Okay...the idea that NexGen produced the "586" rather than Intel is ludicrous. NexGen produced a bastardized x86-semi-compatible chip and called it a "586" because after 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486, guess what?
So Intel, being rational, put a brand ("Pentium") rather than a number on their new, genuine chip and instruction set, leaving AMD and NexGen holding their nuts in an alley.
Meanwhile, anyone thinking AMD is now or will again be the performance or price/value leader is not paying attention to the panic this lawsuit evinces at AMD.
The stock market apparently thinks this is just posturing by AMD. I'm inclined to agree.
AMD has never had the business acumen necessary to take advantage of the opportunities it has had access to. Its 30 years of flat stock performance make it almost look like a scam; a shell company designed to sucker investors to pump the price occasionally and pay off the principals who know they won't be reinvesting that value.
But you know the engineers there don't want it that way. Why they haven't revolted and thrown out the (mis)management is a mystery.
Maybe they should.
Meanwhile, Intel does nothing but produce its product. Usually it's superior. For 2000-2004, it wasn't. AMD failed to capitalize on that opportunity, and are now crying that simple competition is unfair.
If I were an AMD shareholder, I wouldn't be cheering this suit; I'd be embarassed to show my portfolio to anyone.
>Apple's golden goose is their hardware. They'll keep their MB/platforms as proprietary as they possibly can,
Business doesn't work that way.
They'll quickly realize that the margin and overhead on a custom mobo they build in-house is a low-IRR use of the opportunity cost.
Some middle manager will soon present to Jobs the two scenarios, and Jobs will have no business-related reason not to dump the inefficient process in favor of the more-profitable one.
So Apple may continue building full platforms, but only if Jobs' neuroses extend to screwing his shareholders.
When you hamstring your profitability by increasing your per-chip costs by altering the basis for the architecture and adding superfluous components, "yield" no longer has the significance it was invented to relate.
By the time the learning curve decays, it could be cheaper just to throw away bad parts in the old technology than to modify new ones in the new one.
Is anyone really surprised that the Bush administration has done nothing significant right in the War on Terror?
The agencies still can't communicate, they're security holes in themselves, our resources are diverted to a fanatical war in Iraq that has nothing to do with terror in America, and we find that the greatest threat to the safety of Americans today is the lies the President told or ordered to be told in order to get 1500 kids killed in a place he admits we had no pressing reason to attack.
This isn't a troll. It's a list of the facts. Anyone disagreeing can disagree, but will be fighting the truth. Consider that before posting political dogma.
It's a great business model for a developer if you win.
That's a big if.
The hundred people who spent $10 million in collective time losing make it a great business model for CA, not the developer community, as they get $10 million worth of software for $1 million.
I find this quote by Madison circumspect, because I see him responsible for manufacturing a case for war with Britain out of specious reasons. He's guily of what he's preaching against.
Did you know that Ken Starr wrote a book on the evils of the Independent Special Prosecutor law several years before getting himself appointed an Independent Special Prosecutor hunting witches in the Clinton Administration?
Government is polluted by those who know "exactly what they're doing" when what they're doing is subverting the government.
Which I guess is Bill Gates's point. There _is_ a shortage of people capable of doing the job.
If he paid better, I'd go to his grey, dingy town and help build his grey, dingy product.
But he doesn't, so he can keep whining that there's nobody qualified here, when the fact is there's nobody qualified here who's used to living with cow-dung on their shoes and willing to translate that to their job conditions.
...I actually saw the pictures......and then the movies......and then the movies of MIT students "dancing" on it......and then what an MIT soldering-iron jockey's idea of film editing meant......I'd say "they must've sniffed too many flux fumes," but no, that's not going to be what caused this...
Please inform the masses on Slashdot how lowering the standard of living for those in say - America, Britain and elsewhere - is a winning situation.
It isn't. When Bush lowered the outsourcing tax from 25% to 6% with his first tax cut, he gave the Chinese and Indians an industry we'd spent over a trillion dollars to develop.
They, effectively, won a war without provoking one, and beat us badly without firing a shot.
And why?
So that Dubya and his class could get even more money they can never spend in their lifetimes or the lifetimes of all the descendants they'll ever have before their lines go extinct.
Democracy is a tool to them, and your quality of life is no more meaningful to them than that of the alligators that died to make their shoes.
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Okay...the idea that NexGen produced the "586" rather than Intel is ludicrous. NexGen produced a bastardized x86-semi-compatible chip and called it a "586" because after 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486, guess what?
So Intel, being rational, put a brand ("Pentium") rather than a number on their new, genuine chip and instruction set, leaving AMD and NexGen holding their nuts in an alley.
Meanwhile, anyone thinking AMD is now or will again be the performance or price/value leader is not paying attention to the panic this lawsuit evinces at AMD.
They got nothing left, and they know it.
The stock market apparently thinks this is just posturing by AMD. I'm inclined to agree.
AMD has never had the business acumen necessary to take advantage of the opportunities it has had access to. Its 30 years of flat stock performance make it almost look like a scam; a shell company designed to sucker investors to pump the price occasionally and pay off the principals who know they won't be reinvesting that value.
But you know the engineers there don't want it that way. Why they haven't revolted and thrown out the (mis)management is a mystery.
Maybe they should.
