If you say "If xxx lives up to its promise ..." and you make the promise on behalf of xxx, you can finish that sentence any way you like.

If the new kind of zero coupon inflation protection bonds live up to its promise, all retirees will be rolling in money and be donating millions of dollars to get rid of mosquitoes in equatorial New Guinea....

See? Anything is possible if you add an if at the beginning ...

Understood, and yet every restaurant I went to in Australia printed the bill with a tip line and handed it to any USian they could identify in the party. So the idea is not unknown there.

I have some 27 years worth of transactions and investments tracked by Quicken.

Locked in, would be very difficult to move out. They tried hard to push all quicken users to on line account and mint.

Recently they said they are splitting on line version from desktop app. So I was sort of expecting them to dump one or the other. Looks like they are dumping the on line version.

Good thing they are ditching the on line version. The performance was horrible, when they tried to do all the work on their servers and tried to use the desk top app as a dumb terminal, (thin client is the term? ). Of late the performance is not bad, may be they have cut down the use of net work procedure calls. Or may be I am using a SSD now. One version of Quicken made so many disk r/w it was slow as a turtle stuck in a tar pit.

There are lots of sections of India that are openly hostile to India.

There is this party Communist Party of India (Maoist). [ The parenthesis is part of its name, assigned by the election commission. To see the entire cladogram of all the kingdom, class, genera and species of CPIs look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ]

They openly pledge allegiance to China and sabotage everything to favor China. They create labor strife, it takes very few miscreants to savor the investment and sow Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about investments. The Foxconn factory near Chennai, India constantly gets in the news about labor stoppage, strikes, managers being gheraoed (ghero is a hindi origin word, meaning encriclement) in the factory.

So, dont count China out. They have been sabotaging foreign direct investment going to India for several decades, and they are not going to stop now.

What with people buying bankrupt companies and what not...

Funding only dropped 63% and 37% of funding still remains!! Shocking!!!

Clicking through to the source article the vehicle in question is an MG. You can probably find similar stories from newspapers in the 1920s of MGs going rogue due to electrical system faults. Heck, you might be able to find stories from the 1920s of a prototype electric MG being unable to stop due to all the controls fusing and needing to be crashed to bring it to a halt. And in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s... all the way to the early 1980s.

You think they are going to wait for you to ask?

The first item on the agenda of the 3.12 committee: What we need to break in 3.11

Mitt Romney said that. But he did not get into when they are people and when they are not.

Hobby Lobby corporation wants to avoid paying for healthcare coverage that includes contraception coverage even if there is no additional charge. Oh yes, here corporations are people, entitled to full freedom of expression and religious belief. Really. yup. true.

A non existent fake corporation wants a precedent allowing businesses to discriminate against gays. Yup, they are people, and their religious belief trumps your right for equal treatment and discrimination prevention.

Corporations are people. People acting like jerks can be shamed. People behaving like class 1 a-holes can by shunned. Oh! no!! that is Woke, man! not allowed. You can not ask a corporation to behave decently. You can sermonize from the pulpit shaming and damning people, but not corporations. They are... they are job creators and profit motive is the only thing that can drive them. Not your morals, ethics blah blah blah. OK get that.

Corporations are people. They can decide what can be said in their platform. If a private platform wants to prohibit whatever it deems as misinformation, whatever reduces the value of the platform, whatever messages that leads less user engagement, more user frustration, whatever loses them uses and eyeball time, they can ban it. Right? No way. The right of MAGA to shout into the megaphones pointing at your home window shall not be abridged.

So, someone finally got around to putting a big enough engine in the Douglas X-3 to get the job done!

I think another big consideration is ecosystem costs.
Particularly with Apple, people probably think about more than just the phone when considering their upgrade cycles.
My upgrade cycle has been

2009 iphone 3GS
2011 iphone 4S
2014 iphone 6
2017 iphone 8
2023 iphone 14

but while the time between phone upgrades has slowed, in the later years I've also bought an Apple Watch and a couple of pairs of AirPods during that period.
Even now my current pair of AirPods have pretty shitty battery life, but I'm holding out on buying a new pair for as long as possible because I've just given Apple a bunch of money for a phone and I feel like I should try and have some sort of vaguely sane limit on how much I throw their way.

Move the taskbar to the left or right. Use small icons. You will pack more windows in the taskbar. Expand the task bar size to 20% of screen width and turn on auto hide.

Cant tell where one inactive window ends and another begins, to raise it for focus. Five inch phone screens with all apps running maximised does not care. I have a 48 in double wide curved monitor... Same behavior? horrible.

I had follow mouse focus back in the 1990s in my motif window manager. Why can windows support that?

In a five inch scrren you have no screen real estate and cram stuff on title bar. In a 28 in desktop? Window title is full of controls responding to click. And the only way to reposition the window is to click on title... Need to hunt for a place to click. Only way to resize a window is to grab a corner of the one pixel wide window border.

They said task bar cant be moved. I was worried. But atleast in my professional edition I am able to keep taskbar on the left for one machine and on the right for the RDP session.

Nope, it wont work. Heat engines are inefficient. It extracts 25% of the energy in the fuel and wastes the rest. It wont be economical.

There are already millions of chargers in USA for overnight charging use. That is good enough for 90% of the driving.

You need far fewer super charging stations. Even they are not as expensive as gasoline delivery infrastructure.

One issue is not everyone has a garage to park their car, or even a set spot near enough to their domicile to run a 120 volt cord

They will be served eventually one way or the other. They have a need. Market will find a way to serve them. Sooner or later.

The LED light revolution has created a huge surplus capacity on street light wiring infrastructure. All those sodium vapor lamps, halogen bulbs, and mercury vapor lamps were on 220V - 20 Amp circuits. With LED each lamp post has excess capacity to dish out 2 or 4 kW. Internet enabled outlets can convert every parking spot close to a lamp post into an overnight charging L2 facility. Every lamp post can dish serve 14 cars per week full charge.

Initially companies will try to corner the market by coming up with mutually incompatible implementations and apps and accounts. There will be shakedown then a common standard will emerge. Look at superchargers and Tesla. All auto companies decided to adopt Tesla NACS.

There are 250,000 gas stations in America and several million lamp posts.