RI_Swamp_Yankee

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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 8y ago
I don't think they'd attempt it unless they had something that would disrupt the market. Intel has been rusting on its laurels without credible competition, and if Apple manages to steal a march on them with a new technology, that
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 8y ago
That would put Intel in the crosshairs of anti-trust. The have a defacto monopoly on personal computer processors, and this sounds like an abuse of their market position to stifle innovation.
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 8y ago
If Apple needs to, they could buy either Autodesk or Adobe. To be honest, I'd prefer the buy and port Solidworks.
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 9y ago
Reminds me of the old "Fixing Solaris" file from the '90s (and the Fixing SunOS that was its forebear.)
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 10y ago
ARM is a very compeitive field of a number of manufacturers, building chips for billions of devices. The advantage is no longer Intel's. More, the Great Old Ones - IBM with their zSeries and Power8 and now Oracle with SPARC of all thin
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 10y ago
This is absolutely true. Worse, those brackets each define a different modal state. Even more worse, some languages ran out of brackets for all the purposes they wanted brackets for, so they invented their own - is there anything less thoug
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
This is true, and MitM attacks are becoming less and less theoretical as more traffic moves to the various wireless protocols. Rogue AP's and cell towers are a thing in these modern times.
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
I have $50/month Unlimited data iPhone plan, and 0% financing on the iPhone itself over 2 years. Coverage is much improved recently, too. Their marketing is terrible, and in-store customer service, while pleasant and eager to help, is
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
> 1. Businesses would want features that individuals don't care about. More importantly, they would want features that I don't care about. Yes, but they know you don't care about them, which is why they would pay you t
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
The MacOS X ecosystem is 25 years old now, counting NextStep, and has an installed base of close to a hundred million systems, most of them unsophisticated personal computer users running a full Unix operating system with internet access. T
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
Apple has always been exceptional in this regard as well. It usually drives people up a wall when this is pointed out, as the fanboys like to trumpet it a bit too loudly, but it's true. In-the-wild exploits are rare, and the company mo
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
Firefox is Netscape. There's a reason you download it from Mozilla.org. It's an amazing demonstration of the power of open source to allow good software to exist and thrive beyond its original mission.
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by RI_Swamp_Yankee 11y ago
This is incorrect. The average user, globally, uses Android as their main OS. Desktops in developing nations are never going to reach the same level of ubiquity as in the US and Europe. AAA Gaming there will be console-driven as well. Deskt