Can AMD compete, though? One would hope so, but they will need more than a product. They will need motherboard vendors to provide sockets, and developers to write code that takes advantage of the edge their processor gives.
Fanboys can tag along, like the dudes who put racing additive stickers on their rusty Hondas.
If you looked at the Newton battery compartment design, which is actually one of their few mobile designs ever to have a removable battery, you would realize they aren't very good. Battery compartments are really difficult case design for mobile devices.
No, America is not 'lucky'with their oil. They just have the domestic freedom and the progressive culture to do something with the oil. Compare this to Saudi Arabia. S.A. represses their population outside of a small elite, and they just sell off their oil instead of using it.
America was definitely NOT the Saudi of the early 20th Century.
NeXT was based on a Mach microkernel. Apple wantes some of the userland of a modern Unix to go with the NeXTStep carcass so they ported in some of the FreeBSD userland. They hired one of the lead FreeBSD developers because Apple didn't have native talent for a real, robust OS.
Before NeXTStep, they pissed away many millions on two in-house attempts at a next generation OS. They failed both times. Apple just isn't good at anything but the cosmetic top GUI layer. Their NIH culture always bites them; in the end they give up and buy in something from outside to rebrand.
This is all common knowledge that any nerd can explain anytime the fanboys aren't blathering and the marketing fucks aren't controlling the conversation by peppering in adjectives ('great', 'incredible', etc.)
If this change ends some of the perpetual betas on Steam that eventually die on the vine it will be a good thing. To extend the metaphor, all the dead-end stubs of growth on the vine will eventually weigh it down and the whole vine will tumble to earth.
Customers need to have confidence in what they spend their dollars on. A long repeating history of perpetual betas that go nowhere actually hurts viable new startup projects by burning out the people who might buy into the project.
I can drive over to Radio Shack tomorrow and get a soldering iron, if you insist. It's about a ten minute drive. Mind if I stop at the bank first and maybe to White Castle on the way for lunch?
The small midwestern town I live on the outskirts of does still have a Radio Shack. I can buy assorted parts and tools and stuff. They even stock Arduinos and Shields, though they're way overpriced.
Unfortunately, the Universities are deceptive, in that the main subject being taught is Pedagogy, yet all those pupils' degrees are in subjects matter they're tacitly encouraged to avoid, so as to do as well as possible on the "assignments, projects, tests, grades..."
80-98% of University Students should have their 'Major' defined as Pedagogy. The schools are producing brown-noses, and may as well be honest about it.
Just like drug consumers create the hell-on-earth in border regions of Mexico.
How many more wars will the US start for oil?
Oil consumers produce the high demand for oil. The war Obama fanned the flames of in Syria, that precipitated the refugee crisis, was over a pipeline western interests want strung over Syrian land.
FYI, the white voter is losing the demographic race; unless the GOP manages to continue their rather diligent voter suppression, several of the Solid South will be swing states in a decade.
FYI, Hispanics are not 'naturally leftist' and it's racist to make that kind of assumption. As the Hispanic demographic is welcomed into the fold of Americans (USians??) they will settle down and their natural conservatism will manifest. It already does in many regards.
Significant parts of the Hispanic demographic are 'culturally conservative.' Give them time to settle in and become part of the country, and they won't be the lockstep demographic the Democrats hope for.
Unless, of course, the Democrats can find a way to lock them into a 'ghetto of dependency.' I don't see that happening, but with enough screeching from those striving to 'protect' them, it is possible 'the liberals' can cause them to identify as victims who need to be rescued by the State.
You can keep throwing fuel in the Hillary Fever fire if you wish. The flames will die out in a few weeks.
Prolong your pain, it's like wiggling that loose tooth to experience that mysteriously appealing little twinge of pain.
If you and your kind insist on fanning those flames, don't be surprised if you're pushed into the fire to fucking burn. Most of the rest of us will feel bad that it happened to you afterwards, but we won't let you burn down the whole place.
It doesn't matter, he typed 'Trump' before 'Thiel' in his comment, and so tipped his hand as to who and what he was ranting about. It wasn't necessary for him to read the article, his mind was made up.
In order to qualify as "genius" in modern times and be able to actually contribute to society, as opposed destroying wealth (as so many of those that amassed personal riches routinely do), a PhD in your chosen field is about the minimum.
The whole 'PhD' thing is locked down in thick layers of conformity. You need to 'play well with others' in order to work your way through post-graduate studies. And that whole mess is locked up by climbers who've made academia an insular elite network.
