Apple is guilty of this as well back when they were desperately trying to modernize classic MacOS. Anyone remember Game Sprockets, QuickDraw GX and OpenDoc? .NET sadly suffers from DLL hell, mostly because they broke a lot of things with the move to 2.0. A lot of early applications for 1.0/1.1 break on the newer run times.

The size of the binaries would be quite large back in the 90s. Remember that NT 4.0 was running on x86, PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS. Apple's universal or "fat" binaries were always for two platforms max (68k and PPC, PPC and x86, and now x86 and ARM). Multiarch binaries make sense only if you have a plan to transition to something new and need a stopgap solution.

I'm actually surprised that multiple ports of RISC NT lasted as long as they did as the number of non-x86 NT applications were near-zero and the machines to run the OS were scarce.

Nowadays Linux and mac OS support "driverless printing" using either AirPrint, Mopria, or IPP-Everywhere via CUPS. Most modern printers are auto detected by current Linux distros and "just work". Yes, modern printers are still mostly "GDI" dumb raster devices, but they finally standardized the format of the raster data. Sure its three different standards to choose from, but Linux supports them all and everyone supports Apple anyway. Oddly Windows 10 is the one with limited compatibility, only supporting Mopria printers out of the box and that just showed up with the 1903 update.

Same here. Still have a LaserJet 4MP sitting on my desk....from 1994. The main printer is a circa 2003 Color LaserJet 3700dn, still trucking along and never a clogged ink head to worry about.

What drives me nuts is HP is trying to push people towards their "pagewide" inkjets as opposed to LaserJets. I guess they figured out that building tanks for laser printers is a bad business model!

Quite a few districts have moved to college style block scheduling vs. traditional fix length class periods per day. I didn't mind the longer classes and the quicker pace of learning in college at all and wished I had them in middle/high school.

This is actually surprising. 20+ years ago, the university I attended basically gave all undergrads a desktop computer to use for their studies since computers were integral to the curriculum and it wasn't guaranteed that one would have a computer at home already. They have long since discontinued the practice since computers became ubiquitous. They did offer a discounted PC purchase program as a replacement, but most of the student body has a laptop at that point.

Call it the "Prime" effect. All my neighbors have Prime, so the beat up "Amazon Logistics" van is at the complex everyday anyway. Their supply chain has gotten so good that all my "free shipping" orders (I don't have Prime) show up in 2 days instead of the 5-7 day estimate. Intentionally slowing down orders to my area likely costs them money at this point.

Still running iTunes 10.7 here. Helps to have Apple hardware that supports it. The UI in the new versions is just annoying.

Some of them finally take the hint and hire other people to do things like editing. Problem is most of these folks still treat it as a "hobby" and not as a "business". I still wonder how these people file their income taxes or realize how much in taxes they will be paying on all that income to begin with?

The shift to requiring public speaking in class happened rather abruptly when I was in high school 20 years ago. I seem to recall a teacher having to make a very quick curriculum change to incorporate presentations into class assignments. Someone up top was pushing it due to getting feedback that the school was "lacking" in preparing students for the real world.

Watching speakers giving speeches on stuff they have no clue about is what took alot of fear out of public speaking for me. Standing in front of an audience no longer bothers me and I have to teach from time to time in front of large classes. I'm more worried about being wrong about something, or worse, putting everyone to sleep.

The alternative is what one sees in NJ. $10,000+/year property taxes on 1000sq/ft capes on 50x100 lots. Good luck selling with that tax bill if the town has lousy schools.

It will affect MVNOs using the Verizon network as well.

I ran across this purchasing old computer books. Often its even the same seller with multiple accounts with different prices. I remember finally finding an out of print technical manual for $10. When I purchased it, the higher priced listings quickly vanished off half.com and abbooks (they all list on multiple sites).