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HP Regains Throne as Top PC Maker
Nick writes "HP is once again the leading PC manufacturer." From the article: "HP has snatched the PC crown from Dell's barely coherent clutches. It has taken HP close to three years to once again lead the market in worldwide PC sales. Under CEO Carly Fiorina and post Compaq, the company largely gave up on the tit-for-tat struggle with Dell for the PC top spot that had been so important to it over the years. Now it has reclaimed the #1 slot during the third quarter on the back of Dell's self-destruction. Overall, worldwide PC shipments hit 59.1m units in the third quarter - a 7 per cent rise from the same period last year, according to new data from Gartner. The US PC market, however, dipped 2 per cent, marking its first fall since mid-2002. Dell is particularly exposed to the US PC market, and it showed." Update: 10/20 16:37 GMT by Z : Switched link to a more current story.
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See, the thing about Yoda is, his grammar is totally confusing in his spec documentation, which I think is what led to the X-wing. See, the X-wing was designed to have the wings like your typical airplane: two wings, one on either side. Because of Yoda's strange syntax, the Jedi engineers mistakenly thought he wanted two wings on either side of the spacecraft, resulting in the very distinctive look of the X-wing.
After Yoda saw this, he was upset, as evidenced in his weekly meeting: "Upset, am I at this. Very clear was the specification. Stupid, are you engineers." Because of budgetting problems, they could not afford changes to the completed prototype, and were forced to perfect the X-wing as it stood.