A lot of people bought xb360 in December because there were no wii or ps3 systems to buy and they got ticked off and bought an xb360 just to get a nextgen console. Even today, there are no wii or ps3 systems in most places. And don't even think about buying accessories like a second wiimote.
Assuming that putting all of that stuff in the car is a good idea, why use Windows? Most of the megabytes of Windows are for the graphical interface stuff which is exactly what is unimportant in an automobile where a few large buttons are the only visual and tactile interface that's possible. Also, when the automakers climb into bed with Windows, they're getting into bed with the Windows brand name which, frankly, doesn't seem to be a selling point for anything mission critical like a car. Finally, for Microsoft Windows, three years is a long time while for a car, after three years it's just starting to get worn in. Wouldn't Linux be a MUCH better choice to use to build auto user functionality?
Sorry, I didn't have a chance to look at the youtube video yesterday "lining up the single bullet" but I just now looked at it and I notice that the entry point on Kennedy's back shown in the video is actually the erroneous higher location described by Ford rather than the presumably more accurate location in the 'autopsy' report.
Generally, though, even the lower entry point does line up with the single bullet theory trajectory if you assume that Kennedy was leaning forward sufficiently or something. The problem with the single bullet theory is not that it is provably impossible but just that it is extremely unlikely. To believe in the single bullet theory, you have to believe that Oswald (or whoever) fired very rapidly, very accurately with a very tight shot grouping on a moving target, that the bullet lost very little metal and deformed relatively little passing through two bodies, and wrist, and a leg, and you have to ignore the chain of custody problems with the bullet. It's like if the police found a guy holding a smoking gun at the scene of a killing and decided to start looking for a second shooter who might have run down the street. Not impossible, that, but unlikely for sure.
JFK and Connally react at the exact same instant, right after passing the sign because they were hit by the same bullet
The only evidence that Kennedy was ever even hit by a bullet from behind is the wound whose location was described incorrectly by Ford. That wound was found by the autopsy doctor to be shallow and was never dissected to determine its depth and the bullet pathway profile. The throat wound was also found to be an 'entrance' wound by the doctors who treated Kennedy. There is no exit wound from Kennedy's body for the bullet that was supposed to have continued on and entered Connally's body.
Oswald owned the gun used to kill JFK, and there are pictures of him holding it
The only evidence linking Oswald to the gun is a mail order form with a phony name on it. The photograph showing Oswald holding the gun is an obvious composite forgery. The only evidence linking the gun to the Kennedy killing is the bullet found on the stretcher in the hospital. The guy who found the bullet was a firearms expert and said the bullet he found was pointed while the one that turned up matching the gun was rounded. The chain of custody on the bullet is broken and no one can establish that the bullet found on the stretcher is the same one that ended up as being identified as coming from the gun.
He shot and killed a police officer while attempting escape, this same gun was found on him when he was arrested.
Oswald may have shot and killed a police officer but there is no solid evidence linking him to that. Oswald was found with a pistol when arrested but the bullets that killed the police officer were not found to have come from Oswald's pistol. The pistol found on Oswald was also not found to have been used in the Kennedy killing. However, after the Kennedy killing, a fingerprint was found by the Dallas Police on a box up in the sniper's nest on the 6th floor that matched a fingerprint taken from a man named Mac Wallace who had previously been convicted of murdering a man named Doug Kinser in Texas in 1953. At the time of his death, Kinser was threatening to bring down then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson with scandal. Mac Wallace was a very close associate of vice president Lyndon B. Johnson who became President upon the death of Kennedy. Johnson appointed Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission shortly after he became President.
The Kennedy assassination is too complex to discuss here other than to point out that Ford obviously knew a lot that he never told which is a loss to history.
Yes and dont forget to mention the black helicopters, the new world order,skull and bones , Illuminati etc! Beware of the black helicopters!
None of the things you refer to are factual. It is a fact that Ford changed the words in the report, that Kennedy's wife escorted an empty casket, that inexperienced doctors performed an autopsy on a body on which surgery had been previously performed on the skull, etc. It is also a fact that no one to this day knows what happened to Kennedy's brain tissue (which would have shown the path of bullets passing through it). These things have all been painstakingly established via tens of thousands of hours of labor by people reading dusty governement documents, tracking down and interviewing the dozens of people present at the time, etc.
