Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. The supply is supposed to be documented but people fake the work. The incentive and reward is there. Just don't get caught.
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  2.  @CBtronica  pennies add up to dollars.
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  3.  @robertheinkel6225  why would we provide food? Are we the world's soup kitchen? If you get a free meal you have to stay for the sermon.
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  4. I think the Singaporeans could just all move to Australia. There's plenty of empty space there. Heck I bet we could even find a place for them. It's kind of crazy them trying to fill the ocean up for some land to live on.
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  5.  @jeja6801  we're hardly the root of all of the world's problems. Folks have had problems throughout all of time.
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  6.  aRGee  rail to rail would be a remarkable achievement for a semiconducting device.
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  7.  TacticalMoonstone  there's only three things that matter in real estate. That's location, location, location!
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  8. Do you have any idea how long it takes for technology to become mature? Because it certainly does not seem like you do. So I just have to ask you bluntly, in general and typically how long do you think it takes for a technology to become mature? There actually is a precise answer to this question. I want to know if you know what that is.
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  9. They can always capitulate and surrender. Until then they need to stop hitting themselves. Because we get to sanction whoever we want to.
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  10.  @klausstock8020  a half a million operations is a lot. A half a million seconds is almost 6 straight days. I've done repetitive tasks and I'm only good for about 10,000 or so in a week myself.
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  11. We should apologize because they attacked and tried to conquer their southern neighbor? I don't think so!
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  12. Oh yeah the USA tells China and Russia what they have to do. NOT! We are not obligated to feed anyone either. We can sanction whoever we want to.
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  13.  @catonpillow  how is the USA stopping anyone else from trading with North Korea? If they're willing to accept the consequences of aiding our enemy then they're free to do so. You get sanctions and you get sanctions and you get sanctions! It beats us carpet bombing, don't it? Because if you'd like then we can do that too.
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  14.  NicholasWilliams-h3j  to steal is to take property without permission. When data is harvested generally there's an agreement. So it's technically not theft. You weren't doing anything with any of your data anyways so someone might as well get some use out of it.
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  15. Yeah and the guy that walked backwards and the other one that made paper airplanes all day. Good times.
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  16. It is hard to look back today and understand what it was like then. The pioneers are the ones that are supposed to strike gold. They took the risks to discover it. So yeah they deserve to be rewarded.
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  17.  @BOSS-ef4ev  hold on there Ho Chi Minh we did not invade Vietnam. We were just minding our own business in the Tonkin Bay when we were attacked. Or at least we think we may have been? No one is quite sure today. In any event that began our involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. Which I will add was going on before we arrived. Our only goal was to bring peace to the region. We just have a funny way of achieving peace. We think if we just beat one side up enough they'll decide to stop fighting. It did work in Vietnam too.
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  18. This video doesn't cover why UNIX was made though. Legend has it that Ken and Dennis made UNIX because they wanted to play a video game called Space War. So they developed the C programming language to code it and UNIX as the OS. Later on some bean counters saw what they did and figured they could monetize it. At the Labs you could do whatever you wanted to as long as you filed 3 patents a year. That was the workload. Place was a nuthouse.
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  19.  @chrisinidaho4569  you need to appreciate the pirate's perspective. They have a right to exist too. The whole world cannot conform to our standards. Who the hell are we to demand that? How'd you like it if someone came here and told us how to live? I'll be watching your social credit score closely from here on in.
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  20. Forget about that I cringed at how he pronounced Sylvania.
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  21. North Korea is just ahead of the curve when it comes to food. Pretty soon we'll all be starving.
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  22. As I understand it RMS was a bit of a fixture at MIT. Kind of like a doorknob or a bookend. Handy to have around so no one got rid of him. Until it became awkward. I think he crashed somewhere in the school? Like he had no place where he lived. It was weird.
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  23. I never knew you couldn't etch copper. I've etched copper myself many times.
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  24. How do they do it? Very carefully.
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  25.  @Istrianprincess  yes it would. They already done messed up and need to continue to pay a price for it. They serve as a useful example to the rest of the world not to do what they did.
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  26. Why can't Singaporeans just move to where there's land? Less than 6% of the Earth's surface is populated. There's land that's just going begging to have people living on it. There's a phrase for filling in the ocean. It goes like this, shoveling shit against the tide. It means participating in a hopeless task.
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  27.  @vennsim71  what you describe sounds like a nightmare to me.
