lorca2770

Because love letters with foreign leaders fall under the CIA mandate. It can be compromising for the security of the nation, same as dismissing your own intelligence services in favor of foreign masters.

highframerate said:

lorca2770 said:

Just a question, since time makes me forget. Wasn’t Arm developed by Apple, and Steve Jobs sold the company in the times of necessity? Careful! I am not talking about the false narrative of Microsoft. Only about Arm

What are you talking about? Microsoft is a software company. What do they care about CPUs other than very recently wanting to make their own for cloud server purposes? Microsoft only care about getting their software working on whatever architecture that sells (and under Pichai whatever platform that sells). Good grief.

And it is Pixar that Jobs dumped to raise cash. Instead, Intel was actually part of the original ARM research and development group along with Apple. They correctly decided to go all in on x86 and sold their stake to Marvell. Before anyone says "shortsighted", x86 was the consensus best option available at the time and Intel dominated  computing for 40 years as a result. ARM-driven mobile surpassing PC in 2010 and ARM PC CPUs rivaling - though not surpassing - PC CPUs in 2020 doesn't invalidate that decision. Especially since ARM still isn't much of a factor in server computing. Particularly since - as the Steam Deck shows - x86 is now viable for mobile devices, meaning that when AMD's Zen 5 SOCs are released in 2023 (on a 5nm node that TSMC is going to customize for AMD to keep them from jumping ship to Samsung) and when Intel's 5nm SOCs are released in 2025, we are going to see Windows 11 and ChromeOS devices that can match the iPad's form factor and performance. After that when they reach 3nm, x86 mobile phones that can rival the iPhone will be possible. (I bet that a big.LITTLE quad core AMD x86 Android phone would outperform any Qualcomm or Exynos phone already but no such thing exists.)

Just a question, since time makes me forget. Wasn’t Arm developed by Apple, and Steve Jobs sold the company in the times of necessity? Careful! I am not talking about the false narrative of Microsoft. Only about Arm

patchythepirate said:

This is a direct consequence of society’s cowardice in not making sure people get the medication that they need. It’s not compassionate to let someone refuse treatment (when their disorder prevents them from having the insight to accept treatment), then go on to ruin their lives, and possibly others. Same
thing is happening to thousands of homeless people. Society is failing our severely mentally ill population. 

mobird said:

I was a Apple II owner/user at the time that the Apple Mac 128 was released. I saw it and had to have one. My friend was the manager of a retail computer store that was an authorized Apple and IBM dealer. I got that Mac 128 at just above dealer cost along with a ImageWriter printer! 

So, I did, circa March 1984, and yet, when I took it to Spain, my whole family laughed at me. All of them were proud user of the keyboard and commands, the computer for professionals, they said. And look at today, what do we have? Very simple, even if some people get rubbed: Macs and MacWindows (grin)