Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks' (cnbc.com)

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told employees on Tuesday that the company will take more risks going forward and he said change will be the "new normal." From a report: In an internal memo that was sent to CNBC, Krzanich acknowledged "innovation" inside Intel's client computing business -- its biggest segment -- but said the biggest opportunities are in the company's growth areas like connected devices, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving. "It's almost impossible to perfectly predict the future, but if there's one thing about the future I am 100 percent sure of, it is the role of data," Krzanich wrote. "Anything that produces data, anything that requires a lot of computing, the vision is, we're there." The memo also underscores the dramatic change in the nature of Intel's business as it approaches its 50th anniversary in July 2018. "We're just inches away from being a 50/50 company, meaning that half our revenue comes from the PC and half from new growth markets," Krzanich wrote.

Comments

And the employers responded:

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Who is the "we" you are talking about Kemo Sabe?

Re: And the employers responded:

[Type44Q]

Pretty sure he's not talking about Kemo Sabe...

Re:And the employers responded:

[MerlynEmrys67]

Exactly. Back in the way back days... They created a New Business Initiative to create businesses inside the company. Well, any employee that had any sense of entrepreneurship joined an NBI organization... One slow quarter later, NBI was shutdown and all those employees were let go.

Even if you didn't join an NBI organization, any employee with any brains could see what happens...

Re: And the employers responded:

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm, and how long until Boeing embraces this philosophy?

Re:And the employers responded:

[wyHunter]

Perhaps if employees were not treated like disposable commodities they'd be willing to be less risk averse.

Re:And the employers responded:

[currently_awake]

Take the old Chineese curse "May you live in interesting times", and ask for volunteers. Intel essentially owns the market, they don't need to take risks. If Intel wanted to take risks they wouldn't have killed their home hobyist product line.

Re:And the employers responded:

[davester666]

We are going to risk the future of the company by giving huge bonus to executives, cutting half or more of all employees and demanding that the remaining employees make up the difference.

It is still undecided if the remaining employees get a 10 or 20% pay cut.

Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks'

Means:

Employees and the shareholders are going to take more risks. If the bet pays off all the stock options and the incentive pay will trigger and champagne corks will fly in the executive suites. If the bet blows up, they will shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, at least we tried. OK then, let us find some other company".

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

If the bet pays off all the stock options and the incentive pay will trigger and champagne corks will fly in the executive suites.

Didn't he just preemptively sell his stock yesterday?

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[ranton]

If the bet pays off all the stock options and the incentive pay will trigger and champagne corks will fly in the executive suites.

Didn't he just preemptively sell his stock yesterday?

Yes, Krzanich sold off the maximum amount of stock he could while still following Intel's corporate bylaws, which was about half of his stock. Essentially he now has the minimum skin in the game possible for an Intel CEO. It is the most prominent vote of no confidence that an executive can show towards his company.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

That, and/or he just wants to get paid before the market falls. We're due for a bad bear market pretty soon.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[JaredOfEuropa]

No surprise. Smart execs take more risks going backwards.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

Great: Risk minimization for the execs, risk maximization for employees and shareholders.

Is this shit even legal??

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

You know that there is a growing amount of evidence that suggests that performance-based compensation for executives leads to *worse* outcomes for companies over the long term, not better, right?

Jensen's agency theory of business was stupid when he spouted it from the lofty halls of Harvard in the mid-70's and it's still wrong today.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[bluegutang]

The other side of the argument is that the best way to diversify your investments is to not own your employer's stock. Because when that stock goes down, you are likely to get fired, so you have lost both paycheck and job.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

Meanwhile AMD stock is on sale.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[edtice1559]

This is true for ordinary people. For C-level, they get golden parachutes worth more than most people's lifetime earnings so they don't need this diversification. For non C-level, yeah, you can be in a real bind if too much of your wealth is in company stock.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[ranton]

The other side of the argument is that the best way to diversify your investments is to not own your employer's stock. Because when that stock goes down, you are likely to get fired, so you have lost both paycheck and job.

That is very true advice for nearly any employee, but a CEO is expected to increase a company's value. If the CEO isn't confident enough to risk his own money, how can he expect others to trust his leadership?

Krzanich has sold a significant amount of his stock on regular intervals, but he has been increasing his total shares held by about 100,000 per year for the last two years. This shows an increasing willingness to risk his own money because of his faith in the company he is leading. Now he is reducing his shares held by half. He either became far less risk adverse overnight or he has far less confidence in the stock's ability to climb.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty sure his compensation plan includes lots of stock options which will be only worth something if their stock price goes up. So there will still be tons of incentive to drive Intel's business, no worries about that.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[ranton]

Pretty sure his compensation plan includes lots of stock options which will be only worth something if their stock price goes up. So there will still be tons of incentive to drive Intel's business, no worries about that.

