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To: rudedog who wrote (176647)	1/26/2004 7:26:07 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

do you happen to know how this cross licensing between intel and HP for Itanium works? I was thinking HP was obligated to offer Itanium exclusively... obviously not. The Sun guys will be disappointed in this development, and who knows about itanium now. HP to adopt AMD's Opteron in servers "What choice do they have? Very few organizations are buying Itanium systems. AMDs are flying off the shelf," RedMonk analyst James Governor said. "Any server company that does not have an Opteron strategy is not listening to the market." zdnet.com.com

To: rudedog who wrote (176647)	1/27/2004 3:46:58 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Hi rudedog, Good to see you posting here. In answer to your question, compared our top high schools (two of the highest ranking high schools in the highest ranking State) with the top 'high schools' my college mates attended around the world. For example, the top high school in Indonesia teaches calculus about the same time as our top high schools, maybe a tad earlier. Calculus wasn't optional in their top high school, it appeared to be mandatory. But India's top schools teach calculus (differential calculus) in 8th grade when they are 13 years old and integral calculus in 9th grade. When I was in school, our top schools didn't teach calculus until the senior highschool year and only one student took calculus during the junior year. Also, our high school system allows calculus to be optional. Loosely saying, our high schools are behind India by two to three years on math. Maybe 1/2 to 1 year behind other countries. I think we need to move calculus to the sophomore high school year for those wishing to be on the fast track, by bumping 3rd grade math into 2nd grade, and bumping 8th grade math into 7th grade. Fortunately, our universities are good. On another note... The other month, you had asked which investments I like, was meaning to reply. Was looking at some stocks in China and also stocks in India, but by the time I got around to it, some of these 2X - 4X over the past year, similar to how our stocks acted here before the big crash, so avoided them. INTC is my favorite investment, I really like Intel's fabs and there's no anti-trust boogyman. Still remember the big August 2000 drop though, but after the initial "deer-in-headlights" feeling from that drop, started taking advantage of the downturn by writing covered calls and accumulating more. So, when we get back to the previous level, will be better for it. But what a ride. Hasn't been easy. Own CSCO and started buying some more during the downturn. Just stopped accumulating it. Depending upon the earnings report, may accumulate more. Picked up some QQQs during the downturn - always wanted some of those. Also have MSFT. Am a tad concerned about Linux. Haven't made any changes in my holdings here and don't touch that account. Still have the same non-hightech investments owned since the 90's, mentioned before, boring but reassuring. My best unintended investment was purchasing property outside of California in March 2000. total luck and certainly wasn't meant to be an investment. Have the same private equity investments as before. Somehow avoided Worldcom, Enron, and all the other bankrupt companies, but what if? The market can wipe a person out. Regards, Amy J