ENGINEERS CLOSE TO THE SIGNAL action have told the INQUIRER that Kentron and maybe Via's cunning plans to implement quad band memory (QBM) are almost certainly doomed to fail. And, worse than that, DDR (double data rate) memory, even in its current recension is, as Intel engineers have indicated during this year, far from being the panacea some propose, with great sensitivity to device loading. According to one senior memory engineer, the introduction of FET switches in the data path greatly complicate the design and introduce another source of noise to DDR. "Few designers even know that FET switches can be the largest source of crosstalk in a system," he suggested
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It all started with XP's Luna and OS X's Aqua, and now it has permiated the World of 'Nix as well....THE CANDY LOOK! (AKA Fischer Price GUI's)
The various desktops of the "in" crowd will be seen sporting brightly colored, translucent-looking smoothed, and rounded shaped widgets and miscellaneous desktop adornments along with cycle-sucking resource-hogging graphics and animations.
This look seems to be most popular with younger persons (especially adolescents as it reminds them of sweets), obese persons (as it is reminiscent of food), and mentally challenged individuals (who are attracted to bright colors and smooth shapes).
The popular Desktop Environments such as GNOME2 and KDE3 offer themes that emulate this style of desktop for those who care for it.
Oddly enough, just as too much candy causes cavities, too much eye candy on the desktop seems to have a similar effect. On a system with 512MB RAM, KDE loaded with all the spiffies turned on and a candied theme chomps up a whopping 284MB RAM just on load up! As compared to a plain jane desktop theme and no extras which leveled out at about 96MB RAM.
Now we begin to see why the Minimum requirements for XP are so high, eh?
For those of you who are not stuck with having to use one of these interfaces, you could save yourself alot of resources by turning the happy off.
By September 10 of last year most Americans had probably grown indifferent to the so-called "culture wars," that decades-long debate over the nature, values, and history of Western and American civilization. Issues such as "political correctness" had passed into fodder for sit-com jokes, and the continuing wrangle over school curricula and textbooks no doubt struck many Americans as a Lilliputian spat of concern only to pointy-head academics, pontificating pundits, and blustering talking heads. Yet the attacks onSptember 11 violently exposed the destructive consequences of the various intellectual and academic movements that had become the received wisdom and dominant orthodoxy of our cultural and political gatekeepers.
For example, the doctrine of cultural relativism -- the idea that all cultures are equally valuable, that no basis exists for saying one culture is better than another, and that to say one is better is insensitive ethnocentrism or even racism -- on September 11 was exposed as a dangerous lie. The perpetrators of that mass murder were the products of a specific civilization's dysfunctional view of the world, a civilization whose values are opposed to Western ones such as sex equality, liberal democracy, individual autonomy and freedom, and a limited political role for religion. We hear endlessly about the American fear of the "other," but the WTC murderers were the real cultural chauvinists, so fanatically convinced of the rightness of their way of life that they were willing to kill themselves and 3000 innocents, including fellow Muslims -- an act sanctioned by numerous verses in the Koran.
The cultural relativists of course stepped forward to assure us that, despite those verses, Islam really is a religion of "peace" and "tolerance," but they neglected to explain that the price of "peace" and "tolerance" is the individual's political and social submission to Islam's religious authority. Apologists also explained that the attackers were in fact deviants who had distorted Islamic values. Perhaps, but judging from the spontaneous demonstrations of joy over the attacks that took place throughout the Arab world, and considering the thousands of madrassas still teaching those same "distortions" with government support, apparently millions of Muslims are deluded about their own culture and religion.
Then we were lectured about the "moderates" in the Islamic world that we should support and encourage rather than reducing to "clash of civilizations" paradigms. Yet no one questioned why these so-called "moderates" continually refuse to abandon their inveterate hatred of Israel and sympathy for terrorism evident in their moral and financial support of Palestinian murderers, and in the inevitable "but" that always follows their perfunctory condemnations of the latest slaughter of the innocents. Yes, there exist Islamic moderates who want their civilization to enter the 21st century, but whether or not Islamic culture will or can adapt to the modern, that is, Western way of secularism and individual freedom is a question ultimately to be answered by Muslims themselves. But the question itself is meaningless without some recognition that the Western way is simply superior in key respects, for it creates the greatest freedom and prosperity for the greatest number of individuals; and that cultures that suppress individual freedom and keep millions of its people in penury aren't just different, but inferior.
