How do you learn something about the technology if you just buy some generic servo transmitter chip? Why bother buying another chip if the microcontroller can do the job?

An accurate model of the ionosphere is also important for GPS. GPS works by measuring the propagation delays of radio waves, which are affected by the Earth's atmosphere.

Sometimes you see stuff like that due to compiler bugs. The ugly code is a way of not triggering the bug. Simplify it at your peril.

Technically, it may work. Financially, it's a loser for Apple. It also dilutes their brand.

Never underestimate the ability of a human being to rationalize their own stupidity. People would blame Apple, because the alternative would be to admit that they made a mistake and are responsible for their predicament.

Time domain reflectometer.

That's one newspaper. A very large and unique newspaper with a big staff. They also were forced to mortgage their new headquarters building this month. What about the vast majority of daily newspapers, that are barely getting by with shrinking staffs? When you are losing money, investigative journalism is an unsustainable waste of resources.

In-depth investigations? Even in the heyday of the daily newspaper, there wasn't much investigative journalism. Most publishers do not like to rock the boat and investigative journalism is expensive.

You need to reread Moore's Law.

You're neglecting time to market. I'll write the whole thing in assembler if the customer is willing to pay for it. They also have to be willing to accept the schedule impact.

Then there are the adherents of the "Mad Man" Muntz school of engineering. As it was described to me, he would randomly remove components from a prototype television set. Anything that could be removed without causing an immediate and obvious problem stayed removed. This allowed him to cut the component count and cost by a substantial margin. It also resulted in a television that was a POS.

From what I remember from basic physics, when you look at EM radiation, you get both an electric and magnetic field component. You can't have one without the other.

Electromagnetic Radiation

New York also has much more economic activity than those "loser" states, so stop whining about how New York is subsidizing a bunch of losers. You also might want to consider the costs to the federal government of all the things that make that economic activity possible.

That certainly wouldn't be news. News implies something novel or unusual.

Like I tell people at work, if it doesn't have to produce the correct results, we can make it run as fast as you wish. Just because your system seems stable, doesn't mean that some obscure part of the chip isn't failing in a subtle manner. Intel has insanely expensive test jigs to ensure that their parts meet published specs at their marked speed. You have what?

For games, who cares. For real work, it's absolutely unacceptable.