You could have disagreed, But you put the pinnacle of your intellect on display for the world to see.

Honeychild, give mommy and daddy their computer back, because 5th grader playground insults are so 5th grade.

Really? You think I said that Apple supplies drivers flor every piece of hardware? Argue at least honestly.

Apple writes drivers for equipment that is used on their computers. Is your need to disagree that strong? I know you hate me, but I look at the situation that I don't mind pissing you off, comrade.

Well, aside from an actual "free market" not existing, you are spot on.

I've built up some wealth, gradually, and yes - it requires investments.

Pretty much this. I have one of those "specialist jobs" but even that money is used for investments once beyond the basics. It helps. But you have to work at it. I couldn't invest seriously until I hit my late 40's.

Now for people upset about other people having more money than they do, the question isn't about greed, the question for them is about what is keeping them from accumulating wealth. Is it Elon Musk? Bill Gates?

I surely do not have as much money as either, but they surely are not the reason I don't have as much as them, or even more than I have now. That other's money is keeping people from having their own measure of wealth is a cop-out.

If a person wants wealth, they could do a lot better than heaping hate and derision on those who have a bit of money. and if they don't care to have a bit, why waste the energy?

My best guess is that as time progresses, and code writing becomes better, that you serve as a transition person. Likely by the time you retire, checking the code will be less of an issue.

Livable income is money. And I suspect you are one who says - "From each, according to their ability, to each according to their needs. I understand that for economists, a world where every human works 3 gig-economy jobs may appear 3 times as good as one where humans need just one job to make enough money for a living, but most people do not fancy a future where all the (previously well paid) jobs are done by some robot.

Did you know in America, we're all starving in the streets, because no one has any money, and that we're all dying because no one has health insurance, and the rest of us are going to kill ourselves because we see how everyone else in the world has a much better life?

Okay - I just wrote something that is just as stupid as your claim that American economists support people with 3 gig economy jobs as a good thing.

That's an interesting claim - how many Americans have 3 gig economy jobs? Why is a reliable living wage.

You need to support your anti American claims with some statistics, otherwise you're just spouting propaganda.

The social experiment of instilling self esteem at extreme levels without corresponding achievement.

The being told they could find meaningful careers, that if they found their passion, nothing could stop them, that they were the most important person in the universe, and that they'd be top level earners in just a few years, and have a career trajectory that would have them running the world while still in their 20's

I've seen it many times. A fresh graduate coming into a job, absolutely knowing they were superior to those olde fartes who were superannuated, and didn't know much.

Then after discovering that they were not superior to people who had experience, they did an intense crash and burn. Many moved back in with mommy and daddy, and lived off of them.

And the mental crisis appears to be down to the college freshman level now, likely lower.

Because the fact is, few people have jobs that change the world, and few people are billionaires ever, and work can be a grind, and life can be tough at times, and that self esteem needs accomplishments, without accomplishments it resembles narcissism.

And a big one is passion. Few people have passion, and if they did, they would not want it. Passion is a white hot pillar of flame that can take over your life, hardly resonating with people who view work/life balance as the goal in life. They need to redefine this as having a mile interest in something, not passion.

Trying to protect our children from all adversity, supervising their every activity, and telling them they are the most important being on the planet is having the opposite effect. Intellectually weak adults with minds of a child.

Apple does.

Yes. Been a lot of trouble with Windows drivers for years.

I never understood why they didn't take the Apple approach and write all their own drivers.

Seems strange that Windows has trouble with files with similar names.

I mean how does that happen in the real world. Windows only checks part of a filename, then decides "Looks good to me!"

Every time something disruptive comes a long, the doomers claim " No one will have a jerb any more!"

But just like every disruptive thing in the past, things just change, not ending up with mass unemployment and people starving in the streets.

We just adjust our skillsets, and move on. I've changed my skillset several times since I first entered the workforce in the 70's. Possible issues? Ya gotta enjoy learning. But that hasn't actually changed.

Now, for people who want to get their first job, and have it remain unchanged until they retire - that's always been a different story. They are the ones who become redundant very early, often the "I got laid off at 50, now I can't get a job!"

At present, AI will likely eliminate some lower level programming. So people will need to move on from that. Really proficient programmers will still be working. It's good to become proficient.

It isn't to say that AI doesn't have teething problems - the present paradigm of AI datacenter eventually doubling a nation's power consumption is a non-starter. As AI improves it will likely be condensed in power needs - a lot.

Define forefront. I define it as the leading or most important position or place.

Can you tell me the other lunar science that exists? Or what science that is going to be eliminated as the leading edge?

Or is this just pop culture or nationalistic outlook, and not actually science based?

How about a challenge - since there is a present forefront of lunar science, what is it? One does not announce a new king without knowing the old king is dead. As Geoffrey.landis notes, we already know that there is water on the moon, and have known for quite a while. The prospects of an exploitable amount of it at the polar south pole is intriguing. How much and how any water is presented - my money is on water mixed within regolith. But there are other possibilities.

One of the strangest is the possibility of underground lakes of liquid water. Now there's a discovery if they exist!

Does Spacex and their starship put them at the forefront of rocketry?

I guess I have spent enough time with other researchers that we look at things incrementally, not as one single. thing placing a group at the front of the pack, which would make them the goto rather than anyone else. Landing at the lunar pole is in itself a cool achievement.

So now, should we ask china all lunar questions, because they know the most because they have found ice? If you are at the forefront, you are considered the group to go to in all matters, the others are not at the forefront, and of little use, ask China, they know all the answers, and your wasting your time asking the also rans Yes, if China discovers water ice, that is very cool, and a first. Congrats are in order. It doesn't make them ahead of all others in lunar science. And if they don't find water ice, that means they missed a chance at becoming the lunar leader?

Maybe a cultural thing. But people in here apparently think this is some nationalistic thing. I look at it as an incremental science thing.

Okay, I have subscriptions in my cars, so can't easily duplicate it. I get weather alerts through my smartphone as well, so looks like I'm going to have a hard time invoking the problem you are having.

Sure, that's why smart designs have both touch screen and regular switches. A lot of things work best with a computer interface. And setting them up is done while sitting still. There are features like drive lane assist strength and lane assist that have different strengths that would be a real PITA to set up is no screen was present, Standards for pressure and temperature, and quite a few other things that a touch screen makes easy.

But just like olde school cars, yeah - you have to look at the mechanical controls like heat/fan/radio/ turn signals/rear view mirrors, side mirrors, and adjustments for them.

The idea that you only look straight ahead at the road, keep your hands in one position only, isn't even good, and makes a bad version of perfect the enemy of normal driving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... This is not to defend the idiotic texting while driving. Even then, modern cars with CarPlay will allow you completely hands free texting and phone use. Note - I use Apple CarPlay, and am not familiar with Android CarPlay. I do know apple CarPlay is very accurate on voice to text.

On my Jeep, they seem to have wanted to take care of everyone. Rather big touchscreen, But also has the olde school knobs and buttons for heat/ac and radio. Radio can also be controlled by switches on the steering wheel or by the touchscreen of course.

Even the speedometer has an analog needle along with the digital display. It does not allow you to change a lot of settings while in motion.

It is pretty darn good design, and accommodates pretty much all preferences.

A couple of my favorite features are I can read temps of coolant, oil and transmission, as well as it has a oil change system that pays attention to driving style and conditions, then reminds me when it decides it is time. It doesn't just use milage.

So yes the system isn't simple, but I like it.