I'm amazed at people's ingenuity and spending good part of their life in making emulators of so many old machine - even though there is no practical use of those emulattions. Truly motivated people. Glad slashdot keeps insprinng now and then.

Really curious - what exactly has Intel done to rise so much? Just last year everyone was blaming Intel and that they are doomed to be laggards. I can understand Micron growing - for all AIs need huge RAM. But what about Intel? What are they suddenly manufacturing now that is so much in demand that the stock have zoomed?

Good point. It is maddening to see hundreds of programs all called 2048 when you are trying to get one specific one. These apps do not even have an id that one can use to locate later. What kind of software engineering is this?

Instead of 'Can' they 'should' remove such passengers. Hope all other airlines and other public transport systems and companies adopt this quickly.

Throughout this article, the issue highlighted is the UI. I once looked at WPS Office (Excel equivalent) and was totally struck by how its UI is same as Excel. PLUS they have added their own value adds like how the the entire column and row where the cursor is, is highlighted. This is so useful. But after looking at that i never went back to it because is is not OSS or not trusted as much as Microsoft. If an outfit such as WPS can replicate the UI why does not LO adopt many of the good UI aspects of Word/Excel?

I use the QuickBar on the Title bar to skip navigating through menus and ribbons for many buttons. Just drag the frequently used buttons to it. They are accessible even when the ribbon is hidden.

I have used word processors regularly from Wordstar on DOS, to WordPerfect on DOS to Word on Windows from version 2 onwards. I definitely find the ribbon very useful - it reduces the number of menu navigation every time. Without ribbon, I feel as if one had is tied. For the last couple of years have switched to LibreOffice on linux. The spreadsheet as someone earlier mentioned earlier does not look nice. The grid is too dark and the text inside the cells is too close to the grid giving an overall un-professional look to the content - it looks too congested. Styles are another issue in Write - I have found it less intuitive than Word.

A car is already trackable though its license plate. So what is this 'alarm' of being trackable via tyre sensors. The only difference being that license plate tracking requires line of sight. Seems like shouting hoarse for the sake of attention.

This has nothing to do with stupidity, It is a simple matter of the police not having the intiricate knowledge of crypto usage. If someone were a good computer programmer but have no knowledge of farming, should farmers call them stupid - obviously no, its just lacking knowledge.

A light-boom? fusion of light pushing itself and causing flash of light?

All that is fine, but one always reads the code in our mind. Thus int i = 0 will be read as 'int i equals zero'. Now pray how do we read emojis - unless there is a universal dictionary it will be fruitless discussing code with others or remembering.

Opening of this is a treasure trove for the AI engines to feed on.

Just think if there were no AC socket standard, how would it have been. Obviously something new comes up in the future, the standard may adopt it. Standards are not meant for remaining still for the life of the universe. Just see where we are on WiFi standards.

The EU made micro USB standard for all phone chargers.

I have been running Win 7 all these years and finally had to move out because Norton Security said they will stop updates in a few months time, None of the browsers work properly with many modern websites. Google Drive stopped working. Microsoft OneDrive too stopped working and so on. Finally, last year I moved to Linux Mint with Win 7 as a VM for use for my PIC programming software. So it is not just a matter of the PC will run, yes but many applications will stop running over some time on those machines.