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mircea_popescu submits qntra story, "terrorist going by Framedragger on deep web nicked by vigilant state agentura over DRUGS and CHILD PRONZ SHIPPED THROUGH STATE MAIL!!11 HONEST HE DID!"
mircea_popescu: i like how he keeps picking random people to be aggressive with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd still piuss all opver it. by that point, what do you have to lose.
mircea_popescu: most of tumblr is inept sjw-ing and poor-people-preoccupations.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and funny that nobody disputes all that nonsense, either.
mircea_popescu: something something merchants payments something dorkitude.
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: this is rank nosense entirely bereft of any meaning. you might as well recount your dreams.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and wm did pony express runs, wtf's your point omg.
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: and "foundations" SURE AS FUCK don't count as an improvement here.
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."
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
mircea_popescu: and once it did ship it, commodore i mean, it became less relevant nor more so.
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
mircea_popescu: might be advantageous to have electrically separate high and low.
mircea_popescu: and yes, put the monitor through the eth card too. bs special bus.
mircea_popescu: keep things simple. i'd rather see a bank of eight upt and another bank of 64 rs holes on the machine than the current bs.
mircea_popescu: computer-i can has rs for slow or ethernet for fast, and thassit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was not laughing at all. dead serious.
mircea_popescu: it's how los angeles went to shit, and new york before it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, usb suffers immensely from the utf effect. "only plug with power in it, everyone gotta be there!11"