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Rambus Wins Case Against Infineon
rednoise writes "Yahoo is running a story about how a Federal Circuit Court in California (I think) has (unbelievably) ruled that RAMBUS did NOT intentionally mislead members of JEDEC when the committee was developing the SDRAM specification. RAMBUS' stock skyrocketed something like 57% on the news. This is very bad news for owners of computers."
Who the fuck thought this was 'Interesting'?
Damn 15 minute delay, I thought I would be cool and say the fuzzy math joke first :(.
unless you're a terrorist of coourse
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
o...how nice (sarcasm)....but you forgot one thing, it was the southern democrats who fought against ANY sort of equal rights (racially based ones) back in the 60's and back prior and around the Civil War. Then they got their asses wooped and they turned coat to avoid political backlash in a sense (from newly eligible voters) and became Southern "Republicans" 'cuz they didn't like what the Federal govt was making them do (states' rights issue); give equal rights to all.
.....well.... you know who to be less "smart" than a pretzel victim)
Hell, it wasn't until 1995 that Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment (that abolishes slavery).
Of course all this doesn't mean I like EITHER democrats or republicans (or even the green party; quote from Nader in a SNL skit "They don't call us the Green Party for nothing"!). A republican president who was almost assassinated by a pretzel who did at least graduate from college vs a mono-toned automaton who couldn't even complete college. (Kinda scary, huh? About our education system in more ways than one and not to mention pathetic for
Now, let's at least keep to the topic; Rambus, the Enron of the semiconductor industry. It's too bad Rambus or even Enron for that matter don't have an automatic lie-detector like Pinocchio.
No, I don't mean the stock prices, I mean this...
The company consists of 180 people, including 130 engineers, 45 corporate staff and four lawyers.
I guess CowboyNeil was recently fired from the company?
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At the risk of violating the orthodoxy, there is something to be said, from the consumer perspective, for 800 pound gorilla companies that can make a standard from sheer gravitas.
Any objective person can see that CTRL+C / CTRL+V with a functioning clipboard capability is a Good Thing.
In contrast, Monday I was in a lab trying to copy some stuff from a XTerminal to an OpenOffice document. Talk about an HMI disaster! And this is RedHat 8.0, definitely a step in the direction I'm talking about.
Yes, it's great to have the breadth and choice available in Open Source, but a little depth would be a Good Thing.
Blessed are they who play along and try to harmonize that which exists, rather than come up with Yet Another <insert category here> Application.
Before the moderators wax me for being off-topic, the point is that the fragmentary, chaotic market envisioned in the parent post may not be what we really want...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
of all the OSs I've used Windows has the wort cut and paste around
okay it can do file objects but whee so what, dont cut & paste too many Excel spreadsheets these days
lets face it, Windows is not designed for serious computer users, it's aimed at droolers. 90% of end users dont even use the clipboard. If you inflicted an X style sweep & copy on 'em they'd be phoning the AOL support line all day.
I'm surprised that plan9's chording hasn't caught on anywhere else. Buttons 1&2 for cut 1&3 for paste.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter