The saddest thing is that they have made a movie about a game that is about your imagnination. How ironic can you get?
How can we tell that this is a D&D movie over any other type of movie? Dragonheart was a D&D movie right? So was conan the barbarian , etc. Are we going to get to see a character get knocked over by a wayward dice roll? That would be the only definative way to tell it was a D&D movie. They all owe their life to Lord of the Rings anyways so can't we say this is just a trailer that movies coming out? sorta like a compare and contrast thing with LoTR.
I have been wonderring all day why Intel would announce this. They are not noted for their "whoops we screwed up" Policies. then it dawned on me. They are setting up a fall guy, sacerficing a pawn as it where, if the pentium 4 falls flat on it's face it is not intel managments fault it is Rambus!
With this announcement Intel has created a bogeyman that they can admit to. Bad earnings - Blame it on rambus. Poor rate of shipped product - blame it on rambus. This way they have a way to justify any losses or market slips on a bad business deal , keeping their shareholders happy. "we are not lossing market share because he let our technology lead slip due to bad managment. We got ripped off by our partner that's why! It's not OUR fault."
As more and more of this comes out someone should take the articles and use them to wall paper the office of the CEO of AMD. Let them learn from this also, they have been handed a free pass to the top of the chip maker pile with this snafu by intel. Let's see if they can avoid the cycle that seems to creep up once people get to the top nad get full of themselves. AMD please take this as a warning of the rocks ahead. If I ran AMD I would have the headline from Intel's press release anouncing they are going with rambus and the headline from their anouncing they are dropping rambus etched in bronze and placed at the entrance to every common area in the company. Put them their to serve as a reminder of what can happen when you get to big for your britches, pluss it would provide ammusement for a while to everyone as they watched intel suffer:-) .
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The saddest thing is that they have made a movie about a game that is about your imagnination. How ironic can you get?
How can we tell that this is a D&D movie over any other type of movie? Dragonheart was a D&D movie right? So was conan the barbarian , etc. Are we going to get to see a character get knocked over by a wayward dice roll? That would be the only definative way to tell it was a D&D movie.
They all owe their life to Lord of the Rings anyways so can't we say this is just a trailer that movies coming out? sorta like a compare and contrast thing with LoTR.
I have been wonderring all day why Intel would announce this. They are not noted for their "whoops we screwed up" Policies. then it dawned on me. They are setting up a fall guy, sacerficing a pawn as it where, if the pentium 4 falls flat on it's face it is not intel managments fault it is Rambus!
With this announcement Intel has created a bogeyman that they can admit to. Bad earnings - Blame it on rambus. Poor rate of shipped product - blame it on rambus. This way they have a way to justify any losses or market slips on a bad business deal , keeping their shareholders happy. "we are not lossing market share because he let our technology lead slip due to bad managment. We got ripped off by our partner that's why! It's not OUR fault."As more and more of this comes out someone should take the articles and use them to wall paper the office of the CEO of AMD. Let them learn from this also, they have been handed a free pass to the top of the chip maker pile with this snafu by intel. Let's see if they can avoid the cycle that seems to creep up once people get to the top nad get full of themselves. :-) .
AMD please take this as a warning of the rocks ahead. If I ran AMD I would have the headline from Intel's press release anouncing they are going with rambus and the headline from their anouncing they are dropping rambus etched in bronze and placed at the entrance to every common area in the company. Put them their to serve as a reminder of what can happen when you get to big for your britches, pluss it would provide ammusement for a while to everyone as they watched intel suffer