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.

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April fools

[sbrown123]

Yeah. This one is too easy to spot. I like the ones that keep you guessing.

Re:April fools

[Hater's Leaving, The]

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.

Re:April fools

[GTRacer]

...If you have to pay for access to VAGinAs then you're doing something wrong, dude!

GTRacer
- Yes, I know, 4/1 and all that

Re:April fools

[Sinistar2k]

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.

Re:April fools

[Shiny Metal S.]

And for the enterprise market, their new Corporate Linux Terminal, model 3100.

Oh, the CLiT3100, great machine.

ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY!

[MantridDronemaker]

How many April Fools stories do we need? Besides it's past noon here!

Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY!

[freeweed]

How many April Fools stories do we need? Besides it's past noon here!

You do of course realize that April Fool's day is precisely that... a DAY. The whole "it ends at noon" thing was just invented by teachers who were sick of losing an entire day of school due to pranks.

Along similar lines is "Halloween ends at 8pm (or any time really)" started by a lot of small towns, to keep kids from wandering the streets all night.

And no, this post ISN'T an April Fool's post.

And yes, I don't think it's quite necessary to spend a whole day posting nonsense. The entire point of an April Fool's is that you can't automatically spot it.

Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY!

[Damek]

That's "+5 Informative" ??! No it's not!

If that's +5 Informative, then this is +5 Insightful! :P

Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY!

[cswiii]

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

Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY!

[RatOmeter]

I think the moderators are April fooling around also.

While yer fiddlin' n foolin', mod my post +1 Insightful! [or not]
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Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY!

[WhaDaYaKnow]

Damn, I'll pick up some spare Karma!

Me too! Me too!

Although, I'd prefer +1 Informative.

So does this mean....

[wholesomegrits]

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.

How?

[ImaLamer]

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.

Re:How?

[ImaLamer]

I understand that it's a national thing [duh].

I was just wondering....

Re:How?

[Sj0]

however, since there are many english-speaking nations over the world, the word "international" still applies.

Re:How?

[at_18]

Yes, AFAIK only in english speaking countries they celebrate april fools.

Actually it's celebrated also in some European nations (Italy for example).

Had enough?

[e1en0r]

It's bad enough that everytime I look at my SlashApp when my boss is at my desk it says "Your Sexual Performance", but now my number one procrastination is making me actually want to do work to escape the jokes.

It's official

[red5]

It's official These April fools have gotten.
You know traditionally Aprilfools ends at noon.

Now!

[CrackerJackz]

and Microsoft if making a bid for the Vatican! (theonion.com)

mmmm and maybe the first post??

Rob:

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

Thank you for the humor today, but after 4 or so stories, you've made a good prank into overkill (at best).

Enough already. Thanx.

Re:Rob:

[nomadic]

I must say, none of them were particularly clever this year.

Enough Already!

[phorge]

How many April Fools posts can Slashdot make in one day?

-Note to admins, that's not a challenge.

oh why

[drDugan]

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

Watch that sig!

[TopShelf]

Just stupid enough to misspell "about", as well get hooked by an obvious April Fools ruse...

This is wonderful!

[i_am_nitrogen]

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.

ouch...

[jcw2112]

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

This is getting ridiculous.

[emil]

Here I am 3 hours from Chicago, and there are 3 inches of snow on the ground. I can't get anything resembling the truth from my favorite technical newsite, and our old SCO system in the accounting department finally died this morning.

What a lousy day.

Re:This is getting ridiculous.

[drDugan]

62, partly cloudy in Palo Alto, CA.

What is snow?

Re:This is getting ridiculous.

[daeley]

It's that white stuff on top of the mountains that's covered up when the smog rolls in. BTW, it's 62 and partly cloudy in L.A. too.

However, with 1/4 of the rainfall for us this year, that haze may be from all the brush fires come summer time.

My Sides, My sides!

[Andonyx]

Wow. The parade of geek hilarity never ends. I bet taco is a big hit at parties.

oh damn!

[7-Vodka]

I forgot it was april 1st (coming back from an exam) and this one actually had me for a couple of seconds. Damn. /. got me again!. Just u wait till next year /.

