Microsoft does have a lot of experience with the principles of quantum mechanics. Users of their software are constantly struggling with the uncertainty principle and can often make a system collapse merely by observing it.

Actually, it's Bobby Tables

By the same logic, 1023 - 1021 = 2.000 which I hope you'll agree is completely ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as saying 8+5=10, just the other way around.

And even if you try to justify with significant digits, treating anything up to 14.99 as "equal" to 10 (relative error 50%?!) while the original numbers had relative errors of less than 20% shows a staggering lack of comprehension. These people should not be allowed to teach. One significant digit for 10 is way less precise than one significant digit on 5 or 8, use some common sense for crying out loud.

Well, it's only wrong if you compare it to the exact mathematical value. But then you're just being pedantic.

Exactly right. Top Gear once had a race between a Prius and a BMW M3. The Prius had to drive around the track as fast as it possibly could, and the BMW just had to keep up (which obviously took little or no effort). As you might expect, fuel consumption for the Prius was a lot higher than for the BMW.

Fuel economy figures are measured with very small accellerations. In every day driving, we tend to accelerate a bit more. For a big engine, this requires little or no extra effort from the car, and fuel consumption is only a little more. But for a small engine, even moderate accelerations consume a lot more fuel since it brings the engine a lot closer to its maximum power. Nothing unexpected here.

Tire wear can change the speed indication by more than 2%.

Instead, they used dumb programmers with little or no intelligence. It was cheaper that way.

Can't they just update it via the internet?

(Note to ATM vendors: no, stop, that was a joke, do NOT... what? You already did? And you used which OS? No, please...)

I predict a time when pixel data will be routed through the screen via IP protocol and every pixel will have its own IPv8 address. Any shape you like, no straight edge needed. I know, it would be nuts. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen in my lifetime.

I agree, if you do take nude pictures, at least use an old fashioned film roll camera and have the pics developed at a local photo lab.

In an ideal gas, the molecules collide elastically with each other. I'm no expert, but that's what I remember from university 20 years ago and Wikipedia seems to confirm it. Photons don't collide with each other afaik.

O, yes, it's easy enough. You buy some $5 item on eBay using PayPal in BTC. Then you download the most recent copy of the blockchain, go through the transactions to figure out exactly which of your bitcoins was used and how much those particular bitcoins were worth when you acquired them (either by buying them with USD, or being paid in BTC by somebody else). Then you calculate the capital gains tax to add to your tax report. Simply do this for every transaction you make. Easy, it's just a simple habit to get used to, I don't see what the big fuss is about.

I highly doubt they're importing it at 220V. More likely thousands of volts, which are then transformed to whatever voltage they want.

New processes? Training and SOPs to tick the (existing) box "enable WPA2" and enter a password?