Hi h0db; Re: "... your getting banned by SI repeatedly ..."
I think I've been banned three times, but who's counting? (Maybe someone around here, probably as a "hobby", LOL.) Once I got banned for posting a humorous article on Rambus without noting that it was a fake news article. Another time I got banned for using foul language, but that was with regard to the war in Iraq, not Rambus. And I think I got banned a third time, but I can't remember what it was for. None of this should have given you any kind of clue whatsoever. Regular posters on SI regularly get banned. Unlike, for example, Zeev Hed, I've never been banned for doing anything monetarily related such as making stock placement offers using SI. I don't see you going on about how that banning, or the various other bannings of Rambus supporters ever "muddied the waters". What you're doing here is holding me to a higher standard, a standard that I would only aspire to if I were paid to post. I'm not paid, so getting banned is no big deal. Frankly, I thought that I was going to get banned for life for the post that got me banned most recently (on the Iraq war), but I was so pissed that I didn't care.
Re: "But it's obvious to me now that you was too far down the food chain to have played any part in the campaign to defame Rambus and prevent consumer or industry acceptance of RDRAM." Yes. Should have been obvious a lot sooner.
Re: "You were just one of the little engineers being told what the suits had decided and trying to do the best job you could."
This is where you get the story reversed. It was the suits, particularly those from Rambus and Intel, that were supporting Rambus, not the "little engineers". Most of the "suits" at other companies were smart enough to let their engineers make the decisions. That's what they hire us for, after all. If you want to make a suit turn pale and look sick, one of the best ways of doing it is to bring up a discussion of circuit board impedance. Most suits are only suited to deciding on what color scheme to paint the new building, what information should be included on the company business cards and important decisions like that.
Re: "It seemed to me that you did more than talk about the stock when it was $100; some of your most vociferous posts occurred when Rambus was trading at the bottom."
Yes, I don't invest in (or against) Rambus, so its stock price doesn't concern me that much. This is in distinction to the management at Rambus, and most of the posters here, who care very deeply about the price of RMBS.
Re: "It must have been a very time consuming hobby. I notice you still invest a certain amount, checking out the skeletons in the closets of a pro-Rambus financial analyst."
It would be a "very time consuming hobby" for you, but that's because you are veeeeerrrrryyyyyy slow. For me, it takes only a few seconds to dig up links on the net. And as far as what my hobbies include, there are what, about 8,000,000,000 people on this planet. The odds that someone would get their jollies by posting about Rambus, as a hobby, is close to 100%. Nor was I the only one, this story attracted a lot of attention from technical people. (By the way, what's that physics professor who thought that DDR couldn't work saying now?) If you think I'm weird, you should think about some of the hobbies that other guys have:
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Re: "I bet you could do a tolerable job "bashing" Micron if you put your mind to it. But what would be the fun of that?"
Hey, if Micron tried to push an inferior technology over on the industry (and then attempt to turn a lousy patent into a lottery ticket using the legal system), I'd "bash" them too. In fact, I did post a lot of information from the seamy side of Intel while they were still in bed with Rambus. But I'm hardly a friend of Micron. My chief support for them has been my contention that they would survive the downturn, rather than go completely out of business, and that there stock would, therefore, be a bargain in the single digits. I once explicitly suggested shorting MU instead of RMBS to a guy who had way too much money riding on an RMBS short. Again, you guys look at this as an "us vs them", and "they must be paid" situation because you're getting paid (by your stock holding). No, the world does not run only on the basis of money and secret cabals. Nor do the suits get to decide what technology will win acceptance in the consumer market (and in the memory business, the "consumer market" is the "little engineers" like me, who decide what technology to use in their products, not the end users like mom and pop, who will buy whatever is for sale at the cheapest price).
-- Carl |