Him selling his stock doesn't mean he doesn't have incentive, it just means he doesn't have faith in the company's success. This behavior doesn't indicate he will stop trying, just that he doesn't believe he will be successful (or at least less sure than he was earlier this year).

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[ranton]

You know that there is a growing amount of evidence that suggests that performance-based compensation for executives leads to *worse* outcomes for companies over the long term, not better, right?

Jensen's agency theory of business was stupid when he spouted it from the lofty halls of Harvard in the mid-70's and it's still wrong today.

The CEO selling his stock is not a good indicator that he will be less motivated, because he still has $11 million in stock and he has stock options worth even more. It is only an indicator of his trust in the company's future success.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Locutus]

let's see, x86 is bloated and inefficient but Intel was always the manufacturing process leader so they could always go better, faster, cheaper by going to the next smaller chip manufacturing process. But now physics is getting in the way and slowing down the big leaps in process improvements and that x86 bloat has made the chips ineffective in battery powered devices which happen to be the majority of sales for the last many years. We also have tablets and phones and even chromebooks outpacing sales of Windows, the platform requiring x86.

Tough times for Intel to try and keep riding that ship towards the bottom and time to see what they can build out of their massive brainpower and spark a new industry or two. Crazy to think that about 20 years ago they owned the dominant ARM chip manufacturer/design, StrongARM, and screwed it up with bad cache designs and then sold off the business. Intel CPUs are even poorly useful in NN and most are using NVidia GPUs to crunch NNs.

So the CEO could believe there is a future if they find and do the right things but hey, he's not a dummy and knowns it's a risk which we doesn't want to place all his wealth into that basket. Others would be smart to do the same.

LoB

Re: Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

Huh? Ok to say selling stock != less motivated, but 2nd part is NOT implied by selling stock.

The only thing you can ABSOLUTELY infer from a stock sale is that he wanted that money now. Intel stock price was only this high back in early Nov and has not reached $47 for a long time before that. This week was a good time to sell.

Re:Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Anonymous Coward]

If the bet blows up, they will shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, at least we tried. OK then, let us find some other company".

If the bet blows up, they will shrug their shoulders and say, "Thank you for working here, now 50% of you can go home." And in the exec suites, the champagne corks will fly anyway to celebrate the huge bonus checks they wrote for themselves.

Re: Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[Reverend Green]

Of course it's legal. Workers have no rights, don't you know? It's DUH LAW!

Re: Translated and annotated corportate speak.

[ranton]

Intel stock price was only this high back in early Nov and has not reached $47 for a long time before that. This week was a good time to sell.

Thinking it is a good time to sell a stock is the same thing as thinking the stock won't keep up with the market for the foreseeable future. If you think the stock will beat the market, then it wouldn't be a good time to sell. If the CEO thinks the stock is at a good time to sell, it is because he doesn't foresee the stock doing much better in the future.

By taking more risks...

[Anonymous Coward]

He must mean doubling down on firmware enforced spyware.

Seriously, they sign CPU microcode, Intel GPU firmware, Intel ME firmware, Intel Machine learning devices... what next?

If he really wanted to take more risks, he would start offering skus with all of that signing disabled, via a hardware jumper, and wait to see what their users can generate will full access to the hardware.

There was a time when Intel built its hardware safety into the hardware, rather than risking its failure based off decisions made in software. Perhaps it is time for it to return to those development mantras.

Bitcoin ASIC ?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about Intel starts producing Bitcoin mining ASICs? Can they compete?

Re:Bitcoin ASIC ?

[Anonymous Coward]

YES! .. I'd like to think Intel could design ASIC chips and a mainboard that would beat the pants off the crappy Bitmain Antminer S9 that's rarely available.

I just finally upgraded my CPU

[rsilvergun]

This year. To a i5-7500. And that's plenty. They're gonna have to do something if they want to get me spending $300 on a CPU like I did back in the day.

Re:I just finally upgraded my CPU

[Anonymous Coward]

They need to do something maybe start looking at 20+ core CPUs or something exciting. As is my phone is faster than my computer and I'm fine with that.

Re:I just finally upgraded my CPU

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations! You now on a PC, and an additional Minix control PC to make sure that your data is safely monitored!

Re:I just finally upgraded my CPU

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll want tflops, hundreds of them if not more. If not now, soon, once the applications available for consumer catch up to those that run on big iron. Those tflops won't be found on a traditional CPU.

Re:OT: Have you noticed Slashdot deleting comments

[lucasnate1]

I think I saw the number of comments in the bitcoin article going down from 50 to 40. Wtf?

How about some follow through

[Anonymous Coward]

Intel has alway run off and tried new products. They then abandon them if it isn't a huge hit, often even before finished. How about keeping products around long enough to see if the seed will actually sprout.

Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/943513753970098179

Re:Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us worship Creimer, and beg for His mercy upon us. Many of us have blasphemed against Creimer, who is our Lord and Savior. Please forgive us, Creimer, for we have sinned against You. We beg you, Creimer, our God, for your mercy.

Re:Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL you have a sense of humor after all. Well, I kinda figured you did after that purple gnome post a while ago.

Re:Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad Slashdot doesn't allow profile pics. The fuchsia gnome would have a home here.

Re:Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell us more about this manga collection.

Re:Christopher Reimer, dead at 48

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a bunch of lolli-Japanimation that he keeps in a stack by his bed. Also a few random things like DVDs of the movies that Disney released - "Spirited Away" and so forth.

Then this ISN'T

[p4nther2004]

Then this ISN'T we're going to take more risks.

This is....we're screwed...and I"m going to claim we "took risks" when it hits the fan.

Re:Then this ISN'T

[networkBoy]

yup.
Also: "Change will be the new normal" Bwahahahahaha
The running tagline inside Intel is: "The only constant is change"

As to how this happened?
"We want to remember in this time to treat our fellow employees who are leaving with dignity and respect". Followed by the most disrespectful treatment of mass layoff employees ever.
We were (most, I had a mole in HR warn me a week ahead) told nothing about who was up for termination, and were tagged by surprise meetings with our manager and HR, scheduled a couple hours before the meeting time (Intel standard is 24 hr advance scheduling of meetings). In that meeting you had your manager and an HR drone. There was paperwork to sign, all the basic shit. After the meeting was done you were *NOT* allowed to go back to your desk to gather anything personal, you were *NOT* allowed to say by to your co-workers, some of whom were more family than your biological family, you were *NOT* allowed to send the traditional "It's been a pleasure" email. You *WERE* frog marched out of the building under the eye of security.
Hey BK you asshole: that is *NOT* dignity and respect.
Because I understand security, I understand not wanting the employee to have unfettered access after being informed they're terminated, but for fucks sake, let them get their personal effects and say goodbye to their team.

From what I understand morale has not recovered and it's been over 18 months now. Normally morale recovers after 6 months or so. The company lost something in the last layoffs and the heartwood of the tree is dying.

Re:Then this ISN'T

[Anonymous Coward]

As a green badge last time I didn't even get any notice other than a phone call at 9:30 at night frantically trying to get a hold of me to tell me not to come in the next day. I had to call my now ex-coworkers and arrange for one of them to drop my stuff off after work.

Re:Then this ISN'T

[sconeu]

I never understood the "You can't pick up your personal effects" thing.

Sounds like a lawsuit to me. For example, I have several thousand dollars worth of books on my work bookshelf (yes, I use them, too), not to mention pictures, minor trinkets, etc...

Re:Then this ISN'T

[networkBoy]

Your manager/security would go to your cube and collect your items.
Again the logic is:
Ex Employee may steal company confidential documents.

But here's the thing, we're all professionals, and by treating us like dogs executive management undermined the "Dignity and respect" schick so badly that morale was effectively taken out behind the chemical shed and shot.

An *EASY* way to have handled it:
Okay networkboy, is there anything you have at your desk you need, did you want to say bye to anyone? Manager will walk back with you and make sure you get your stuff.

The most insulting part? If you tried leaving with a *SINGLE GOD DAMNED BOX* security informed you that you could not take the box.
"Okay, let me just dump this in my trunk"
-"I'm sorry we can't let you leave the building with the box"

W. T. F. over?!?

Re:Then this ISN'T

[sconeu]

Sorry, I thought I had said, "clean out desk with security there".

Re:Then this ISN'T

[sconeu]

Again, if they don't let me take my books, they'll find themselves on the end of a suit (small claims, so they can't send a lawyer) for several thousand dollars.

Re:Then this ISN'T

[networkBoy]

I had that issue w/ Intel. My Applied Crypto 2nd ed book is still there somewhere. Has my name on it, so I have (very little after 18 months) hope that someone who knows me will see it and get it back to me someday.
The value of that one book is vastly lower than the time cost to file a claim, so... ah well.

Re:Then this ISN'T

[sconeu]

As I said, I have an entire bookshelf, all with my name on them (the books that the company provided, or that I bought with company money do NOT have my name on them).

Given the quantity of books there's about $3000 to $4000 worth there. That's worth launching a small claims suit over.

Re:Then this ISN'T

[networkBoy]

absolutely!

My mistake was loaning mine out to a co-worker, forgetting which one, then getting terminated. :P

Re:Then this ISN'T

[sconeu]

That'll do it. :(

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[DontBeAMoran]

Maybe he's talking about the risk of integrating AMD GPUs inside their Intel CPUs.

