Sure, because every low-skill, low-wage worker can plausibly start their own business to compete with the established market. What world do you live in?
Not sure what point you're trying to make, but 1200p was just barely a thing at the turn of the century, and only for CRT. It would have cost you $300-400 and still not have been full HD. Completely different beast. FWIW, the LCD screens of the day topped out at 1024x768.
Sure, here's 2 off the top of my head: Package management is a non-thing in SBCL. It just doesn't exist. Have fun downloading 6-to-12 year old zipballs. The basic HTTP server, hunchentoot IIRC, crashes after it serves its first request. Hope your favicon.ico was a good one!
Well, if you're going to add qualifications after the fact, let's just skip to the end: "When it comes to train displays, split-flap are the best, because they make noises, and I have ADHD. Also I ascribe souls to mechanical devices."
Yeah, it's almost surely a case of remembering the handful of times when the clocks were inaccurate because they caused you trouble, while forgetting the hundreds of times when they worked correctly. They do work correctly most of the time, and the A division works even better than the B division, as you'd expect. (the opposite of what OP claimed.)
I, and many others I'm sure, would appreciate it if you would actually put some effort into your half-hearted America slams. All the subways I've been in, EU and US, have plenty of both ads and maps.
You must be one of those hipsters who lugs around a typewriter to cafes.
- They are very slow compared to digital.
- They aren't versatile, they can't display arbitrary information. Each message has to be crafted individually and fit in among the rest. Which makes it nice for station lines since there are a small number that never change. Anything else? Not so much.
- The noise is not intentional, it's more of a bug than a feature for sure. In a busy train station they change every minute or more so as an alerting mechanism it's near useless.
Ok, I know we like to dump on Americans with impunity, and I'm not even going to get into whether it's deserved or not, but have you driven in much of the rest of the world?
Where I work, one of the benefits of Clojure is precisely how concise and accessible storing densely layered business logic is. We're able to have a faith that the code does what it looks like that just isn't approachable in any other language I know of.