According to this inflation calculator, 2015's $158k would now have be 2025's $214.61. So the actual change is 6%, not 44%.

Also, every year someone pops up to say correlation is not causation. It isn't, but it's a damned good place to start. Like if I'm thirsty, standing at a t-junction and all the people walking from the left are carrying fresh new bottles of water and all the people walking from the right look like the last thing they tried to 'drink' is sawdust...it's not 100% proven that there's a place to get water from in one particular direction, but on the other hand...it's pretty damned well correlated and guess which direction I'm going to head in.

From the study: " The most pronounced associated differences were observed with intake of approximately 2 to 3 cups per day of caffeinated coffee or 1 to 2 cups per day of tea.".

You heard it - ditch the coffee, drink some tea.

(although, in a small voice, I should probably note that while I am British, I don't drink tea. I drink coffee. Damn.)

The license payers. The idea would be instead of paying for Teams, pay for a joint venture open source Teams alternative.

It's an attractive idea but in practice fraught with issues. First, I don't want to wait until its ready so I'll end up with a Team license anyway. Second, this means I'm going to have to agree a feature set with my fellow contributors - many of these companies will be rivals, and some will have some dumb workflow that means it's absolutely vitalthat a message turns purple 33 1/3rd seconds after being read otherwise how on earth can their compliance dept....blah blah, you get the idea.

Then you've got classic Tragedy of the Commons. You mean if I don't pay/stop paying, I can just get it anyway? Well then, guess what I'm going to do. And them. And them. And...yeah. And god help them when it's 'finished' and suddenly they realise they have to pay for ongoing maintenance not in license fees but in ensuring there are always coders who are interested and knowledgeable about it.

It's all do'able, but it's quite the model shift. I wish it well.

Mostly harmless.

Apologies - commenting to undo a misclick mod, please ignore.

Because it would be unusable. Lockdown mode is pretty severe, it's not something you want to deal with day to day.

Everything you just mentioned is physical. They're made of computers and wire, and all of those computers have a physical location and wthe wire goes through holes in the ground. Remember the internet was created to link multiple geographical sites to allow things to continue if one were hit by a nuclear strike.

Just because we're used to dealing with the abstractions doesn't mean the underlying isn't real. It's a long time since this terminology was in use, but even 'the internet' used to be 'an internet', and it was possible to have multiple and that the global one was spelled with a capital I.

Less efficient, more expensive? Yes, I'd think so. Whether that's worth it or not depends on the goal you're looking for.

Oh I had the Gamecube. Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball, Luigi's Mansion...plus let's talk about that Wii Fit 'craze' for a moment. It seriously changed my life.

At the time I got the Gamecube, I was unfit and pretty overweight. There was a poster here on Slashdot who in one thread or another said "How many overweight 30 year olds do you know? A lot, right? How about 40 - still a lot? Now try 50, 60, 70...". This really stuck with me, and I decided to use Wii Fit properly. Started out jogging round the living room, was then invited to real runs outside and I started do 3km, 5km with the nirvana of reaching 10km at some point.

Still taking it seriously, I carried on running. 5km? Done. The unobtainable 10km? Done. Further? Why not. I ended up running 10km a night, half marathon every weekend, and running up and down 7,000 steps a day (ground to top floor of the tower I worked in, multiple times a day). I ran a marathon, though annoyingly didn't do that well as the last 7km my knee gave out and I had to limp it. I lost about 80lbs, and at my best I was pretty fast. This is decades ago now of course and while my fitness since has ebbed and flowed, I have never returned to the state I was in when I got that Wii. The Slashdot line and the data tracking plus encouragement of Wii Fit literally changed my life.a

I don't think it was for prestige. The huge success and Wii Fit craze took everyone by surprise, likely including Nintendo themselves. Add that Sony were losing it with pricing/drm/whatever and a whole "Wii Sixty" meme was born - cheaper to buy a Wii and an Xbox 360 than a single Playstation (I forget the gen - 3? 4?).

Remember Nintendo were coming off relatively poor market share - for all the nostalgia today, the Gamecube in its day was considered a failure and very much an afterthought (although I seem to remember that was a consumer view, and that it made the most profit of that gen. Again, just casting mind back to what was said at the time, not quoting any hard data here). The PS and XBox owned the Gamecube era, so Nintendo likely didn't have manufacturing capacity at the time to handle the huge demand for the Wii.

A massive gamer who hasn't heard of Asus?

We continually see this - politicians saying Universal when it's not. By definition, if applies to a specific sector then it's not universal. Using the phrase muddies the waters between normal benefits system as usual, and the new (as in never implemented) concept of Universal Basic Income.

This post isn't a commentary on whether UBI is or is not a good idea, or whether benefits should or should not be introduced in this case. It's to stop people diluting concepts - UBI and the current benefits system (I'm in the UK) are separate concepts.

Oh we played a lot of Prince of Persia. There was a cult of Spaceward Ho! playing as well. Fun anecdote time: Netware required you to 'ack packets, and early shareware versions of Doom had a bug in it that didn't ack. We literally filled the network up playing Doom.

Safe to say that wasn't the official reason we gave to people, and settled for "a restart seemed to fix it all". Oops.

Way back in the mists of time, or about 1992, I worked for the company that scanned the French National Library. You can still see the images we did today - we used pretty much the method they're talking about except we would recombine certain books afterwards. We took off the spines, ran them through an automatic document feeder attached to a high speed scanner (for 1992 anyway), deskewed the images and OCR'd some of them.

One day, a production assistant came to me and said "I don't think we should guillotine this one, what do you think?". I looked at it and...flaming hell, it was the French National Academy of Science's original copy of Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. Had we gone ahead and sliced/shredded...Douglas Adams' predictions would have come true, and we'd have been lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists.

Tech - we used a combination of Mac Plus, 486SX, 486DX2 with super-incredible-powerful-specialised graphics cards containing a whole 1Mb of VRAM, and a Netware server so vast it could only be named one thing: Behemoth. I mean, what other name could we have possibly contemplate giving to a machine which had a whole 1Gb available to it...

I see this from a British perspective and I have always, always preferred our system of not having some hundreds year old document to worship. The weakness is having the paper at all, not in needing to rewrite it. The UK is based on precedent and as such is far more adaptable to modern situations.

In short you have a people problem, not a documentation problem.