Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

[Richard Bronosky]

Michael T. Dean wrote: Trey Boudreau wrote: A useful rule of thumb says that you can buy the same compute hardware cheaper next week (or next month). If you wait 18 months (a la Mr. Moore), you'll only end up half broke ;-) I thought Moore's "law" recently died, thus the X2 and "Core (TM) Duo's"* and soon quad-cores and .... Mike *I can't believe Intel is actually calling them Intel (R) Core (TM) Duo processors ( http://www.intel.com/products/processor/coreduo/ ). And, why isn't that (TM) after the word Duo? I'm pretty sure that the word Core is *not* owned by Intel. They can have the phrase "Core Duo" (short for "Core Dubious", I think--or, perhaps, "Core Du-over" because they need a mulligan after dropping the ball on NetBust), but there's no way I'm recognizing any trademark they may claim to have on the word Core... Besides, I thought it was Microsoft that took industry-recognized generic terms for technologies and trademarked them (i.e. Windows), and Intel just tries (and fails) to trademark numbers You say i.e. Windows?  How about ".net"?  Microsoft actually had the balls to copyright the top level domain of nearly half the registered (US) domains.  And use it to refer to a programming language that the servers of most of those domains cannot run.  (Because most ".net" domains were ISPs, and most of them ran Unix because NT was a disaster.  I know cause I was in the business in 95.)  Every time I hear someone say "dot net" it pisses me off.  It's not marketing brilliance, it marketing hijacking.  How bad does it suck that I have to visit "PHP DOT NET" hundreds of times a day?  Wow, I'm really wound up! ("586") and letters ("i"). _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Thank you for your time, --==<< R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y >>==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer & Outlook/Outlook Express.

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