Ford was the last surviving member of the Warren Commission which issued its still-controversial report on the Kennedy assassination. In 1997, Ford publicly admitted that he changed the Warren report's description of the bullet wound in Kennedy's back to read "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck" instead of the draft "A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder and to the right of the spine" to make the theory that a single bullet had passed through both Kennedy and fellow-limo-occupant Connally sound more tenable. This was a huge change because at the time that the Warren Commission report was released, no one knew where Kennedy had actually been shot. To this day, the nature of Kennedy's wounds are obscured in mystery thanks to an autopsy performed by inexperienced military doctors on a sliced-up body that had secretly arrived in a rubber body bag and military casket two hours before the autopsy even though it had supposedly left Texas in a fancy funeral home casket (which was actually empty) escorted by Kennedy's wife.
Ford knew some of the Warren Commission secrets and he took them to his grave.
I overclocked the very first stepping of the first 500 Mhz Athlon to 700 Mhz and it has been running 24/7 for 6 years. Now, it is finally being replaced with a newer (AMD of course) system and I opened up the case for salvage parts and there...there was the overclocking board still attached to the 'Slot A' CPU and still working perfectly. I'd forgotten it was even there. So there's a 6-year data point on the overclocking/longevity scale.
They're not creating cells. They are 'claiming' to have allegedly created tissues by using the inkjet to spray non-differentiated stem cells on to a substrate. Doesn't sound like they're close to selling skin tissue to burn victims yet, though.
My OS/2 system running on an Athlon X2 4200+ takes a whopping 4 minutes to boot up. OS/2 is probably the most leisurely booting OS ever created. OS/2 runs through a long list of drivers to load, beginning with low level drivers, then the installable file system software of choice, then 'normal' high level device drivers. Each device driver is loaded and initialized with its corresponding hardware during the boot process, unlike Windows which only does that when the driver is 'installed'. Then the workplace shell desktop is processed and loaded. Then autostart apps and network. Finally the desktop appears. There's time to make coffee, add creamer, chat with your cubicle neighbor, and go get a donut before the computer is ready for action. Fortunately, OS/2 doesn't need to boot a lot. What do you get with all of the booting action? Well, you know that if the booting went okay, then all of your hardware is working properly and ready for use which is nice if you are using the system for important data.
Americans are supposed to be leaders in creativeness and innovation but some of the recent products, like the wii or the Prius, from Japan are simply amazing. The Nintendo Wii is an extremely creative and innovative product. By comparison, the xbox 360 (from an allegedly free-to-innovate american company) already looks like a dinosaur.
The same kind of exotic new weapons were always being touted in Vietnam too. We are so antiseptic about war. We see it like a fancy game or something and think that we will win if we only have a better cheat code. All of our powerful weapons and technology will never prevail if what we are fighting for is wrong, unless we are prepared to become completely and totally ruthless to terrorize and cow the Iraqis into doing things 'our' way, in which case we don't need any new non-lethal weapons.
Seem a little weak. He grew up accustomed to wealth and privelege. He's an elitist that believes that only the smartest people should play. He's an atheist who thinks Jesus is a fairy tale. The only rules he's interested in are the ones he cannot circumvent. He created a monopoly company that charges hundreds of dollars a copy to each of hundreds of millions of people for something that costs nothing per copy. He works to prevent alternative software from seing the light of day with FUD, litigation, software patents, etc. Seems like Gates couldn't even begin to manage a real company with real competitors that actually provided something useful like food, shelter, or transportation, much less be President. Then again, there's George Bush...Okay, never mind.
IBM is terminating the final remnants of their OS/2 staff at the end of December, 2006 as OS/2 takes its last few agonized dying breaths. What's interesting, though, is that over the last 5 years, there has been a skeleton crew of OS/2 people at IBM to support the last few OS/2 customers and this tiny crew was able to accomplish a lot of stuff to keep OS/2 updated and running on current hardware that a much larger crew probably could not have. They were even able to add a lot of stuff that was never even included in the last 'official' Warp 4 release such as the logical volume manager, journaling file system, updated kernel for multicore AMD, USB 2.0 support, UDF DVD support, etc. In this case, a small crew could do a lot more than a large staff and the final dying remnants of the OS/2 business at IBM became more like the original tiny Windows group at Microsoft.