Sure, to make a large amount of money
Are you resentful because you chose the academic track and instead of leaving the campus to live a life after graduating, you stayed within the insular ranks? Too bad.
Using an unsecured and unlicensed C compiler will become illegal. Owning a binary editor will be a felony. Use this cuckgadget from Apple or Google, not that scary open device. You aren't one of those unmutual terrorists, are you?
Using an unsecured and unlicensed C compiler will become illegal. Hexadecimal op codes will become propritary trade secrets. Owning a binary editor will be a felony. Use this cuckgadget from Apple or Google, not that scary open device. You aren't one of those unmutual terrorists, are you?
The target of the regulations is anybody who isn't a multinational corporation with a 30+ employee staff in their Regulatory Affairs department.
The target is us nerds and geeks. We won't be able to afford to ask their permission, so they won't have to deal with people who dabble in that messy freedom stuff.
They want to regulate all the endpoints, rather than just beef security at the transition points. It's ludicrous! Anybody can push whatever firmware they want into a microcontroller, except not (!!!) with this kind of regulatory burden. Will I need a jtag license? Will operating a compiler without a license become illegal, or too dangerous to contemplate because of the liability risk?
Umm, the hell with that. Protect your network at it's routing points. It's not YOUR network until it passes through your demarcation point.
If well defined boundaries are established, freedom can still flourish in the places where tight-assed security is not necessary.
New headphones every few years with the latest DRM hooks. If no device you can use to listen to your music lasts more than a few years, the DRM/security features can be force-refreshed on the public on a scheduled basis. Buy-once, keep-forever content is an abomination to companies that want to permanently remain content providers.
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Competition is good.
Can AMD compete, though? One would hope so, but they will need more than a product. They will need motherboard vendors to provide sockets, and developers to write code that takes advantage of the edge their processor gives.
Fanboys can tag along, like the dudes who put racing additive stickers on their rusty Hondas.
Let's revel in the underdoggedness.
With low cost IoT designs, memory is sometimes measured in bytes. I have coded processors with only 16 bytes of data memory.
If you looked at the Newton battery compartment design, which is actually one of their few mobile designs ever to have a removable battery, you would realize they aren't very good. Battery compartments are really difficult case design for mobile devices.
No, America is not 'lucky'with their oil. They just have the domestic freedom and the progressive culture to do something with the oil. Compare this to Saudi Arabia. S.A. represses their population outside of a small elite, and they just sell off their oil instead of using it.
America was definitely NOT the Saudi of the early 20th Century.
NeXT was based on a Mach microkernel. Apple wantes some of the userland of a modern Unix to go with the NeXTStep carcass so they ported in some of the FreeBSD userland. They hired one of the lead FreeBSD developers because Apple didn't have native talent for a real, robust OS.
Before NeXTStep, they pissed away many millions on two in-house attempts at a next generation OS. They failed both times. Apple just isn't good at anything but the cosmetic top GUI layer. Their NIH culture always bites them; in the end they give up and buy in something from outside to rebrand.
This is all common knowledge that any nerd can explain anytime the fanboys aren't blathering and the marketing fucks aren't controlling the conversation by peppering in adjectives ('great', 'incredible', etc.)
If this change ends some of the perpetual betas on Steam that eventually die on the vine it will be a good thing. To extend the metaphor, all the dead-end stubs of growth on the vine will eventually weigh it down and the whole vine will tumble to earth.
Customers need to have confidence in what they spend their dollars on. A long repeating history of perpetual betas that go nowhere actually hurts viable new startup projects by burning out the people who might buy into the project.
I can drive over to Radio Shack tomorrow and get a soldering iron, if you insist. It's about a ten minute drive. Mind if I stop at the bank first and maybe to White Castle on the way for lunch?
The small midwestern town I live on the outskirts of does still have a Radio Shack. I can buy assorted parts and tools and stuff. They even stock Arduinos and Shields, though they're way overpriced.
Unfortunately, the Universities are deceptive, in that the main subject being taught is Pedagogy, yet all those pupils' degrees are in subjects matter they're tacitly encouraged to avoid, so as to do as well as possible on the "assignments, projects, tests, grades..."
80-98% of University Students should have their 'Major' defined as Pedagogy. The schools are producing brown-noses, and may as well be honest about it.
"now that we have Cobol, can we get rid of all those beatnik programmers"
Check your punctuation rules. It isn't a quote, when you are quoting directly from your imagination.
Or, you can defend your punctuation with a citation.
