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AMD Announces A Shift In Focus From PC Processors
slughead writes "Forbes Magazine is reporting that AMD will no longer compete with Intel to make faster, smaller, and more efficient processors. Just as Mac users would be worse off if Windows didn't exist, Intel users will be much worse now that AMD will no longer compete. You see, there's this thing called demand, and when there are no competing products in a market, a good or service will always increase the price to the economic equilibrium, unless forced not to by the state (forget that right now, communists!!). In English: you're going to get less new technology, and higher prices on existing technology." On the other hand, AMD is definitely not exiting the chip business -- they're just trying to branch out from chips for microcomputers.
Hell they can't even pass a spelling test and you want them to edit? You want them do do something that would require powers of reason and the application therof? /. editorial staff have the skill do anything as remarkable as editing.
CmdrTaco may have Powers, Secret Powers, but I fail to see where he and the rest of the
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Just as Mac users would be worse off if Windows didn't exist, Intel users will be much worse now that AMD will no longer compete.
Don't you mean Windows users would be worse off if Macintoshes and the Mac OS didn't exist? Microsoft and PC manufacturers have to get their ideas from somewhere. Outside of slapping in the latest bus and RAM architecture, they develop little else.
We had a customer the other day who dropped her computer in friday morning (after a storm) complaining that the modem was not working. We found that somehow (probably the storm) had fried the COM port.
Now she took the computer back home and we rang Intel on friday lunch time to get an advanced replacement for the 2.5year old motherboard (Basically they send the board first, then you send the broken one back).
Monday lunch time, the courier came and delivered the new board. Now this board had made it all the way from Malaysia or somewhere to Brisbane, Australia.
In other words with intel products we are able to offer the customer a warrenty repair in three days at no cost to us at all. You can't get that kind of service from AMD.
Fcsking grap a brain and read the article yourself, form your own opinion, and then DISCUSS it here, on /. Oh-yeah, and open an account.
I'm so sick and tired of people nagging behind their safe A-C 'bout the quality of /. Go somewhere else if you got a problem with what happens here.
Hmm,let's see here, we live in a society where 1% owns 40% of the assets, and the bottom 40% own 1%. The median income of the bottom 20% is 7,000, and the median household income of the 20% that is second from the bottom is 19,000 per year. Our society is dominated by authoritarian insitutions, where the majority of life choices are to either be dominated or to move the ladder and dominate others. Hey, I have an idea, what about democracy? Do we have that, even in government? The answer is no, we have representatives, who are required to accept money contributions from extremely wealthy "beneficiaries". These politicians then serve these interestes while paying lip service to the rest of us, who have no voice.
So, while authoritarian socialist regimes have been tried, democratic socialism has not been tried. IN FACT, I THINK THAT IT IS ARGUABLE THAT DEMOCRACY ITSELF HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED. You cannot have democracy in a society that allows for complete control of the assets of production by such a small minority. The writers of US Constitution were very aware of this and created a representative government to keep the majority from being able to address their needs directly. What they didn't count on is the level of corruption that extreme differences in wealth would promote in a representative government.