Windows has a lot of fundamental flaws where it decides that which it wants to do is far more important than what you want to do. Even Linux has a better UX than Windows does.

I'm so sick of the unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy waving their magic fee wand and lining their own pockets in the process. If this is so damn important, then Congress needs to quit being so effing lazy and pass a single-purpose bill. Oh, but that would put their future reelection campaign at risk. Screw that. Grow a spine.

I'm old enough to have seen what calculators, especially scientific calculators, did to education. They didn't make you smart. You still had to understand the underlying theory. The device just made the plug-and-chug part easier. They saved time. I'm also old enough to have been able to use early word processors only to have teachers refuse to accept a paper if it was printed on a dot-matrix printer. The content was irrelevant to these people. Only appearance mattered. A valuable life lesson but never tell a geek that they can't do something. A couple of us went out and bought a Dynatyper. https://www.computerhistory.or...

The internet changed the way college research was done too. Picture this: you're given an assignment to build an amplifier circuit for a specific application. Forget the course textbook. They answer or even similar examples weren't in there. So you went to the university library and looked up the topic in the card catalog. Maybe you found something that might work so you went to the stacks to find it. Some asshole checked the book out before the assignment was due and didn't have to return it until long after the due date. If you were ambitious and lucky enough to have other universities nearby, you went there. But you probably didn't find what you were looking for. Enter the internet and google. Now you can spend a day or two searching a far wider scope and may even find some better explanations of the subject matter than the professor's inscrutable lecture. Like the calculator, the internet makes things go faster but it doesn't eliminate the need for understanding the subject matter.

AI is the next stage in the evolution of research. Using AI as a research tool will reduce the time to get up to speed and you're likely to get answers to questions that aren't out of date like you do with Stack Overflow or YouTube.

Maybe it's me but wouldn't having some rides unique to each Disney location encourage people to go to more of them?
When they built Disney World, they didn't build a Matterhorn even though they had plenty of space to do so.

AI seen cutting worker numbers AT survey companies. On another note, it occurred to me that AI could create horoscopes that would appear to be far more legit than what you read in the newspaper because it would have access to information about you. Then again, it might also fail quickly because of inaccurate predictions that were supposed to be better because it knew more about you.

It's pretty obvious. All lawyers know how to do it make things more complicated for everyone else... so that you'll have to pay them lots of money to sort it out. What a racket.

You'd think my pulse-ox reading would be higher because of that but sadly not.

Steven Levy's "Hackers" was fascinating. As a matter of interest, I once stumbled upon a phone system test suite. I had a desk phone that had this fancy contact manager in it and a clock. One day I was trying to set the time on the clock and the number sequence triggered this test suite. It had functions for testing payphones e.g. the coin return. That would have been endless fun.

Maybe they're only closing the holes because they are no longer useful and the feds have something better.

I've looked at these. They only work for pulse dosing not for continuous flow and the one that can do continuous flow only goes up to 5 LPM. When they can do 10 LPM continuous and run for 18 hours, I'd be interested.

Yep, I see all the warnings and I wonder why you can't have a fire in the fireplace. We took the hose off dad to blow out the candles on by 97th birthday cake.
But it's astounding that people would be on oxygen and STILL BE SMOKING! WTF?

Except that he's in a zero-turn scooter.

So many people were up in arms about the repeal of net neutrality but I'll bet nobody noticed any degradation in their data speeds.

Given my current status as a primary caregiver for a parent who's on oxygen, I would pay money for an oxygen concentrator that would follow him around the house so I don't have to wrangle the hose all the time. That said, the power requirements are brutal. The machine draws a constant 450 watts.

The lack of interoperability and buggy firmware will bork any AI's attempt to get everything to work together.