearborn Independent to publish this
...to this day this attitude exists, calling people a Jew, you're such a Jew, etc. for no specific reason. When asked they don't even know, it's just a joke man, doesn't mean anything. Sigh... The sad part about Ford is that he published an entire book into a newspaper, so it's not like a onetime heated pissed off industry mogul's rant, I'm not excusing that as a valid reason either, but you get the point, it was a systematic and deliberate act. Hitler named him as a hero of the Third Reich, had pictures of Ford and said those articles influenced his book, Ford even sent money to Hitler. Oh and not to bag on just Ford, but encyclopedia's had the same stuff published in them that Ford had written, so it was an institution for a long time, and he just helped propel it to the less scholarly. Yes I do know that it sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but it's just a sad aspect of our past, making the choice to learn from it is always the best.
Anyhow you get my point or think I'm just another gun nut moron. Tomorrow, most likely less serious post about guns and what I am doing to continue that hobby, show you how I work and what it is that I like about it.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Earl Grey Tea...
I have a problem, I like Earl Grey tea, but I only like one brand, it's not that I won't drink others, but Ahmed is just that much better. For one it is loose leaf tea, which is just about always the best way to go. When you open the can, the scent overpowers you, it's a blitzkrieg onslaught of bergamot goodness, I love it, the flavor continues in the tea. If you add a tiny bit of honey and a splash of cream it ehances the flavor so much, the tea takes on a orange/red hue when you add the cream, it is delightful. I bought some Tazo Earl Grey tea bags at publix the other night, the smell was there, but like anything that is involved in Starbucks something is lacking, I steeped the tea for slightly less time, as I do with new teas, tested it to my great distaste it was SUPER bitter, the hot water spicket at work on the coffee maker puts out water that is just right. I was so excited and thought oh boy Earl Grey, my day isn't ruined or anything, but it's just a bummer. I will have to buy a can and "perfect tea maker" just for work I guess. Luckily the coffee here is actually pretty good and they bring it in fresh every week. I just wish Teavana wasn't so hideously overpriced, that and their Earl Grey is so wickedly expensive and doesn't hold a candle to Ahmed, price breakdown is $10 an ounce (may actually be more) for Teavana Earl Grey, Ahmed is $8.99 for 12 oz.... There is a clear winner here.
I need to go and do afternoon tea with the guys and gal on the 2nd floor soon, I miss that, it was actually a pretty amazing break up to my day when I participated in that. Good conversations, proper tea and biscuits. This was one of those "little things" that could make even the worst day better. I remember when I was asked to join them for that, I was having a really crazy day of testing and wouldn't let up, finally Jerry was like if you don't take a break I'm shutting that off, so save your stuff and come on. I kind of like it when someone guriella style stops you from spiraling into a mental break like that. I've had that happen a few times with a coworker and him being pretty awesome and taking me to lunch.
I don't have a whole lot to say today. I got my new phone, the Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic, it is pretty awesome. The screen on it is unreal, the speed is blistering, and big shocker the battery life is actually better then my EVO. The power conservation steps they have taken work noticably well. I cleared my old SD card and saved some things, threw it in the new phone, got a good set of music on there all organized like I do. It is crazy how thin this is, one part of the phone is about half as thick as the EVO, but overall the whole phone is thinner by a lot. It is wider and longer, but the screen is larger. For a phone that seems slippery it is easy to hold and operate with one thumb for browsing. It was a good purchase. I decided to hold off on sending in all the money for my suppressor on my .22s, since tax season is coming up and I know I have a good bit to pay out :(, but I should be on track to having the car paid off soon, and a lot of other bills done foevah! Start doing some saving and then later in the year, new apartment, or just do the house thing.
I am going to surprise someone with flowers soon, I am excited I think it will be a good thing :)
I need to go and do afternoon tea with the guys and gal on the 2nd floor soon, I miss that, it was actually a pretty amazing break up to my day when I participated in that. Good conversations, proper tea and biscuits. This was one of those "little things" that could make even the worst day better. I remember when I was asked to join them for that, I was having a really crazy day of testing and wouldn't let up, finally Jerry was like if you don't take a break I'm shutting that off, so save your stuff and come on. I kind of like it when someone guriella style stops you from spiraling into a mental break like that. I've had that happen a few times with a coworker and him being pretty awesome and taking me to lunch.
I don't have a whole lot to say today. I got my new phone, the Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic, it is pretty awesome. The screen on it is unreal, the speed is blistering, and big shocker the battery life is actually better then my EVO. The power conservation steps they have taken work noticably well. I cleared my old SD card and saved some things, threw it in the new phone, got a good set of music on there all organized like I do. It is crazy how thin this is, one part of the phone is about half as thick as the EVO, but overall the whole phone is thinner by a lot. It is wider and longer, but the screen is larger. For a phone that seems slippery it is easy to hold and operate with one thumb for browsing. It was a good purchase. I decided to hold off on sending in all the money for my suppressor on my .22s, since tax season is coming up and I know I have a good bit to pay out :(, but I should be on track to having the car paid off soon, and a lot of other bills done foevah! Start doing some saving and then later in the year, new apartment, or just do the house thing.
I am going to surprise someone with flowers soon, I am excited I think it will be a good thing :)
Saturday, January 28, 2012
New layout and a few changes...
New layout, I prefer the black background with white text, but a few people said that for them it seems to run together and they don't like it, let me know which one is best or preferred. I want it to look good to myself, but not at the cost of not having anyone read the blog.
I decided to cut out my work related postings, mainly since I use my downtime in the morning at work to write. This usually means that at the worst part of the day I am writing about work, which paints a picture of me being always unhappy with my job and that isn't true. I have been using this as a medium to help my thought process, venting frustrations in some way helps me get past them. I can keep posts private to myself, which I will do as writing things down always seems to help out. I was talking with my brother and a few other people about writing, and constantly cutting and shortening will help. So I will have a long draft of frustrations and cut down what they are saying and as solutions are found I will include those in the draft. This will be a way of helping to refine my problem solving skills, writing skills, and when I make a general post about work it will show people a better picture of how things are.
I want to find some new things to learn about and write about., or learn more about something I already know about. For some reason I have this interest in wanting to go bowling more now, never thought I would say that. A lot of the bowling alleys around here have laser tag also, which is something that I am pretty good at. I was saying during my work team building event, I still prefer bowling with my shotgun. I am having a hard time concentrating today because I'm in pain, which is keeping me from working out today, and I've got some kind of horrid stomach bug. I'm watching that show Man, Woman, Wild on Discovery so I decided to learn about the host Myke Hawk, I learned that it is not his real name, he decided to go by Myke Hawk... wow. Apparently him and some other former special forces types made a consulting business that was such an embarrassment and joke because of how stupid they made themselves look to other current and former folks with the same military background that they shut it down. At least the knife that Myke (or Mykel) had made using his name that he promotes, while it is a bit ridiculous is actually well made unlike all these junk Gerber products with Bear Grylls name on them.
It is a shame that the knife industry or rather outdoors industry is saturated with junk products, most esp knives. There are a lot of people that I run into that collect knives, yet they only have knives that cost under $60, and I'm not saying there are good cheap pocket knives that exist, but if you consider yourself a collector and I point out a Benchmade (lifetime no questions ask on all products, all American made, and they don't use over-rated junk blade metals, the least quality you should consider is 440C) and they act like it's junk because it carries a cost or that it is ridiculous to consider buying one. The problem with the type of 440 stainless that a lot of brands use, it is not 440C, and it doesn't hold an edge at all the only good property it has that people think is of key importance is rust resistance. I don't like 440C all that much, I would rather maintain the blade with a little oil and purchase a knife with D2 stainless. To me this is like calling yourself a serious cheese person and only ever buying and eating Velveeta, or calling yourself an artistic song writer and only playing covers (and doing your best Eddie Vedder voice at the same time) just stop. I used to say I collected knives, then had this sudden realization that I owned a bunch of crap, garage sales helped solve that, and I purchased a few good knives. Strange how this works these knives have the following properties
1. Possess better edge retention
2. The edge is easier to get and thus is actually capable of being sharper
3. Durability, they don't fall apart if I need to use them. So I spend more initially, but they last longer (don't have to repurchase or replace)
4. Life no questions Guarantee/Warranty, if I do have a problem it's fixed as long as you are not clearly using your knife edge like a pry bar or screw driver, which is not what a knife is made for, use the right tool for the job. Trust me people that make knives for a living know what abuse looks like, and if you think a knife edge is supposed to hold up to that abuse, outside of some weird emergency or survival use, there is not much hope for you.
5 & 6. Ease of use and “the little things” that add to the bigger picture. Better knives use superior metal bushings instead of cheap metals that are not good for bushings or plastic that falls apart and gets rough with use making it not a bushing at all. Better knives use better locking mechanisms, they are safer for one, and make use easier. All sorts of small details that cost more add up to a knife that is superior in durability and make it easier to open, easier to unlock, faster, safer the list goes on. Edges that promote a better grip, handle/grip materials that are longer lasting and actually help your grip.
