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The Latest Transmeta Rumor
Today's Transmeta rumor is from Red Herring. Their story gives more details than the c't article we pointed to earlier this week, but is still full of unattributed info. Supposedly Transmeta's "real" Web site will debut with ruffles and flourishes Monday evening when Linus Torvalds gives his Comdex keynote speech, and all these little advance leaks are supposed to pique our curiosity about what he's going to say. Okay, mine's piqued. How about yours?
It can't kill me. Please don't let it kill me. If it kills me I'll never get to hear what he has to say!
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It is becoming clear that "Transmeta" is a big, big joke on the lot of us.
I would like to thank everyone involved in the prank for all the entertainment they have given us over the past few months.
Getting Linus involved was a masterstroke.
Thanks again, guys.
All I know is that if it turns out to be really lame like a giant abacus.. I'm going to be really, really disappoointed!
Fish! LipHo
WRONG!
Perhaps Linus has been rewriting something for a big corporation in Redmond? :-(
I doubt many of us have any idea what they are really up to. Those patents could have been red herrings.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
That reminds me of an old joke that was in an early adult adventure game on the Sinclair ZX81 -
There was a dirty toilet in a pub and if you read the walls the graffiti said
"Computer programmers PEEK before they POKE".
... I never did understand that
A little planning goes a long way...
Ooh, ohh, Transmeta news again! So fscking what; its hype like this that leads to vaporware. I want to see a somewhat operating beta, or even a crappy alpha, before I start buying into any rumored tech. It seems a bit odd that Slashdot would be the one's to contribute to the reduction of the signal/noise ratio, as they're usually pretty good about checking rumors. But this one invokes the name of the mighty Linus, so of course people stand up and take notice. I'm as big a Linux fan as the next bloke and would certainly love to see Transmeta as a reality, but all of this fanfare over baseless speculation (um, Transmeta isn't actually scheduled. To quote the article in reference: "Pundits predict Linus Torvalds, Linux operating system creator and Transmeta software engineer, will let the cat out of the bag. That's not the plan." Great source, those pundits) is becoming tiresome.
Deosyne
I'm very fond of the way that Transmeta has been building hype without even doing much. Or at least that's what they want you to think. These things are usually carefully orchestrated. (And it's even more fun when done in a Kaufman-esque style.)
Just think, when this company actually lets on what it's doing, they could IPO imediately, and instantly, a new tech stock, hype hype hype.... they'd be a threat to anyone in their market.
When they go public, I'm dropping some cash just on principal. If what they have is half of what they elude to . . . . .
Bad things often happen to good people,
It is up to them to see that they remain good.
The news icon pretty much sucks.
Why not a great, big, ominous obelisk, like in that much-hyped sci-fi movie we all hate to love?
Lets see, put up one page then chill out for a couple of years.
Real taxing on a techie.
On one hand, the chip will run Java faster than anything out there, because it will "morph" Java Virtual instructions into real instructions.
On the other hand, if this chip run just about
any machine code, it makes the need for Java
less of an issue.
Though eventually, people will want to code to a common binary format. This universal instruction set could be Java if Sun loosens up.
Haven't we heard this before somewhere else? Didn't Mr. Gates always tell us: "We're working on something that is really beautiful and will make the way we do our computing more fun." and then proceeds to give us windos 9x? I sure hope TM doesn't pull that joke on us...
According to Netcraft, they are using Apache 1.1.1, which is OLD! Old old old old old! Ancient, even!
As for the rumours, we'll know when we know, and not before. Amiga proved that, rather better than they'd hoped, and certainly not in the way they intended.
If there's a major announcement on Monday, it'll be just in time to send major shock-waves through the stock markets (already reeling from the Microsoft "finding of fact"), and (depending on what any such announcement even is) may make the hardware industry rather jittery. We're approaching the year 2000, and many companies are bracing for lawsuits, computer & hardware failures within their own sites, and other such pleasentry. Revolutionary hardware, which redefines what a computer is, is not on the list of things IT managers want, right now.
But we don't even know what it is that Transmeta is doing! We have a handful of patents, most of old technology (according to the dates) and we've no idea if any final product released will make use of any of it. It might, it might not. We don't know, we have no way of knowing, we don't even know if these were real, or defensive smokescreens to protect trade secrets.
