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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. So does this mean.... by wholesomegrits · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. oh why by drDugan · · Score: 4, Funny


    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

  3. This is wonderful! by i_am_nitrogen · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY! by freeweed · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  5. It happens every year. by foo+fighter · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  6. Re:April fools by Hater's+Leaving,+The · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  7. Enough, enough, enough by Otter · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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?

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  8. Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY! by Damek · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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

  9. A golden opportunity awaits by r_j_prahad · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:ENOUGH APRIL FOOL'S ALREADY! by RatOmeter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  11. A lot of you are a bunch of WEENIES by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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.

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  12. Re:April fools by GTRacer · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...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

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  13. Re:April fools by Sinistar2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.