In 7 years, either the screen or the built in computer inside this iMac will be obsolete. I’d rather buy a separate mac mini and a wide curved screen. The mac mini is simply so small and fast that buying an iMac makes no sense.
There should be a limit for ten years that manufacturer was allowed to restrict access to their devices. After ten years has gone, manufacturers should be required to publish software to help owners jailbreak their devices. Think about it. All game consoles and cell phones in use today will be bricked in ten years from now if they are not jailbroken.
I like the idea of all computing devices being legally-required to have a button that wipes the device and unlocks the bootloader and everything. That way, 1) company secrets are kept safe, but you can still commandeer the hardware you own when you wish, and 2) access to forensic data on stolen devices is still restricted.
Considering that many consoles are initially sold at a loss, but then can begin to make a profit as the hardware becomes outdated (among other things [1])...
What about making it a requirement after some time. What about, after the warranty runs out. And hey, that could also incentivize longer warranties!
> [1] "Typically, when a new games console launches its price point is below the actual cost of manufacturing. But over time, through a combination of bulk component orders and the refining of the hardware design, the cost falls below the retail price. The PS3 was sold at a loss for nearly four years, the PS4 was profitable within six months of its launch, and the PS5 has taken eight months. Considering the novel new design and global chip shortages, that's quite impressive." https://uk.pcmag.com/gaming-systems/134885/sony-says-499-ps5...
> The manufacturer typically uses anticompetitive business practices, so they should be allowed to use more anticompetitive business practices
Or we could say that product tying is illegal, which it already is. Why do we care about specific monopolistic manufacturers' business strategies for mid tier commodity computers? It should be plainly illegal for Nintendo to try to stop people from running a Nintendo game on a Sony or a Dell computer, or to stop Sony from writing a game for a Nintendo computer. Or for Sony to stop Nintendo from doing those things. There's literally no reason to support this "you need a special X brand computer to run X games." If they can't sell hardware on their own merits, it's because they're not good at hardware, and you were being forced to buy it for the software you wanted.
Company secrets shouldn't get any protection at all, maybe other than suing the employee who leaked them for damages. The laws we have today give you the same protection as patents but cheaper, indefinite and without having to disclose anything. That breaks the original tradeoff patents were designed for - legal protection in exchange for making your inventions public.
Your code becoming open source after 10 years should be treated as the cost of doing business, same as a copyright or patent expiring.
You're not thinking capitalistically enough. It's part of the State of Things (tm) to have purchased things come and go. One day you can use them and another they are gone. Just as in nature, would you be surprised if you took a tomato and it stopped being good after a few weeks? Well, software is a bit like a tomato actually.
So yeah, pay us to give you "Super Mario NES Remake HD 2.1 Lite Remix Classic Super 4K Director's Cut" for just $169.99.
There is nothing wrong with nostalgia. Some property developers makes money from nostalgic architecture. Fashion clothing is often a mix of new and nostalgia.
The problem in this case (and many others) is that nostalgia is limited to the form, bordering on fetishism, while the utilitarian and economic aspects of the original are brushed aside.
From TFA: "The car had high wheel arches and soft suspension, letting it travel across a ploughed field or rough roads - as legend would have it, without breaking a tray of duck eggs. Its high roof let drivers wear a hat at the wheel. It was easy to drive and simple to repair."
Which of those qualities have been retained in this 2CV revival?
Well the suspension is less of an issue these days due to technical advances. Ground clearance is more of an issue than the suspension travel. This looks more like it's targeted towards city use than the countryside use of the original, especially as it looks to have a notably shorter wheelbase. There's a usecase for small city cars that look cute though.
Why does it need the same qualities as the old car?
People want cheap and small electric city cars, why not make it in the style of an iconic car? We already have plenty of mid sized cars that look all the same.
Small electric city cars are convenience mobility for affluent consumers, not a proper car proposition.
I want a car that I can also comfortably drive to the beach, or to the next town. And also looks good, and comes in colors other than black/white/beige.
It should be doable to vibe code all Microsoft Office apps by using Apache OpenOffice as input. The Artcraft team seems to have successfully been able to vibe code all of Adobe's creative suite https://getartcraft.com
Well, I'd really like to see that, robots building models generated by agents.
Something that comes to my mind very often is... adding more parts to the LDraw parts catalog, the ones used to build models, but these extra ones would be real-sized blocks, like the ones used to build actual buildings ;-)
Will Tinder be blamed for the sudden decline in fertility rate? Is there any other plausible explanstion to South Korea’s sudden and dramatic drop in fertility rate to 0.8? No matter how bad the housing market is or the job market is, there has never in history been such a drop in population.
Male hypergamy and polygyny has been practiced by many cultures historically. They had many problems, but low birth rates wasn’t among them. I don’t think dating apps are a sufficient causal explanation alone for low birth rates
Humans are naturally polygamous like the other great apes and mammals. When men (as in, male humans) realised this, they concluded that women were entirely to blame for it and sought to control their behaviour. This eventually got woven into their religions and for some time women's behaviour was controlled, or at least became shameful and taboo. Many things have happened more recently:
* Feminism,
* Decline of religion,
* Rise of state and law, particularly around male responsibilities towards children,
* Effective contraception,
* Dating apps.
Take all of this together and we're basically reverting back to our natural polygamy, but without all the pregnancies.
Most of the drop occurred in the late 50s to mid 60s. Fertility in the US peaked at over 3.5 births per woman in the 50s before falling below 2 by the late 60s. It then stabilized for 40 years and even recovered to the low to mid 2s in the 90s and 2000s before falling post-2008 from 2.2 to 1.7.
The only new variable in the last century of humanity is birth control. All others (hypergamy, economic mobility, migration, etc.) are recurring and have not impacted birth rates significantly in the past.
Population density and infant mortality had changed a lot too in the last 100 years. Income disparities, working hours, and climate too in the last 50.
This shows not only how highly inefficient the land use is in LA, it also shows when it started happening. Towns that were planned before cars were introduced, have a much more efficient use of land. I.e. less space used for roads, but more greenery and the same amount of people and businesses. Barcelona and Paris was planned and built around 70 years before cars become commonplace. The city of the future is built around peoples quality of life and what is good for the economy, except the car industry. US car industry is slowly dying anyway, so the US should start making the country just as attractive to live in as Europe. Disclaimer: I am the founder of the architectural uprising in Norway.
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