You're Mr. Intel. You have to explaine to your shareholders that AMD got it right and they are now driving innovation (e.g. x86-64) and now you're the one who has to catch up.
What would you say?
We're in deep shit, boys! You'd better invest your bucks in another company.
It's the cyclical behaviour of the semiconductor history. Now we're getting hit, but next year we'll kick their asses and we'll reduce them into dust. So, don't worry and give us your money.
The Pen Drive
written by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Captain Koons: Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were in that.com pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully...you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talkin' right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out is I'm talkin' to you, Butch. I got somethin' for you.
(The Captain sits down and pulls a USB flash drive from his pocket)
This pendrive I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first.com boom. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make USB drives. Up till then people just carried loads of floppies. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's job drive and he wore it everyday he was in that job. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the pendrive off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight Microsoft once again. This time they called it Browser War II. Your great-grandfather gave this pendrive to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Java programmer and he was fired -- along with the other programmers at the battle of.NET. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that job alive. So three days before Microsoft took the market, your granddad asked an Unix sysadmin of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his USB pendrive. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's pendrive. This pendrive. (holds it up, long pause) This drive was on your Daddy's pocket when he was caught near Redmond. He was captured, put in a Microsoft campus. He knew if the gooks ever saw the pendrive it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that pendrive was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this pendrive up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the drive. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of silicon up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the pendrive to you.
I dont't know that, but I heard that it has quite good lenses and an amazing zoom. You really don't need to go to Japan with it: you can take detailed photos of Japan directly from home!
how about NOT installing shit on your systems duh?
I tried to do it, but I need it for my games. When Linux will support Colin McRae 4 and Need 4 Speed maybe... uh...now I notice... were you talking about... uhm... spyware? Oh, nevermind. I need some sleep.
There are many reasons companies patent things, ranging from the defensive to the offensive. Unfortunately it's hard to tell a priori what the actual reasons are.
Hey, this is Slashdot, and we're talking about Microsoft! It should be very easy to tell a priori what the actual reasons are.
If you aren't up for the full read (it is 302 pages), Although the PDF is only around 1.42 Mbytes. How much space would the same document take up as a powerpoint presentation?
Probably you meant:
How much time would the same document take up as a powerpoint presentation?
The curious thing about the swear count is the sudden rise of "s**t" counts corresponding roughly to version 2.6.0, with no increase in the count of other swears.
It's official, then: the development verson's bugs are cr***y, while the stable version's bugs are definitely sh***y.
Chances are that the same boss, knowing that respected SUNMegaCorp released its enterprise-class, bleeding-edge, award-winning, buzzword-collecting Java thing as open source, could start thinking:
"Hey, this Open Source can't be that bad, I must tell my computer guys to try that IBM Lunox, and check if it's good and if I can really save some bucks with it!"
Please forgive my ignorance, I've rarely played with an Xbox, but it appeared to me that games such as Halo use the Xbox HD to create swap files for faster loading of big arenas (my suspect comes from occasional slowdowns).
Is it the case? Could it be a problem for game manufacturers if the HD is replaced by some sort of Flash memory (which has limited rewrite capability and AFAIK is not indicated to host swap files/partitions)?
Slashdot Mirror
... wrong news.
written by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Captain Koons: Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were in that .com pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully...you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talkin' right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out is I'm talkin' to you, Butch. I got somethin' for you. .com boom. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make USB drives. Up till then people just carried loads of floppies. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's job drive and he wore it everyday he was in that job. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the pendrive off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight Microsoft once again. This time they called it Browser War II. Your great-grandfather gave this pendrive to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Java programmer and he was fired -- along with the other programmers at the battle of .NET. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that job alive. So three days before Microsoft took the market, your granddad asked an Unix sysadmin of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his USB pendrive. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's pendrive. This pendrive. (holds it up, long pause) This drive was on your Daddy's pocket when he was caught near Redmond. He was captured, put in a Microsoft campus. He knew if the gooks ever saw the pendrive it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that pendrive was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this pendrive up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the drive. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of silicon up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the pendrive to you.
(The Captain sits down and pulls a USB flash drive from his pocket)
This pendrive I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first
Windows is still shipping IE 6..
... the password is not 12345.
I dont't know that, but I heard that it has quite good lenses and an amazing zoom. You really don't need to go to Japan with it: you can take detailed photos of Japan directly from home!
... one of them for Slashdot? Just imagine how many dupes per second it could be able to serve.
... maybe it will be enough for an 8 nodes Windows supercomputer. Obviously, if you want a 16 nodes Windows cluster, you will need a slightly more speedy hardware.
c:/> mpirun -np 32 winmine.exe
wine lsass.exe
I tried to do it, but I need it for my games. When Linux will support Colin McRae 4 and Need 4 Speed maybe ... uh ...now I notice ... were you talking about ... uhm ... spyware? Oh, nevermind. I need some sleep.
Hey, this is Slashdot, and we're talking about Microsoft! It should be very easy to tell a priori what the actual reasons are.
Probably you meant:
How much time would the same document take up as a powerpoint presentation?
Joke != Serious stuff
Nurses used to do at least 50 frags per day with a railgun are 18% more accurate in giving enemas.
Excel as a database.
So download the bare codec for Windows, for example.
That's what type II hand phasers are made for.
Not only it achieves a stunning 17108 in 3DMark '03, but it also came bundled with Duke Nukem Forever, running at 138fps at full details.
The curious thing about the swear count is the sudden rise of "s**t" counts corresponding roughly to version 2.6.0, with no increase in the count of other swears.
It's official, then: the development verson's bugs are cr***y, while the stable version's bugs are definitely sh***y.
Chances are that the same boss, knowing that respected SUNMegaCorp released its enterprise-class, bleeding-edge, award-winning, buzzword-collecting Java thing as open source, could start thinking:
"Hey, this Open Source can't be that bad, I must tell my computer guys to try that IBM Lunox, and check if it's good and if I can really save some bucks with it!"
Please forgive my ignorance, I've rarely played with an Xbox, but it appeared to me that games such as Halo use the Xbox HD to create swap files for faster loading of big arenas (my suspect comes from occasional slowdowns).
Is it the case? Could it be a problem for game manufacturers if the HD is replaced by some sort of Flash memory (which has limited rewrite capability and AFAIK is not indicated to host swap files/partitions)?
... or I'll kill you, I'll eat your brain and I'll fsck your empty skull!
A well established Stanford graduate tried to run a webserver on a Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish.
Imagine the possibilities of subverting such a system: make frequent searches for whatever you want and *poof* it appears a few months later.
Do you mean that I can finally have some real sex?