I was born and raised in Manassas, VA - I never heard of or saw this IBM building... how long ago was this?

If women hear about this...

Next argument:
"You don't really love me!"
"Baby you know I do!"
"Prove it! You, me and my sister are going down to the machine tomorrow!"
*Uh oh*

If women hear about this... Next argument: "You don't really love me!" "Baby you know I do!" "Prove it! You, me and my sister are going down to the machine tomorrow!" *Uh oh*

They don't need to shell out billions to build their own plant, just funding to have a 3rd party foundry build thier chips. Most manufacturers (intel, nvidia etc) sell off their old fabs when after a few generations for RAM production etc. Hell AMD recently spun off its fabrication division due to lack of funds. Now they just contract to (globalfoundries?) for their chips. http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/10/and-then-there-was-one-amd-spins-off-foundry.ars Wish I knew what kind of price penalty you take by having another company handle that stuff for you in several quantities of say 10,000 - 100,000 and 1,000,000 chips. I'll bet if you make bulk orders it isnt bad, fabs are probably just happy to keep the machines running before they're obsolete.

Alright, I'll admit this is bad. But why the "panic" over something that so far only has the "potential" to do massive harm? What about HIV and other STD's that are roaming free across the land infecting hundreds of thousands of people a year?

... Viruses mix with other viruses now? When did that start happening?

How did this wall of text get first post?