"Symptoms of the rot include picture break-up and freezing at a specific place on the disk. The main cause is believed to be poorly designed cases. Delamination shows up as a coffee-like stain that prevents the disc from playing."
you know, picture break-up could be caused by scratches and puup on the dvd, and the freezing in a specific place could be attributed to the delay in switching layers during playback.
i've seen funky "stains" on CDs and DVDs, but haven't had problems with playback. i'm not saying that dvd rot doesn't happen, just that there are other reasons for playback problems.
it's really amazing to read this kinda stuff-- it just makes me think that the folks in charge of the industry just DO. NOT. GETIT.
- the people downloading music to try-before-you-buy are buying CDs anyway. - the people downloading music and NOT buying CDs are faced with the choice: pay for music, or continue to get it for free? - the people looking for better music will still be looking at scores of cookie-cutter bands (until their tastes mature and discover tasty indie rock). - the people looking for Added Content and Bonus Stuff still won't be getting stuff like the Michelle Branch Crotch Scratch-n-Sniff sticker, or centerfold foldouts, in their CD cases.
and finally, just read the article to see what a bad idea the whole thing is. on the one hand, you have the phrase "Liquid Audio" mentioned. on the other, you have Best Buy shutting down 107 stores. and then you have "Liquid Audio." OMGWTFBBQ LIQUID AUDIO?! ABANDON SHIT!
one last thing: thank the lord jebus to the story author or whoever it was that added the "&partner=GOOGLE" to the url. no registration for NYTimes articles! WAHOOO!
i'm no chess expert, but drawing on what little i do know about chess, i'd hafta agree with both of your observations. i don't begin to approach the level of their chess play, but i'd surmise that yeah, the pawn was put forward for one of at least three reasons, if not all three:
1) it's kasparov's way of saying "j0, i gon fux0r with your brain junior!1!!1!! FEAR TEH PAWN! TAKE IT! TAKE IT! (muahaha, as akbar would say, "IT'S A TRAP!!!") so would ineptly waste an opening move to grab a pawn, even when it's already behind by one.
2) garry pushes the pawn forward, thinking, "KEKEKEKE I PUT TEH PAWN PRESSURE ON TEH KNIGHT! j00 HAVE NO ESCAPE MAKE YOUR TIME!1!!" thus making the knight feel uncomfortable enough for black to either a) move it, or b) fortify it.
3) kasparov decides that pushing the pawn is one of his "three best moves," and sees it adding just the right amount of pressure to capitalize upon later, but not so much as to require immediate attention from black.
i dunno. those are my guesses. any chess nuts have better insight?
your particular moderation of this post from a score of 2 (or rather, 1+karma bonus) to a 1 (or 0, if you will) is representative of the insipid moderation done by inept moderators.
for example, rather than promoting comments that deserve to be read, you waste your points pushing them down. in this particular instance, you moderated a previously unmoderated comment "overrated," which is ludicrous, considering that it wasn't rated to begin with!
rather than wasting your time deciding who sux0rz, why not spend your time deciding who's worth listening to? there's a reason why moderators are supposed to promote, rather than demote: the signal to noise ratio here is really, really underwhelming, and to use your points to mod trolls and nitwits down is pretty futile. better to mod UP, and crank your filter to 5.
your pal, herrd0kt0r, fellow moderator, but not a dumbass.
they do exactly that: they put computers against each other. and it typically doesn't take an hour, a microsecond, or the end of time. they usually abide by the same rules governing FIDE world championships. and yes, these tournaments typically result in the creation of better chess software.
this is what is known as a BAD IDEA. heating up your toilet water would allow the aroma of the remants of last night's spicy-cheetos-and-beer meal to waft with unprecedented stinkiness.
but you are true to your word: you are indeed an eccentric genius. for it is an eccentric genius who would rather have a faster/quieter/more kickazz computer than less smelly puup.
as for me, i'd like to keep my bathroom smelling as fresh and clean as the day a cool spring rain. perhaps someone could develop a system to cool toilet water? maybe use fluorinert, as they used in crays, to freeze the puup on contact?
herr g33k here demonstrates the level of g33kness we should all aspire to.
and i'm not insulting him. with a ton of up-and-coming geeks, it's nice to see a modicum of safety exhibited. in this case, he actually used a multimeter (!) to check the capacitors (!) to save himself from being fried while modding his computer (!).
