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Bugs me

Hellboy and TC both dropped it lol.

Heh, I doubt one pint would satisfy one Intel fanbois, let alone all of us!

Besides, I lke my beer at 45 degrees F, not 45 degrees C!

What else aren't the French good at, I'm intrigued.

Some strange ones in there Hellboy. The French are actually pretty good at fighting wars, at least if you take it over a whole. Their 20th century performance was a bit poor I admit, but before that they were pretty good.

As a vegetarian I'd have to agree on the food part...the French do have some caveman type mentality towards food. I think their aeroplanes aren't too bad really either...and pretty sure French women are considered amongst the world's sexiest.

Easy to tell you're English though lol.

yep nothing as embarrassing for the French as them being a non factor in WorldWar2 because they were beaten so easily

Everybody on mainland Europe was beaten easily by the Germans, so it's not really fair to single out the French. The UK would have been crushed like an insignificant bug too if we'd been connected to the mainland.

But if you go 150 years previous, your friend with the piles was master of even more of europe, at least done by the French alone.

I am a little bit of a historian and the French have done pretty well to still be in existence against two warmongering neighbours like the english and germans. Maybe that's why they are so arrogant...I'm amazed you didn't list that one lol.

No I'm Scottish lol. Jeez what an offence!

lol uhoh Scottish

Great Quote from an English friend during a soccer (football) game : Boy, this is getting rough, it's starting to look like the Scottish Premier League!


i rofled at that

Lol i was actually just dissing their soccer (football) league, not anything race related

Eh fine, i guess tech geeks just accept sports trashtalking as insults, fair enough, i'll respect that *zips his mouth*

OK, I'll forego having a go at the French, since they are our "benefactors" - esp. when it comes to the front-page popup ads & other bandwidth fromage.

Anyway, according to our benefactor's front page news here, it looks like Win7 is driving PC sales through the roof (well, if you can call 40% increase "through the roof" ). So JennyH - your prediction may just come true!

Yes but like the article also said, it could be because everyone was holding off on buying pc's because of Windows7 coming soon

Oh btw, sales 40% up on last year looks great until you realise that the market collapsed around about this time last year

It's more like business as usual, perhaps with a little rebound factor adding to sales. I am pretty close to making what looks like an absurd claim however...if AMD keeps this up and gets a decent break for a change (ie TSMC stop messing up ATI's huge graphics advantage) then I can see AMD making a lot of money this quarter.

Believe it or nutz, I actually hope AMD does finally put their chestnuts out of the fire . For one thing, they have made Jen-Hsun look rather stupid, which is always a good thing in my book , even though I have had good experience with nVidia GPUs (as well as ATI GPUs). What I really dislike is overblown bombast which is what Jen-Hsun dishes out regularly (as has AMD "marketing", TBH)

However you have to remember that AMD has so overburdened itself with (really unnecessary) debt, that it'll be quite difficult to break even or make a profit. I really think that if AMD had waited 6-12 months before buying ATI, they could have gotten it at half the price or less. And surely their financial advisors knew that at the time, or else they were quite incompetent.

Or, there could have been other reasons why AMD jumped when they did, I guess, now that Ruiz has pretty much confirmed his insider trading involvement.