Post #30,022
2/27/02 2:44:54 PM
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AMD pokes some fun...
...during a demo of their Clawhammer/Sledgehammer processors, somebody noticed that the motherboard had a brief [link|http://www.hardocp.com/new_img_02/feb/solo_5note.html|musical bit] written onto it.
Guess the tune, folks...
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #30,036
2/27/02 3:39:59 PM
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ROFL
Laugh-out-loud funny over here at work.
-YendorMike
Real programmers use "vi a.out".
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Post #30,068
2/27/02 6:51:10 PM
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Bah - you'd have thought they'd have...
...the smarts to license a bit of Peter Gabriel, or something.
Or, what I first thought when I saw the pic (but then I don't read music), the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth are copyright-free by now.
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #30,073
2/27/02 7:17:26 PM
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/me is amused
Now, what have I heard that music in and should I tell anyone about it? :)
In a (very tenuous) way perhaps Commodore pioneered this process - the A500 motherboard had 'B52/ROCK LOBSTER' written on it in large friendly letters. No actual notation, though. Subsequent ones had JUNE BUG, CHANNEL Z, etc, IIRC.
Ah, my good friend Google found [link|http://amiga.emugaming.com/b52board.html|this].
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #30,083
2/27/02 8:45:47 PM
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What are you saying, apekatt - that the...
..."Intel jingle", as people (on HardOCP at least, possibly here too) call it, _is_ the "Knock on the door[*]" from Symphony #5?
Heck, if so, then maybe I *do* read music after all! :-) If not, AMD should appropriate it ASAP, directing it at Intel... Remember who[*] that is supposed to be, knocking on the door.
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #30,085
2/27/02 9:11:48 PM
2/27/02 9:20:34 PM
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Could be
but I'd have to listen to it again. It's been a while. Not dead keen on classical music, me.
If you mean the 'Da da da dummm' bit (for want of a better description) then no, that's not it.
If it's some other bit, though, I guess it'd make sense - after all, copyright has expired, so Intel wouldn't have to pay royalties or something everytime their ad played somewhere in the world.
Edit: Da da da dumm update...
(and a "they're/their" error. Sheesh. Naughty John. *smack*!)
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
Edited by Meerkat
Feb. 27, 2002, 09:20:34 PM EST
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Post #30,156
2/28/02 11:39:20 AM
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Yup, that's what I meant.
And the reason AMD should hurry to get it, and play it to Intel at every opportunity: The way my Dad told it to me, the Fifth is an allegory over Man contemplating (or meeting?) his Final End, the ole Grim Reaper -- that "Da Da Da DUMM!" sound is supposed to be Death knocking at the door.
Well, I still think they should license Peter Gabriel's ('t'was him, wannit?) hit, *too*...
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #30,226
2/28/02 5:53:10 PM
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If AMD had that, would Intel respond with
"I hear you knocking, but you can't come in" - IIRC a 50s Rock'n'Roll tune by the likes of Chubby Checker or someone around the same era.
As for Beethoven's 5th, after death comes knocking, does he mention the salmon mousse?
Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer might be appropriate, and preferable to MC Hammer's Hammer Time. Or will it be El Condor Pasa - "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail". Or, Nick Cave had a Hammer Song, or DEVO released 'If I Had A Hammer' in 1990-ish. Or ... or have I run out of hammer-inspired pop references?
I think I have.
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #30,100
2/27/02 11:02:05 PM
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Is it copyright free?
At the rate the US is extending copyrights, you won't be able to copy the James Bible. Or Shakespear.
Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt
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Post #30,104
2/27/02 11:11:07 PM
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Shakespeare will never be copyrighted in the US
All of the extension acts only extend current copyrights. If they tried to extend lapsed ones the mess would be too large to contemplate.
Besides which, these acts are mainly supported by Disney, who largely cares about one copyright. (Mickey Mouse.)
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #30,106
2/27/02 11:22:46 PM
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Oh you optimist
It may be Mickey that is prompting it, but Sherlock Holmes has been re-retroactively-covered by it, and I'm sure many others.
Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt
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Post #30,152
2/28/02 11:22:59 AM
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Let's copyright the Bible, Koran, Torah
Destroy all unauthorized copies:
Within a generation - world peace, at last.
Bizness Plan \ufffd2002 Peace Through Deprogramming AG
Ashton
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