AMD has yet to show it can make a sustainable profit, despite possessing nearly 50% of the market.
They have, in fact, been crippling themselves economically to make their factory investment just break even.
They're going to find that old sales mean nothing to future sales, and unless they can make a significant per-unit profit, they're just running in place.
You should drive a Jaguar XK16, grow your own spare body parts in a bathtub cloning lab, eat only VitaProtein tabs, and have a pair of 1.8-ton antigravity boots.
You will have the option to have your blood siphoned over the Vascularnet by Citibank Direct Withdrawal once per month to pay off your New Software Loan.
Communities reduce taxes on plants because plants mean jobs and the promise of making it easier to get future plants to the same area.
That tax reduction is an investment by the regional government, because other revenue streams have to be tapped to cover the shortfalls in services and infrastructure costs that the plant creates.
The other revenue streams are your income and property and sales tax dollars.
YOU invested in that plant, so that YOUR community would have jobs. Then Barrett blows you off and sends the jobs to Bangalore.
And you say "wow, what a big cock you have, Creggers."
This guy doesn't work. He apportions work. He has computed that his cashflow will increase if he apportions the work outside of the nation that gave him the stability and security to live a life of education and thoughtfulness, instead of dodging bullets and fighting for scraps with dogs in the street (or scraps of dogs in the street, depending on where you are). And the work he sends out of this nation is work that exists because of the investment by this nation; or does he forget that he was the Chair of SEMATECH and that his plants are the beneficiaries of vast reductions in local taxes?
Craig Barrett is, absolutely, a traitor to America, and loyal only to the Feudalists who are taking over America.
If he honestly can't see that, it's because he's been blinded by greed and propaganda.
>You'll notice how our murder rate has dropped to practically zero now that we have people whose duty it is to find, capture, try, convict, and execute the murderers.
That's not sarcasm, it's just stupid.
The murder rate has dropped to nearly zero, compared with what it was back when nobody was paid to chase and try and execute sentences on murderers.
If we didn't have a criminal justice system, with the current economy of crowding and desperation, the murder rate would be a couple of orders of magnitude larger than it is. Just as a way of making money.
First off, let's get something straight. Buying common stock on the open market is not investing. It's speculating. The investing occurred when money was given directly to the company for use in its operations by the VC's and by the Syndicates that bought the common stock and sold it into the open market. Those were investors. They drove the company and created its stable value. You and I buy a tiny chit representing something we have no effective control over which will probably never pay off in hard compensation but may, if we're very lucky, pay a few shekels in dividends and get traded in for the speculative paper of some company that wants to actually own this one.
On the other hand, get a load of the Summary Consolidated Financial Data. Not only is Google booming, it never even skipped a stitch through the "downturn". This is the strongest book I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of these things (because I'm a savvy speculator, see).
So, what's going to happen? I'll tell you: you'll never see the stock hit the street.
Prior art: BajaFresh Mexican Cantina filed for an IPO a couple of years ago. We all love BFMC, and I'd even called their headquarters a couple of years before begging them to take my money and give me a piece of the action. Between the time they filed with the SEC and the putative issue date, they were bought lock, stock, and tortillas by Wendy's.
That's how things work. If the company is profitable enough, it's foolish to allow it to be publicly traded. Better to own it privately and pocket the profits in your personal account, or to own it as a subsidiary and use its profitability to cover for your flagging businesses.
So y'all can forget about buying that one share of everyone's favorite search engine and pinning it to your cork-board. This will be inhaled by IBM or Sun or someone with a bottom line to shore up.
Give certain people the right and duty to kill the people who kill people without the right or duty to do it. And make doing it accidentally illegal, too.
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Again with the god-squadders using their mod points to squelch free speech that impugns their worldview.
It's amazing how many hypocrites there are in this world. Not just hypocrites, but political criminals. You should be ashamed both for your lack of support of freedom and your lack of morality.
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When did Your Rights Online become Your Rights to Steal Stuff Online?
Tell you what.
You go stand in the middle of the freeway.
Just by looking at this setup, I can tell that my automobile detector is now working.
And, as long as it never detects an automobile, so can you.
This isn't good for Intel.
It's worse for AMD.
AMD has yet to show it can make a sustainable profit, despite possessing nearly 50% of the market.
They have, in fact, been crippling themselves economically to make their factory investment just break even.
They're going to find that old sales mean nothing to future sales, and unless they can make a significant per-unit profit, they're just running in place.
You should drive a Jaguar XK16, grow your own spare body parts in a bathtub cloning lab, eat only VitaProtein tabs, and have a pair of 1.8-ton antigravity boots.
You will have the option to have your blood siphoned over the Vascularnet by Citibank Direct Withdrawal once per month to pay off your New Software Loan.
Too bad it's not Iceland. Then we could say "Slashdottir".
Communities reduce taxes on plants because plants mean jobs and the promise of making it easier to get future plants to the same area.
