Hang around for a minute. Someone will be along to call you a fascist for suggesting that people don't have a right to a pony (and healthcare, food, unlimited education w no consequence for previous failure, housing in the location of their choice and never, ever being offended).
Roku's interface sucks balls for large media collections. It's better than Apple TV's sounds, but not by much. You can filter by first letter of name or (not and) by genre.
At least Roku media player and Emby player for Roku both suck big wet donkey balls.
At least one set of surfaces. Vaulted ceilings still leave the room with two characteristic frequencies. Even upper crusty homes don't have vaulted ceilings in every room.
Also double drywall and the _right_ amount of acoustic absorbing material on the walls and in the corners.
As to 'all the crap'...much less than 20 years ago. 20 years ago you had a turntable, TIVO, hacked satellite box, PC emulating satellite smart card, a CD/DVD player/changer, a cassette player, a VCR, shelves of CDs/DVDs/tapes and albums, maybe a real to real and your amplifier and speakers. Now you have amp, speakers, media PC and tablet configured as remote. We might have gained a few surround speakers, but we lost a half dozen playback devices.
Console gamers will of course have had one more item in both cases.
Nothing can transform 'any' room into a good listening space. The acoustics are typically _all_ wrong.
You want at least one set of surfaces to not be parallel. Vaulted ceilings are a start.
Of course many theaters are also terrible, boomy sound, long hall like spaces, but that's not the point.
Megabucks on sound is all about chasing the last 1% of sound quality. For $100 you get 90%, $1000/99%, $10,000/99.9% There have been no breakthroughs in speaker technology in _decades_. Electrostatics are still the 'latest and greatest'.
There is likely very little difference between 4k projectors.
Mini-turbines have come way down, still none with ECUs less than $2400. Also note the P-60 has max thrust of 13lbs.
The bastards can and do just buy SA-7s. They're going to have a hard time cobbling together something more effective than that.
A proximity fuse is a relatively simple thing. But get it wrong and your entire effort is wasted, maybe the launch crew as well. A proximity fuse is pretty much required and gives off EMF.
'Low and slow' is still fucking fast BTW. They don't fly at FAA minimum altitudes in war zones.
The one you give was not marx making a prediction, it was an obvious observation about his world.
I don't think marx understood Smith, not at all.
I'll give you a partial list of marx's failed predictions:
Social evolution (towards marxism), shrinking profit margins causing capitalism to eat itself, the 'new communist man'. Those each involve many failed particular predictions.
Hitler was influential too. At some point you have to recognize a bad idea for what it is and start ignoring those it has influenced. For marxism that time was 30-50 years ago.
Net Neutrality has difficult implementation details. Now we have laws around those details, so mistakes will take decades to fix, if they are ever fixed.
Competition gets me more bandwidth for the same price, pretty much every year.
I posted the list of ISPs in most areas. There is clearly competition. If there wasn't, we'd all still be paying $20+/month for dialup. The only reason anybody ever cuts prices is competition.
Life is not a movie. If someone suggested that, my first thought would be 'he watches too many movies'. If he actually had the million, I'd be hugely surprised. But having the money would make it a 'life or death' matter to kill the bastard.
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Housing is one that comes to mind, also health care. Neither are rights.
Rights are _never_ things that others have to pay for.
Perhaps always by you. If so, you've always been wrong.
Hang around for a minute. Someone will be along to call you a fascist for suggesting that people don't have a right to a pony (and healthcare, food, unlimited education w no consequence for previous failure, housing in the location of their choice and never, ever being offended).
Roku's interface sucks balls for large media collections. It's better than Apple TV's sounds, but not by much. You can filter by first letter of name or (not and) by genre.
At least Roku media player and Emby player for Roku both suck big wet donkey balls.
At least one set of surfaces. Vaulted ceilings still leave the room with two characteristic frequencies. Even upper crusty homes don't have vaulted ceilings in every room.
Also double drywall and the _right_ amount of acoustic absorbing material on the walls and in the corners.
