[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").
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