The only people who -do- know may or may not say anything on Monday, or any other day of the week, any week of the year, any year until the end of the NEXT millenium.
Speculation, at this point, is based on 4 lines of web page, 3 patents of uncertain age & purpose, a job list, and a list of associated companies, none of which mesh in any way that I can see, unless this is a combined graphics, sound & regular processor, any segment of which can emulate in a mix of hardware & firmware any other processor of that type.
This seems improbably complex, unless Transmeta have moved to wafer-scales (which I'd like to see) but since they don't fab and no other plant can do 0.18 micron wafer-scale, with any reliability, it seems unlikely.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I don't care anymore.. The thrill of it all is getting to me. No matter what they produce, be it toys, cars or cpus....
;>
I want one... It doesn't matter what it is. I'm gonna buy one... because most likely I'll be able to run Linux on it.
just my thoughts on it...
I rememeber someone posting a link to a fictional timeline about transmeta revoltionizing computers and destroying microsoft and intel. I really cool, and often comical but I cannot find the link anywhere. Does anyone have it?
Thanks,
jaz
"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." -- Homer Simpson
Regardless of what product Transmeta eventually produces (assuming they actually do produce a product someday), you must admit they have a brilliant, practically Zen approach to Public Relations.
It doesn't matter if their product turns out to be vaporware, or the second coming of Christ in the form of a microprocessor, they've got us all so worked up over it that Linus could just walk up to the podium and eat a bowl of cereal at Comdex and we'd provide days of analysis and discussion on what we thought his body language revealed. Fscking *brilliant*
In a world becoming increasingly accustomed to ridiculous amounts of needless information on simply *everything* they've distinguished themselves from the pack in the only way possible: by providing no information whatsoever.
(Note that by [not] distinguishing themselves in this way, they've actually created a higher information density...)
I'm simply in awe, and undoubtedly waiting just as eagerly as the rest of you...
Anthony
^X^X
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
"I think any time you expose vulnerabilities it's a good thing." -Attorney General Janet Reno
On the other hand, they continue to get themselves confused as to the merits of the processor design that "falls out of the patent list."
But laptops aren't that different. And Intel keeps on increasing transistor counts on CPUs, whilst prices don't rise (much), which means that the simple passage of time combined with Moore's law will push them into the "bloody" battle eventually.
If a "Transmeta 400" can sit in a box beside my desk and execute IA-32 instructions, then it is isomorphic to the Pentium Pro that sits in a box beside my desk and executes IA-32 instructions.
In effect, they're basically the same. Even if Transmeta has some slick new ways of getting those IA-32 instructions to be executed, the fact that they're doing the same thing undercuts the argument that they're somehow different.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
THOUGHT POLICE! YOU MAY TAKE MY BEER^M^M^M^MSPEECH BUT YOU CAN NEVER TAKE MY FREEDOM!
Hehe, check out the new addition to their website.
Will this never end? Will no one help me? Is there anyone listening?
-- familiarity is only skin deep
You're right, Monday will see some major stir in the stock markets. But not because of Micro$oft; that was this week. Not because of Transmeta, that's not even publically traded yet.
No, the hero of the day will be Corel. Corel will present its Linux distro at Comdex, and that'll be the day when the unwashed masses will notice that Corel is a Linux company too, and drive its stock price to Red Hat hights. Corel go! I'm in, are you too?
Too early for this!
I'm in Finland. It's 3:53pm here. But why would 8am be too early?
very simple and effective and mostly ignored.
But apply that scheme to translating opcodes on the fly, using the CPU cache to hold the translated codes... Oops, instant universal CPU. (and if this counts a prior publication and transmeta are doing something else that's another patent blocked :-)
With all the hype surrounding this company, they'd better come out with something pretty spectacular. If it isn't a supercomputer that will fit in a watch, run everything in my home and also walk the dog, then I'm afraid its no go... ;)
Hmm, I just thought I would like to get my personal prediction onto /. now so that when I'm right I can link back to this and show people how clever I was :-)
I think it's gonna be a chip designed for use in laptop / palm size devices that will run (at least one) full-scale O/S. It will have in-built support for various communications protocols (in much the same way as MMX has support for various multimedia tricks right now) and the reprogrammability of the chip will allow for upgrading with further protocols in the future.