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  28.  @vennsim71  I'm living the dream.
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  29. People are people the world over. You can't really trust any of them either.
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  30. Technophobic Luddites is who keep Apple afloat. How many colors? Millions!
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  31.  @frontiervirtcharter  operational amplifiers are linear analog devices. Linear voltage regulators look like power transistors but they're integrated circuits. The 78XX devices and the LM317 adjustable voltage regulator. Transistors can operate in two states. There's the active region and then saturation. Any transistor not saturated is acting as a linear device.
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  32. They'd be better served to just upgrade the electronics today to modern components. At some point you're better off just moving with the tide.
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  33. While you could go that route I never did. Early on I opted for CD installs. Then I only needed 2 or 6 floppies depending on the distro. I would buy sets of CDs at computer shows. I was only on a dial up and just felt I didn't have the bandwidth to download everything. Later I proved myself wrong by downloading Slackware 7 over dial up. It only took me three days. It was 128 MB. I did a hard disk install of it. How times have changed.
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  34.  @cjay2  that's because they're dumb. You shouldn't hear an amplifier at all. The distortion should be so low as to be inaudible. Which with solid state is the case.
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  35. So you're saying them invading the south may not have been a good idea?
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  36.  @sirnikkel6746  Any day now Alphabet Corp will change their name to the Ministry of Truth.
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  37.  @catonpillow  explain to me how the USA is an empire. What military campaign are we presently waging to conquer foreign lands? You'd be surprised to learn our laws concerning being admitted into the Union. As of now the flag's all full up of stars too.
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  38.  @piked86  what do you mean Intel never saw Zen coming? Intel engineers created Zen. When AMD was on the ropes Intel lent AMD engineers. The last thing Intel wants is to be labeled a monopoly. Intel needs AMD.
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  39.  @piked86  Intel is still selling more than half the processors sold now. So they haven't lost that yet.
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  40.  @catonpillow  for now and for all time. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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  41.  @mr2981  the transistor was always there. It was but for someone to discover it.
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  42. We partied like it was 1999 for the 12th year in a row. That, and they developed the FinFet too. The video about that is already out.
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  43. Sand and cement are ingredients for concrete.
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  44. Who the hell makes an ice detector with an FPGA? People that know how to rake customers with deep pockets over the coals for tons of cash, that's who!
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  45. Shockley went to California to work for Beckman.
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  46. We don't use x86 today. It's there still, but it's not what we use. x86 is 32 bits. Today we use 64 bits. That's not x86. It's actually called AMD64. Intel has a cross licensing agreement with AMD to use it. I think just the first part of the boot cycle is still x86? But once the system is bootstrapped it runs in 64 bit mode.
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  47. The first PCs had to have adapter cards to have video output. Those cards had chips on them that could be considered GPUs although display adapters could only produce text. So GPUs were a thing at the very beginning. It took almost 10 years from introduction for CPUs to reach 100 MHz. The first PC was only 4.77 MHz.
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  48.  @MrChrisRP  yes I have. It's never been a problem with my audio here. I can use all of the gain and it's fine. That's because the distortion is very low. It's a Sony.
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  49. Codes are not patented they're copyrighted. Learn the difference.
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  50. We were demolishing a place and came across a pizza box. All we had was a crowbar to open it up. So we did but let me tell you they really built those things. We were impressed by the amount of abuse we had to apply. They just don't make them like they used to.
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  51. Nah we're good with how things are now. They can sit there and starve. What does the USA have to do with Afghanistan? We went there looking for certain individuals to bring justice to them. With the blessings of the Afghan government I may add.
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  52.  @remka2000  I was not aware that this is a second part at all. So thanks for telling me. It's not obvious at all this is part 2.
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  53.  @chrisinidaho4569  you wanna bet we can't coerce other nations? Just ask Viktor Shokin how his job hunting is going.
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  54.  @chrisinidaho4569  oh I absolutely see the USA bullying everyone and anyone. It's what we do. You could call it our longest standing foreign policy. The shores of Tripoli are not exactly in our backyard. But our Marines still sing about them to this very day. It is said that the USA goes to war so Americans can learn geography. Just think about the countries that you've learned about in your lifetime. North Korea being one of them.
