So, which would be correct, "A fleet of icebergs IS heading south from Antarctica", or "A fleet of icebergs ARE heading south from Antarctica"? Neither; icebergs can't head SOUTH from Antarctica!
In 2013, Intel will look back and say, "Four cores and seven years ago, our engineers brought forth on this continent a new microarchitecture, conceived in Santa Clara, and dedicated to the proposition that all men's wallets are created equal."
I could be wrong, but I thought that this particular industry-wide RAM pricefixing started with Micron convincing the other memory makers to stifle Rambus by artificially DEFLATING SDRAM prices. Once Rambus was out of the picture, they started raising prices beyond the stratosphere and blamed it on a tsunami in Asia somewhere.
Hungarian phrasebook today: "My internets is full of eels." "I will not buy this record; it is DRM'd." "Drop your lawsuits, Sir William, it is infected."
I gotta say, the blacks are really deep. I wonder if this company is going to hire that snotty, inarticulate little girl from the DLP commercial who always says, "It's the mirrs".
The second article merely states that Toshiba laptops are not affected by the same issue that Dell and Apple have. In fact, the issue Toshiba is having with their Sony batteries is different; it's caused by corrosion from the paper supplied by a third party, not a manufacturing defect that causes overheating and possibly exploding. Either way, it still sucks for everyone involved.
... of stickers that read "Skateboarding in not a crime". Now, everything is all "geektafied" which, for us twenty-somethings that got beat up by skateboarders in school when bleeding-edge was a 486-DX2 50MHz (and if you overclocked the FSB from 25MHz to 33MHz, you REALLY are geeky), is quite a paradox. And I don't mean a pair o' Doc Martins (steeltoe, remember? Ouch.).
Sure, now you get rid of CAPS LOCK, and then Sys Rq, then Scr Lk, then Num Lock, then Insert, then the pesky F Lock keys, and pretty soon you have a 5-key keyboard with a smiley face, a sad face, and a few words like "doubleplusgood" and "crimethinker", with keystroke logger software that phones home to the Thought Police. Why not just get rid of keyboards or, while you're at it, computers altogether? This is a dangerous path you're taking.
"No longer can megahertz bring mega bucks. Moore's law doesn't mean Moore money."
I get your point; however, Moore's Law has nothing AT ALL to do with Megahertz. Instead, it has to do with the number of components (transistors and circuits and such) that can be crammed onto a piece of silicon. From what I remember, Moore's Law states that the number of components that we are able to fit on a piece of silicon will double roughly every 1 1/2 to 2 years. As far as I know, this still holds true with these new dual- and quad- core processors, even though they may run at the same MHz clockspeed.
Remember, at first the price fixing was to LOWER the prices. Crucial/Micron, I think it was, figured they could price Rambus out of the market by joining forces with the other Big 3 or 4 memory companies at the time and all selling their memory for dirt cheap. This would force most OEM computer manufacturers to use only their PC-133 or PC-2100 DRAM, not letting consumers choose whether or not they wanted Rambus or SD/DDR-RAM. Once Rambus was out of the picture (it took fewer than 2 years, if I remember correctly), the Big 5 memory manufacturers could make up a story about a tsunami in Singapore or something and raise prices from, say, $30 for a stick of 128MB to $100 for that same stick.
None of what happened was legal. Whether it hurt the consumer or not (and it did; I remember having to pay quadruple the amount for the same memory only a couple months apart), they broke FEDERAL LAW. These laws are supposed to protect companies like Rambus who try to challenge industry standards through innovation. Now it kind of makes sense why Rambus suddenly went from memory maker to lawsuit filer, doesn't it?
Don't stick your head in the sand and say that illegal activity doesn't hurt the consumer. You have to look at the big picture.
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So, which would be correct, "A fleet of icebergs IS heading south from Antarctica", or "A fleet of icebergs ARE heading south from Antarctica"? Neither; icebergs can't head SOUTH from Antarctica!
In 2013, Intel will look back and say, "Four cores and seven years ago, our engineers brought forth on this continent a new microarchitecture, conceived in Santa Clara, and dedicated to the proposition that all men's wallets are created equal."
I looked under the "Technical" link and found nothing about tubes, and under "People" Al Gore was nowhere to be found!
PS3? Wiiiiiiiiiii!
