Their products are a joke compared to what they made in the 80's. Apple is a success today because Steve Jobs has the rare ability to polish a turd, add a lowercase i to the name and make a fortune. Is the iPad the first tablet? No, but they removed the keyboard and replaced the OS with something less versatile to make it the hottest toy on the market. There have also been pda/phone combos (with touchscreens) alot longer than there have been iPhones, but Apple was able to take an existing concept with limited mass-market appeal and sell it all over the world.

You can say what you want about it being a weakling's Rugby, but I still think (American) Football would be really hard to play without using your feet.

Basically, debugging hardware is even more of a pain in the ass then debugging software because there are no tools like GDB that show you what's going on "under the hood", so electrical engineers have to use emulators to test out all their systems at the boolean level before they implement them in ASIC's. This is completely different from a Nintendo emulator, which would read each individual instruction and execute a group of instructions that do the same thing on the host machine.

I had to take a few classes on CPLD's and FPGA's when I was in college, and I can tell you that it took my poor PC all afternoon to emulate my designs for just 100ms. Those weren't nearly as complicated as a GPU, so it makes sense that Nvidia would need a massive supercomputer for this.

Also, "gates" probably refers to Boolean logic gates.

That depends on where you live. Over here in DC, there is metric shit-ton of engineering jobs working for the military industrial complex.

Link doesn't say that anybody actually knew he was there, just that US troops were in the neighborhood.

Yeah, I used to use Windows ME, too.

His PhD education was so specialised and narrow that he never learned about causality.