can't these people do simple math? 2 / 3 = 0.66666666... 106 / 236 = 0.660194175 Whats the problem here? It didn't pass.
Me and my Pentium beg to differ.My pentium begs to differ.
And to date, AMD has arguably always held the performance/$$$ award.
Baloney. That all depends on which specific slice of the performance market you look at. You can certainly find markets for which AMD offers better bang for the buck, and you can find plenty where Intel offers better value.
Sure, Intel has started gaining a lead (Marginal with C2 series, but significant with the i7 series) in recent times, but AMD isn't THAT far behind.
Right now, AMD is quite far behind in terms of performance by any subjective measure.
And if you consider that most of the true innovations in CPU design have come from AMD (true multi-core (I mean where there are 4 physical cores on die, not 2 dual core cpus on the die), 64bit, shared L3 cache, on-die memory controller, elimination of the north bridge and hence the system bus, etc), I find it VERY funny that "It is the price you pay for getting the bleeding edge" is applied to the more expensive Intel as opposed to the innovator AMD.
This is misleading. None of the items you list were first developed by AMD unless you limit yourself to the x86 space. Your multi-core example is a common but incorrect simplification. Intel suffered from this lesson. The P4 was extremely had an unconventional and aggressive microarchitecture but many of those bets did not pay off. Some such as hyperthreading, have survived and returned to the lineup. AMD's "innovations" are by comparison downright pedestrian. "Innovation" is ultimately marketing-speak for engineering tradeoffs. Perhaps it's "innovative" to over-engineer a product, but if the end result is that you're a day late and a dollar short, then that innovation was a stupid business decision.
Assuming a price of $15 per album, the defendant could have stolen 128,000 CDs and resold them and it would have been less damage than what they are collecting for two dozen songs.
Perhaps, but why must the punishment not exceed the maximum possible loss by the RIAA?
Personally I haven't seen a dime of money "re-distributed" into my pocket.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/rebates2008.htm If you didn't get yours, you are one of the "rich", whose excessive productivity excludes you from the welfare class.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
