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AMD To Close Plants, Lay off 2300, Lose Gateway
cdrudge writes: "According to this article on CNN, AMD will be closing 2 plants in Austin, TX and also their operations in Penang, Malaysia due to slack demand. 2300 jobs will be cut in the process. The same article mentions Gateway dropping it's 'Select' line of computers. Their 'Select' line of computers were Gateway's only AMD-based systems. A Gateway spokesperson said 'We're consolidating all of our offering behind Intel, which was the biggest part of our mix already.'"
Our precious slashdot users scream out for vengeance:
1. Kill all Trolls.
2. Kill all Sporks.
3. Kill all Monkeys.
4. Kill all Trollmans.
5. Kill all Buttfuckers.
6. Kill all AC fuckheads.
7. Kill all Jeff Ks.
8. Kill all SpanishInquisitions.
9. Nuke Adequacy to hell.
10. Nuke Geekizoid again.
11. Death to Goatsex.
I piss on First Posts. I wipe my ass with "If I ever meet you..." I spit on "*BSD is dying."
(yes, Spanish Inquisition, you are still on the list. You will always be on the fucking list, homeboy)
Especially the pig minced meat.
This should come in handy in the next few weeks. Remember way back in 1990, when Usamah ibn Laden warned us that we would pay for desecrating Islamic holy lands with our military presence? And that was just our way of ensuring our supply of cheap oil! What a sobering thought, that those 5,000+ people died in the name of foreign oil and other atrocities perpetrated by our leaders under the guise of Foreign Policy. According to the media, this all happened because of the Internet, our lack of a National I.D. Card program, and hackers.
Now we are going to take "revenge" against a third party--Afghanistan--for which Mullah Omar what's-his-name has already sworn an even greater revenge. I wonder what is in store...nukes? biowarfare? chemowarfare?
Thank God (Allah) for /usr/games/fortune; where else can I turn for such timely advice?
I'd heard that they pulled it off the market when they found out that the terrorists had trained with it. Can you verify?
science is a religion
I am lamer than you!
that sounds kinky 8-)
How is it flamebait to mention that Microsoft is going strong, while other people in this thread mentioned the same about Apple? Moderators, just because you don't agree with a statement doesn't mean it's not true, nor that it's not worth seeing by other people.
So, only a couple of years 'till B5?
The last, best hope for peace. Which fails.
This should be modded insightful too. I took a look at last year's gas bills and I used quite a bit less in the winter. Probably my two AMD machines are quite capable of heating up my little apartment :)
- They can't claim AMD is not stable enough.
- They can't claim that the users don't want AMD in their systems.
- They can't claim anything negative about the pricing of AMD parts (especially if you compare with Intel).
- They can't claim they don't have enough support from AMD nor AMD are playing dirty IP games with them.
I say, screw you Gateway, you did enough stupid moves in your life, Trashing the amiga community when you we're backed up by all the loyal fans and could have had a nice platform to sell, you acted completely like hypocrites, hiring people sometimes from another country, make their live miserable about a year later, and now you're bailing on AMD after convincing people how good it is? I mean, taking computer for a religion is pathetic, I'll admit it, but acting like you are is completely un-ethical and shows who's milking you. "Gateway, building lifelong relationships" well I sincerely hope your company lives "lifelong" too, whatever that means.
I don't want to see a gateway laptop, I don't want to ever see a desktop, hell! I don't even want to see a MUG comming from your company, the hell with you, you had your chance, you messed up two times, and two major times. People will remember you when you'll see the Hammer family out and some companies making profit. AMD will never say no to buisness opportunities, even if you dropped them. Buisness is buisness... too bad, some consumers don't think like that, and it happens that some computer-literate people have more and more power over purchasing decisions, be sure I'll use mine.
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
All i can say is , DIE AMD , haha , sorry ppl had to lose jobs but they weren't very good in the first place , i thought u were menna be able to get ur fan on "without" cracking the cpu lol shows what good workmanship and materails these ppl are using. .amd live in the same place as nvidia in my heart , they can both die and take their shit with um , gimme a voodoo , at least they didn't rip us off so much ( ne one else seen the leaked prices for the nvidia chips ? ) and the gfx were pretty good :)
and all this via chipset crap does my head in , i've never had neproblems with intel based boards , but nething else complains about stupid things. and as for speed , my celeron 2 633@950 has never had any problems keeping up with that amd poo , and my ppc 240mhz amiga runs rings round ne of this pc bollox nehow
to round this of : satan , take back ur pc-chips , take back ur amd , take back ur nvidia , and stick um up ur arse
Why is it whenever a company loses 10$ in revenue they think the smartest thing todo is slash and burn? Where do they think those PhD lab workers go when they get "pre-emptively fired". To go work at Burger king? Hell no.
They just go work at another chip maker, perhaps a competitor!
Only Intel will be the chip of choice. Only Windows will reign on our desktops. All else will crumble like the WTC towers! Redmond/Calif. Jahid!! Holy chip/OS war!! Aiyeeeeee!! Wazooooooo!!! Alllaahwackawacka!!
I have done internships at Intel in the past and always get $hit from people who use AMD, just because I use their chips. Now I can get my revenge. I am rarely a bastard but... Good, I'm glad they are laying people off. I don't care if they think Intel devalues the clock speed. When you compare the engineering that goes into the chips, Intel wins. There stuff doesn't catch on fire or require a turbine cooling fan. So what if a 2 Gig P4 is only a little bit faster than a 1.4 Gig Athlon on some applications, I only count Q3 results anyway. Intel's fastest is faster than AMDs isn't it. Do you wear Payless shoes... NO... Well I don't buy AMD chips. Or respect any company than spent years ripping off someone else's architecture before they came up with there own. I love Microsofts Operating System too. Can't wait for XP! I hope Intel and MS join up so they will only work together. Then you can all play with your AMD processor on Linux. Have fun with you Netscape browser and the 3 games that you can play. If you are getting really pissed off, thinking... What a dick. Good. Think your going to come up with some great post to tell me off, don't bother, I won't be checking up on this. HAHAHAHA.