The potential dream use? A "tricorder" style device, basically a fully sized computer with instant always-on wireless access to the Internet.
Even if it's not this, can someone please get their asses in gear and make one g'dammit!
A little planning goes a long way...
Maybe they have been waiting for MSFT to have a bit of slippage, with the intent to pounce at that point.
(Although Paul Allen, investor, also holds lots of MSFT stock, and thus would get hurt by this... Not too plausible...)
They're using old technology. There are connections to Europe.
Perhaps this is actually an End of Days scenario; they plan to make an announcement that will help Imminnetize the Eschaton (sp? I've not read the RAW trilogy in quite some time).
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
I've already decided that Corel Linux will be by distribution of choice (without even touching it).
:) (KFM/IE5 anyway).
Why?
Cause it has that professional polished look I like about windows. And belive it or not, corporate development always produces much more complete polished products. Corel is a professional company (look at Corel Draw for example - very nice). I'm looking forward to drooling over it when I get my hands on a copy.
From the screen shots it functionally looks like Windows 2000
That is a GREAT IDEA.
So Monday night their website might be down? It would be kinda funny to think that all this time they've had the ability to take thousands of hits per minute just for a few lines of html.
They can't play this no-news-sudden-news thing without expecting masses of website interest the moment they finally put something up there.
More interesting than *what* it says, will be if, on Monday night, it actually says anything at all!...
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Yes... I feel your pain...but as a former first poster (I scored mine a couple months ago) I know what you went through. Here's where you screwed up though.. YOU DIDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER. You didn't carpe diem..
Yep... When I saw that nice clean article with no posts I didn't hesitate, yes the adrenaline was surging... my palms were wet, heart pounding. I was standing at the peak of greatness... I knew I had but one thing to do, there was no turning back now... I rapidly typed in a one word post.. then with no hesitation I navigated my mouse over the submit button...and WHAM..seconds later I was looking at my feeble post with a #1 attached to the header. At that mmoment I knew a feeling that only few will ever know...I was at one with Slashdot... Zen masters and Kings will relate I'm sure. That one sweet moment when the ying and the yang converge..bliss... eternal bliss..ahhh
Then I smoked a cigarette and went to bed.
because they're not going to want anyone to hack in and replace it with anything... say, a page with a whole bunch of goof-off rumors, fake logos, etc, etc, to make people think that they've released something (which would be obviously fake to some people, but then, since all we have now is rumors and speculation, some people would believe it.. at least for a while)
so, my guess is they have somebody (not necessarily a techie, I guess) looking in on things, you know?
Insert mind here.
What has changed since then? Linus Torvalds, the god of Linux and the hero of the OSS revolution is working for a company that files patents on all of its ideas and *GASP* requires NDAs in order to see their work. Why has no one noticed this? *sarcasm>Is it because it's Linus, and He can do no wrong */sarcasm>? Or are people realising that there is a time and a place for OSS and the GPL, and this might not be it?
I know!!! Transmeta is working on making Linux more user friendly and productive, just like Windows 2000. They've spent the past two years adding all the features users are familiar with: BSOD (Essential) Multiple reboots during installation The Bubble Boy worm And many more... ;P
Don't complain about my web page. It's mine. ALL MINE.
Even if they _do_ release a great CPU it doesn't matter because that other CPU company will make sure there are no motherboards for the new chip.
This is one of my "kill "THE MAN"" fantasies:
1. Intel has overlooked a HUGE Y2K issue that is present in all of their microprocessors. (Possibly intentionally)
2. Transmeta, while developing their rumored mystery chip discovered the flaw.
3. Come January 1, 2000, everyone with an Intel chip has Y2K issues. (Big or small)
4. Come January 19, 2000, Transmeta has new inexpensive microprocessor/motherboard combo that will solve the problem.
5. Intel's bottom line plummets and Transmeta becomes the new "MAN"
6. A week later, I begin to make my plans to take Transmeta down. ;P
The Demonbitch has spoken
Don't complain about my web page. It's mine. ALL MINE.
Oh, I see what they're doing....
Nothing! They wait for speculations to converge, and then work towards realising that goal. It is quite brilliant. They're letting the industrys wildest dreams and fantasies define their product line.
This way, when they deliver what everyone has, in effect, suggested to them, they'll be hailed as visionaries and innovators of the greatest caliber.
