If you prefer one hardware over the other without seeing benchmarks, then you are someone that is usually referred to as a "fanboy". Have fun with that.

Without the United States crippling the Axis production lines, the USSR would have found their westward march a little more difficult. Not to say they might not have won anyway, but it would have been much harder pressed. As it is, with the US and the USSR working together, the loss of life, and difficulty of the fight was astounding. Let's just agree that had any of the key players sat on their thumbs any longer, things might have been a bit more difficult.

Multiple sensor redundancy with soft failure modes in event of data mismatch. I would hope that top engineers could come up with somehting like that...

Blow a tire? The car has the information from sensors to tell which tire blew instantly, allowing it to apply brakes on the other wheels, hold the steering at the appropriate angles, perhaps even adjusting the suspension. Then it will monitor the other lanes in a 360 degree view to safely move off the road as quickly as possible. In addition, one could use run-flat tires to minimize this chance. It would also monitor tire pressure to minimize the chances. In addition to that, one could have the car monitor tread depth, and require manual override for unsafe tires.

Lane markings disappear? GPS data, in addition to 360 degree visual sensors and data from vehicles in front of it mean that your self-driver is more likely to determine a safe path more readily than a human driver.

Truck blows a tire? The car doesn't have your quarter-second reaction time (at best) to contend with before it begins to analyze the data from its 360 degree cameras which know where it's safe to go, sensor data which tells it how much grip it has, road conditions, brake ability, and is able to determine and begin executing the best case for avoidance before you would have even noticed the blowout.
Idiot or animal wanders in? Car is more likely to notice it faster. Infrared spectrum makes body heat stand out on animals that evolved to blend into the surroundings and night-time walkers that think that black is a good idea. In addition, it's able to track these objects without ceasing to track the location of the vehicle, and surrounding vehicles and objects. The car is able to process visual input from 360 degrees of visual input, in addition to all sensor data to make the best decision on minimizing impact with the animal or idiot. And it does this beginning before you would have noticed them (by about a quarter second) and with a good bit more input than you would have available.

In addition to all of this, it's possible that cars could share this data, so that there are multiple vantages being processed on any of these situations, so that they can react in tandem, and know what other vehicles are intending to do, lowering chances of impact even more.

The car is a better driver.

This part makes me want to buy one. Well, among a lot of other reasons. But largely because I want to reward someone for standing behind their product. You don't see a lot of that, these days. Lots of difficult-to-use warranty's, but little real pride in a product.

It shouldn't be innovative, or revolutionary; let's face it: this is something lacking from most companies these days.

The reason that the DVD player couldn't play VHS was mismatched hardware. The only way to do it would be to include a VHS in the DVD player, which some companies did, and they were more expensive. The reason that the PS4 won't play PS3 games is mismatched hardware... Unless they include the old hardware, and the associated cost, like some DVD player manufacturers did.

Yeah, listing the most common songs to get stuck in someone's head has to be one of more effective trolls to hit the front page in a while.

APUs have shown to be remarkably heat-efficient.

The problem is that the E-450 wasn't really made to compete with the i5. It was made to compete with the Atom. That's like saying your i5 chokes faster than my Phenom II 1100T. It's true, but it's not really a fair comparison, since they are for different segments. My ex-wife's Atom based netbook would choke on the web too. Her new one based on the AMD APUs does much better. My wife's 3870 APU runs great. Runs every game she's wanted to play at a respectable framerate, and that was just the first-gen APU. I'm thinking about building a couple of media centers with this new generation, and upgrading her system with this new run of APU's because I'm impressed with them.

The point I was trying to make is that they serve different purposes, and are targeted at different groups. Or maybe overlapping groups, but still for different tasks.

And as for slashdot, I get several second page loads on large threads on my i7 macbook pro. They use a ton of JavaScript, and it makes me pine for the fjords of home.

Maybe I'm crazy... but the WoW updates have always been done with bittorrent for me. How much overloading could seeding really do?

What you're saying here is that you want more restrictive DRM, so you can't pirate anymore. Just making that clear.

I believe that what you just found could be referred to as "the point" of his comment.

If Intel is better performing, why didn't you go with one of their packages for the on-the-go gaming? Surely the Intel graphics part could have kept up? Or is the overall performance of the APU under the situations that you use it for most often the AMD is better. I see flash max out a single core processor on just about any system I see it run on. Java does the same thing.

Have you considered adblock and flashblock?

I think knowing which seats were occupied, when, would give the airline useful weight distribution analytics, along with seeing which foods were more likely to make people need to use the restroom more. Also, it could provide an average weight of person per flight on each flight route giving them a little better idea on how much extra fuel to start packing.

You think the toilets don't need occasional maintenance? Maybe a pressure gauge near the flush? Check the water tanks for leaks? They could have sensors too.

Over head bins provide much the same reasoning as the seats above. Weight average, weight over all, weight distribution, maybe even the ability to check for the weight shifting during turbulence so that stewardesses know which bins are likely to kill someone when they are opened, and can get their smart phones ready for youtube goodness.

Remember, in this world of data analytics, it's all valuable to someone.

I would prefer it if my aircrafts sensors weren't censored.

/I'm so very sorry, I'm not normally a Grammar Nazi