Re:OT: Have you noticed Slashdot deleting comments

[Anonymous Coward]

I know I've seen several of my comments disappear even when browsing at -1. I'll see some comments that will still be hidden at -1, but you can still open them so long as somebody has responded to it and is still viewable at -1 by hitting the parent link though they still show up as -1. My comments were just anecdotes against comments like "there are no cases where x is true" that were politically sensitive. Didn't call a single person an idiot or use any slurs even. Just stuff like "here's a case where an insurance policy was canceled under obamacare where he said none would be".

The statement "slashdot doesn't delete comments" may be technically true in that they aren't removed from the database, but there's definitely things being done to make them effectively deleted in that there's no way to view it if nobody responded to it.

We are going to take more risks

[Anonymous Coward]

In the meantime, all employee bags will continue to be carefully inspected for stolen chips. Please remember to report to work 20 minutes early to make allowance for this necessary procedure.

Re:We are going to take more risks

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, are you saying employees smuggle chips INTO work? If so why?

Re:We are going to take more risks

[MerlynEmrys67]

No, you are required to submit bags for inspection on LEAVING the office.
They are looking for things leaving the secured office that aren't supposed to (both physical and digital). I was stopped once taking a bunch of my CDs out (think the 90s) and had to show that they weren't CD-R but actual music CDs

INTEL is a government agency.

[Anonymous Coward]

they make computers enforce government purposes before being useful to workers.

cut the crap. if everyone avoided corporate computers and pocked an open arch made in a garage then INTEL would always be in business with government work.

Translation

[Anonymous Coward]

(to employees): "You will be taking a risk, for when your division does not deliver profits, your position will be eliminated (you never thought the C-level was at risk, did you?)"

Re: What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Donâ(TM)t know, but if AMD really open sources their GPU drivers, that will take away the only reason some people continue to require Intel chips. OTOH, since the flag to deactivate the ME was discovered, maybe AMD should leak their secure government use flag.

Out of necessity.

[Gravis Zero]

AMD has out classed Intel performance and IME is about to blow up in their faces so they need to find a way to embed themselves in a market that is unable to reject them. When the past decade of Intel processors suddenly become an unacceptable risk to businesses they are going to need a life raft.

Unfortunately (for them), Intel overprices all their parts, is very closed off (NDAs out the ass) and refuses to abandon x86 which why they will never be able to compete with ARM for embedded devices. The day they start popping out $2 chips without a power hungry ISA and provide datasheets will be the day that hell freezes over.

Re: Out of necessity.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well... I recently bought an HP Envy with Windows 10 running on A12 for my wife and performance was terrible. Obviously a lot of that was Windows 10 garbage but it was not tolerable so we sent it back and exchanged for essentially same laptop but with i7. Performance was better. Apps started faster, switching apps was faster. So we kept that one.

standard talk

[Anonymous Coward]

Sound like any other CEO talk I have heard.

Last words of a redneck?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey guys watch this!

Heyday

[Anonymous Coward]

It's still heyday, grab all profits while you can. I heard China is building its own CPU chips. What chinese CPU's hit the market at throw away price, Intel would just be in history books due to its IME enforced spyware. Disgusting dealing with these type of company forcing toxic stuff into its customers throat, like IME specifically.

captcha: untapped

Intel Risk True Story of Woe.

[Anonymous Coward]

I am currently recovering from the 4th Intel SSD Enterprise Drive failure in the first year of a server's operation. The Array failed after 2 drives died over a course of a few days, and when a replacement drive was added and the array rebuilding the 3rd drive in a week failed, causing a large database corruption when we had to force online to get back up and running. (Thank god for DATTO).

Intel no longer stock the drive (1 year!!) and offered to give us the money for the drive back. Unfortunately it was a 1TB drive... which have been downsized to 960GB (my guess... error correction pool..) - but it's not a lunchtime job to rejig the geometry of a 6 drive raid array and reduce vhd's etc that will need to be shrunk.

If Intel are taking more risks... I dare not imagine ;)

Yes & I bet whipslash on it (he ran)... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

See subject & these links (you can no longer get to & I have screenshots of them as submitted + onscreen as successful):

https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697385/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697181/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697813/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476821&cid=54218921/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697725/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55698721/ https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11332773&cid=55516015/ https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11332773&cid=55515797/

* There's 8 solid evidences whipslash has deleted posts of mine above...

(Yes - mostly on hosts files, which as a webmaster losing adclicks, he doesn't like it & it's not "opensores" either (no way, no Google EFast will be made of MY code & if advertisers & webmasters wouldn't infect/track/slow us using USERS' ELECTRIC POWER TO DO SO? I never would've made it))

So I don't doubt others' posts have been DELETED also...

