It may have felt like that, but I will trust the numbers from the company whose function heavily involves monitoring this stuff.

I agree, except I on the other hand prefer Minecraft for the sane reasons; it’s a sandbox with little focus on bosses or progression, and the ‘goals’ are only ones you decide for yourself :)

They said 40, not fucking 70

It’s even better than that - for them.

With this bill the legislation is effectively now on the books but in a dormant state where it can be selectively activated at any future time and with whatever scope the ‘working group’ decide.

That’s the worst part of USB, but it’s also simultaneously the best part.

You can connect a cable to that HDD, and if the cable fits you’ll get something. Might not be the best something; could be super slow and awful. But it will be something. And that’s a reassuring capability.

Despite all its problems, USB and especially USB-C have been a blessing.

The only “review” that Spotify will understand.

What are they supposed to do? RAM and storage prices are hardly factors in Valve’s control

I think you have identified the issue. It’s not doctors being rubbish or vindictive, it’s the system which contols those doctors trying to maximise profit (or minimise cost).

Doctors are an expensive resource, which means the system will invariably trend towards keeping them utilised 100% of the time. So we get back-to-back appointments with zero slack, and if customers have to wait then so be it.

And they can get away with it because healthcare isn’t like a cup of coffee. You can’t just go down the street to a different place. Providers know that changing doctor takes time (if it’s even possible for you at all) and so they aren’t incentivised to care about the patient’s waiting time much at all.

Revenue isn’t what defines a darling; it’s about being universally loved and a popular choice. The one who is always topping youtube review lists as a best-buy. And especially when they started small and are still growing.

Yes - that might in turn lead to becoming the dominant player with the most revenue, but the revenue is the result, not the cause.

Maybe, but what it was mainly was market segregation in Windows licensing.

Microsoft wants even the cheapest lowest-end devices to ship with Windows because that improves their market penetration, but at the same time they don’t want to lose money by reducing the price OEMs pay for Windows licenses in general.

So Microsoft basically told manufacturers “Okay we’ll give you super cheap licenses to keep your cost down so you can sell to the budget market, but only on super bottom-end devices. On more expensive machines you’ll still pay the full license price”

Which basically resulted in manufacturers all trying to squeeze the most mileage out of that spec cap they could.

About 6 months ago I scored a ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd Gen (2018) with 16GB RAM on eBay for £80 (~$110)

I was extremely happy with that catch.

Used business machines beat the pants off new consumer stuff any day.

Microsoft doesn’t set the spec; the manufacturer can always add more spec if they want to!

But what Microsoft does (did?) do is to provide extremely cheap OEM Windows licenses to vendors who made laptops with a certain maximum spec - that spec for a long time being 4GB RAM max and 14" screen max.

That’s why all the cheap brand-new Windows laptops you saw on the market were basically the same identical crap with the same shit specs.

I’m certainly one of those fans.

I read His Dark Materials way back, when I was perhaps 13, and that was probably the right time in my life to read it because I’d never been as emotionally invested in a character before as I was in Lyra.

I genuinely feel like reading that trilogy made me a better person, weird to say.

I haven’t read the books in a long time, but they have a place on my bookshelf in recognition of what they meant to adolescent me.

With the original price as $250, a 100% increase would be adding the entire value to itself once (i.e doubling) taking us to $500.

A 200% increase is adding the $250 to the original two times for a total of $750.

So calling it a “200% increase” is correct.

It is true to say that “$750 is 300% of $250” or that “The price has tripled” - both correct, but the increase is only 200% because increase doesn’t include the original as part of the value.

500 series is absolutely the best looking, in my humble not-really-train-person opinion.

Yeah, they did do that one :)

The non-evil version unfortunately depends on nobody involved having any profit motive.

If you don’t see them on-screen absolutely unquestionably to-smithereens dead, they aren’t dead.

No, but if it did, it would still be swimming :)

I was definitely being pedantic but a lot of it is defensive pedantry learned from too many years of being online where if you don’t close a hole someone will jump on you for it.