That tax reduction is an investment by the regional government, because other revenue streams have to be tapped to cover the shortfalls in services and infrastructure costs that the plant creates.
The other revenue streams are your income and property and sales tax dollars.
YOU invested in that plant, so that YOUR community would have jobs. Then Barrett blows you off and sends the jobs to Bangalore.
And you say "wow, what a big cock you have, Creggers."
This guy doesn't work. He apportions work. He has computed that his cashflow will increase if he apportions the work outside of the nation that gave him the stability and security to live a life of education and thoughtfulness, instead of dodging bullets and fighting for scraps with dogs in the street (or scraps of dogs in the street, depending on where you are). And the work he sends out of this nation is work that exists because of the investment by this nation; or does he forget that he was the Chair of SEMATECH and that his plants are the beneficiaries of vast reductions in local taxes?
Craig Barrett is, absolutely, a traitor to America, and loyal only to the Feudalists who are taking over America.
If he honestly can't see that, it's because he's been blinded by greed and propaganda.
3.3 GHz CPU
2.0 GB HD with SFGTFOP1 polished heads...
This thing is the Lawn Dart of tomorrow.
>You'll notice how our murder rate has dropped to practically zero now that we have people whose duty it is to find, capture, try, convict, and execute the murderers.
That's not sarcasm, it's just stupid.
The murder rate has dropped to nearly zero, compared with what it was back when nobody was paid to chase and try and execute sentences on murderers.
If we didn't have a criminal justice system, with the current economy of crowding and desperation, the murder rate would be a couple of orders of magnitude larger than it is. Just as a way of making money.
First off, let's get something straight. Buying common stock on the open market is not investing. It's speculating. The investing occurred when money was given directly to the company for use in its operations by the VC's and by the Syndicates that bought the common stock and sold it into the open market. Those were investors. They drove the company and created its stable value. You and I buy a tiny chit representing something we have no effective control over which will probably never pay off in hard compensation but may, if we're very lucky, pay a few shekels in dividends and get traded in for the speculative paper of some company that wants to actually own this one.
On the other hand, get a load of the Summary Consolidated Financial Data. Not only is Google booming, it never even skipped a stitch through the "downturn". This is the strongest book I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of these things (because I'm a savvy speculator, see).
So, what's going to happen? I'll tell you: you'll never see the stock hit the street.
Prior art: BajaFresh Mexican Cantina filed for an IPO a couple of years ago. We all love BFMC, and I'd even called their headquarters a couple of years before begging them to take my money and give me a piece of the action. Between the time they filed with the SEC and the putative issue date, they were bought lock, stock, and tortillas by Wendy's.
That's how things work. If the company is profitable enough, it's foolish to allow it to be publicly traded. Better to own it privately and pocket the profits in your personal account, or to own it as a subsidiary and use its profitability to cover for your flagging businesses.
So y'all can forget about buying that one share of everyone's favorite search engine and pinning it to your cork-board. This will be inhaled by IBM or Sun or someone with a bottom line to shore up.
Give certain people the right and duty to kill the people who kill people without the right or duty to do it. And make doing it accidentally illegal, too.
Then we won't use it unless safety is built in.
>whats hilarious is, bush is more intelligent than you, and kerry.
Gad, Republicans are so bloody credulous.
The GOP are fricken' geniuses at smoking these morons out and telling them what to think.
Beats having to suck Dick Cheney's cock to make up for your lack of intelligence and experience.
SCO's IP has been coopted, and it is seeking a remedy.
The fact that there's an "entrepreneur" who sees this as a business model is an entirely separate problem.
His character is of course putrid. But then, so are the characters that created his oppotunity by stealing the IP that he then bought.
In the final analysis, this is morally a case of two wrongs don't make a right, but the law is on his side.
I test my code.
Takes about two seconds to prove Stanford boffins wrong.
RAID.
Nuff sed.
The total amount I care about self-proclaimed "H4xx04s?"
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Again with the god-squadders using their mod points to squelch free speech that impugns their worldview.
It's amazing how many hypocrites there are in this world. Not just hypocrites, but political criminals. You should be ashamed both for your lack of support of freedom and your lack of morality.
This isn't a back-port of 2.6 features to 2.4; it's a defeaturing of 2.6 to emulate 2.4.
At least, that's my perspective on it.
Whether RedHat marketing understands the Arrow of Time is a question only they can answer.
Shut the fuck up, you fucking dipshit. Jesus fucking rules.
Fuck Jesus and the "virgin" he rode in on.
Nice.
God squadders with mod points.
Get a life, you toads.
There is no God, and your worldview is a total fabrication.
Isn't "virtual church" a redundancy?
I mean, at best, church is a place where people hope God will be, but know only that the guy in front says there's a guy upstairs.
"Now I don't need any friends," the geek says, "this is the best Christmas ever."
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