Moreover, the rumor is that the astronauts survived the blast unharmed, but later died a slow drowning death after the craft had fallen into the water...
No "History of Pentium" complete without this gem:
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A month ago, I posted a quatrain in which Nostradamus predicted the Pentium scandal. The messages was rather short, and didn't give any details of the interpretation. During the last month, I discussed about this prediction with other readers, and we found out plenty of stuff.
For those who missed the original post, here is the relevant quatrain: C 2,VI:
Aupres des portes & dedans deux citez
Seront deux fleaux, & onc n'apperceut VN TEL,
Faim, dedans peste, de fer hors gens boutez,
Crier secours au grand Dieu immortel.
and its translation to English:
Near the gates and inside two cities
Will be TWO FLAWS, and nobody noticed it [from] INTEL
Hunger, pest inside, by steel people thrown out
Cry for help to the great immortal God.
INTEL's name:
The spelling is not quite correct: a V instead of an I, and an extra space between N and T. The word resembles more the french expression 'un tel' (meaning 'such', 'what-s-his-name', 'same' or 'some person') especially since u's and v's are often substituted. Critics could say that 'un tel' would be a common French expression, and dismiss the prediction as pure chance. However, the words 'vn tel' occur only once in all the quatrains, and that's here!
The space in VN TEL is maybe a hint at a pun. In could be a prefix meaning 'not', and in-tel[l] = those who do not tell (Like in in-correct = not correct, in-divisble = not divisible, im-precise = not precise). If we consider the v as an u, we keep this meaning: un-professional = not professional, un-tested = not tested.
V is also the roman numeral 5, as in 586,PENTium, or 5 missing lookup fnord table entries (which caused the bug).
The repetition of INSIDE:
In this quatrain, the word 'inside' (dedans) occurs twice, which is remarkable, considering that it only occurs 24 times in total in all the quatrains. This must have a meaning. You guessed it: The 'In-tell Inside' advertisement campaign.
The number 24 itself also has a meaning: It's the mean time between division errors (in days) for normal spreadsheet usage according to IBM's analysis. Nostradamus himself believed IBM (24 days) more than In-tell (27000 years)!
The Gates
There are some doubts whether these refer to Bill Gate$, or rather to the logical gates on the microprocessor.
The Cities
Here we have two interpretations too:
1. The cities mean corporations, as in Micro$oft and In-tell. In-tell had the pentium bug, and Micro$oft the Windows calculator bug (2.01 - 2.00 = 0!)
2. The city is the aspect of the microprocessor when looked at under a microscope. (Remember that In-tell commercial where the 'camera' flies into the PC and discovers the Pentium?) The different parts of the processors can be viewed as distinct neighbouring cities: the floating point unit, the integer unit, the cache memory,...
According to this interpretation, another Pentium bug will be found in one of the other units. It's severity will be comparable to the FDIV bug.
Two flaws
Obvious. The FDIV flaw, and the yet-to-be discovered integer flaw.
Hunger
In-tell's _greed_, which made them hide the flaw and minimize it later. The hunger may also hint at In-tell's bankruptcy after the second flaw will be discovered by the public. In-tell will lose almost all its market share, and many employees will lose their jobs.
Pest inside
Nostradamus' version of 'In-tell Inside':-)
By steel
Steel = hardware. This is not a SOFTware bug (as most bugs), but a HARDware bug. (And in the traditional sense, hardware means 'steel tools')
People thrown out
Initially In-tell 'threw out' (turned down) people asking for a replacement chip, because they were not deemed worthy.
Another interpretation would be that people threw out their chips. (Re-arrange the words: 'By people steel th
Yes, that's the second anniversary of Richard Reids attempts shoe stunt, and it's the fourth Anniversary of Corel's implosion after Mike Cowpland's admission that he cooked the books. How quickly time passes...
Oh, and in exactly one month time, it will be the 20th anniversary of Robert Steinhauser, the school shooter from Erfurt.
And everybody knows what happened on Dylan Klebold's 20th anniversary...
Threat level orange, phew! It'd make that red instead!
Likewise, we could also address world hunger, the deficit, the exploding crime problem, terrorism and a host of other issues with such cautious,
Odd that you mention terrorism. On Y2K, police uncovered a plot to
blow up space needle. Similar incidents were feared around
NYC Times Square, and other high profile locations.
And everybody knows what happened two days after the rollover to 1000000000 seconds.
And even, right now, terror threat level is at its highest since second 1000215900...
He, not bin Laden, will be at the forefront of millions of Americans' minds, seen as a defeated figurehead for terrorist activity -- despite the fact that he was not responsible for 9/11.
Just saw this dateline under the CNN story reporting the news:
Sunday, December 14, 2003 Posted: 9:11 AM EST (1411 GMT)
Hey, how much more in-your-face can you get?!? (Incidentally, 9:11 am was also the exact minute when Dylan was born, but I digress...)
