IANAI (I am not an Idiot), but I'm pretty sure that you are wrong. Did you read the response of everyone else and disregard the possibility that perhpas, just perhaps they might be right.
Iridium must have a plan for destruction because of physics and statistics, not a freaking tax writeoff. Just because you see everything in a slashdot induced corporate hate, doesn't mean that you are right. They are already taking tax write-offs on the business losses that they have I'm sure, but the destruction of Iridium is not about TAX WRITEOFF.
I gotta say that this is a pretty crappy slashdot news item...notice the screw-ups in the title and the short abstract. And to think that this is from someone paid to do this? Where do I sign up?
Of course you could, but there is not much added value in such a thing. It would probably be relatively expensive depending upon how you wanted to build it. What would your motivation be?
Also found it interesting that the decimal digit of Pi generation test by Aceshardware.com gave such poor results for the P4...a beautiful illustration of the impact of microprocessor architecture.
Looks like everyone seems to have come to the same conclusions:
1) A 1.5 GHz AMD product probably would do it better.
2) The Pentium 4 is too damn expensive
3) It isn't going to be in YOUR hands anytime soon
I find it funny that the one article was comparing an overclocked 750 MHz AMD (clocked up to 1.1 GHz) to a 1.5 GHz P4 and not seeing that big of difference.
Anywho, good to see AMD is going to stay competitive and push Intel to work a little harder...can't but help you and I.
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IANAI (I am not an Idiot), but I'm pretty sure that you are wrong. Did you read the response of everyone else and disregard the possibility that perhpas, just perhaps they might be right.
Iridium must have a plan for destruction because of physics and statistics, not a freaking tax writeoff. Just because you see everything in a slashdot induced corporate hate, doesn't mean that you are right. They are already taking tax write-offs on the business losses that they have I'm sure, but the destruction of Iridium is not about TAX WRITEOFF.
God, do you have a problem?
I gotta say that this is a pretty crappy slashdot news item...notice the screw-ups in the title and the short abstract. And to think that this is from someone paid to do this? Where do I sign up?
Of course you could, but there is not much added value in such a thing. It would probably be relatively expensive depending upon how you wanted to build it. What would your motivation be?
Also found it interesting that the decimal digit of Pi generation test by Aceshardware.com gave such poor results for the P4...a beautiful illustration of the impact of microprocessor architecture.
Looks like everyone seems to have come to the same conclusions:
1) A 1.5 GHz AMD product probably would do it better.
2) The Pentium 4 is too damn expensive
3) It isn't going to be in YOUR hands anytime soon
I find it funny that the one article was comparing an overclocked 750 MHz AMD (clocked up to 1.1 GHz) to a 1.5 GHz P4 and not seeing that big of difference.
Anywho, good to see AMD is going to stay competitive and push Intel to work a little harder...can't but help you and I.