Yeah, stupid like a fox. Guess what? If you solve all the problems now you'll have no wars to profit from later.

A joke like our "corrections" system, classy like a prison system which very much does include rape.

this is very useful information; thanks. too bad git doesn't do this first, and then fill in the history later. that would make it dramatically more usable for the average human.

Apple's problem certainly was elitism, but that actually worked for them (Academics are elitists, after all) until it started holding them back in performance. It was OK for the machines to cost more, but to cost more and then have a rinky-dink CPU? That was not OK.

MacOS 9 should never have existed. Apple should have had something better by then. They didn't. MacOS 7 was pretty bad, too. MacOS 6 was quite good compared to the PC operating systems of its day, but that was a long time ago.

If only Apple could have had Steve Jobs and BeOS...

In fact I can choose between two WISPs. Neither is cellular, there's no 3G etc at my house. EDGE GPRS works here. Used to be a choice between one local WISP (which has been bought out by a lame larger WISP) and satellite, which I won't even consider for various obvious reasons, none of which have to do with latency. If I want to change WISPs it will cost me $250 in installation fees. The WISP I am with now literally does not offer "broadband" speeds by the definition of the FCC; I can not buy a 4Mbps connection from them, the old definition, let alone the 6Mbps of today. I have a 1Mbps connection which bursts to 1.5Mbps, and I pay $50/mo for it. There are regular (though usually short) outages, possibly in part due to the shack where the hardware is housed atop Mt. Konocti's Howard Peak, which I helped to insulate from the outside with some janky paper wrap and glue product when I was younger.

For small repos that's fine, it's a feature. For large repos it's not fine, it's a serious problem. I literally cannot fetch the Android-x86 repo. git won't just finish sending the old stuff if new stuff has appeared since your last attempt to fetch the repo.

This wouldn't be as big a problem if people didn't think that git access was a substitute for a tarball, so that if you just need to build the fucking code you can do so.

The problem is, this is a mobile GPU licensed out. For them it was fire-and-forget. And there never were any driver tweaks forthcoming from the OEM, only from "the community". Hooray for XDA-developers.

Right, and early HD-DVD movies had 1 layer (15GB) for the same reason.

Well, no. It was the only thing keeping Apple afloat, because without familiarity everyone would have laughed it off as an expensive fruit machine. Apple's disaster was sticking with 68k chips and making the Quadra, then not sticking with 68k chips and using the PPC, which at the time was only competitive with the 68060, not outrageously faster; and meanwhile, the PC processors just ran away from the PowerPC because IBM was slowwwww to develop it into a faster processor, shock amazement. On the first hand they stuck with the 68k longer than they should have in the name of compatibility, and then they went to the PPC in the name of performance in spite of the ppc601 being slower than the then-available PC processors. It wasn't until the G3 and G4 that they had a speed advantage which was lost by the time the G5 came out.

Who are you? And why should we believe that you are anything other than a Microsoft shill when you are too cowardly to associate your identity with this comment?

So you're headed over to shoot some of them to stop them from talking right now? I think you'd better try a dictionary.

GP's inability to spell should not have impeded your reading comprehension to this degree. We call that an ulterior motive.

They didn't just throw netburst away. Bits of it appeared in core, alongside the Pentium 3 technology.

The difference is that PowerVR is crap and has always been crap. I owned the Riva TNT, I owned the original PowerVR board, I owned the original 3dfx... I've owned examples of all (plus radeons) since and PowerVR is the biggest failure, their drivers are even worse than AMD's.

Intel errata lists are not only plenty long, but the probability of them increasing in size with bugs they didn't find and/or didn't want to admit initially is... well, let's just say I produced an FDIV error while trying to calculate it.

The question I have is why this is actually necessary. Is the market actually demanding to pair nvidia GPUs with crappy CPU cores? Because nVidia is already pairing them with good ones and offering SoCs, e.g. Tegra. Tegra has a metric assload of CPU, it's hard to imagine that they couldn't offer a dual-core and a quad-core version and cover the vast majority of cases.