The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability
The first computer I ever used (not counting punch cards or the VIC-20) was an Apple IIe, and I can confidently say that color was green. Later versions of the Apple II had full color, but that wasn't "innovation" by Steve Jobs, it was just the technology for it becoming affordable.
I think it's more like you get added to a thousand new lists if you unsubscribe. "Oh hey this email address is actually active!"
The maps were very accurate in terms of latitude (north/south position) which meant ships could find a particular port or harbor even if they had only a rough idea of their longitude (east/west position) by sailing along the latitude lines until they hit land. How big it made a particular piece of land look was irrelevant.
It's not well known, but maps started to become super-accurate in terms of latitude as well in the 1670s or thereabouts. Astronomers had observed that Jupiter had eclipses of its moons about a thousand times a year, and thanks to Isaac Newton and others they were able to predict the exact times (in Greenwich England) of these eclipses a few years in advance and publish them. Observers around the world with good telescopes could view these eclipses and note the time differences between their observations and the published Greenwich times and use this to precisely calculate their latitude. It was not really possible to do this reliably onboard a sailing ship (although many attempts were made) so this led to accurate maps but still not fully accurate navigation until the much later perfection of ship's clocks.
OTOH trump may want to eliminate the competition.
Where I live (relatively upscale Philly suburb) the absolute magnitudes of the assessments are irrelevant -- all that matters is what your assessment is relative to everybody else. For example, my house is assessed at $93K, but I bought it three years ago for $142K and its current sale estimate is about $215K. Everybody's assessment is way below market value, but what happens is the school board decides what their budget is going to be every year and then they set the millage rate to whatever it needs to be in order to generate that much property tax revenue (the school tax is about 85% of our total property taxes). So it doesn't really matter how up-to-date the assessments are since it won't affect your tax bill.
If you're buying up derelict properties, renovating them, and then selling them, you should get an exemption from property taxes entirely. Many communities already offer such exemptions, and even if they don't, you're getting a de facto exemption as it is because the houses aren't worth shit until you fix them up.
I tried them a couple of weeks ago for the first time. A burger each for me and my mom and we split one order of fries and we each got a fountain drink. $44, so two orders of fries would have taken us over the $50 line. And the food was absolutely nothing special, although it was at least a small step up from McDonald's. For bonus points, my dementia-riddled brain couldn't figure out how to use the soda dispenser machine.
They still give you tons of fries, at least they do at my local place. Unfortunately, for me it meant so much grease that my bag ripped at the bottom as I was walking into my house.
the average person isn’t using AI for anything important
You're discounting all the students who are using AI to make it seem like they're learning something.
Well, the teacher did have a lot of great stories about growing up in one of Tito's concentration camps. And we got to watch Das Boot.
I invented my own runic script and would write all the German I was supposed to be learning on the covers of my notebooks, hidden in drawings of monoliths or spaceships or whatever. I would have these notebooks on the floor during tests and I would get perfect scores. Now I don't speak a fucking word of German except for what little I remember from Nightcrawler in the X-men comic books. Unglaublich!