Also, Olympus E-1 pro digital camera (just 5 megapixels, but weather sealed and with 160,000 shutter actuations and counting).

Oh, and printing stuff.

There's "the alternatives" and there's "the alternatives worth considering". The latter category excludes the developing countries in question, as well as the US. Hopefully the people in charge of health care in Canadian governments (federal and provincial) are looking at the alternatives in the latter category to see what they can learn from them.

Perhaps you're referring to some news of which I'm not aware.

That isn't answering the question I asked.

The question I asked was "You can't trade off, say, transistors used for registers (especially given that the bigger processors do register renaming, so you have more hardware registers than the actual RISC/CISC instruction set provides) for transistors used for some other purpose?"

I said nothing about keeping all the same functionality, if by "functionality" you mean, for example, "on-chip caches of the same size" and "same number of hardware registers including ones used for renaming of the architected registers" or "complexity of the branch prediction hardware" or .... Yes, there may be tradeoffs you have to make in how you use your transistors, but if the benefits of the additional registers outweigh whatever performance benefits you lose by reducing the size of other functional units by however much the additional registers require, that might be the right tradeoff to make.

Ok, thanks for checking. You seem to be correct, apparently the buyer simply wasn't paying attention.

Perhaps you should give it 3 secs investigation before you shout off.

3 secs should be just enough to click the "more information" link.

In the Simpsons episode Loan-a Lisa Homer takes to extremes the idea of returning items in time for a refund, and buys all sorts of expensive stuff and uses them only very carefully.

It seems that in his case the store page incorrectly claimed that the software has also a Mac version, but when he purchased it, he found that it's Windows-only.

The store page for AVGN Adventures seems to show correct information right now: only a flag symbol showing that it's Windows software. Maybe previously that page had both a flag and an apple symbol? That's how I interpret the situation.

Seriously who gives a flying fuck. What does it really matter? Are you so far up the communists' asshole that you think everything on this planet is going to be completely 100% representative of the population of the planet?

Lighting (the Mozilla calendar app) is also pretty nice. Rust is gaining a lot of interest as a systems programming language, although not so much in the application space.

Again, hand waving without specifics. The most noticeable change for me was that they button to customise the UI is now on the toolbar by default, rather than hidden away somewhere. What can you no longer customise that you could previously?

I really don't understand this complaint. The UI changes were relatively small, and one of the biggest ones was making the 'customize UI' button more prominent in the new versions.

I switched to Firefox on Android recently because Chrome for Android has the same handicapped cookie management policy as the older Android Browser, but Firefox lets me run the self-destructing cookies plugin, which does exactly what I've wished for the last 15 years all browsers would do by default.

No, it's developed in the open, but it's really hard to get changes pushed upstream. We have a bunch of patches for the FreeBSD support and to improve sandboxing, and it looks like it will end up taking 2-3 years to get them all upstreamed. Meanwhile, the code follows the traditional Google development model of gratuitously refactoring things (are Google people paid by number of lines of code changed?), so it's a lot of effort just to keep the patches up to date.

Building schools after you've been seen to come in and overthrow their government doesn't buy you nearly as much goodwill as building schools after you've just helped them overthrow a foreign invader and then removed your military presence from the country.