"Safari may take a second or two just to open a new blank tab on a 2014 iMac."
no, it won't - it doesn't even take half a second to open a full homepage on my 2011 mac.
"And with ten or fifteen open tabs it eventually becomes sluggish as hell."
nope - maybe OP should look at his/her computer, add some RAM (4 GB is so 2001) and uninstall useless crap and bloatware that slows down the system.
so, say you film for a documentary in 4k prores hq codec for half an hour. that's about 170gb of data. good luck loading that up over a satellite network in a reasonable amount of time with reasonable tech you carry with you.
sure, that's so much easier - and more practical for stupid border police - than confiscating every journalist's media. or you could just move them through a really strong magnetic field...
you're supposed to watch a movie, not dine through the whole runtime:-) - so that's going to be cheaper if you just get a soda and some popcorn/nachos. (or bring your own) .
but you won't get around the 40$ babysitter. on the other hand, it's worth it, isn't it?
to counter your real-estate-prices argument... this also makes it much more expensive for people in big cities to have the space for a decent home theatre. conversely, the cost and time spent for driving/taking public transport to a wide variety of quality screens are smaller.
(as a movie maker) i think, there's still a huge difference between youtubers and big studio movies. sure, nowadays you can get great images out of a smartphone, without having to rent that arri-setup for several thousands a day. but when you're looking at big movies, that camera is a rather small figure on your budget - you still need that light setup, costumes, technicians, set builders,... to make it look cinematic.
or it will boost the quality of piracy significantly, having a digital release out there ready for the taking. most people i know who pirate movies that have just arrived in cinemas don't care about quality, though. also, they'd never pay for a home movie anyway.
but you can wait that year and get the movies you missed for cheap then. or go to the cinema alone. we even have "baby cinema" here, where people with children below 2 can go. the movies show in the morning, the room light is only muted and the sound not as loud as usual. but it somehow defeats the purpose of going to the cinema in the first place.
it's available for streaming on itunes and amazon video. maybe you have to open your eyes when looking. but save your money, it was a pretty long-winded, repetitive movie that went way beyond driving it's point home.
or listen to sports on the radio instead of going there? it's probably a different eyperience.
so it's 8-14â per movie ticket (i bring my own snacks & beverages) on a big screen with a nice sound system in a nice sounding room, focused on the movie and not distracted by a tablet, my kid, the availability of a pause button, vs. 25-50â (those prices usually translate literally from usd) plus several thousands every few years to have an adequate (cinema like) playback setup (those huge 4k screens with p3 color gamut are not cheap, so are the 7.1 sound systems with large speakers) just for the same picture/sound-quality.
thanks, but no thanks. it might depend on your local culture, availability of good cinemas (if there were only loveless multiplexes, i'd rather sit at home as well), and the size of your family if such an offer would make sense to you, but in my book it's pretty square to sit at home in your filter bubble the whole time, just because it might make sense from a pure financial point.
While Donald I of America still can't do nothing. No matter if he eventually lets himself be provoked easily and reacts accordingly or if he ignores foreign policy - Putin wins either way. Talking about the desired candidate... But this was obvious all along, so I guess the US voters knew what they were doing. Let's make Russia great again.
don't forget to set up a clean VM so surf the web with every time. and change the way and style you write things (your writing characteristics can give you away). don't use obscure soft- or hardware that makes it easy to single you out. the more people use it, the better.
if you're a teenager and send a few thousand messages, lots of them containing pictures, every month, it does make a difference if you haven't got unlimited texts and data.
nah, had a headcrash of one of those infamous seagate 3TB drives with the 30% failure rate after 3 years this year. no warning whatsoever. you either back up your data regularly, or you don't. (i hadn't for a few days so I got one week of unpaid work, rebuilding a project. that probably serves me well.)
besides, by the time you're usually thinkin about getting a faster cpu, your old mainboard would no longer be compatible with a new model. cpu-upgrades usualy don't make sense unless you bought a very weak one on purpose to replace it with a fast model of the same generation later on.
they don't know yet what caused the problem. when i arrived at VIE yesterday, they had put thousands of bags from the baggage belts on the floor, sitting there unattended, while a voice over the speakers told passengers not to leave their bags alone.:-)
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"Safari may take a second or two just to open a new blank tab on a 2014 iMac." no, it won't - it doesn't even take half a second to open a full homepage on my 2011 mac. "And with ten or fifteen open tabs it eventually becomes sluggish as hell." nope - maybe OP should look at his/her computer, add some RAM (4 GB is so 2001) and uninstall useless crap and bloatware that slows down the system.
