Yeah, I read further down after posting that. Whooo boy.
frezik
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Intel's core product became big primarily due to decisions they had nothing to do with.
Roll back the clock to IBM developing their first PC. They usually developed hardware in house, but they were late to the game and needed something fast. They choose to use off the shelf hardware, with the BIOS being the one thing that's proprietary.
For the CPU, they could have gone with Motorola or MOS or Texas Instruments. They choose Intel. Why? Because Intel fulfilled a memory contract on another project, so sure, use their 8088.
Compaq then reverse engineers the BIOS and the whole thing pases legal muster. Now anybody can make a compatible, but they have to use the same CPU that IBM did.
Microsoft does its thing with DOS and Windows. Everyone is writing software against that. Now everyone starts getting locked in.
After that, all Intel has to do is keep x86 going well enough that nobody wants to make the effort to switch. Yes, AMD and Cyrix are out there, but at this point, they're both the cheap alternative that isn't as good.
They fucked up the 64-bit transition. AMD did the version we all use now.
Intel's entire success is based on making good on a memory contract to IBM decades ago. That's it. It hinges primarily on decisions they did not make themselves. Weren't even in the room at the time.
Patrick Gelsinger was an engineer.
Nvidia is run by a former engineer. I don't know if that's an argument for or against the idea.
You're completely misunderstanding. The CBS source is confirming the non-edited version exists.
Roger Moore
FUCK YOU I WON'T TAKE IT BACK
Tootie fruity / fast booty
We're on the second generation that grew up with easy access to Internet porn. How about we admit this is how things work, and it doesn't turn kids into serial killers or whatever?
Teach them about it. What they see in porn is not how people have sex for real (and be specific!). Consent should be followed. Don't post revenge porn, and avoid watching it. Here's how to look for porn that emphasizes consent on set. The performers are real people with real lives beyond sex, and they deserve a basic level of respect as human beings. And so on.
My rule for home automation is that it has to work in a low-tech way. I get Zigbee switches for certain things, but they work as just a light switch if everything is down. This is not true of Phillips Hue bulbs.
Until they realize that you can't sell overpriced cars to starving people. Then they'll concede UBI.
That said, UBI is pretending to be socialism, but it's rooted in capitalism.
An economy exists, always. Ants have an economy.
How that economy is implemented is a social construct. The basic idea is not.
This is almost worse for Trump. If the Supreme Court hears the case and clears her conviction, MAGA is going to raise a shitstorm. If they don't clear it, then it at least kept the story in the news cycle when Trump wants the whole thing to disappear.
The better outcome for Trump is that she takes the pardon in exchange for blaming all the Democrats. Trump gets to pretend he's not involved, and witch hunting Democrats keeps MAGA happy.
They're going to open a couple of Popeyes franchises.
I joke, but this isn't totally off the table for Trump.