Next, September 11 demonstrated the bitter fruit of the doctrine of anti-Americanism rife not just in the Middle East and Third World but among many Europeans and Americans themselves. In the months after the attack numerous American and European intellectuals opined that America had in one way or another "deserved" the attacks, that it was reaping the bitter harvest of its numerous imperialist and racist crimes. This irrational superstition, whose ultimate origins lie in communist propaganda, has become a set of cliches and an unthinking reflex fueled by self-loathing, envy, and resentment. Worse, it has no basis in the facts of history.
The truth is, no society in history wielding the cultural, economic, and military power possessed by the United States has been as restrained in using that power. Even if one accepts the usual anti-American indictment -- Chile, Nicaragua, Vietnam -- these alleged offenses pale beside the good America has done in the world, and the blood and treasure it has lost in fighting tyrannies like Nazism, Japanese militarism, and communism. We hear much about Vietnam, but the abandonment of our allies there meant that Vietnam today looks more like the starving police state of North Korea than a free and prosperous South Korea. But the real refutation of America's supposed evil is the sheer numbers of immigrants who risk their lives to live among their presumed oppressors.
Particularly revealing, however, was the outburst of anti-Americanism in Europe that followed a brief few weeks of sympathy for our loss. Nations whose toll of colonial oppression and death in the Third World dwarfed our own now began to lecture us on our crimes. Envy, resentment, post-colonial guilt, and pride wounded by the spectacle of a nation of déclassé cast-offs and immigrants dominating the world found expression in stale cliches about oafish American "cowboys" who lacked the Europeans' sophisticated, nuanced understanding of world affairs. What we should have learned from this shameless display is that the old NATO Cold War consensus is irrelevant in a world dominated by American power, and that a morally exhausted Europe is our "friend" as long as it can spend money on lavish social welfare programs rather than on the military muscle that would justify its global pretensions.
The third cultural disease exposed by 9/11 is the therapeutic sentimentalism that compromises our actions and policies. The thought that anybody, even the Al Qaeda psychopaths, might be made to suffer occasioned all manner of anguished hand wringing. The detainees in Cuba -- murderers one and all -- were fussed over as though they were wayward teenagers caught "experimenting" with drugs. The military action in Afghanistan was hemmed in by demands that no inadvertent deaths occur, something impossible in the "fog" of war. Efforts to protect our citizens against further attack were hamstrung by civil-libertarian fundamentalists who apparently believe any number of American dead is an acceptable price to pay in order to avoid hurting the feelings of an Arab immigrant. A librarian in Boulder who had festooned her library with multicolored plastic penises ordered an American flag taken down lest someone be made "uncomfortable." And everywhere on display was, and still is, our peculiar delusion that peace and order can be created and protected without violence and suffering and the unforeseen, tragic consequences that always attend the use of force.
Finally, and most important, the rot of moral relativism running throughout the intellectual class continues to manifest itself. We were not to blame anyone, as the National Education Association's recent school curricula instructed teachers. We are not to use words like "good" and "evil," those outdated superstitions from our unenlightened past. The President's use of the phrase "axis of evil" to describe three tyrannical, terror-nurturing states aroused all manner of indignation from Eurocrats and liberal pundits, who scoffed at his simplistic and reductive characterization of terror. These were the same people who sneered at Ronald Reagan when he called the Soviet Union an evil empire -- to the cheers of millions of oppressed Eastern Europeans who knew exactly what he was talking about. Perhaps the stupidest example of this moral idiocy was the British editor who forbade the use of "terrorist" to describe the murderers, since "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." But after all the spineless tweaking and sophistical nuancing is done, the simple fact remains that murderers of the innocent are evil. A culture that has trouble recognizing that fact is a culture in trouble.
Battling this toxic brew of cultural and moral relativism, therapeutic sentimentalism, and malevolent anti-Americanism is what the culture wars are all about. In the first few months after 9/11 it seemed that the tide had turned against these noxious ideas. Flags were being flown without embarrassment, church pews were more crowded, public recognition of America's unique achievement in giving freedom and prosperity to the greatest number ever of ordinary people was freely celebrated. But since then the old bad habits seem to be creeping back, as evidenced by the dithering and second-guessing over Iraq and its homicidal maniac of a leader. After the sentiment and spectacle of the anniversary ceremonies of 9/11 is done, the question will remain whether or not we have learned enough to make sure 9/11 never happens
Recent articles in various publications have mentioned the development of Graded Index Plastic Optical Fiber and the benefits it may offer over
traditional silica glass in the horizontal marketplace. The companies involved in the production of plastic fiber claim lower cost and equivalent performance when compared to glass fiber. Simply put, these claims are
misrepresented.
