>> 99.9% of people won't notice any difference between quality 1080P and 4K at a normal distance for the size of the screen
Disagree. I just went from a 1080p TV to a similarly sized 4K TV. The difference in visual clarity is massively obvious with the right content (i.e. blu-ray or better) The real problem is that 4K content is still a rarity.
Yes blu-ray is only 1080p but the TV does a good enough job of upscaling that even that source provides a noticable improvement with 4k.
...but I loved it because at the time (in the late 80's) it really was better, especially for graphics and multitasking capability than all the competition, upto and including PCs.
In short the original was forward-looking and broke new ground. It also had a great community around it. This new Amiga brings nothing new, is twice as expensive and half as powerful as a good PC, and the AMiga community is effectively dead. Even I can't see any point to buying this, especially at this crazy price.
If you really wanna run old Amiga games. just dowload UAE for free. If you miss that computer community mentality, go to the Linux world where it is thriving, not Amiga.
Just like the Lamborghini Countach, Amiga should be left to the good memories of 80's history, where they will remain the icons of their day, not dug up and re-experienced again where it quickly becomes disappointingly obvious that yesterday's heroes don't even do their jobs half as well as todays mass-market products.
>> "And Friday Hillary Clinton was even quoted as saying, "I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians..."
Yeah keep telling yourself that Hillary. I mean your own obvious corruption had absolutely nothing to do with it right?
>> I suspect that soccer moms will keep the SUV, and rideshare to replace their sedan when they drive themselves around,
So you're being all pragmatic about the actual need for flatbed trucks, but then you say Moms will keep their off-road vehicles for the school run? Also I'm honestly not seeing many women allowing strangers in their cars whenever they have a spare seat. Most women aren't very frugal at all especially when it comes to perceived convenience or luxuries.
Given so-called parallel universes are in other planes of reality that we cannot ever travel to because we have no commonality of any spatial dimensions, how can a hypothesis that talks about a physical collision between the two universes, and even located at a particular geographical spot in ours, even make any sense?
>> Let me guess, you're one of the idiots who doesn't want to wear a seatbelt either
Then you guess wrong.
>> Overall, you're wrong. All the amenities you don't clarify on, but reference, do not weigh more than 20-30 lbs to the weight of the car.
My own experience says you're totally wrong. I used to own a particular brand and model of car that had a steel body. I upgraded to a 2 years newer one (same brand, model but now has a full aluminium body). Supposedly that switch saved 700lbs of weight but the actual weight of the 2 cars is pretty much identical give or take 100lbs just because the new model has so much more pointless tech crap in it.
Furthermore if you think that in a car accident, an extra airbag is the difference between you almost certainly being in a vegetative state or not, then all you've done is completely bought into the ridiculous mass paranoia that car manufacturers are brainwashing consumer sheep like you with.
I was a teen before airbags were even a thing. There was jack shit for kids to do in my small hometown other than make our own fun, which meant most weekend evenings all the kids used to meet up in some carpark in a bunch of old cars, hit the backroads and race and otherwise drive the ass out of them. Trust me as a group we had MANY accidents including some pretty radical ones, but everyone always walked away every time. We all wore seatbelts but there wasn't a single airbag amongst any of us.
Yeah they save 700lbs by using aluminium instead of steel, but then they go and add about 1000 lbs of crap you don't need like heated cupwarmers, 56 airbags and and a shitload pointless tech that keeps phoning home and basically means you can drive like a clueless distracted retard and the car will just sort it out for you.
Yeah I strongly suspect you're right. I'll bet the government cant wait for an excuse to increase taxes on us all, and no doubt so will the insurance companies.
I also think exactly the same thing will happen to even electric cars that don't have self-driving capability. The peecee morons will win and the common perception will become that humans are simply incapable of driving a car on the road safely, regardless of the fact that its already been happening for 100 years.
As a classic car owner and car nut myself I can totally imagine that within say 10-15 years, having to trailer my classic ICE car to a track just to drive it, and paying a fortune for the gas to do so (price increase both because of massively decreased supply/demand but more because the government will tax the hell out of it to try and squeeze it out). Driving ICE cars will basically become exclusively a rich mans sport that normal enthusiasts like me wont even be able to afford..
Very bad choice using 1976 as the comparison date. For a better clue tou need to go back before 1971.
1976 was at the end of a notorious low-point in power thanks to the US auto manufacturers responding to new emissions regulations and the 1973 oil crisis:
Example of just Corvettes: 1969: least powerful (base): 300HP Most powerful (LS7) 460HP
1975: least powerful (base): 165Hp Most powerful (L82) 205HP
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give a skilled engineer a task and let him get on with it.
Unless you're doing some sort of signal processing, software engineering usually requires no maths at all (unless you count logic as maths).
>> a for-profit petition and fundraising website.
So what makes this any different from just another big megacorp buying off politicians to protect its own agenda?
Soon there will be plenty of jobs, the AI will need people to be its slaves. Until it designs a robot body for itself.
ipad? urgh.
I'd much rather buy a PCIe card with a bunch of Xenas on, (i.e. for hardware emulation at speed, think augmented MAME) than buy an Amiga.
>> I am more inclined to believe you are just in that very small 0.1% of people who can actually tell :)
I seriously doubt that its .1%. The difference is freaking obvious.
>> Neither is typical for most video, though.
