Intel's Expensive Disco Ball

Re-Pawn writes "From the NY Times: The Disco Ball of Failed Hopes and Other Tales From Inside Intel (Registration Required.) Seems like Intel is losing market share to other chip makers - this article highlights a few problems that Intel has had including one very expensive disco ball made from a failed attempt to produce projection televisions."

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Re:Registration Not Required

[itwerx]

Have you noticed that all of the NYT article summaries have the same writing style? Have you also noticed that the Slashdot User Info pages of all submitted NYT articles have an odd posting history?

Er, no, I haven't noticed that. Care to be more specific? :)

Better than Google- BugMeNot

[fsterman]

www.bugmenot.com/ For one click for a pop-up with both username and password for annoying free registration sites add:

javascript:void(window.open('http://bugmenot.com/v iew.php?mode=bookmarklet&url='+escape(location),'B ugMeNot','location=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scroll bars=yes,resizable=yes,width=385,height=450'))

To your your bookmarks bar.
Karma Whoring OFF!

Re:Better than Google- BugMeNot

[radio.cgt]

Or if you have the newest version, right click the username name field and pick bugmenot, it's all automatic!

OT

[Jaysyn]

A little telcom insight, watch Lucent over the next 12 months. I can say no more.

Jaysyn

That, my friend, is totally hilarious! LOLLOLOL

[SenatorOrrinHatch]

You know, I think this whole thread should evolve into a bunch of computer guys sharing their best, fastest, easiest, and most efficient ways to bypass registration.
(all using linux of course, or freebsd if you're TRULY old-school like my 21-year old genius friend Paul whose been using it since he was an adolescent and is majoring in physics even though he's the best mathematician at my 30,000 student university! No, not Texas A&M you Longhorn fans! Cedric Bensons sez :"WWHOOOTTT!")
I shouldn't spill the *beans, but if you get one subscription to "the economist", your web password stays good for years after your subscription to the dead tree toilet rag dies!

*note: ...or maybe I'm just high?

Re:Registration Not Required

[swb]

The Times isn't too terribly biased, the writing is superior, and the depth of coverage in very nearly every category is heads and shoulders above any other daily news *source* with the possible exception of the Washington Post's coverage of Washington politics. Stacked end on end, the Times even gives the Economist a run for its money on its home turf.

From a quality, and more importantly, *availability* perspective, it's hard to beat the New York Times.

I'd argue that NPR is largely in the same boat, although I also think that NPR's liberal slant is more obvious and pointed.

What I don't get, though, is outside of a very few slim (in terms of pages of content) low-circulation magazines, why can't the right put together a newspaper, magazine or TV show that doesn't both insult my intelligence and bore me to tears?

National Review is like a diet of plain oatmeal; substantive and healthy, but not what a man can live on. Washington Times? Amusing, but it's run by the Moonies and hard to take seriously. Christain Science Monitor is OK, but once again, I'm asking to take the daily product of a cult seriously. Anything Rupert Murdoch is involved in has the intelligence of a grocery tabloid and the apparent independence of 1950s Pravda.

I'd love a NYT-quality daily with a 'conservative' angle to it, but conservatives aren't satisfied unless its a mouthpiece, and at that point quality is flushed down the shitter.