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Cyclop Balls
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Truman,
How about a properly lighted table?
I have the same problem with the 8 & the 6, especially since my eye accident & my astigmatism.
I've even thought about playing with a head light like my cousin uses for when he goes frog 'hunting'.
Regards & Best Wishes,
Rick
"Would suck if they decide to change ball colors later coz then a bunch of people would be stuck with these funky colored ones."
It was a declarative sentence -- there was nothing to answer.
"In the video, Paul Smith of Diamond says that a Cyclop ball set will also be available in traditional colors."
My comment was to point out that no one needs to get stuck with funky ball colors they do not like.
Lou Figueroa
the PR way
is knowing
how to read
Um no, try again. The comment JohnPT made was directed AT the people who might buy the SAME balls that CSI is using only to find out later that they change the colors and then be STUCK with the colors used now.
Knowing how to read is when you read and THINK about what you read and how to address it. Not reading with a comment of your own already formed before you finish reading the sentence.
I think you mean the PR way is knowing how to say what you want regardless of the actual topic. In that you are a grandmaster.
Well, now that they know a Cyclop ball set will be available from Diamond in the traditional colors, that is less likely to happen, so no one will get STUCK with funky colors.
Isn't that great
Lou Figueroa
Ipod dropped out of a third story window and survived. But the employees that make them weren't so lucky. Suicide rate so bad they had to put netting around the factory and have employees sign contracts that they won't commit suicide on company property or their families will pay.
Or....You can stop leaving yourself so crappy on the 8! :grin-square:
Please, the suicide rate was lower than China and WAY WAY lower than the USA's.
What a silly thing to say. 17 people committed suicide in a two year period out of 1.5 million.
Well, now that they know a Cyclop ball set will be available from Diamond in the traditional colors, that is less likely to happen, so no one will get STUCK with funky colors.
Isn't that great
Lou Figueroa
Why? Is Diamond going to be offering a trade-in program? You see AGAIN Lou, IF someone buys a CURRENT set and THEN CSI changes the colors used THEN that buyer will be STUCK with a set that has colors that ARE NOT used at the main event.
This is NOT about whether the standard colors will be available or not.
So are you saying that Foxconn is the best place to work in the world because the suicide rate at the factory is so low? The 17 people you mention were on company grounds. Are you suggesting any of the other suicides in China that weren't on company grounds had nothing to do with Foxconn since it didn't happen on company property?
What a silly thing to say.
IMO, the overall rate may be lower, but I think it points to a very specific reason in this case. Poor working conditions and treatment.
I am saying that 17 people committed suicide. Not all were work related. The RATE of suicide for Foxconn workers was far lower than China's overall rate and FAR lower than the rate of suicides in the USA.
The reason that they happened on company grounds is because UNLIKE the USA in China many people, millions of them, migrate to the coasts for work and traditionally factories provide housing for those people.
It's not people jumping into machines or coming to work with an AK 47 and "going postal" on their collegues to protest the way they are treated.
It's really sad that you want to take this discussion about the QUALITY of products made in China and link it to the Foxconn suicides.
When in fact this thread is simply a discussion of the balls being used. It should be at least. But hey if you want to go there then I guess we can talk about all the elephants killed in the production of ivory balls, we can talk about the environmental impact of phenolic resin, we can talk about Saluc's role in WW2, I don't know what that was but there is probably some dirt there.
We can make this thread as geopolitical as you want it to be if that's what you really want to happen in a thread that is and should be about the ACTUAL balls being used right now in Vegas.
Wha-choo got against black-balls?!!
Dem's fightin words!
Because they come just before blue balls. Johnnyt
Fair enough JB. I didn't bring up the quality of products, you did on page 1 or 2. I was going to leave it at that until your post criticized how it "was a silly thing to say". And I took that as a slight. I'm not one of the JB haters, just responded to a comment.
I agree, let's get back on the rails with the thread.
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If this hypothetical buyer is the type of individual to be bothered a color change in a ball or two, then I would recommend that they wait and buy a set of Cyclop balls in the traditional colors, which Diamond will eventually be offering.
Lou Figueroa
I responded to a negative comment about the quality of Chinese products by relating my personal experience with Chinese made balls and with Chinese made I-gadgets.
Yeah Chris, he told me about it last night. He said he felt it was the measles ball that was the problem but then again he does not like that cue ball. I am curious why they did not just use the one with the set, like Floyd said, "They got these guys playing with a training ball with spots all over it.".
Just got back from Vegas after being stuck overnight in Houston due to a late flight, played with these balls for a bit.
They play good, with the exception of the cueball, at least the ones used on the 7 footers. All the 9 footers that I could tell used the Aramith measles ball.
They are less noisy than the other sets, breaking makes more of thunk sound than a crack. They did have the same black spots on them as other balls from the Diamond tables, maybe more.
The cueball played heavy and looked milky, there was a clear coat of about a mm on the thing, you can see the cyclop logo imbedded into the clear.
They play good, with the exception of the cueball, at least the ones used on the 7 footers. All the 9 footers that I could tell used the Aramith measles ball.
They are less noisy than the other sets, breaking makes more of thunk sound than a crack. They did have the same black spots on them as other balls from the Diamond tables, maybe more.
The cueball played heavy and looked milky, there was a clear coat of about a mm on the thing, you can see the cyclop logo imbedded into the clear.