Yet. 4k will become the new 1080. Not least because it allows hollywood to re-sell all their old movies yet again, and implement better DRM.
>> 99.9% of people won't notice any difference between quality 1080P and 4K at a normal distance for the size of the screen
Disagree. I just went from a 1080p TV to a similarly sized 4K TV. The difference in visual clarity is massively obvious with the right content (i.e. blu-ray or better) The real problem is that 4K content is still a rarity.
Yes blu-ray is only 1080p but the TV does a good enough job of upscaling that even that source provides a noticable improvement with 4k.
...but I loved it because at the time (in the late 80's) it really was better, especially for graphics and multitasking capability than all the competition, upto and including PCs.
In short the original was forward-looking and broke new ground. It also had a great community around it. This new Amiga brings nothing new, is twice as expensive and half as powerful as a good PC, and the AMiga community is effectively dead. Even I can't see any point to buying this, especially at this crazy price.
If you really wanna run old Amiga games. just dowload UAE for free. If you miss that computer community mentality, go to the Linux world where it is thriving, not Amiga.
Just like the Lamborghini Countach, Amiga should be left to the good memories of 80's history, where they will remain the icons of their day, not dug up and re-experienced again where it quickly becomes disappointingly obvious that yesterday's heroes don't even do their jobs half as well as todays mass-market products.
>> "And Friday Hillary Clinton was even quoted as saying, "I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians..."
Yeah keep telling yourself that Hillary. I mean your own obvious corruption had absolutely nothing to do with it right?
Maybe they should join the elevator attendants union.
I agree its not much but even that is clearly more than your tiny brain/testicles can come up with.
Love these morons that make such macho statements yet don't even have the balls to post as themselves and stand behind their own words.
>> I suspect that soccer moms will keep the SUV, and rideshare to replace their sedan when they drive themselves around,
So you're being all pragmatic about the actual need for flatbed trucks, but then you say Moms will keep their off-road vehicles for the school run? Also I'm honestly not seeing many women allowing strangers in their cars whenever they have a spare seat. Most women aren't very frugal at all especially when it comes to perceived convenience or luxuries.
"... that we know of"
Once you start playing that word game, literally anything no matter how stupid becomes possible, so its pointless to even go down that road.
Care to back your generalized sweeping statement up with any actual metrics?
Given so-called parallel universes are in other planes of reality that we cannot ever travel to because we have no commonality of any spatial dimensions, how can a hypothesis that talks about a physical collision between the two universes, and even located at a particular geographical spot in ours, even make any sense?
>> Let me guess, you're one of the idiots who doesn't want to wear a seatbelt either
Then you guess wrong.
>> Overall, you're wrong. All the amenities you don't clarify on, but reference, do not weigh more than 20-30 lbs to the weight of the car.
My own experience says you're totally wrong. I used to own a particular brand and model of car that had a steel body. I upgraded to a 2 years newer one (same brand, model but now has a full aluminium body). Supposedly that switch saved 700lbs of weight but the actual weight of the 2 cars is pretty much identical give or take 100lbs just because the new model has so much more pointless tech crap in it.
Furthermore if you think that in a car accident, an extra airbag is the difference between you almost certainly being in a vegetative state or not, then all you've done is completely bought into the ridiculous mass paranoia that car manufacturers are brainwashing consumer sheep like you with.
I was a teen before airbags were even a thing. There was jack shit for kids to do in my small hometown other than make our own fun, which meant most weekend evenings all the kids used to meet up in some carpark in a bunch of old cars, hit the backroads and race and otherwise drive the ass out of them. Trust me as a group we had MANY accidents including some pretty radical ones, but everyone always walked away every time. We all wore seatbelts but there wasn't a single airbag amongst any of us.
Why would you stick to the speed limit? Nobody does here in AZ. Especially out in the desert,
Even allowing for the 20% difference, the older car still has 75 more HP. When all you've got is 165, another 75 is VERY noticeable.
Yeah they save 700lbs by using aluminium instead of steel, but then they go and add about 1000 lbs of crap you don't need like heated cupwarmers, 56 airbags and and a shitload pointless tech that keeps phoning home and basically means you can drive like a clueless distracted retard and the car will just sort it out for you.
sucks to be you. Maybe you should move.
Yeah I strongly suspect you're right.
I'll bet the government cant wait for an excuse to increase taxes on us all, and no doubt so will the insurance companies.
I also think exactly the same thing will happen to even electric cars that don't have self-driving capability. The peecee morons will win and the common perception will become that humans are simply incapable of driving a car on the road safely, regardless of the fact that its already been happening for 100 years.
As a classic car owner and car nut myself I can totally imagine that within say 10-15 years, having to trailer my classic ICE car to a track just to drive it, and paying a fortune for the gas to do so (price increase both because of massively decreased supply/demand but more because the government will tax the hell out of it to try and squeeze it out). Driving ICE cars will basically become exclusively a rich mans sport that normal enthusiasts like me wont even be able to afford..
Very bad choice using 1976 as the comparison date. For a better clue tou need to go back before 1971.
1976 was at the end of a notorious low-point in power thanks to the US auto manufacturers responding to new emissions regulations and the 1973 oil crisis:
Example of just Corvettes:
1969: least powerful (base): 300HP Most powerful (LS7) 460HP
1975: least powerful (base): 165Hp Most powerful (L82) 205HP