While suitable equipment is cheap, and sufficient space is available in homes (at least in America), a lot of home setups are still inferior to real cinemas. This is especially true for the bigger screens.
Speaking of the Soviet Union. They're "free healthcare" was abominable. If you managed to develop Type2 Diabetes you were pretty much on your own. You either changed your lifestyle or you DIED.
The best answer isn't always necessarily to baby people.
We try to avoid encouraging dependence in wild animals but gleefly encourage it in people.
> Some people still have tape decks in their POS cars and use their phones instead of a $300 stereo upgrade.
There's really no need to spend that much even. If you think that's the case, perhaps you just like blowing money and pretending that you're richer than you really are.
My Steam folder is more than 250G and I'm just a Linux user. That's not even getting into anything else I might do on the mundane side like music and photos or home videos.
Clearly you're not paying attention or you simply refuse to acknowledge reality. The fact that anyone is even saying 'but use the right ones' just shows how shabby the tech is now and how it's not really ready for prime time.
Even the worst spinning rust from Seagate give me plenty of warning so I can soften the blow.
The "not everyone is a techie" bit applies to ALL items on that list. If someone is willing to upgrade ANY item in their PC then they are probably willing to upgrade anything that can be upgraded.
You also forgot the GPU. A GPU upgrade can turn an old clunker into a respectable machine again.
The percentage of people looking to upgrade/replace their hard drive is probably roughly the same as the number of people willing to build it from scratch.
"entry-level Mac that comes" with a ridiculously small amount of RAM for 2016. Not so sure about that CPU either. Then there's that integrated GPU. Plus the whole thing is maintenance hostile.
The Mini had it's time and that time passed quite awhile ago.
I've never had to ask a doctor to prescribe a generic EVER. If there is a generic it just gets substituted by the pharmacist because that's how things actually work. If there is a generic, you don't really have to do anything.
Why it seems to be case for this particular drug is certainly something worth examining.
In the old days they referred to this as the Sabbath. The really compliant types even now will unplug themselves completely from all tech or work for the day.
...except these social justice types lose any sense of perspective and end up supporting absurd things, repressive regimes, and leaders that support or benefit from repressive regimes.
Liberals kind of jumped the shark. These days they excuse all sorts of nonsense that the classic civil rights movement would have nothing to do with.
You don't just have the average speed to consider. You also have to consider peak demand. Many relatively mundane individuals may benefit from much higher peak capacity. They may not need it constantly, but it will be terribly useful when they can take advantage of it.
You also have different groups of people that ignore sports as a way to get ahead entirely. They decide to go to college in order to get ahead or start a business in order to become rich and famous.
American blacks are an intensely anti-intellectual demographic versus Pakastanis.
This seems to be more about hiring "who you already know" versus some unknown quantity. People can look good on paper, interview very well and still manage to be a total disaster.
Fortunately, ARM based decoders are getting a lot less lame. The new ones are nearly not so terrible and are less dependent on something else to transcode for them.
Keeping up with the rapid obsolescence of ARM video streamers is already a sunk cost here.
The nvidia GPUs that drive my decoder boxes are so trailing edge that they are at the point of being desupported.
Even back in the day, it was only the really cheap boxes that had any problems dealing with HD anyways. This was a tricky problem a long time ago. Now, not so much.
The power costs of running your own little PC is gravely overblown. On the other hand, this takes everything out of your control and makes it dependent on any number of 3rd parties. Any one of them could fail.
One of the whole points of local content is that you can completely ignore any external network issues, like it not even being there.
Otherwise, you could just use Netflix and not bother with your own media in the first place.
Hillary is supposed to be running against the anti-Christ but she seems to be barely scraping by. Perhaps she shouldn't say Trump's name so much. That's a pretty rookie mistake for politics.
DNC arrogance and incompetence is far more of an influence on this election than Putin.
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pfffttt.
Those "limits" are no worse than what was imposed upon us in earlier centuries when we weren't soft marshmallow pansies.
Anyone that isn't a miserable git that lives in their mom's basement.
While suitable equipment is cheap, and sufficient space is available in homes (at least in America), a lot of home setups are still inferior to real cinemas. This is especially true for the bigger screens.
Speaking of the Soviet Union. They're "free healthcare" was abominable. If you managed to develop Type2 Diabetes you were pretty much on your own. You either changed your lifestyle or you DIED.
