Oh i thought those were called "cellphone"

So how can I get a smartphone if I'm outside of AT&T's market?

I guess I'll go to a shop, ask for a smartphone and go to a phone company and ask for a phone&data plan....

But in your example, why would I buy a phone from AT&T if I'm going to get a GoPhone sim? Won't I be paying for two phone plans then? AT&T (unused, but still per month costs) and GoWhatever?

What the heck is a feature phone anyways? I never met anyone who claimed to have one.

But here the important point is: do they have a OS that deservs it's name? Then it's only a matter if you count switches within that "featurephone" market too

And with a mostly two-players market I'd bet that most people who switch to Android came from iPhone.

Either it's your first phone, then you're not counted as switch, any subsequent phone upgrade from then on won't be a OS switch either or, if it IS a switch, it will be back and forth between Android and iOS.

So this is a non-fact.

Well, there is: But that's called "stagnation" and dreaded as hell as well.

I guess that's why they prefer the bubble method cause those bursts and crashs every now and then allows for recoveris that at least resemble the "eternal growth" pipe dream.

I guess you just stumbled into the videos for the "Endgame" AR-Game.

Worst. Book. Ever.

You cloned them from a tiny drop of blood?

What's wrong with that?

"they" are always there to point out when there are more than 3 pencils per person and months ordered. "They" know if you spend longer than 5 minutes at the water cooler. "They" are checking everyone's bags and pockets at the entrance.

They're taking care of all that small stuff. So of course "they" would notice such big issues as sensitive documents in the dumpster, wouldn't they?

Oh yes.. the good old "I want solution, and everything you're bringing me is problems". Noticing problems often is simply not "visionary" enough and pointing out those problems slow down the whole "team" on the way to their "mission goals".

If nothing goes wrong, such management will win big, really big, including being on the next management magazine title. And no one cares for the 90% that fail big with that management style. Current culture bought into the "Prof. Pigskin"-Scam wholesale.

Giving the benefit of doubt, that has probably been done here. But then, "connected by a opto-isolator" is NOT "physically seperate". Claims like these cross the line from "dumbed down to wrong" to "obvious BS" when they go like "practically physically seperate"

Weight (still an issue), size and power.

And why should they? There are more dangerous things about flying than feeding a NMEA stream from one system into the other through, let's say, a serial connection that has Rx cut.

Is the in-flight entertainmeny system able to show that world map with the cute little plane that indicates the planes position?

I doubt they have someone copying the updeted position from the avionics system to a USB-stick, unplug it from there and plug it into the entertainment system to update position data every few seconds...

There goes your "completly, physically seperate".

Heck yeah, it's trivial to make such a connection reliably one-way only, but even then, "physically seperate" would be an outright lie.

Bar trivias work bestg when you're sitting with your friends around a table. No gadgets or anything.

8 rounds, 10 questions each, 8 sheets of paper.

When you have test cars that are being tested as much as possible and on the road as much as possible, the average incident rate will be several times higher than the rate of an average car that sits in the driveway most of the day.

Wave at the guy in the 3rd car.

So, you're generalizing from one system to all self-driving cars?

That some of those cars (Google) rely more on external maps than others (BMW iirc, or whatever was driving at the last DARPA-Challange) isn't even imaginable?

Of course none of them is driving blindly without checking that their path isn't obstructed by pedestrians or other cars, but I heard too that the Google car is the most advanced system, but also the one depending most on exact maps for speed limits, traffic lights and so on.