11-14-2013, 06:12 AM
Shonumi Wrote:Maybe when they have products (either in the pipeline, announced, or in the store) that the target audience would want to buy?
They do. I highly doubt many of these users are using them for photo/video editing but rich people are sure buying them. Their target audience is not the masses, not yet. But like all new technology it has to be sold to rich people before the prices can come down. And waiting for people to start buying it before advertising doesn't make any sense. That defeats the point of advertising. People often don't even know that a product exists without advertising. And for the rich advertising is usually needed to convince them that they want it by touting its superior specs/features. Companies create the market through advertising, not the other way around.
Shonumi Wrote:That's the point I'm getting at, current 4K monitors are nowhere even close in the price/size range that ordinary folks would want, but everyone keeps trumpeting it up like 4K monitors will be at our computer desks next year. The reality is that it's going to be years before that even comes close to being true. If we were 2 or 3 years down the road, it wouldn't bother me so much if analysts started hyping up 4K monitors or if manufacturers started promoting even expensive models more openly. But everything about the market is way too premature for that. When you read as much as I do (200 KB of raw text I glean from various websites weekly, I save it to my Kindle), you start to realize how ridiculous this looks. Yes, people need to start talking about new tech sooner or later, but there's a difference between soon and too soon. Viable 4K monitors for everybody, and even well-off people outside of the "prosumer" group is too soon.
Shonumi Wrote:Which is why I'm miffed that everyone in analyst-land is making so much noise. I get that it's their job to make noise about anything, but like I said, it's incredibly too soon for them to start touting 4K technology for the average PC user.
Well when exactly are they supposed to start talking about it? After it's already cheap and widely available? Be reasonable. From what I've seen most of them aren't touting it as an already viable option for average users but are recognizing that it will eventually become cheap enough to become one. And therefore we should all start preparing for it.
And nobody really knows how far off this tech. is from mainstream adoption. I think your predictions on that are a bit pessimistic. We do however know that this is the future. Monitor resolution will inevitably increase at some point in the near future. Standardization of those new resolutions will inevitably happen as well. Now manufacturers have decided on what that next standard resolution will be. We're just waiting for the transition to happen and talking about how it will effect things in the meantime.
Zee530 Wrote:B-b-but FOUR THOUSAND PIXELS!!!!!
Surely you mean 8 million?
Out of curiosity let's break out the ole algebra and figure out what dimensions would actually give you 4000 total pixels.
Assuming a 16:9 aspect ratio with a total pixel count of 4000 that gives us:
9X=16Y
X*Y=4000
Use substitution
X=16Y/9
(16Y/9)Y=4000
(16Y^2)/9=4000
16Y^2=36000
Y^2=2250
Y=47.43
47.43X=4000
X=84.33
Y=47.43
X=84.33
So around 84 x 47 resolution. Not very high at all....
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Garteal Wrote:Oh Shonumi what excellent timing you have.
I don't get it what did I miss?
Zee530 Wrote:On a microscopic level water bodies do get dirty but it's so miniscule that the human eye probably won't notice it.
If that's the case then the suspended particles can easily be filtered out via mechanical filtration. Or settle on the bottom and form substrate. Small amounts of it probably won't do anything to the ecosystem. What compounds are the sand in your area made of?
Edit 2:
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-ca...nds--33000
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-ca...#pid301419
Oh.....yeah that is perfect timing.
ExtremeDude2 Wrote:Also what is this madness:
Zee530 Wrote:Starscream, come back to us, we need you.
He's a traitor to our new leader Shonumi. Didn't you know?
for the ini files). Generally speaking though the forums are better suited for the users to get help and not for the developers to do the same.