Tell it to the many European car manufacturers who ditch touch screen control on their cars and returning to physical switches.

My high school had just one Apple ][, with floppy drive. I remember the computer teacher/assistant was very strict about allowing students using it. We were not allowed to touch the floppy disks/drive. Just the keyboard to enter BASIC program instructions.

Of course the Apple ][ was more advanced than my home computer (Vic-20 or there abouts) so most of the computer programs taught were "mind/paper-simulated" instead of actual run time on the computer.

He was looking for a killer-app of IPv6... there isn't one.

what if a new ground-breaking crypto coin uses it, or a new p2p napster-like content sharing... or even a new way of porn distribution... or gaming with faster response time.... or superspeed giant IP packets download....

no one cares for the above anymore.

I've wondered about this for a long time. Let's do a thought simulation.
Now let's say density of rain drops is a constant 100 drops per m^3 and the vertical part of the body is 1 m^2.

If speed is 0.1m/s, you 'll collect 10 drops /s on the vertical part of the body.
        If distance moving in the rain from A to B is 10m it will take 100 second to get from A to B and you will collect 100*10 drops
        Assuming the horizontal part of the body collects 10 drops /s
        So total drops collected is 100*10 + 100*10 = 2000 drops per trip

If speed is 1m/s, you 'll collect 100 drops /s
        If distance moving in the rain from A to B is 10m it will take 10 second to get from A to B and you will collect 10*100 drops on the vertical part of the body.
        Assuming the horizontal part of the body collects 10 drops /s
        So total drops collected is 10*100 + 10*10 = 1100 drops

if speed is 10 m/s you'll collect 100 * 10 = 1000 drops/s
        If distance moving in the rain from A to B is 10m it will take 1 second to get from A to B and you will collect 1*1000 drops on the vertical part of the body.
        Assuming the horizontal part of the body collects 10 drops /s
        So total drops collected is 1*1000 + 1*10 = 1010 drops

if speed is 20 m/s you'll collect 100 * 20 = 2000 drops/s
        If distance moving in the rain from A to B is 10m it will take 0.5 second to get from A to B and you will collect 0.5*2000 drops on the vertical part of the body.
        Assuming the horizontal part of the body collects 10 drops /s
        So total drops collected is 0.5*2000 + 0.5*10 = 1005 drops

Porn/sex is always one of the first to make use of tech.
  - Phone
  - GIF porn
  - IRC/chat room
  - video porn
  - VR porn
  - haptic suit

Wonder when that "Total Recall"/Dream experience will arrive.

No surprises here.

That's because they're convinced that westernised (US-centric) foods highly-processed high in corn-syrup, cream and fat are the trendy up-market cuisine and reduce intake of their traditional locally "hand-made" foods.

This is just like Hawaiian natives used to be healthy before western foods take-over and now they're obese and suffering "English-speaking" chronic diseases like diabetes.

Don't forget the SoundBlaster sound card that revolutionised sound on the IBM PC compatible and turned it into a multimedia machine. Creative Labs is the Singaporean company that made the SoundBlaster.

The original PC has a flip-flop speaker driver which is completely antiquated when compared with Atari ST or Amiga. Then came the Adlib sound card that has FM modulation chip to make music.

Creative Labs came out with the GameBlaster FM sound card first, and followed that with the SoundBlaster which offered 2 channel digital audio driven by DMA, which allowed digitised/sampled sound on the PC.

Nowadays, sound technology on the PC is such commodity the SoundBlaster brand has completed faded away, replaced by motherboard-embedded audio driver chips such as the RealTek, etc.

Someone should write an article about that!

Floppy drive transfer rate at 150KB /s is a whole lot slower than USB thumbdrive. I remember copying stuff from the HD to the floppies in the 90s and waiting for the each floppy to fill was horribly slow and arduous. Each floppy has 80 tracks and the fastest write speed was about 1 track per second. It would take more than a minute to fill a 1.44 MB floppy. While now my fastest USB thumbdrive can write 20+ MB/sec!

In those days the first floppy was SD single density followed by DD double density. Later on that jumped to HD high density for the 1.2 MB 5.25" floppy. I bought a ton of them during my uni days at about one per $. Then the smaller 3.5" floppy took over. There was also some custom driver software to let you increase the density of the floppy from 1.44MB to 1.68MB but it would only work if the floppy media is of really high quality.

PCI SATA power cables are also designed with multi-pin per supply line. There's nothing wrong with them in use as long the physical mating/contact design is good between the connector parts.

You sound like somebody at Apple. First they removed the floppy drive, then the CD-ROM drive, then the 3.5mm headphone jack, the right to repair your own device, and the charging adapter/cable is next.

What will they remove next?

Remember the old Everex IBM PC compatible in the 386 days? Certain models had a tiny plasma dot matrix display showing which cylinder the HDD head is on. The numbers would be flickering as the head seeks back and forth. Now that is a truly star trek gizmo that shows the PC is alive.

Who TF buys the latest i, latest Galaxy or Google phones?

Who TF pays $500k for an NFT?

People who can and want to own it and brag about it. I've seen old people buy supercars and driving them to the local shop/mall, instead of driving them on track days.

Seriously they would be good for driving 4k VR heatsets.

Had 8 K of RAM of which 2K was allocated to video RAM, whose display resolution can be beaten by any "feature phone".
Z-80A running at 3.58 MHz
Its 16 K external RAM expansion module is as big as a brick!
Had a "Crippled" BASIC where most of the extended instructions were hidden so that it couldn't compete in sales with its brother the Dick Smith System 80 (TRS-80 clone) - but they could be accessed if you know the "interpreted" codes for the BASIC commands
Load / save programs to a cassette recorder.
It had a rubber chicklet keyboard which design is now used in most dome-switch keyboards

Where I learned Z80A machine code using POKEs.

... and we just need to stock up on the BFG 9000.

How can they use GPS in their jets when US Space Force says "Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine", [https://www.space.com/russia-jamming-gps-signals-ukraine]?

Hard to believe what you read/see.