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  55.  @chrisinidaho4569  I know why they went. Maybe US ships shouldn't have been in those waters? I know why those people hate us today too. They don't want us infecting their culture with our degeneracy. I can't say I blame them either. I've had it with the crap being pushed here. Fucking had it up to here. Epstein didn't kill himself. If our military was honorable they'd remove the administration that's in office now. But they're all on the take or working to get on the take. Them generals retire then run and get jobs with military contractors. Cha ching! One place where Joe didn't have to stuff ballot boxes was DC. He won 92% of the vote there. The swamp wanted their own back so they could get back to business as usual. That's how corrupt this country is now. 92% sounds about right.
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  56. The government determined that it was in the public's best interests that Bell was a monopoly. When that was no longer the case and things changed Bell didn't owe anyone anything. You already got a telecommunications network out of it. You think Keebler elves strung up all of those wires in their spare time? It was magic? It was never going to happen without the monopoly. Which is why it happened in the first place.
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  57. Someday maybe they'll even get Hurd to work.
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  58. I guess they should have thought about that before they attacked the south.
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  59.  @AFlyingCookieLOL  don't try to tell us what we can do for fun.
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  60. The A-10 sports a GAU-8 Avenger. That's the name of the gun. The weapon exists beyond the plane.
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  61. Leaching is leaking. Just a specific form of leaking.
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  62. No one does today. Patents are only granted for a limited time. That time is long past now. It would not be in the public interest if patents did last forever. But some incentive to be inventive is desirable.
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  63.  @PaulFisher  that sounds about right to me. He's not the only one I've ever heard of doing such a thing. When I was young I worked at a gas station and we had a homeless person that kind of lived and worked there. Looked a bit like RMS too. Perhaps a bit better manicured. So I've not only heard of it but witnessed it.
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  64. Steve Jobs succeeded in killing himself in 2011.
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  65.  @thecraggrat  you've got to do what you've got to do.
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  66.  @PainterVierax  I probably have etched copper an atom at a time.
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  67. They were made in the USA when they were first installed. But that was decades ago and things change. The F-15 first flew in 1972. That is a long time ago now. Most of the companies that made the components for those planes don't even exist today.
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  68.  @KabukeeJo  Boeing has never made electronics. That work is subcontracted out. Boeing gets assemblies from suppliers. I doubt Boeing has made an F-15 in quite some time too.
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  69.  @KabukeeJo  the work was contracted out to US companies. But that was a long time ago and those companies no longer support that hardware. Those companies may no longer operate in the USA today. Things change.
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  70.  @KabukeeJo  it is an airplane that relies on obsolete parts. China is the only place where they can be sourced today. Domestic suppliers have moved on from 50+ year old tech now. If the remaining old stock of fighters can still fly a few missions they're not completely worthless. It is never easy to maintain those systems even in the best of circumstances.
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  71.  @KabukeeJo  Boeing is an aerospace company. They do not make electronics. They buy electronics from electronics manufacturers, just like everyone else does. No one outsourced anything to China either. That just happened naturally. They remain in a market that the west won't. Economics drives the market. There's nothing that can be done about that. We don't need those old planes but they're nice to have if we can keep them going.
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  72. Fake chips often do work but they often won't meet original specifications. They won't have the same power handling capacity or signal integrity. Subtle things. Like buying a Rolax watch off a street vendor. It's not the same as the real name brand but the hands move. Nevermind the green stripe you get on your wrist wearing it.
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  73.  @cyrileo  oh contraire. A fashion faux pas is something one can never live down.
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  74. If I was buying a CPU today I wouldn't buy Intel. But things change. Intel will be on top again soon. It goes back and forth.
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  75. What you really want is a vintage JRC4558 But all of those are going to be fake today. I have the real deal here that I salvaged out of a vintage radio. The sound is so rich and thicc. The hammer of the Gods!
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  76. ​ @PainterVierax  I wouldn't characterize it as free so much as it is fortuitous. There is a cost associated with scrapping electronics. As you point out it is not always possible to get what you want. You just get what you get. You have to be in it to win it but you also have to pay in order to play. In all of the boards I've picked I've only ran across those chips once. But I did manage to salvage 3 off that one board. This is what the real deal looks like https://i.imgur.com/2iZ10TW.jpg
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  77.  @PainterVierax  I've certainly used other op amps and there's no equal for a vintage JRC4558 in an overdrive or distortion box. It is lightning in a bottle. It's what made the original tube screamer a legend. Everything else is pale in comparison.
