I've never even used them before, and this transparency has moved them to the top of my list for the future.

Fuckups happen to everybody, despite all the 20/20 Captain Hindsights here pointing out everything that went wrong. I like to see how people handle their fuckups, and they're handling this one with grace.

Who can't? FFS, they're one of the easiest packages to solder. Grab a firestick and practice...

The stunning amount of ignorance being displayed by the commenters here just makes me a bit sad when I remember how you people used to be. Seriously, where are you people getting the ideas that DSPs aren't reprogrammable, or that they've somehow been made obsolete by FPGAs (wtf), or that FPGAs are in any way superior for low power (wtf??) or any number of other things I'm seeing people pull out of their asses here? Fuck's sake people, know the limits of your knowledge and quit speaking outside them. It's really kind of embarrassing.

Nice to see the editors are as bad as always though, some things never change. 8MB of SDRAM indeed.

er, what?

they're reprogrammable like any other commonly used, uh, programmable device.

And yet it's the simplest, easiest to use version control system I've ever used. That's why I use it, not because any of the projects I'm working on are the size of Linux.

Have you ever used it?

Seriously dude? Because teens inevitably will use it even if it's illegal for them to use.....rather like they're already doing.

That should be a fairly easy list to compile, just list every company that has filed a patent in the last twenty years.

Of course I have backups, that doesn't mean I want them to have access to the stuff...

Overrated security tip. I mean - it's absolutely basic, nobody should be stupid enough to run as administrator - but it's also bare minimum. There are still absolute tons of vulnerabilities that have nothing to do with Admin.

All of my data (documents, etc) is accessible to my standard user account, as it rather has to be, and malware could do me way more harm by fucking with that than it could do as root.

Yes, their name is Every Oscilloscope Maker Ever.

You write like you probably orgasmed at least once while thinking that shit up.

Yup, Avago as well.

Levels of abstraction, dude. If you design a CPU in an FPGA you are working at the same level as someone designing a CPU in hardware. Nobody hand-crafts every one of the tens of thousands to billions of transistors in a CPU.

Plenty of computer manufacturers manage to sell product without you ever hearing the names of any of their marketing workers. Apple's janitors were also essential to their success as a company, but unless we start giving everyone praise, it's not fair to give any to someone like Jobs. It's the engineers who made the product, everyone else was auxiliary.