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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.
How many April Fools stories do we need? Besides it's past noon here!
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.
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 These April fools have gotten.
You know traditionally Aprilfools ends at noon.
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
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
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
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?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
62, partly cloudy in Palo Alto, CA.
What is snow?
Enough, enough already.
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.
"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.
"Derp de derp."
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!
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.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
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
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.
Jake
Dating: while( 1 ){ call_girl(); get_rejected(); drink_40(); } return 0;
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.
... 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.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks