"What we found out with Katrina was...that the US Army Corps of Engineers had made some serious mistakes and short cuts in the levee system they had built and overrated."

That is far from the most important thing we found out. For example, deforestation was predicted to make storm surges worse and what happened was exactly in line with those predictions.

Google also sells expensive phones. It's just not their core business.

But that doesn't change the fact that Apple chose to stay and help the CCP oppress the P of the PRC, and Google didn't.

Your argument basically boils down to Apple's business model being more dependent on more corrupt regimes. That is not an endorsement.

Nobody cares if the games run natively. What they care about is whether they work correctly.

I agree that the compatibility is not perfect, and it is slightly irritating to have to try both PlayOnLinux and Lutris to find out where some games will run. But there are compensations for some users.

Specifically, many older games will run on Linux that won't run on Windows at all, even with patches.

If you only play new games, and you do nothing E else with your computer but that and possibly running some other software that only runs well on Windows like current Adobe stuff, then you will be best off on Windows. Everyone else is better off on Linux, unless they want to play games that require Kernel DRM.

Most modern games which don't require that run very well on Linux. And nobody cares if they need proton. It's not like it's hard to install.

You root the machine, usually.

Not difficult for most PC OSes.

Welcome to corporatism, where they're the same picture.

Everyone who publishes that data is just providing free evidence. Why would they do that? Who knows, but this is smarter, and only slightly less scrupulous.

They charge so much that it's literally cheaper to have a new part soldered to the board. They're fostering an industry dedicated to bypassing their ridiculous design decisions.

It took no skill, because you made no point. You just threw up and called it a meal.

"(who knew that biometrics wasn't a word? When did Mozilla decide this?)"

Most supplied dictionaries are trash, but yes, the Mozilla dictionary is especially horrible.

Even the Google dictionary is missing tons of words despite crowdsourcing (crowdsourcing being one of them, I just added it to my device) and even worse, the keyboard wants to type only banal words when you swipe, because the matches are apparently based more on crowdsourcing than on the best match for your swipe. The more erudite the word, the worse it is, for example try entering the word erudite. I succeeded on the second try, but the first time it typed "Russia" (and it was the first alternate suggestion the second time, too.)

"Apple is a wilful contributor to obeying the law, nothing more, nothing less."

Apple is a corporation, and like all corporations its explicit legal purpose is to separate funding from liability.

"I bet you'd sing a different tune if the ban was for TikTok."

China already has banned TikTok from China. They only allow their own version with approved thoughts and ideas. This move by China (and supported by Apple because nothing is more important to them than profit, even if it is unsustainable) is in fact just more of that same ban. As such, you would not only lose your bet, it really doesn't make any sense.

You're not obligated to operate in China, Apple spokesdroid. You chose to do so. Google chose to exit when China wanted them to help put the screws to the populace. Apple didn't. Apple is a willful contributor to public oppression in China and nothing any PR flack says will change that fact.

Most intensive tasks are I/O bound, and most of the ones that aren't are CPU-bound, so yes.

They want the photolitho machines. The location is also strategic.

I'm consistent so you don't believe me? Okay, sport.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Looks like they are showing the base clock for Windows and the boost clock for Linux. The processor model was listed on the page you linked, so you could have found this out with google.

So what you're saying is you think Java is optimized for Linux over Windows? I could believe that, but where are your benchmark tests? How did you leave those out?