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I guess this makes mostly sense if you plan on extending the firmware. A stupid idea I was thinking about is a table that moves once a day into the standing position. I used to work at a standing desk and after a wile almost never used the feature. Maybe a warning-beep would make sense...

edit: mixed up the price, removed my first sentence

A trend that started already in a lot of companies a couple of years ago and will only be accelerated by Covid. Many places do overbook desks in offices right now and have flex-tables without fixed assigned workers. Seems fair to think about compensating employees for the costs that are being pushed to their side.

One could argue that you don't need a separate room in your house, if you don't work from home. Something you might need if you have a family with multiple people working/studying from home. Also CHF150 is not really a lot for Switzerland, so this probably won't pay for a whole room on its own. But definitely an interesting decision from the court.

There is an upcoming event which is supposedly focused on their upcoming subscription service. My guess is that they don’t want to detract from that, so they are getting these smaller updates out of the way.

Can you point me to any books on this subject? Sounds like a fascinating story to dive into in more detail.

In the US the average length of car ownership for new cars is 6.5 years [1], so it does matter what your car is worth after this time. Not sure if it amounts to ca. 6,000 USD per year, tho. That's a lot of depreciation.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/581017/average-length-of...

The reason for this would be that both, Pizza Hut & Taco Bell (as well as KFC) are owned by the same company: Yum Brands.

> The average maximum force the bricks can stand is 4,240N. That's equivalent to a mass of 432kg (950lbs). If you divide that by the mass of a single brick, which is 1.152g, then you get the grand total of bricks a single piece of Lego could support: 375,000.

But the weight it can support will be determined by the weakest link not by the average. If the lowest brick is of below average quality the tower will fall sooner. So if you plan on building a 3.5 km tower I'd advise you to consider the variation of the brick quality. Bonus points for taking into account that each additional brick has to support less weight.

I think John Gruber over at Daring Fireball said it best:

"I remain highly skeptical that a modular design can compete in a product category where size, weight, and battery life are at such a premium. Even if they can bring something to market, why would any normal person be interested in a phone like this?"

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/04/15/project-ara

There are external power supplies available that connect directly to a disk. I would be more skeptical regarding I/O-performance. As far as I can see, there are only two SATA-ports available.

And releasing more often means that the changes are smaller.

Also, developers have introduced a more clever way of introducing changes to the user. Overlays with explanations of new menus etc. which I've seen first on the web (i.e. gmail) are making their way to more and more "desktop" applications.

Introducing these changes slowly over time seems to avoid the "I will never install this version" effect.

But then again, you can always reset the password if you made a typo.

  - Username and password should enable you to change the email
  - Email alone should enable you to reset the password

So there is no risk in removing both duplicate fields. But maybe by now it's expected to type in a password twice. Users might be so used to it that it feels wrong to only insert it once.

I think what's scary to some is the perceived ease of production. Just download some files and hit print. The engineer in his shed at least has to know what he's doing.

I'm not saying they are right and I have also no idea how hard it is to build an actual (metal)weapon from scratch, but the notion of "anyone can do this" seems to be a big factor in most stories.

As I understand it, it's not a law but an agreement among the industry:

  > As a result, world leading mobile phone producers committed
  > themselves to ensure compatibility of data-enabled mobile phones,

A sample text of each font in a stack would be nice in order to judge if the fallback makes sense.

It seems to be Bing and Bing-related revenue together with ads [1]: "OSD revenue increased primarily as a result of growth in online advertising revenue. Online advertising revenue grew $100 million or 21% to $572 million, reflecting continued growth in search and display advertising revenue"

Xbox related revenue, including Live and Downloads are part of the Entertainment and Devices division.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

No, he's loading a different parameter file each time.