In the latest lobby against MPU maven Intel Corp., chipmaker Advanced
Micro Devices (AMD) today announced its transition to 65nm process
technology.

The move comes with the immediate availability of AMD’s
energy-efficient Athlon 64 X2 dual-core desktop processors
manufactured on 65nm technology, chips that the company claims will
idle at the extremely low power measurement of 7.5 watts for 65 watt
products and 3.8 watts for 35 watt products.

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6397237.html

chrisv wrote:
> In the latest lobby against MPU maven Intel Corp.,

(Above quoted from the article by Suzanne Deffree and Colleen Taylor)

Lobby? Doesn't anyone bother to learn the meanings of words anymore? _Two_ of
these writers seem to think this word has some meaning that is valid in this
context. Sigh...

Mike

Michael Daly <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> chrisv wrote:
> > In the latest lobby against MPU maven Intel Corp.,
>
> (Above quoted from the article by Suzanne Deffree and Colleen Taylor)
>
> Lobby? Doesn't anyone bother to learn the meanings of words anymore?
> _Two_ of these writers seem to think this word has some meaning that
> is valid in this context. Sigh...

Maybe they meant volley?
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Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> Maybe they meant volley?

Yeah - I figure they confused "lob" and "volley" and came up with lobby.
Obviously their editor is not as anal as I am. :-)

Mike

Michael Daly wrote:
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Maybe they meant volley?
>
> Yeah - I figure they confused "lob" and "volley" and came up with lobby.
> Obviously their editor is not as anal as I am. :-)

These days, their editor is probably just a spellchecker. The word shows
up in the dictionary? Looks like a publishable material to me. :-)

Yousuf Khan

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:12:29 -0500, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Michael Daly wrote:
>> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe they meant volley?
>>
>> Yeah - I figure they confused "lob" and "volley" and came up with lobby.
>> Obviously their editor is not as anal as I am. :-)
>
>These days, their editor is probably just a spellchecker. The word shows
>up in the dictionary? Looks like a publishable material to me. :-)

There've been a lot of changes over at Reed. The "daily news" articles
which used to be published at www.electronicnews.com are now published at
www.edn.com, which used to publish only tech articles from the monthly
magazine and Brian (Dipert)'s Blog. IOW it may look like a drop in
standards at EDN it's a uhh, emm, "consolidation & raionalization" move at
Reed.... AFAICT. Makes ya wonder who's "winning"?

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Rgds, George Macdonald

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:19:10 -0500, Michael Daly <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Maybe they meant volley?
>
>Yeah - I figure they confused "lob" and "volley" and came up with lobby.
>Obviously their editor is not as anal as I am. :-)

Editor!? Come now! This is Internet news! We don't need no
steenking editors!
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