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That's one of the dumber things I've heard today and it only holds true if you assume AMD is going to keep losing money until they have to sell off their desk chairs & keyboards in a bankruptcy auction.

There is a lot more to valuing a company than "omg they lost GigaBucks this quarter!!1"

The two basic numbers to work with are:
A) whatever investors think it's worth
B) what the company's assets and fundamentals represent

A lot of times A is less than B.
The attempted Microsoft buyout of Yahoo is a good recent example.
Yahoo shares were/are trading in the low $20s even though MS offered in the low $30s

Seems that what they're calling "Numbers" are the same as our quantity descriptors. Small number, medium number, and large number. Seems reasonable, I'm no anthropologist, but I think that numbers really start when you have a lot of trade going on, when you have to KNOW that 5 ears of corn is worth 1 basket of peas.

He'll probably make more cash being a commentator on Fox News pushing their particular agenda. He's been defanged but no one's cut his vocal cords.

From the linked article: The Microsoft bid never made sense from a business perspective either. Yahoo has always had stale search offerings, second rate search technology, and a mediocre unmotivated workforce. Yahoo derives its value primarily from the massive web-traffic the company controls, but the cost of controlling this web-traffic is likely to be prohibitive for Microsoft

Second rate, stale, mediocre, unmotivated: sounds like a perfect fit for the Microsoft empire.

CBC.ca picked up an AP story about ICANN recently losing control of their domain names ICANN.com and IANA.com for about 20 minutes on Thursday. A domain registrar run by the group transferred the domains to someone else. As quoted by ICANN about the situation:

"As has been widely reported, a number of domain names, including icann.com and iana.com were recently redirected to different DNS servers, allowing a group to provide visitors to those domains with their own website. The domains in question are used only as mirrors for ICANN and IANA's main websites. The organizations' actual websites at icann.org and iana.org were unaffected... ...It would appear the attack was sophisticated, combining both social and technological techniques, but was also limited and focused."
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/04/icann-pwned.html

Blowit writes "My father has lost bee colonies 2 years in a row due to Colony Collapse Disorder. I checked the wiki and have found some interesting links between cellular services and the possibility of EVDO services causing Colony Collapse Disorder. As I have viewed the Cellular EVDO Network maps vs the CCD death areas, there seems to be a strong possibility that the high speed Cellular data network systems may be killing off the bees. Those areas that do not have EVDO services said that they are not affected by CCD. My Father's cottage is located in an area that does not show as EVDO capable on Telus Mobility's network maps however, with my PDA Phone, I can confirm 5 bars out of 5 that his land is covered in EVDO signal. Do you think that our cellular providers are killing our beloved bees at an alarming rate as they build out their networks?"

JonnyBe writes "After having difficulties with codecs for Kubuntu and Windows Media radio streams on the CBC (Canada's national public broadcaster), I found some Ogg Vorbis streams. The problem is, they don't provide them for regional content. Reading their guide for Internet radio, they endorse the use of Xine. Doing so means using it with Windows Media codecs. Is the CBC asking us to break the law by using unlicensed software in order to listen to content provided, partly, by taxpayers dollars?"

I'm waiting for the web to mature, 3.11 for Workgroups.

Impossible! Those results are obviously wrong!! Now go back and do the experiment. Keep doing different experiments until we get the desired results!

How dear you try and endanger my stock portfolio?!

This is a rant about micrsoft.*com* - the website (and related update sites etc). It isn't about Microsoft itself, or its applications and operating systems. It's about the usability of the microsoft.com website and download services - which are probably largely outsourced to a few kids in India. It has nothing to do with "how bad Vista is" or lessons learned from XP.

Everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet. He also has AlGorithm named after him, so he is a programmer too.

If I supply a link, will you change your mind? I doubt it, but here it is anyway. Of course, it is one of many. You know, it took me about 2 minutes to find this on Google. Rather than speaking from your ass, you could do a little research on your own.

Of course, there is a causation/correlation argument that could be made here, but to someone with tendencies already, this may push them over the edge whereas they may have lived a normal life without it.

OMG, you got t3h first post and you write something relevant and on-topic, not an AC troll?

What a n00b! Next time, make certain your post includes: Something About Goatse (have you seen that film? Cameron Pwndarse is great!), p1st fr05t, or a little ASCII art man with a big willy (reminding us that Slashdot suXx0rz).

Seriously mate, you'd better be careful, the question of trolling Slashdot is the inalienable perogative of your working Anonymous Cowards. What's the use of us sitting up all night, waiting for the next submission. If a member jumps in before you and doesn't even post a troll?

As a member of the Amalgamated Union of Arseholes, Loudmouths, Cowards and Other Trolling Persons I order you to stop getting first posts, and to stop getting first posts NOW.

What the organization really needs is some time to find out what sorts of things break when you aren't around to poke at them. For the next month they have the benefit of your knowledge, should they need it, but you won't be able to do stuff. This will allow existing staff members to learn to cover gaps while you are still around in case of an emergency.

You are leaving. The company is far less interested in what you can do for them in your last few weeks than they are in learning how to live without you. That basically requires that they cut you out of the loop as soon as possible.

Every religion is a cult, just a popular one. Scientology isn't popular in any definition of the world and as such "cult" is very appropriate.