Best Buy no longer carries physical media. Target and WalMart have scaled back. The physical disc is rapidly dying. Disney would only do this if it wasn't making them money.

The first version of office I installed was before Office95. I certainly didn't install all of them (and haven't installed one in some time now) but I don't remember seeing Publisher listed. I also don't remember ever seeing someone send out a file from it.

This might be - at least in part - due to having seen Quark XPress at my work starting in 2000. Nobody wanted to use anything else for layout there. My wife has used by Quark and Adobe InDesign for a couple decades now, and I doubt she ever heard of MS Publisher.

Unfortunately though this likely means the last users of MS Publisher are going to switch to attempting to use Word to layout documents, and we all know how atrocious that is. Honestly the world would be better if people did layout in MS Paint than in MS Word.

That sounds like a great way to gauge how many people are learning those languages. It doesn't tell us much about how much code is being generated by users of those languages though, as people who are especially familiar with a given language are less likely to search for tutorials.

I've been involved in some of the informatics that goes in to "smart farming". When it is successfully applied, crop yields will be improved, and farmers will do better on the same level of investment. One big thing we're already learning is that there are some places where we are simply wasting effort producing the wrong crops. It does take some training and education but some farmers have a lot to gain by changing what they are growing to better fit the combination of ecological and market forces in their area.

As for who will own the tools, that is a minor part of this. Yes some of the best tools will be too expensive for the smaller farmers but they will still benefit from other farmers having them as they can reduce runoff of both fertilizer and pesticides.

Guy pulls a gun on you. He wants to rob you. You have a gun for your own protection. See the difference?

Consumers have a general sense of what 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mean in terms of cell networks. Even my school-age sons have a sense of what it means. Consumers see ads on TV and other places for the latest 5G phones, and they know that 4G and 3G phones used to be common.

Yet now Comcast is advertising 10G service, and there are no 10G phones. Of course that is because the Comcast 10G network is not a cell network - even though they offer cell service in many areas - but that sometimes escapes the consumer.

A better move would have been for Comcast to call it a "10Gig" network, but they know that very few customers on the network will actually ever see that speed. They just want to indicate it as a technical leap forward, and they want to use a very simple acronym for it. They should have sent the marketing team back to the drawing board when they coughed up "10G" though.

If you look at the comcast website you'll see all kinds of overlapping and confusing terms that they have used up to now to describe their internet connectivity options. I think I am on a "blast" plan myself, but the comparable plan has been renamed a few times since I signed up. They should really come up with a standardization for their plan names, but that might encourage people to compare Comcast claims to those of other ISPs.

Wasn't making code easily shareable by others the whole idea of open source?

I've rented a fair number of cars lately while traveling for work. I've seen cars from Ford, GM, Toyota, and Hyundai. Every one of them has had AM, FM, and HD. Most - but not all - have had Sirius / XM. If they are trying to kill AM they aren't doing a great job of it.

I could see some of the high-tech / high-dollar / luxury brands like Tesla or BMW taking an interest in killing AM to distinguish themselves, but I haven't seen it happen with the mainline brands at all. My work car is a 2021 Equinox and it has AM, FM, HD, and Sirius/XM.

Iâ(TM)m over 50 and I have not purposefully listened to a radio station in over 15 years.

What on earth are you even talking about? Meta spent like $10 billion a year developing Quest VR headsets. If you don't think Apple spent at least $20 billion on R&D for vision pro, you're clueless.

Subtract the amount of money need to build and develop the product and they are 20 billion in the whole.

Knowing that the first missions to Mars will be one-way, I can think of a few Americans who we could just as well do without. They wouldn't mind the notoriety of being on the list of the first people to land on Mars, so it would be a win-win.

Yes, i know I will be downmodded into oblivion for mentioning this. Go ahead, I have my asbestos underwear on today.

It's just frightening how close he is to winning a second term, which could well be the end of American Democracy.

Pew Research and census.gov both put the voter turnout rate for the 2020 election at around 66.8%. That of course tells us that roughly a third of eligible voters didn't vote. Of course some of them were actively disenfranchised by the system, though some of them could have voted but just didn't feel it was worth the effort.

I really hope those who could vote will see it to be worth the effort this time. I can't see how an independent could possibly view 4 years of his vile hatred as being a good idea for our country.