In a way it does. They are offering that since the simplest answer was incomplete there's at least one slightly more complicated way things might work. You see, the simplest explanation isn't the thing. The simplest explanation that actually explains things is.

Indeed. The PC was IBM's way to fill a top-to-bottom order without letting other vendors in at the desktop/workstation levels. That was about it.

A Cell is a PPC core with extra coprocessors, and was the secret processor that caused delays for Apple that IBM couldn't explain. IIRC it was no secret what chip was going into the PS3 before launch. Again, IIRC, Microsoft forced IBM into a minimum delivery rate and wouldn't allow them to disclose to other chip customers where the capacity had gone.

G5s ran too hot for notebooks. IBM's manufacturing capacity for Power/PPC cores outside its own servers and workstations was eaten up by Microsoft for its XBox line. Apple was waiting too much on inventory. They switched to Intel not because their chips were more powerful, but because their chips were more available and could be used more flexibly.

I am a US citizen. I don't consider criticism of the US government to be anti-American. In fact, I consider criticizing the US government to be one of the most pro-American and American-like things one can do. The US government isn't America. The people are the country. The government when it hurts the people is the anti-American one. Loving the government over the people is anti-American. Loving the people of America and pointing out or correcting the failings of the government is the legacy of the country.

And yes, I have been pointing out that the government here has been favoring businesses over people and favoring one business over another for some time. Basically whichever business is best for the legislators gets the best laws, and whichever is best for the executive gets the most preferential enforcement of those laws. I think it's hard to say that's far from fascism if we're to be honest. It's a kinder, gentler fascism than those we associate with the term, but for how long?

It is illegal to put oneself in a position which must by necessity lead to breaking one law or another. If they can't follow the jurisdiction of both governments then they have no right to operate across those jurisdictions as one business venture.

You can subpoena the party to produce the evidence. The people in the US are answerable to US law by definition. The people in Ireland are by definition under the control regarding the employer's data of their employers in the US. What would seem to be the problem?

I guarantee you that if you smuggled evidence from the US to Ireland that the US government would punish you for not producing it.

Intel has 107,600.

How many people do you think work in the graphics division of AMD? How many at NVidia?

Crazy and very specific applications like CAD, video editing, video transcoding, and stuff like that you mean? Yeah, that's what they benchmarked.

All along the Mississippi River towns filter and purify water from the river for drinking, then treat their sewage and put it back into the river. If you drink the water near the delta then part of what you're drinking has been through dozens or hundreds of people.

Connecting the output to the input eliminates some of the waste of wastewater. It's good enough for NASA, so it's good enough for you.

• regardless of ease (theoretical expressivity)
• concisely and readily (practical expressivity)

• The first sense dominates in areas of mathematics and logic that deal with the formal description of languages and their meaning, such as formal language theory, mathematical logic and process algebra.[2]

  In informal discussions, the term often refers to the second sense, or to both. This is often the case when discussing programming languages.[3] Efforts have been made to formalize these informal uses of the term.[4]

Yes, both can be useful definitions. When discussing comparative expressiveness of two Turing-complete languages the second holds more meaning. Being Turing-complete means they are equivalent in the first meaning.

At some point shrinking impressionist art pretty much just makes it.. art, right?

PDO is based on the Perl5 DBI which was done the right way the first time. "Deprecated" doesn't mean it's not being used. Once it's actually removed and people are actually using 5.6 in production then PHP will be more consistent.

That's just a small example, though, of the failure to support loadable modules and separate namespaces for so long. PHP historically has been very inconsistent. Future PHP may not be so, but it's not the future yet.