WHAT IN GODSNAME IS A SEMPRON

[George Macdonald]

"Plodding"?... seems like a kinda AMD-hostile interpretation - no? More
like "always there [when you need it]".

AMD-hostile? The message went right through the unintentional hostility
filter...guess it needs some work. "Value" processors cost less.
Everybody knows that, don't they? Don't want to insult people... there
must be something about the processor that's acceptable that justifies
its being sold at a lower price. Sensible people don't expect something
for nothing, after all.

It does the things you need it to do fast enough, and gets whatever you
need to do done, it just doesn't do it _unnecessarily_ quickly. A
processor for people who wear sensible shoes. Sir, if you are the sort
of person who thinks that wearing sensible shoes is not "cool," then you
probably want to be looking at our _performance_ line of processors,
over here.

"Always there when you need it" is probably the right interpretation,
though. Who knows where you might be now if this hidden talent for
message-shaping had been discovered in a timely fashion.

I dunno - I could never, in a zillion years, come up with err,
bunny-men.

But you're clearly uncomfortable with the enterprise. That's a shame.
Remember when chips were known by numbers? .

A letter+number was fine with me.

Cynicism is an invention of the sixties? I had rather thought that
popular misinterpretation of the meaning of the theory of relativity,
egged along by Freud and subversive influences like Bloomsbury had
destroyed Western civilization before the first World War. ;-). Even
the conservative holdouts who tend toward things like study of the
classics and who like to use phrases like _modus_ponens_ in the course
of justifiying their world view should have realized that it was all in
with the publication of Gödel's dour conclusions, but it seems to be in
the nature of conservatives not to acknowledge change. If those people
had had a sense of humor, they would have seen it all coming with the
publication of Lewis Carroll's recondite treatises on absurdity.

No need to get intellektchul...

Oh, wait. You said _modern_ cynicism. How is that different from
regular old cynicism? Are you saying that Great Britain of the sixties
was even more degenerate than, say, the Weimar Republic?

Yes well I'm talking about the general population and its attitudes - not
some brain stroking elite minority. Seems like after WWII, there was a
fresh new feel to everything -- today is better than yesterday and tomorrow
will be.... -- which all fell apart in the late 60s. On Great Britain of

Just so. My previous post was to point out that we were being made a
part of a similar exercise. We know the name, now we're just dying to
know the details.

As Randy Newman said of LA, "I love it."

I wonder what he thinks of it now??

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

 

[Robert Myers]

I dunno - I could never, in a zillion years, come up with err,
bunny-men.

Who knows what anyone might have done, faced with such a task: how to
advertise CPU's in a SuperBowl half time spot.

I think you underestimate yourself. If you applied the same analytical
tools to the problem you'd apply to anything else, I'd rate you as a
reasonable bet to get there.

Think about what's going on. You want people to become conscious
decisionmakers in purchasing of CPU's. Nobody is going to feel
confident in making a decision about something that terrifies them, and
the commodity in question involves a level of technological
sophistication that should terrify most anyone.

Not only that, this thing that gets so much attention looks so small and
inconsequential. How do you get people to grasp how much is packed into
such a tiny space without intimidating them? Bunny suits in the clean
room. A masterstroke, but far from a random shot.

No need to get intellektchul...

Sorry. I've never really mastered the art of surfaces.

Yes well I'm talking about the general population and its attitudes - not
some brain stroking elite minority. Seems like after WWII, there was a
fresh new feel to everything -- today is better than yesterday and tomorrow
will be.... -- which all fell apart in the late 60s. On Great Britain of
that time, I've heard "so wonderfully decadent".<shrug>

Whistling past the graveyard. Think how fresh everything would have
seemed after a nuclear winter.

I wonder what he thinks of it now??

Since the original song appeared in tandem with a politically-incorrect
and "snarky" song about short people, I never knew how I was supposed to
take it in the first place. I happened to live in LA at the time, and I
did love it, even though it would have taken a seriously unaware person
not to grasp how close to apocalypse the city teetered. LA's heart of
darkness, as in Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, arrived well ahead of
the sixties. More cultural irony: "Leave it to Beaver" and B52's being
produced practically within a line of sight. Sorry. There I go again.

I'm stretching a point, but once you've gotten used to men in bunny
suits advertising CPU's in half time spots on American football, your
mind should be pretty limber. You can do terrible things with
computers, or you can do fun and exciting things. On balance, I'm
pretty optimistic about computers and the human imagination, even
keeping in mind the entire, and fairly terrifying, range of
possibilities. If men in bunny suits make the enterprise (and, in my
mind, desirable mental habits that go along with it) less intimidating
and more desirable, I'm in favor of it.

If nothing else, since you are partial to AMD, the fact that AMD can
indulge in flights of fancy like "Sempron" should please you, even if
you are reluctant to admit it. .

RM