AMD's first profitable quarter in 2 years means that the 64-bit computing market is now ripe, which is why Intel now enters the 64-bit market. Quite the timing, no?
I've always thought it unlikely that Intel would be caught off guard by AMD's Opteron. I think Intel could have announced this earlier, but wanted AMD to become overconfident with its Opteron and spend oodles of cash etc. on developing public awareness of 64-bit computing, explaining what it is, convincing people that it's worth the upgrade, etc. Then, after AMD (who is already cash-strapped) puts all its eggs into the 64-bit basket, Intel finally comes out and says "Thank you for raising public awareness about 64-bit computing for the desktop for the past year, AMD. Now that you have no more money, we will now announce our 64-bit chip and compete with yours." Here's a list-form of Intel's strategy:
1. AMD comes out with Opteron. 2. Intel waits. 3. AMD spends all its money and resources on promoting 64-bit computing, thinking this will make Intel look obsolete and make themselves the chip-maker of the future. 4. Intel waits. 5. Intel releases own 64-bit computing and takes over the market that AMD spent all its money developing. 6. (AMD pulls out empty pockets and holds them like wings and wonders what happened:) ????? 7. Profit for Intel! 8. I cry.:(
If Windows is an unstable confused pieca shit, and you're trying to emulate it, won't that make WINE, at its very perfect flawless best, an unstabled confused pieca shit? And if WINE's not perfectly done and has bugs in it, then it'll be an even MORE unstable confused pieca shit. Isn't this a doomed sad project?
"host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media' and one entitled 'method for starting up a process automatically on insertion of a storage media into a host device."
I'm astonished something so elementary as autoplay can be patented. So are all car stereo manufacturers infringing on patents then?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea. The 2 major Chinese dialects (Cantonese and Mandarin) both pronounce it with a 'd' sound. I've seen Taoism/Daoism more and more translated with a 'D' now though. I think it's part of a new romanization system.
Maybe it was just a mistake. e.g. I heard this before somewhere: when the first europeans saw a kangaroo they asked what the animal was called. Their guide, an australian aboriginal, said something like "kah-gah-rah-too", which means "I don't know". And that's how we got the name 'kangaroo'.
the characters of the alphabet were originally inherently meaningful as well. I thought english letters were originally created for phonetic distinctions, and that the visual aspect of letters were now largely arbitrary or meaningless in themselves.
What I meant by seeing the roots of the language in the language was seeing how ideas and abstractions in the language are understood by the language itself (and hence the human mind). For example, by looking at the character for the mysterious character "Tao", we see the simple but profound picture of a person walking along a path. Seeing how the character was conceived (both in the sense of brought into the world and thought of) is tremendously interesting when you know how to look. I was trying to get the parent poster to see this beauty of characters, not trying to make other languages look bad. Apologies if I did come off too one sided; I guess I felt I had to balance his "against" with my "for". : )
I too was wondering what my proper reaction to this should be:
1) Ignore it and hope it goes away. 2) Do what I did and fight it. 3) Joke about it with the guy in the hopes of downplaying it. e.g. "haha well that's a little racist heh but seriously though..."
So I thought of how nobody thinks joking about "coons" and "niggers" is funny anymore: because people educate others about racism and always fight racism in all its insidious forms. So I thought I'd try to do that. Of course, I could try to coop the word "chink" like African-Americans have to the word "nigger" (think of them calling eachother "my nigger" as a term of endearment), but I don't think asian-North Americans are fully at that phase yet to be comfortable with it.
about literally seeing the roots of a language in the language? as opposed to arbitrary squiggles, lines and curves? at least it makes it more interesting and meaningful. For example, the character for visual brightness and/or understanding (coincidentally just like in english how "bright" means smart and visually bright) is made up of the picture of the moon and the sun side by side. how cool is that? 1000's of years ago, of course the sun and moon were the brightest objects in the human knowledge. put them together, and you get the word for brightness!
"oriental" has negative connotations, bringing as it does to mind the stereotype of "the quaint exotic orient" (i.e. only Europeans are rational normal folks). the term was created by the English to refer to asian countries. "Asian" is a little more neutral, since the name is a more geographic, although even the term "asia" is eurocentric, since "asia" is generally anywhere east of... you guessed it: Europe.
The memories of our language... just can't escape it. In Chinese, I'm just a regular dude; in English, you should no longer say I'm a "chink" or "yellow", but "I" remain an "Asian" and an "Oriental"...
if the joke had something to do with punning a word on "nigger" or some such, people wouldn't find that so funny. so why is "chinx" a joke?
this may be a flame, but if so i think it's justified: dude, stfu. "chinx" isn't funny. even if you're chinese yourself, other readers don't know that. you're being racist, and you're encouraging racism. mod me down as much as you want.
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AMD's first profitable quarter in 2 years means that the 64-bit computing market is now ripe, which is why Intel now enters the 64-bit market. Quite the timing, no?
