Might be useful in some extreme environments, like deep sea exploration or planetary probes. Of course that depends on if the rest of the probe can survive.

It’s all about keeping up the population so there are lots of new soldiers.

Hey, don’t blame me.

I took a NRI learn to computer mail order class back in the 80’s. You got to build your own computer as part of the class and you had to manually enter the boot sequence in 8 bit binary to write to the eprom (couple hundred instructions). You could then attach a cassette player to the computer and boot into an OS they sent you. An amazing learning experience.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Now that I think about it, that adage is really dated, since most people don’t use analog clocks anymore. Oh well, here’s a dime, call someone who cares.

Go old school and have it recreate a scroll. Really, not having to shift your head/eyes when reading is a plus with r-readers.

Guilty, I only skimmed it. Thanks.

I wonder how resilient they are to big winds.

Options for reasonable sized cars is the US have decreased. Mega trucks ans SUVs are what sells, I guess.

Part of this increase may also be because there are a lot of people out there driving like there are no consequences to their actions. Is it just because I am older, or are there more aggressive speeder out there?

Probably not. Money is money.

So IBM (PCs are just a passing fad) has a future prediction? Not sure how much weight I should give this.

If you add infrastructure then you will need to add more transmission methods then a couple shark chewed undersea cables. Then you might as well add the millions of SAs, technicians, linemen (linepersons?), etc that install and maintain everything. Oh and I guess we would also need all the institutions and teachers that train all these techies.

I forgot how loooong Oatmeal cartoons are. I don’t think I have made it to the end of one in years.

The whole FTL issue will be a hindrance to spreading outside the solar system.
I did read an odd article a while back about how Einstein got it wrong and it is possible to exceed light speed if you keep accelerating.

I am surprised it took this long. Probably happening since day one and just now getting reported.

So, when the last wagon wheel factory closed down, where there nostalgia pieces in the papers?
I guess not, I just searched and there are still a bunch of places making the wheels.

I loved CompuServe, back in the day.

I have never tried to use AI to develop software, just looked at the output that sometimes shows up in google searches. Noises are starting to come from on-high about an AI ‘push’, so I may need to show some basic awareness. Any suggestions on how to get started or should I just ask the AI?

I estimate that 60% of my phone use is for audiobooks while driving.

Ok, I was wrong. The only example I have worked with was just someone being lazy.