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  78.  @UltLuigi1  well yeah. To lead is the clearest path to victory. With victory comes the rewards.
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  79.  @UltLuigi1  that may be their plan but that doesn't mean their plan is going to work. AI is just not an easy business to break into. As it takes considerable resources to participate. But if the big players weren't in the field then I suppose the little guys would stand a better chance than they do now. Oh well.
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  80.  @ivok9846  what you have to understand is some challenges are great enough that meeting them takes a considerable amount of time and effort. The scale of problems varies. Bigger problems tend to take longer to resolve. Really big problems can take a really long time to overcome. But there's big problems that are also important problems so we expend more effort on them. Or some technologies that when they surface more people see the importance then. So there's a few factors at play. The size, importance and investments. From small things big things grow. It still tends to take a while for them to grow though. That time frame is minimally decades and can often stretch to generations. AI is a hot topic now but people have been working on it for over 20 years already. So we're already into decades. Now with things heating up I expect advancements to be more rapid. But sometimes there's roadblocks. Problems no one has thought of a solution to. We don't fully understand intelligence. So it is hard to make something when we don't know what that thing is.
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  81.  NicholasWilliams-h3j  well, it is good to hear that at least they have their priorities straight.
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  82. Those licensing prices were eye watering. Today Linux has a hard enough time getting users free. I bet if we could afford to pay people what they used to charge we could get some market penetration then. Adjusted for inflation, of course.
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  83. It doesn't matter if components are still made. It only matters if someone is buying them. If there's money to be made the counterfeiters will get involved.
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  84.  @rj7855  there are plenty of old parts that are out of production today. I'm sure someday the part shown in the video will become obsolete too. Someone will still need one to keep old gear running though.
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  85. Linux being free for anyone to download and having full source code available were certainly driving forces for Linux adoption. Some people just want to get on with what they're doing. Not having to deal with licenses is one less thing. Well, there is the GPL. But the terms of the early version were manageable. With an internal project you're not subject to anything really. Linux is still v2.
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  86. Linux uber Alles!
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  87. Whatever you do don't search for William Shockley here. What you'll find is shocking!
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  88. The Soviets only focused on rockets because they were so far behind with strategic bombers. So they adopted the strategy of simply changing the game. The B-52 flew years before Sputnik did. The US didn't need missiles so we didn't develop them. Once the US decided to compete with the Soviets with rocketry the US quickly leapt ahead.
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  89.  @Meteorknite  once the US joined the Space Race we quickly set all records worth holding. We've launched probes clear out of the solar system. We're the only nation to ever successfully land a mission on Mars too. Like I said, the Soviets switched to rockets because they failed with planes. So they entered an arena where there was no competition to gain a temporary lead. Once we did show up though we overshadowed everything they did.
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  90.  @Meteorknite  Russia never managed to land a probe on the surface of Mars successfully. One supposedly lasted for a few seconds. I would not call that a success. Viking happened in 1976. I was at the Cape then watching it.
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  91.  @Meteorknite  The Soviets never had a working shuttle and if they were so good then why'd they miss their schedule building the ISS?
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  92. Don't believe nanometers. It's all BS. TSMC doesn't make the tech that makes chips either. They just run machines. You could get any trained ape to do what they do.
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  93.  @wolfgangrenner4152  actually China can't buy the machines. They're export controlled. Only one company on Earth can make fab machines. It's in a western aligned country too. But the ban isn't losing them any business either. They can only build a finite number of machines a year and they're all easily sold. Oh, and if you have to ask what one costs you can't afford it.
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  94.  @wolfgangrenner4152  perhaps. All we know now is they haven't done it yet. The west has plenty of production. We just don't make consumer products. The profit margin is too low there for us.
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  95.  @wolfgangrenner4152  with automation manufacturing will likely change again. There's going to be factories with no one in them. It'll all be done by robots. That'll bring on a whole host of new problems. It is difficult for society to keep up with technology. It's not even the labor that's the major factor driving things now. It's shipping container tech. Docks are mechanized these days.
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  96.  @rollinghippo2940  there's nothing wrong with being greedy. Just so long as you come by everything you get honestly, that is.
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  97.  @vennsim71  no they can't. But they can suck the sand up, bring it back to their own land and then it's theirs.
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  98.  @vennsim71  they can.
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  99.  @vennsim71  New Singapore does have a nice ring to it.
