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To: SBHX who wrote (72463)	5/10/2001 12:56:06 AM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

SbH, Being several trees, and many rocks, outside the EE (soft & hard) community, I am curious as to whether or not you think having RMBS on the resume would be a positive or negative in a young chip designer's career. I would assume that as long as your name wasn't "Crisp" and you worked in design at RMBS rather than management, it wouldn't matter much. From a stand point of pure engineering competence I would expect that it might be considered a "plus" if you could make a design with the tolerances of RDRAM, which could be manufactured successfully at all. 0\|0

To: SBHX who wrote (72463)	5/10/2001 12:56:28 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

SBH, At MPF last fall, a Rambus engineer told me "we are going to be the world's richest company, by collecting royalties from people like you". I wasn't very impressed, but it gave a good feel for the culture over there. Scumbria

To: SBHX who wrote (72463)	5/10/2001 3:23:08 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Scared but Hopeful; Re: "Hate is too strong a word." Maybe it is for most engineers, but not for me. Nope, if anything, hate is too shallow a word. I despise everything single thing that Rambus has done and stands for, from the ivory tower know it all (P T Newell's nickname) attitude towards industry, to the incompetent engineering decisions, to the ludicrous claims to have invented old and obvious technology, to their constant misrepresentations to their shareholders about their patent portfolio and technology, to their gag orders that go out with the licenses, to their habit of holding back press releases so as to manipulate the stock, to their accusations of criminal behavior among the memory makers, to their blatant disregard for business ethics, to their one sided hype press releases that never share a drop of bad news, to their constant lies about how much RDRAM will be manufactured and at what cost, to their, etc., etc., etc. This is the slimiest technology company on the planet. They are a fraud. Now they have to pay. If that involves having the employees out on the street, having to sell their bodies at $10 a trick, along with their wives, parents, pets, sons and daughters; if that involves complete financial, health and legal destruction for all parties involved, along with their dependents; etc., etc., etc.; well, then I say "Yahoo!" and I can't hardly wait. If this whole crowd of petty criminals, lousy engineers, greedy financiers and their ilk all went off the edge of a cliff in a "bus", I would find it quite pleasurable to watch. -- Carl P.S. Sometimes I can be unclear about how I really feel about things. -- Carl