Over the years, I've become convinced that the real point of homework is to learn how to finish tasks assigned to you by somebody else even if the tasks themselves seem to you to be pointless and unnecessary.
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Most of those projects involved active collaboration with other companies who were similarly aimless, so Apple was by no means alone in their aimlessness.
It's truly wild just how much time, effort, and money the various companies spent smelling each others' farts back in the 90s.
As a matter of fact, Quebec already has one[1].
>But how exactly would you enforce it?
The easiest way is probably similar to inspection sticker enforcement: by having the responding officer check the tires whenever a driver goes off the road, gets in an accident, or is otherwise pulled over. No winter tires? Enjoy a fat fine.
Will some drivers get away with it? Of course. You're never going to get 100% compliance. There are still people who live in states other than New Hampshire that still don't wear their seat belts.
[1]: https://www.quebec.ca/en/transports/traffic-road-safety/driv...
Bad ideas.
Liability insurance’s purpose is to pay for damage caused by you and your car to other people’s bodies and property due to your negligence. Cars damage other things beyond simply other cars.
> Personally, I think this is quite "regressive", in that the poor have to pay to cover potential damage to cars much more expensive than their own.
Only damage that they have been found responsible for having caused. People of any income level who make a habit of causing extensive damage to expensive cars belonging to other drivers probably should pay increased insurance rates to cover the damages they cause (or become functionally uninsurable).
> It would work better if insurance was completely optional and only paid for damage to your own car, whether caused by yourself or others. That way you would have a lot more control over how much you want to pay and how much risk you want to take on).
Again, that does nothing to cover the damage your car does to, for example, pedestrians, passengers in other vehicles, signs, mailboxes, or any of the other variety of things cars can damage.
At eleven years, that sounds more like an apprenticeship than an internship.
Yes. USB ports certainly existed on PCs prior to the iMac's release in August 1998 and announcement in May 1998. They were, however, largely unused because of a lack of mass-market USB peripherals. Keyboards and mice used PS/2 ports. Printers (and ZIP drives!) used parallel ports. More expensive peripherals (storage and scanners) used SCSI. A handful of other devices used RS-232 serial. Go back to those old PC World magazines and look for the mass-market USB peripherals available for sale and let me know what you find.
Starting with the iMac-inspired Cambrian explosion in USB peripherals and for a rather lengthy period of time measured in years afterwards, it was actually rather difficult to find USB peripherals that were not made out of translucent plastic to match iMacs.
Apple wasn't the first to market with USB (and Snell didn't claim it was), but Apple most certainly drove its mass-market adoption.
It is not.
It’s bad enough companies started outsourcing deciding which features to implement. I don’t want them also outsourcing deciding which cases to support.
The mistake there was that they were unaware that they had to make the unit conversion, not that they did it wrong.
No tool can, by itself, overcome your ignorance of its necessity.
The delegation of authority happened in 2003. It was broad. The delegated authority had been exercised before.
The current Court is just hell-bent on dismantling the ability of the Executive Branch to regulate based on delegated authority.
I would have enjoyed watching Scalia try to come up with a rationale for voting with this majority. He might have even voted with the minority.
The reality I was referring to was the reality of Congress having delegated this authority to the Executive Branch. Read the dissent if you haven't.
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This is surprising to literally nobody who's paid even a cursory amount of attention to Google over the past 20+ (and especially 15) years.
I think that has a lot more to do with the economics around Linux, Windows, and macOS on commodity amd64 hardware becoming “good enough” to replace servers and workstations running on other, more expensive, architectures.
Not having to deal with architecture porting issues is just gravy at that point.
>The A.C.L.U. has in fact often gloried in its internal contentions. It split over decisions to represent the Nazis in the 1930s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s, and the Nazis in the 1970s. After Skokie, a leader of the left-wing National Lawyers Guild complained of its “poisonous evenhandedness.”
[Citation needed]