it's the same with cars: ricers deck out their cars with 32987543289 amps of tasty goodness, but fail to demonstrate any level of foundational knowledge. which isn't to say that there are 32987543288 geeks frying themselves out of every 32987543289 geeks.
what i'm saying is that the pinnacle of geekdom lies in the studying everything. not just where you can go, but where you should have been.
and thusly, you can prevent yourself from sizzling the tender slushy organ known as the brain.
i think that this message should be drilled into the heads of all future nerds. i would sincerely hate to see future slashdot stories like:
- GEEK FRIES SELF MODDING POWER SUPPLY or - DO NOT MOUTH PIPETTE BATTERY FLUID or - "I TRIED TO OVERCLOCK MY WALL OUTLET WITH MY TONGUE AND _LIVED_!"
safety first. discharge static electricity before doing your work. test your circuits. and always, ALWAYS wear a cup.
a good case is: - rock-solid - transportable - space-saving - cheap - attractive
it's time to wipe the slate clean on case design. go back to the basics. back in time. to an era where puup and piles of puup were the pinnacles of architecture.
you can start here: http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/
to me, the most interesting part of the article is this: "The deal also marks a break in an alliance between AMD and Taiwan's United Microelectronics, a foundry that makes chips for other companies Earlier, AMD and UMC agreed to jointly develop 65 nanometer processes and build a fabrication facility together. AMD also said it would use UMC for excess factory capacity if necessary."
at first glance, it might seem like it's bad that AMD is breaking business ties. but the last sentence indicates that the option to tap UMC is still available, which to me means that the relations between the two must not have soured that badly.
looking at the big picture, it seems that AMD has made a pretty decent business move upwards, scaling up as they need, and acquiring a nice, big name to throw around as good PR.
which is not to say that it'll make AMD successful. but you know how dippy people are when it comes to stocks. Joe Trader who was "like, wtf?! UMC? wtf UMC?" might be more like "miammiam, IBM. mmmn, juicy goodness."
who's to say that voip necessarily means that it's limited to standard telco quality? why not pump up the bandwidth and slap the CPU around by compressing mp3 on the fly? imagine:
- phone conversations that make it sound like the other person was RIGHT THERE! - you can hold the phone up to the radio and uh. something like. uh. easy shoutcasting! - superior phone sex! - etc.
no, really. i'm serious. regular telephone sound quality sucks rocks. market it smart, and make people believe they NEED better sound quality from their phone conversations! sucker them in!
ah, yes. another technology driven by pr0n.
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"These drones it just might eliminate those damn drunk pilots, just put a breathalyzer on the joystick of who gets to control it, if you're drunk....it won't let you fly it."
i dunno about you, but i would think anyone who claimed to put their mouth to a joystick for a "breathalyzer test" is drunk to begin with.
EA has made 1.5 billion in revenue last year, and reaped 100 million wingwangs this year alone. you can read about it here. the scale of their sports franchise alone is staggering: with tens of millions of clams being spent for marketing their sports games this year!
you might think of EA churning out craptastic games that leave you consistently overwhelmed, but the truth is that there are lots of people out there playing their console games. i mean, people i normally don't associate with, like, you know. people who play sports. and exercise. and stuff. physical exertion. pull-ups. push-ups. i dunno. i'm outta my league here now. but you know, like, THOSE people. the meatheads.
they like EA games.
and there are lots of meatheads out there.
me? i prefer more academic pursuits. if EA came out with a game like Madden for people like me, i'd give them a lot o my coin. say, instead of Madden, they had Fiercesome Librarian 2003. or Raging Geeks League Slide Rule Competition '02 (RGL '02).
but nooooo. they did their market research and realized that these sports fans can beat people like me-- the people who program these games, up. so they make stuff to appease them.
and it's gotten them a lot of moolah!
why, i remember loading up Racing Destruction Set on my c64, and watching the big square/circle/triangle change colors. i also remember modifying my 1541 drive with JiffyDos, which was a small add-on cache for the drive. SUPER LOAD TIMES!
i'm rambling. the point i'm trying to make is that yes, EA really is that big. and they're getting bigger. the sports nuts/meatheads control the market. and their population grows! fellow slashdotter, you know how always find yourself at home, alone, on friday nights? that's cause all the HAWT chix0rz are out getting their mack on, and their clothes off, with the big burly men who buy EA Sports games.