It's not a coincidence that Terry McVeigh bombed Oklahoma City on April 19th, the anniversary of the Waco massacre
It's not a coincidence either that Osama Bin Laden crashed two airliners into the Towers on September 11th, the 20th anniversary of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine shooters.
And is it really a coincidence that George Walker Bush toppled the Iraqi government on April 9th, the 21th anniversary of Eric Harris, the other Columbine shooter?
Oh, and Timothy (his first name was Timothy, not Terry) Mc Veigh was executed on an 11th of June, which is just 911 read upside down... Coincidences! Coincidences!
If you want to count the spires, however, the the CN tower in Toronto was and still is the tallest building in the world.
A nice way of putting it. The CN tower is all spire... (apart from the two-floor technical building nears its base...).
Interestingly enough, they used to market it as the "tallest free-standing structure" rather than the "tallest building", somehow adminitting it's not really a building... However, nowadays, they do say
"tallest building".
You spoiled little brat. CGA had 4 colors and was more then good enough for the babies who couldn't handle their 40 character green and white TV terminals.
Babies, indeed. That's what I think when I read all those 24 old braggers who talk about their childhood Commodore 64's. Knowing that the C64 came out in the early eighties, they either got it went they were still in the crib, or they got it at a more plausible age but only because their older brother wanted to get rid of the piece of junk;-)
Well IE has a little down arrow between the back and forward that shows the last 9 pages you were at and allows you to select from there,
Well, so has konqueror, mozilla, and even the old netscape,... except that it's not limited to 9 pages;-)
About the only today's browser that doesn't have a history list that is directly accessible is lynx...;-)
although still not as nice as IBM's history tree
Indeed. History tree. That's what makes it interesting. not just being able to go back and forth linearly, but be able to also re-explore the side-alleys of your browsing history.
Know what really contributes to terrorism? Buying oil from terrorist harboring nations.
The Saudis are stupid helping the shrub out with his insane quest. What do you bet he will do after having defeated Saddam (and laid hand on his large oil stocks)?
Right, he will tackle Saudi Arabia, which actually do fund terrorism (Osama is a Saudi), unlike Saddam, who is as antireligious as you can get.
Indeed, before tackling Saddam, the shrub cannot attack Saudi Arabia, because he needs their oil! Once he has another source of oil, this is no longer a concern!
Of course, during all the time, the shrub needs to watch his back, or else there might be lots of nice giant yellow mushrooms growing in California...
as the H guy: trying to fight a war on two frontlines. While they're busy with Saddam, the Koreans will throw them a nice big pineapple into their Californian backyard!
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Moreover, the rumor is that the astronauts survived the blast unharmed, but later died a slow drowning death after the craft had fallen into the water...
A month ago, I posted a quatrain in which Nostradamus predicted the Pentium scandal. The messages was rather short, and didn't give any details of the interpretation. During the last month, I discussed about this prediction with other readers, and we found out plenty of stuff.
...
:-)
For those who missed the original post, here is the relevant quatrain:
C 2,VI:
Aupres des portes & dedans deux citez
Seront deux fleaux, & onc n'apperceut VN TEL,
Faim, dedans peste, de fer hors gens boutez,
Crier secours au grand Dieu immortel.
and its translation to English:
Near the gates and inside two cities
Will be TWO FLAWS, and nobody noticed it [from] INTEL
Hunger, pest inside, by steel people thrown out
Cry for help to the great immortal God.
INTEL's name:
The spelling is not quite correct: a V instead of an I, and an extra space between N and T. The word resembles more the french expression 'un tel' (meaning 'such', 'what-s-his-name', 'same' or 'some person') especially since u's and v's are often substituted. Critics could say that 'un tel' would be a common French expression, and dismiss the prediction as pure chance. However, the words 'vn tel' occur only once in all the quatrains, and that's here!
The space in VN TEL is maybe a hint at a pun. In could be a prefix meaning 'not', and in-tel[l] = those who do not tell (Like in in-correct = not correct, in-divisble = not divisible, im-precise = not precise). If we consider the v as an u, we keep this meaning: un-professional = not professional, un-tested = not tested.
V is also the roman numeral 5, as in 586,PENTium, or 5 missing lookup fnord table entries (which caused the bug).
The repetition of INSIDE:
In this quatrain, the word 'inside' (dedans) occurs twice, which is remarkable, considering that it only occurs 24 times in total in all
the quatrains. This must have a meaning. You guessed it: The 'In-tell Inside' advertisement campaign.
The number 24 itself also has a meaning: It's the mean time between division errors (in days) for normal spreadsheet usage according to IBM's analysis. Nostradamus himself believed IBM (24 days) more than In-tell (27000 years)!
The Gates
There are some doubts whether these refer to Bill Gate$, or rather to the logical gates on the microprocessor.
The Cities
Here we have two interpretations too:
1. The cities mean corporations, as in Micro$oft and In-tell. In-tell had the pentium bug, and Micro$oft the Windows calculator bug (2.01 - 2.00 = 0!)