APK

P.S.=> I keep descriptions & screenshots of each by the way which per my subject, I bet him a million U.S. dollars on it - he ran... apk

Re:Yes & I bet whipslash on it (he ran)... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to look into this. If you didn't make some kind of typo, and those comments were really deleted, we have to raise holy hell. I'll make a journal about it as soon as I can verify. Unfortunately, censorship is getting more popular these days. I doubt I will get anywhere in the fight against it, but I'll give it my best.

That aside, your posts are kinda obnoxious, but censorship is much more offensive, and we need absolutely zero tolerance for it. Jus' sayin'.... Word!

ideas!!

[Joe_Dragon]

All LGA 2066 class cpus have full PCI-E lanes like AMD
No raid keys like AMD
More pci-e on desktop CPU's Like AMD
  high-end desktop cpus can use ECC like AMD

Sounds like someone got a visit from consultants

[ErichTheRed]

Intel is a de facto monopoly. Yes, there's AMD and ARM is starting to gain a foothold, but x86 basically rules the industry for now. It sounds like the CEO is trying to figure out what to do about it. And when CEOs figure things out, the reality is that management consultants tell them what to do.

I've seen it happen a bunch of times. Management consulting firms are basically charging millions for a "digital transformation starter pack" for any company whose deployment processes aren't sufficiently DevOps-y. In Intel's case, I'm sure they're basically telling them to start acting like a startup, move fast and break things, etc. The MO is the same everywhere -- the uber-shark sales team sells the CEO the starter pack, a 25 year old with a fresh Ivy League MBA is put on a plane to deliver some PowerPoints, and a team in India is sent all the "work."

I'm sure Intel has its share of bloat, and there probably are a lot of people hiding out in nice safe positions. I know a bunch of people who work for HP (now HPE) who say that the ratio of useless to useful employees is still like 3:1, even after all the mass-firings. But one thing I worry about is that in the rush to be more agile, break things, etc. they're going to fire everyone who knows the fundamentals. After all, to look like a startup, your employees need to be under 30, wearing T-shirts and board shorts, and have product stickers all over their MacBook Pro lids. Any of those stuffy old electrical engineers who make things actually happen are overpaid and should be fired, amirite? :-)

Idea: License QPI you b****s!

[Anonymous Coward]

Coprocessors need to get some bandwidth to main memory, or at least to sockets. Either let us use QPI or start supporting NVLink. Or whatever AMD has.

Oh oh...

[Waffle Iron]

When Intel takes "risks", it tends to come up with things like the iAPX 432, i860, Itanium, and the 80286 incarnation of protected mode. This probably won't end well.

Thanos to whipslash (lol)... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

"You will know what it's like to lose: To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail all the same. Dread it, RUN from it - Destiny STILL arrives..." - Thanos

* As I come "warping in" to /., right past his scripted attempted blocks of my posts like his defenses were not there @ all whatsoever...

(Just like Thanos in the new upcoming "Avengers INFINITY WAR" @ position 1:07 on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcxV-AA07tc/

APK

P.S.=> "... Fun isn't something one considers when BALANCING THE UNIVERSE" APK Hosts File Engine 10++ 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/ "but THIS https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11409789&cid=55632339/ "does put a smile on my face!"... apk

I don't want you there

[Anonymous Coward]

Keep your spying "management engines" to yourself.
I don't want them in the devices I use and many people share that opinion.
People that will ultimately decide where you will be -- not your "vision".

Re:I don't want you there

[currently_awake]

I expect the NSA paid well for it. If they planned on it being useful to corporations they would fully document it and make it open so others could build upon it.

Re:I don't want you there

[Anonymous Coward]

In reality they will now start monetizing that build in spyware machinery even more. Of course they will say the data they collect is anonymized and only gathered for security and experience improvement purposes only, but at end they will sell it to anyone.

Re:Sounds like someone got a visit from consultant

[Anonymous Coward]

Intel is by no means a monopoly in its industry.

That industry is semiconductors - *not* general-purpose computing.

There are many other companies and fabs for sub-GHz devices that get used far more than x86. ARM is eating Intel's lunch where it matters and they only LICENSE their semiconductor designs.

Re:OT: Have you noticed Slashdot deleting comments

[Anonymous Coward]

Its been happening for a while now.

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Re:OT: Have you noticed Slashdot deleting comments

[Anonymous Coward]

The mods are pretty fucking corrupt, but it's been that way for a long time.

