Agreed. ARM had excellent technology, but it was far-sighted management and the adoption of an innovative business model that ensured success. (View Post)

It's a shame so many people in the UK are unaware of ARM's achievements. Steve Furber, the designer of the original ARM1 processor, tells a story about the very first sample ARM chip they received fo… (View Post)

The Hiroshima bomb didn't produce a crater because it was an *air burst*. It was specifically configured to detonate well above ground level to minimise radioactive fall-out; the Americans assumed, c… (View Post)

I would dearly love SLAB to smash the SNP, but I suspect that's about right. Lots of people are sick of the SNP clown show, but my feeling is many of them are not enthusiastic about Starmer's Labour … (View Post)

The Soviets experimented extensively with this idea during the cold war, and build some very impressive looking ground effect aircraft before abandoning the concept. It looks good on paper, but the v… (View Post)