My first was a 4.77MHz 8088 machine that had a turbo button to take it to 10 glorious MHz. A single 5.25" floppy drive with no hard drive or modem etc. CGI and IIRC EGA graphics as well with some games doing some interesting things with palettes to make it seem like they could do more than 4 colors. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize i could SAVE (and subsequently LOAD) programs that I'd written in GWBASIC.

Why did Bitcoin not take off as a generic name for any cryptocurrency token? There's a rich history of proper nouns becoming regular nouns as part of a language e.g. google meaning any search engine, coke meaning any soda, etc. Bitcoin has the same number of syllables as crypto and is easier to write out as a whole as well.

I bought some bitcoin today!

Oh yeah? What kind?

Ethereum

Agreed. I'd half-seriously suggested that nVidia and AMD get into the business of making ASICs as a way to reduce the demand for GPUs for mining. This is one of two ways to do that. The other way would be to make ASICs that far outstrip regular GPUs for mining, thus making the GPUs far less attractive to miners. I think nVidia should (or maybe is planning to) go that route if (or when) its CMP series takes off. I'd be interested to see what their long term plan is here.

It's a little different in this case. Muslim developers who've put such an app out there will typically make them free so it counts as a charity of sorts which is why a free app doesn't raise the kind of eyebrows in this context. Selling your location data is completely unexpected but it looks like the increased awareness means consumers will at least be more interested in this aspect of things going forward.

I'm surprised I've not thought of this before. I know there are plenty of apps that will do more than just calculate the direction of Mecca but if it were a unipurpose app that only did that part and none of the additional bells and whistles to corner the market.

It's the Great Circle direction. This means that the direction is NE in e.g. Eastern US which can be counter-intuitive to those who've not experienced distances on a sphere.

Hear! Hear! Let the modding begin!

Looks like Windows 10 is available on ARM as well so maybe we won't lose dual boot capabilities either! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...

You will be missed.

Aww yiss! My latest purchase included so many carbon atoms I didn't know what to do with them!

Never underestimate the power of a few million dollars (or other pressure that's brought to bear) to break a profile that's so easy to spot. That's beyond the fact that there are plenty of blond blue-eyed muslims out there to break your profile on its own. Even Malcolm X attested to that.

I still remember landing and seeing family at the gate. Walk with them to baggage claim and pick up your stuff and off you go. For that matter, going to the gate with family and just enjoying company while you wait for your flight.

When you're a terrorist and you see the TSA feeling up Muhammad and his wife and children because of how they look, you naturally find a Robert who won't be searched because he doesn't look like Muhammad or his family.

What then? You'll start feeling up Muhammad and Robert and their families? What about David?

What about Elias who belongs to a completely different group and has a completely different mission than destroying a plane or building? Say he just wants to assassinate a specific passenger.

Dr. Yueh recommends poison gas.

Specifically it would seem the north pole.