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  100.  @vennsim71  I'm sure my country could fit them all in somewhere. There's towns out west just begging for people.
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  101.  @vennsim71  why does anyone have to give up sovereignty? Singaporeans just need a place to live.
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  102.  @anujmchitale  what rules do Singaporeans object to that other western countries have? Or is it just the rule of Law in general that they have a problem with?
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  103.  @anujmchitale  it worked for the people of the other country, didn't it? They all just showed up one day and started living lives themselves.
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  104.  @anujmchitale  immigration is not illegal if there's no recognized authority.
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  105. Negative does repel electrons.
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  106.  @andersjjensen  yeah they guessed the electron charge wrong and by the time they actually found out what it really was it was too late to change everything to how things really are. So here we all are today with negatively charged electrons. Most of the time it doesn't really matter. But when it matters then it does.
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  107. Bratton and Bardeen both lived practically next door to where they worked. So it's not like either of them had a long and arduous commute to work. Which makes the fact that they carpooled ludicrous. But eccentric behavior is par for the course at the Labs.
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  108. So what you're saying is that sand is like cheese?
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  109. For every one you see there's ten thousand in the walls.
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  110. Singapore should just move to where there's land. They could colonize Australia or something. There's plenty of empty space there.
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  111. There are most certainly linear analog integrated circuits.
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  112. I encourage you to emigrate to North Korea. Buh bye.
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  113. Confidence men gain trust before fleecing their marks.
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  114. Perhaps you don't know this but we use AMD64 today. Even on Intel.
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  115.  @dmac7128  I know x86 is still there. It's just not used much these days. I remember when I stopped using x86 and it was a while ago. x86 is 32 bit. Today we use 64 bit. I think 64 bit has x86 in it? The op codes. But x64 is extended x86. So we really don't need x86 anymore. But as I understand it the CPU starts up in x86 mode? That's nothing I'm familiar with so I don't really know.
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  116.  @porkysharma8423  they can always capitulate. We accept surrenders.
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  117. Fraud is profitable.
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  118. It's good work if you can get it.
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  119.  @lolatmyage  no one can afford that lenuchs thing!
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  120.  @JaapVersteegh  You rook I gave it up 15 years before you did.
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  121.  @rairaur2234  they never read that EULA. There's just too many letters and words.
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  122. So basically one Ukraine aid package. I think we can afford it.
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  123.  @yxyk-fr  we all know what prewar German patents are worth too.
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  124.  @anthonymarquez2542  we get to decide if you want to eat.
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  125. Shockley's views were based on easily observed reality. Well, easy for anyone of sufficient intellect. So perhaps that excludes present company? Do tell. Perhaps you should get a degree in figuring out what a woman is? You strike me as the type that needs one.
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  126.  @Raptorman0909  but it doesn't look flat. If the Earth was flat there'd be no horizon. They simply are not looking at things right. Shockley on the other hand could see down to the subatomic. He had exceptional clarity of vision. Far more acute than you'll ever know.
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  127. The shipping cost in space remains too high. That and space has other issues. Like cosmic radiation. Which would cause silicon defects.
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  128.  @lyrebirdcyclesmarkkelly9874  don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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  129.  @gordonwelcher9598  rail to rail is exceedingly difficult to achieve through a material that is naturally resistive. They don't call them semiconductors for nothing after all.
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  130. You're confusing your schemes. A pyramid scheme is when you buy in and then get others to buy in. A Ponzi scheme is when you sell a worthless asset for money. I'd say AI is operating more on the Ponzi model myself.
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  131. Only because guitarists are idiots.
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  132.  @edwardmonsariste4050  no they're not. Any filter can be digitally created today. You can sound like you're playing out of any model of tube amplifier. That tech has been available for decades. We're not living in the Stone Age now. Why with AI we don't even need musicians anymore. Chat GPT play me Chuck Berry playing Enter the Sandman please.
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  133. Yeah mega geniuses are messed up. It's a good thing they're rare.
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  134. Never underestimate the stupidity of your fellow human.
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  135. I wouldn't worry about it. Due to practical issues modern supercomputing has to use Linux. It was the OS positioned to get the development required for the task. AI has to deal with all of those harsh realities too. So it's a lock there as well. Someday the mind of God will have a Linux kernel. Guaranteed.
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  136. When your workstation is sparking do not douse it with water!
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  137.  @evilherojain4412  you love it when we oppress you.
