That's kind of the point, right? The phones are locked because the carrier subsidized the purchase with the understanding that you would need to use it on their network long enough for them to recoup the costs.

There's a SUPER EASY way not to get stuck with a locked phone, buy it from the OEM.

I remember buying the simplest microwave ever in 1982 or 1983. It was tiny, didn't have a rotating dish or anything inside, literally one dial on the front that you used to set how long it was powered. That's it. Cost $399.99 from Montgomery Wards. Online inflation calculator says that's around $1300 in today's dollars.

grumble..grumble...portman...hot grits...

Also kind of weird how they are calling out "silicon" as being roadblocked. Silicon is literally a component of sand, it's available everywhere on earth in huge quantities. The roadblocks are with EUV lithography equipment, which makes me wonder how are they getting sub-1nm features on this material if they were unable to do so with silicon? Since it's "2d" are they counting the height as the smallest feature?

There's been tons of different semiconductors that are faster and more efficient than silicon in use for multiple decades. But they aren't as cheap and abundant.

Really? You understand the entire concept of having a tiered court system is based on the premise that judges are often wrong. Why would we have appeals if all the judges are out there batting 100?

Everyone knows modern manga and anime industries owe their existence to Tenisu no ôjisama (The Prince of Tennis).

2 Points, the article is pointing out GLOBAL price increases. Last I checked, US Tariffs don't typically affect the price of goods produced and sold outside of the US. And most of the games are now sold in electronic form, those are considered "produced" at the distributor's location so they wouldn't be subject to tariffs.

Since when is having 1, MAYBE 2 competitors with a similar product and 1 or 2 competitors with a substantially inferior product (wireless offerings do not compete in bandwidth, signal consistency, or latency) considered a "fiercely competitive environment"?

Lays has 872 competitors for my potato chip dollars in my grocery store alone.

And most Asian countries can grow rice without using flooded paddies. It may be the cheapest/easiest method, but certainly not the only method.

Oh, really?

https://www.knowledge4all.com/...

But of course, this is a UN source and they are just a mouth piece for those illiterate uneducated Americans and clearly have an agenda to portray the Canadians as less than they truly are.

This only makes sense IF there is a universal definition of what constitutes "up" in a galaxy that isn't defined in relation to its rotation.

Unfortunately they do also fall apart. My neighbor has one and in the last two years I think it's been in the shop or had a servicing van working on it at least a dozen times.

I guess your first sentence is correct, everything is finite. But that 50-70 years is "light crude", which also gets pushed back every few years. All that means is that when this stuff runs out oil will get a bit more expensive, but not drastically so. There will probably be some geopolitical implications as well.

There were software hacks contemporary with the console. They required owning one of several different games that had a compromised key. If you wanted to make it "permanent" you had to bridge one connection on the MB to write-enable the EEPROM.

I guess this is slightly better, but not exactly revolutionary and far too late for anyone to care.

That's not even remotely what vital means in this context. It simply means that they will be using services and spending money in the area. And they will.

I HATE the area around my work. But I also get up too gawddamn early and get home too fucking late to make a pack lunch every day, so some business in/around my workplace makes $15-20 extra every day selling me food when I work in the office instead of home. Some gas station sells 12 extra gallons of gas a week. Some local mailbox store gets a commission on the FedEx packages I send. Etc. etc. That's "revitalization".