Well, if you switch you still have to pay the extra money to quit the plan early (those phones are not cheap and are subsidized through the monthly fee). The point of the Apple SIM as explained to me by some who want it, is for when they travel to other countries when they explain is can be inconvenient to pick up a sim card and take it to a clerk to pay for when you can just give the phone to the clerk instead (or presumably if the infrastructure is ever in place, get the code online).

Though if you buy an iphone outside of AT&T, can you switch to AT&T without them locking your personally bought-and-paid-for SIM card, or do they only do this on their own subsidized phones?

Wait, there's such a thing as a cool controller?

In the 90's, ever workstation maker was fast compared to the plodding PC. Of course, the workstations cost tons more, whereas the PC was the cheap computer meaning you could put it on everyone's desk or even in the home, but it wasn't considered a high end product. Even some workstation makers made x86 versions of their higher end machines and they were slow as hell and unpopular.

I care about what chips are in it, because I liked the PowerPC (not even being a mac person) and I also like to see real honest competition in the chip market instead of an Intel stranglehold. Sure the mass market doesn't care, but I'm not the mass market and I know how these chips work and how to use them. Apple didn't choose PowerPC to be different but because at the time Intel's offerings were complete junk and the PowerPC was more compatible with the 68K systems it was replacing.

The only place left where non-Intel chips or clones can be found are embedded systems and devices, they are no longer available on the PC or workstation market. Competittion is great, and in the high end CPU market the only competition is from clones (granted, it took a clone using backwards compatibility to get it to 64-bit, even Intel was thwarted in this by success of it's older chips).

True, their GCC is goofy as hell. They've migrated a lot since early OS X and now they consider the Mac to be just a dev system from iOS. They've got something called "gcc" on the system that defines __GNUC__ and yet which rejects valid gcc inline assembler because it's not really gcc on the backend.

As for other stuff, I do cross compiling on the Mac, so the only local Mac programs I need to build are the build tools themselves, so I never cared about libraries or clang. Linux would be definitely easier to be sure overall, but as a developer system OS X is light years ahead of Windows+cygwin. It says a lot right off the bat that they weren't scared and frightened by a command line tool and that they preferred common standards to obscure stuff invented at home.

But the PC parts were shit. Power hungry, inefficient (but supercharged). Sourcing parts was the issue for Apple, they were a small player using a CPU built by a single source company.

I thought it was VFAT that had the patents that Microsoft was asserting, not FAT32. FAT32 has nothing new or novel in comparison to FAT16, whereas the techniques in VFAT (the short/long filenaming hybrid) at least is an interesting idea.

Is it the closure of research labs that caused those companies to decline, or was it because the companies had started to decline that the shut down the research labs?

Right AND wrong. Right about there being communists, but dead wrong about the methods used to root them out and the assumption that anyone with communist leanings was an enemy.

And he certainly did not rely on logic and evidence to conclude there were communists, it was a gut feeling only and he capitalized on it for political power (which backfired).

If SJW is vile, then what about what they fight against? Sending death threats to women who "dare" to play games or create games, that's ok? Oh one of them slept with a journalist, something evil of course that men would never ever do.

What about the neutral stand that should say treat others with respect, accept outsiders into your circles, don't create a hostile environment. Face it, there positively without any doubt is a vile and disgusting segment of gamer culture, but it gets defended because it's part of the private club.

It sounds like a typical new style troll behavior. Anyone entering the conversation that you don't like, you then accuse of knowing nothing and telling them to stay out of it. If you're not in their peer group than they honestly want you to just go away. You're not in fight club so you're not allowed to have an opinion about it.

It's an attitude that seems to indicate that they are trying to protect their private enclave and are worried that it's being dismantled. Possibly also an attitude that if you don't agree with them then you must agree with their enemies.

And yet, anyone who says "treat women like people" gets labelled an SJW. The term is meaningless, saying "SJW" is about as irrelevant's and Rush's "feminazi", in that it riles up the haters but makes everyone else roll their eyes.

10mbps is good. A lot of people in the US have no access to anything that fast without subscribing to the local cable monopoly (if their local cable monopoly even provides that speed of internet). I get 12mbps for $50. I think it's a bit overpriced myself. Part of the "digital divide" is not just access to internet but the cost of it.

Ie, if the local cablopoly offers 48mbps for $80 a month, why not offer 12mbps for $20, 1/4 the speed/bandwidth for 1/4 the cost, then it's only a little more expensive than dialup and vastly more affordable for most people.

Smaller towns may not have more expensive internet, but they have less of it. More small town residents still use dialup, or have no choice other than poor quality cable. If you want good internet in the US you will find it very often in the largest cities but not in the small towns or rural areas.

Well, that is indeed new since I posted. Glad someone went out to get actual evidence instead of just raging without it.
However, where'd that source code come from, I've wanted to look at it in the past?