Good point. Florida has digital ID’s too, so they could do the same.

“Fi” for “fidelity” had meaning, lost it, and found new meaning. High Fidelity was a branding/marking term. It wasn’t any one piece of equipment, but could be used to define something as being able to record or reproduce quality sound with “high fidelity”. The term become so popular that people at one point were…

(“What sense is being a billionaire if you’re not a bully?” Peltz has been quoted as saying.) Which is such a strange stance to bring into Disney, standing directly against all it represents.

Except there really are no “minor” accidents with a 300 meter long, 100k ton vessel. An accident even at under 1 knot might not sound like much, but the conservation of momentum at that weight is still a potential disaster.

It’s the illusion of choice when there’s really only like 2 major players. 

Maybe for some of the lesser names in that list, but by 2001, the Expedia group had a headlock over roughly 75% of air travel purchasing. That is the dotcom boom and that is one mega corp controlling the vast majority of a market.

By the early 2000s, a number of flight booking websites, like Expedia and Kayak, launched and made the space incredibly more complicated. Suddenly, there was not one set price to buy a ticket for a New York to Los Angeles flight, there were dozens of options.

I’m not a pro cook, but this still resonates to me. Just the fact that someone else took all the labor for you and invites you as a guest to sit back, relax, and have a meal often times means more than the quality of the meal itself. I might spend hours making a ragu and then have it with fresh pappardelle and a…

In my headcanon, they all died except for Bobby the Barbarian, who grew up and took on the moniker, Thundarr the Barbarian.

Bose can sometimes get a little long in the tooth between design revisions, but this is not the case right now with them just releasing the Quietcomfort Ultra last quarter. So this is indeed an odd omission. While the Sony’s XM5's might still take top prize, lots of people still like Bose sound and would choose them…

CX eliminated first class from my route to HKG after the pandemic, so I know what you’re talking about. Sad day. Mind you, I’m not rich, but would weasel my way into that cabin from time to time using points. Been fortunate enough to have sampled 5 different Asian carrier international first class cabins. They are all…

Normally I’d say 16gigs of ram is enough for most people, but with the Core Ultra 155H chip having the very capable (for integrated) ARC graphics on the SoC, it actually does benefit from the bump up to 32gigs for anything that uses GPU extensively. This has been tested and verified by a few tech youtubers who saw…

Hardly fair calling the Etihad Residence even just “first class”. There’s only one of those arrangements on the entire plane, and that A380 has very limited routing. It’s kind of in its own league way above first class with nothing for comparison.

Has the government or media done this? Who’s to say? How would we know? That’s kind of the point. 

I don’t really subscribe to any of the tinfoil hat theories out there, but at the same time I do often ponder how easy it is for the government and media to point at any evidence and say “look at this nutbag” and we all laugh it off. It’s a powerful ability to be able to ruin credibility like that. And no, I’m not…

I can see the concern because it is a drink flask, but it’s completely sealed in a steel vacuum shell. If people are this worked up about the exceedingly low percent chance of randomly ingesting lead, then you’d think no one would be driving a car around with 16+ pounds of lead acid battery mounted inches away from…

Definitely. Apple makes between 70-80% of their revenue on hardware sales. For comparison, Microsoft does 70-80% in software and cloud/services. Both companies do hardware and software, but it is clear which one is each company’s respective area of focus.

I spent an entire Thanksgiving once with the extended family driving all the sub 25 year olds nuts with a high frequency wave generator app on my phone in my pocket. Everyone above 30 was completely oblivious to it and thought the kids were going nuts.

To me, the most exciting part of this modern generation of laptops is that discrete graphics is finally good enough for casual gaming. Means one can get a relatively straight forward “work” computer that can still run some low to mid requirement games at a reasonable clip, all while staying at or below 75 watts total…

Yes, what you’re listening to the music on matters. Bluetooth aside, even wired headphones or speakers also matter to fidelity. You often find that cheaply made equipment doesn’t provide a full enough frequency response or, more commonly these days, is heavily EQ’d to bass preference that muddies up the mix enough…