I've always thought it unlikely that Intel would be caught off guard by AMD's Opteron. I think Intel could have announced this earlier, but wanted AMD to become overconfident with its Opteron and spend oodles of cash etc. on developing public awareness of 64-bit computing, explaining what it is, convincing people that it's worth the upgrade, etc. Then, after AMD (who is already cash-strapped) puts all its eggs into the 64-bit basket, Intel finally comes out and says "Thank you for raising public awareness about 64-bit computing for the desktop for the past year, AMD. Now that you have no more money, we will now announce our 64-bit chip and compete with yours." Here's a list-form of Intel's strategy:
1. AMD comes out with Opteron.
2. Intel waits.
3. AMD spends all its money and resources on promoting 64-bit computing, thinking this will make Intel look obsolete and make themselves the chip-maker of the future.
4. Intel waits.
5. Intel releases own 64-bit computing and takes over the market that AMD spent all its money developing.
6. (AMD pulls out empty pockets and holds them like wings and wonders what happened:) ?????
7. Profit for Intel!
8. I cry.
A lot of people downplayed the Gameboy DS, but now they're hyping dual-screen pc gaming?
Wonder which "muscle" they'll claim to enlarge as a side effect.
Thanks. I'm a programming noob and know very little about OS infrastructures etc., but I get the gist of what you're saying anyway.
just get a desk with rollerballs on the table legs. Portable computing!
If Windows is an unstable confused pieca shit, and you're trying to emulate it, won't that make WINE, at its very perfect flawless best, an unstabled confused pieca shit? And if WINE's not perfectly done and has bugs in it, then it'll be an even MORE unstable confused pieca shit. Isn't this a doomed sad project?
Or am I just an unstable confused....?
"host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media' and one entitled 'method for starting up a process automatically on insertion of a storage media into a host device." I'm astonished something so elementary as autoplay can be patented. So are all car stereo manufacturers infringing on patents then?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea. The 2 major Chinese dialects (Cantonese and Mandarin) both pronounce it with a 'd' sound. I've seen Taoism/Daoism more and more translated with a 'D' now though. I think it's part of a new romanization system.
Maybe it was just a mistake. e.g. I heard this before somewhere: when the first europeans saw a kangaroo they asked what the animal was called. Their guide, an australian aboriginal, said something like "kah-gah-rah-too", which means "I don't know". And that's how we got the name 'kangaroo'.
the characters of the alphabet were originally inherently meaningful as well. I thought english letters were originally created for phonetic distinctions, and that the visual aspect of letters were now largely arbitrary or meaningless in themselves.
What I meant by seeing the roots of the language in the language was seeing how ideas and abstractions in the language are understood by the language itself (and hence the human mind). For example, by looking at the character for the mysterious character "Tao", we see the simple but profound picture of a person walking along a path. Seeing how the character was conceived (both in the sense of brought into the world and thought of) is tremendously interesting when you know how to look. I was trying to get the parent poster to see this beauty of characters, not trying to make other languages look bad. Apologies if I did come off too one sided; I guess I felt I had to balance his "against" with my "for". : )
I too was wondering what my proper reaction to this should be:
1) Ignore it and hope it goes away.
2) Do what I did and fight it.
3) Joke about it with the guy in the hopes of downplaying it. e.g. "haha well that's a little racist heh but seriously though..."
So I thought of how nobody thinks joking about "coons" and "niggers" is funny anymore: because people educate others about racism and always fight racism in all its insidious forms. So I thought I'd try to do that. Of course, I could try to coop the word "chink" like African-Americans have to the word "nigger" (think of them calling eachother "my nigger" as a term of endearment), but I don't think asian-North Americans are fully at that phase yet to be comfortable with it.
about literally seeing the roots of a language in the language? as opposed to arbitrary squiggles, lines and curves? at least it makes it more interesting and meaningful. For example, the character for visual brightness and/or understanding (coincidentally just like in english how "bright" means smart and visually bright) is made up of the picture of the moon and the sun side by side. how cool is that? 1000's of years ago, of course the sun and moon were the brightest objects in the human knowledge. put them together, and you get the word for brightness!
"oriental" has negative connotations, bringing as it does to mind the stereotype of "the quaint exotic orient" (i.e. only Europeans are rational normal folks). the term was created by the English to refer to asian countries. "Asian" is a little more neutral, since the name is a more geographic, although even the term "asia" is eurocentric, since "asia" is generally anywhere east of... you guessed it: Europe.
The memories of our language... just can't escape it. In Chinese, I'm just a regular dude; in English, you should no longer say I'm a "chink" or "yellow", but "I" remain an "Asian" and an "Oriental"...
how about stfu?
oops, messed up my back/forth in my browser, my comment on the "humour" of "chinx" should be one level up....
if the joke had something to do with punning a word on "nigger" or some such, people wouldn't find that so funny. so why is "chinx" a joke?
this may be a flame, but if so i think it's justified: dude, stfu. "chinx" isn't funny. even if you're chinese yourself, other readers don't know that. you're being racist, and you're encouraging racism. mod me down as much as you want.