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Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging
SamSeaborn writes "In Bob Cringely's latest column he talks about the Apple switch to Intel and concludes:
'what's behind the announcement is so baffling and staggering that it isn't surprising that nobody has yet figured it out until now. Apple and Intel are merging.' "
I have an idea for a new Slashdot section. Instead of doing interviews, we should pit two self-proclaimed tech pundits against each other in a FUD deathmatch. For week #1, I suggest Dvorak vs. Cringely (not Cringley, Taco). The rules: they each post their own hilarious Nostradamus-like predictions about the future of tech. The winner is the one who gets the most slashdotters posting "what the fuck?" in the comments that follow. Also acceptable are "Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.", or "The goggles, they do nothing!", with other variations (such as clever Soviet Russia jokes) subject to approval by the editors.
Apple merging with Intel is a brilliant first move by Cringely. What say you, Slashdotters? Begin!
Apple + super heated Intel blowtorches = hot apple pies?
I wish I could get some of the crystal meth that Cringely and Dvorak are regularly smoking.
Random is the New Order.
Sounds like a Belgian lager, doesn't it?
Is Cringley always this batshit insane?
That's about as likely as Apple switching to x86.
Oh wait...
concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
"If I was right about Apple switching to Intel, maybe some of my other crack-induced hallucinations are true too!"
No Fucking Way. My asshole may still be stretched after all the monkeys flying out of it from the intel announcemet, but I am still willing to say that there isn't a chance in hell of this happening.
Be better in bed. Wikiafterdark!
They DID hug.. though I think it's pretty obvious Jobs enjoyed it more. After all, he's a mac user.
<ducks>
iPod, iBook, iSight.
"Apple and Intel are merging."
It's official - The Macintel Speculation Circus has now officially "jumped the shark".
I can only expect that soon Fonzie's long lost nephew will arrive on the scene dressed as Charlie Chaplin, advertising the new "Macintel PC Jr EXTREME".
...and will offer stiff competition for the Goodyear Blimp!
Best Buy can have you arrested
Well, I sure would hate to be the one who has to break it to the Blue Man Group to start thinking different or leave.
It's a suppository
every analogy limps.
this one has no legs at all!
-mkb
SCO + M$ + RIAA + MPAA with Roland Piquepaille as CEO.
Now go bitch about that organisation!
AT&ROFLMAO
That the P4 3.6Ghz Rosetta benchmarks outspec my Dual 800 G4.
:)
I have never felt so inadequate in my life. I know my machine is nearly 4 years old, but to get owned by a machine doing binary translation? Ouch.
Slashdot. It's Not For Common Sense
Before you know it, Microsoft and Intel will start to get (more) hostile towards each other, with the result being that Microsoft has to rely more on AMD.
It's official. There is no longer any difference between 'good' and 'evil'. Just like how successful Democrats and Republicans are mostly just moderates with different names, good and evil have met in the middle in the tech industry.
It's too painful. Apple (good) with Intel (bad) and so Microsoft (bad) with AMD (good). I can't take it anymore!
Bill Gates announced today that Longhorn was in fact smoke and mirrors and that M$ has purchased world wide rights to Linux for an as yet undisclosed amount. Effective immediately it becomes the default opsys of M$. No transition was felt necessary since no one was developing anything worthwhile for Windows anyway. The subscription price for M$L will be $200/year with a substantial educational discount of 5% offered to grades K-6. On a side note given recent events it should be noted that Hell is now offering excellent year around ski packages.
Its been announced that Cringely and Dvorak are merging today, ending weeks of speculation that they had gone so far over the edge that any statment made could be contributed to either statement maker
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And my nose is merging with my dick!
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I know life isn't fair, but why can't it ever be un-fair in MY favor!?
On the heels of the Apple/Intel merger Microsoft and AMD have announced a merger of their own. ....remember, you heard it here first.
Wow, anyone can do this!
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people under the supervision of the reverse vampires are forcing Apple and Intel to merge!
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.
All this mirth and joviality is inappropriate, considering the prolific author Steven King has died today at age 55.
As a gesture of respect, let's abstain from jokes about hot grits being poured down pants, Natalie Portman, and the pathetic pasttimes of old people in Korea and take a quite moment to imagine a beowolf cluster of Apple computers running on Intel architecture!
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I wonder what E.T. Al thinks about that...
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
Apple should use this as a slogan in an advertising campaign. Preferably accompanied by silhouette video of Linux geeks been badly beaten with blunt Powerbooks, accompanied by some nice, soothing death metal.
... and then they built the supercollider.
What I find weird is that the dot replaces two Is. Doesn't that seem a bit pointless?
Me lost me cookie at the disco.