I figured it was a military thing. Most of the time the CO reads the data and marks that he read it, and gives it back down the chain. Having it on separate devices probably adds to security.

That may be the recommended. But there are some roadways 30-40 miles between place where I can stop. So by the time you start feeling strain you may have an other hour to drive.

Do'h smacking myself on the forehead.

The "retina" display is so you cannot discern a pixel. Having more makes the image even more crisper. I am sure we are reaching a point of diminish return though.

What makes it funnier, is that is just for the display on one pixel line in black and white.
Your video card will need at a bit over 1 gig of ram, to display a full screen frame buffer in 32bit color.

I had a book on GW Basic back in the late 80's
Under displays it had the following.
Screen 0 Text only 80x25 16 foreground colors, 8 background colors.
Screen 1 Graphics 320x200 and Text 40x25. 4 colors, choice of 8 background colors, and bad choices for foreground color.
Screen 2 Graphics 640x200 (High Resolution) and text 80x25 2 color. You had 16 colors to pick for the forgound color and 8 to choose for the background.

My computer only had a CGA compatible display so the below wouldn't work.
Screen 7,8,9, 10 were for EGA,
Screen 13 was for the VGA 320x200 256 colors. You got to mix pallets to do a bunch of cool stuff.

We were stuck at the 72-100 PPI Monitors for the longest time.
Still most displays are still at that range.
I am hoping the jump to 4-8k should be the limit for 2d displays, of desktop size. So we will get to the point where video drivers can once again handle full screen at that resolution.

There is a difference between Serious Code and Distributed code.
You could write serious code without any sort of Source Control... However it isn't recommended.
But sometimes having a small term working a program is much better then having hundreds of people. So for the smaller teams GIT is too cumbersome.

I think it is a bit of all of it.
Git isn't for everyone or every project... For some people they are better off with Subversion or something else... Just because their project may have a structure that makes their tool easier to handle.

However I expect, there is a lot of room to make it easier to use, that the end users do not want to embrace, Primarily because they have gotten use to how it is now, and doesn't want to change their methods. But also as a way so they feel good that they are somehow special that they figured out this tool, more than someone else.

Part of the problem a lot of people think linearly. SourceSafe CVS Subversion GIT However they are all designed to solve a particular problem that they have. Sourcesafe which I personally and vehemently dislike, is simple to use and follows a simple methodology that people can understand, following the libary book model. This allows for easy adoption to using source control, thus better then not having a source control.

The Hyundai, make nice looking cars with a lot of features that make them seem like they can compete against the big luxury names... However the features/price comes at a cost of vehicle quality.

I actually wish I could find, a basic Car, without any fancy features just, do what a car does, and do it well.

I expect it will be a lot like cruise control where it will only kick on when particular conditions are set.

For the most part I see this as a great safety feature. Having driven highway for 5-6 hours in one shot, your eyes get strained from staying focused, and your instinct is to just close your eyes to let them rest a bit. Just having a feature to keep you in your lane, and not ramming into the car in front of you, is useful, where you can let your eyes focus on something easier for a few minutes, or away from some glare.
Oddly enough if you are not so intent in watching out for danger, you can be less focused and see what is happening around you much easier.

Well yes.
Wouldn't that be great.
Infrared camera, to detect if the heart is beating or not. Being able to see what things are made out of.
The thing Star Trek missed, was the fact that they had horrible screens, and are really bulky, and they never seemed to play flappy bird on it.
 

I think part of the problem is every issue has became political.
Even issues that really shouldn't be political. Like if humans are causing global warming. So if you were to write a science fiction book about a future devastated by global warming, then it is a political statement.

Science fiction points out what if scenarios, and how would the world be if they follow down a particular sliding scale.
Political debate today has long gone past intelligent debate and fear mongering on the sliding scale worst case scenarios.
Most of the political debates today are science fiction. If you vote Republican you will create a future where there will be a small section of Wealthy elites, and a huge slave class serving them. If you vote Democrat then you will create a future where all your rights are micromanaged by big government.

However science fiction is fiction... It takes the worse case scenarios... Are we living in a 1984 future? No... However there are elements that did come from it, however there are also protections that have prevented it from reaching the worst case scenario.

In terms of politics, good politics is about working on the issues that are at hand for the short/mid term. This long term forecasting, while effective for getting people polarized to vote for you, is bad at actually working on the issues. The debate for global warming, shouldn't be if it is there or not. But what would be the proper balance for correcting it? Efficiency, Economy, deployability of less carbon energy. How to transition workers in Fossil fuel energy to other sectors. How much the government should mandate vs. allowing free market to follow its own trends. Looking at legacy rules and regulations that may may getting new energy source difficult... There is plenty of room for political debate with trying to mitigate climate change.

But it makes politics boring, and not fit for prime time, vs. showing a future, where the statue of liberty is under 10 feet of water, and New York City is covered. Or where a made up Crisis is made to get people to drop all their worldly possessions and follow the guiding rules of the government.

I don't see this as people loosing their jobs. It is the same device but with a different part for the hookup.
They will probably do the same thing but with Xbox.

Offering higher speed, doesn't mean comcast is being a better company... They just want to make sure that you don't switch to fiber.
The slow US speed, is about reporting on average, where the US has a lot of rural areas which do not have access to high speed.