I feel embarrassed. The only acronym I didn't know was TLA.

One of my first tech gigs was remanufacturing ECL's for AC/Delco. Our test console was a big box with nearly one hundred blinky lights! At least they were labeled so we knew what the blinky light was for. This was around 1989 and GM had transitioned a lot of their ECM's to SMT parts. So the ECM was a semi-flexible PCB with SMT IC's riding in a tin can (literally) coated in rubber cement. Vibrations from road conditions caused intermittent failures on a grand scale. By the time I left I was "diagnosing" over a thousand units a week. And by diagnosing I mean beating the ECM with the handle end of a screwdriver to make the blinky lights go off and spraying individual IC's with freeze spray to figure out which one had the cold solder joint.

This story has been up for an hour and and there hasn't been one reference to the obligatory.

Why were the first cars called horseless carriages? Because the carriage pulled by a horse was something that was familiar. and automobile sounded funny. We ended up dropping the horseless part and shortening carriage to car eventually though.

It isn't easy because society doesn't actually want to know the truth.Whenever we as a society want something to be true that isn't we ignore the truth and spend inordinate resources trying to prove what we want the truth to be.

The truth is there is indeed a biological component that drives humans that can be repressed but not eliminated. And there are dire consequences for repressing them as well. Scientific studies have proven this repeatedly but even many scientists ignore the facts because they are so unpopular. The reason so few girls pursue tech is they genuinely aren't interested. Intellect has very little to do with it. I've seen more women in tech that hated it but were pressured into it than women who actually chose tech and loved it. Anecdotal to be sure but that has been my experience.

I think they aren't even going to develop one. Many banks are still running Cobol applications written in the 60's and 70's.

You meant that as a joke but when Microsoft first attained government security (C2 IIRC) certification for Windows NT there was a little asterisk by the cert. For the OS to be considered C2 compliant it must not be connected to a network in any way.

If you look at this demo of the QNX Kia Soul at CES 2014 starting at about 1:20 they demonstrate the acoustic shaping properties of QNX Car 2.0. From dampening exterior noise to engine sound "enhancement". They demo the Soul revving but sounding like a Dodge Challenger.

That's good to hear. Perhaps they are improving. I'll admit I haven't even tried in over a year it had been so bad.

One thing Google has continuously failed miserably at is customer service. Unless they are going to invest some time/money/energy in improving their track record in this regard their wireless plans had better be dirt cheap/free. You already have Republic Wireless and FreedomPop sitting at that level. And I switched to Ting two years ago despite them being on the Sprint network because they have great rates for all but the most voracious data consumers and the best customer service of any company I have ever done business with. Next month they'll be adding the T-Mobile network to their offerings and they just started offering Internet in a couple of locations. I'll be watching to see if Google gets the customer service aspect down.

You work for the NFL?

Exactly! With one DisplayPort I can output to two HDMI ports. DisplayPort has double the bandwidth of HDMI so I can literally run two HDMI monitors on one port without degrading the signal. Add to that DisplayPort is royalty free and HDMI is not.

HDMI is less capable but MORE useful than DisplayPort? Is that a form of fuzzy logic?

If they were going for free wouldn't DisplyPort have been a better option? I mean HDMI is at its roots video DRM. With DisplyPort you can opt to output to almost every modern video connection available including HDMI.

Uh...you go RTFA linked to. No modification necessary. Just install ACL app and install apps.