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I remember the Phenom argument: "Core 2 Quad is just two Core 2's stitched together; Phenom is a TRUE Quad Core and therefore better!"...

I brought AMD back when it was $1.68. I thought I was a genius selling at $15, lol. But yes, find good companies near the bottom of...

Register usage isn't a concern in 99.9% of all circumstances; it's rare for anyone to be doing work in pure assembly anymore (barring...

There's a number of reasons. The simplest is performance; doing those checks is not trivial, and tends to grow more expensive the...

Because technology != product. And turning the first into the second takes tens of Billions of dollars.

As a note: When this was first detected the odds of impact were about 1 in 90. This is really the first case where the odds of impact...

Except you'd need to hit it *multiple* times in just the right way, over a period of years to have enough of an impact for it to miss...

Except it's already too late. To passively move an asteroid enough where it makes a difference is something that takes a few decades of...

Speaking as someone who is a professional SW Engineer who works in the industry: On one hand, you want us to not use any dynamic memory...

The console war is effectively over. Game costs have risen so much even Microsoft can't afford to keep it's exclusives locked to its...

Not really; remember that Xbox as a brand has always been irrelevant outside the US/UK, so it isn't like there were a ton of sales to...

Hence the "assuming decent market pressure" qualifier I put in. It *always* falls to competition to prevent gouging the margins.

TBF, VRAM is probably the most expensive component on modern GPUs, so in theory (assuming decent market pressure) this would reduce the...

It's generally faster, which matters for people not running with the latest xx90 class card, as it allows us to turn on other more...

Here's one: In Nassau County NY we had the NICE bus service. It was starved for funding by the GOP led government, and the people...