but sony's handheld conoles didn't do so well either (compared to nintendo's).
it's not about the gameplay - the bad reviews are either about the game crashing or (mostly) about the high price (for not wnough game)
so, say you film for a documentary in 4k prores hq codec for half an hour. that's about 170gb of data. good luck loading that up over a satellite network in a reasonable amount of time with reasonable tech you carry with you.
sure, that's so much easier - and more practical for stupid border police - than confiscating every journalist's media. or you could just move them through a really strong magnetic field...
you're supposed to watch a movie, not dine through the whole runtime :-) - so that's going to be cheaper if you just get a soda and some popcorn/nachos. (or bring your own) .
but you won't get around the 40$ babysitter. on the other hand, it's worth it, isn't it?
a typical movie in a dcp package has about 100gb, i doubt, they'd distribute those movies at that level of quality.
to counter your real-estate-prices argument... this also makes it much more expensive for people in big cities to have the space for a decent home theatre. conversely, the cost and time spent for driving/taking public transport to a wide variety of quality screens are smaller. (as a movie maker) i think, there's still a huge difference between youtubers and big studio movies. sure, nowadays you can get great images out of a smartphone, without having to rent that arri-setup for several thousands a day. but when you're looking at big movies, that camera is a rather small figure on your budget - you still need that light setup, costumes, technicians, set builders,... to make it look cinematic.
or it will boost the quality of piracy significantly, having a digital release out there ready for the taking. most people i know who pirate movies that have just arrived in cinemas don't care about quality, though. also, they'd never pay for a home movie anyway.
but you can wait that year and get the movies you missed for cheap then. or go to the cinema alone. we even have "baby cinema" here, where people with children below 2 can go. the movies show in the morning, the room light is only muted and the sound not as loud as usual. but it somehow defeats the purpose of going to the cinema in the first place.
it's available for streaming on itunes and amazon video. maybe you have to open your eyes when looking. but save your money, it was a pretty long-winded, repetitive movie that went way beyond driving it's point home.
or listen to sports on the radio instead of going there? it's probably a different eyperience. so it's 8-14â per movie ticket (i bring my own snacks & beverages) on a big screen with a nice sound system in a nice sounding room, focused on the movie and not distracted by a tablet, my kid, the availability of a pause button, vs. 25-50â (those prices usually translate literally from usd) plus several thousands every few years to have an adequate (cinema like) playback setup (those huge 4k screens with p3 color gamut are not cheap, so are the 7.1 sound systems with large speakers) just for the same picture/sound-quality. thanks, but no thanks. it might depend on your local culture, availability of good cinemas (if there were only loveless multiplexes, i'd rather sit at home as well), and the size of your family if such an offer would make sense to you, but in my book it's pretty square to sit at home in your filter bubble the whole time, just because it might make sense from a pure financial point.
I guess, Apple will wait for what Magic Leap comes up with, and then decide.
While Donald I of America still can't do nothing. No matter if he eventually lets himself be provoked easily and reacts accordingly or if he ignores foreign policy - Putin wins either way. Talking about the desired candidate... But this was obvious all along, so I guess the US voters knew what they were doing. Let's make Russia great again.
don't forget to set up a clean VM so surf the web with every time. and change the way and style you write things (your writing characteristics can give you away). don't use obscure soft- or hardware that makes it easy to single you out. the more people use it, the better.
unfortunately it's just an error by someone who hasn't learned copy->paste in school yet. the rocket is supposed to weigh up to 100 tons.
if you're a teenager and send a few thousand messages, lots of them containing pictures, every month, it does make a difference if you haven't got unlimited texts and data.
if you're an android user and installed that ugly-looking imessage clone called whatsapp: for the same reason, plus aesthetics.
you're absolutely right, drama (danger) is more interesting - you have to survive first to think about progress.
just wait until the 27th...
nah, had a headcrash of one of those infamous seagate 3TB drives with the 30% failure rate after 3 years this year. no warning whatsoever. you either back up your data regularly, or you don't. (i hadn't for a few days so I got one week of unpaid work, rebuilding a project. that probably serves me well.)
besides, by the time you're usually thinkin about getting a faster cpu, your old mainboard would no longer be compatible with a new model. cpu-upgrades usualy don't make sense unless you bought a very weak one on purpose to replace it with a fast model of the same generation later on.
then there's only profit to be made if they are buying it anyway...
they don't know yet what caused the problem. when i arrived at VIE yesterday, they had put thousands of bags from the baggage belts on the floor, sitting there unattended, while a voice over the speakers told passengers not to leave their bags alone. :-)
well, the problemems in this case were im the wires...