2. The city is the aspect of the microprocessor when looked at under a microscope. (Remember that In-tell commercial where the 'camera' flies into the PC and discovers the Pentium?) The different parts of the processors can be viewed as distinct neighbouring cities: the floating point unit, the integer unit, the cache memory,
According to this interpretation, another Pentium bug will be found in one of the other units. It's severity will be comparable to the FDIV bug.
Two flaws
Obvious. The FDIV flaw, and the yet-to-be discovered integer flaw.
Hunger
In-tell's _greed_, which made them hide the flaw and minimize it later. The hunger may also hint at In-tell's bankruptcy after the second flaw will be discovered by the public. In-tell will lose almost all its market share, and many employees will lose their jobs.
Pest inside
Nostradamus' version of 'In-tell Inside'
By steel
Steel = hardware. This is not a SOFTware bug (as most bugs), but a HARDware bug. (And in the traditional sense, hardware means 'steel tools')
People thrown out
Initially In-tell 'threw out' (turned down) people asking for a replacement chip, because they were not deemed worthy.
Another interpretation would be that people threw out their chips. (Re-arrange the words: 'By people steel th
941 days...
A giant egg shell near two miniature twin towers. And that on Eric's 23rd birthday! How more foolhardly can you get?
(SCNR)
A giant egg shell near two miniature twin towers... And that on Eric's 23rd Birthday! How foolhardy can you get!?!?
Oh, and in exactly one month time, it will be the 20th anniversary of Robert Steinhauser, the school shooter from Erfurt.
And everybody knows what happened on Dylan Klebold's 20th anniversary...
Threat level orange, phew! It'd make that red instead!
Odd that you mention terrorism. On Y2K, police uncovered a plot to blow up space needle. Similar incidents were feared around NYC Times Square, and other high profile locations.
And everybody knows what happened two days after the rollover to 1000000000 seconds.
And even, right now, terror threat level is at its highest since second 1000215900...
Just saw this dateline under the CNN story reporting the news:
Sunday, December 14, 2003 Posted: 9:11 AM EST (1411 GMT)
Hey, how much more in-your-face can you get?!? (Incidentally, 9:11 am was also the exact minute when Dylan was born, but I digress...)
It's not a coincidence either that Osama Bin Laden crashed two airliners into the Towers on September 11th, the 20th anniversary of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine shooters.
And is it really a coincidence that George Walker Bush toppled the Iraqi government on April 9th, the 21th anniversary of Eric Harris, the other Columbine shooter?
Oh, and Timothy (his first name was Timothy, not Terry) Mc Veigh was executed on an 11th of June, which is just 911 read upside down... Coincidences! Coincidences!
Don't worry, in less that a week, kernel 2.6.0 will be out.
I've heard, next weekend there will be a major heist!
Hmmm, not very logical. How can women become sexually aroused by female apparel? Unless your girlfriend is lesbian, of course...
A nice way of putting it. The CN tower is all spire... (apart from the two-floor technical building nears its base...).
Interestingly enough, they used to market it as the "tallest free-standing structure" rather than the "tallest building", somehow adminitting it's not really a building... However, nowadays, they do say "tallest building".
The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The reason why they held that title for so long is that Malaysia is a Muslim country...
Also, any odds on how long it'll be before they're flying helicopters around this
Around?
Now, don't you dare to mod this as offtopic!
so high, and so short-lived
Babies, indeed. That's what I think when I read all those 24 old braggers who talk about their childhood Commodore 64's. Knowing that the C64 came out in the early eighties, they either got it went they were still in the crib, or they got it at a more plausible age but only because their older brother wanted to get rid of the piece of junk ;-)
You got your computer when you were older. It postdates the commodore 64 by several years.
Well, so has konqueror, mozilla, and even the old netscape, ... except that it's not limited to 9 pages ;-)
About the only today's browser that doesn't have a history list that is directly accessible is lynx... ;-)
although still not as nice as IBM's history tree Indeed. History tree. That's what makes it interesting. not just being able to go back and forth linearly, but be able to also re-explore the side-alleys of your browsing history.
The Saudis are stupid helping the shrub out with his insane quest. What do you bet he will do after having defeated Saddam (and laid hand on his large oil stocks)?
Right, he will tackle Saudi Arabia, which actually do fund terrorism (Osama is a Saudi), unlike Saddam, who is as antireligious as you can get.
Indeed, before tackling Saddam, the shrub cannot attack Saudi Arabia, because he needs their oil! Once he has another source of oil, this is no longer a concern!
Of course, during all the time, the shrub needs to watch his back, or else there might be lots of nice giant yellow mushrooms growing in California...
as the H guy: trying to fight a war on two frontlines. While they're busy with Saddam, the Koreans will throw them a nice big pineapple into their Californian backyard!
Well, for two of the astronauts of the ISS it's not yet too late... (9 - 7 = 2)
You forget that there are still 3 people on the ISS... Well, the good news is that one of them will survive...