I am reminded of some source code for a company-specific program that I saw in the late 1990s. I don't remember why I was perusing it, as I was in IT and absolutely not a developer. But I remember being tickled at one of the comments before a block of code. It was something like, "I have no idea why or how the following code works. But every time someone tries to change it, everything breaks, so please don't touch it."
tl;dr it seems like it's been different things at different times, officially, and that NeXTSTEP has been used for a long time.
From the Wikipedia page, this 0.9 release doc lists "NextStep" as a registered trademark.
https://vtda.org/docs/computing/NeXT/NeXT%200.9-1.0%20Release%20Description.pdf
Some CD images show all caps:
Some show mixed:
https://wagtail.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/coda/topics/nextstep/index.html
1.0 manual goes with "NEXTSTEP":
https://dn710300.ca.archive.org/0/items/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994.pdf
1993 book uses "NeXTSTEP"
https://simson.net/ref/1993/NeXTSTEP3.0.pdf
This marketing flyer uses "NeXTSTEP"
http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/NeXTProducts/NeXTSoftware/NS-Release3/files/page625_1.pdf
It's clear the original trilogy was lightning in a bottle for many reasons, and it's clear that Marcia Lucas and other skilled editors had an absolutely huge impact. But can you really say the editor is the "more talented" Lucas? Seems to me that for a time, whatever partnership George and Marcia had personally and working together, worked really well.
After the split, neither one of them ever created something as on target as the originals.
Then again, Star Wars is almost unique for the cultural impact it's had. Hard to do a repeat.
Just shows how sometimes connotations and visceral impacts of words change over time.
I learned about that movie from The Wall..
Example, my 17 pro is pretty big and heavy, so you end up gripping it every time you pick it up. But with the extra buttons on the sides you end up engaging something you didn't want. So then you menu-dive into system settings just to turn off extra buttons.
My kids call me a boomer when that happens to me. And yeah, it happens.
Though to be fair, I actually really like the side button -- the one on the lower right that is touch sensitive. I use it for activating and using the camera. I just ALSO sometimes activate it when reading in landscape mode. Oops.
That's not the reason that both bombs were dropped. They were dropped because the military saw them as just another tool in the toolbox, just like the bombs dropped on all the other cities that continued to be dropped on other cities until the surrender. Truman ended the military's control of atomic bombs after Nagasaki, when the USAAF was preparing to use a third bomb, establishing civilian control of atomic weapons. Firebombing continued, though, right up to Kumagaya, Akita, and Osaka getting hit in the 24 hours prior to Hirohito taking to the airwaves.
The agreement expired in 2030. It did not authorize Iran to pursue nuclear weapons at that time. There's a difference.
The agreement was the best available at the time. Diplomacy sometimes requires taking a temporary win, and it usually means that neither side gets everything they want. The hope was that Iran would find that they would not want or need to develop nuclear weapons. If they did go down that path, there were penalties for doing so. Future negotiations were planned to modify or extend the agreement as it got closer to the expiration date.
That's how such agreements work. Every arms treaty signed between the US and USSR had an expiration date. The expiration date was not an agreement that at the end, both sides would immediately rearm. They were meant to establish a new normal and a baseline for future negotiations, and that's what happened. Over time, the arsenals were negotiated down from tens of thousands per side to a few thousand per side, with only a fraction of them deployed or even deployable. The last one expired a few months ago, but neither side is racing to add to their deployed warhead count.
There is no way to outright prevent Iran from developing a nuclear warhead without occupying the country and removing its entire current government. That is hundreds of billions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives, and an even worse look for the US than it has right now. Negotiating a deal like the JCPOA is the best option available. But every time Trump starts to talk about a deal and details start to leak out, they look a lot worse than the JCPOA. Trump is incompetent, he started a war that even Republicans are turning against, and he's arguably left Iran in a better place than it was before. Iran now knows that they can cut off the Strait of Hormuz, and no one can or will do anything about it. Worse, Trump has stated that he would be OK with Iran charging transit fees. If that starts, everyone else who controls a waterway that is otherwise internationally accessible is going to charge them, too. Indonesia and Malaysia would be the top two who could affect global trade, and while both have said that they would not, it's hard to say what future governments would do if they came under budget stress and had a precedent to point to.
Like . . come on.
So that leaves only $100k to pay everybody who had to babysit it
Lasting value is not my opinion. If works are being preserved by people, cultures, and governments, that's not my opinion. That's a fact.
But now you're in a position where a work can only be recognized as "quality literature" decades or even centuries after it was created and publicized. I guess that's a plausible definition, but I don't see much value in it.
I would also add that many governments deliberately preserve and publicize certain works not for their inherent literary value, but due to some message that the government wants to promote for many possible reasons.
Latest top performance is expensive, and electronics in general are more expensive, if you haven't noticed. There are still plenty of Wi-Fi 5 devices, and a lot of networks don't go faster than 1 Gbps anyway. If you need faster, the USB-C port is capable of 5 Gbps Ethernet via USB-CDC NCM, so there's probably enough there to connect a 2.5 Gbps USB NIC.
The whole design is supposed to be open, so maybe you can gather a few friends and figure out how to install faster components that meet your expectations.
Quality literature is generally viewed as those works generated by literate people. Authors who understand the form and context and audience well enough to produce a work with lasting value.
IMHO, everything you just said boils down to "it's a matter of taste" or "I know it when I see it."
On one level, I don't disagree. Taking two fantasy authors I enjoy, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, I would say that Patrick Rothfuss is the better literary writer, but at the same time, I enjoy Sanderon's books more and I enjoy Sanderson as an author far more. Both authors are highly literate and knowledgeable, and their works are clearly highly influenced and referential to many other works, tropes, and so forth. I would say Rothfuss's writing is more artful, but I don't know how to quantify that.
"Lasting value" is, just like, your opinion man, and (IMHO) boils down to spectrum of enjoyment.
They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on Apollos