I am going to be selling most of my mid-level watches to get a as of yet undecided watch, can’t decide if I want to go the diver, military, or aviator route on it yet though or if I just want minimal and nice, something I can pass on later. A firearms post is coming soon...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Continued Thoughts on Watches (reply was getting to long)
I've spent some more money on watches, and the sad thing is, if you want a watch that is superb quality it almost needs to be $500+ even at discounted and even then the quality is not amazing, if you want to save up your money for something outstanding that is the best thing to do in all honesty, I wish I had saved mine instead of getting several entry level Swiss watches, right now I would be wearing the paradigm of hand made watches, a Rolex. There is a reason they are sought after, they keep their value for one, and they really will last a lifetime, and don't need batteries, which is great, give it a few shakes if you have not used it in a while and set the time. People always whine and moan about oh my Casio keeps better time, yes a lot of digital watches do, but the difference is not that bad, and guess what if infrastructure goes to hell and there are no batteries my watch will go until it falls apart, which people have been passing down their Rolex watches to family, I know someone with a 80+ year old Rolex and he wears it almost every day, he took the original band off to keep it nice (keeping the value up). Here is an interesting fact:
"Rolex subsequently received the very first wristwatch Chronometer awards from the School of Horology in Bienne (1910), and the Class “A” Certificate of Precision from the Kew Observatory in England (1914). To this day, Rolex watches consistently receive more Chronometer Certificates from the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres (COSC), than every other watch company in the world, combined." (http://www.qualitytyme.net/pages/rolex_articles/history_of_wristwatch.html)
I really like my Invicta watches, but the downside is they only cater to the big watch wearing folks mostly, which some of their styles are actually really old school, big watches used to be the normal for a lot of purposes, early divers and pilots needed something easier to see, and watches were larger for them and the expense of smaller gear movements also meant that compact wrist watches were an even bigger luxury. Also wrist watches were originally more for women and viewed as a fad (the wikipedia article has a lot of what I am saying, a lot of it comes from the same articles I've read). It was our boys in the War that found pocket watches were impractical and that is why a lot of families with lots of military history have a wrist watch handed down. As with a lot of modern conveniences their real usefulness was not fully realized or even implemented until an ingenious soldier came up with the idea, band-aids are one of those awesome items. German aviator watches are always interesting, and the Germans have been building application specific watches using their own or high quality Swiss movements for a long time. It's hard to find vintage examples of some, but there are modern ones with the giant crowns made so you can have gloves on and still make adjustments, at least that is what I was told by a watch maker. Rolex again was really to credit with their "tool" watch line that has been used by the military and divers since the 50s when they were released, people ask why Bond would wear one, well because it is designed for abuse, a sub-mariner is a perfect watch for beat up use, they can go down to 1000 meters, and have a special helium valve, which any watch that is for saturation diving and goes below 300+ meters needs to have this.
I have have interviewers stop and ask about the watch I am wearing and after research I try to make a statement, and there is something in our psyches that likes a person that wears a watch in this day and age. Just don't keep looking at your watch lol fidgeting is bad! I wear my all black auto with a fake tourbillon, the hands are gold and it has a swarzky crystal at the 12 o'clock mark, it's very conservative, but very striking at the same time, I use it for most formal events. I also love my every-day divers chrono an Invicta Grand Diver, it's a dark grey Ti with polished accents and a black face, it's got a big dial, but the way it's styled it is striking, but somehow understated, it gets a lot of glances. I also wear my Seiko gadget watch, it's very neat looking and different, and somehow very simple and elegant, classic low depth dive watch. My only gripe is I wish the Grand Diver chrono came in a mechanical model, while I know that would carry a price, it would be awesome to have my favorite watch be automatic and thus outlast the zombie horde, I could luck out and the battery lasts till it's over, but I would rather take my chances with an auto :)
Here are some early dive gadgets at the very bottom is a comically large dive master http://forums.watchuseek.com/f74/long-ago-%7B50s-early-60s%7D-there-werent-lot-people-dive-watches-638705.html
"Rolex subsequently received the very first wristwatch Chronometer awards from the School of Horology in Bienne (1910), and the Class “A” Certificate of Precision from the Kew Observatory in England (1914). To this day, Rolex watches consistently receive more Chronometer Certificates from the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres (COSC), than every other watch company in the world, combined." (http://www.qualitytyme.net/pages/rolex_articles/history_of_wristwatch.html)
I really like my Invicta watches, but the downside is they only cater to the big watch wearing folks mostly, which some of their styles are actually really old school, big watches used to be the normal for a lot of purposes, early divers and pilots needed something easier to see, and watches were larger for them and the expense of smaller gear movements also meant that compact wrist watches were an even bigger luxury. Also wrist watches were originally more for women and viewed as a fad (the wikipedia article has a lot of what I am saying, a lot of it comes from the same articles I've read). It was our boys in the War that found pocket watches were impractical and that is why a lot of families with lots of military history have a wrist watch handed down. As with a lot of modern conveniences their real usefulness was not fully realized or even implemented until an ingenious soldier came up with the idea, band-aids are one of those awesome items. German aviator watches are always interesting, and the Germans have been building application specific watches using their own or high quality Swiss movements for a long time. It's hard to find vintage examples of some, but there are modern ones with the giant crowns made so you can have gloves on and still make adjustments, at least that is what I was told by a watch maker. Rolex again was really to credit with their "tool" watch line that has been used by the military and divers since the 50s when they were released, people ask why Bond would wear one, well because it is designed for abuse, a sub-mariner is a perfect watch for beat up use, they can go down to 1000 meters, and have a special helium valve, which any watch that is for saturation diving and goes below 300+ meters needs to have this.
