They did it on the Pentium Pro which had ~1/1000th of the transistors modern processors have today. Even though the instruction set has grown a few times in size, it's certainly entirely irrelevant when it comes to total transistor count today. But keep on spouting nonsense.

*digs up the carcass you can flog the dead horse again*

No x86 chip from the last 20 years runs CISC instructions internally, it's split into micro-ops and AMD/Intel has spent the last 20 years optimizing their decoder and internal instruction set for this one task. If you think using the ARM instruction set is more optimized than that you've drunk way too much of the kool-aid.

Well, are the current x86 phones Google Android or AOSP Android? In India the latter might sell fine as a smartphone, I think here in the western world we expect all the Google services (and tie-ins...)

LOL, those Venus hos are HOT! As in, hot enough to melt metal.

if someone is insistent on harassing others, interrupting traffic, etc, they should be dealt with accordingly.

Well, of course, even if they're stone cold sober. But that simply doesn't happen with pot. Like I said, unlike alcohol and a lot of other drugs, pot doesn't make people obnoxious.

I have known people who feel that life doesn't start until they are stoned, and they are not content to stay home or out of the way. They also believe that society owes it to them to welcome them when they are under the influence and that they are the life of the party at that point.

I've known one or two like that. They're idiots. The ones I've known like that all started smoking in adolescence.

I have unfortunately encountered unreasonable people from both sides.

Unreasonable people come in all shapes, sizes, colors, religious beliefs, politics, and nationalities. In politics the name is "wingnuts".

I'm holding on to my cheap Kyocera until it breaks or styles change. All of the new phones are WAY too big for a straight American man; unlike women, gays, and Europeans I don't carry a purse. It has to fit in my front pants pocket with my wallet or it's useless to me.

My all-time favorite phone was the old Motorola Razr. It was a "feature phone" but you could get on the internet with it, text, play games on it, it had a camera, etc. It had features Android (at least Jellybean) lacks. One thing I loved about it was you could set it to automatically answer in speakerphone mode. Great for traveling, with my Android it sits in my pocket ringing and buzzing and I have to call back after I stop. And it was really small, its best feature IMO.

Two things I like about the Kyocera is that it's shock resistant and waterproof. I've lost phones dropping them in water, and lost one when I was caught in a thunderstorm. My daughter used to use iPhones, I don't think any of them lasted a year before the screen broke.

If it's anything like HBO Nordic:
1) Within 24 hours, often <6 hours
2) Less bandwidth than H.264 cable rips, no 5.1 sound but also not terrible
3) When hell freezes over
4) Here in Norway it's 79 NOK/month, subtracting VAT = $115/year for access to all HBO series

I'm a subscriber but still prefer downloading due to 2), then again I think HBO Nordic is their own company that bought to rights from HBO centrally so whether or not any of this applies is uncertain. I think the delay is because they don't get access to the episode until it's aired in the US, for example.

History has had some rather major regressions like the Dark Ages and more and more of society depends on other parts of society functioning. One flood in Thailand and hard drive prices here skyrocket, if there was something to really fuck with supply lines across the world like a major war a lot of it could crumble. My day job is to sit in front of these computers and program it, the rest I generally depend on others for there to be food and water and heating and power and whatnot else to support having a home, workplace and getting to and from it. If the tractors don't have gas so the grocery stores don't have food I'd quickly be out there with a shovel planting crops because basic needs comes first. It might take a long time to rebuild once torn down.

Why yes, rockets do beats horse and carriage but that doesn't really say if we're ready either. Mars is considerably less hospitable than many places on earth that we've left alone, we have the technology to visit. We might through continuous supplies be able to sustain an outpost, like we do in Antarctica. But I think we're quite far from anything worthy of the name colony that can sustain itself even with the basics of food, water, air, shelter and power.

How many languages have "functional programming features" without including the most important feature of functional programming: true determinism with immutable variables, hence easier testing and less debugging?

Certainly not Access, I hated that damned program. dBase, FoxPro, NOMAD were all easy to maintain, Access was a pain in the ass. It's one of the reasons I love being retired.

On the other hand, all the persons infected so far were people with known risk factors for ebola like travelling to ebola country or treating an ebola patient. Assume for a moment that one of these people managed to infect someone random. Are the symptoms going to get bad enough quickly enough that you get flagged as an ebola patient before you've had the chance to infect other people? My usual expectation would be like:

1. You're feeling a bit under the weather, but go to work away.
2. You feel rather crap with feber and a headache, the doctor says to stay in bed.
3. You're really not getting better, doctor runs tests and schedules you for a trip to the hospital.
4. You finally get into the hospital in the "normal" ward, they find out what you got.
5. Shit hits the fan and they try finding everyone you've been in contact with in steps 1-4.

If your average patient manages to infect >1.1 new patients before you can put a stop to it, you have a problem.

It depends on the circumstance, of course. Sanctioned drinking isn't abuse, although when those situations arose at work I generally took the afternoon off (I was in a pretty good union and had good bosses who would let me use vacation time any time I wanted).

FoxPro 8, back in the late '90s.

They are great for things like whipping up a quick program because you need some numbers and a quick report for this afternoon, but they fail when you have to use the resulting application on a day-to-day basis.

That wasn't my experience at all, except for Access. I wrote very large applications in dBase and FoxPro that I used for years.

One application I wrote for a Chicago hospital in Clipper (Clipper produced executables from xBase code) had been in use for six months when they had a problem; large amounts of data had gone missing.

I looked at both code and data and couldn't figure it out, but saw from a hidden entry date field that there was no data for a two month period. They gasped when I told them than and they immediately saw the cause of the problem -- that was when an intern was supposed to be entering data but obviously didn't and thought he or she could get away with it.

They used that application for a couple of years after that with nothing but praise for the app.

LG? I had an LG phone about a decade ago. Buggiest piece of shit I ever saw. I see they must still be shoddy, but after that piece of shit phone I'll not buy any more of LG's shoddily engineered and built junk.