It's like Microsoft's focus-group driven market research, only in the open-source way... They didn't solicit. Whatever we thought was useful, we gladly contributed to creating....
Or maybe they're just openning up a penguin farm.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
You think Transmeta is in with the AISB? I'd always wondered to what extent the 5 were involved with the creation of Linux. My bet is that Linus is actually a deep cover agent for the ELF...
The Eschaton will shortly be Immanentized. "The Great Convergance" will imho be the vehicle this time around fnord.
For further information, consult your pineal gland. All Hail Eris. Prosecutors will be transgressicuted.
Anthony DiMarco, KSC
^X^X
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
"I think any time you expose vulnerabilities it's a good thing." -Attorney General Janet Reno
(in a Charlton Hestonian accent) It's People !!!!!!!! It's People !!!!!!!!!!!! Transmeta Is People !!!!!!!!!!!!
Hates people who have stupid little sigs
About one year ago Boris Babajan had a speach on some celebration. Here is a few quotes from his speach(in really bad translation):
...In 1991 when we made Elbrus-3 one american aspirant that knew about our work made speach about on one conference. Immideatly to us arrived leading "worker" from HP.They tried to convince us for a long time to work together. Later cleared out that in the same time HP started new project that after creating in 1994 alians between Intel and HP became Merced. I don't want to say that something was stolen from us. But we told everything.In 1991 we hadn't much expirience so we didn't took any papers. We think that at least we had really strong influnce on HP that they moved on this way. This is a new way in CPU architecture, the post-RISC one, the way of parallelism in command system(have no idea how to translate it right). If you will look at Merced it's same architecture as Elbrus-3. Maybe there is some differences but not to the better side.
...We worked for a long time with Sun.with us used to work David Ditzel great westerrn that first made us of word RISC. He was David Piterson in 1981 wrote artice talking about advantages of RISC and tried to convince companies to move to it. In 1991 he arrives to us after we speaked with Billy Joe and began to work with us. We worked together for 3 great years.I got his letters when he speaking about our architecture (Elbrus-3?) as about great one. Later he left Sun.He didn't succed to convince his company to make our architecture the main one. Then he formed his own company, Transmeta, where he continiued to develop same architecture that exist in Elbrus-3, architecture of wide command word(VLIW??) based on binaru compilation(binary tranlation system???), but in a bit different variant.....
The impostance of this two exmaples shows that now, in post-superscalar world there is only 3 place where developed wide command word(VLIW?) architicture. First place is Moscow, our collective, second is HP-Intel, and third it's Transmeta together with IBM and Texas Instruments.That's It ! No one else has this technology. In order to develop it you need at least 10 years. Of coursse you can clone(steal) it. It's always fast. But to develop it independetly takes a lot of time...
The url for the whole speach is here. In russian of course.
For me it's 9:30 am, and it's not too early, it's too late.
:)
Please, have mercy on my poor, sleepy soul.
Transmeta updated their site! It now says (drumroll...) :
This web page is not here yet!
...but it is Y2K compliant.
Wow.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
My man, you must have had a great imagination... ;-)
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Warning: Slashdot may contain traces of nuts.
That should solve the big-endian vs. little-endian debate once and for all.
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.
Mapping emulated instructions onto the "true" instructions on the processor that's doing the emulating is nicely representative of the notion of "isomorphism." Whatever compiler tools are involved will need to provide some sort of one-to-one mapping of sets of IA-32 instructions onto sets of "Transmeta Chip" instructions; if that is not an isomorphism, I don't know what is.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
I think it's a conspiracy to change the spelling from "typos" to "tyops."
Anyone want to take 10:1 odds that transmeta's website goes down within 5 minutes of the "release"? 100:1? (2 ** 64):1?
>>According to the comments, there are also definitely no typos in the web page.
No, there are no *tyops* in the web page...
-- There are no secret messages in the source code to this web page. --
-- There are no tyops in this web page. --
:-)
Hey all. I'm one of the few who read the entirety of the "finding of fact." Based on this, and what else I know of transmeta, my conclusion is that this may be part of a bigger ploy to marginalize linux on x86 to M$'s benefit.
