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BIOS' Days Are Numbered

Posted by timothy on from the all-days-are-numbered dept.

Ninja Master Gara writes "While this article shows Phoenix expanding the uses of the bios, ZDNet UK reports Intel is looking to get rid of it altogether, to be replaced with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as announced at the Intel Developer Forum. EFI promises a considerable amount of flexibility to system control and startup, legacy support, and programability. And it gets rid of text mode only start up too."

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  1. THIS IS OLD NEWS... by RAEJlN_HARDONNE · · Score: 0, Troll

    see this post from last november.

  2. Re:bios? by Jacer · · Score: 0, Troll

    oh man, how ignorant can you possibly be?

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  3. Re:bios? by The_dev0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bios are what a band sends out to magazines and other publications to tell them all about themselves. A self written advertisement or blurb, if you will. It's relationship with a computer, i'm not so sure about. I guess you could type it up on Word?

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  4. You're an f'in moron! by evil_pb · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why is it you feel the need to defend stupid people by an AC post? Is it because you're stupid yourself?

    See, stupidity is a choice. People can decide to look at the world around them, beyond what the TV feeds them. They can choose to read a book, *do* things, even surf the web for more than p0rn. Or they can choose to coexist with all of the other suffering sacks of human waste that thrive on ABC specials, lattes, cell phones, and the latest fashion trends; these people will do nothing for the world around them except consume, and consume, and consume until all the rich men can be no richer and the world can give no more.

    And then we will put them all into California and blow it up, since it's mostly peopled with such idiocy anyway, and the rest of us with half a brain and a drive to grow, expand, and experience, will live much better than we do now. The world will be a better place. I wouldn't even get pissed when someone drives like a moron on the way to work in the morning, because I know it would be because of an honest mistake they might learn from, instead of being a chronic sign of the minivan-driving excuse for a human condition it is now.

    YOU need to pull your head out of your ass for 3 seconds, blink a few times, and stare in amazement at the world around you. Then go do something productive with your time, learn, and grow, and then once you have taken your intellect to levels never before thought possible by your Mom (who was great last night, by the way), come back and comment on stupid people.

    Could english have been this guy's second language? Of course. Could he have in all probabability been a moron? Sure thing! Do people who have put the time and effort into not being stupid, deserve the right to shit talk the ones who have not? YOU BETCHA. That's a privelage of being enlightened - we get to smack around those less motivated, because it's their own damn fault they are that way.

    Idiot.