I have have interviewers stop and ask about the watch I am wearing and after research I try to make a statement, and there is something in our psyches that likes a person that wears a watch in this day and age. Just don't keep looking at your watch lol fidgeting is bad! I wear my all black auto with a fake tourbillon, the hands are gold and it has a swarzky crystal at the 12 o'clock mark, it's very conservative, but very striking at the same time, I use it for most formal events. I also love my every-day divers chrono an Invicta Grand Diver, it's a dark grey Ti with polished accents and a black face, it's got a big dial, but the way it's styled it is striking, but somehow understated, it gets a lot of glances. I also wear my Seiko gadget watch, it's very neat looking and different, and somehow very simple and elegant, classic low depth dive watch. My only gripe is I wish the Grand Diver chrono came in a mechanical model, while I know that would carry a price, it would be awesome to have my favorite watch be automatic and thus outlast the zombie horde, I could luck out and the battery lasts till it's over, but I would rather take my chances with an auto :)
Here are some early dive gadgets at the very bottom is a comically large dive master http://forums.watchuseek.com/f74/long-ago-%7B50s-early-60s%7D-there-werent-lot-people-dive-watches-638705.html
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
General Gadget Talk and Updated Thoughts on Tablet PCs (now that I own one)
About a year ago in this blogs old and over ambitious beginnings. I had some good ideas and I had some ideas that I was trying to hash out that just wouldn't be sustainable as a blogging platform, one of the few things that is sustainable is my obsession with gadgets and other tech items. I am glad the great wristwatch fetish of 2010 and 2011 has cooled off, I still love wristwatches and have a passion for time pieces, but I am not snatching them up like crack and with good reason, I made some pricey mistakes in watches that are just not that great and not nearly as cool as the instant gratification fix or the "new stuff high" one can seem to get. I like all manor of mechanized and non-mechanized gadgets, from computers to stereos, from mechanical watches to firearms. All four of the mentioned gadgets are ones that lend well to tinkering and improving, yes even watches.
If you put a little time into a lower quality mechanical watch you can improve its time keeping and even get more meters of water resistance, or improving the looks. It seems like some people want to buy an expensive watch, wear it wrong and have it flop around their wrist like they are a kid wearing dad's watch, I don't understand how someone can do that. I can forgive wearing a watch on the wrong wrist in casual situations, but in more formal and business situations people actually do pay attention to details such as that, weird right? Same thing with knowing how place settings work at a formal dinner situation, you don't want to come off looking like Tarzan. I love dark watches, as in black out, they look very sleek and even a cheaper one can give you a lot of miles if worn just for special occasions, as more regular wear will rub off the coating on the metal of lesser quality watches and given more time even on nicer coated watches that will happen. Certain coatings and materials are not going to have that problem, but they carry a cost with them as well. Even titanium banded and bodied watches are getting more and more affordable, which is nice as long as they don't use a soft Ti alloy that is heavy on cheap aluminum, what will happen is the hardened steel pins holding the links together with actually ream out the holes in the links and start to fall out, I've seen it happen on entry level Seiko's in Ti, and on my own Ti Fossil, on the fossil, given the overall quality and price of their watches it is forgivable, but on the Seiko, I think that is cost cutting to the point of quality cutting. There are cost cutting measures that do not sacrifice quality actually, they just have to be implemented in a careful fashion, I will point to Kahr's CM9 (I think that is the model, pistol, and the newer one in composite lower) they cut costs in very clever ways, improved the function of the pistol and got it out to the end user at a extremely fair price. For what they are and getting used to that style of trigger, sorry I'm a single action kind of guy, they are in the firearms world what a killer app is to IT. Sometimes saving the end user lots of money is something as simple as not putting it in a crazy case (many gadgets included here) that will be a shelved item and rarely used, or not including a 2nd magazine. An easy cost saving measure on a decent watch is to put the glowing dials that are light sensitive in, I prefer tritium because I can always see my watch face in the dark, for over 25 years my watch will glow like that, at around 25 years it will start to decay and not glow.
On stereos.... That is a tough market, you have just as much witchcraft involved in high end stereo items as you do in an average Harry Potter book, seriously. There are overpriced slabs of wood to keep your wires electrons happy. This article points to one item that is hilarious when people are paying so much for them, the really funny thing about a lot of these products, they change websites and company names constantly, and even vary the product names a bit. $32,000 cables and fancy easy bake ovens that cost $800 to "cook" your cables and condition them for proper sound.
http://www.transparentcable.com/products/pdf/prices/retail_prices_03-2011.pdf takes a minute to load, but prices on some cables START AT $33,000...
http://www.svalanderaudio.com/solidtech/coseng.php
http://angstfree.blogspot.com/2007/06/playstation-audiophile-hype.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread762054/pg1
This is clearly a joke from an Amazon seller, but you get the point...
http://www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Mini-Computer-Stereo-Cable/dp/B00404CTBK/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327497377&sr=1-1
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/01/james-randi-calls-ou.html Boingboing has a few writers that put up audiophile products that are nuthouse every so often.
Ok back to it, I love music, and I don't mind paying to hear it played through something that will make it sound better, and yes I'm a victim of monster cables marketing when building my SACD set up, which I notice only slightly better results when using the monster cables I have, but it is after a LOT of comparison and listening to the same high quality recording back and forth comparing for countless hours to pick it out. But the radioshack bargain high end cables were 100% identical in sound to monster cables, so money saved, lesson learned, the one nice thing about nicer cables, they hold up much better and that is about it.
Ok Tablet PCs, they are a gadget I've been waiting for as long as I can remember after seeing so many movies and TV shows use something nearly identical, or in Star Trek's case nearly identical to an iPad. I have to give Apple credit, but only just that, they were the first to get a tablet out there and make it successful, many have tried to do similar over the years and always fell short, palm pilots always were a device looking for wireless for so long, and then by the time things caught up and they got it all in order, smart phones come out, and Apple even tried to make things similar to their own product, the Newton still does some things that the iPad can't, and these are functions that people want out of a tablet not just neat things that serve no purpose. I purchased a Dell Streak 7 wifi only tablet because it was a good price and the specs on it were amazing, aside from screen resolution, which are pathetic, but it was a solid price and from a hardware perspective it was a power house. I received it and it was all well and good, but it was using outdated an outdated Android OS never designed for a tablet, so tons of functions were really hurt and even with a bad resolution screen you could tell half the apps were designed for something with a much smaller screen, I was ready to sell it and rarely used it. The anticipated OS update that was supposed to be released shortly after my purchase was announced to never happen I found out, and then I was like ok, I am really selling this, I had it posted and someone was going to buy it that Saturday, on Thursday I got a pop up when I was about to clear all my data, Firmware update available, puzzled I accepted it, HONEYCOMB!!! WHAT! Dell finally came through after a LOT of complaints and people demanding returns I guess. I installed Honeycomb right away and I had a birthday dinner to get to so I played with it for a minute and then just decided I'm going to bring it with me, since there were very few devices using it and I knew 2 people that have designed Android apps would be there, I wanted to show it off. After I got used to the new improved interface functions, which were a dramatic change for the better, everything was so much faster, not only because it was optimized for the powerful processor, but because menus and functions were accessed much more intuitively, I had to learn how to use something in an intuitive fashion sounds weird, but it was so backwards before it was like I had a totally different tablet completely. I was pleased as punch, I could keep this and bide my time while a few up and coming improvements were coming to Android tablets.
I wanted more screen real estate and more resolution at some point for reading digital transfer comic books. I started looking for my tablets replacement around Christmas and was upset to find a lot of Android tablets have moved into an iPad pricing scheme and that most Android tablets were moving away from modest onboard storage (8-16gb being on the good side, less for some bargains) and having a slot for an SD card, which Android will soon support 64gb cards, so 16gb onboard + 64gb card = more then an iPad for WAY less cost, not to mention you can get 32gb cards for a reasonable price and then just have a common app load out, and change media on each like a fancy album structure and label them accordingly. I have one 32 gb card. I don't feel that compulsion to carry every MP3 I own with me constantly, which no portable media player can without double sided taping an SD plug hard drive to it... I just have some selections that I can't go without and rotate my newest music around, which I am constantly seeking out something new and different on the fringes of "underground," yes I could be labeled a hipster, I just don't care for mainstream music for the most part and listen to obscure bands, and no I'm not calling bands that are fairly popular obscure, I'm talking on Pandora and last.fm they have under very few followers and listens on their tracks, in the thousands or sometimes less, not always, but I just go for music that tours the "local" scene, which now in the modern day, a small time artist can go around the continent and have a much more vast listening base because of the Internet, and do the same amount of work that a coffee house only musician did "back in the day" as the kids say. Websites like thesixtyone.com, soundcloud, and last.fm have given the "little guy" huge power, and a lot of these bands and artists give their music away also! Whew ok tangent over, sorry about that (oh the genre that has captivated me recently is instrumental modern prog rock and post rock).
