Musk: LA Hyperloop 17 Miles Long ‘In a Year or So’

This was a marketing tactic to get fanboys to accept the change from PPC to x86.
There was a lot of resentment by Mac users when Apple switched Macs from System 9 to OSX. Apple wanted to avoid this resentment. Instead that marketers used the architecture change as a selling point for all the foamy, rabid Apple fanatics to latch onto and spread their irrational virus to normies and take the bait.
IBM was producing G5's that ran substantially cooler than previous fabs, but Apple blindsided IBM with the switch.

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Why is this blogspam allowed to infest Holla Forums? Where is botmod?

WTF? It sounds like there was massive corruption for intel to win when they were in the wrong. Smells like cianiggers tbh.

Uncle Sam was actually in the middle of efforts to roast Intel over antitrust issues at the time, and the settlement was widely seen as an attempt to take some of the FTC heat off Intel:
nytimes.com/1997/10/28/business/intel-and-digital-settle-lawsuit-and-make-deal.html
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021401757_2.html

Given the sheer amount of divisions and products Digital was divesting itself of at the time to make selling the company easier"increase competitiveness", and the legendary incompetence of Digital's management, it wouldn't surprise me if they actually thought Intel was giving them a good deal.

Oh, on a related note, after Compaq ate DEC, one guess as to which RISC ISA's devteam ended up sold to the Pentium slave mines to add SMTHyperthreading™?

Stopped reading right there. It happens all the time. We have plenty of examples of superior technology failing to something that is objectively worse, and yet it happens. You're deluded or an Elon Musk fanboy if you think otherwise.

That's hardly filling in a new niche. That's working with a me-too product. This luxury electric car by Tesla is very much a new niche.

not a surprise hyperloop and the boring company would be used to the same ends. two of the biggest complaints about hyperloop are thermal expansion and the difficulty in maintaining a safe and reliable vacuum. but burying it solves these problems, mostly. what will the critics say next.
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That being burried means you won't have to pay for funeral costs when seismic activity inevitably breaks your shit.

Underground tunnels are actually one of the safest places to be during an earthquake.