There's a lot more "average" customers then non-average ones. The vast majority of people use their computers for Facebook and e-mail, they don't need a 4K 19" monitor and there's no benefit to them paying the price for it.

Whenever I see threads about resolution on /. I wonder how many of the people want higher resolution because they are actually going to see a tangible benefit from it, and how many want higher resolutions because it's a number on their computer and thus higher must be better. I suspect that a LOT of people are in the latter camp.

Apple charges a premium for their computers, phones and tablets, part of that premium is the display. It's not coming for free.

16:10 master race. Unfortunately dying, but still master race.

There's no reason why it can't, there's plenty of reasons why it shouldn't. Cost, yield, being largely unimportant for the vast majority of people, etc. The average customer will not benefit significantly from the changes the resolution queens want to bring about.

That's one type of AA (Supersampling), and the least common type. The most common type is Multisampling, that does things differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisample_anti-aliasing

The last one usually.

Yes.

I'm not certain I agree, idle cycles may not be as prominent as they once were, but procs don't slow to 0 when they're idle, they just ramp down a ways. My proce drops to (IIRC) 1.8Ghz at "idle" but I can assure you that my computer isn't using 4 1.8Ghz cores at idle.

It's a checkbox on advertisements. It's not that they need it, it's that it can be advertised as an advantage.





Also: Photoshop.

Eternal September ho!

The problem is that SOPA/PIPA, while more stringent than most of the world, are the way most of the world are moving, albeit slowly.

By modern aircraft standards it's pretty short. This isn't the 30's when you might put out three iterations of a design within a year.

Streaming and home theaters. No need to drive to a theater, pay tons of money and deal with *shudder* PEOPLE. Far superior and cheaper.

He's a Western hero, not a superhero.

30 years ago it could be a year or more before a movie came out on VHS, these days it seems the DVD is out before the movie is out of theaters. That makes a huge difference.

DVD sales and rentals have cratered in the last 10 years. Netflix has killed them.