AMD had their annual meeting of shareholders on April 21 2001. You can watch it here.
During the presentation CEO W.J. Sanders III presented a few interesting slides which compare the die sizes of the Athlon and P4 at both the 18 and 13 micron process, plus their new processor roadmap and projected performance of the clawhammer vs. P4 (guess which one wins?). I've mirrored them here so you don't have to watch the whole hour long presentation. If your into AMD though it is actually an watch.
Sanders jokes about hating the blue men (who doesn't?) notes that if you had bought intel stock 2 years ago you'd have 0 earnings, but if you'd bought AMD you'd have made over %200. And on the topic of this disucssion, he extols the Atholn's much smaller die size (the P4 is 1.8x bigger than the Athlon) AMD can get much higher yeilds, and therefore sell at a much lower price.
Am I the only one who thinks this question is patently absurd? First, most people do not have any type of mobile communications device. Second, most people on earth don't have any phone at all. Third, payphones currently generate in excess of five billion US dollars revenue per annum.
This "question" seems to be an exercise in showing how techno savvy the author is, rather than asking a practical or intelligent question. "Analog communication via landline? Oh that is just so 20th century dahling." This seems like one of the many Slashdot discussions that get sucked into some geektopia fantasy land. I don't know about your reality but in mine there are people living in subway tunnels, boxes, and doorways, and I doubt they are much impressed with pay phones' nostalgia value.
Just in case anyone is trying to find its new unslashdotted address, its moved here. And yes it's really for DOS, not a ROM, it'll even work under Win9x. They've got a bunch of other remakes too.
I've just returned from voting in my local municipal election. To vote for a candidate one simply has to fill in the middle of an arrow that points to a candidates name. What I found interesting though was after I had handed in my ballot, but before I was allowed to leave, the ballot was put through a scanner to make sure I had filled it in correctly. If I had accidentally spoilt my ballot (ie. filled in two arrows for mayor) I would have been given another one to redo. I was dumbstruck wondering why such a simple yet effective use of technology is not in place everywhere.
SEC. 23. Section 85301 is added to the Government Code, to read:
85301. (a) A person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, may not make to any candidate for elective state office
other than a candidate for statewide elective office, and a candidate for elective state office other than a candidate for statewide elective office may
not accept from a person, any contribution totaling more than three thousand dollars ($3,000) per election.
(b) Except to a candidate for Governor, a person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, may not make to any
candidate for statewide elective office, and except a candidate for Governor, a candidate for statewide elective office may not accept from a person
other than a small contributor committee or a political party committee, any contribution totaling more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per
election.
First, one of the most nauseating questions of this elections has been resolved: "Is a vote for Nader really a vote for Bush." Clearly the answer is YES. Many have said that Nader actually attracted new voters to the polls that would not have voted had he not been on the ballot, therefore he only had a minor impact on the election results. While this may be true to some minor extent, it is also obvious that SOME people who would have voted Gore have voted Nader instead. Currently (5:46am EST) Bush is ahead of Gore in Florida by 987 votes! Nader has 96560 votes. Clearly then if only a little more than one tenth of the voters who voted for Nader were wooed from Gore, we must conclude that Nader took the Presidency from Gore.
Even more interesting though, one has to wonder, what effect did the media's early reporting of Florida as Democrat victory, push people out who were uncertain whether or not to vote Gore or Nader to in fact vote Nader. Many people who (preferring Nader to Gore, but Gore to Bush and knowing that Nader had no chance at the presidency this year) would have voted Gore, had they thought the state may have been taken by Bush, may have instead voted for Nader assuring a Republican victory.
The second interesting issue is the voting irregularities in Florida, as I'm sure you all know, there existed a situation where people who thought they were voting for Gore, actually cast their ballot to Buchanan (horror of horrors for a Democratic voter). Obviously seeing as how Florida is THE deciding state, and seeing as how this could change who could be the next president this is huge! It is not released how many voters it affected although I believe it was localized to Palm Beach. No news service I've monitored has described to me in a clear way how this could have occurred, and it seems that no remedy can be offered.
Third and most outrageously it seems (although I am loath to make predictions on this night/morning) that Gore is likely to win the popular vote while Bush wins the presidency! Just stupid. The leader of the greatest democracy *cough* in the world may be the one who is not wanted by the majority, how's that for irony.
Finally it seems that we may have to wait for overseas votes (military personel, etc) to come in to decide the Florida vote. A process which may take up to 10 days! You thought Wolf Blitzer looked tired now.
Prop 34 really creates problems for third parties. With the $3000 donation limit per person, it prevents a few wealthy individuals from financing a third party and giving it a real shot. It is the relatively less known third parties that have the chicken/egg problem of publicizing themselves so they can generate more funds so they can publicize themselves. Also third parties are much more dependant on individual contributions vs. corporate sponsors (some will not accept corporate money at all). The Democrats and Republicans meanwhile have no problem getting funding from a broad base including corporations. Net result third parties get the shaft.
The two things this article does not mention are the actual speed and cost (installation and monthly) of the fiber connection. These are the two things a consumer, (or potential bandwidth salivator) need to know to do a cost/benefit analysis. Does anyone have any idea as to what these variables might be? I'm assuming that Winfirst will eat much of the $2000 installation fee.
MirCorp has released a response to the, shall we say selective, reporting of Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov's statement here. Basically what the sensational headline "Mir To Crash Into Pacific" leaves out is "unless MirCorp can get more money."
It is full of typical PR optimism, but it's obvious that Mir's fate is far from sealed, and with interest from Cameron/Tito/Burnett raising 60 million is hardly improbable.