With the Novell deal, Microsoft pretends to 'embrace' Novell SUSE Linux and casts a FUD shadow over non-SUSE Linux but that's not the whole thing. Next will come the Microsoft products that extend SUSE Linux to 'interoperate' with Windows and, guess what, they might actually become popular and useful for both Windows and Novell SUSE Linux users. Finally comes 'extinguish' where the new products become obstacles to using other OSS software and non-SUSE linux.
VHS is incredibly useful powerful protocol for analog video recording...which is exactly what content providers want to discourage. DVD recording is a digital process that is much more easily controlled by future DRM restrictions. VHS also provides a long-term high-capacity stable magnetic storage format that the DVD optical recording does not. A vhs tape can easily last for 50+ years while the non-pressed dvd optical burn format can be compromised in only a few years by mold and humidity. Historians in 200 years are more likely to be watching old vhs tapes than they are dvd videos.
The climate models described by the article point to the radiation received from the sun and the heat radiated into space but they don't seem to consider the heat originating from within the earth itself. It is obvious that the earth produces an enormous amount of heat from within, probably from radioactive decay, that affects temperatures at the surface (i.e. our 'climate') and yet the climate models never seem to consider that heat as an input into the model. The frequent and wide variations in the earth's climate over the last 500 million years may be partly caused by changes in the heat output from the Earth's core. Certainly there is no reason to think that that heat output is 'constant' if it originates from radioactive decay since there would have been a radioactive decay chain followed over that length of time that would have significantly changed the isotope mixtures and heat produced. It seems like at least the popular view of climate science is stuck on a simplistic view of climate driven by the 'greenhouse effect.' There must be some actual scientists somewhere who are a little more sophisticated in their modeling. Carbon dioxide and the 'greenhouse effect' simply don't explain the climate that the earth has experienced over the last 500 million years or even over the last 21,000 years.
The climate models described by the article point to the radiation received from the sun and the heat radiated into space but they don't seem to consider the heat originating from within the earth itself. It is obvious that the earth produces an enormous amount of heat from within, probably from radioactive decay, that affects temperatures at the surface (i.e. our 'climate') and yet the climate models never seem to consider that heat as an input into the model. The frequent and wide variations in the earth's climate over the last 500 million years may be partly caused by changes in the heat output from the Earth's core. Certainly there is no reason to think that that heat output is 'constant' if it originates from radioactive decay since there would have been a radioactive decay chain followed over that length of time that would have significantly changed the isotope mixtures and heat produced. It seems like at least the popular view of climate science is stuck on a simplistic view of climate driven by the 'greenhouse effect.' There must be some actual scientists somewhere who are a little more sophisticated in their modeling. Carbon dioxide and the 'greenhouse effect' simply don't explain the climate that the earth has experienced over the last 500 million years or even over the last 21,000 years.
The CIA certainly knows how important the search engines are for internet data mining. Back in 1998, Zapata Petroleum (the company started by George H. Bush in 1953 which has been thought by some to be a CIA front) tried to purchase the 'Excite' search engine website but was turned down.
The 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' has worked so well that maybe we need the French and the Canadians to invade the United States for an 'Operation American Freedom' to bring democracy to the United States and depose the evil dictator. Then there would be pictures of cheering Americans dancing in the streets and showing off their purple fingers dipped in the purple inkwells when they voted in an actual honest election.
The person they're looking for is probably in their 20s or early 30s. There aren't as many of those as there used to be, and they can be real picky. Besides 'senior engineers', this is also true for doctors, auto techs, accountants, carpenters, laborers, and rocket scientists.
AMD used to make Pentium clones. Now, though, the AMD architecture is completely different from Intel's although they both will run the same software. The 64-bit AMD cpus seem to have fewer software faults when running Windows XP compared with the Intel P4s. This is an observation based on only a few systems and a LOT of things besides the cpu can affect that but I wonder if anyone else has noticed this (or maybe the opposite)? The comparisons between cpu architectures are always based on speed and benchmarks but not stability. Has anyone ever compared the different designs for how many GPFs they throw off, other things being equal? I was thinking maybe that's one of the reasons why the AMD systems are still selling so well, even though the new Intel Conroe is faster.
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A lot of people bought xb360 in December because there were no wii or ps3 systems to buy and they got ticked off and bought an xb360 just to get a nextgen console. Even today, there are no wii or ps3 systems in most places. And don't even think about buying accessories like a second wiimote.
