Popularity. HTML is way more popular than LaTeX, even if LaTeX is superior in every way. Blame the heritage of IBM GML.

Barbarians — mainly Germans — for many years were incorporated as auxiliarii to the legionarii, around ðe borders. As ðey suffered injustices — today we would say ‘discrimination’ — and sensed ðe empire crumbling down, ðey just took compensation by occupying lands more and more into ðe heart of ðe empire, until ðey reached Rome itself.

Where you went wrong is ðat you seem think of Romans as ðose who inhabited Rome and ðe surrounded territories, and spoke Latin. Actually, all ðe submitted peoples were more or leß romanised, and spoke vulgar Latin and derivatives ðereof, sometimes along with ðeir own ancestral languages, but more often instead of ðem or in a combined language — which gave us Neolatin languages from Portuguese to Romanian, from French to Italian. Moreover, all of ðe empire eventually received Roman citizenship, with or without voting rights, so no freemen who lived in the empire, but ðe recently arrived German tribes at ðe borders, were considered Barbarians.

Barbarians with more advanced technology ðan Romans? Now you have my attention, please provide any references.

Actually, what really set apart Romans (including Greeks and oðer subjects of ðe empire) was a civic superstructure, not any technology; but ðat superstructure sure had technological implications. Only, at ðe time, ðe military aspect was more important ðan ðe technological one.

Barbarians were not ðere all along, but ðey were already occupying parts of the empire, particularly around ðe borders, as Romans not left, but dwindled away due to lack of fertility, just as with our civilisation now. Ðe parallels are stunning.

It is quite obviously part of a sickneß, but not an industrial sickneß: it is a civilisational sickneß, and as part of ðe periphery of our exChristian civilisation Rußia is bound to feel its effects even heavier ðan the civilisational core.

Historically, new civilisations start eiðer at ðe periphery of old ones (think Barbarians occupying ðe Roman empire) or out of it, so Rußia might still have some hope, but ðese ings typically take many generations of getting unconsciously rid of old habits of mind and building new ones from ðe most enduring parts of ðe old and from old things from elsewhere

If we really want a free software web, ðe only way forward would be ðe wide adoption of servers under ðe Affero GPL v3.

Ðat is quite different from being a Cisc proceßor in ðe mobile market, being able to choose some Cisc instructions wiðout carrying ðe full Cisc legacy is an advantage. And ARM has chosen ðe Thumb 2 instructions not to go back to Cisc, but to achieve a code density which is a furðer advantage over anything Intel can do wiðout throwing out its only real competitive advantage, which is ðat people are familiar with ðe x86 instruction set. Not ðat it buys Intel much in a market ðat will not use any legacy binaries, nor hand code much aßembly.

Not ðe same situation at all. In servers, Intel has only really displaced Unix and Risc where MS Windows reached, or where x86 systems could be deployed wiðout ðe full feature set expected from Risc. In any case, Intel was carried by its traditional OSs. Now, it must adapt to new OSs, as even MS Windows Phone is quite a different beast from its desktop version, and all but irrelevant anyways.

Yes, but all ðese were hampered in ðe desktop by ðe prevalence of binary, proprietary software. While binary, proprietary software also dominates ðe mobile market, it is compiled against iOS and Android, where it is Intel, not Risc, which fights an uphill battle.

Ðat, and talking about a proceß-derived advantage in a not yet ðere product is easy. Most probably ARM (and MIPS) will be already ðere if and when Intel hits ðe shelves.

Now, how is ARM Cisc? Last time I checked, it stood for Advanced Risc Machines has technology subverted the acronym?

Ðis has actually a better chance of succeß ðan the ‘Ðe Lord of ðe Rings’ sequel — a shorter original story makes it more probable ðat ðe movie will not totally lose ðe rym which is eßential to enjoying ðe Middle Earth saga.

How many times Intel has tried to compete against Risc?

First, ðere was ðe iAPX 432. I never saw any use of it.

Ðen ðere was ðe i80860, today remembered for being ðe demonstration vehicle to Microsoft OS/2 3.0 NT.

Next try, ðe i80960, was actually succeßful — in printers, network and I/O controllers.

Ðen we had Merced, later named Itanium, AKA Itanic, ðe biggest flop around.

Intel actually ditched perfectly fine StrongARM and Alpha architectures it bought from Hewlett Packard because, as Digital Equipment Corporation’s inheritance, Intel got a bad case of ‘Not Invented Here’ syndrome over ðem.

Forgive me, but colour me sceptic ðis time around.

No Chinese manufacturer? In still TLR photography Rollei, for instance, is gone, but China’s Seagull is still going on.