It is because APK is an abusive spamming retard

[Anonymous Coward]

APK your posts get deleted because you are an abusive spamming lying retard

While I personally think your particularly abusive posts should be left so everyone can see you make a complete ass of yourself and know what kind of person you really are I guess others flag them for what they are

Now please continue making your self look ever more retarded with your inability to read and write english

I await one of your standard sub par retorts which have been debunked widely and repeatedly

I guess you just like to show how you are a whiny little retard, now go beat off to Alex Jones

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us worship Creimer, and beg for His mercy upon us. Many of us have blasphemed against Creimer, who is our Lord and Savior. Please forgive us, Creimer, for we have sinned against You. We beg you, Creimer, our God, for your mercy.

a loot box to use CPU

[Anonymous Coward]

they will put a loot box to use CPU

I see retard APK believes fantasy is reality again

[Anonymous Coward]

I see that retard APK believes fantasy is reality and is pretending that he lives in a movie again.

I wonder if he also realizes that his hosts file engine BS providing actual security is fantasy as well.

In both cases he is well aware of what it feels like to loose as like the sorry loser he is will declare that he won but secretly cries himself to sleep wondering why everyone takes him for the fool he is.

We mock you because we care, well not really it is because it is fun and you are an easy dumb target.

Re:Sounds like someone got a visit from consultant

[Anonymous Coward]

You are unintelligent and talking way out of your league. Please stop posting to Slashdot.

Be aware of the Movidius stuff...

[Anonymous Coward]

Intels Neural Network sticks are closed source, as is the SDK for them.

They have a github page, but most people don't realize not every repo on github has to be licensed as open source and the LICENSE file for the ncsdk is decidedly NOT open source or libre.

If you think getting trapped on wintel is bad, imagine getting trapped on their machine learning chips. It will be like cuda all over again.

but, but, but... /. doesn't delete posts!

[Anonymous Coward]

whipslash you project who the liar is (you unable to back your bs) and it put a smile on apk's face https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11509041&cid=55776981/ that made me laugh too it was so apt. Now, tone done on the raging foaming at the mouth profanity laden rants ok? It's not helping your case with users having to wipe your spittle of their faces, hahahahahahaha!

/.ers quoted disagree (you lose)...apk

[Anonymous Coward]

"I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised" - by mmell February 16, 2017

"I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good" - by BronsCon February 11, 2016

"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant August 10, 2015

"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg September 25, 2015

"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock September 09, 2015 (#50489401)

"I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home" by OrangeTide December 01, 2017

"I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK" by 110010001000 October 27, 2017

APK

P.S.=> This DID put a smile on my face https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11509041&cid=55776981/

Let's think about this

[Anonymous Coward]

So I have many great apps installed on my smartphone. They are simple, do exactly what they are supposed to do. One click and done.

Back on my desktop my screen real estate is about 20x larger and I have completely different tasks and thus requirements. Here I want my apps to be comprehensive and verstatile.

In short there is no common base.

@Apple. Bad idea. Yet another one.

Re:Let's think about this

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you meant to reply to this post:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/12/20/1542205/apple-plans-combined-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps-to-create-one-user-experience
I totally agree with your comment on it.

retard APK wrong again

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry retard APK you are wrong again as always.

I'm not whipslash, or any of the other countless individuals you incorrectly assign posts to.

I do see that you are now trying to make your fantasy reality again by pretending to post as not your self to make it look like you have support.

You do this frequently but your inability to actually write gives you away so everyone knows it is you just making your self look ever more foolish.

The linking to your own posts mere inches above shows your lack of intelligence as the link never actually proves anything other than you are retarded.

Like I said one of your standard sub par retorts which have been debunked widely and repeatedly.

Re:retard APK wrong again

[Anonymous Coward]

No fantasy users like his work or that nothing stops him and he's right it put a smile on all our faces https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11509041&cid=55776981/ You're the one with deluded fantasies!

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

For a guy who worships a "god" that's just been found dead under a mountain of crusty Kleenex and inflatable goats, you shouldn't judge.

Re:Sounds like someone got a visit from consultant

[Anonymous Coward]

As long as he's correct in his assessment, I don't see why the messenger needs to be shot.

Besides, what has Intel got to lose now? They have fired most of their good engineers and replaced them with low-cost employees. Every cost-costing method has been done, there's no innovative power left, so the only thing they can do now, is risk everything and fail.

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us worship Creimer, and beg for His mercy upon us. Many of us have blasphemed against Creimer, who is our Lord and Savior. Please forgive us, Creimer, for we have sinned against You. We beg you, Creimer, our God, for your mercy.

Otellini missing iPhone now hitting home

[Anonymous Coward]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/paul-otellinis-intel-can-the-company-that-built-the-future-survive-it/275825/

OK, so maybe Intel can reinvent like Microsoft. But I doubt it. I was part of the post Otellini McAfee acquisition, experienced Intel culture and LRP (long range planning - 5 years) first hand. I don't see risk taking part of their culture. Go read the Atlantic article. I'd guess ZERO has changed internally since his time. And a whole lot of stuff externally, where no one really cares if your Azure or AWS cloud or Packet servers run Intel inside. No one. So this looks like the first of three envelopes by the CEO. I'm sad to see them go, but, they're gone as their former self, just don't know it yet.

more risks? How about better management?