Assuming that putting all of that stuff in the car is a good idea, why use Windows? Most of the megabytes of Windows are for the graphical interface stuff which is exactly what is unimportant in an automobile where a few large buttons are the only visual and tactile interface that's possible. Also, when the automakers climb into bed with Windows, they're getting into bed with the Windows brand name which, frankly, doesn't seem to be a selling point for anything mission critical like a car. Finally, for Microsoft Windows, three years is a long time while for a car, after three years it's just starting to get worn in. Wouldn't Linux be a MUCH better choice to use to build auto user functionality?
Sorry, I didn't have a chance to look at the youtube video yesterday "lining up the single bullet" but I just now looked at it and I notice that the entry point on Kennedy's back shown in the video is actually the erroneous higher location described by Ford rather than the presumably more accurate location in the 'autopsy' report.
Generally, though, even the lower entry point does line up with the single bullet theory trajectory if you assume that Kennedy was leaning forward sufficiently or something. The problem with the single bullet theory is not that it is provably impossible but just that it is extremely unlikely. To believe in the single bullet theory, you have to believe that Oswald (or whoever) fired very rapidly, very accurately with a very tight shot grouping on a moving target, that the bullet lost very little metal and deformed relatively little passing through two bodies, and wrist, and a leg, and you have to ignore the chain of custody problems with the bullet. It's like if the police found a guy holding a smoking gun at the scene of a killing and decided to start looking for a second shooter who might have run down the street. Not impossible, that, but unlikely for sure.
JFK and Connally react at the exact same instant, right after passing the sign because they were hit by the same bullet
The only evidence that Kennedy was ever even hit by a bullet from behind is the wound whose location was described incorrectly by Ford. That wound was found by the autopsy doctor to be shallow and was never dissected to determine its depth and the bullet pathway profile. The throat wound was also found to be an 'entrance' wound by the doctors who treated Kennedy. There is no exit wound from Kennedy's body for the bullet that was supposed to have continued on and entered Connally's body.
Oswald owned the gun used to kill JFK, and there are pictures of him holding it
The only evidence linking Oswald to the gun is a mail order form with a phony name on it. The photograph showing Oswald holding the gun is an obvious composite forgery. The only evidence linking the gun to the Kennedy killing is the bullet found on the stretcher in the hospital. The guy who found the bullet was a firearms expert and said the bullet he found was pointed while the one that turned up matching the gun was rounded. The chain of custody on the bullet is broken and no one can establish that the bullet found on the stretcher is the same one that ended up as being identified as coming from the gun.
He shot and killed a police officer while attempting escape, this same gun was found on him when he was arrested.
Oswald may have shot and killed a police officer but there is no solid evidence linking him to that. Oswald was found with a pistol when arrested but the bullets that killed the police officer were not found to have come from Oswald's pistol. The pistol found on Oswald was also not found to have been used in the Kennedy killing. However, after the Kennedy killing, a fingerprint was found by the Dallas Police on a box up in the sniper's nest on the 6th floor that matched a fingerprint taken from a man named Mac Wallace who had previously been convicted of murdering a man named Doug Kinser in Texas in 1953. At the time of his death, Kinser was threatening to bring down then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson with scandal. Mac Wallace was a very close associate of vice president Lyndon B. Johnson who became President upon the death of Kennedy. Johnson appointed Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission shortly after he became President.
The Kennedy assassination is too complex to discuss here other than to point out that Ford obviously knew a lot that he never told which is a loss to history.
Yes and dont forget to mention the black helicopters, the new world order ,skull and bones , Illuminati etc! Beware of the black helicopters!
None of the things you refer to are factual. It is a fact that Ford changed the words in the report, that Kennedy's wife escorted an empty casket, that inexperienced doctors performed an autopsy on a body on which surgery had been previously performed on the skull, etc. It is also a fact that no one to this day knows what happened to Kennedy's brain tissue (which would have shown the path of bullets passing through it). These things have all been painstakingly established via tens of thousands of hours of labor by people reading dusty governement documents, tracking down and interviewing the dozens of people present at the time, etc.
