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by metageek 16y ago
> To be more fair to Apple's decision, at the time it was made, RISC was the New Hotness[tm] that was suppose to run much faster than CISC. And everybody, including Intel, believed that CISC was doomed. That's why Intel developed th
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by metageek 16y ago
Yes, they did. MMX predates the G4, and SSE came out the same year.
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by metageek 16y ago
Third problem: Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones, and is steadily losing ground to Android. (Which is not to say they're doomed. They'll probably keep a healthy marketshare, just not the dominant position they used to have.)
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by metageek 16y ago
No, I read it in Dilbert first. "You'd better click something or I'll have to ship you some books." -- Dogbert
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by metageek 16y ago
The article somewhat misrepresents Netscape's attempted rewrite. I was at Netscape at the time, although I never worked on the rewrite. > The solution Netscape found was to rewrite the whole browser from scratch, in order to create a n
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by metageek 16y ago
> With this as an alternative on platforms that don't support webM 1.5fps is not an alternative. Nice hack, though.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Windows didn't even have a network stack, back then. And then Windows got N+1 network stacks, with incompatibilities. I had escaped by that point, but I heard the tales of woe.
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by metageek 16y ago
I didn't say it did. It's just surprising to see that much of a difference, regardless of the cause.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Once they get into college, it's all about getting 'distinctions' - grades higher than 66%. 66% correct, or 66th percentile? At every school I went to, 66% correct would be a failing grade.
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by metageek 16y ago
That goes back at least ten years. In a Doonesbury strip from about 2000, when Mike's company isn't able to make payroll, he tells his daughter everybody's working for stock options now. "Do you know what stock options are?" "Sure! They
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by metageek 16y ago
Do people really use iPads for music much? Seems a little too large to be convenient.
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by metageek 16y ago
MP: "Whine, whine, I don't like the rule of law."
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, this bug has convinced me that, when I get an Android phone, it has to be a Nexus.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm imagining that you were the surgeon. "Appendectomy? Yeah, there's an app for that."
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by metageek 16y ago
Thanks for the map; I always thought the declination was pretty tiny. Kind of shocking to realize it's 20° in my house.
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by metageek 16y ago
Particularly since the pilot would still have to look up the local conversion, since it varies from place to place.
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by metageek 16y ago
fences['electric'].damn()
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by metageek 16y ago
>I thought the accompanying chipset pushed the baby Atoms up to ~12w total. This is one of Intel's own motherboards; let me dig it up...D945GCLF. And I was wrong. The Atom itself has a TDP of 4W. The motherboard claims its total draw
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by metageek 16y ago
PC++.
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by metageek 16y ago
Some of Intel's Atoms run at 2W or less. A year ago I built an Atom-based nettop whose total power drain is something like 4W.
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by metageek 16y ago
> I doubt [LTE compatibility] too due to frequency incompatibility. Are you sure? AT&T and Verizon both have frequencies in the 700 MHz range; I'm sure they don't have the exact same frequencies, but I'd bet that the same hardware
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by metageek 16y ago
> Then explain why there's no EU-comparable regional service in areas of the US with far greater density Because nobody wants regional service? There used to be regional service that was cheaper--I remember my parents signed up for it
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by metageek 16y ago
> I just usually avoid recommending Crypto, due to its sheer size and density. Good point. And you can hook someone on Snow Crash by reading them the opening bit about the Deliverator. > What did you think of Anathem? I love it
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by metageek 16y ago
Six more weeks of datelessness!
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by metageek 16y ago
I just thought of Cryptonomicon first, mostly because I've been rereading the Baroque Cycle. I think it also matches the original poster's request better, though, because it covers life in a raw startup.
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by metageek 16y ago
OK, good point.
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by metageek 16y ago
Cryptonomicon.
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by metageek 16y ago
> The U.S. spends 17%, and falls far behind the others in results. Although you have to wonder how much of the results difference is due to our lousy diet.
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by metageek 16y ago
> committing adultery (& other crimes) in full view of subordinates Nit: adultery is not a crime in most of the West. (Some US states still have it on the books, but it's probably not enforceable, under the same Supreme Court rulin
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by metageek 16y ago
From the article: >A reminder: If Facebook is forced to register, it will not HAVE to offer stock to the public. But since it will be forced to disclose its financials anyway, we expect the company will go ahead and offer up some second

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