So on with tablets, I found one that I like, only problem, my wireless carrier does not carry the mobile network capable version, why you ask? Apple being douche bags, they are made that tons of competition is out there and have held up progress of samsung specifically, but everyone in general, because apparently they copied Apple, now call me crazy, but Apple, couldn't you be sued for doing the same thing with laptops... The lawsuit has had a lot of the different products held from market or withdrawn until it is sorted out, and Apple is making lawsuits from country to country, so just in case all these companies are holding back a lot of their product release if they go through, which they have been over turned left and right, but still that is a douche move. Like I said I found the one, the Galaxy 10.1, but Sprint only sells it wifi only, and I already have one of those, I'm ready to step up my game and get 3g/4g on my tablet. That's the other fun thing, wireless data packages for tablets have gone from reasonable to crazy recently, in some cases 400% increases for basic plans. I've been looking for an option to tether my tablet to my phone without rooting it, but nothing has come up yet. So I may root my phone so I can. It would be cool if a wireless provider had a discount for mobile data plans for tablets/air cards that would give you a fair discount if you had existing phone service, but I don't see that happening at all. Currently Verizon offers the only options, which suck, their price on the same tab is hundreds more, I can understand some difference because the hardware additions for 3g/4g, but what they have is lunacy. They have a refurb program, guess how much you save on the tablet when you get a refurb, $50, sheesh at least on Apple stuff it is a more noticeable savings, which given their initial cost is still a kick in the pants. And like I was pointing out before, many Tablets from companies other then Apple have moved to the same inflated pricing scheme, entry level tablet $300-400, increase storage and cost can more then double, SSDs are expensive, I know, but they are not made out of golden panda fetus. The reason for going with Android for most people has always been simple:
1. Affordability
2. Bang for buck over Apple
3. Options (expandable storage, more freeware apps, rooting is allowed, more choices in apps (yes more choices, even though the numbers in the app store are higher, Android's open source style has more options for certain types of apps and better variety, rather then being forced to use 1st party items, and pricing is better on the Android market, and they have way better customer service and support)
4. Don't need iTunes to use it, again I have options, I like those.
5. Back-up is so much easier, i.e. GMail account to back up contacts instantly, and programs that can save everything, including the data stored in programs, Apple still can't have your notepad export, so simple...
6. Don't have to pay for any customer support or extra warranty, even my out of warranty HTC has been taken care of, just getting Apple to talk to you when your product is out of warranty is a challenge. And the carrier insurance is cheaper to get on your handset, and usually a lot better then Apple Care.
7. You can hold your product anyway you want and not be told otherwise (ok that's a bit of a joke, but it has happened...)
8. Hardware choice, there is not just Android phone and that is it, there are tons of companies that offer Android OS phones and competition is a good thing. Also the specs on most current Android phone blow Apple out of the water, if there were doors on the iPhone or iPad they would be located on the ground. Apple fankids actually try to say that having better specs makes a product worse, yes I am dead serious, they are trying to say this why? Who needs that much ram or that good of a processor on a phone! That is just silly, that is a bad product. Wow, that is what makes products improve, pushing the envelope, more and more storage and faster chipsets will make all future chipsets more affordable, and the size of them will be smaller over time, so far that has been a scientific law in regard to computers, Moore's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law)
That is why I go with Android, but might just not get another tablet at this point sadly.
