I've been using the nvidia driver since my Geforce 3....

Certainly explains why nVidia has consistently delivered good, stable drivers on free operating systems (BSD, Solaris, Linux) for such a long time, when their competitor does not.

Get a processor that isn't crippled in the Floating Point department, if you really care that much.

Intel sucks less then AMD does on that one (1/3 speed on Core i-series (1-3rd gen tested) vs 1/5 on FX). FP performance is much better on other types of processors - MIPS, Itanium, and POWER all show much better FP performance then x86-based processors (and SPARC runs faster then AMD).

The insulin tends to extend the period of a 'normal' life for a while, yes, until the later complications set in...(diabetic retinopathy, ESRD, etc)

Except the terms "Juvenile-onset' and 'Adult-onset' only describe when you became diabetic, not which type you have. As someone with Adult-onset Type I, proper terminology is very important when discussing so that the correct disorder (Type I vs Type II) is being discussed.

Not only that, but the architecture changed (PS3 was PPC instead of x86)

RHEL's support cycle would be my first answer. Red Hat's support cycle is close in length to Microsoft, rather then Apple.

Or they'll just be on Catalyst-legacy for quite a while...

It's also not the first time that AMD has done something like this - remember when they dropped everything older then the HD 5000 series?

AMD GPU arch is Open....

/etc/rc.d/rc.torch is clearly it.

I've found that I usually exceed EPA estimates on 6-cyl vehicles (I'm using the highway numbers to compare since that is most of my driving) (test cases: 95 Chevy Blazer, Automatic, 4WD got ~20.5 MPG vs EPA 19; 99 Ford Mustang, Automatic, I'm seeing ~26.5 vs 25, 98 Mustang, Automatic, 25 vs 26), and have mixed results with 4-cyl vehicles (95 Saturn SL, Automatic, 37 vs 33; 88 Mustang, Automatic, 20 vs 25; 99 Chevy Malibu, 28 vs 28). I don't have enough data on 8-cyl vehicles to compare (I've only had one of them).

Interesting, the speedometer on my 4-cyl only goes to 85MPH (not that the car can go that fast in it's current condition, there is a reason it's parked until I have the time to repair it).

Currently runs on Itanium, with HP promising to port to x86_64.

Yes and no. It's been broken, as a result of lazy programmers, since Windows 7 came out. With the release of Vista (NT 6.0) Microsoft took a lot of complaints from users due to programs only really checking the minor number (if $MAJOR is >=5 AND $MINOR > 0 since 5.0 was Windows 2000) and installers as a result declared people to not have a recent enough Windows version to run $APPLICATION.

They ran into another problem with version numbers when Windows Vista came out. Because Windows XP lived so long (Windows 5.1, .2, .3, and .4) quite a few programers just checked the minor version, and saw Vista's minor as .0 and assumed it was Windows 2000, and said you must install XP to run this program.... It boils down to Microsoft having to cater to lazy developers whose programs make them look bad.