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nVidia/AMD Merger Announced
zombieking noted
that AMD is merging with nVidia. The new company will be called AmVidia, and will be
using non-MS operating systems exclusively to get around the problems they've
been having with getting support from tier one OEMs.
That we'll see new processors and chipsets that run even hotter and hotter, constantly under litigation, and have stability issues? I can't wait.
No sig is worth reading.
and Microsoft if making a bid for the Vatican! (theonion.com)
mmmm and maybe the first post??
oh why did i log onto slash today?
every year I try to get throug the whole day
without someone pulling an april fools joke
on me
(I also try and avoid the silly "See you next
year!" between Dec 20-Jan1 each year)
sigh
I almost made it this year, planning not to
leave me room the whole day. Then I log on
and I get fooled by a slash post.
aaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggg
I have yet to make it through this blasted day
In related news, Debian and RedHat are getting along and producing a joint product called Red Planut Linux, Linus Torvalds won the lottery and donated 80% to the EFF and FSF, and Bill Gates' second and third personal jets collided into each other in a fatal accident.
A solution to the problem with music today
The idea of linux becoming a major desktop operating system is a pretty good april fools joke.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
Wow. The parade of geek hilarity never ends. I bet taco is a big hit at parties.
Andonyx www.andonyx.com
Netscape announces its merger with Yahoo..
The new company will be headquartered in Israel and is expected to change its
name to Netanyahu within the next few weeks.
I finally get some moderator points, but it's on April 1. Damn it!
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
If they couldn't be clever, they could at least have been crude. Why couldn't it have been a merger between VAlinux, Gigabyte, nVidia and AMD.
Now that's a system I'd buy...
THL.
Keeping
62, partly cloudy in Palo Alto, CA.
What is snow?
I fell for it for half an hour. I give everyone at /. the right to laugh at me today ...
Y'know, today would be a perfect day for Microsoft to buy Novell, or ZDNet to buy Andover, or some such other silly shit, because it would take an entire quarter before anybody read the SEC filings and figured out it wasn't a joke.
In other news, Bruce Springsteen found dead in Natalie Portman's condo of an overdose of hot grits. Police are holding a transient who goes by the name of Cowboy Neal as a material witness, but insist he isn't a suspect.
GTRacer
- Yes, I know, 4/1 and all that
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
Bill Gates Admits Pay-Off For Easy DoJ Settlement. "We funneled campaign contributions through house-of-cards Enron", admits billionaire. Truth revealed from sole box of shreded documents Enron employee took home for packing material.
Quake 3 Arena masters traced to chimpanzees in animal research lab at University of Michigan. Lab staff stunned at finding, "No wonder they were so wiped out every morning," states unnamed intern, "we thought it was all the Caffeine we were giving them in their food." Primates found way out of cages and used networked research workstations to thrash "higher life forms." Conseling to be made available to several Ann Arbor and two Holland, Michigan residents
Tom Cruise and John Travolta admit they're going to marry each other. "The Church of Scientology brought us together", says Cruise. Penelope Cruz said to be seeking solace with Jenna Elfman.
Open Source Coding Makes You Virile. Closed Source coders make up bulk of on-line Viagara and herbal remedy purchasers, according to Department of Health and Human Services study. This, of course, comes as a complete surprise to no-one.
Spam actually pays big returns. In a totally ironic twist, Ernie Veeblefetzer or Wabash, Indiana, passes Larry Ellison on Forbes richest indivitual list. Veeblefetzer claims made it all by selling penny stocks within a day of receiving unsolicited email recommending 'Buy' "I've always been contrary", says Ernie, "but now I want to do good things, like give everyone in town a T1 connection so we can used AOL without any net lag."
User Friendly comic creator, Illiad, signs contract with Universal Press Syndicate. "We'll replace Cathy with it, since the drawing is a few notches better and it's actually funny", sais UPS spokesman.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
They have a couple of good systems coming out this fall.
First up is their Lightweight And Battery Infused Apparatus, model 2250, a portable computing solution designed to go up against Dell's Inspiron line. And for the enterprise market, their new Corporate Linux Terminal, model 3100.
But from what I hear, the enterprise machine is going to be VERY hard to find.