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  138.  @evilherojain4412  I'm sorry to hear that.
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  139.  @evilherojain4412  emigrate. GTFO of my country!
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  140. Caveat emptor
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  141. Because corporate raiders offshored everything in the name of making a quick buck.
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  142. You just said it. It's old tech. It's not easy to keep 20 year old technology running. How many 20 year old PCs do you see being used today? The software that tech runs on needs that vintage hardware to work. The dummies used proprietary OSes. 20 year old Windows NT won't run on modern hardware either.
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  143.  @shopshop144  the problem is maintenance. You can't fix this machinery in house and the companies that make the machines are not offering long term maintenance contracts either. It's just not how people are thinking in the industry. Old fabs get scrapped. No one's into restoring them. It doesn't make sense to build old machines when the best customers all want new machines. You chase money where it's at.
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  144.  @SviatoslavDamaschin  you're not running real time controls in an emulator successfully. That's never going to happen. It is unlikely the software you're running belongs to you on the Windows platform either. So you're not going to rewrite it. Because you didn't write it in the first place.
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  145.  @SviatoslavDamaschin  a company making hardware may not have the software talent to write the code they need. Or it may not be economically viable for them to invest in what it costs to create software. Generally the cost is amortized across a number of clients. It doesn't pay to just write software for yourself. They simply might not have the time. Most people need things done yesterday. Not the years that development takes.
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  146.  @Asianometry  bikinis! OK maybe football fields.
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  147. You're luckier for the USA. Who do you think invented everything? Sure you people had some vague ideas but we actually made the physical hardware. Something you could slap and it worked. We made all of the software too. We invented the compiler and high level languages. Very little Information Technology was developed outside of the USA.
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  148. Please heat and beat carefully. kthanksbye
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  149.  @catonpillow  Wikipedia is not a reliable information source. The places you cite cannot govern themselves. we are certainly not there to conquer or subjugate those nations. We wouldn't even want them as territories. They are defacto protectorates. The USA is a global superpower so we have many international interests. Just because we have agents in foreign countries does not mean we are conquering those places. We have military bases in Germany. That doesn't mean we're controlling Germany. When we completely conquered Germany we handed it back to the German people too. Unlike the Soviets.
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  150.  @catonpillow  I do not need to look anything up when it comes to the history of the USA. That is a topic I am a distinguished historian and international affairs expert on myself. There's nothing in our history that even remotely suggests we have any imperialistic tendencies. Imperialists do not conquer countries then hand them back to the local populations. We do.
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  151.  @JMurph2015  so, you think Intel would want to see AMD fail? You don't see any problems for Intel if that happened? Who really worries about anti-trust anyways, right?
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  152.  @cjay2  I know you are. You don't have to point it out to me.
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  153.  @mr2981  I'm sure we could and have. There's just no profit in that path. I really don't think Nvidia is too interested in consumer graphics these days anyways. Why would they be? They're making far more with AI now.
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  154. Moore's Law didn't apply to Apple. They ran Motorola chips. Which was a large part of the problem for Apple. There was no way Apple was going to compete with the whole PC ecosystem. One cannot stand against many.
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  155. Microsoft has a solution to data acquisition as I can Recall.
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  156. Soylent Green is people!
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  157. Apple sued Microsoft for having a recycle bin. They'd have firebombed anyone that tried to clone their firmware. But what you describe is precisely what happened that started the IBM clone market.
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  158. The country does welcome immigrants. We just don't want illegals. There is a difference. Anyone that wants to come has to come on our terms. This isn't a free for all.
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  159.  @maksimfedoryak  the USA has the most generous immigration policy in the world. We admit more legal immigrants than any other country. 641,100 in 2022 which is 119,900 more than the next country. Just that difference would almost land us in the top 10 again.
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  160. No one wanted a midrange 486 by the mid 90s. Heck I had a Pentium 200. I gave a 486 DX4-100 away. Chip, motherboard, RAM, all of it. Apple's problem was they couldn't keep up with the free market. You can't stand alone against the tide.
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  161.  @madzen112  why would anyone want a low end 486 by the mid 90s? You couldn't even play Quake on a 486.
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  162.  @madzen112  1996
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  163.  @madzen112  it seemed that way to me. They were grasping for straws and circling the drain.
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  164. It was Steve Jobs. But Steve had to wander in the desert for a while before that was going to happen.