Meanwhile, Intel does nothing but produce its product. Usually it's superior. For 2000-2004, it wasn't. AMD failed to capitalize on that opportunity, and are now crying that simple competition is unfair.
If I were an AMD shareholder, I wouldn't be cheering this suit; I'd be embarassed to show my portfolio to anyone.
Excellent tech = me.
Average tech = you.
Lousy tech = the one who still does that for a living.
The only time the left is concerened about the truth is when it agrees with their version of reality.
Whereas the Right has no version of reality, and thus has no use for the truth at all.
Too late.
Put your hat size in the box and take a seat:
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Also, leave a map of the bumps on your head, and don't forget to tell the receptionist your religion before you leave.
And how many LoC's can dance on the head of a Fox News anchor?
>Apple's golden goose is their hardware. They'll keep their MB/platforms as proprietary as they possibly can,
Business doesn't work that way.
They'll quickly realize that the margin and overhead on a custom mobo they build in-house is a low-IRR use of the opportunity cost.
Some middle manager will soon present to Jobs the two scenarios, and Jobs will have no business-related reason not to dump the inefficient process in favor of the more-profitable one.
So Apple may continue building full platforms, but only if Jobs' neuroses extend to screwing his shareholders.
Apple using Intel-compatible motherboards and platforms means that Apple's platform designers are on the way out.
Focussing on the OS will make Apple much more cost efficient.
End of era.
Someone hand that lady back her hammer.
When you hamstring your profitability by increasing your per-chip costs by altering the basis for the architecture and adding superfluous components, "yield" no longer has the significance it was invented to relate.
By the time the learning curve decays, it could be cheaper just to throw away bad parts in the old technology than to modify new ones in the new one.
When was the last time Cringeley's column wasn't merely an expression of his neuroses?
Come to think of it, when was the last time I read one straight through without thinking that?
Come on.
Is anyone really surprised that the Bush administration has done nothing significant right in the War on Terror?
The agencies still can't communicate, they're security holes in themselves, our resources are diverted to a fanatical war in Iraq that has nothing to do with terror in America, and we find that the greatest threat to the safety of Americans today is the lies the President told or ordered to be told in order to get 1500 kids killed in a place he admits we had no pressing reason to attack.
This isn't a troll. It's a list of the facts. Anyone disagreeing can disagree, but will be fighting the truth. Consider that before posting political dogma.
Of course, in the picture that goes with the story, all the people are either wearing a light shirt and dark pants, or a black suit.
Japan will never change. It's repressed, crazy, and highly productive. Pretending it's a geeky tourist destination is just lame PR.
Gold Star for Perspicacity.
Their goals were not set properly.
That is why they failed.
And yes, I am better than "Larry and Serge".
"We're shocked - SHOCKED! to find that b-school applicants have no integrity."
--American Business
It's a great business model for a developer if you win.
That's a big if.
The hundred people who spent $10 million in collective time losing make it a great business model for CA, not the developer community, as they get $10 million worth of software for $1 million.
Every corporation has malcontents among the shareholders.
It's the cost of raising capital through common stock.
Give me ten good programmers, and Microsoft will be dead in five years.
I find this quote by Madison circumspect, because I see him responsible for manufacturing a case for war with Britain out of specious reasons. He's guily of what he's preaching against.
Did you know that Ken Starr wrote a book on the evils of the Independent Special Prosecutor law several years before getting himself appointed an Independent Special Prosecutor hunting witches in the Clinton Administration?
Government is polluted by those who know "exactly what they're doing" when what they're doing is subverting the government.
Which I guess is Bill Gates's point. There _is_ a shortage of people capable of doing the job.
If he paid better, I'd go to his grey, dingy town and help build his grey, dingy product.
But he doesn't, so he can keep whining that there's nobody qualified here, when the fact is there's nobody qualified here who's used to living with cow-dung on their shoes and willing to translate that to their job conditions.
Bill Gates knows he could overfill his employment rolls if he simply pays more.
But he doesn't want to pay more.
The man who has $80 billion to his name doesn't want his payroll to be an extra 2% of his corporate expenses.
He'd rather import people and leave you and your family in the street.
Why do we let these guys live? They're not necessary to the process. Once they strike gold, their job is done.
I say we outsource Bill Gates.
She weighs 845 lbs and still looks anorexic.
But, uh, my blog has no pictures, so you'll just have to take The Onion's word for it...
When Slashdot is scooped by 60 Minutes, you know it's jumped the shark.
...I actually saw the pictures... ...and then the movies... ...and then the movies of MIT students "dancing" on it... ...and then what an MIT soldering-iron jockey's idea of film editing meant... ...I'd say "they must've sniffed too many flux fumes," but no, that's not going to be what caused this...
Please inform the masses on Slashdot how lowering the standard of living for those in say - America, Britain and elsewhere - is a winning situation.
It isn't. When Bush lowered the outsourcing tax from 25% to 6% with his first tax cut, he gave the Chinese and Indians an industry we'd spent over a trillion dollars to develop.
They, effectively, won a war without provoking one, and beat us badly without firing a shot.
And why?
So that Dubya and his class could get even more money they can never spend in their lifetimes or the lifetimes of all the descendants they'll ever have before their lines go extinct.
Democracy is a tool to them, and your quality of life is no more meaningful to them than that of the alligators that died to make their shoes.