It takes under 2 seconds to start on my SATA-3, 3570k system with 16 GB DDR3. I think your problem is elsewhere.

My undergrad university (Northern Kentucky University) was hiring PhDs as associate professors into the chemistry department at US$48,000 about ten years ago.

Red states also have fewer cities and lower population density, which is what people need to survive if they're going to be homeless, whether it be through panhandling or shelters and other support structures. Not many homeless people can survive in the Rockies. It's not about red government vs. blue government, it's about urban environments being blue and so more urban environment means you are a "blue state."

8 GB, 2.50 GHz i5-6500T. WEI is 5.5. POWWWWWWEEEERRRRRRR!

This thing can't even run Teams correctly.

"Legacy, legacy, legacy."

"Ghostbusters was ruined because they made the legacy white guys into chicks!"

Asshat.

Redbox costs two bucks a day, and only carries AAA titles. If you're the kind of guy that only plays CoD, great, that works for you. If you're like me and loved the living hell out of Deadlight and Mark of the Ninja and other indie/oddball titles and want everyone else to try them, or even would rather just play games for free instead of renting them, it kind of sucks that they killed that aspect of their plan.

My statement above wasn't about arguing which platform is best, or even arguing that Microsoft's E3 plan was overall a good thing. It was about the fact that MS was trying something new and interesting along with their broken DRM scheme, and killed the interesting part along with the horrible part.

Same(ish) CPU
More modern GPU of same brand with more cores
Same amount of RAM, more bandwidth from GDDR5, but no SRAM on-die

In other words, PS4=more graphical power, less effective memory management overall. So PS4 is at best slightly superior to XB1, not "vastly."

And of course, one other thing to consider is that the power and heat management of the XB1 is better than the PS4 - which no one will care about until they remember RRoD and YLoD issues stemming directly from heat in almost all cases.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6972/xbox-one-hardware-compared-to-playstation-4

Now if by "vastly" better you meant in terms of the original DRM scheme implementations, then no disagreement here.

Sony wasn't right to pull OtherOS, Sony was wrong to design a console that cost twice as much to manufacture as it should have just because they wanted to add one more year to the lifecycle.

All three consoles use ATI graphics.

And almost no one in the robotics industry uses Kinect, because it is nowhere near best in class. What you mean is that it's been commandeered by so many people in the robotics hobby, because it is cheap and ubiquitous.

They killed the "Family" sharing plan entirely, whether you bought the game from the online shop or on disc.

Personally, I think they should have kept the digital sharing plan - it was the one thing that was significantly better than what the PS4 or WiiU offers, and I think would have done a lot to bring back the people they alienated last week. Oh, well.

"Here be physics." That's enough to warn 95% of us chemists away right there (including me).

So instead of moving your hand and mouse around, you have to move your whole arm around. Doesn't really seem like that's any easier.

Either way, they'll try to execute him without giving him his Sixth Amendment right to a trial.