1939 is when the greatly improved tubes having "octal" base connections began to take over.
There were different executives getting bonuses from the institutional device sales than there were for the consumer radios and the factories that made the vacuum tubes.
Along with the media (78 rpm records) that was distributed by their record company whether it was recorded by their own artists in their own studios or not, with the tubes themselves you got to "own" them physically when you bought replacements. But like the 78s and the original tubes in the radios, they were only licensed for personal use.
For jukebox use, office music, or if you just wanted to play a retail radio, or records on your own in a place like a restaurant, there was a whole 'nother layer of licensing to be satisfied for both the media and the tubes it was playing through.
Does per-seat licensing ring a bell? Nothing new about that.
In some Florida counties it's been over ten years since they started using drones to augment or replace the routine satellite and aerial photography of residential properties in a number of tax revenue growth schemes.
Locally referred to as "taxing rooftops" it strikes at the number of homeowners who are construction professionals or who have often free-lanced to put up workshops, additions, or god forbid actual "Florida rooms" on the properties.
The main thing is to levy higher ongoing taxes on unpermitted additions or improvements, plus sometimes seek back taxes for more of a justification windfall. More so than one-time permitting or code violation fees, much less maintaining curb appeal of the homes.
This is just another "angle" to see how ready everybody's "private" property is for their close-up in their first starring role when it comes to motion pictures.
Expect the data to be shared with nosy HOAs, especially with prohibitions for any "work vehicles" to be parked in view other than business hours. Of course that applies to anything with company decals, naturally including plain white vans and pickups having no markings at all :\
Some of the "normalest" things are the number of competing WiFi devices which has mushroomed without very much focus on how much more good-but-unwanted signal needs to be filtered out compared to the way many routers and extenders have traditionally been set up.
If you get good at extracting remarkable performance from the most lesser of instruments enough to pull their own weight regardless, just imagine what it can be like when such a practitioner gets behind the keyboard of a world-class Steinway. And just does what they do best. Without ever having touched such a capable instrument themself.
On a level playing field the expression of virtuosity can outshine those who have never known any instrumental limitations at all :)
When pulling way more than your own weight happens like for few others.
There should be an award for getting the most out of the electronics rather than trying to reach orbit by building the tallest pile of e-waste.
First Prize right before your eyes !
Grande praise !
And just starting to ascend toward an unconquered summit that others find forbidding ;) Or they find uninteresting since the limit naturally lies on firm earth somewhere below the stratosphere.
Maybe that's a measure of the self-fulfilling dollar incentive toward "renting" someone else's RAM in the future rather than trying to actually own such an outlandishly luxury item :\
Ideally this engineer's approach will yield better performance on lesser equipment in the future, if they keep up the good work after they get more-capable gear to experiment with as time goes by :)
Pretty realistic, I would say you don't have to be a very good guesser, even when you are :)
A lot of people are observing this from both outside and inside the "bubble" or froth, whatever you want to call it. It can seem more uncanny than anything else sometimes.
AI's not going to fly off the shelf as much as it could until ordinary people can have nothing but appreciation for what it does for their everyday lives using their ordinary consumer-grade computers.
Without relying on large remote mainframe-like datacenters.
IOW how's it supposed to be as desirable as home computing was to begin with, which never did go wild until mainframes were not in the equation at all? Central datacenters have always been functionally obsolete from the standpoint of ordinary people since the beginning.
For the ordinary consumer AI is probably at best when it's a feature not a business in itself.
Talk about rent, how about an "adjacent" financial game incorporating this trend?
The "Rat-Race" playdata could be aggregated into a static (or not) database after a representative point has been reached, more or less like a present-day snapshot even if it is not expected to stand the test of time for very many years. How could it anyway? But it could be good for now. People don't play games forever either.
Now there is already a built-in predictive element to this data since players are optimizing for early retirement.
Then use that as your gameboard, kind of like in the appropriately named Monopoly[0] game. Now in parallel to the truly aspirational predictive element, you run an "economy" against it which is naturally more of a moving target.
So on that not-so-imaginary playing field, you the hypervisory player compete with other "policymakers" to see who can extract the most upcoming wealth from the FAANGsters before a fixed deadline or something.
The objective is to end up with as few as possible of the high-earners having much more to show for it compared to middle-class wage workers :\
Measured by how much your policies contributed to the greatest amount of predicted early retirement dates turning out to be as unrealistic as possible. Perhaps in dollars. Or maybe dollars/rat-race-player.
Without crashing the economy beyond the point where policy has no more leverage :0
[0] And Monopoly led to "Acquire", the 3M board game.
Acquire was not focusing on the rent-seeking itself but built on the "gameboard" assumption that the well-established underlying rent-seeking of those properties was as universal as ever.
Monopoly of course concentrating on the real estate aspect, seeking greater rents by building and/or making real estate deals for all of the homes and hotels in one market as possible. All but one winner goes bankrupt every time, that's why they call it Monopoly. Note a very fortunate player can sometimes bankrupt everyone else before building any hotels at all, in this case the game is over and nothing upscale ever arrives.
OTOH Acquire is shareholder-focused where the hotels are in chains and the trading action and cash comes from shares not real estate. Chains are built and merged on the board with inevitability, there is still a strong tendency toward a final monopoly when fully built out, but often a duopoly or even triopoly is where the market ends up. There is a higher strategy/luck ratio, and one of the most "rewarding" things is that no matter how things end up, everybody makes money and nobody goes bankrupt. Imagine that, but do consider where would all that money come from in the real world?
Monopoly is more of pure rent-seeking, these are of course hotels, but both games play exactly the same with the hotel feature completely abstracted away into any kind of such derivative behavior.
Some users have been deleting the entire IrisService in the registry, it appears to also be related to the systray icons on the taskbar.
The first link is a couple years old but the second one is from a couple months ago. Apparently triggered now by the latest update kb5094126, so there may be some questionable new changes going on in this particular monkey-business department:
I realize that the US is not the only one. But this is how our political parties line up.
I would say that "leftists" are more like extremists that almost all Republicans will distrust more so than regular Democrats, and "right wingers" are the opposite.
Things have always been better when most seats have been occupied by moderates, during times when extremists don't have a place at the table.
>I really don't understand how you can even create software that feels as bad to use as Windows Explorer.
I was wondering how bad a sign it was when the decline in performance between Windows 95 and Windows 98 was detectable in many ways, but nobody was complaining because it was not always noticeable on PCs that were 3 years newer. You had to figure Microsoft developers had way better PCs than that, and didn't have any clue at all.
Turns out my suspicions were correct, it was the insidiously ignored ramp-up to exponential amounts of sluggishness as time marches on.
When facing the podium from the floor of the the US Senate, there is an aisle down the middle of the auditorium and the Democrats' seats are to the left of the aisle and the Republicans are to the right.