As to 'all the crap'...much less than 20 years ago. 20 years ago you had a turntable, TIVO, hacked satellite box, PC emulating satellite smart card, a CD/DVD player/changer, a cassette player, a VCR, shelves of CDs/DVDs/tapes and albums, maybe a real to real and your amplifier and speakers. Now you have amp, speakers, media PC and tablet configured as remote. We might have gained a few surround speakers, but we lost a half dozen playback devices.
Console gamers will of course have had one more item in both cases.
If you do something with your own computer that a federal judge decides, after the fact, is a crime, it's a crime.
Nothing can transform 'any' room into a good listening space. The acoustics are typically _all_ wrong.
You want at least one set of surfaces to not be parallel. Vaulted ceilings are a start.
Of course many theaters are also terrible, boomy sound, long hall like spaces, but that's not the point.
Megabucks on sound is all about chasing the last 1% of sound quality. For $100 you get 90%, $1000/99%, $10,000/99.9% There have been no breakthroughs in speaker technology in _decades_. Electrostatics are still the 'latest and greatest'.
There is likely very little difference between 4k projectors.
Who do you think is using publicly funded infrastructure? I pay for my connection and pay my share of all the privately funded infrastructure.
Having a right is not the same as having someone pay for it.
Scorn for idiots with too much money to spend on ego gratification is a long /. tradition.
Of course they can, with a pointed stick if that's all they can afford.
We don't issue them printing presses either.
Are you also given a government issued a printing press? Beer? Your chosen 'holy book'?
You're confused about what 'rights' are. Likely because of all the non-rights that get thrown around as rights these days.
There is a reason the CDC isn't allowed to fund studies. Because when they did, they funded studies that would have made Goebbels blush.
Google 'CDC funds bad gun studies' for a bunch of links that will take you into the discussion.
Google 'Gun Owners of America'. The NRA is soft, but you should still support them too.
Mini-turbines have come way down, still none with ECUs less than $2400. Also note the P-60 has max thrust of 13lbs.
The bastards can and do just buy SA-7s. They're going to have a hard time cobbling together something more effective than that.
A proximity fuse is a relatively simple thing. But get it wrong and your entire effort is wasted, maybe the launch crew as well. A proximity fuse is pretty much required and gives off EMF.
'Low and slow' is still fucking fast BTW. They don't fly at FAA minimum altitudes in war zones.
Everybody knows how to do it right, the 'El Al way'. It's just too expensive, time consuming and politically incorrect.
10 years ago, I couldn't have gotten close to my current cap downloading all month at full speed.
Consumer bandwidth isn't priced for constant saturation. Only secret caps are a problem, if you knew it, you bought it.
One example?
The one you give was not marx making a prediction, it was an obvious observation about his world.
I don't think marx understood Smith, not at all.
I'll give you a partial list of marx's failed predictions:
Social evolution (towards marxism), shrinking profit margins causing capitalism to eat itself, the 'new communist man'. Those each involve many failed particular predictions.
Hitler was influential too. At some point you have to recognize a bad idea for what it is and start ignoring those it has influenced. For marxism that time was 30-50 years ago.
You wouldn't have a problem with your neighbors torrenting interfered with your VOIP or gaming?
Not all packets have the same priority. Force the ISPs to pretend they do and you break the net.
Not in any real world governing body it doesn't.
And it shouldn't, that would be _stupid_.
Net Neutrality has difficult implementation details. Now we have laws around those details, so mistakes will take decades to fix, if they are ever fixed.
My life's ambition has long been to invent a new crime. People will say 'that has to be illegal', it will be made illegal after I do it.
The computer fraud and abuse act ruins that. Anything a federal judge doesn't like, crime...ipspostfacto, schmipspostfacto.
Competition gets me more bandwidth for the same price, pretty much every year.
I posted the list of ISPs in most areas. There is clearly competition. If there wasn't, we'd all still be paying $20+/month for dialup. The only reason anybody ever cuts prices is competition.
20 years has come and gone. If your eyes are open you should realize the MS never had a monopoly.
You're trying to be sarcastic, but you are right.
Life is not a movie. If someone suggested that, my first thought would be 'he watches too many movies'. If he actually had the million, I'd be hugely surprised. But having the money would make it a 'life or death' matter to kill the bastard.
WTF? Think that through.
It is my understanding that post 9/11, Turkey established perimeter security/security in depth.
Their security theater is different from ours.