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mircea_popescu: yes well, if your notion of "intel dies" === "the end of stupidity in any and all palpable form"
then surely
the roman empire still lives embodied in general motors.
mircea_popescu: this isn't
teh actual word
tho. dun rewrite
teh bible!
mircea_popescu: and in
this interval,
they lost
the whole market, all
they got left is chips.
mircea_popescu: "the demographics" were going
to keep clinton in office forever so
these schmucks could pay
the mortgages
they made aged 28 back in 1994. hurr.
mircea_popescu: but
the point being : nintendo utterly owned a market, which some years later had
the n64 people killed for used as paperweights. sony owned
the market,
then lost
to microsoft, and so following.
this notion
that intel has a hope in hell is about as ludicrous as
the nonsense career bureaucrats in washington built
their lives on.
mircea_popescu: yeah. it suffered mightily in what i called "final engineering". great food badly packaged so
to speak
mircea_popescu: way i figure it intel owes
tmsr about 1bn in license fees, royalties and late penalties.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform good for it. whatever
the delinquent debtor says matters little.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
this'll do fine for a stock answer
to
the people inquiring why $random-"standard" isn't supported.
the account is delinquent.
they owe a lot of money and are
trying
to defraud us of it.
mircea_popescu: of course you don't support it anyway. obviously. BUT IT FIRST PAYS
THROUGH
THE
TEETH FOR
THIS!
mircea_popescu: "w3c" wants
to set web standards, it'd better PAY UP FOR
THEM BEING SUPPORTED
mircea_popescu: because i sure as fuck don't want "free
trade" and "open whatever" and "accessiblity" if what
that means is
that intel gets
to rule it.
mircea_popescu: this notion
that i will support
the wintel FOR FREE is
the lolz of all
time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the point here being, again,
to restate : if
the developer didn't meet a minimum value of sales, sega paid
the difference.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they called
the first playstation psx back i nthe day.
then
they cannibalized it later on.
mircea_popescu: so sega, in desperation, introduced a "minimum sales program". whereby, if
the developer didn't meet a minimum value of sales
mircea_popescu: THEN,
the dreamcast came out in 1999. sold well originally but
then flagged, for all sorts of reasons.
to do with final engineering and social effects (their controllers sucked,
their cds were fragile,
the average market prefered cheap and abundant psx games
to excellent but rare and expensive dc stuff.)
mircea_popescu: in random lulz, from
the 90s : psx came out in 1994 iirc, and utterly wiped
the market. half
the developers active were caught with excessive 16 bit cartridge inventory and within 18 months were bankrupt. it owned so hardcore, esp with ff7 coming out for it,
that for ~ 3 years
there were no new offerings in
the console market.
mircea_popescu: just mp-style "i can see
the future but can't explain it
to you, back
to work."
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 16:41 mircea_popescu:
there's many possible approaches
to
this ford we're not at yet.
mircea_popescu: poverty, and it's daughters : ignorance ; and
the expectation
that
the state is good.
mircea_popescu: make it one way only! get all
that shit out of
the box and into
the display where it can hurt nothing!
mircea_popescu: for
the other ---
THERE IS NO REASON FOR BITMAPERIZWER
TO
TALK BACK!!11
mircea_popescu: in any case by 2017 we rerally can relax re
the "omfg
television set" marketing criteria of 1987
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 00:45 mircea_popescu: it is much worse
to have a
town of 1000 populated by 500 idiots with idiots'
tastes and 20 bucks
to spend each
mircea_popescu: which is why amiga made better computers
than ameritrends back in 1992.
mircea_popescu: large portion of
the whole mess is actually
trying
to capitalize on
the fact
that
the killer micros came with
their own
television set
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 20:46 mircea_popescu: in other lulz,
the state of casual gaming is completely fucked up. so other
than utter
throwaways, stuff
that looks like someone's undegrad project,
the ~entire market of ipad-likes (stuff
that works in
the browser, or else via a "light" client for windows/mac, or else as a ipad/android etc app) is wholly like
this :
mircea_popescu: might be advantageous
to have electrically separate high and low.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 00:12 asciilifeform: if i ever make
the fpgaized
thing, it sure as fuck won't bother
trying
to drive an lcd or eat keyboard, wtf, just speak x11.
mircea_popescu: and yes, put
the monitor
through
the eth card
too. bs special bus.