{"id":890,"date":"2009-08-30T05:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=890"},"modified":"2009-08-29T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:29:39","slug":"vhs-or-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"VHS or Beta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED has a riff on one of my favorite premises. <a title=\"Wired magazine article on Engineering the possible.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/miscellaneous\/magazine\/17-09\/ff_goodenough\">&#8220;Good enough&#8221; is good enough.<\/a>Usually.<\/p>\n<p>Engineer the Possible! If you wait until it is perfect, you may never get the thumb out&#8230;. \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>WIRED has a slightly different take on the theme, examining the trend towards simpler user interfaces that provide less than top of the line performance. Which is why the &#8220;Beta&#8221; format lost out to VHS, and why MP3&#8217;s are more common than higher quality digital formats.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is a trade off. There will always be a market at the bleeding edge of performance, but it is seldom required to fulfill the purpose for a person looking for value.<\/p>\n<p>But those priority trade-offs are highly subjective, aina?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED has a riff on one of my favorite premises. &#8220;Good enough&#8221; is good enough.Usually.<\/p>\n<p>Engineer the Possible! If you wait until it is perfect, you may never get the thumb out&#8230;. \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>WIRED has a slightly different take on the theme, examining the trend towards simpler user interfaces that provide less than top of the line performance. Which is why the &#8220;Beta&#8221; format lost out to VHS, and why MP3&#8217;s are more common than higher quality digital formats.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is a trade off. There will always be a market at the bleeding edge of performance, but it is seldom required to fulfill the purpose for a person looking for value.<\/p>\n<p>But those priority trade-offs are highly subjective, aina?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}