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The breakup was the result of a case brought against AT&T for mis-using its monopoly power, which is not the same as the government breaking up AT&T just because it was a monopoly. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T: In the 1970s the Federal Communications Commission...

Being a monopoly is not illegal, at least in the US. However, monopoly companies have more restrictions on what they can and can't due under the law than non-monopolies. However, I'm pretty certain that lawful protection of their IP is allowed. If Intel's interpretation of the contract...

It's probably that the cross-license covers more than simply the x86 instruction set. The link to the contract that pxc provided shows that it seems to be pretty wide ranging. However, all the details are redacted for confidentiality.

From the link pxc provided and the tone of the article, the big question is probably around the sectio nrelated to subsidiaries: 1.22. "Subsidiary" shall mean any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability or other entity, now or hereafter, in which a...

I have a 30" Slimfit hooked up to a media center PC running SageTV. The media center is perfectly readable, but if I need to mess around in windows to adjust something I hook up a regular monitor for readability.

Well, the 2 corse are one single chip. More likely it's that with whatever load you had running, one core was doing more of hte work than the other. It doesn't always balane work evenly between cores

If you have a 965 chipset motherboard, it will support Core 2 Duo if you have a 975 chipset M/B, it might, depending on MB revision. You would need to check with the MB manufacturer. I tihnk some M/B manufacturers have used other chipsets with Core 2 Duo, but those are generally special...

I think you might have misunderstood me Poncho. I wasn't getting into the Native quad core thing. I agree that Kentsfield is native quad core and 4x4 is not. I was going back to the comment that the OP cited about "Intel's offering being hacked together'. I was just saying that If Intel's...

The original documentation on 4x4 was that it would require 2 FX class chips. I don't know if that's been relaxed to AMD X2 in general, but 2 FX would cost at least as much as 1 Core 2 Quadro Extreme. As to some of the comments in the original post, 4x4 is at least as hacked together a...

Thanks, that's sort of what I was thinking I had to go to as well :) Dang those thumbscrews!

Hello, I've been runnin an X1900XTX wuth the Zalman VF-900 cooler on an Intel D975XBX motherboard. I picked up a X1900 crossfire edition now that hte prices have dropped so I can run in Crossfire mode. The problem I have is that when I move the X1900XTX to the second PCI-E x16 slot, the...

Just installed a Seasonic M12 in my P180 and works fine :) Not sure if Newegg has them in stock yet, but some other etailers do, and local Fry's had htem as well

fry's is OK, though their selection can be hit or miss, so if looking for a specific make and model you might be out of luck. Other stores sort of depend on where you live. Best Buy has some components though not nearly as large a selection as Fry's. I cna't think of too many B&M chains...

As a random note, I was in Fry's today They had a shelft tag up for the Seasonic M12-700 ($199) and for the S12 energy+ 650W ($159). But nothing on the shelves, nothing in stock, and no idea when it might be arriving. But if Fry's is bothering to put shelf tags up, maybe next week is more...

At least you got a response. I've emailed them twice (once this week, onece 2 weeks ago) asking about hte M12 and S12-Energy+ availability in the US and got no response. October is a bummer.