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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (207662)	8/5/2006 2:54:41 PM
From: Rink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Sarmad, Bit OT. Re: If in the course of discussing AMD finances you were referring to figures in $millions, and you said something like revenue=$1,200m, expenses=$1,00m, profit=$100, some literalist could say you made a ridiculous statement because of the omission of the 'm'. There are people on the board who delight in pointing out these irrelevancies. Let me ask you to answer in a sincere way. Did you personally have any doubt that I meant "wafers that yield one million units" ? For comparison here's your initial statement: "The 1 million figure likely was the number of WAFERS started at the time the person said it." (Capital letters are yours.) I remember thinking when I read it initially that you might actually very well not know enough about the process, and hence mistakenly used the word 'wafers' in the wrong context, just as I think you slipped up several times before while refusing to acknowledge your mistakes afterwards when others pointed that out rather clearly. Besides that the above mistake isn't exactly a typo of leaving out a 'm'. It isn't anywhere nearly as simple as that; something went haywire when you wrote your initial statement and yes I do consider it difficult to make a mistake that big. I think it would help me if I'd see you more often acknowledge that there are some people here (I'm specifically not referring to myself here) that outclass you in some specific subjects by a mile or two -- listen to them and count their words above your own. I'm doing that too, need to. No I'm not sure. I like the way you're asking your question; it makes me doubt my initial thinking to an extent. Please consider that I would have believed you quite easily if you would have acknowledged your mistakes more often. Now I don't. Your statement is both ridiculous and hilarious simply because of the words you chose, not because of how you intended them to be. Your intent is a different question altogether. I'm honestly not sure about the intent. Regards, Rink PS, I don't know about you, but I'm done with this subject.