The way I heard the rumors, and through some intel gathering efforts by some 3rd parties, transmeta is working on a badass processor. It will run linux (why in hell else would torvalds be working at a semiconductor company, rather than a software company). This is fine and good for us all. Fast processors for a cool OS.
But wait...transmeta's bankrolled by one of the MS heavies...what would they have to gain by making hardware linux could run on (remember, they've put a lot of effort into being top dog on x86, why would they create another hardware platform, and invite others in)?
My hypothesis is this: Most Linux users use x86 because they originally had a windows machine, and installed linux on it. They may have bought more linux machines since. This is a weak point in the barrier to entry in the PC OS market. Because the new linux user doesn't have to buy new hardware to start using linux, it is a cheap and readly available alternative to windows on x86. If, to reap the full benefits of Linux, one had to either buy new hardware, or be content with relatively poor performance, the average windows user would be LESS likely to run linux, thus protecting the barrier to entry on the x86 OS market. If this new hardware would be incompatible with x86 hardware, businesses may be less likely to use it for their machines, because parts and support would be much more scarce and expensive than their x86 counterparts.
In short, I believe two things are possibly the REAL motive behind transmeta:
a) MS is tired of intel and wants more control over the CPU's windows runs on, and needs the OS of early adopters on board to help it take off.
-or-
b) Transmeta is a means by which MS can hurt Linux as a viable alternative to windows on x86, thus protecting the applications barrier to entry on that platform, protecting their monopoly.
just some conjecture...make your own decision
dan
"Let him go, Ralph. He knows what he's doing." --Otto Mann (simpsons)
Transmeta and Linus is always fun and interesting, but it can get to much of the good stuff. When things like "I've heard from my hairdresser whose seventh cousins' husband knows someone that works at Transmeta, that they're doing hamsterhairdryers." is posted as a separate story, it's gone ot far. If you feel the urge to post every Transmeta rumor (you know, you could just wait until they actually DO something) then please put them together in quickie type box. =)
Just my 0.02 euro.
You know.. no one would give a rat's ass about transmeta doing nothing if they hadn't hired a pack of famous internet personalities. If I, the nameless internet dweeb, were to start up a company with a nifty name and simply say "I'm not telling you what I'm making! Not only that, but I won't be putting anything out for years!," not one person in the world would give me a second glance.
I suppose when microsoft comes out with vaporware, it's bad. However, when something involving the holy linus comes out with vaporware, it's the second coming of christ.
From www.transmeta.com:
...but it is Y2K compliant. "
:-)
"This web page is not here yet!
From Netcraft:
www.transmeta.com is running Apache/1.1.1 on Linux
Isn't Apache 1.1.1 a tad, er, non-Y2K compliant? (I know there are several security concerns WRT that ancient a ver of Apache). At least they use Linux
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I vote for something along the lines of Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben. Sort of a feel-good happy toothy icon.
None of these have really gone anywhere in terms of influencing Java deployment.
The only way they would have been important is if:
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Is Transmeta publically traded?
It was advertised in good 'ol 80 Microcomputing with nothing more "explicit" than a attractive woman with subtly suggestive cleavage. (None of the "WWF World Class Implant" thing games selleers use these days...)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Patents claims aside, these hardware ideas are not new. What's going to make or break any of these ventures is at the software level-- how they efficiently transmute one set of instructions into hardware (either microcode or gate-array logic). From our experience with all the different flavors of Java virtual machines and their relative performance and compatability, we should recognize how difficult it will be to come up with a "MetaOS" that drives configurable hardware.
The speed of tailored gate array logic at specific tasks is phenomenal. The reconfigurability of "field-programable" gate arrays, like those produced by Xilinx have already proved useful in creating lightening fast photoshop plugin filters.
We should cheer if Transmeta or Starbridge come up with novel hardware and software that increases the generality and usefulness of these ideas. Be skeptical of the hype, but not the vision.
Previous Slashdot reference to starbridge is here.
First post.
I think that says it all really.. read between the lines you dolts.
Your "second coming of Christ" made me remember the brilliant scene in Monthy Python's Life of Brian. Our hero is trying to escape some roman guards by prentending to be one of the raving prophets who stand in the street. At first he tries to give his audience some real good advice, but they just don't get it. When the guards go away and he stops talking in the middle of the sentence, the people get intrigued. The more he denies knowing something, the more sure they are that he is the messiah.
