Bill Sux at .18 Microns

API - Time Magazine reports an interesting case of high-tech graffiti. It seems that a couple of Intel engineers working on the design of a recent version of the Pentium microprocessor included a message that describes their feelings about Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, a good corporate pal of Intel's.

When a portion of the Pentium chip is examined under a powerful scanning electron microscope, the phrase "bill sux" is clearly visible, etched into the surface of the chip.

The "flaw" in the chip was only discovered by accident well after the chip was released into the market, too late for Intel to prevent the chip from being used in the manufacture of tens of thousands of PCs.

Intel says that both engineers responsible were former employees of Motorola, makers of the chips that are the heart of the Apple Macintosh.

Both engineers have since been fired by Intel.

Creativity is bad.

Who the fuck would see it anyway? How many consumers are capable of dissecting a chip and looking at the wafers with an electron microscope?

The next time I get a few hundred thousand dollars to spare, I might buy the gear... :crazy:

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It looks (almost) exactly like the cover of this book:





http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691021252/102-9107129-5739306?v=glance&n=283155

subject x(

this isn't a "real" pic either

at explaining large things to us expressed in the unit universally known as the Football Field, but they rather suck at explaining tiny things.

What does .18 microns compare to that we ass-scratchers can understand?

And should it be expressed in a unit called the * Brain?

I hate it that they were fired, but I guess I see why... :shrug: