Consumers have a general sense of what 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mean in terms of cell networks. Even my school-age sons have a sense of what it means. Consumers see ads on TV and other places for the latest 5G phones, and they know that 4G and 3G phones used to be common.

Yet now Comcast is advertising 10G service, and there are no 10G phones. Of course that is because the Comcast 10G network is not a cell network - even though they offer cell service in many areas - but that sometimes escapes the consumer.

A better move would have been for Comcast to call it a "10Gig" network, but they know that very few customers on the network will actually ever see that speed. They just want to indicate it as a technical leap forward, and they want to use a very simple acronym for it. They should have sent the marketing team back to the drawing board when they coughed up "10G" though.

If you look at the comcast website you'll see all kinds of overlapping and confusing terms that they have used up to now to describe their internet connectivity options. I think I am on a "blast" plan myself, but the comparable plan has been renamed a few times since I signed up. They should really come up with a standardization for their plan names, but that might encourage people to compare Comcast claims to those of other ISPs.

I've rented a fair number of cars lately while traveling for work. I've seen cars from Ford, GM, Toyota, and Hyundai. Every one of them has had AM, FM, and HD. Most - but not all - have had Sirius / XM. If they are trying to kill AM they aren't doing a great job of it.

I could see some of the high-tech / high-dollar / luxury brands like Tesla or BMW taking an interest in killing AM to distinguish themselves, but I haven't seen it happen with the mainline brands at all. My work car is a 2021 Equinox and it has AM, FM, HD, and Sirius/XM.

Knowing that the first missions to Mars will be one-way, I can think of a few Americans who we could just as well do without. They wouldn't mind the notoriety of being on the list of the first people to land on Mars, so it would be a win-win.

Yes, i know I will be downmodded into oblivion for mentioning this. Go ahead, I have my asbestos underwear on today.

It's just frightening how close he is to winning a second term, which could well be the end of American Democracy.

Pew Research and census.gov both put the voter turnout rate for the 2020 election at around 66.8%. That of course tells us that roughly a third of eligible voters didn't vote. Of course some of them were actively disenfranchised by the system, though some of them could have voted but just didn't feel it was worth the effort.

I really hope those who could vote will see it to be worth the effort this time. I can't see how an independent could possibly view 4 years of his vile hatred as being a good idea for our country.

I completed my thesis in January 2013. Well before then my institution laid down a hard no on using Wikipedia anywhere in a thesis, review, or original article. Why she would have ever copied text from there and expected it to suffice for a thesis is the real mystery.

Yes there are some well written articles on wikipedia that can be a great introduction to a topic. However any serious scholar should take the time to read the sources cited by it before accepting its words as being the least bit authoritative. Wikipedia should not be cited in a thesis any more so than should a review paper; it's simply lazy work to do so. Even citing an undergrad text book is a better academic move than citing Wikipedia.

There was a time when some of the EV chargers were free, but they were scattered randomly about. If I hear the word public though I think of things that are run by some level of government, and I presume that isn't the case here either? Is a public EV charger "public" in the same way I could call my local gas station "public"? Is a public EV charger just one that isn't in someone's house or restricted in some way to an exclusive set of users (beyond of course the Tesla-only chargers)?

Best Buy was one of the largest retailers of CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. After repeatedly shrinking the amount of floor space they've allocated for those formats over the years, they will stop carrying them altogether soon. Your local store has likely already placed its final order for movies and audio on physical media.

That leaves you with WalMart, Target, or online retailers. I wouldn't expect the first two to hold on to physical media much longer, and the third is a giant question mark.

Roman isn't a bot, he's just a cult member here to recruit people to the Church of Ron Paul. Taking his comments through that lens explains everything he says.

There is lots of advance "tradesman" type work associated with science that is pretty well protected from AI invasion. I'm referring specifically to service engineer type positions, which takes people who understand the science and has them do installation, repair, qualification, etc on high end lab equipment. I moved into this field a while back now and it's been a great fit for me in particular, and while AI could help us with the diagnostics there are zero robots that I have ever seen with the dexterity to do the actual repairs.

... run doom? If it's even 20% of the performance of the RPi it should be up to the task. I don't seem to be the only person who has asked the question, but I don't see a definitive answer.

Don't pretend you don't have Idols, roman. You have openly worshiped at the altar of Saint Ron Paul for a long time now. Your religious dedication to him makes the Pope look like an agnostic.

They couldn't scale up to 1.21 gigawatts?