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...And he gave them some ta-- Wait a minute. Were there three?
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http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-16.ht
BRIAN:
Consider the lilies...
ELSIE:
Consider the lilies?
BRIAN:
Uh, well, the birds, then.
EDDIE:
What birds?
BRIAN:
Any birds.
EDDIE:
Why?
BRIAN:
Well, have they got jobs?
ARTHUR:
Who?
BRIAN:
The birds.
EDDIE:
Have the birds got jobs?!
FRANK:
What's the matter with him?
ARTHUR:
He says the birds are scrounging.
BRIAN:
Oh, uhh, no, the point is the birds. They do all right. Don't they?
FRANK:
Well, good luck to 'em.
EDDIE:
Yeah. They're very pretty.
BRIAN:
Okay, and you're much more important than they are, right? So, what are you worrying about? There you are. See?
EDDIE:
I'm worrying about what you have got against birds.
BRIAN:
I haven't got anything against the birds. Consider the lilies.
ARTHUR:
He's having a go at the flowers now.
EDDIE:
Oh, give the flowers a chance.
BRIAN:
Ohh. Look. There was this man, and he had two servants.
ARTHUR:
What were they called?
BRIAN:
What?
ARTHUR:
What were their names?
BRIAN:
I don't know. And he gave them some talents.
EDDIE:
You don't know?!
BRIAN:
Well, it doesn't matter!
ARTHUR:
He doesn't know what they were called!
BRIAN:
Oh, they were called 'Simon' and 'Adrian'. Now--
ARTHUR:
Oh! You said you didn't know!
BRIAN:
It really doesn't matter. The point is there were these two servants--
ARTHUR:
He's making it up as he goes along.
BRIAN:
No, I'm not!
ARTHUR:
Ohh.
EDDIE:
Oh, he's terrible!
ARTHUR:
He's terrible.
BRIAN:
There were three.
ARTHUR:
Thpppt!
BRIAN:
They were-- they were st-- stewards, really.
ELSIE:
Aww, get off!
BRIAN:
Ooh! Eh, uh, b-- b-- now-- now hear this! Blessed are they...who convert their neighbour's ox, for they shall inhibit their girth,...
[the guards start to walk away]
MAN:
Rubbish!
BRIAN:
...and to them only shall be given-- to them only... shall... be... given...
[the guards are gone]
ELSIE:
What?
BRIAN:
Hmm?
ELSIE:
Shall be given what?
BRIAN:
Oh, nothing.
ELSIE:
Hey! What were you going to say?
BRIAN:
Nothing.
ARTHUR and FRANK:
Yes, you were.
ELSIE:
Yes. You were going to say something.
BRIAN:
No, I wasn't. I'd finished.
ELSIE:
Oh, no you weren't.
ARTHUR:
Oh, come on. Tell us before you go.
BRIAN:
I wasn't going to say anything. I'd finished.
ELSIE:
No, you hadn't.
BLIND MAN:
What won't he tell?
EDDIE:
He won't say.
BLIND MAN:
Is it a secret?
BRIAN:
No.
BLIND MAN:
Is it?
EDDIE:
Must be. Otherwise, he'd tell us.
ARTHUR:
Oh, tell us the secret.
BRIAN:
Leave me alone.
YOUTH:
What is this secret?
GIRL:
Is it the secret of eternal life?
EDDIE:
He won't say!
ARTHUR:
Well, of course not. If I knew the secret of eternal life, I wouldn't say.
BRIAN:
Leave me alone.
GIRL:
Just tell me, please.
ARTHUR:
No. Tell us, Master. We were here first.
BRIAN:
Ah!
GIRL:
Just tell--
BRIAN:
Go away!
GIRL:
Tell us, Master.
GIRL:
Tell-- Is that His gourd?
YOUTH:
We've got this here.
GIRL:
It is His gourd! We will carry it for you, Master! Master?
YOUTH:
He's gone! He's been taken up!
GIRL:
Ahhhh!
FOLLOWERS:
For He's been taken up!
ARTHUR:
No, there He is. Over there.
FOLLOWERS:
Oh, yeah. Master! Master!...
[FOLLOWERS chase BRIAN]
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
I'm in awe too, even before Y2K! :-)
Ref: Fawn's in AWE
(Abacus or no abacus)
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra