Buying a foreign vehicle assembled in the US is far less beneficial than buying one engineered, tooled, supplied, and assembled in the US by a domestic company.

Let's say you buy a Honda. Where is most of the high-value engineering and design work done? Japan. Who owns the primary, high-value parts companies that supply them, like Nippondenso or Aisin? The Japanese. Who reaps the majority of the profits for both OEM and suppliers? The Japanese. Do these companies allow their employees to join the UAW? No. Where do they often buy their steel, tools, and other critical components? From Japan. So hurrah, the unskilled labor is non-unionized in the cheapest states and the profits and best jobs are kept by the Japanese, at a level far greater than your shallow "statistic" shows.

The Japanese did not get here because they were innately better - they were not, especially in the 60's and later, in the 90s - but because their government colluded for 65 years through MITI to create a domestic market that allowed Toyota, Honda, and a few others to rely on all fixed costs being met at home so they could use export pricing. When you have 65 years of such a safety net, you get results. This technique has been repeated by Korea. Now China, with most of their OEMs partially or fully owned BY THEIR GOVERNMENT, want in on the same action. US government involvement in the US industry pales by comparison to all these countries.

When you retire, who's going to pay for your socialized retirement and health care? Not those formally highly-trained and well-paid tool makers, machinists, designers, and engineers that used to create your Taurus or Edge; their jobs have been shipped to Japan and Korea. Now they work at Olive Garden or Walmart or are on disability (the new welfare). I guess they should have all trained to be lawyers, insurance agents, and real estate brokers instead of spending decades learning to build things that actually create wealth instead of seeking rent.

For the good of the country, fostering a strong domestic automotive industry is an extremely wise policy to pursue. If you don't believe me, just ask the Japanese, Koreans, Germans, and Chinese.

Sure HP. I'll get to this right after I subscribe to BMW heated seats...

I am one of the first owners of the of Jetson TK1 board. The benefits of this board are a) it runs Ubuntu out of the box, b) it has more powerful GPU, and c) it is supported and well documented by Nvidia. There is a native build of Chrome on ARM - see the Acer Chromebook 13, which also uses the TK1 SoC - and it runs quite well. However, I never did get that build for my Jetson as Google limited its distribution. There may be a way around that these days. I did however get Chromium to work like Chrome through some additional software. The browser ran well on top of Ubuntu with 2GB of RAM. It would however run out of memory and crash if one loaded multiple tabs with heavy content. Double the memory should some that issue.

Given that 54% of all computing devices worldwide ship with Android as their OS, I'd argue that Google is the bigger Unix proponent. Linux also powers the majority of data center computing by the likes of Google, Amazon, and Apple. Even Azure has a large percentage of Linux servers. If Window's didn't have exclusive server applications, that number would probably fall to where it should be, like 0%. How many CAL's would that cost? I must consult my MSFT-certified licensing specialist. Where's Bill Sr. when you need him?

Pick your poison. I'd rather sudo apt-get install VLC then have to fuck around with the Apple land-mine-ridden quasi-linux-dev environment.

I have one, and it is a great little Linux box for the most part. The x86 compatibility issue pops-up every once in a while, and 2GB RAM is a little tight, but after that it's all roses. Thanks to Raspberry Pie, ARM support for Linux is surprisingly complete, and the Tegra K1 graphics vastly outperformed the GPU on any Intel CPU that cost less than the entire JetsonTK1 board. Video cam, Google Hangouts, LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, Java, Webstorm, etc. all work very nicely. My son uses it for his development computer, and it is attached to a 240GB SSD and a 32" 1920x1200 monitor. Libreoffice launches in 2s cold.

Same with Nvidia. But with 4x the performance.

Um, "What's your sign?". Best used in Discos.

The license agreement that come on screen when you first boot up says you can decline the agreement and receive a refund - or at least it used to. But for years that was a lie because people couldn't get a refund from Dell or HP or Lenovo or MS. Seems to me the judge is saying that this fraud must stop. Seems reasonable to me.

Remember how I said the future might make a fool of you? Seems Google thinks that desktop quaility gaming has come to mobile. And the demo certainly looks impressive. Probably not on QC chips in the near future, but certainly on the Nvidia K1 and Erista. Remember, both of these are (or will be) >= Intel HD4400 Graphics. That is more power than most people on Steam have.