And in other news....

[Schlopper]

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.

uhhhhhhh

[Masem]

Anyone remember the show "Almost Live!", which was based from Seattle and was where Bill Nye got his start? There used to be a segment called "The Lame List" where classic 80s punks would headbang as lame items were read off the list.

Boy, I realllllllly wish I had long hair right now for today's April 1st performance of Slashdot.

My Guide to April Fools jokes.

[Mr.Intel]

Slashdot has got to be the best place to find all the April fools jokes on the net. I don't even have to browse through story after story looking for a lame one to question as real or fake. They are all presented for me here to oggle and laugh at with millions of other /.ers. And I thought onion was America's finest news source.

Damn april fools

[Kallahar]

Damnit I hate this stupid day every damn year.

It happens every year.

[foo fighter]

I finally get some moderator points, but it's on April 1. Damn it!

Enough, enough, enough

[Otter]

Having used all 5 mod points on other posts begging for a halt, here's my own.

I remember when there was a prank or two on the Net and everyone got a good laugh out of it. But every site cranking out tedious joke after tedious joke -- enough already. Of course, I'm speaking to the audience that thinks recursive acronym project names and cutesy-stupid Gnome release names are funny.

Remember the post from "Linus" to the LKML demanding that the free software community practice better personal hygiene? That's the sort of thing I want to be seeing.

Whatever happened to Shoeboy anyway?

Re:Enough, enough, enough

[bentini]

Just so we're clear... recursive acronyms can be cool, as long as they aren't of the form F--B [is or isn't] Bar. Try this recursive acronym on for size (courtesy of Guy Steele):
Recursive Acronyms Such As RASARAW Are Wonderful.

Re:Enough, enough, enough

[revscat]

I dunno, Apr 1 seems to be morphing into a universal net holiday, of sorts. Nothing official, no time of, but everybody recognizes it and does something with it. Yes, the jokes could be better. But the surrounding phenomenon is interesting, to say the least.

I mean, why AFD? The fact that it's such a popular holiday on "geek" sites like /. could give some insight into the psychology of the culture.

Or maybe I'm thinking about it too much.

Re:Enough, enough, enough

[shayne321]

Remember the post from "Linus" [iu.edu] to the LKML demanding that the free software community practice better personal hygiene? That's the sort of thing I want to be seeing.

How about the story on linuxtoday about Linus abondoning Linux? I found some amusement there.

I have to admit, I thought Alan Cox's 8086 Linux (complete with web server) was a joke until I followed the link to elks.

Shayne

Re:Enough, enough, enough

[Saeger]

I mean, why AFD?

Maybe because it's the least commercialized of all the "holidays", so it feels like it still belongs to the people, so we don't have to be ashamed to be a part of it. Or maybe it's because geeks think their technical superiority extends to wit? Or maybe it's by virtue of the fact that AFD makes a perfect match for the medium and is accessible by all? *shrug*

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Re:Enough, enough, enough

[dimator]

I dunno... I kinda liked this years stories, compared to previous years'.

EARTH TO TACO

[PhysicsGenius]

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY!

This is like reading segfault. Remember them? They died because THEY WEREN'T FUNNY EITHER.

Reading Slashdot on April Fool's Day is like watching my grandmother do "airline food" jokes. Just sad.

Note to submitters: If you start your story with "In a shocking move..." just shoot yourself instead of thinking you are funny. BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT!

Re:EARTH TO TACO

[wedg]

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.

we need to get /. back for this:

[7-Vodka]

They keep posting april fools too much... We should get back at them. Next year, the day after april fools, we should all get together, make up a real-sounding fake story and send it in by the masses, fool the editors into posting it, then laugh at them.

Re:we need to get /. back for this:

[brer_rabbit]

Next year, the day after april fools, we should all get together, make up a real-sounding fake story and send it in by the masses, fool the editors into posting it, then laugh at them.

Did you just show up? Apprently you're not aware of what goes on the other 364 days of the year.

POLL: Why does CmdrTaco keep posting April Fools?

