It isn't about density of components or any metric other than cost. This is just a feedback loop where people can afford to have more components in a given gadget so they add them driving further cost reductions.

"For simple circuits, the cost per component is nearly inversely proportional to the number of components, the result of the equivalent piece of semiconductor in the equivalent package
containing more components." ...

"Thus there is a minimum cost at any given time in the evolution of the technology. At present, it is reached when 50 components are used per circuit. But the minimum is rising rapidly while the entire cost curve is falling (see graph below). If we look ahead five years, a plot of costs suggests that the minimum cost per component might be expected in circuits with about 1,000 components per circuit (providing such circuit functions can be produced in moderate quantities.) In 1970, the manufacturing cost per component can be expected to be only a tenth of the present cost."

http://cva.stanford.edu/classe...

Same thought here. Heat is a major limiting factor for modern CPUs. The die of the IBM POWER chips isn't that much bigger than an AMD EPYC, but the chip package is huge, mainly to accommodate a massive heat spreader with lugs for water cooling.

Just drive the panel at 120hz which is an integer multiple of 24. What's the point of this crap?

The requirement is that the money has to be spent on content production, not just buying existing content.

Australia USED to make some REALLY good scripted dramas and other shows. These days the good shows are few and far between with our screens being infested with increasing amounts of reality garbage.

If you wanna get rid of an erroneous message, please connect to the internet, and then reboot your computer.

Sometimes I think they took that joke about moving your mouse and needing to reboot to see the refresh on screen as a challenge. The number of reboots required during updates these days is ridiculous. I have a dual boot that automatically comes up in Linux if I don't press some buttons, and I have to walk it through about three to five reboots every update on my gaming partition. I don't let it touch my DAW partition, for fear they'll break audio again by updating something completely unrelated.

"After all this is the guy who tried to kill my dad."
https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPO...

My understanding has always been Bush wanted revenge for Saddam's attempt to kill his daddy.

What must have been over a decade ago remember watching him on TV with his battery powered heart. There were two batteries running the thing and he did some kind of weird show and tell on air. From what I remember disconnecting one of them eliciting beeps or flashing lights I don't remember exactly. I do distinctly remember thinking to myself too bad he didn't pull the other one too.

This article is about CDN/proxy/content providers naively throttling traffic due to invalid assumptions not ISPs. While there are obvious issues with CGN it is strange hearing this angle from a large provider who should know better. It isn't like this is a new issue. Decades ago it was common for ISPs (AOL et el) to run their own network of http proxy servers to reduce bandwidth and latency. All of those requests came from a small pool of addresses.

Dick Cheney crawled so the current crop can soar. In bad animated form. While pretending to dump feces on protestors.

My dorg, what have we wrought?

They said "well under." I would expect $998.99

I wish I could.

Their flagship models are hamstrung with too little memory and too little storage. If they're looking to do a budget model, look for it to be far worse. Granted, if all you can do is run an iOS light version of Safari and email, maybe some phone level games, it'll probably be just fine. But I wouldn't plan on buying one of these to use as a creative box for recording or video processing beyond the usual spit-shine phone or iPad level things.

We honestly never did. They just got tired of pulling the smoke and mirrors routine. I mean, smoke and mirrors probably cost them a few pennies per billions, and that's sunk cost that's completely unnecessary.