The potential answers to your question are "yes" "of course" and "how stupid are you to even have to ask?"

There was no call for such a nasty response. I provided a nice post that I thought you might find useful, and you belittled my points like some arrogant prick. Does that brighten your day? Unfortunately, the future might just make a fool of you.

One would have to be pretty stupid to miss that ARM and x86 markets are converging. Servers are going ARM. x86 is going mobile.

One would have to be pretty stupid not to see that ISA does not dictate audience or sales strategies. Any current association is correlation, not causation. The montetization strategy is driven by the the target market. If ARM and x86 are converging to compete in the same markets ... well, I'll let your figure it out from there. Let me know if you need help.

One would have to be pretty stupid not to see that Porting to ARM, while sometimes tedious, is not nearly as arduous as one might think:

• * Portal, Half-life 2, Brochard, and many other desktop-quality games are already on ARM.
• * NVidia and Valve have ported Source to ARM. URE, Unity, and Uningine are already there, as is SDL.
• * I have compiled numerous "x86" games to my Jetson TK1 (like Xonotic) with little trouble and performance is better than the AMD AM1 chips, including the 5350. The only major problem I've seen so far is hand-coded optimizations like SSE.

One would have to be pretty stupid not to see that porting to Nvidia ARM with great hardware and excellent drivers might be less trouble than trying to get shitty AMD drivers to work with SteamOS. I wouldn't be surprised if folks over at Valve had the same thought, judging by their impression of AMD's drivers. (hint: they are Vendor "B"). Adding weight to this, I have it on good source that a "consumer" variant of the Jetson TK1 board should come to market "soon". Sounds awfully steambox-ish.

Let's not be stupid, ok? You might want to drop $192 and get up to speed on ARM yourself.

Fact is however, that when it comes to bang for a buck or just plain bang in one chip, there really are no alternatives for AMD. That's why console manufacturers went with it.

Depends on if they require x86. The Tegras are full SoCs, with the K1 beating i3 parts on a number of compute benchmarks. It also performs similar to HD4400 graphics, with OGL4.4 support and a power draw <10W (<3W for most uses, ~0.6W idle) @ 2.3GHz. It looks to compete well against the Mullins chip.

This of course would require more Steam games ported to ARM, which I admit is probably a serious PITA.

I suspect it will be one of the more powerful AMD APUs under the hood. It's about the only way today to have a significant graphical power without having a discrete card.

I think that is wishful thinking for someone who really is rooting for the Red team

At present, the consensus is that AMD GL drivers are severely deficient in performance, capability, and stability (see posting about GL vendors provided by Valve engineering manager). Now this company could work with AMD to greatly improve their GL drivers. Or they could simply use a Tegra K1 (or the subsequent Erista chip) and get everything they need with top-notch driver and Valve support. Given that Shield already runs Portal and Half-life 2, and that Valve and Nvidia have collaborated on the Steam Box, and that NVidia GL drivers are consistently better ... well, you see where I'm going. The Tegra chips seem to make a lot more sense.

I didn't say that Mac didn't have multi-monitor support. I said it does not have "proper" multi-monitor support. I have been using multi-monitor support with X for years. How do I know this? Because I used a Macbook this year and found how incredibly, embarrassingly poor the mult-monitor support was, effectively disabling one monitor when putting an app into full-screen mode. What year is this? So yes, it is sometimes good to step outside the wall of blind pro-Apple-ism and realize other people know what they are talking about.

I wrote: "Webkit probably remains OSS only because the KHTML foundation requires it."

You wrote: "That is bullshit and you know it."

No, I don't know that it is bullshit. Is it speculation? Of course, that is why I wrote the word probably.

Of course, if Apple had closed Webkit, they wouldn't have benefited from the enormous investment of Google to its development. So in the end, I guess they are thankful for the LGPL license.

You wrote: "If you don't support the right to fork [...] you don't support open source."

Yes Webkit was always a fork. But the KHTML devs were led to believe that there would be collaboration - and apparently there was up until Apple got what they wanted ...

You wrote: [...] and why they open source most Apple-originated projects.

How in the world do you come by that metric? Everywhere I look in Apple I see proprietary hardware, software, and services that are designed specifically for lock-in.