Not tongue in cheek, but called that to distinguish it from ROM BASIC. AFAIK, Advanced BASIC had to be loaded from the DOS disk and mostly added disk management and graphics features.
I’m the same. I once suggested on the Transport Tycoon forums that there be a mechanism for curated sets of NewGRFs that work well together to be selected from the main page and was resolutely told that it’s up to the user to put together their own sets as they like.
EDIT: it looks like something like this is now in v16 as “collections”! I wonder if these can be shared.
I play the national lottery in the UK mainly because of the good causes it supports. Athletes competing in the Olympics for Team GB for example receive significant funding from the lottery. I see my ticket as a charity donation with the added fun of an astronomically small chance of winning money.
The iPhone did everything the Nokia 3310 did, better. Electric cars do not (yet) do better some things hybrids do, such as being able to be fuelled with 400+ miles of range in 5 minutes.
I’m nowhere near the point of wanting an electric car to replace my hybrid. The convenience of petrol and the cost of electricity is too high. High electricity costs aren’t going to be fixed in my country any time soon so Toyota will continue to have a huge market here.
Toyotas may need less repairs than other vehicles, but of course they have the same maintenance schedules and costs as other vehicles.
Compare periodic oil changes, spark plug changes, ignition coils, stolen catalytic converters, exhaust system, PCV system, air and fuel filters, brake pads, transmission fluid, and other ICE maintenance items with the electric drivetrain. At 120,000 km I've replaced the tires once and the brake pads look brand new. That's it. Even the windshield wipers are still in good shape for some reason.
Most EVs these days can recharge 300ish miles in 15 mins, but 99% of the time I don’t even have to drive anywhere to refuel as it get recharged overnight in my garage. EVs are waaay more efficient in terms of MPGe so at least for me it is less half in terms of cost to refuel compared to petrol not even considering the external cost of emitting CO2
15 minutes is still not as good as the 2 minutes it takes to fill up a gas tank. Electric cars just aren't there yet for long drives, though they are great for everyday driving around town.
The iPhone actually had way worse battery life than basically any Nokia. It’s a great comparison. People happily traded more features for having to plug their phone in every night.
iPhone also had same modem as everyone. It wasn't a Wi-Fi device, it was a phone-computer hybrid.
Compared to that, EVs feel more like Wi-Fi or WiMAX device that owners would say theirs are daily drivable but only make Discord calls. Overall situation more closely resemble PDAs before iPhone.
We’ve been driving them for over a decade now. They aren’t new anymore, and they still aren’t a panacea. There is this cool thing called car rental, it lets you use cars that aren’t your own.
I work for an online grocer, and I really do think it's not really an issue due to two things for us:
* the amount of stock going through one fulfillment center instead of landing on shelves in smaller stores, means we never have old products laying around. The cucumber you get from us came in a few hours ago. The one in your store has been laying there for days and touched by many. 10 stores each need their own buffer to handle variable demand and thus overstock and get deliveries for certain products rarely. We don't. Our spoilage is so so low compared to traditional stores.
* anyways, to alleviate the fears of ordering something that's about to expire, we guarantee x amount of days for perishable products.
Some supermarkets in the UK (e.g. Waitrose) literally just pick items already out and on display in the local store to give to delivery customers. So you’re getting whatever is at the front of the shelf in your local store, which is the least fresh.
What I found (but this was during the panny-D) that only grocery stuff had an even longer shelf life than the store itself, that is, it was really fast moving stuff apparently.
This is because space is _stiff_. Recall Hooke’s law from high school physics. The k constant represents the stiffness of the object. A rubber band is about 50. A sky scraper, about a million. Space? About 10^46 if I recall correctly. So it takes a truly enormous amount of energy in the form of gravitational waves to be able to move space enough for it to be detectable on Earth. And the only objects that can do that are the most massive ones moving at close to the speed of light: black holes, neutron stars, supernovae (the latter would have to be very close for us to see gravitational waves from - close enough that we’d likely see it with the naked eye as well).