[Anonymous Coward]

As a former employee in their wireless division, I have to say that they hired the wrong CEO after Otellini left (David Permutter should be CEO), and at the time, they hired Aicha Evans to run wireless. She blew through $12B in R&D with so much rampant duplication, and a staff that would rather fight each other, than Qualcomm. She adamantly refused to execute operational reviews even after billions were lost. The management staff at Intel does not know how to "block and tackle" to design the right products, and do it on-time. This company has been riding on the coat-tails of their semiconductor process superiority at the expense of everything else. Now their competitors (Samsung, TSMC) have caught up, and can also execute chip design more effectively.. This company is riding on inertia, and slowly sinking beneath the waves.. it's sad.. But I dare say, it won't get fixed until "BK" and "AE" are sent packing.

CEOs Talk Rubbish

[youngone]

It's the time of year when CEO's (and other PHB's) are expected to give some sort of "inspirational" message to the serfs, so the result is often this sort of unbelievable nonsense.
Intel is probably staffed by a lot of very clever people who won't be taken in by this at all.
I work for a huge multinational too, and our CEO told us how much he values our contribution, which we all thought was hilarious.

One of retard APK's tired retorts

[Anonymous Coward]

Look it is one more of APK's old tired retorts when someone call out his bullshit.
He is never able to actually respond to criticism of his work.
He is unable to counter when others point out the obvious failings of what he is trying to do.
So instead he trots out some quotes from /. users that he takes out of context or the owners have since disclaimed (see BronsCon's current sig for proof).
Next he might point out that hosts was suggested for security by some old AOL radio program from the 90s or some other such crap.
Too bad hosts is a very bad black list and APKs software is a bloated complex mess to handle it.
Yes it is bloated and overly complex as I and others have pointed out many times as it is just a file aggregator.
It offers some security but it is comparable to an AV scanner that checks for viruses by looking at file names and also is out of date.
By some security I mean security that a small child could figure out how to circumvent in short order, so no real security at all.
Retard APK can never answer these and the many other legitimate criticisms of his work, statements, and himself so instead he deflects, distracts, attempts to change the subject, or declares that he won without ever actually winning or even providing legitimate support of his point.
He must like getting beaten like an ugly redheaded step-child

Re:One of retard APK's tired retorts

[Anonymous Coward]

Too many people disagree with your unidentifiable anonymous rant in the post you rave against. You beat yourself down like a redheaded step child.

APK proves he is a retard again

[Anonymous Coward]

APK proves he is a retard again
He managed to clean up his writing ability some but it is still piss poor.
His style that he just can't shake is still a giveaway.
Still linking to his previous comments, another giveaway
Blind support of what APK says, yet another dead giveaway that APK is posting to pretend that people actually support him.
As always support seems to come from AC posts, never register user accounts, another sign that there isn't a non APK person behind it.
He still laughs at the things he says like a retard laughing at his own jokes that no one else finds funny, a standard APK style
At this point just give up APK and sign your bullshit or are you too embarrassed by it to claim your feeble minded work.
It is no worse than your feeble minded; hosts file engine, your security articles, or any other advice you have given out that has been torn to pieces countless times.
Don't worry APK, I'm sure some day your parents will stop regretting not aborting you.

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

creimer wrote:

I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

creimer wrote:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65

Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Here are some Creimer's posts from his account that was blocked and renamed by Slashdot management:

"Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them."
https://slashdot.org/comments....

"Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management."
https://slashdot.org/comments....

This year I've posted ~4,000 comments.
https://slashdot.org/comments....

We have different priorities. You want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to own the corporate ladder.
https://slashdot.org/comments....

My employers don't care about what my Slashdot trolls think. Now go off and lick your balls somewhere else.
https://slashdot.org/comments....

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

There you are spamming youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.

Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.

How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????

The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!

You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!

When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!

Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!

Bonus:
Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:

The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!

So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!

Signed:
The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us worship Creimer, and beg for His mercy upon us. Many of us have blasphemed against Creimer, who is our Lord and Savior. Please forgive us, Creimer, for we have sinned against You. We beg you, Creimer, our God, for your mercy.

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Chris' case is getting worse, he spends all day replying to himself as AC on /.

The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.

For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.

Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!

Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."

For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:

Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.

To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.

The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!

Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.

I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
https://ibb.co/gVad65

Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG

But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.

Thank You dear users,
---
Nancy Guerrero
Director
Special Education
Santa Clara County Office of Education

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks Nancy,

Your posts are always enlightening and right on topic! Keep up the good work over there at Special Education!

