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AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales
glockenspieler writes "As reported by Ars Technica, for the week ending April 24th, AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales. Granted its just one week but perhaps this indicates that AMD is really building momentum in the desktop market. So, when will Dell begin carrying AMD?"
Yet another crippling bombshell hit already beleaguered Slashdot Troll community today when Ars Technica (and Netcraft) confirmed that non-troll postings to Slashdot are dwindling, reaching a record low for the week ending April 24th. Coming on the heels of a recent survey which indicated people like karma when making Slashdot submissions this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Trolling is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict trolling's future. The hand writing is on the wall: trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for trolls because Trollkore is dying. Things are looking very bad for them: their offices are dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Trolls continues to lose moderation share, slashdot karma flows like a river of blood.
The Trollkore development team is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house and its best writers nabbed by GNAA. All major surveys show that Trollkore has steadily declined in market share. Trolls are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If trolling is to survive at all it will be among lame dilettante dabblers and hangers-on. Trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Trolls are dead.
Fact: Trolls are dying
Any moderators who mod this news as -1 Troll will immediately implode from the irony.
Well... until the amd64 intel was the pace-car when it came to instruction sets... Those who care have been watching carefully as Amd is the frontliner now for the instruction set, and the intel chip is running nearly the same set.
Interestingly enough, that is within 8-10 days after April 15th. I wonder how many people were putting their tax returns to good use that week....
IANAL... But I play one on
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i love it. =)
If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.
Wrong. The RIAA is attempting to skirt the rules by demanding names from ISPs. Also the OSS community doesn't go after home users. They go after people who take their product and make money off it without showing their source code, as they are required to do.
Try getting a real job sometime and see what it feels like when your work is everywhere, and you start worrying that your days are numbered.
I can't speak for anyone else but I have a job, and have been without a job also. This has nothing to do with that. Metallica isn't starving because someone shared and mp3 of theirs. They won't ever starve if they can put on a good show.
This is a result of people visiting every day and buying into the groupthink. Nobody outside of Slashdot knows or cares about "Linux," "RIAA", "M$," or anything else Slashdotters think is such a huge issue in today's society. Go to a mall or coffee shop sometime and see what people actually talk about.
You contradict yourself. Why should slashdotters care what other people think unless they want to be a part of a "groupthink"? You seem to think that in order to avoid groupthink I must be a part of a larger groupthink, which makes absolutely no sense. Slashdotters are in the minority on some subjects but that does not make us wrong and it definitely does not make us groupthinkers. It's just the opposite in fact.
Speaking of VA Linux--it's a Linux company...that owns a "tech news" site...that posts news stories negative toward competitors like Microsoft. If a Windows company or even Microsoft itself owned a "tech news" site and posted anti-Linux articles all the time, everyone would be up in arms. But with VA Linux, it's a-okay.
If you don't like it then leave, or filter out topics. The situation is not really comparable anyway. Stories are submitted by slashdotters from other news sources. Tech news sites owned by a MS site would be completely different because the articles are written by people employed by a MS company.
Slashbots think people don't like the music coming out these days, which is the cause of the piracy. Never mind that if people didn't like the music they wouldn't be pirating it, most Slashbots--again, this goes back to the niche opinion thing--don't realize that most people these days love the music coming out and want to hear all of it. Probing around, you discover that Slashdot is made up of nerds and fogies who listen to things like The Who and Blind Guardian and techno--not what mainstream society enjoys.
I don't know where you got the idea that slashdotters believe that the crappy music is the reason for pirating but it is not and I haven't heard anyone say that it is. Most of the music that comes out now does suck. A lot. It's just a copy of a copy of a copy. Who cares what mainstream society listens to anyway? This is a tech site! What's wrong with the Who anyway? Not everyone can be a 15 year old popstar-loving fanboy. Some of us appreciate REAL music.
Any company ending in "AA" is evil. Especially if it doesn't want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset is supposed to make sense.
They are evil when they charge you an arm and a leg for something that costs next to nothing. Especially when they didn't create any of it, they just distribute it. The real losers are the customers and the bands. They both get screwed out of money for the sake of the Labels.
The inevitable result of all this is a world in which nothing can be profitable because people simply pirate free copies. Is that really what Slashbots want? OSS and free-ness in general reminds me of the hippie era of the 60s--idealistic socialism that only exists because of the surrounding capita
Time makes more converts than reason
There's no real connection between the psychology of Slashdot and the management of VA Linux. The managers wisely decided to leave Slashdot as it was before they bought it. Slashdot is the same, with all its strengths and warts. (Except there is very little talk now about Signal11 and Natalie Portman.)
I've been employed, and very busy, the entire time I have read Slashdot.
Slashdot is very helpful. I have no better way to learn all that I need to learn about what's happening in the computer industry. I became friends with a woman who worked for a well-known computer industry magazine. She had very little technical knowledge and very little caring about technical issues. She owned a Mac, but she wrote about PCs. The quality of computer magazines is very low, and is influenced by advertisers.
In contrast, I am informed every day by Slashdot about the industry by people who are actually doing the work. It's true that I have to wade through a lot of comments that are of no interest to me, but I have found no better way.
Slashdot is very important in my thinking and in the thinking of other people who are and will be the leaders of the computer industry.
There is a bug in the SlashCode that sometimes prevents users from seeing all the comments. Nothing has been done about that serious bug for YEARS.
I tried to write an article about the shortcomings of Windows XP: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. I found that, even if I worked all day every day, I could not clearly document all the problems with Microsoft's adversarial, un-idealistic approach to business management. This is not an exaggeration.
It's not true that non-technical people don't have opinions about Microsoft. In fact, many well-educated, well-informed people who don't work in the computer industry are very negative toward Microsoft. They've read the newspaper coverage. They thought Bill Gates lied to the court during the anti-trust trial; they don't like it when big companies try to corrupt the government.
You see a lot of teenage attitudes represented on Slashdot. Some of the teenagers are in their twenties. That's life. Just ignore it. Slashdot is not the only place where there are opinions that don't seem well informed. Don't forget, the evangelicals and born-again Christians, 40% of U.S. voters, voted 87% for George W. Bush, and strongly support the violence in Iraq.
"GNU" is not the fault of Slashdot. "GNU/Linux" is a trademark designed by a very intelligent man who benefited the entire computer industry with his socially advanced ideas, but who is very backward in marketing. I bow down to him with respect even though I think GNU is a very poor trademark, and the drawing of the Gnu even worse.
From the parent comment: "Slashdot professes to be some sort of golden defender of consumer copyright law." Slashdot is a group of maybe 100,000 people who have many very varied opinions.