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During the presentation CEO W.J. Sanders III presented a few interesting slides which compare the die sizes of the Athlon and P4 at both the 18 and 13 micron process, plus their new processor roadmap and projected performance of the clawhammer vs. P4 (guess which one wins?). I've mirrored them here so you don't have to watch the whole hour long presentation. If your into AMD though it is actually an watch.
Sanders jokes about hating the blue men (who doesn't?) notes that if you had bought intel stock 2 years ago you'd have 0 earnings, but if you'd bought AMD you'd have made over %200. And on the topic of this disucssion, he extols the Atholn's much smaller die size (the P4 is 1.8x bigger than the Athlon) AMD can get much higher yeilds, and therefore sell at a much lower price.
Am I the only one who thinks this question is patently absurd? First, most people do not have any type of mobile communications device. Second, most people on earth don't have any phone at all. Third, payphones currently generate in excess of five billion US dollars revenue per annum.
This "question" seems to be an exercise in showing how techno savvy the author is, rather than asking a practical or intelligent question. "Analog communication via landline? Oh that is just so 20th century dahling." This seems like one of the many Slashdot discussions that get sucked into some geektopia fantasy land. I don't know about your reality but in mine there are people living in subway tunnels, boxes, and doorways, and I doubt they are much impressed with pay phones' nostalgia value.
Just in case anyone is trying to find its new unslashdotted address, its moved here. And yes it's really for DOS, not a ROM, it'll even work under Win9x. They've got a bunch of other remakes too.
I've just returned from voting in my local municipal election. To vote for a candidate one simply has to fill in the middle of an arrow that points to a candidates name. What I found interesting though was after I had handed in my ballot, but before I was allowed to leave, the ballot was put through a scanner to make sure I had filled it in correctly. If I had accidentally spoilt my ballot (ie. filled in two arrows for mayor) I would have been given another one to redo. I was dumbstruck wondering why such a simple yet effective use of technology is not in place everywhere.
SEC. 23. Section 85301 is added to the Government Code, to read:
85301. (a) A person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, may not make to any candidate for elective state office other than a candidate for statewide elective office, and a candidate for elective state office other than a candidate for statewide elective office may not accept from a person, any contribution totaling more than three thousand dollars ($3,000) per election.
(b) Except to a candidate for Governor, a person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, may not make to any candidate for statewide elective office, and except a candidate for Governor, a candidate for statewide elective office may not accept from a person other than a small contributor committee or a political party committee, any contribution totaling more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per election.
fyi the link to the client software should be http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software /Internet/Clients/File_Sharing/Napster/
For some reason slashdot's post comment puts a space in the word napster if you post it as a link.
First, one of the most nauseating questions of this elections has been resolved: "Is a vote for Nader really a vote for Bush." Clearly the answer is YES. Many have said that Nader actually attracted new voters to the polls that would not have voted had he not been on the ballot, therefore he only had a minor impact on the election results. While this may be true to some minor extent, it is also obvious that SOME people who would have voted Gore have voted Nader instead. Currently (5:46am EST) Bush is ahead of Gore in Florida by 987 votes! Nader has 96560 votes. Clearly then if only a little more than one tenth of the voters who voted for Nader were wooed from Gore, we must conclude that Nader took the Presidency from Gore.
Even more interesting though, one has to wonder, what effect did the media's early reporting of Florida as Democrat victory, push people out who were uncertain whether or not to vote Gore or Nader to in fact vote Nader. Many people who (preferring Nader to Gore, but Gore to Bush and knowing that Nader had no chance at the presidency this year) would have voted Gore, had they thought the state may have been taken by Bush, may have instead voted for Nader assuring a Republican victory.
The second interesting issue is the voting irregularities in Florida, as I'm sure you all know, there existed a situation where people who thought they were voting for Gore, actually cast their ballot to Buchanan (horror of horrors for a Democratic voter). Obviously seeing as how Florida is THE deciding state, and seeing as how this could change who could be the next president this is huge! It is not released how many voters it affected although I believe it was localized to Palm Beach. No news service I've monitored has described to me in a clear way how this could have occurred, and it seems that no remedy can be offered.
Third and most outrageously it seems (although I am loath to make predictions on this night/morning) that Gore is likely to win the popular vote while Bush wins the presidency! Just stupid. The leader of the greatest democracy *cough* in the world may be the one who is not wanted by the majority, how's that for irony.
Finally it seems that we may have to wait for overseas votes (military personel, etc) to come in to decide the Florida vote. A process which may take up to 10 days! You thought Wolf Blitzer looked tired now.
Prop 34 really creates problems for third parties. With the $3000 donation limit per person, it prevents a few wealthy individuals from financing a third party and giving it a real shot. It is the relatively less known third parties that have the chicken/egg problem of publicizing themselves so they can generate more funds so they can publicize themselves. Also third parties are much more dependant on individual contributions vs. corporate sponsors (some will not accept corporate money at all). The Democrats and Republicans meanwhile have no problem getting funding from a broad base including corporations. Net result third parties get the shaft.
The two things this article does not mention are the actual speed and cost (installation and monthly) of the fiber connection. These are the two things a consumer, (or potential bandwidth salivator) need to know to do a cost/benefit analysis. Does anyone have any idea as to what these variables might be? I'm assuming that Winfirst will eat much of the $2000 installation fee.
MirCorp has released a response to the, shall we say selective, reporting of Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov's statement here. Basically what the sensational headline "Mir To Crash Into Pacific" leaves out is "unless MirCorp can get more money." It is full of typical PR optimism, but it's obvious that Mir's fate is far from sealed, and with interest from Cameron/Tito/Burnett raising 60 million is hardly improbable.