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nVidia/AMD Merger Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-for-both-parties dept.

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.

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  1. How? by ImaLamer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How does slashdot get these sites to put up these articles?

    I guess that is why all the hardware reviews come from Tom.

    Slashvertisements have begun.

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  2. ouch... by jcw2112 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...now dammit, THIS one i wouldn't mind being true...

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  3. Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY! by cswiii · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Nope.

    Historically it's been a "till noon" thing. In fact, there are many rhymes that have traditionally been recited when someone attempted to pull an April Fools prank on a would-be party after 12.00, something akin to:
    April Fools has come and gone / You're the Fool and I am none.

    That's the one I'd heard as a kid. For others similar, go here

  4. Re:EARTH TO TACO by wedg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Heh.
    Earth to previous poster?

    The story is linked to an article on Tom's Hardware. E.g. it's not Taco's joke. E.g. go yell at Tom.

    And you are not funny either. Just annoying.

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  5. If i could only half believe it for a minute by gotan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... then i might find it funny. I think the good April Fools jokes are those that one believes in at first, and then only catches when paying attention to the details. All i've seen today are so outrageous that even someone who isn't aware what day it is remembers after glancing at the headline. The thing about April Fools jokes is: they don't work if they're announced as such.

    The newssites are swamped with bogus information, and everyone knows they are (and because most of it is so obvious most people are immediately suspicious anyway, so it's even harder to catch them unawares). As you say, a side effect of this is, that it makes no sense to post real news today, since everyone doubts the integrity of the information. If a newssite made only one joke, and made it hard to find (by making the joke sound half reasonable and doing a lot of "hard to believe" articles (the last casemod article comes to mind) at the same time, then that might be fun.

    Maybe we read about the better April Fools jokes (the ones that took some time to figure out) tomorrow.

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