I don't know why... she swallowed a (spanish) fly. Perhaps she'll die.
I've had E.Coli before, but I'm not quite sure what a computational simulation of severe diarrhea would look like; maybe Microsoft code?
Sounds a lot like Rambus.
I could be wrong, but I thought that this particular industry-wide RAM pricefixing started with Micron convincing the other memory makers to stifle Rambus by artificially DEFLATING SDRAM prices. Once Rambus was out of the picture, they started raising prices beyond the stratosphere and blamed it on a tsunami in Asia somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brian+ regan Check out the UPS bit, and the Walkie-Talkie, on page two of that link.
You silly bunts.
Hungarian phrasebook today: "My internets is full of eels." "I will not buy this record; it is DRM'd." "Drop your lawsuits, Sir William, it is infected."
Do the nipples exploding have anything to do with the tubes? Monty Python would've had a field day with this whole thing back in the day.
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I gotta say, the blacks are really deep. I wonder if this company is going to hire that snotty, inarticulate little girl from the DLP commercial who always says, "It's the mirrs".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME
Sea Green. http://www.fotosearch.com/thumb/BDX/BDX311/bxp5607 0.jpg
The second article merely states that Toshiba laptops are not affected by the same issue that Dell and Apple have. In fact, the issue Toshiba is having with their Sony batteries is different; it's caused by corrosion from the paper supplied by a third party, not a manufacturing defect that causes overheating and possibly exploding. Either way, it still sucks for everyone involved.
"My restrictive, DRM-encumbered, overpriced music files are more secure than yours. Neener neener."
"Nuh uh. Read TFA."
"Oh. I hang my head in shame."
Yeah, it is kinda a strange name. It was considered among other names, though, such as Thrillerware, EatItware, and JesusJuiceware.
Only if they use Sony batteries to power the thing.
He was even more annoying on Celebrity Fit Club. That he broke a record flapping his jaws is no surprise to me.
... of stickers that read "Skateboarding in not a crime". Now, everything is all "geektafied" which, for us twenty-somethings that got beat up by skateboarders in school when bleeding-edge was a 486-DX2 50MHz (and if you overclocked the FSB from 25MHz to 33MHz, you REALLY are geeky), is quite a paradox. And I don't mean a pair o' Doc Martins (steeltoe, remember? Ouch.).
Sure, now you get rid of CAPS LOCK, and then Sys Rq, then Scr Lk, then Num Lock, then Insert, then the pesky F Lock keys, and pretty soon you have a 5-key keyboard with a smiley face, a sad face, and a few words like "doubleplusgood" and "crimethinker", with keystroke logger software that phones home to the Thought Police. Why not just get rid of keyboards or, while you're at it, computers altogether? This is a dangerous path you're taking.
I get your point; however, Moore's Law has nothing AT ALL to do with Megahertz. Instead, it has to do with the number of components (transistors and circuits and such) that can be crammed onto a piece of silicon. From what I remember, Moore's Law states that the number of components that we are able to fit on a piece of silicon will double roughly every 1 1/2 to 2 years. As far as I know, this still holds true with these new dual- and quad- core processors, even though they may run at the same MHz clockspeed.
USB EVDO w/out PCMCIA? TJTMAIOH That's Just Too Many Acronymns In One Headline.
Remember, at first the price fixing was to LOWER the prices. Crucial/Micron, I think it was, figured they could price Rambus out of the market by joining forces with the other Big 3 or 4 memory companies at the time and all selling their memory for dirt cheap. This would force most OEM computer manufacturers to use only their PC-133 or PC-2100 DRAM, not letting consumers choose whether or not they wanted Rambus or SD/DDR-RAM. Once Rambus was out of the picture (it took fewer than 2 years, if I remember correctly), the Big 5 memory manufacturers could make up a story about a tsunami in Singapore or something and raise prices from, say, $30 for a stick of 128MB to $100 for that same stick. None of what happened was legal. Whether it hurt the consumer or not (and it did; I remember having to pay quadruple the amount for the same memory only a couple months apart), they broke FEDERAL LAW. These laws are supposed to protect companies like Rambus who try to challenge industry standards through innovation. Now it kind of makes sense why Rambus suddenly went from memory maker to lawsuit filer, doesn't it? Don't stick your head in the sand and say that illegal activity doesn't hurt the consumer. You have to look at the big picture.