Because we want to brain drain other countries? The smartest people come to the US, they stay here, they're better educated and make the entire country better. Maybe they go on vacations back to their home country, maybe they send their parents some cash, but it's a huge win when the smartest people from all over the world move to the US. All this nativist bullshit on Slashdot drives me crazy.

You know the sad thing is that AC is totally right on this one. RPi is just another computer, giving a kid a cheaper computer isn't going to be helpful unless they don't have access to another computer.

Not at all surprised by this. Men who are less than 6 feet tall are barely even men, and women would never be with them unless all the tall men are taken and they can't do any better.

Companies work within existing tax laws, and they have nothing to be ashamed by abiding by current tax laws. If the government offers you a tax break for buying a new home, of course you are going to take the tax break - even if you think the tax break is total bullshit.

Of course people don't want to pay their taxes - they just want to reap the benefits of living in a civilization (what taxes pay for). It's the prisoner's dilemma, and what is best for the individual is that they don't pay their taxes and that everybody else does.

This unwillingness to pay taxes doesn't prove taxes are inherently stupid, just that people haven't collectively worked out the dilemma yet.

I hate to quote the fucking article because who reads that anyway? But When the 6502 was first released it was priced at $25 USD. At the time this was unheard of, being up to six times cheaper than the nearest competitors. Some people even thought that the low price had to be some form of scam. does in fact establish that the processor was considered a cheap processor.

To be fair, he was mostly emulating a MOS 6502 that would cost about $125 in today's dollars.

Very cheap modern computer is capable to emulating a 28 year old cheap computer.

The original CEO/investor, Steve Perlman, was forced out. The company is surely being sold for a pittance and at great loss for the investors. Even if the idea didn't work out, if the investors/CEOs hadn't made the company, the engineers wouldn't have had jobs in the first place. They can make big money, and in this case they lost a large amount. The engineers just shrugged it off and got another job.

That had nothing to do with the article, but I'm glad you were able to get that off your chest!

You are way better than the "sheeple" out there who use Facebook to talk with their friends and family rather harmlessly! Keep fighting the good fight! I hope you don't use any Google products, either!

Making rules against cyberattacks against US computers? LOL!!! Foreigners should just be able to hack away with no repercussions! This HAS to be an April Fools! LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well similarly, nothing in your post disproved the existence of a teapot orbiting the sun.
It's fairly common practice with action movies. Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Batmans, all did not have opening credits.

It's true that George Lucas was forced to pay a fine over this, but basically your post is nonsense. To quote Wikipedia, that infallible source of wisdom:

Many major American motion pictures have done away with opening credits, with many films, such as Van Helsing in 2004 and Batman Begins in 2005, not even displaying the film title until the closing credits begin. Similarly, Welles's Touch of Evil originally waited until the end to display the title as well as the credits; however, Universal Studios took the film out of his hands, and his vision was not restored until 1998. Had Universal not wrangled Touch of Evil away from Orson Welles, it might very well have been the first film to follow this practice.

George Lucas is credited with popularizing this with his Star Wars films which display only the film's title at the start.[1] His decision to omit opening credits in his films Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) led him to resign from the Directors Guild of America after being fined $250,000 for not crediting the director during the opening title sequence.[2] However, Hollywood had been releasing films without opening credits for many years before Lucas came along, most notably Citizen Kane, West Side Story, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Godfather.

The Macbook is quite expensive and rather large for a laptop, this is the budget model of a tablet/ultraportable latop. Personally I would consider that a poor showing by the Macbook.