The best answer isn't always necessarily to baby people.
We try to avoid encouraging dependence in wild animals but gleefly encourage it in people.
> Some people still have tape decks in their POS cars and use their phones instead of a $300 stereo upgrade.
There's really no need to spend that much even. If you think that's the case, perhaps you just like blowing money and pretending that you're richer than you really are.
I think this is the "embrace" stage...
My Steam folder is more than 250G and I'm just a Linux user. That's not even getting into anything else I might do on the mundane side like music and photos or home videos.
> I don't get this argument. You buy SSD for the speed not the size.
You are in a very tiny minority.
> If I didn't want performance from my computer I would buy a potato,
What is wrong with your OS that it's so IO bound?
Yeah... only 3x more.
You really have forgotten where you are.
Clearly you're not paying attention or you simply refuse to acknowledge reality. The fact that anyone is even saying 'but use the right ones' just shows how shabby the tech is now and how it's not really ready for prime time.
Even the worst spinning rust from Seagate give me plenty of warning so I can soften the blow.
The "not everyone is a techie" bit applies to ALL items on that list. If someone is willing to upgrade ANY item in their PC then they are probably willing to upgrade anything that can be upgraded.
You also forgot the GPU. A GPU upgrade can turn an old clunker into a respectable machine again.
The percentage of people looking to upgrade/replace their hard drive is probably roughly the same as the number of people willing to build it from scratch.
"entry-level Mac that comes" with a ridiculously small amount of RAM for 2016. Not so sure about that CPU either. Then there's that integrated GPU. Plus the whole thing is maintenance hostile.
The Mini had it's time and that time passed quite awhile ago.
I've never had to ask a doctor to prescribe a generic EVER. If there is a generic it just gets substituted by the pharmacist because that's how things actually work. If there is a generic, you don't really have to do anything.
Why it seems to be case for this particular drug is certainly something worth examining.
In the old days they referred to this as the Sabbath. The really compliant types even now will unplug themselves completely from all tech or work for the day.
Taking a break one day in 7.
The old becomes new.
...except these social justice types lose any sense of perspective and end up supporting absurd things, repressive regimes, and leaders that support or benefit from repressive regimes.
Liberals kind of jumped the shark. These days they excuse all sorts of nonsense that the classic civil rights movement would have nothing to do with.
You don't just have the average speed to consider. You also have to consider peak demand. Many relatively mundane individuals may benefit from much higher peak capacity. They may not need it constantly, but it will be terribly useful when they can take advantage of it.
If you sell something, then you are obligated to actually deliver it.
ISPs don't sell fixed units of things. That's just big business trying to sell a blatant lie in hopes that no one is paying attention.
It also depends on believing that playing basketball is a way to get ahead in life.
You also have different groups of people that ignore sports as a way to get ahead entirely. They decide to go to college in order to get ahead or start a business in order to become rich and famous.
American blacks are an intensely anti-intellectual demographic versus Pakastanis.
So then networking and referrals are illegal now?
This seems to be more about hiring "who you already know" versus some unknown quantity. People can look good on paper, interview very well and still manage to be a total disaster.
Modern PCs are much more energy efficient than they used to be. They can even masquerade as "energy efficient appliances".
If your NAS isn't being used as a crutch by your decoders, the same hardware that's in your router will do for your "media server".
Fortunately, ARM based decoders are getting a lot less lame. The new ones are nearly not so terrible and are less dependent on something else to transcode for them.
Keeping up with the rapid obsolescence of ARM video streamers is already a sunk cost here.
The nvidia GPUs that drive my decoder boxes are so trailing edge that they are at the point of being desupported.
Even back in the day, it was only the really cheap boxes that had any problems dealing with HD anyways. This was a tricky problem a long time ago. Now, not so much.
The power costs of running your own little PC is gravely overblown. On the other hand, this takes everything out of your control and makes it dependent on any number of 3rd parties. Any one of them could fail.
One of the whole points of local content is that you can completely ignore any external network issues, like it not even being there.
Otherwise, you could just use Netflix and not bother with your own media in the first place.
The polls say otherwise...
Hillary is supposed to be running against the anti-Christ but she seems to be barely scraping by. Perhaps she shouldn't say Trump's name so much. That's a pretty rookie mistake for politics.
DNC arrogance and incompetence is far more of an influence on this election than Putin.