If you're referring to AMD's top ten reasons Intel won't participate in the dual-core duel... it's not snotty marketing, it's a joke in the style of David Letterman and the like. It shows that AMD allows their people to have (and express) a sense of humor -- this is healthy.
Information flow (see: Steven Hawking's theories) cannot propogate at faster than the speed of light, or causality is violated and we have (dead virgins/future grandfathers) all over the place.
Hawking didn't come up with that idea; why are you giving him credit for it?
It's not at all clear that credit is being given to Hawking for that idea. The GP appears to be referencing Hawking's work because a clear discussion of the information/speed-of-light issue is presented therein.
> $25 for a PC, $100 for a 17" monitor
That may not be a bad price for a PC, but you can get a new 17" CRT monitor on, say, Newegg, for as little as $114, shipped. So, unless you were talking LCDs, you might want to consider shopping around for any future monitors.
Is there another version of Aces High (other than the one on Powerslave) that does have such a Churchill quote as an intro? Because the version I've got doesn't have it...
The Powerslave version I've got starts with this:
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.
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If you're referring to AMD's top ten reasons Intel won't participate in the dual-core duel... it's not snotty marketing, it's a joke in the style of David Letterman and the like. It shows that AMD allows their people to have (and express) a sense of humor -- this is healthy.
> $25 for a PC, $100 for a 17" monitor That may not be a bad price for a PC, but you can get a new 17" CRT monitor on, say, Newegg, for as little as $114, shipped. So, unless you were talking LCDs, you might want to consider shopping around for any future monitors.
The Powerslave version I've got starts with this:
I second that.
"TCELES B HSUP"
A magic spell?
~Jandar Shadowstar
I could do it.