CITIZENS OF SLASHDOT! SCREW THE RIAA! SCREW THE MPAA! FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS ON EA! WORK HARD! GET MUSCLES! AND TOGETHER WE CAN SCORE TEH HAWT CHIX0RZ!
NASHVILLE, TN (Reuters) - With the expansion of the vinyl industry, executives are looking towards technology to further their cause.
It has been a long time since music aficionados flocked to the record stores for vinyl records. With the advent of digital media such as CDs, CD-Rs, and the internet, it is possible to get the music you want quickly and easily, without having to leave your home. Furthermore, fans can make their own mixed compilations of their favorite music.
The vinyl industry here in Nashville is trying to capture that magic. Engineers are hard at work on the LP-R, and the LP-R drive. LP-R stands for Long Play Recorder, and is a throwback to the lingo vinyl enthusiasts used.
"We were gonna try for 7"-R, but saying 'seven-inch-arrr' just wasn't catchy enough," Buckaroo Banzai said. "Instead, we're going for the behemoth of vinyl, the LP!"
Here at the test labs of the Hong Kong Cavaliers, the press was introduced to the world's first LP-R drive. Fitting in the 5.25" bay of a personal computer, and expanding to a full-sized drive at the touch of a button, the LP-R drive can take blank LP-R media and burn LPs on the fly!
"We've only got it recording at 2x speed right now, but pretty soon we're gonna introduce the same technology we used to make splat-proof watermelons, and up the burn rates to 52x," one engineer stated.
The industry is buzzing with talk of LP-RW drives, and even a portable unit codenamed "the iLPod." Fan reaction has been phenomenal, with one fan exlaiming: "Holy CRAP! i've been waiting for this for YEARS! vinyl sounds so warm and smooth, and i can't WAIT to burn all my mp3s onto LP-Rs! Hell, even 32kbps mp3s sound MAGICAL!"
Another fan bared her breasts in support of the Hong Kong Cavaliers.
i forgot to mention this, but here's something else for you froods to chew on: Motorola and Texas Instruments, besides making a ton of gadgets and stuff, have been doing _very_ well in the Digital Signal Processor market. TI, in particular, makes very fine DSPs.
this is an example of where AMD could strengthen its product line. there's a great comment by Martigan80 where he raises the point that not every problem is best solved by throwing an Athlon or Pentium chip at it. perhaps AMD will be making more specialized processors that handle things faster, smaller, and more importantly, cheaper?
contrary to what a lot of the above posts say, there _is_ a hint that AMD will be withdrawing (to what degree, who knows) from the processor market. but i think the most interesting part of the article is where it mentions that AMD will be raising $300 million in convertible notes.
what does that mean? it means they're not really retreating. i think it means that they're going to be broadening their efforts; they'll stop focusing so much on processors for PCs, and dedicate some resources to other places.
they did very well with their flash memory division for a while (nevermind how it's doing now). that shows that they are able to succeed in areas other than the PC processor market. this gave them a taste for pursuing interests besides processors. additionally, their bitter struggle to compete with intel, and it _is_ bitter and brutal, led them to realize that in order to truly succeed as a company, they're going to have to work on multiple fronts instead of tying their success on one admittedly difficult marketplace war.
in short: nevermind the hype about AMD retreating. focus on the interesting aspects of the article. focus on the fact that they're taking a risk in raising $300 million and lowering their credit rating. then think about _why_ they're doing it.
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"Symptoms of the rot include picture break-up and freezing at a specific place on the disk. The main cause is believed to be poorly designed cases. Delamination shows up as a coffee-like stain that prevents the disc from playing."
you know, picture break-up could be caused by scratches and puup on the dvd, and the freezing in a specific place could be attributed to the delay in switching layers during playback.
i've seen funky "stains" on CDs and DVDs, but haven't had problems with playback. i'm not saying that dvd rot doesn't happen, just that there are other reasons for playback problems.
"People can't "pirate" subs, gyros, or muffulettas."
the gauntlet is thrown.
any takers?
it's really amazing to read this kinda stuff-- it just makes me think that the folks in charge of the industry just DO. NOT. GETIT.
- the people downloading music to try-before-you-buy are buying CDs anyway.
- the people downloading music and NOT buying CDs are faced with the choice: pay for music, or continue to get it for free?
