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NES - 1983; SNES - 1991

Seems about right.


And upsell a magnifying lens to make the screen bigger.

/s

(1) https://www.thevintagegamers.com/2013/11/game-boy-screen-mag...


Is this the first “Made in USA” chip in Apple devices since the Fishkill PPC 970?


Weren’t the Intel CPUs made in the US?


Oops, forgot about Arizona.


Is this reversed?


ZFS on OS X was killed because of Oracle licensing drama. I don’t expect anything better on Windows either.


There is a third party port here:

https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Main_Page

It was actually the NetApp lawsuit that caused problems for Apple’s adoption of ZFS. Apple wanted indemnification from Sun because of the lawsuit, Sun’s CEO did not sign the agreement before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun happened and Oracle had no interest in granting that, so the official Apple port was cancelled.

I heard this second hand years later from people who were insiders at Sun.


That’s a shame re: NetApp/ZFS.

While third-party ports are great, they lack deep integration that first-party support would have brought (non-kludgy Time Machine which is technically fixed with APFS).


> ZFS on OS X was killed because of Oracle licensing drama.

It was killed because Apple and Sun couldn't agree on a 'support contract'. From Jeff Bonwick, one of the co-creators ZFS:

>> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms.

> I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

* https://archive.is/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs...

Sun took DTrace, licensed via CDDL—just like ZFS—and put it into the kernel without issue. Of course a file system is much more central to an operating system, so they wanted much more of a CYA for that.


>ZFS on OS X was killed because of Oracle licensing drama.

Naa it was Jobs ego not the license:

>>Only one person at Steve Jobs' company announces new products: Steve Jobs.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/zfs-the-other-new-ap...


It’s a cute story that plays into the same old assertions about Steve Jobs, but the conclusion is mostly baseless. There are many other, more credible, less conspiratorial, possible explanations.


It could have played into it though, but I agree the support contract that couldn't be worked out mentioned elsewhere in the thread is more likely.

But I think these things are usually a combination. When a business relationship sours, agreements are suddenly much harder to work out. The negotiators are still people and they have feelings that will affect their decisionmaking.


> LIM

A few thoughts:

The downside to LIMs is that they have ann unexpected derailment/failure mode (1), as manifested by the 2023 SRT derailment.

Briefly, the magnetic repulsion/attraction forces of an accelerating train caused a section of the reaction rail to catch on the train, which catapulted a train car.

I’ll also mention used to live near the SRT. They were still great and quirky around the 10 year mark. However, the Mark Is didn’t age well. They just got louder and louder.

They also became more and more susceptible to severe weather, to the point they were run in manual mode (versus ATO) with every snow storm.

(1) https://stevemunro.ca/2024/01/31/the-scarborough-rt-derailme...


You forget that Apple Maps was crap when it first came out, up to the point where people were questioning why Apple was bothering in the first place.

Early adopters should recognize first versions of forward-looking tech are going to be less-than-optimal, and that the warts will eventually fall off.

Y’all around here advocate for shipping whatever you have, but when a larger org applies your principles, everyone is in a tizzy.


I don't think anyone here advocates for "just ship it" when you're talking about breaking updates to a system used by a significant chunk of the world's population.


What is a breaking change with the update that introduced Apple Intelligence?


How iPhone notifications work. These are relied upon by humans and they started displaying incorrect facts for news apps


Incorrect facts in the news? Hasn't this been happening for years?


The elephant in the room are electrophoretic effects of metal of the electrode leaching into the food, especially with long-term use.


For $127 I'm guessing the electrode has some sort of inert coating or plating.


Or at least is something like iron and not cadmium or lead.


If you’re already spending the computing effort to create the VR image…

/s


There was an eminent Russian voiceover artist (goblin?) that translated pirated Western movies with his own interpretation.

His translations were nowhere near what the movie was about, but they were hilarious and fit the plot perfectly.


Not all of his translations were nowhere near the original. For example, his translation of Guy Ritchie's Snatch was excellent (in my opinion of course) and is still quoted to this day. I'd say it's the only one that absolutely nails it and then some.

On the other hand, his Lord of The Rings was an "alternative" dub as you described. Didn't watch that one though.


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