First, at this writing, graded index plastic optical fiber does not appear to be readily available. While it is possible that graded index plastic fiber may be available in quantity soon, it is not available in sufficient
quantity to be used on a day-in, day-out basis.
Second, the attenuation performance of plastic fiber is stated at around 180 dB/km. This means that over a 100 meter span (typically quoted in LAN installations) only 1.5% of the light injected in the front of the system actually makes it to the receiver. This does not take into account the loss in the connectors, just the fiber itself. Compare this to 62.5 m multimode
glass fiber, which has typical attenuation values of around 3 dB/km. Over a 100 meter span, 93% of the injected light reaches the receiver. Again, this does not take into account the loss involved in the connectors. In practical terms, this means a plastic optical fiber network will require higher power transmitters and more sensitive receivers than conventional networks. This translates into higher cost for the network.
Third, the information carrying capacity (bandwidth) of plastic optical fiber is currently stated as 12.5 MHzkm. Again comparing this performance level to typical values for 62.5 m fiber, the bandwidth at 850 nm is 160 MHzkm, an increase of 1,180%. At 1300 nm the available bandwidth increases dramatically to 500 MHzkm, an increase of 3,900%. Graded index plastic optical fiber, when available, will only have 50 MHzkm of bandwidth available. Even with that increase, the performance advantage of glass optical fiber is clear!
Fourth, and finally, it is important to note that plastic optical fiber and glass optical fiber are not compatible. It is not possible to have glass in the backbone and transition to plastic in the horizontal. The diameters of the fibers, the diameters of the cores, the numerical apertures (light gathering ability) of the cores, and the operating wavelengths of the two are vastly different.
In summary, I do not believe that plastic optical fiber can overcome the technical hurdles that face it to become a cost effective alternative to
glass fiber. Even if these drawbacks are minimized, the question remains - Why accept a future technology that is already pushing its limit instead of a using an existing, proven technology which is instantly upgradeable to the
envisioned limits of telecommunications technology?
Thanks to the folks at Riverbank Computing you can download a Python interpreter that runs on the ARM and Linux based Sharp Zaurus PDA;
Riverbank's web site is the place to go for this download. There are also downloads for many
Python libraries for the ARM.
Having splurged and bought my first -ever PDA, a Zaurus, I am quite pleased. I am runing many of my own personal Python scripts on the Zaurus, from the BASH shell command line terminal program provided. I have discussed this with many folks who own or are considering buying a Zaurus, at the Zaurus home page at www.zaurusone.com and several of them have also taken an interest and are trying out Python programs on the Zaurus.
I recently read an interview with Guido van Rossum (I think it was in Linux Journal) where Guido commented that programming for PDA's or
handhled computers might be one of the brightest spots in Python's future.
I am intrigued by this. The Zaurus' command line BASH shell, combined with the built-in keyboard is great for this purpose. I don't think that a command line without a built in keyboard would
be nearly as good for this purpose; I need the keyboard for entering data and such, and
the Zaurus' keyboard is almost as good as a real keyboard for me, to my surprise; it feels natural.
Does anyone know if the Compaq IPAQ and PALM devices have command line interfaces? I guess they must , since I believe I have read about Python ports to both the Windows CE and the PALM operating systems. Still, with its thumboard, the Zaurus is pretty hard to beat (The Zaurus also
features an online "keyboard,", a "pickBoard", and handwriting recognition, but the thumboard makes the Zaurus pretty hard to beat.
The Zaurus also comes with a built-in JEDOE JVM in order to make porting Java programs easy, and to make developing new Java bsed code for the Zaurus easy.Also, the Zaurus has its native QT-based Qtopia environment.
I am trying to learn PyQt and Black Adder to make GUI programs for the Zaurus (although I don't
know if or how hard it would be to port PyQt to the machine?) But even on the command line, Python shines in my opinion.
So, if anyone is looking for new realms to conquer with their Python skills, I heartily recommend the Sharp Zaurus.
It's a pretty safe bet such systems are already in use in some TLAs, we just don't know about it. Opteron/Hammer will be a nice step forward but obviously it's not meant as competition to big iron from Sun and others for quite a while, if ever. AMD has years and years to go before they can enter such markets successfully, they are relatively small and have to concentrate on the desktop and small to mid sized servers for the forseeable future, plus have yet to prove themselves in the higher end, attract the appropriate support and build an image they don't yet have when compared to Intel, Sun or IBM.
