hvdm

Exactly, you can still get rim brakes if you want (I don't), mechanical shifting (I do) etc.

That is your choice. As long as people are paying more, there will be a supply of more expensive bikes.

For mountain bikes and race bikes, this might actually be true. I used to have an MTB with stainless steel sprockets. Never needed to change them. Nowadays, they are mostly aluminium, I think. Furthermore newer bikes have more gears typically. The rear cassette used to be 7 speed, now 10 or 11 is not uncommon. This means narrower chains. Also chain may be lighter now, especially the high-end ones.

Lighter bikes are definitely more fun to ride, but probably at some cost....

The manufacturer of the MK802 claims a processor speed of 1.5 GHz. The CPU runs at 1.0 GHz, the GPU at 500 MHz. They add this to get 1.5 GHz. LOL

http://www.weathermap.eu/ Weather forecast based on free data. Only rain forecast for now. I had (still have) plans to make it much better with wind, temperature etc., nicer graphics, better animation and an Android App. I am working on too many other side project, but I hope to start working on this one soon again.

A very quick test shows that the glibc version is more than 3 times faster for strings of length 80 compared to the bsd version.