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Comment Re: Frauds frauding frauds (Score 1) 15

I donâ(TM)t think AMD purchased them for the current product, but rather to bootstrap R&D. Itâ(TM)s difficult to bring together experts and say, hey make something using our stuff and tell us what works/doesnâ(TM)t, vs finding an operation that is already
Doing that, has the infrastructure and operations in place to continue doing it (or start new experiments etcâ¦) to then inform product.

Comment Re:Stupid is as stupid does (Score 1) 205

Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.

It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.

Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.

wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.

"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.

"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

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