Yes, I'll pay for a movie in one of the common streaming services for $10-$20 per movie.
Then they love you. I'll pay upwards of $10 for a Blu-Ray - usually I'll wait for a better price. I rip everything myself and make it as convenient as I need it to be (I only want to watch it on a full size TV anyway). For that price, I usually get the digital UV copy for free anyway. So I actually come out ahead on everything.
But really, I buy most of my movies secondhand in fairly good condition and pay under $3/movie. Can't do that with the streaming services. There is no secondhand market, no inheritance of property, nothing.
I'm not only not an early adopter - I've only bought new once. And I didn't break $20,000 (before taxes). That's a 50% or more surcharge for one feature.
That's what you do if you leave one metro area to go to another. That's not realistic for going from one semi-rural area to another, with not even an Interstate highway between. Or from one metro area to a rural area.
I mean 2-3 times a month - usually weekends. Maybe visiting family (150+ miles one way). Hybrid vehicles are there, but EVs average around 80+ miles per charge. And adding 30 minutes or more to a 3 hour trip just to sit and wait on a recharge is just not small to me. Driving 10 hours for a vacation, because it's still way cheaper than 2 plane tickets would be something like 8 or 9 recharges in one day. I don't think I could keep my sanity. I also don't like driving someone else's car, and I don't think it's reasonable for everyone to be expected to rent for long trips.
Renting a gas car works if you have the forethought to reserve, maybe. And it would have to be relatively rare (not every 2-3 weeks). But if it gets to the point that nobody has a gas vehicle at home, those weekend rental prices will skyrocket. The only reason rental cars are even relatively affordable is because they get driven on weekdays too.
And if you are renting very often, it would be cheaper to buy a 2nd vehicle. Hence my original wording.
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In 2016.
ability to stream whenever I like on an ongoing basis
Assuming you mean "rent the ability to stream, so long as the company doesn't go under and limited to my own lifetime - and loses all value at death."
Yes, I'll pay for a movie in one of the common streaming services for $10-$20 per movie.
Then they love you. I'll pay upwards of $10 for a Blu-Ray - usually I'll wait for a better price. I rip everything myself and make it as convenient as I need it to be (I only want to watch it on a full size TV anyway). For that price, I usually get the digital UV copy for free anyway. So I actually come out ahead on everything.
But really, I buy most of my movies secondhand in fairly good condition and pay under $3/movie. Can't do that with the streaming services. There is no secondhand market, no inheritance of property, nothing.
What does that have to do with a HOSTS file? Very good job on regurgitating that knowledge, but maybe make sure it's relevant next time.
Where have you been for the last two years? MS uses hard-coded IPs to avoid any messing around with DNS.
No, but their resolution doesn't come anywhere near 4K, either.
And Retropie still doesn't use higan - mostly forks of Snes9x, which is not accurate at all.
The future is now if you're buying a commodity PC, not a low-powered ARM CPU.
But that would require a professional installation. And DirecTV only offers free "professional" installation.
That's only if all 80% don't need to leave the urban areas or travel to another urban area without notice.
What AC said.
have the electric motor handle most of the bits that require torque, and use internal combustion for range
Isn't that what most recent hybrids do? The ICE is just a charger for the batteries.
Why would you use combustion for cruising on the highway over just a motor?
These are still better specs than your average, slow as molasses cable box.
This is for embedded use, mostly - and it's soldered on. Even the summary says they're now offering the choice of expandable storage.
Depends on how accurate you want it to be. If it's very close to accurate, it'll take several more generations.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
I'm not only not an early adopter - I've only bought new once. And I didn't break $20,000 (before taxes). That's a 50% or more surcharge for one feature.
For that price, it should.
That's what you do if you leave one metro area to go to another. That's not realistic for going from one semi-rural area to another, with not even an Interstate highway between. Or from one metro area to a rural area.
As you just said, it's cheaper still to just own one gasoline-powered car, which was my point.
I thought that was a typo. I didn't know there was such a thing. That's also expensive.
I mean 2-3 times a month - usually weekends. Maybe visiting family (150+ miles one way). Hybrid vehicles are there, but EVs average around 80+ miles per charge. And adding 30 minutes or more to a 3 hour trip just to sit and wait on a recharge is just not small to me. Driving 10 hours for a vacation, because it's still way cheaper than 2 plane tickets would be something like 8 or 9 recharges in one day. I don't think I could keep my sanity. I also don't like driving someone else's car, and I don't think it's reasonable for everyone to be expected to rent for long trips.
You're the one that claims that "regularly" is somehow a specific unit of time - I wasn't the one quantifying.
If I meant daily, I would have said daily. 2-3 times a month is low, but still enough to consider "regularly."
Despite the name, that's a hybrid and not an EV.
But that is when the electric car doesn't use any power.
Unless it's summer or winter and you want to be comfortable.
That's sad. There's a whole world out there.
Renting a gas car works if you have the forethought to reserve, maybe. And it would have to be relatively rare (not every 2-3 weeks). But if it gets to the point that nobody has a gas vehicle at home, those weekend rental prices will skyrocket. The only reason rental cars are even relatively affordable is because they get driven on weekdays too.
And if you are renting very often, it would be cheaper to buy a 2nd vehicle. Hence my original wording.