- the people looking for better music will still be looking at scores of cookie-cutter bands (until their tastes mature and discover tasty indie rock).
- the people looking for Added Content and Bonus Stuff still won't be getting stuff like the Michelle Branch Crotch Scratch-n-Sniff sticker, or centerfold foldouts, in their CD cases.
and finally, just read the article to see what a bad idea the whole thing is. on the one hand, you have the phrase "Liquid Audio" mentioned. on the other, you have Best Buy shutting down 107 stores. and then you have "Liquid Audio." OMGWTFBBQ LIQUID AUDIO?! ABANDON SHIT!
one last thing: thank the lord jebus to the story author or whoever it was that added the "&partner=GOOGLE" to the url. no registration for NYTimes articles! WAHOOO!
ahhh, i get it now, maybe. he might've misread it as "pretty nifty, NOT!" you know, like wayne's world.
let's all be swell pals. we should be discussing more important things. like chess. or chess computers. or bewbies.
nonono! i was _agreeing_ with you!
i'll just chalk the "you are a jerk" up to a misunderstanding. pals?
8D
just to be clear: it's done with macromedia flash. and it IS sooper spiffy cool n froody. i like. 100%.
i'm no chess expert, but drawing on what little i do know about chess, i'd hafta agree with both of your observations. i don't begin to approach the level of their chess play, but i'd surmise that yeah, the pawn was put forward for one of at least three reasons, if not all three:
1) it's kasparov's way of saying "j0, i gon fux0r with your brain junior!1!!1!! FEAR TEH PAWN! TAKE IT! TAKE IT! (muahaha, as akbar would say, "IT'S A TRAP!!!") so would ineptly waste an opening move to grab a pawn, even when it's already behind by one.
2) garry pushes the pawn forward, thinking, "KEKEKEKE I PUT TEH PAWN PRESSURE ON TEH KNIGHT! j00 HAVE NO ESCAPE MAKE YOUR TIME!1!!" thus making the knight feel uncomfortable enough for black to either a) move it, or b) fortify it.
3) kasparov decides that pushing the pawn is one of his "three best moves," and sees it adding just the right amount of pressure to capitalize upon later, but not so much as to require immediate attention from black.
i dunno. those are my guesses. any chess nuts have better insight?
i commend you for moderating fairly! the parent to this is indeed offtopic. bravo!
but still, rather than wasting your time deciding who sux0rz...
oh, nevermind.
hehaohahoaho!
it's flash.
pretty nifty, no?
your particular moderation of this post from a score of 2 (or rather, 1+karma bonus) to a 1 (or 0, if you will) is representative of the insipid moderation done by inept moderators.
for example, rather than promoting comments that deserve to be read, you waste your points pushing them down. in this particular instance, you moderated a previously unmoderated comment "overrated," which is ludicrous, considering that it wasn't rated to begin with!
rather than wasting your time deciding who sux0rz, why not spend your time deciding who's worth listening to? there's a reason why moderators are supposed to promote, rather than demote: the signal to noise ratio here is really, really underwhelming, and to use your points to mod trolls and nitwits down is pretty futile. better to mod UP, and crank your filter to 5.
your pal,
herrd0kt0r,
fellow moderator,
but not a dumbass.
had the editors of the almighty slashdot bothered to read my infinitely more entertaining and informative story submission on this match, they might have had this interesting link included in their story, amongst other informative and titillating urls. this particular link will show the replay of today's game, as well as live broadcasts of future games.
boo to the editors.
yay to herrd0kt0r.
herrd0kt0r for prez.
they do exactly that: they put computers against each other. and it typically doesn't take an hour, a microsecond, or the end of time. they usually abide by the same rules governing FIDE world championships. and yes, these tournaments typically result in the creation of better chess software.
look at the development of fritz, and deep junior, for example. or hell, why not try looking something up on google? it can't be that difficult, can it?
deep blue was dismantled after its rematch with kasparov. deep junior has been winning all the computer chess tournaments for the past three years.
deep junior can calculate 3-4 million moves per second! how can garry possibly win?
from wired: "Kasparov said he can calculate the potential of about 3 moves per second at best, 'but they are the best moves.'"
this is what is known as a BAD IDEA. heating up your toilet water would allow the aroma of the remants of last night's spicy-cheetos-and-beer meal to waft with unprecedented stinkiness.
