For being a prison 'nobody ever leaves', this is pretty remarkable.

You were...?

Scared of what? There will still be a CEO, that's as secure a job as ever. Losing customers to unemployment? Are you paying attention to the push to reinvigorate manufacturing in the US? Those are just that car-buyers will fill, and not half will be replaced by AI or automation. Infrastructure jobs? Those will come with manufacturing and even AI, as that needs more energy.

Not scared. The modern CEO sees opportunity, to reshape their business, create new things, new markets, it's a huge change coming, and the clever will profit.

Don't project your fears on the rest of us. I may come out of retirement if the right opportunity appears.

In sports it is a paradigm that there is no substitute for speed.

Same thing for computers. More wide receivers doesn't solve the speed problem for American football, it just spends resources elsewhere on the field with different results. In the CPU, not-as-fast just means, as pointed out elsewhere, even more instances are necessary, and so more resources are needed for that.

And if you are not paying attention, you may not see the light coming down the tunnel that is RISC-V. It will be optimized, enhanced, improved, and so long as the ISA is open source it will improve at a pace sufficient, I think, to be competitive.

Well, I also go for openings of movies no one is sure about. First night can be pretty empty.

These 'secret police' aren't very secret. The people they are 'disappearing' are being sent elsewhere. Not a lot is secret. But there are many people who, having escaped from true leftist nations, can tell you more about secret police', disappeared family members, concentration camps, imprisonment for political beliefs, and death. You're trying, but not winning.

I never claimed I "matched" it nor do I try. My claim it that it is a far better experience for me. Much cheaper. No distractions. No inconsiderate assholes. Can pause and rewind. No driving and looking for parking. No planning my evening around theater schedules. No ads. Same movie. Good enough.

You're still trying to push the old vinyl vs mp3 type argument again. Enjoy your vinyl if it makes you feel special. I'm happy with my convenient mp3s.

Adams's law of slow-moving disasters: we can avoid or mitigate these because we have time, resources, and only need to exercise the will to do so.

Second, as a planet, we need to decide if saving lives is important enough to justify the effort and expense, or not. Not just the US. Thus, the will is lacking.

Damn right. I rip in .WAV, 320k .mp3, and ATRAC, which is a bitch.

And keep them online, offline, hard storage, and the original disc in above average storage. I like owning the media, and not arguing where the hell my library went if some corporate weasel instituted new licensing. Or ended the old. If you can't hold it you don't own it.

For the Left, truth is irrelevant. Power is everything. Their power is diminished, and they will do anything, anything to regain it.

History shows this. Learn.

I expect better from a 5-digit. Though I also have to consider your birthdate. Derangement isn't caused by dementia, it's amplified.

Seriously, you've got over the edge. No rescue party is forthcoming. Enjoy your fellow deranged souls, your days will be spent in anger, pain, and delusion. If that serves you, so be it. I pray for you.

Please, let them have their win. They don't get many these days.

Oh, and that term isn't anywhere near new. ChatGPT didn't come up with it so much as vomit it out of its archives.

Not a very inventive prompt, there.

Profitable theaters already offer reserved seating. And when I reserve a seat, it is for a reason, and NO, I do not wish to move one seat over as you plop your entitled, sorry, offensively rude butt down where you neither asked nor thought ahead enough to beat me to the punch.

Yes, one seat over is my choice. Not yours. I also paid, I just did the needful.

Back to the point, however, open seating is going away. If that theater you go to doesn't offer reserved seating, you should go elsewhere.

Consider this

The question isn't 'are they number 1' or 'are they number 2' but 'did they sell enough hardware and software, or otherwise benefit from having the brand, to make it worth their while?'

After all, you mention the Wii, but a lot of people who bought a Wii never bought a game past Wii Sports. Many people bought PS3s to be Blu-Ray players, just like many people bought a PS2 to be a DVD player.