If you put a little time into a lower quality mechanical watch you can improve its time keeping and even get more meters of water resistance, or improving the looks. It seems like some people want to buy an expensive watch, wear it wrong and have it flop around their wrist like they are a kid wearing dad's watch, I don't understand how someone can do that. I can forgive wearing a watch on the wrong wrist in casual situations, but in more formal and business situations people actually do pay attention to details such as that, weird right? Same thing with knowing how place settings work at a formal dinner situation, you don't want to come off looking like Tarzan. I love dark watches, as in black out, they look very sleek and even a cheaper one can give you a lot of miles if worn just for special occasions, as more regular wear will rub off the coating on the metal of lesser quality watches and given more time even on nicer coated watches that will happen. Certain coatings and materials are not going to have that problem, but they carry a cost with them as well. Even titanium banded and bodied watches are getting more and more affordable, which is nice as long as they don't use a soft Ti alloy that is heavy on cheap aluminum, what will happen is the hardened steel pins holding the links together with actually ream out the holes in the links and start to fall out, I've seen it happen on entry level Seiko's in Ti, and on my own Ti Fossil, on the fossil, given the overall quality and price of their watches it is forgivable, but on the Seiko, I think that is cost cutting to the point of quality cutting. There are cost cutting measures that do not sacrifice quality actually, they just have to be implemented in a careful fashion, I will point to Kahr's CM9 (I think that is the model, pistol, and the newer one in composite lower) they cut costs in very clever ways, improved the function of the pistol and got it out to the end user at a extremely fair price. For what they are and getting used to that style of trigger, sorry I'm a single action kind of guy, they are in the firearms world what a killer app is to IT. Sometimes saving the end user lots of money is something as simple as not putting it in a crazy case (many gadgets included here) that will be a shelved item and rarely used, or not including a 2nd magazine. An easy cost saving measure on a decent watch is to put the glowing dials that are light sensitive in, I prefer tritium because I can always see my watch face in the dark, for over 25 years my watch will glow like that, at around 25 years it will start to decay and not glow.
On stereos.... That is a tough market, you have just as much witchcraft involved in high end stereo items as you do in an average Harry Potter book, seriously. There are overpriced slabs of wood to keep your wires electrons happy. This article points to one item that is hilarious when people are paying so much for them, the really funny thing about a lot of these products, they change websites and company names constantly, and even vary the product names a bit. $32,000 cables and fancy easy bake ovens that cost $800 to "cook" your cables and condition them for proper sound.
http://www.transparentcable.com/products/pdf/prices/retail_prices_03-2011.pdf takes a minute to load, but prices on some cables START AT $33,000...
http://www.svalanderaudio.com/solidtech/coseng.php
http://angstfree.blogspot.com/2007/06/playstation-audiophile-hype.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread762054/pg1
This is clearly a joke from an Amazon seller, but you get the point...
http://www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Mini-Computer-Stereo-Cable/dp/B00404CTBK/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327497377&sr=1-1
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/01/james-randi-calls-ou.html Boingboing has a few writers that put up audiophile products that are nuthouse every so often.
Ok back to it, I love music, and I don't mind paying to hear it played through something that will make it sound better, and yes I'm a victim of monster cables marketing when building my SACD set up, which I notice only slightly better results when using the monster cables I have, but it is after a LOT of comparison and listening to the same high quality recording back and forth comparing for countless hours to pick it out. But the radioshack bargain high end cables were 100% identical in sound to monster cables, so money saved, lesson learned, the one nice thing about nicer cables, they hold up much better and that is about it.
Ok Tablet PCs, they are a gadget I've been waiting for as long as I can remember after seeing so many movies and TV shows use something nearly identical, or in Star Trek's case nearly identical to an iPad. I have to give Apple credit, but only just that, they were the first to get a tablet out there and make it successful, many have tried to do similar over the years and always fell short, palm pilots always were a device looking for wireless for so long, and then by the time things caught up and they got it all in order, smart phones come out, and Apple even tried to make things similar to their own product, the Newton still does some things that the iPad can't, and these are functions that people want out of a tablet not just neat things that serve no purpose. I purchased a Dell Streak 7 wifi only tablet because it was a good price and the specs on it were amazing, aside from screen resolution, which are pathetic, but it was a solid price and from a hardware perspective it was a power house. I received it and it was all well and good, but it was using outdated an outdated Android OS never designed for a tablet, so tons of functions were really hurt and even with a bad resolution screen you could tell half the apps were designed for something with a much smaller screen, I was ready to sell it and rarely used it. The anticipated OS update that was supposed to be released shortly after my purchase was announced to never happen I found out, and then I was like ok, I am really selling this, I had it posted and someone was going to buy it that Saturday, on Thursday I got a pop up when I was about to clear all my data, Firmware update available, puzzled I accepted it, HONEYCOMB!!! WHAT! Dell finally came through after a LOT of complaints and people demanding returns I guess. I installed Honeycomb right away and I had a birthday dinner to get to so I played with it for a minute and then just decided I'm going to bring it with me, since there were very few devices using it and I knew 2 people that have designed Android apps would be there, I wanted to show it off. After I got used to the new improved interface functions, which were a dramatic change for the better, everything was so much faster, not only because it was optimized for the powerful processor, but because menus and functions were accessed much more intuitively, I had to learn how to use something in an intuitive fashion sounds weird, but it was so backwards before it was like I had a totally different tablet completely. I was pleased as punch, I could keep this and bide my time while a few up and coming improvements were coming to Android tablets.