Ford was the last surviving member of the Warren Commission which issued its still-controversial report on the Kennedy assassination. In 1997, Ford publicly admitted that he changed the Warren report's description of the bullet wound in Kennedy's back to read "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck" instead of the draft "A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder and to the right of the spine" to make the theory that a single bullet had passed through both Kennedy and fellow-limo-occupant Connally sound more tenable. This was a huge change because at the time that the Warren Commission report was released, no one knew where Kennedy had actually been shot. To this day, the nature of Kennedy's wounds are obscured in mystery thanks to an autopsy performed by inexperienced military doctors on a sliced-up body that had secretly arrived in a rubber body bag and military casket two hours before the autopsy even though it had supposedly left Texas in a fancy funeral home casket (which was actually empty) escorted by Kennedy's wife.
Ford knew some of the Warren Commission secrets and he took them to his grave.
I overclocked the very first stepping of the first 500 Mhz Athlon to 700 Mhz and it has been running 24/7 for 6 years. Now, it is finally being replaced with a newer (AMD of course) system and I opened up the case for salvage parts and there...there was the overclocking board still attached to the 'Slot A' CPU and still working perfectly. I'd forgotten it was even there. So there's a 6-year data point on the overclocking/longevity scale.
They're not creating cells. They are 'claiming' to have allegedly created tissues by using the inkjet to spray non-differentiated stem cells on to a substrate. Doesn't sound like they're close to selling skin tissue to burn victims yet, though.
My OS/2 system running on an Athlon X2 4200+ takes a whopping 4 minutes to boot up. OS/2 is probably the most leisurely booting OS ever created. OS/2 runs through a long list of drivers to load, beginning with low level drivers, then the installable file system software of choice, then 'normal' high level device drivers. Each device driver is loaded and initialized with its corresponding hardware during the boot process, unlike Windows which only does that when the driver is 'installed'. Then the workplace shell desktop is processed and loaded. Then autostart apps and network. Finally the desktop appears. There's time to make coffee, add creamer, chat with your cubicle neighbor, and go get a donut before the computer is ready for action. Fortunately, OS/2 doesn't need to boot a lot. What do you get with all of the booting action? Well, you know that if the booting went okay, then all of your hardware is working properly and ready for use which is nice if you are using the system for important data.
Americans are supposed to be leaders in creativeness and innovation but some of the recent products, like the wii or the Prius, from Japan are simply amazing. The Nintendo Wii is an extremely creative and innovative product. By comparison, the xbox 360 (from an allegedly free-to-innovate american company) already looks like a dinosaur.
The same kind of exotic new weapons were always being touted in Vietnam too. We are so antiseptic about war. We see it like a fancy game or something and think that we will win if we only have a better cheat code. All of our powerful weapons and technology will never prevail if what we are fighting for is wrong, unless we are prepared to become completely and totally ruthless to terrorize and cow the Iraqis into doing things 'our' way, in which case we don't need any new non-lethal weapons.
" He's an atheist who thinks Jesus is a fairy tale. "
well there's a plus.
Unless, of course, his assumption is wrong, the Gospels are true, and the country needs God's help, in which case, we would be screwed.
Seem a little weak. He grew up accustomed to wealth and privelege. He's an elitist that believes that only the smartest people should play. He's an atheist who thinks Jesus is a fairy tale. The only rules he's interested in are the ones he cannot circumvent. He created a monopoly company that charges hundreds of dollars a copy to each of hundreds of millions of people for something that costs nothing per copy. He works to prevent alternative software from seing the light of day with FUD, litigation, software patents, etc. Seems like Gates couldn't even begin to manage a real company with real competitors that actually provided something useful like food, shelter, or transportation, much less be President. Then again, there's George Bush...Okay, never mind.
IBM is terminating the final remnants of their OS/2 staff at the end of December, 2006 as OS/2 takes its last few agonized dying breaths. What's interesting, though, is that over the last 5 years, there has been a skeleton crew of OS/2 people at IBM to support the last few OS/2 customers and this tiny crew was able to accomplish a lot of stuff to keep OS/2 updated and running on current hardware that a much larger crew probably could not have. They were even able to add a lot of stuff that was never even included in the last 'official' Warp 4 release such as the logical volume manager, journaling file system, updated kernel for multicore AMD, USB 2.0 support, UDF DVD support, etc. In this case, a small crew could do a lot more than a large staff and the final dying remnants of the OS/2 business at IBM became more like the original tiny Windows group at Microsoft.