I have noted that Chris uses child psychology to convince his so called trolls to give up by pretending they just give him free publicity. That's adoring! ;-)

Anyway Chris would have a hard time to learn anything above child level matters, including psychology.

https://childdevelopmentinfo.c...

---
Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us worship Creimer, and beg for His mercy upon us. Many of us have blasphemed against Creimer, who is our Lord and Savior. Please forgive us, Creimer, for we have sinned against You. We beg you, Creimer, our God, for your mercy.

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's so unfunny and boring when you roleplay your sockpuppets. This joke would only work if you were an effeminate gay version of yourself like hedonismbot.

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's true enough!

Creimer came in my cubicle the other day around 1:30 PM to fix my Ethernet connectivity. He had to crawl under my desk to reach the cable and oh my god! While crawling under the desk, he released an unbelievable amount of gas and the whole floor had to be evacuated for the rest of the day.

An HAZMAT team was requested to approve the condition before we could go in again the next day and entrance was delayed until 10:45 AM.

3 workers with chronical respiratory problems had to go to the hospital and 1 is still in critical state.

Update:
This is NOT a fart joke!
https://slashdot.org/comments....
The gas seemed to come out of his ears. My guess is that gas accumulates in his large empty head:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

CREIMIER SAID:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Shitposting, Amazon affiliate spam, being fat, and being a general nuisance.

CREIMER SAID:
Only on Slashdot.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

So why hasn't managed to ban this intentionally disruptive user? According to him his "trolls" can't help themselves.. he is the one in control willingly and maliciously creating disruptions. Reasons that slashdot has stated they will ban accounts at their discretion.

Why isn't creimer banned? He degrades the slashdot experience for everyone and attempts to monetize these efforts. This is effectively stealing from Dice.

Just the other day creimer attempted to dox a user by posting her name and ip address. How many chances should he be given?

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Creimer reminds me of scripture because he's full of stories about people marrying children.

Jealous I get support & you don't? Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

"APK your posts on this & the hosts file posts, & more, have never been in error &/or bad advice" by BlueStrat June 21, 2017

"APK... I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." by bmo October 15, 2015

"I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable." by vel-ex-tech November 24, 2015

"that APK guy, I use his host file" by rogoshen1 March 03, 2015

"APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good" by Culture20 November 17

"APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop" by nasredin June 12, 2015

"I love APK!The power of the hostfile compels you!" by ratboy666 January 29, 2016

"(APK) is still right, a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream" by OrangeTide February 10, 2016

"You need APK's hosts file" by Teun August 06, 2014

APK

P.S.=> See my subject & pay attention to 1st one above vs. your bs

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is still trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

creimer wrote:

I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

creimer wrote:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65

Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is again trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

creimer wrote:

I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

creimer wrote:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65

Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:

Re:What a wonderful idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us worship Creimer, and beg for His mercy upon us. Many of us have blasphemed against Creimer, who is our Lord and Savior. Please forgive us, Creimer, for we have sinned against You. We beg you, Creimer, our God, for your mercy.

Risks

[JThundley]

Will they be taking business risks or just more risks with my security?

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[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Huh?

[rsilvergun]

AMD currently owns the video game console market and Arm owns phones & tablets. That leaves Intel with a monopoly over the shrinking PC market. Today at work I had to use an intranet Web App that didn't work in IE, only Chrome. Apple is moving to get away from Intel too. If they don't do something they're going to be about as relevant as Motorola & MOS Technologies are: Still around in some industrial apps but largely the domain of a few hard core hobbyists.

Intel still beats AMD

[rsilvergun]

on single threaded performance, which for workstations is still what matters. And they're competitive on multi-thread performance. They overpriced their parts because AMD has only been competitive since Ryzen launched. Before that the 8350 couldn't touch a mid range i5 let alone an i7 and had twice the power draw.

I just upgraded and went with Intel. Yes, the Intel CPU cost a little more (got an i5-7500 for $150 shipped) but I also paired it with a solid mobo for $70. I can't do that on AMD. Buy a cheap AMD board and you'll regret it for a variety of reasons. Right now the cost savings on AMD gets eaten up buying a nicer mobo...

Re:Intel still beats AMD

[Anonymous Coward]

So why are they ahead in single thread performance?

They are playing with the extra constraint of x86 instruction set compatibility.
It seems like somebody should have figured out how to make something faster without that constraint.
But they have not.

It seems to me that beating them requires collecting an assortment of skills.
The fab process, and supporting characterization, sim, layout, and mask making tool chains.
An ISA and compiler that can provide a great number of potential work items to do each clock cycle.
A plan for providing a bunch of functional units that can be coordinated and fit in the process.
The ability to make good use of high performance memory subsystems.
A way to deal with the complexity of coordinating this work in real time.

The first and the last are the magic. The rest are mostly hard work.

The question is how come nobody else has done this?
Is it a matter of economics?