I don’t know the history of column span but the reason Firefox was “behind” on standards was because Google was pushing new standards through committee faster than competing browsers could keep up. Google would implement a new feature, offer it as a free standard, then get it through the committee. Because Google already had it in their browser, they were already compliant while Firefox had to scramble.

It was Google doing their variation of “embrace, extend, extinguish”

It got so bad that not even Microsoft had the resources to keep up. They said as much when they said they were adopting Chromium as their engine.

Everything you’d want to know about British wiring and my introduction to Tom Scott:

https://youtu.be/UEfP1OKKz_Q

A “more” button after the one liner would be very nice. Or make the one-liner a link that gives a longer description.

Thanks for the work. I’ve bookmarked it!

What’s a compliant viewer? I use Thunder and it hides spoilers but not this.

I didn’t notice until you posted. I thought it was my phone screen.

Hypercard was free for a while.

Windows 3 shipped with Toolbook (hypercard clone) free for a while.

You are wrong that he should immediately change his app name.

This is a letter from an attorney. It means nothing. It’s legally the same as if I got my buddy to walk up to you and say, “Hey, my friend thinks you have his car. Give us your keys.”

The letter is from a lawyer, not a court. It can be ignored. However I suggest sending a registered letter back to the lawyer to waste their time.

They will not spend the $20,000+ needed to go to trial. (That’s only the court costs that must be paid. Full lawyer fees will be higher) I know this because I once had to sue a contractor. Court fees would have been larger than any money I would have gotten back. Fortunately it was handled through state licensing.

The letter should reference that your project is using the English word that describes the function.

I went through this decades ago because my Internet company name closely matched an extremely large computer manufacturer. I got a letter from an attorney. I wrote a letter back that my company name was the English word for the equipment used for Internet service. That was the end of it.

Around every 6 years.

My methodology is to look at BackBlaze, throw out any data with less than 100k hours, and pick the drive with the lowest AFR (annualized failure rate).

It’s maybe $50-$100 between the cheapest and best enterprise drive and I’m not buying 1,000 drives so I do not care about price.

Because the meme blames Intel.

Imagine if I did a meme that blamed AMD for only supporting DDR4 because my motherboard only did DDR4 despite all AMD 7000 and newer supporting DDR4 or DDR5…

Oh sure. But as I said, that’s the motherboard’s fault, not the cpu.

PAE was introduced with the Pentium Pro 30 years ago. I used it on Dell Pentium II servers that ran SQL Server. Even the 386 from 1985 could access 64 terabytes of ram using segmented mode.

Full 64 bit Prescott P4 was 2004.

The Pentium 4 supported PAE and 36 bit PSE

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#%3A~%3Atext=This+article+needs+additional+citations%2Cmay+be+challenged+and+removed.&text=In+computing%2C+Physical+Address+Extension%2Cthe+operating+system+enables+PAE.

It’s kind of like how the 8086 was a 16 bit processor but could access 1 megabyte of ram (640k ram 384 k reserved for rom) . -Or the 286 which was 16 bit but could access 24 MB.

But even without that the Prescott P4’s supported 64 bits.

Maybe. But it would need to be an Atom from 15 years ago. Anything newer does 32 GB.

Of course motherboards don’t support it but that’s not the cpu’s fault.

That’s Lenovo’s fault, not Intel.

What hardware are you using where the cpu says you are limited to 4gb?

Even a 25 year old Pentium 4 supports 8GB.

Your intermediate increment looks like serious JavaScript code I’ve seen.

But as someone else said we got that with an increase of support from a low of 18 months for the 2011 Google Galaxy Nexus to 7 years with the current Google Pixel 8.

It would be worse if they made minor fixes to the screen, cpu and camera but kept calling it the Pixel 5. Consumers wouldn’t know what they’re getting. We had that nonsense with game consoles where you had to look at serial numbers to know if your Xbox had been fixed.

Re: “Fail to break ground.”

What do you want? Cpus are as fast as needed for phones and Moore’s law is dead. Cameras are restricted by the physical limits of optics. Everyone is rightly making fun of ai being put in everything.

Tech plateaus. You can’t break physics with money.