In my home theater, I can watch the movie when I want, with who I want, pause as needed, and not put up with ads and high snack prices. There's not really anything they can do to get me to go back - I don't mind waiting for the dvd...

Compuserve was my first experience online, via a radio shack terminal (a stripped down color computer, that I can't seem to find a reference to anywhere) - it came with 10hrs free on compuserve, which I dropped like a hot potato after racking up a $300 bill ;-)

And you are unfit to be making comments - I know quite well it's not self driving, the hype over "autopilot" is *way* overblown and I'm really glad I didn't waste money on "full self driving" which doesn't actually add much to autosteer.

That said, autosteer is a nice convenience most of the time and "Accelerate it to your liking and then let driver assist do it again" is not how it works. When it gets the speed limit wrong, it's simply unusable unless you like blocking traffic (or, I suppose, want to manually control speed while letting it steer, but personally, I prefer the reverse).

My Tesla Model Y often limits the speed when using autosteer to 5 mph over the speed limit...and frequently fails to notice that the speed limit increased after passing through a small town and even sometimes on the freeway, which makes it really annoying when the speed limit is 70 and it thinks it's 45...

Yup, I basically stopped playing WOW because I could only go so far solo; I may consider playing it again now

I might consider flying SW now - open seating was the primary reason I've been avoiding them.

It didn't used to be that way - when they first came out, it was only a little confusing, but I was able, without too much trouble, to write apps that interfaced to both my weather station and my solar panels. A couple of years ago, I went back to try another and yeah, gave up on that. At least my existing apps stayed working...

Nearly 50 years later, I still remember some of the 8080 opcodes from flipping switches to load a bootloader on an IMSAI 8080 my freshman year in college. Pulled my first all-nighter writing a smaller program to allow typing them in from a terminal. Of course, it wasn't long after that that we got a North Star floppy drive with a rom bootloader making all that unnecessary.

It was also a popular thing to get programs that played music on transistor radios placed near the microcomputers of the day, from the emissions...

"the first large-scale wind farm being installed in the US"

Hardly the first - larger wind farms have been running in the Columbia Gorge and California for many years. Perhaps the first large *offshore* wind farm...

after youtube started bitching about adblockers, I figured the solution is just to download the ad and send it to /dev/null, and shortly after that, it appears that's exactly what my ad blocker does - it'll show a fraction of a second of something, then move on to the actual video. they might be able to fight this by not serving up the video until the time length of the ad, but I'd rather wait for a blank screen for that time than watch stupid, painfully bad, ads.

Just have them watch Colossus: The Forbin Project

I started doing the same after our local newspaper tripled its price, required you call in to cancel, and after waiting on hold forever, dropped the call when I said I wanted to cancel. They did allow me to "update my payment information" online, so I switched to a virtual card with a short expiration date and problem solved.

Exactly - it's bad enough now that often menus get popped up when you pause and usually right over the spot I wanted to look at in detail...

That's exactly what I do for all media: video, music and ebooks.

I think the transit time is likely to be irrelevant compared to the scheduling and setup time