It also looks like they have their work cut out for them already, with not as fast clock/rampup on 0.13 micron as expected and a tight line to get the Hammer line done properly as they are pretty strung out on cash compared to Intel, while the latter seems to have no trouble in increasing clock all the time (by throwing huge gobs of money at it of course).
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Heh, Notes, working...
Two words that don't belong in the same sentence.
Jeeez, that is fucking weeeeeeak!
First pizost!
Will GNU/Hurd support my WinModem?
ENGINEERS CLOSE TO THE SIGNAL action have told the INQUIRER that Kentron and maybe Via's cunning plans to implement quad band memory (QBM) are almost certainly doomed to fail. And, worse than that, DDR (double data rate) memory, even in its current recension is, as Intel engineers have indicated during this year, far from being the panacea some propose, with great sensitivity to device loading. According to one senior memory engineer, the introduction of FET switches in the data path greatly complicate the design and introduce another source of noise to DDR. "Few designers even know that FET switches can be the largest source of crosstalk in a system," he suggested
It all started with XP's Luna and OS X's Aqua, and now it has permiated the World of 'Nix as well....THE CANDY LOOK! (AKA Fischer Price GUI's)
The various desktops of the "in" crowd will be seen sporting brightly colored, translucent-looking smoothed, and rounded shaped widgets and
miscellaneous desktop adornments along with cycle-sucking resource-hogging graphics and animations.
This look seems to be most popular with younger persons (especially adolescents as it reminds them of sweets), obese persons (as it is reminiscent of food), and mentally challenged individuals (who are attracted to bright colors and smooth shapes).
The popular Desktop Environments such as GNOME2 and KDE3 offer themes that emulate this style of desktop for those who care for it.
Oddly enough, just as too much candy causes cavities, too much eye candy on the desktop seems to have a similar effect. On a system with 512MB RAM, KDE loaded with all the spiffies turned on and a candied theme chomps up a whopping 284MB RAM just on load up! As compared to a plain jane desktop theme and no extras which leveled out at about 96MB RAM.
Now we begin to see why the Minimum requirements for XP are so high, eh?
For those of you who are not stuck with having to use one of these interfaces, you could save yourself alot of resources by turning the happy
off.
The cultural relativists of course stepped forward to assure us that, despite those verses, Islam really is a religion of "peace" and "tolerance," but they neglected to explain that the price of "peace" and "tolerance" is the individual's political and social submission to Islam's religious authority. Apologists also explained that the attackers were in fact deviants who had distorted Islamic values. Perhaps, but judging from the spontaneous demonstrations of joy over the attacks that took place throughout the Arab world, and considering the thousands of madrassas still teaching those same "distortions" with government support, apparently millions of Muslims are deluded about their own culture and religion.
Then we were lectured about the "moderates" in the Islamic world that we should support and encourage rather than reducing to "clash of civilizations" paradigms. Yet no one questioned why these so-called "moderates" continually refuse to abandon their inveterate hatred of Israel and sympathy for terrorism evident in their moral and financial support of Palestinian murderers, and in the inevitable "but" that always follows their perfunctory condemnations of the latest slaughter of the innocents. Yes, there exist Islamic moderates who want their civilization to enter the 21st century, but whether or not Islamic culture will or can adapt to the modern, that is, Western way of secularism and individual freedom is a question ultimately to be answered by Muslims themselves. But the question itself is meaningless without some recognition that the Western way is simply superior in key respects, for it creates the greatest freedom and prosperity for the greatest number of individuals; and that cultures that suppress individual freedom and keep millions of its people in penury aren't just different, but inferior.
Next, September 11 demonstrated the bitter fruit of the doctrine of anti-Americanism rife not just in the Middle East and Third World but among many Europeans and Americans themselves. In the months after the attack numerous American and European intellectuals opined that America had in one way or another "deserved" the attacks, that it was reaping the bitter harvest of its numerous imperialist and racist crimes. This irrational superstition, whose ultimate origins lie in communist propaganda, has become a set of cliches and an unthinking reflex fueled by self-loathing, envy, and resentment. Worse, it has no basis in the facts of history.
The truth is, no society in history wielding the cultural, economic, and military power possessed by the United States has been as restrained in using that power. Even if one accepts the usual anti-American indictment -- Chile, Nicaragua, Vietnam -- these alleged offenses pale beside the good America has done in the world, and the blood and treasure it has lost in fighting tyrannies like Nazism, Japanese militarism, and communism. We hear much about Vietnam, but the abandonment of our allies there meant that Vietnam today looks more like the starving police state of North Korea than a free and prosperous South Korea. But the real refutation of America's supposed evil is the sheer numbers of immigrants who risk their lives to live among their presumed oppressors.
Particularly revealing, however, was the outburst of anti-Americanism in Europe that followed a brief few weeks of sympathy for our loss. Nations whose toll of colonial oppression and death in the Third World dwarfed our own now began to lecture us on our crimes. Envy, resentment, post-colonial guilt, and pride wounded by the spectacle of a nation of déclassé cast-offs and immigrants dominating the world found expression in stale cliches about oafish American "cowboys" who lacked the Europeans' sophisticated, nuanced understanding of world affairs. What we should have learned from this shameless display is that the old NATO Cold War consensus is irrelevant in a world dominated by American power, and that a morally exhausted Europe is our "friend" as long as it can spend money on lavish social welfare programs rather than on the military muscle that would justify its global pretensions.
The third cultural disease exposed by 9/11 is the therapeutic sentimentalism that compromises our actions and policies. The thought that anybody, even the Al Qaeda psychopaths, might be made to suffer occasioned all manner of anguished hand wringing. The detainees in Cuba -- murderers one and all -- were fussed over as though they were wayward teenagers caught "experimenting" with drugs. The military action in Afghanistan was hemmed in by demands that no inadvertent deaths occur, something impossible in the "fog" of war. Efforts to protect our citizens against further attack were hamstrung by civil-libertarian fundamentalists who apparently believe any number of American dead is an acceptable price to pay in order to avoid hurting the feelings of an Arab immigrant. A librarian in Boulder who had festooned her library with multicolored plastic penises ordered an American flag taken down lest someone be made "uncomfortable." And everywhere on display was, and still is, our peculiar delusion that peace and order can be created and protected without violence and suffering and the unforeseen, tragic consequences that always attend the use of force.
Finally, and most important, the rot of moral relativism running throughout the intellectual class continues to manifest itself. We were not to blame anyone, as the National Education Association's recent school curricula instructed teachers. We are not to use words like "good" and "evil," those outdated superstitions from our unenlightened past. The President's use of the phrase "axis of evil" to describe three tyrannical, terror-nurturing states aroused all manner of indignation from Eurocrats and liberal pundits, who scoffed at his simplistic and reductive characterization of terror. These were the same people who sneered at Ronald Reagan when he called the Soviet Union an evil empire -- to the cheers of millions of oppressed Eastern Europeans who knew exactly what he was talking about. Perhaps the stupidest example of this moral idiocy was the British editor who forbade the use of "terrorist" to describe the murderers, since "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." But after all the spineless tweaking and sophistical nuancing is done, the simple fact remains that murderers of the innocent are evil. A culture that has trouble recognizing that fact is a culture in trouble.
Battling this toxic brew of cultural and moral relativism, therapeutic sentimentalism, and malevolent anti-Americanism is what the culture wars are all about. In the first few months after 9/11 it seemed that the tide had turned against these noxious ideas. Flags were being flown without embarrassment, church pews were more crowded, public recognition of America's unique achievement in giving freedom and prosperity to the greatest number ever of ordinary people was freely celebrated. But since then the old bad habits seem to be creeping back, as evidenced by the dithering and second-guessing over Iraq and its homicidal maniac of a leader. After the sentiment and spectacle of the anniversary ceremonies of 9/11 is done, the question will remain whether or not we have learned enough to make sure 9/11 never happens
First, at this writing, graded index plastic optical fiber does not appear to be readily available. While it is possible that graded index plastic fiber may be available in quantity soon, it is not available in sufficient quantity to be used on a day-in, day-out basis.
Second, the attenuation performance of plastic fiber is stated at around 180 dB/km. This means that over a 100 meter span (typically quoted in LAN installations) only 1.5% of the light injected in the front of the system actually makes it to the receiver. This does not take into account the loss in the connectors, just the fiber itself. Compare this to 62.5 m multimode glass fiber, which has typical attenuation values of around 3 dB/km. Over a 100 meter span, 93% of the injected light reaches the receiver. Again, this does not take into account the loss involved in the connectors. In practical terms, this means a plastic optical fiber network will require higher power transmitters and more sensitive receivers than conventional networks. This translates into higher cost for the network.