Hell -- the US created the banana republics!
Banana consumers created the banana republics.
Just like drug consumers create the hell-on-earth in border regions of Mexico.
How many more wars will the US start for oil?
Oil consumers produce the high demand for oil. The war Obama fanned the flames of in Syria, that precipitated the refugee crisis, was over a pipeline western interests want strung over Syrian land.
So the solution is to tell the Ministry of Truth to dial back on the news about terrorist attacks.
That's very good. Very good indeed. Who should we contract with to enlarge the memory hole? It's going to need to be much, much bigger.
Santa is a fat old white man. He won't be allowed to oppress any longer.
FYI, the white voter is losing the demographic race; unless the GOP manages to continue their rather diligent voter suppression, several of the Solid South will be swing states in a decade.
FYI, Hispanics are not 'naturally leftist' and it's racist to make that kind of assumption. As the Hispanic demographic is welcomed into the fold of Americans (USians??) they will settle down and their natural conservatism will manifest. It already does in many regards.
Significant parts of the Hispanic demographic are 'culturally conservative.' Give them time to settle in and become part of the country, and they won't be the lockstep demographic the Democrats hope for.
Unless, of course, the Democrats can find a way to lock them into a 'ghetto of dependency.' I don't see that happening, but with enough screeching from those striving to 'protect' them, it is possible 'the liberals' can cause them to identify as victims who need to be rescued by the State.
When they quit spamming the front page with articles worshiping Musk, sure, you can.
But I've never heard a parrot whine. Is it even possible? Shouldn't you squawk instead?
You can keep throwing fuel in the Hillary Fever fire if you wish. The flames will die out in a few weeks.
Prolong your pain, it's like wiggling that loose tooth to experience that mysteriously appealing little twinge of pain.
If you and your kind insist on fanning those flames, don't be surprised if you're pushed into the fire to fucking burn. Most of the rest of us will feel bad that it happened to you afterwards, but we won't let you burn down the whole place.
It doesn't matter, he typed 'Trump' before 'Thiel' in his comment, and so tipped his hand as to who and what he was ranting about. It wasn't necessary for him to read the article, his mind was made up.
In order to qualify as "genius" in modern times and be able to actually contribute to society, as opposed destroying wealth (as so many of those that amassed personal riches routinely do), a PhD in your chosen field is about the minimum.
The whole 'PhD' thing is locked down in thick layers of conformity. You need to 'play well with others' in order to work your way through post-graduate studies. And that whole mess is locked up by climbers who've made academia an insular elite network.
Sure, to make a large amount of money
Are you resentful because you chose the academic track and instead of leaving the campus to live a life after graduating, you stayed within the insular ranks? Too bad.
Using an unsecured and unlicensed C compiler will become illegal. Owning a binary editor will be a felony. Use this cuckgadget from Apple or Google, not that scary open device. You aren't one of those unmutual terrorists, are you?
Apple has chosen to become the predominant gadget maker.
They haven't really made a successful server product since the SE/30.
Using an unsecured and unlicensed C compiler will become illegal. Hexadecimal op codes will become propritary trade secrets. Owning a binary editor will be a felony. Use this cuckgadget from Apple or Google, not that scary open device. You aren't one of those unmutual terrorists, are you?
The target of the regulations is anybody who isn't a multinational corporation with a 30+ employee staff in their Regulatory Affairs department.
The target is us nerds and geeks. We won't be able to afford to ask their permission, so they won't have to deal with people who dabble in that messy freedom stuff.
They want to regulate all the endpoints, rather than just beef security at the transition points. It's ludicrous! Anybody can push whatever firmware they want into a microcontroller, except not (!!!) with this kind of regulatory burden. Will I need a jtag license? Will operating a compiler without a license become illegal, or too dangerous to contemplate because of the liability risk?
Umm, the hell with that. Protect your network at it's routing points. It's not YOUR network until it passes through your demarcation point.
If well defined boundaries are established, freedom can still flourish in the places where tight-assed security is not necessary.
And design-for-nonrepairability is part of a sound marketing scheme.
"Buy our new shit, same as the old shit but with fresh new DRM."
Enjoy your chastity devices, Applecucks! You didn't want to mess around with any of that non-Apple stuff anyway. It might give you cooties!
New headphones every few years with the latest DRM hooks. If no device you can use to listen to your music lasts more than a few years, the DRM/security features can be force-refreshed on the public on a scheduled basis. Buy-once, keep-forever content is an abomination to companies that want to permanently remain content providers.