but you are true to your word: you are indeed an eccentric genius. for it is an eccentric genius who would rather have a faster/quieter/more kickazz computer than less smelly puup.
as for me, i'd like to keep my bathroom smelling as fresh and clean as the day a cool spring rain. perhaps someone could develop a system to cool toilet water? maybe use fluorinert, as they used in crays, to freeze the puup on contact?
herr g33k here demonstrates the level of g33kness we should all aspire to.
and i'm not insulting him. with a ton of up-and-coming geeks, it's nice to see a modicum of safety exhibited. in this case, he actually used a multimeter (!) to check the capacitors (!) to save himself from being fried while modding his computer (!).
it's the same with cars: ricers deck out their cars with 32987543289 amps of tasty goodness, but fail to demonstrate any level of foundational knowledge. which isn't to say that there are 32987543288 geeks frying themselves out of every 32987543289 geeks.
what i'm saying is that the pinnacle of geekdom lies in the studying everything. not just where you can go, but where you should have been.
and thusly, you can prevent yourself from sizzling the tender slushy organ known as the brain.
i think that this message should be drilled into the heads of all future nerds. i would sincerely hate to see future slashdot stories like:
- GEEK FRIES SELF MODDING POWER SUPPLY or
- DO NOT MOUTH PIPETTE BATTERY FLUID or
- "I TRIED TO OVERCLOCK MY WALL OUTLET WITH MY TONGUE AND _LIVED_!"
safety first. discharge static electricity before doing your work. test your circuits. and always, ALWAYS wear a cup.
a good case is:
- rock-solid
- transportable
- space-saving
- cheap
- attractive
it's time to wipe the slate clean on case design. go back to the basics. back in time. to an era where puup and piles of puup were the pinnacles of architecture.
you can start here: http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/
to me, the most interesting part of the article is this: "The deal also marks a break in an alliance between AMD and Taiwan's United Microelectronics, a foundry that makes chips for other companies Earlier, AMD and UMC agreed to jointly develop 65 nanometer processes and build a fabrication facility together. AMD also said it would use UMC for excess factory capacity if necessary."
at first glance, it might seem like it's bad that AMD is breaking business ties. but the last sentence indicates that the option to tap UMC is still available, which to me means that the relations between the two must not have soured that badly.
looking at the big picture, it seems that AMD has made a pretty decent business move upwards, scaling up as they need, and acquiring a nice, big name to throw around as good PR.
which is not to say that it'll make AMD successful. but you know how dippy people are when it comes to stocks. Joe Trader who was "like, wtf?! UMC? wtf UMC?" might be more like "miammiam, IBM. mmmn, juicy goodness."
who's to say that voip necessarily means that it's limited to standard telco quality? why not pump up the bandwidth and slap the CPU around by compressing mp3 on the fly? imagine:
- phone conversations that make it sound like the other person was RIGHT THERE!
- you can hold the phone up to the radio and uh. something like. uh. easy shoutcasting!
- superior phone sex!
- etc.
no, really. i'm serious. regular telephone sound quality sucks rocks. market it smart, and make people believe they NEED better sound quality from their phone conversations! sucker them in!
ah, yes. another technology driven by pr0n.
"These drones it just might eliminate those damn drunk pilots, just put a breathalyzer on the joystick of who gets to control it, if you're drunk....it won't let you fly it."
i dunno about you, but i would think anyone who claimed to put their mouth to a joystick for a "breathalyzer test" is drunk to begin with.
EA has made 1.5 billion in revenue last year, and reaped 100 million wingwangs this year alone. you can read about it here. the scale of their sports franchise alone is staggering: with tens of millions of clams being spent for marketing their sports games this year!
you might think of EA churning out craptastic games that leave you consistently overwhelmed, but the truth is that there are lots of people out there playing their console games. i mean, people i normally don't associate with, like, you know. people who play sports. and exercise. and stuff. physical exertion. pull-ups. push-ups. i dunno. i'm outta my league here now. but you know, like, THOSE people. the meatheads.
they like EA games.
and there are lots of meatheads out there.
me? i prefer more academic pursuits. if EA came out with a game like Madden for people like me, i'd give them a lot o my coin. say, instead of Madden, they had Fiercesome Librarian 2003. or Raging Geeks League Slide Rule Competition '02 (RGL '02).
but nooooo. they did their market research and realized that these sports fans can beat people like me-- the people who program these games, up. so they make stuff to appease them.
and it's gotten them a lot of moolah!
why, i remember loading up Racing Destruction Set on my c64, and watching the big square/circle/triangle change colors. i also remember modifying my 1541 drive with JiffyDos, which was a small add-on cache for the drive. SUPER LOAD TIMES!
i'm rambling. the point i'm trying to make is that yes, EA really is that big. and they're getting bigger. the sports nuts/meatheads control the market. and their population grows! fellow slashdotter, you know how always find yourself at home, alone, on friday nights? that's cause all the HAWT chix0rz are out getting their mack on, and their clothes off, with the big burly men who buy EA Sports games.
CITIZENS OF SLASHDOT! SCREW THE RIAA! SCREW THE MPAA!
FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS ON EA!
WORK HARD! GET MUSCLES!
AND TOGETHER WE CAN SCORE TEH HAWT CHIX0RZ!
NASHVILLE, TN (Reuters) - With the expansion of the vinyl industry, executives are looking towards technology to further their cause.
It has been a long time since music aficionados flocked to the record stores for vinyl records. With the advent of digital media such as CDs, CD-Rs, and the internet, it is possible to get the music you want quickly and easily, without having to leave your home. Furthermore, fans can make their own mixed compilations of their favorite music.
The vinyl industry here in Nashville is trying to capture that magic. Engineers are hard at work on the LP-R, and the LP-R drive. LP-R stands for Long Play Recorder, and is a throwback to the lingo vinyl enthusiasts used.
"We were gonna try for 7"-R, but saying 'seven-inch-arrr' just wasn't catchy enough," Buckaroo Banzai said. "Instead, we're going for the behemoth of vinyl, the LP!"
Here at the test labs of the Hong Kong Cavaliers, the press was introduced to the world's first LP-R drive. Fitting in the 5.25" bay of a personal computer, and expanding to a full-sized drive at the touch of a button, the LP-R drive can take blank LP-R media and burn LPs on the fly!
"We've only got it recording at 2x speed right now, but pretty soon we're gonna introduce the same technology we used to make splat-proof watermelons, and up the burn rates to 52x," one engineer stated.
The industry is buzzing with talk of LP-RW drives, and even a portable unit codenamed "the iLPod." Fan reaction has been phenomenal, with one fan exlaiming: "Holy CRAP! i've been waiting for this for YEARS! vinyl sounds so warm and smooth, and i can't WAIT to burn all my mp3s onto LP-Rs! Hell, even 32kbps mp3s sound MAGICAL!"
Another fan bared her breasts in support of the Hong Kong Cavaliers.
Mrs. Taylor: What was Einstein _REALLY_ like?
Prof. Hathaway: Dead.
brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "dirty bomb."
i forgot to mention this, but here's something else for you froods to chew on: Motorola and Texas Instruments, besides making a ton of gadgets and stuff, have been doing _very_ well in the Digital Signal Processor market. TI, in particular, makes very fine DSPs.
this is an example of where AMD could strengthen its product line. there's a great comment by Martigan80 where he raises the point that not every problem is best solved by throwing an Athlon or Pentium chip at it. perhaps AMD will be making more specialized processors that handle things faster, smaller, and more importantly, cheaper?
contrary to what a lot of the above posts say, there _is_ a hint that AMD will be withdrawing (to what degree, who knows) from the processor market. but i think the most interesting part of the article is where it mentions that AMD will be raising $300 million in convertible notes.
what does that mean? it means they're not really retreating. i think it means that they're going to be broadening their efforts; they'll stop focusing so much on processors for PCs, and dedicate some resources to other places.
they did very well with their flash memory division for a while (nevermind how it's doing now). that shows that they are able to succeed in areas other than the PC processor market. this gave them a taste for pursuing interests besides processors. additionally, their bitter struggle to compete with intel, and it _is_ bitter and brutal, led them to realize that in order to truly succeed as a company, they're going to have to work on multiple fronts instead of tying their success on one admittedly difficult marketplace war.
in short: nevermind the hype about AMD retreating. focus on the interesting aspects of the article. focus on the fact that they're taking a risk in raising $300 million and lowering their credit rating. then think about _why_ they're doing it.
this commercial has already converted one person to tune in to farscape. how?
all i gotta say is that if that graphic designer chix0r is farscape, then _i_ wanna be farscape too!