Third, the information carrying capacity (bandwidth) of plastic optical fiber is currently stated as 12.5 MHzkm. Again comparing this performance level to typical values for 62.5 m fiber, the bandwidth at 850 nm is 160 MHzkm, an increase of 1,180%. At 1300 nm the available bandwidth increases dramatically to 500 MHzkm, an increase of 3,900%. Graded index plastic optical fiber, when available, will only have 50 MHzkm of bandwidth available. Even with that increase, the performance advantage of glass optical fiber is clear!
Fourth, and finally, it is important to note that plastic optical fiber and glass optical fiber are not compatible. It is not possible to have glass in the backbone and transition to plastic in the horizontal. The diameters of the fibers, the diameters of the cores, the numerical apertures (light gathering ability) of the cores, and the operating wavelengths of the two are vastly different.
In summary, I do not believe that plastic optical fiber can overcome the technical hurdles that face it to become a cost effective alternative to glass fiber. Even if these drawbacks are minimized, the question remains - Why accept a future technology that is already pushing its limit instead of a using an existing, proven technology which is instantly upgradeable to the envisioned limits of telecommunications technology?
For crying out loud, tell that slut to get in the kitchen!
She ought to realize, a woman has 2 jobs: Make dinner & make babies!
Having splurged and bought my first -ever PDA, a Zaurus, I am quite pleased. I am runing many of my own personal Python scripts on the Zaurus, from the BASH shell command line terminal program provided. I have discussed this with many folks who own or are considering buying a Zaurus, at the Zaurus home page at www.zaurusone.com and several of them have also taken an interest and are trying out Python programs on the Zaurus.
I recently read an interview with Guido van Rossum (I think it was in Linux Journal) where Guido commented that programming for PDA's or handhled computers might be one of the brightest spots in Python's future.
I am intrigued by this. The Zaurus' command line BASH shell, combined with the built-in keyboard is great for this purpose. I don't think that a command line without a built in keyboard would be nearly as good for this purpose; I need the keyboard for entering data and such, and the Zaurus' keyboard is almost as good as a real keyboard for me, to my surprise; it feels natural.
Does anyone know if the Compaq IPAQ and PALM devices have command line interfaces? I guess they must , since I believe I have read about Python ports to both the Windows CE and the PALM operating systems. Still, with its thumboard, the Zaurus is pretty hard to beat (The Zaurus also features an online "keyboard,", a "pickBoard", and handwriting recognition, but the thumboard makes the Zaurus pretty hard to beat.
The Zaurus also comes with a built-in JEDOE JVM in order to make porting Java programs easy, and to make developing new Java bsed code for the Zaurus easy.Also, the Zaurus has its native QT-based Qtopia environment.
I am trying to learn PyQt and Black Adder to make GUI programs for the Zaurus (although I don't know if or how hard it would be to port PyQt to the machine?) But even on the command line, Python shines in my opinion.
So, if anyone is looking for new realms to conquer with their Python skills, I heartily recommend the Sharp Zaurus.
It's a pretty safe bet such systems are already in use in some TLAs, we just don't know about it. Opteron/Hammer will be a nice step forward but obviously it's not meant as competition to big iron from Sun and others for quite a while, if ever. AMD has years and years to go before they can enter such markets successfully, they are relatively small and have to concentrate on the desktop and small to mid sized servers for the
forseeable future, plus have yet to prove themselves in the higher end, attract the appropriate support and build an image they don't yet have when compared to Intel, Sun or IBM.
It also looks like they have their work cut out for them already, with not as fast clock/rampup on 0.13 micron as expected and a tight line to get the Hammer line done properly as they are pretty strung out on cash compared to Intel, while the latter seems to have no trouble in increasing clock all the time (by throwing huge gobs of money at it of course).
For my shriveled cock. CLIT r00lz!
Who gives a fuck? What are they gonna do?
This sucks.
FP.
I agree with this post.
You must acquit!
I ass raped Ida with a toilet plunger.
You're welcome to sloppy seconds.
Eat it sluts.
It's already been done, if you get my drift.
Fuck that filthy slut in the ass!
Sorry bout that!
Sing it loud!
I refuse to share my rectum with JonKatz.
I also refuse to share the contents of my colostomy bag with anyone.
Nuke towelheads now.
And I am damn it!
Nope, not me.
I am merely surprised I didn't get it myself.