With the Novell deal, Microsoft pretends to 'embrace' Novell SUSE Linux and casts a FUD shadow over non-SUSE Linux but that's not the whole thing. Next will come the Microsoft products that extend SUSE Linux to 'interoperate' with Windows and, guess what, they might actually become popular and useful for both Windows and Novell SUSE Linux users. Finally comes 'extinguish' where the new products become obstacles to using other OSS software and non-SUSE linux.
VHS is incredibly useful powerful protocol for analog video recording...which is exactly what content providers want to discourage. DVD recording is a digital process that is much more easily controlled by future DRM restrictions. VHS also provides a long-term high-capacity stable magnetic storage format that the DVD optical recording does not. A vhs tape can easily last for 50+ years while the non-pressed dvd optical burn format can be compromised in only a few years by mold and humidity. Historians in 200 years are more likely to be watching old vhs tapes than they are dvd videos.
...either the man is a complete dolt or has a whole other agenda.
Or both of those are true.
The climate models described by the article point to the radiation received from the sun and the heat radiated into space but they don't seem to consider the heat originating from within the earth itself. It is obvious that the earth produces an enormous amount of heat from within, probably from radioactive decay, that affects temperatures at the surface (i.e. our 'climate') and yet the climate models never seem to consider that heat as an input into the model. The frequent and wide variations in the earth's climate over the last 500 million years may be partly caused by changes in the heat output from the Earth's core. Certainly there is no reason to think that that heat output is 'constant' if it originates from radioactive decay since there would have been a radioactive decay chain followed over that length of time that would have significantly changed the isotope mixtures and heat produced. It seems like at least the popular view of climate science is stuck on a simplistic view of climate driven by the 'greenhouse effect.' There must be some actual scientists somewhere who are a little more sophisticated in their modeling. Carbon dioxide and the 'greenhouse effect' simply don't explain the climate that the earth has experienced over the last 500 million years or even over the last 21,000 years.
The climate models described by the article point to the radiation received from the sun and the heat radiated into space but they don't seem to consider the heat originating from within the earth itself. It is obvious that the earth produces an enormous amount of heat from within, probably from radioactive decay, that affects temperatures at the surface (i.e. our 'climate') and yet the climate models never seem to consider that heat as an input into the model. The frequent and wide variations in the earth's climate over the last 500 million years may be partly caused by changes in the heat output from the Earth's core. Certainly there is no reason to think that that heat output is 'constant' if it originates from radioactive decay since there would have been a radioactive decay chain followed over that length of time that would have significantly changed the isotope mixtures and heat produced. It seems like at least the popular view of climate science is stuck on a simplistic view of climate driven by the 'greenhouse effect.' There must be some actual scientists somewhere who are a little more sophisticated in their modeling. Carbon dioxide and the 'greenhouse effect' simply don't explain the climate that the earth has experienced over the last 500 million years or even over the last 21,000 years.
Wish the touchscreen on my local ATM machine would 'go out of calibration' and spit out a few extra 20s.
The CIA certainly knows how important the search engines are for
internet data mining. Back in 1998, Zapata Petroleum (the company
started by George H. Bush in 1953 which has been thought by some to be
a CIA front) tried to purchase the 'Excite' search engine website but
was turned
down.
The 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' has worked so well that maybe we need the French and the Canadians to invade the United States for an 'Operation American Freedom' to bring democracy to the United States and depose the evil dictator. Then there would be pictures of cheering Americans dancing in the streets and showing off their purple fingers dipped in the purple inkwells when they voted in an actual honest election.
Maybe the Diebold's keep bringing up Republicans but I'll bet that the Sequoia
electronic voting machines keep showing 'H. Chavez' for every
choice.
The person they're looking for is probably in their 20s or early 30s. There aren't as many of those as there used to be, and they can be real picky. Besides 'senior engineers', this is also true for doctors, auto techs, accountants, carpenters, laborers, and rocket scientists.
AMD used to make Pentium clones. Now, though, the AMD architecture is completely different from Intel's although they both will run the same software. The 64-bit AMD cpus seem to have fewer software faults when running Windows XP compared with the Intel P4s. This is an observation based on only a few systems and a LOT of things besides the cpu can affect that but I wonder if anyone else has noticed this (or maybe the opposite)? The comparisons between cpu architectures are always based on speed and benchmarks but not stability. Has anyone ever compared the different designs for how many GPFs they throw off, other things being equal? I was thinking maybe that's one of the reasons why the AMD systems are still selling so well, even though the new Intel Conroe is faster.