you figure, kids still know what a floppy disk represents despite the tech being obsolete for 20 years now. skeuomorphism means designs like phone handsets retain some informational value long after the actual, original use is gone.
new games are starting to retail at $70 usd compared to $60 previously... that was the canary and this is the lightheaded feeling of carbon monoxide poisoning
To be fair, games have cost that much since like 2008. Inflation in most developed countries has been much higher 16 % ofter that decade and a half. In the US the CPI has risen by 36 % over that period, so the real price of games is still lower than it was.
shoplifting absolute necessities and life essentials is a morally light grey area. it's stealing, but when the alternative is starvation, there's a bit of leeway.
for everything else, it becomes this twisted worldview where shoplifters believe they're owed something by "the system." or because it's walmart/target instead of mom and pop's corner shop, it's like they're the modern day robin hood. the ability of our brains to think themselves into defending its own behavior, as immoral as it may be, is fascinating.
They absolutely should feel they are owed something by the system. America (for example) has built amazing wealth extremely quickly using capitalism, but the distribution is terrible. It is totally fine for the very poor to steal from the very wealthy in a system that makes it extremely difficult, tedious, or tiring for many people to even live a comfortable life legally
i'd argue factorio is closer to electrical engineering than software dev, but it definitely scratches the same itch of a well-engineered solution to a novel problem.
No. They were very expensive because the network had minuscule capacity compared with today. I remember having a consumer plan with a 400 minute per month quota and calls after 9 p.m. were free. Even with those tight limits you'd sometimes place a call and hear a switch message "All circuits are busy."
Yes, for average business people in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Not unusual for adults to have them, uncommon for students and children to have them.
sounds like BS, I was teenager in quite poor European country, in 1998-1999 I was one of the first two people in my class to have mobile (I've inherited Philips Fizz from father, my rich classmate had some Nokia), by 2001 when I served in military I was switching already two phones per year (I remember it because I traded one of the phones (Siemens) just during the leave in city where were my barracks), in 2001 literally every adult in poor European country except old seniors had already phone and definitely vast majority of teenage students
I learned about attacks when visiting netcafe (just some irrelevant foreign news) and then guys in my platoon were listening to radio and even our local TV channel strangely aired CNN footage instead south American telenovela guys watched for pretty girls. we had talk in evening with highest captain or mayor in our barracks in evening, we doubled our shifts to protect installations (guys were happy, at least they had someone to talk to legally during guarding) plus nearby nuclear power plant, first night of 9/11 I spent with unplanned night shift on the fax waiting for instructions from HQ and later was forced to guard as well despite as bureaucrat I should be pretty much exempted from it
In 2001 the US was at about 45 cell phones per 100 adults according to the ITU and statista.com (which may be the same dataset). Some other sites put it at 38% but unclear if total population or just US adults.
according this roughly 50% of European population had phone including seniors and children, so it pretty much confirms what I said that all adults except old people had phone including plenty of teenagers, Americas way behind Europe, but I guess US avg would be much higher than South America
> I greatly look forward to tech companies who prefer written documentation (eg, Notion) over Slack.
this is (at least how i'm reading it) a similar issue i've seen in hobby spaces that have moved from forums to platforms like discord for support. discord is great for right now collaboration but the archival process is like pulling teeth. it leads to repeated questions being asked because threads aren't often used and one problem's solution is mishmashed in with ten other conversations.
sometimes there are links to a wiki in the discord, which is nice. but it's still only sometimes, and if you have a problem that hasn't come up yet, you're stuck navigating discord.
i lived with my mother in law for a short time when i was between apartments. she would occasionally go around the house and unplug all of my devices in the early mornings before I got up. this was originally just the xbox connected to the living room tv, but if I had my laptop plugged in (work or personal) it would get unplugged too. i don't know if it was a petty "power move" (pardon the pun) or if she genuinely thought the standby mode appliances were bleeding her dry, but she's a senior electrical engineer so she should really know better.
i was considering confronting her and putting in a kill-a-watt and paying her directly the couple bucks a month my standby devices used in power, but i figured that wasn't worth it.
it's worth noting that the virtual console (wii, wii u) releases are built off of the original nstc edition, meaning backwards long jumping is in play. but the most recent 3d all stars edition is based off of shindou, meaning blj's are not possible.
typing this on a dell precision-class laptop and yeah, it's a dream. even between this and my latitude (which is still business class but one tier down) it's noticeable.
there are nice quality laptops to be had, they're just expensive enough that apple becomes competitive price-wise.
