Back in the day, phones had a numeric keypad which also allowed a kind of touch-typing for text messages. Then people started getting online with their phones more and more, and ended up typing more than talking. If things were logical, this would have resulted in better/larger keyboards for phones, such as the slide-out QWERTY ones. Instead, we lost even the small numeric keypads due to some idiotic fashion ideas.

(I still have my Nokia N900 which I use as a backup phone and camera -- it has a better camera than many of today's cheaper "smart"phones.)

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I had to plead in writing but they'd run out of ink, so I pleaded "not quill cup".

Back in 2002 I was working with image processing, and I came up with a video compression idea: treat the video as a 3D image and apply 3D Fourier transform, then drop the weaker components as done with similar 1D/2D schemes. This would provide a natural balancing between temporal and spatial resolution, depending on the scene. I wasn't much of a programmer back then, but I later realized this would probably be too heavy for practical use. I also learned that the same idea had been put into development around the same time as Ogg Tarkin, but it didn't get very far either.

As a bonus, the Fourier/wavelet format could be decoded in arbitrary resolutions in space or time. This idea is actually used in some music playing libraries, producing 24-bit output from a format intended for 16-bit quality.

... was how to disable it.

It dit, right before it discovered the Jevons paradox.

Yeah, I wouldn't want one of these if it were free.

This will flop.

> Come back when it's 3x3 and I'll buy one.

Yeah, but it will cost $1500.

If you travel back a couple of centuries, your 6 jigowatts will only be worth about 8 million horses.

Cow tittie milk should be labeled "cow tittie milk" to remind people where the product comes from. It's natural for mammals to drink the tittie milk of their own species when they're young, but drinking tittie milk (a) when you're grown up and (b) from another species seems downright perverse. Likewise, people could use a good reminder how the meat they eat is produced.

PointCast... memory unlocked. There's a name I haven't heard in like 30 years.

I agree with you that everything old is new again, often something that wasn't as successful as it could have been and companies are trying to make the idea work. VR has been in that category for almost 4 decades, and it still is.

> At some point your UI has reached peak usability and the you can only go downhill.

That point happened in 2009.

Also another case of Microsoft touting a "new" feature that other OS's have had for decades.

There's also the subject-verb disagreement bubble.

The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.