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  165.  @gtzpower  that's all a matter of subjective opinion. Except for the suicide nets around Foxconn. They're physical.
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  166.  @Dexter01992  maybe you don't like cheap pineapples but I do!
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  167. If they don't buy it then Intel will.
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  168.  @catonpillow  People in NK are starving because of the regime they support that the US sanctions. Do not pretend that we do not have our reasons to sanction North Korea. Not that we need reasons. We can sanction whoever we damn well please! You're cool, you're not cool.
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  169.  @catonpillow  the UN is not our boss. We sit on the security council. So we're the UN's boss! Really the UN is a bogus organization we cooked up to justify some of our shakier foreign adventures.
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  170. Public transportation is a non-starter here. I don't want to sit with you. I'm not going where you're going either. You're certainly not going where I'm going!
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  171.  @tracyrreed  I don't think x86 still being in chips today is a big deal. There's a whole minux computer running in modern CPUs today. It does housekeeping tasks and isn't user accessible.
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  172.  @foobarf8766  I never heard of 'r' functions. I haven't done any assembly programing in a long time now. But when I did it was x86.
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  173.  @Roxor128  I didn't have a PC before 80386, So for me the rest of that never existed. In my world x86 was always 32 bits. So there.
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  174. Opposites attract and likes repel. Electrons are negatively charged.
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  175.  @vulpo  voltage is the potential electrical difference between two points. In the conventional model electrons flow from the negative to the positive. Which is backwards from what one may expect. It's certainly backwards from what the people that defined it had thought. But they had no way of knowing. They didn't even know what electricity was. But they knew it had a polarity. So they decided one side was positive and the other negative. By the time anyone found out any better the conventional model was too entrenched to change it then. So we're stuck with it now.
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  176. How about you just turn your volume up?
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  177.  @uploadJ  that may be why I have my PC hooked up to a 360 Watt amplifier.
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  178.  @uploadJ  there's software that can do that today. But I'm always looking for any excuse to buy new speakers.
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  179.  @uploadJ  I'm pretty happy with what I've got. It sounds good to me. 5.1 surround sound. I have digital audio so it can all be shaped with software. Can add echo, any effect. It's all ones and zeros.
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  180.  @MrChrisRP  I'll be bummed when it dies. But so far so good. I use a blu-ray player as an audio amp. I got it cheap at a yard sale.
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  181.  @uploadJ  I've jackhammered without hearing protection. So I have natural compression now.
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  182.  @uploadJ  I have some tinnitus today. I've used hearing protection but I wasn't as diligent as I should have been. So as a result I've suffered from some hearing loss. Not as bad as some folks. But nevertheless my hearing still isn't what it used to be.
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  183. The main reason Linux isn't certified is some of the requirements are deemed too stupid to comply with. So devs simply refuse to implement them. You can't make volunteers do what they don't want to. Although I think a lot of Linux devs are paid today. So now I suppose not complying is more tradition than anything else. The whole GNU is not UNIX thing.
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  184. I used to see Dennis Ritchie at the grocery store. He was a local boy. I grew up next door to Bell Labs.
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  185.  @sarasarita8855  the USA did not invade Afghanistan. We were there with the blessing of what passed for a government there. We asked them to turn over the Al Queda members and they said they couldn't but we were welcome to come get them ourselves. So we did. What sanctions did we ever impose? Afghans are starving because they are a poor country. They were poor before we got there and they're still poor. That has nothing to do with us. What do you expect in an iron age society? It's not like they were living in Tomorrowland when we got there. You know what you call a piece of sandpaper in Afghanistan? A map!
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  186.  @sarasarita8855  the US is capable of and does grow all of the opium it legally uses. So spare me the poppy myth.
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  187.  @sarasarita8855  just you saying things does not make them so. US policy on poppies in Afghanistan was not to interfere until they tried to move it across the border. Then we'd interdict it. As far as I know all of that was simply destroyed. We certainly did not want any of it. We produce all medical grade opium here. It's not so hard to make. You're making it sound like the Afghanis are magical or something. Only they can grow poppies! Hardly. Certainly we were not protecting poppy fields. What for, from who? The Afghans were more than capable of protecting their own fields. And like I said we didn't want it. Why would we?
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  188. How is North Korea facing military threat? From who? If we wanted North Korea gone they'd be gone already. We drew the line on the map initially so you can say them existing is our idea.
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