[YouAreFatMan]

He loves annoying others

Slave to a tradition that was never that funny in the first place

Fact checking on Slashdot has been so bad recently that he thought no one would notice the difference

CowboyNeal made him do it

Seriously

[Smirks]

All of the April Fools crap is getting out of hand. I can deal with 1 or 2, but every other story is getting a little crazy don't you think?

SEC.

[Picass0]

Of course, if this story influences the market you might get a knock on the door from Securities and Exchange Agents. And that won't be an April Fool's day joke.

Enough with the April Fool's!

[CanadaDave]

Enough, enough already.

I am dumb

[Ashcrow]

I fell for it for half an hour. I give everyone at /. the right to laugh at me today ...

Re:A Reflection on April Fools Day

[Graspee_Leemoor]

Similarly, if you want to murder Bill Gates, do it very early on the 1st April. No-one will EVER believe it is true. Probably not even the cops!

Frantic Caller from Redmond: OH MY GOD THEY KILLED BILL GATES!

Cop: Oh yeah, right. Nice One. Bye.

graspee

Getting tired of this.

[IGnatius T Foobar]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just completely unimpressed with the April Fools stories. It was funny the first couple of years, but it's so obvious and tired at this point that they really shouldn't even bother.

If you're going to do it, at least make the story believable. Writing stories about things that couldn't possibly be true is just way too obvious.

A golden opportunity awaits

[r_j_prahad]

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.

*BSD and Linux merging.

[Bender Unit 22]

I am not sure if it's all official now, so I guess we have to wait for the announcement which could come any time soon.
Anyway, it should have been in the in the works for some time. There still seems to be some debate about which kernel to use, but so far it seems that people will get both kernels and be able to choose for themself upon installation, atleast in the Redhat and Mandrake dists.

On the light side, one could begin to think how they will manage to merge the two mascot's, a daemon penguin would be a fun choice. Can't wait to see what happens

A lot of you are a bunch of WEENIES

[NanoGator]

"Oh I can't stand April Fool's Day, boo hoo!"

Oh get over it dudes. It's all in fun. Just enjoy it! Seriously. Besides, if any real news did break today, how many of you'd say "oh it's just an April Fool's Joke."

I can't believe how many whiners we have today. Never mind that somebody's trying to mae you laugh. Oohh no. No you'd prefer hearing about technology that won't affect us for years, anything that's anti-MS, and how Linux makes some minor improvement that should really have happened years ago.

Give me a break. "I'm going to whine about April Fools." Weenie.

Re:A lot of you are a bunch of WEENIES

[Dephex Twin]

Oh get over it dudes. It's all in fun. Just enjoy it! Seriously. Besides, if any real news did break today, how many of you'd say "oh it's just an April Fool's Joke."

I think it's not so much that people just want the same everyday news, at least that's not the case for me. The annoying thing is, usually on April Fool's Day you try to pull a prank (or several) and trick someone. Most of these April Fool's articles are just things that aren't at all true. This isn't Make-a-Joke Day and it isn't Lying Day. So fool us!

In any case, I do think many people are being whiners about it (and hopefully this doesn't count as one).

mark

favorite quote from the article

[Afrosheen]

From a microsoft rep regarding the Xbox success being attributed to Nvidia:

"A lot of us had been hoping to get out of the whole Windows thing and start making really, really cool 3D games about chicks in bikinis fighting Ninjas. Now, all we have left is a big fat anti-trust lawsuit."

Speaking of Linus and April 1st...

[wrinkledshirt]

Here's today's kernel mailing list joke.

Now that's an april fool's joke. Makes you laugh and scares the crap out of you at the same time.

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of April Fools...

[ackthpt]

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.

If i could only half believe it for a minute

[gotan]

... 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.

Re:Forgive me if I'm wrong...

[NanoGator]

I see what you're saying. I think if I were whining it'd be different:

"Oh pleaaaaaaaaase stop posting your 'please stop posting April Fool's Day jokes!' posts! I am so sick and tired of them!"

What I tried to do instead was smack some sense into people instead of just complaining and begging everybody to stop.

I really think whining has to do a lot more with how you present your complaint.