> blacks that are actually black,

I call shenanigans. ;)

> near perfect color reproduction

LCDs surpassed CRTs a while back with IPS and derivative technology screens.

I just got rid of CRTs that cost over $1500 back in the day. I gave away one and recycled the rest and have only one left. I was keeping them for the vertical resolution but now that good 1440p and 4K monitors are in the $700-$850 range I didn't need the other CRTs any more. I am keeping that last one until I feel like dropping the coin on one more high resolution monitor.

Good riddance to CRTs. I always hated that sound. Every so often when I go to an office that has an old TV running, ugh. That sound always drove me nuts.
When composite-input TVs came out my dad would leave the TV on with the cable box and VCR off and I'd ask him why the TV is still on. He'd say "it's not on." It most definitely was and that annoying whine was driving me batty.

I used to take apart my TVs to put baffling in to cancel out that sound. I am 43 now and I can still hear past 17.5KHz. Why? Because it was drilled into me by my mom to not blast my ears with headphones, and when using power tools I use hearing protection. I have an even greater appreciation for my hearing now because once I got a sinus infection so bad it spread to both ears and I had 95%+ hearing loss for more than three months when my inner and middle ears filled with fluid, and there was so much pressure it perforated my eardrums, so I'm even more strict about hearing protection having experienced near-total deafness for an extended period. Since then certain frequencies cause some pain due to reverberation because those frequencies seem to be amplified to me - it may be due to scar tissue where my ear drums perforated or something, I don't know and haven't bothered to find out.

But flyback transformer whine? Ugh. Same with PC power supplies that are going bad - they have a very similar high pitch whine. When I go to my old office to maintain the servers for my partners, I need to stay out of the lobby because the power supply whines like mad. No one else in the office can hear it.

"Intel's strategically timed CES 2015 launch of their new 5th Gen Core Series processors for notebooks was met with a reasonably warm reception"

Was the warm reception due to inadequate cooling in those laptops? ;)

So what is your opinion of intersex people? If you don't know what that is google it.

Bullshit.

From Intel's spec sheet for that processor:

Processor Base Frequency 2.7 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency 3.7 GHz

The rated full-time clock speed for that processor is 2.7GHz. The "max turbo frequency" which is intended for short jobs that are not massively parallel is 3.7GHz. This is not anything remotely similar to cable companies advertising 100Mbps where the only thing you ever see that speed is to their bandwidth test server.

Good. Cut down the number of channels. I now have about 900 channels of shit on the TV and nothing to choose from. Cut down the extra channels and deliver some quality programming. I'm constantly exploring TV shows that were on before I was even born - Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and stuff like that. I couldn't be bothered with so-called "reality TV." My cousin was on one of those so-called "reality" shows and I never once tuned into it. No interest in that shit.

I'd rather go back to a handful of networks that offer quality programming, or better yet, loosen up "licensing" a bit so Hulu, Amazon, etc. can expand their offerings. I will not tune into "reality" TV shows. It's utter shit.

High resolution audio does not guarantee they have not compressed the dynamic range to shit. It just means that instead of being mastered at 44.1kHz they have mastered it at a higher rate, like 96kHz.

It depends on the source. If I am listening to jazz, classical, or progressive rock (Pink Floyd) the difference is immediately apparent - especially through my home system. In my SAAB with its crappy stereo that I cannot upgrade without fudging up the CAN bus (the stereo head unit is a CAN hub - can you believe that?!) it's not so noticeable but on my home system with Klipsch reference series speakers or through even just halfway-decent headphones there is a WORLD of difference between 128kbps, 320kbps, and a CD or high definition DVD or Blu-Ray audio. On my home system highs are nice and crisp with the source material but with compressed audio the highs are distorted - almost a "sizzle" sound.

With highly compressed pop music, yeah, it's not much of a difference. It all depends on the subject matter.

> There is no way to adjust timing anymore.

You do it via OBD-II and CAN via software now, not by a vaguely semi-accurate twisting of a distributor. It's a heck of a lot more complex than it used to be - multiple lookup tables to build but for many makes there are software suites online made my enthusiasts and even performance timing and fuel curve profiles you can download for various makes and models. The benefits are huge; timing isn't driven by RPM and vacuum any more, but by actual power requests made by the position of the throttle position sensor, and air intake is now metered rather than a moronic mechanically-driven butterfly valve that you'd find in a Quadrobog carburator, and the best part is modern ECUs are often learning ECUs, where they test the fuel to see how lean the mixture can run and how far timing can be advanced without pinging, maximizing BOTH performance and economy.

I'd rather give up having to constantly replace worn distributor caps and rotors and monkey around with a timing light for the increased overall efficiency and reliability. Yes, the coil pack-on-plug design is more expensive to service but when the coil packs normally last 200K+ miles, who the heck cares? That would have been about 10 distributor cap and rotor sets, plus many sets of ignition wires. Good riddance to distributors and quadrobog carburators.

Good receivers now adapt for reflections and standing waves so there is no reason one cannot set up a good reasonably-priced component system that sounds absolutely fantastic.

"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers.
The introduction begins like this: "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen ..." and so on."

Faith without evidence? One may as well believe in Santa Claus or the FSM.

Let me guess: they used OCZ flash memory?

astronomers, astrophotographers, hunters, target shooters, etc.

That, too.