Well, i assume the %pCOW in printk.c is a joke?

But no one on slashdot reads the articles - so I guess itâ(TM)s pretty well hidden.

You must be new here ... Slashdot readers never bother to visit the actual link itself.

The fact that you're the first person to notice this and there are already 32 posts kind of proves this.

Can we rate this story flamebait ?

It looks like Slashdot (and Techcrunch?) is just trying to bring up the whole Dash debacle again to generate traffic.

Resist people ... resist!

Supposed to be a 1/5 th model of the Shuttle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The SRBs were 150ft tall, so 1/5 would make it only 30 feet. But there are two of them!!

This makes no sense for SoftBank.

They are paying a lot of money ($32 billion) for gross income of around $1.2billion, and profits of about 1/2 of that. Based on that, it will take 30-40 years for the investment to pay SoftBank off, based on ARMs revenue alone.

Something doesn't add up. On one hand, they're saying that they don't plan to change their business model, or even how their R&D is done in the next years, but on the other hand - they will need to come up with something really amazing if they want to recover this investment.

You can buy a lot of other things for $32 billion that would be a far safer bet.

ARM and Intel do not compete directly. At least not financially.

Intel's competitors (for example, in the mobile or embedded businesses) are the likes of Qualcomm, Broadcom, ST and NXP.

Intel sells discrete CPUs, while everyone else licenses a CPU core from ARM, adds in their own stuff, and then sells that. As long as someone needs to add some extra stuff in there, ARM is still the industry's preference.

Things may get interesting with the recent acquisition of Altera (by Intel), but there is still a big gap between the more "generic" processors that Intel makes and the application specific chips that ARM licensees are using.

"China" is a rather vague definition.

Chinese manufacturer's make products, which are sold to customers in the US (in this example), in US Dollars. But these aren't much good to the manufacturer (i.e. he doesn't really want to pay his employee's in USD, or at least the Chinese government wouldn't approve of that), so he sells the USD to the People's Bank of China, who use these dollars to buy Treasury Bonds. In return, the People's Bank gives the manufacturer the amount of Yuan that it thinks is appropriate.

By that definition, does a Pension also qualify as a Pyramid scheme ?

Sorry, but Nokia is not (and never was) developing anything Android related. Nokia's software strategy for smartphones were Series 60 Symbian and Meego.

Well, this depends on their target audience.

If you have C/C++ code, porting it to ARM should be a huge deal. Yes there will be some differences, yes, there will be bugs - but in terms of effort its manageable. And more importantly, every single vendor has to do this effort, so Microsoft doesn't have to do anything.

Because Microsoft are saying this now, with no product that anyone can "buy" right now (or even soon), this probably means the audience for this news is *Developers* (the single intelligent word that Mr Balmer has uttered in the last 20 years, so good, he had to say it multiple times for it be considered a quote). They are now selling the ARM architecture to developers. If the developers buy this story, the applications will follow.

And of course, some developers will be more prepared than others. Don't expect an ARM version of Photoshop anytime soon, but an ARM version of Firefox is something that could be cranked out very easily.

Wikipedia tells me that .NET (and therefore managed code) is nearly 10 years old (13 February 2002)

I'm pretty sure that someone in Redmond was thinking about supporting multiple platforms when they started architecting their software compiler strategy back then. It just took their management structure 5 years to wake up to the idea.

Now people have to go in and remove all of that crud which is blocking porting their SW to a different architecture ...

DLL Hell was yesterday, tomorrow is P/Invoke hell.

Aha,

so more like a "we put our own money in there, so it has to be a good thing".

reading the article properly helped a little bit ! :)

Did evil just become even more evil while I was sleeping over New Years ?

Goldman Sachs aren't exactly known for their "good values".

Why the hell does an investment bank, who normally act as a "service provider" want to take a direct stake in a Social networking company ?

... great now this post will make this article appear as "fake" when you want to really find articles which are relevant to Britney and Lindsay ...