In Rosen's last Sega-related interview with Keith Stuart for the book Mega Drive Collected Works, he disagrees with the Sega internal conflict narrative as presented in Console Wars and says it was just Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske being unable to understand why certain decisions had to be made.
After Console Wars, he apparently stopped giving interviews because he didn't like that game historians were constantly getting the Sega story wrong.
> After Console Wars, he apparently stopped giving interviews because he didn't like that game historians were constantly getting the Sega story wrong.
Classic, nobody dislikes journalism as much as someone who lived through something journalists have covered. They always get stuff wrong in pursuit of an angle or narrative.
I worked on a project with tech and animals. We were cautious about media, because any work with animals naturally invites welfare questions. Our project was aimed at improving welfare, and we really cared about this. So we refused to allow the media to film the animals at all, let alone our experiments. We provided them with our own professionally filmed footage, and I prepped carefully to avoid traps in interviews, which went well.
A national TV news network dubbed the sound of alarmed animals over our provided footage for their broadcast. Apparently the original audio of happy animals making happy sounds was not exciting enough to use, despite the contentment of the animals being the point of the work. I was so mad and sad.
I learned my lesson about the media after a spate of interviews I did about a decade ago. The difference between what I said, and what they cut and edited it into was completely wild. It completely changed the narrative.
It as a result completely changed how I see everything in the media. It's not that I distrust it as such, but...I try to ensure I can get as many angles as possible to converge into a more whole picture, as opposed to fewer sources.
They have browser automation, and a bunch of other agent tools to manage tasks, do things like PowerPoint slides, etc. I find chatgpt agent mode better for most tasks though.
I mean given they went on a crazy AI hiring spree and then desmantling the whole thing just a few weeks later... I'll actually need prove that there is anything in there.
How is it an opportunity for Apple? They are a customer of Samsung and Micron RAM modules just like everyone else is. They aren't in any unique position other than their user base is already used to paying extreme markup for RAM. Now whether Apple just eats the cost in their profit margin or charges even more for RAM remains to be seen.
Their supply chain prowess likely means they have already secured contracts for 2026 (and maybe even 2027), so they will not be affected by the price hike. But maybe they'll still use it as an opportunity to bump prices and rake in free profit, who knows.
Basically if I have to start comparing iPhone specs to Android phone specs I might aswell just buy an Android. The point of iOS is that you don't have to.
The competitive advantage comes from Apple having the supply chain contracts in place to not be affected by the 2026 price hike as much. The Android phones will be more expensive and thus will capture less market share.
I agree with you and have agreed with you for a long time. However, I definitely see the writing on the wall. More than one person in my circle have traditionally been Android users and the lack of innovation from both Apple and Android have them comparing devices on specs MUCH more. I include myself in this list on my next upgrade. I'll be looking largely at specs on the next upgrad because honestly there's not much day to day difference in usage between apple and android anymore
> if Apple smartphone specs improve while Androids stagnate it could create more iOS user
Nah. The marginal utility of more smartphone ram is near zero at this point. The vast majority of people wouldn't even notice if the memory in their phone tripled overnight.
They try, but a combination of multiple layers of work arounds used by the attackers, and a strong desire not to false positive legitimate voucher buyers means there’s always a way.
One overlooked factor that helped the US after WWII is that we were the manufacturing base for most of the world for decades after the end of the war. Over 50% of manufactured goods were made in the US in the decade after WWII.
Manufacuring might have been a viable path out of debt after WWII, but it isn't right now. If you look at Germany, its manufacturing sector is in decline, and this is the country's strength. China's outcompeting it. Not only is China no longer just producing cheap knockoffs, it has a better manufacturing ecosystem, and it has surplus manufacturing capacity.
>If you look at Germany, its manufacturing sector is in decline, and this is the country's strength.
German manufacturing is in decline because it relied on dirt-cheap Russian energy. It's not cost competitive otherwise.
https://www.energyconnects.com/news/gas-lng/2025/february/ge...Europe has spent three painful years weaning itself off gas from the east with the biggest impact felt in Germany, the region’s biggest economy. German industry was built on cheap Russian gas and rising energy prices have already trammeled growth and forced some manufacturers to move production abroad.
Why past tense? Dilution remains a good solution to most pollutants, carbon included. That it stops working after a point doesn't make it useless per se.
Pretty wild that MAME has been under active development for over 28 years with the core concept unchanged and no serious forks. It must have a very committed dev community.
A C++ codebase with bonus non-C++ code that generates C++ code plus a build-process-that-generates-build processes all with maniacal inter-dependencies and a guy who insists on renaming everything and moving all the files around in git-destroying ways twice a year does indeed create a bit of a monks-in-the-caves vibe.
Afaik gurudumps is a total jerk, constantly being hostile for no reason to newcomers.
Haze is almost always in conflict with mame lead Cuavas when trying to upstream his code, but his anger mostly justified.
Cuavas is a huge micromanager, he won't accept your code even if you just missed a typo in a line comment.
I respect his commitment to hold the codebase to absolute standards, but sometimes he takes his micromanagement too far that just makes the whole process unproductive.
The personalities working on this project are so hostile, usually without the skill to warrant it, that it's one of the few cases where having a CoC wouldn't be a horrible idea.
This reminds me that Linus Torvalds quote that the point of open source isn't just the right to fork but also the right to merge, and that's what justify copyleft
Do you have the quote? I would think such "right to merge" would go against the notion that maintainers work for free and have no obligation to merge your work.
Edit: Found the quote. The Right to Merge is about the maintainers right to merge your fork/changes back to their branch. Not the other way where random dev have a right for their changes to be merged into the original project
There are actually a good numer of forks, but not sure if they qualify for your criteria of "serious" or not.
I also won't be naming any of them because those "committed" mame devs are very quick to inject themselves into any story about them, and harshly judge everything else that touches their code that didn't come from them.
Mame is the most comprehensive emulator you'll ever get. They emulate everything under the sun: from very obscure computers that you don't even find info on the internet to mechanical car rides (yes they even preserve the roms for those).
Yeah, it's absolutely amazing and noble, especially for us that are into those things (Personally, I have a vast collection of consoles and games, including full SNES library etc.). Wikipedia, Internet Archive + Common Crawl, Emulation scene with now MAME at the forefront - those are Alexandria of our times.
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