I wanted more screen real estate and more resolution at some point for reading digital transfer comic books. I started looking for my tablets replacement around Christmas and was upset to find a lot of Android tablets have moved into an iPad pricing scheme and that most Android tablets were moving away from modest onboard storage (8-16gb being on the good side, less for some bargains) and having a slot for an SD card, which Android will soon support 64gb cards, so 16gb onboard + 64gb card = more then an iPad for WAY less cost, not to mention you can get 32gb cards for a reasonable price and then just have a common app load out, and change media on each like a fancy album structure and label them accordingly. I have one 32 gb card. I don't feel that compulsion to carry every MP3 I own with me constantly, which no portable media player can without double sided taping an SD plug hard drive to it... I just have some selections that I can't go without and rotate my newest music around, which I am constantly seeking out something new and different on the fringes of "underground," yes I could be labeled a hipster, I just don't care for mainstream music for the most part and listen to obscure bands, and no I'm not calling bands that are fairly popular obscure, I'm talking on Pandora and last.fm they have under very few followers and listens on their tracks, in the thousands or sometimes less, not always, but I just go for music that tours the "local" scene, which now in the modern day, a small time artist can go around the continent and have a much more vast listening base because of the Internet, and do the same amount of work that a coffee house only musician did "back in the day" as the kids say. Websites like thesixtyone.com, soundcloud, and last.fm have given the "little guy" huge power, and a lot of these bands and artists give their music away also! Whew ok tangent over, sorry about that (oh the genre that has captivated me recently is instrumental modern prog rock and post rock).
So on with tablets, I found one that I like, only problem, my wireless carrier does not carry the mobile network capable version, why you ask? Apple being douche bags, they are made that tons of competition is out there and have held up progress of samsung specifically, but everyone in general, because apparently they copied Apple, now call me crazy, but Apple, couldn't you be sued for doing the same thing with laptops... The lawsuit has had a lot of the different products held from market or withdrawn until it is sorted out, and Apple is making lawsuits from country to country, so just in case all these companies are holding back a lot of their product release if they go through, which they have been over turned left and right, but still that is a douche move. Like I said I found the one, the Galaxy 10.1, but Sprint only sells it wifi only, and I already have one of those, I'm ready to step up my game and get 3g/4g on my tablet. That's the other fun thing, wireless data packages for tablets have gone from reasonable to crazy recently, in some cases 400% increases for basic plans. I've been looking for an option to tether my tablet to my phone without rooting it, but nothing has come up yet. So I may root my phone so I can. It would be cool if a wireless provider had a discount for mobile data plans for tablets/air cards that would give you a fair discount if you had existing phone service, but I don't see that happening at all. Currently Verizon offers the only options, which suck, their price on the same tab is hundreds more, I can understand some difference because the hardware additions for 3g/4g, but what they have is lunacy. They have a refurb program, guess how much you save on the tablet when you get a refurb, $50, sheesh at least on Apple stuff it is a more noticeable savings, which given their initial cost is still a kick in the pants. And like I was pointing out before, many Tablets from companies other then Apple have moved to the same inflated pricing scheme, entry level tablet $300-400, increase storage and cost can more then double, SSDs are expensive, I know, but they are not made out of golden panda fetus. The reason for going with Android for most people has always been simple:
1. Affordability
2. Bang for buck over Apple
3. Options (expandable storage, more freeware apps, rooting is allowed, more choices in apps (yes more choices, even though the numbers in the app store are higher, Android's open source style has more options for certain types of apps and better variety, rather then being forced to use 1st party items, and pricing is better on the Android market, and they have way better customer service and support)
4. Don't need iTunes to use it, again I have options, I like those.
5. Back-up is so much easier, i.e. GMail account to back up contacts instantly, and programs that can save everything, including the data stored in programs, Apple still can't have your notepad export, so simple...
6. Don't have to pay for any customer support or extra warranty, even my out of warranty HTC has been taken care of, just getting Apple to talk to you when your product is out of warranty is a challenge. And the carrier insurance is cheaper to get on your handset, and usually a lot better then Apple Care.
7. You can hold your product anyway you want and not be told otherwise (ok that's a bit of a joke, but it has happened...)
8. Hardware choice, there is not just Android phone and that is it, there are tons of companies that offer Android OS phones and competition is a good thing. Also the specs on most current Android phone blow Apple out of the water, if there were doors on the iPhone or iPad they would be located on the ground. Apple fankids actually try to say that having better specs makes a product worse, yes I am dead serious, they are trying to say this why? Who needs that much ram or that good of a processor on a phone! That is just silly, that is a bad product. Wow, that is what makes products improve, pushing the envelope, more and more storage and faster chipsets will make all future chipsets more affordable, and the size of them will be smaller over time, so far that has been a scientific law in regard to computers, Moore's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law)
That is why I go with Android, but might just not get another tablet at this point sadly.
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