" That is really true - you can tell a lot about a country by looking at movies. All small towns in the South are run by corrupt police, and they all have KKK meetings every weekend. Plus Sweden is stewardess orgy central, and Canada is full of flappy headed fart jokers, plus a few seal clubbing, back bacon eating French Canadians."
You're partially right. Not everybody fits the stereotypes. I've lived in Canada, and now live in the South. Guess I really missed out not moving to Sweden;-)
Price wars (or marginal return on investment) are always going on for the products of fabs still producing older technology. It is just more noticeable when the old technology is still highly desirable. From a business view point, it is desirable to get every last dollar return for the multi-billion dollar investment made in the original technology as long as the marginal cost of production is less than the revenue obtained. When the curve inverts then the fabs get taken off line, or upgraded. AMD has next to nothing to lose on the price drop of outsourced fab product except cannibalized sales from the new 65nm. Since supplies are limited and selling, cannibalized sales has to be a zero quantity at present.
I've used Avast for a lot longer than two years. More like since 1999 when Norton finally crossed the line and I spent eight plus hours removing it line by line from my registry. AVAST has never had and infection. Never had a false positive. Never had an issue period. It plays well with just about all open source and I've experimented a lot. No problem with WireShark, SysInternals etc.
It also uninstalls and installs cleanly and doesn't junk up the registry. I recommend it constantly. It is light weight, and effective. I use it and Zone Alarm on all the computers I get badgered and/or volunteer to fix, and people think I'm the genius.
My hat is off to AVAST. Great product. Free for home use. If it was an American product, it would deservingly be the number one. Dell, HP are you listening. Dump that crap you're putting on the new machines and use AVAST. I'm just removing it anyways. Security suites? Ha, major bloatware.
If I have one complaint, it is they update daily, sometimes more often and with automatic update on, the VOICE prompt makes me jump when I'm in programming mode.
Slashdot Mirror
" That is really true - you can tell a lot about a country by looking at movies. All small towns in the South are run by corrupt police, and they all have KKK meetings every weekend. Plus Sweden is stewardess orgy central, and Canada is full of flappy headed fart jokers, plus a few seal clubbing, back bacon eating French Canadians." You're partially right. Not everybody fits the stereotypes. I've lived in Canada, and now live in the South. Guess I really missed out not moving to Sweden ;-)
Price wars (or marginal return on investment) are always going on for the products of fabs still producing older technology. It is just more noticeable when the old technology is still highly desirable. From a business view point, it is desirable to get every last dollar return for the multi-billion dollar investment made in the original technology as long as the marginal cost of production is less than the revenue obtained. When the curve inverts then the fabs get taken off line, or upgraded. AMD has next to nothing to lose on the price drop of outsourced fab product except cannibalized sales from the new 65nm. Since supplies are limited and selling, cannibalized sales has to be a zero quantity at present.
I've used Avast for a lot longer than two years. More like since 1999 when Norton finally crossed the line and I spent eight plus hours removing it line by line from my registry. AVAST has never had and infection. Never had a false positive. Never had an issue period. It plays well with just about all open source and I've experimented a lot. No problem with WireShark, SysInternals etc. It also uninstalls and installs cleanly and doesn't junk up the registry. I recommend it constantly. It is light weight, and effective. I use it and Zone Alarm on all the computers I get badgered and/or volunteer to fix, and people think I'm the genius. My hat is off to AVAST. Great product. Free for home use. If it was an American product, it would deservingly be the number one. Dell, HP are you listening. Dump that crap you're putting on the new machines and use AVAST. I'm just removing it anyways. Security suites? Ha, major bloatware. If I have one complaint, it is they update daily, sometimes more often and with automatic update on, the VOICE prompt makes me jump when I'm in programming mode.