Four-core Opteron box fiasco crushes Cray's 2007

Cray has blamed delayed shipments of Opteron-based servers for a likely massive fall in 2007 revenue. The supercomputer maker today warned that its midpoint forecast for 2007 revenue has been lowered to $200m from previous guidance last month of $230m. The revenue drop comes as a result of delayed XT4 system shipments and could …

[Alex Brooker]

.....can't....look....away.....

I haven't read the article, I can't. The huge Dell banner ad to the right makes it impossible for me to concentrate on the words. I am only 27, I don't think its my brain.....

[Michael Martin]

Answer:

I probably shouldn't mention this, considering The Reg probably makes a lot of its advertising on ads, but...

Firefox + Adblock Plus = No Dell banner ad.

[Anonymous Coward]

More annoying by they day...

Firefox + Adblock Plus = No Dell banner ad.

Yep, the ads were just getting too annoying, particularly the popup layers that started a few months back, so like you I filter the lot now - whoever at el reg thought moving away from unobtrusive but well lucrative ad and link units was a good idea is very wrong - there's no faster way to lose ad revenue IME than adding this kind of bull - especially on a site such as this where practically all the readers are tolerating (and clicking) ads by choice not ignorance.

[Demian Phillips]

aye.

Them Intel ones where the CPU chip magically stops viruses via demonically possesed dogs/agent smiths really can drag a machine down. I almost gave up on the register, but blocking is a better solution, this way I can keep up on my pop star sex headlines.