The 68000 was a great chip. Unfortunately, Motorolla didn't have a working 68000 at the time IBM was shopping.
The 68000 was available. What was not available yet was the 68008 with an 8-bit external bus which would have kept the system price down.
The 68000 had disadvantages compared to the 8088.
It did not support the existing inexpensive 8-bit peripherals, it had no legacy compatibility with CP/M applications, and there was no 8-bit version which allows for narrower memory and half as much bus logic to save costs.
Later disadvantages of the 68000 include double indirect addressing and inability to restart from a fault because of lost state.
Why would the automation of government workers put an end to democracy? An AI-controlled government is perfectly capable of putting issues to vote, tallying the votes as humans cast them, etc.
Because AI decisions will be opaque leading to loss of due process. The government and corporations already take advantage of this deliberately and it has ruined lives. Read up on the British Post Office scandal for an example:
I lost interest in Bernie Sanders after it was revealed that the DNC directed his donations to supporting Hillary, and Sanders went along with it. In retrospect this explains his earlier campaigns and he had to know about it, so my conclusion is that his plan all along was to draw in voters who would support his policies, and have them vote for someone else. He never intended to win the Democratic primary election. It was just another way to get more votes for whoever the DNC picked.
I preferred WordStar 3.3 to 4.
What stopped me from continuing to use WordStar on the IBM type of PC was lack of long filename support.
But none of them come cheap. Remember when a computer cost the equivalent of $10k in today's dollars and could barely run a spreadsheet? All the (rich) early adopters who bought those through the 70s, 80s, and 90s paid for the factories that churn out your $150 smartphone.
Computers benefited from increased integration from Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law which doubled the number of transistors for the same cost and energy every 18 months. There is no equivalent for batteries.
My largest complaint about the Gaxaxy XCover is poor battery life.
If you buy a refurbished one like I did, make sure it is not the AT&T one because they lock the firmware and features.
Imagine living in such an affluent part of the world yet still being scared enough to feel the need to carry a weapon.
This is the same state which has San Fransisco and Stockton.
...the Santa Clara County undersheriff requested...
So, a public official solicited a bribe? Are they, too, being prosecuted?
Come to that, could Moyer's legal team argue "entrapment"?
They investigated themselves and found that they did not commit extortion.
The bribery ultimately accomplished nothing other than getting someone a felony accusation and Apple bad publicity.
Odd how those in the sheriff's office were not charged with extortion, which is really what it was.
Most of the complex lifeforms (plants, animals) have sexual reproduction, and have done for hundreds of millions of years, Is that all done with the same X and Y chromosome?
No, there are other methods of sex selection. For instance reptiles use incubation temperature.
Seems to me this is likely for the Y also.
One theory of why the Y is so short: The shorter it is, the less likely a selection-restriction could develop on it. On other chromosomes this is bad but not insurmountable with time. On the Y (if a countermeassure doesn't evolve lightning-quick) all the first mutant's children are male, all their children are male, and so on until there's an all-male generation, after which the species disappears into the dustbin of extinction.
The way I remember it is since only half of children have the Y chromosome, there is selection pressure from the genes on the X chromosome to remove it or make it non-functional producing more XX children. Genes on the Y chromosome have their functions taken up by genes on other chromosomes to make the attack surface of the Y chromosome smaller.
...all big tech should block all EU countries from accessing them online. They should also terminate all licenses to software. See how much the EU countries like getting on without software and half the internet.
Just shadow ban the offending material from within their borders. Just for safe measure, I would completely ban everything from a government IP address also; government employees should be working and not using social media.
Money has been spent. Where is the post implementation report stating the false positives and false negative numbers?
They do not track false positives from drug sniffing dogs, so why would they track them for this?
It matters because it doesn't work
It does not need to be admissible in court. It just needs to generate probable cause on demand, like a drug sniffing dog.
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