Flatley says he is the best dancer in the world and that no one can dance better than him... that's why he quit Riverdance and started Lord of the Dance. Pavarotti is a better example though:)
The whole interview was arrogant. He is worse than Michael Flatley I can understand his loyality to his product, but give us some reasons. Convience, rather than belittle us The slashdot community is NOT gullible
1. Don't hire real coders, but have a contest with hacker community during their free time.
2. Make contest problem related to business related objectives and take code to hired code "fixers" to intergrate into current products
3. PROFIT (and happy shareholders)
Sounds a little like the movie Antitrust to me, but who am I to judge, "Don't Be Evil" ohhh I mean Google
Well... since you ignored my wikipedia link, let me show you some examples of AMD's quality [from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD]:
In 2001, Intel released the Pentium 4 architecture (code-named Willamette) which had a radically different microarchitecture than the Athlon or the P6 cores. While sporting a dramatically higher clock rate, the per-clock architectural performance of the Pentium 4 appears to be much slower than the Athlon or even Intel's own P6 core based processors. This lead some to believe that the Pentium 4 had higher performance because of its higher clock rate, despite benchmark performance.
AMD responded with a new K7 core (code-named Palomino) which had superior memory pre-fetching mechanisms, SSE (a set of floating-point extensions first featured on the Pentium III), an on-chip L2 cache and also re-branded them based on Model numbers which would approximately project the clock rate relative performance of these new Athlons versus the earliest versions of the Athlon. The net effect of this was for the Model numbers to be more comparable to the Pentium 4's actual clock rate. For AMD processors of a given Model number, the comparable Pentium 4 by corresponding clock rate showed rough parity on performance in a wide variety of benchmarks.
Hmmm... looks like AMD only continues to make Intel look stupid in proformance, year after year. So with that in mind does profomance = quality, I would think in the processor world it would be. You are right being #1 in a market doesn't make you the best, but having better benchmarks does. If AMD were poor quality they would have died off long ago, but yet here they stand. Ain't competetion great?
What are you talking about. Intel at one point hired AMD to make processors for them. So you want to call AMD poor quality when they are the 2nd largest supplier of x86 compatible processors, and a leading supplier of non-volatile flash memory?
What's next paying off the guy that owns billgates.com?
I see Steve has got his name but not Bill... that's not fair. Why should Ballmer get his name and not Bill?
I think there already something like this for windows. It is called webex I recall seeing a demo at my place of business. They want outrageous prices for something like this.
noone has mentioned Aaron Spuler's Single window which puts all those annoying pages that spawn a new window into a tab instead... just a wonderful plug-in
IMHO this was a great post I loved it... This was like a good book, couldn't wait to click to the next page and read on. I am sure every DIY has done at least one dumb thing that cost them some monitary pain. It was just humbling to know that I don't have the worst story:)
--- Office of CIO of big company ---
Ring... Ring....
CIO: Hello.... Hey Mr. Gates how are you?
Bill: Fine... Fine got a proposition for you. [more useless drab]
CIO: So you mean to tell me have the developers pay for the tools they use to develop software... ingenious. It's a win-win for both of us.
Bill: Yeah we can roll out a new version of Visual Studio every year and we both benifit. Hey next week I want to talk to you about having all of your employees pay for Windows.
CIO: We'll do lunch.
what the heck. The minute I pay for work cellphone, pager, computer, etc. is the day I leave IT and start my own.com
That's why you need to setup a MythTV system... it's run on Linux, no rebooting needed.:) Oh and did I mention it was free? But I am sure you realized that.
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Flatley says he is the best dancer in the world and that no one can dance better than him... that's why he quit Riverdance and started Lord of the Dance. Pavarotti is a better example though :)
The whole interview was arrogant. He is worse than Michael Flatley I can understand his loyality to his product, but give us some reasons. Convience, rather than belittle us The slashdot community is NOT gullible
2. Make contest problem related to business related objectives and take code to hired code "fixers" to intergrate into current products
3. PROFIT (and happy shareholders)
Sounds a little like the movie Antitrust to me, but who am I to judge, "Don't Be Evil" ohhh I mean Google
You tell the the wldisntenuff!! I would rather buy 60 songs off of ITMS instead. Spend my tuition money on an iPod and listen to music all day long. :)
Proud AMD User
Get the byte outta here.
What's next paying off the guy that owns billgates.com? I see Steve has got his name but not Bill... that's not fair. Why should Ballmer get his name and not Bill?
I feel like one of those Sprint commercials. All new Ipod owners get the new and improved Ipods because they are new and being new is special.
are becoming as common as Ken Jennings winning Jeopardy :)
Why not do what all case modders do... Add a window kit and a neon light. This way at night you can use the light to see where you are going.
I think there already something like this for windows. It is called webex I recall seeing a demo at my place of business. They want outrageous prices for something like this.
With the new iRobot comming out soon I don't think this thing stands a chance.
I wonder how much his hotel stay has cost him? I also wonder if they have thought about renaming the show, Kenpardy?
noone has mentioned Aaron Spuler's Single window which puts all those annoying pages that spawn a new window into a tab instead... just a wonderful plug-in
IMHO this was a great post I loved it... This was like a good book, couldn't wait to click to the next page and read on. I am sure every DIY has done at least one dumb thing that cost them some monitary pain. It was just humbling to know that I don't have the worst story :)
--- Office of CIO of big company --- Ring... Ring.... CIO: Hello.... Hey Mr. Gates how are you? Bill: Fine... Fine got a proposition for you. [more useless drab] CIO: So you mean to tell me have the developers pay for the tools they use to develop software... ingenious. It's a win-win for both of us. Bill: Yeah we can roll out a new version of Visual Studio every year and we both benifit. Hey next week I want to talk to you about having all of your employees pay for Windows. CIO: We'll do lunch. what the heck. The minute I pay for work cellphone, pager, computer, etc. is the day I leave IT and start my own .com
Will it Play in my BMW? I dunno if I can buy that if I can't get one with my BMW
That's why you need to setup a MythTV system... it's run on Linux, no rebooting needed. :) Oh and did I mention it was free? But I am sure you realized that.
the last thing i was nicking was my evil co-workers car.