Not necessarily. The industrial revolution suddenly created exponential growth because of the discovery of large seams of coal. Wood doesn't burn hot enough - and there arn't enough trees - to run powerful steam engines so without coal , and then oil, we may have carried on developing slowly and eventually created a technical society - though not using fossil fuels - but it would have taken a LOT longer. However in the scheme of the lifetime of a species an extra thousand years here or there is nothing.

"The on-board ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 processor, while hot stuff for space computing hardware (which tends to be low-powered and radiation-hardened), was slow even by Earth-bound standards."

DOOM could run on a 40 MIPS 486. A single core A9 can manage almost 4000 MIPS! So no, whatever other issues there may have been getting Doom to run on the hardware, it sure as hell wasn't CPU speed.

Except most of them are not moving portraits and because of the way our world is built horizontally far more than vertically you can get more information in a landscape format. Film makers knew this 100 years ago. The ONLY reason for portrait is shitty phones with users too dumb to turn them on their sides when filming.

Why would I need to replace the built in one? It works.

Implying everyone who votes for a right wing party is a nazi is juvenile and has the opposite effect to what you might hope but then the left never seem to learn this lesson in basic human psychology because they don't really understand what makes most people tick.

Your slashdot handle is very appropriate in this instance.

I don't want to have to rely on a phone to do even basic stuff such as listening to the radio or navigation because phones can be mislaid or stolen. Plus in my car android auto via bluetooth is so slow its unusable which means I need to have it plugged in via usb all the time.

Having said that, there's no reason ANY kind of radio reception needs an "app update". The radio should be a hard wired chip with a basic interface on top. I don't need to see the fecking album cover of whatevers being played at the moment etc etc.

"Phones are a pain in the arse to turn 90 degrees"

Even for you thats a really poor troll. Had a bad day? Have another go.

Yeah,. that'll be why streaming movies on phones is in portrait mode... oh, wait...

They're all in fucking portrait mode so borderline unwatchable on a pc.

Are Gen Z ever going to figure out that yes, you can actually turn a phone through 90 degrees?

Its been engineered deliberately so it won't work without a net connection so they can charge a subscription model and possibly get user sleep data too.

The only dumb bit is on the part of the morons who parted with 4 figure sums to buy this thing from these grifters in the first place.

"An insider at the bank, a self-professed fan of the technology"

Lets see how much of a fanboy he is when HE gets replaced by it. And yes, it probably is a man as psychopathy tends to be more common in males.

It does have a few minor use cases if for example you want to do something in a large window while keeping an eye on another one underneath, but yeah, generally its more annoying that useful. Windows did it for a long time too, think it was 8 that finally binned it but not 100% on that.

It was probably installed long before he rocked up. The fact that people running a weapons facility think its appropriate to use ANY kind of web based collaboration system or even have the facility connected to the internet AT ALL says a lot about the kind of mouth breathing morons they've put in place to run the IT systems there.

Interesting thought experiment there - if a piece of sheet paper was somehow deorbited at orbital velocity would it burn up in instant or would it just drift down?

"wage slave" is a pretty old term. Yeah, some people overegg things to get sympathy but its hardly a new use of the word.