Almost all do, they're all modeled after the 1931 London Underground diagram by Harry Beck. But when they tried that in New York back in 1972, people HATED IT because it didn't match the real geography of the city above.

It's amazing what affordable healthcare, decent food, and a good work/life balance will do for you.

NAAAH! That's crazy talk!!!

Hardware decode support isn't critical for all devices. For example, an iPhone 14 or 15 non-pro can play AV1 just fine with software decoding, because they have more than enough compute available to do it, it's just much less efficient. Doesn't really change the big picture, lots of devices don't have the processing power to brute force it, so decode support isn't widespread enough, it just means that the situation isn't *quite* as bad.

Intel got low-NA EUV tools before TSMC too. That didn't stop TSMC from leapfrogging Intel with EUV adoption. They've decided to do the same for high-NA: delay high-NA adoption a bit (waiting for it to mature) by adopting multi-pattern low-NA in the interim. They expect that, even with multi-pattern low-NA's lower throughput, it will still be cheaper than high-NA, and high-NA also can't do large dies like the kind that Apple and nVidia make.

Node names are meaningless (18A, 14A, 10A, it's just marketing labels), but from what I can gather, Intel seems to plan to move to high-NA with 14A, and TSMC with 1.0nm (or 10A). But that was from reports a year ago. Either way, it seems likely that TSMC will wait a process node generation or two longer than Intel.

Low nat gas prices are due to the tax subsidies oil companies receive, and of course not having to pay to clean up their pollution and its effects like climate change.

But it's a real barrier to heat pumps for regular folks. We're in VA and same issue here. Probably $20K to switch to a heat pump, but basically no change in operating costs. ROI return is basically Infinity.

LOL, the cultists are so cute... even when they're lined up at the soup kitchen, they'll lick their saviour's boots...

Interesting to know if any of Trump's inner circle have been shorting stocks... Hmm...

No, our extremely rich people send their kids to private schools in Canada. They might send them to US universities (at least in the past... not sure about going forward.)

Our pretty well off people tend to send their kids to public schools.

If you want the best to teach your kids, you have to pay them well and give them good working conditions.

Yeah... I don't really know the answer to this. What should happen is that the US should look at countries with good public education systems and learn from them.

However, in my experience, the notion that the USA could possibly learn anything from another country raises the hackles of a large part of the American population. :(

I agree that education fads are dangerous, but this is the zeitgeist in America. Nobody has any attention span anymore, and social media has turned everything (including politics) into entertainment and sound bites.

Also agree with the difficulty inversion. My sister lives in the USA and her school-aged daughter was given ridiculously-difficult work that no school-aged kid could possibly handle. So the kids from well-off homes basically had their homework done for them by their parents, and the kids from homes where parents couldn't do this just fell through the cracks.

I've never lived in Canada (Victoria was a lovely city to visit though), but I am inclined to believe that your overall cultural diversity is not what it is in the USA. I mention this as we have children from all over the world. Many don't speak English. We end up spending a lot more resources trying to get children up to speed.

That is simply not true. Victoria is not representative of Canada; Toronto is more culturally diverse than almost any American city. And even my city is pretty diverse; the school my youngest went to was extremely diverse, with many Syrian refugees, other Middle-Eastern kids, plenty of Asians, etc. And the school still delivered an excellent education.

This, to me, is a mystery. The US spends more per kid on public education than Canada does, yet our students perform better.

I have a few theories, but no way to prove them. First, in Canada, your taxes go to fund the education system all across the city... not to a specific small school district. So the quality of schools in Canada tends to be much more uniform across the country. Schools in poor neighbourhoods generally are as good as in wealthy ones. My three adult kids went to three different high schools in very wealthy, average, and poorer neighbourhoods respectively, yet the quality of education they received was about the same.

Second, there seems to be an irrational resentment of public school teachers in the USA. American teachers express much lower job satisfaction and much more pessimism than Canadian teachers.

Third, I think there is (and always has been) a strong strand of anti-intellectualism in the USA which devalues education. This is starting to show results.

Dear Microsoft,

Please tell us how switching to something that provides you with vastly increased revenues will save us money.

Sincerely,

Everyone.

Oh, don't worry. Pretty soon manufacturers will charge advertisers big premiums to pre-load ads right in the TV firmware...