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Expect DVD Chip Price Wars
prostoalex writes "With more companies developing the chips for DVD players the price wars might ensue. According to this DigiTimes report, 'Boosted by rising shipments, the higher price of DVD player single-chips is likely to push up the average chip price to US$9.56 in the fourth quarter from US$8.58 in the first half. However, the increasing number of chip suppliers also implies that a new price war may soon develop'. The predictions of DVD chips sales slowing down add to the expectations for price wars."
SUCK MY PUSSY
JonKatz,
I
wanted
to
do
this
in
this
most
potentially
embarassing
way
possible,
and
I
figured
doing
it
here
and
now,
in
front
of
a
quarter
of
a
million
strangers
was
as
good
a
way
as
any.
I
love
you
more
then
I
can
describe
within
the
limits
of
this
tiny
little
story.
We've
been
together
for
many
years
now,
and
I've
known
for
most
of
that
time
that
I
wanted
to
spend
my
life
with
you.
Enough
rambling.
Will
you
anally
rape
me?
Update
15
minutes
30
seconds
later:
Subj:
"Yes",
message
body:
"Dork.
You
made
me
cry.
:)"
Hazah!
I'm
getting
laid!
:)
JonKatz,
I
wanted
to
do
this
in
this
most
potentially
embarassing
way
possible,
and
I
figured
doing
it
here
and
now,
in
front
of
a
quarter
of
a
million
strangers
was
as
good
a
way
as
any.
I
love
you
more
then
I
can
describe
within
the
limits
of
this
tiny
little
story.
We've
been
together
for
many
years
now,
and
I've
known
for
most
of
that
time
that
I
wanted
to
spend
my
life
with
you.
Enough
rambling.
Will
you
anally
rape
me?
Update
15
minutes
30
seconds
later:
Subj:
"Yes",
message
body:
"Dork.
You
made
me
cry.
:)"
Hazah!
I'm
getting
laid!
:)
JonKatz,
I
wanted
to
do
this
in
this
most
potentially
embarassing
way
possible,
and
I
figured
doing
it
here
and
now,
in
front
of
a
quarter
of
a
million
strangers
was
as
good
a
way
as
any.
I
love
you
more
then
I
can
describe
within
the
limits
of
this
tiny
little
story.
We've
been
together
for
many
years
now,
and
I've
known
for
most
of
that
time
that
I
wanted
to
spend
my
life
with
you.
Enough
rambling.
Will
you
anally
rape
me?
Update
15
minutes
30
seconds
later:
Subj:
"Yes",
message
body:
"Dork.
You
made
me
cry.
:)"
Hazah!
I'm
getting
laid!
:)
JonKatz,
I
wanted
to
do
this
in
this
most
potentially
embarassing
way
possible,
and
I
figured
doing
it
here
and
now,
in
front
of
a
quarter
of
a
million
strangers
was
as
good
a
way
as
any.
I
love
you
more
then
I
can
describe
within
the
limits
of
this
tiny
little
story.
We've
been
together
for
many
years
now,
and
I've
known
for
most
of
that
time
that
I
wanted
to
spend
my
life
with
you.
Enough
rambling.
Will
you
anally
rape
me?
Update
15
minutes
30
seconds
later:
Subj:
"Yes",
message
body:
"Dork.
You
made
me
cry.
:)"
Hazah!
I'm
getting
laid!
:)
For one half of the world, 'chips' are 'crisps', in other words sliced potatoes fried till they get hard and seasoned with spices, salt, peper, onions, or whatever. (I mean this)
For another half of the world (not necessarily mutually exclusive), chips are 'frenched fried potatoes', in other words 'fritten met frikandel en pikkels', in yet other words you cut them in prisms about 6mm x 6mm x the length of the potato, then you bake them twice in 180 C animal fat and serve them with mayo.
Call them ASICs or ICs or whatever the correct term is for what you vaguely meant, for heaven's sake ! We're nerds, we're not Joe Mainstream.
VA Software CEO/Founder Larry Augustin Dead at 39, Apparent Suicide
by ASSOCIATED PRESS
VA Software (LNUX) CEO, president and founder Larry Augustin was found dead in his home in Fremont, Calif. early this morning. The death was an apparent suicide, caused by a close-range shotgun blast to the face and head. He was 39 years old.
Police reports indicate that strewn about the room in which Augustin carried out his fate were empty cartons of ramen noodles and discount bulk oat bags. His house was bare of any furniture or furnishings of any worth, and his garage which once held several classic cars was emptied.
An autopsy revealed several thousand VA Software stock certificates, neatly rolled and bundled, in Augustin's rectum. Police are investigating how the
five-inch-wide bundle appeared in Augustin's lower intestine unlubricated without any sign of strain on his anal sphincter. Also discovered was an
abnormally high concentration of dye in Augustin's bloodstream, which was determined to be the main component of "ledger red" ink.
VA Software, which at different times has been called VA Linux Systems, VA Linux and VA Systems, has seen financial difficulties of late. Most likely to be soon delisted from NASDAQ, the company shares a struggle for profitability with many other dot-bomb era corporations whose business plans include the line "???" directly before "PROFIT !!". VA Software child companies, such as geek weblog Slashdot.org and Star Wars fan site Sourceforge have felt the pinch of the economic downturn.
Augustin is survived by his domestic partner and two adopted children.
OMG IS THIS TRUE!!!!!!!!!!?????
say it ain"t so taco
phucq the lizameness fiznilter