This decision makes sense, since Debian is so dominant on Intel boxes that they can't afford resources to support SPARC - even though the port already exists and it's simply a matter of migrating the same incremental changes that are there on Lintel to SPARC.
So much for the claim Linux fans make of the OS being 'everywhere' - here is a UNIX only CPU: no version of Windows ever ran on it, only UNIX-like OSs, such as SunOS, Solaris, Linux and *BSD.
I'm considering getting a PC/laptop for SteamOS. I'll probably go w/ the Intel graphics, instead of either AMD or NVIDIA. If the Iris Pro has caught up w/ these other 2, good, but even otherwise, I'd want to avoid the fiasco of bad or incompatible drivers from either AMD or NVIDIA. Intel's graphics works w/ even BSD, so that's what I'd use.
Had I been shopping for another Windows 10 box, I'd go w/ an AMD. But as one poster observed, power consumption of those things is still an issue
This story is pure insanity. Advertising is one of basic instincts in animal nature. Women advertise to men, men to women. Without advertising evolution and progress would stop and die.
Also, who exactly is Thomas Wells to re-define morality? Taking deist principles out, morality is the application of the golden rule! Do unto others as... Since people are at liberty to ignore advertising, along w/ a lot of other things, there is nothing 'immoral' about it. Annoying, maybe. But immoral? Absolutely not!!!
As a result, any company would be far better off not preferring H1Bs, if they could help it
The problem is market forces. Software (yes, I know, with some exceptions) can mostly be written anywhere. If one locale can under-cut another on producing the same thing, then there is a huge economic pressure to do it there.
If the more expensive locale tries to use protectionism to keep things local, the other/cheaper locale can simply under-cut them in the market, and the more expensive locale loses out anyway. There are countless examples of industries that have succumbed to this kind of market pressure from cheaper overseas competitors.
So yes, you can probably keep out H-1Bs, but that isn't going to stop the tide. A few specialized cases it might, but for the most common case, it won't. It isn't a pleasant thing to face and people like to shoot the messenger, but jobs DO go to places that do them cheaper. Entire huge industries DO get destroyed over this kind of market force.
Stopping H1Bs is only going to escalate offshoring. Companies have fixed IT budgets, and the outsourcing companies have to play within that. So end the H1B program, and what you'll see is more projects going directly to Bangalore, Pune, Noida, et al. India currently has a trade deficit wrt the US, but that won't be the case once all the projects start going directly to India - as opposed to companies that have some offices here and some there.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.