There isn't any such thing as a 'strong amd to offset intel'.
Intel has an extremely efficient in house manufacturing division and billions of cash in the bank. At any given moment they can drop their prices, throw in some new features and submarine AMD, Having to farm out manufacturing to outfits that are nowhere near as efficient and losing money for over a decade aren't a good platform.
The thing is, AMD has never really meant much to Intel. Since the Pentium 4 days, the only thing AMD did was push intel to release 64 bit chips. Which then sat without user models or software to take advantage of it. But hey, users love more bits, whether they're useful or not.
They're a nice foil to fend off anti trust suits. Other than that...
I didn't think much of AMD recently but when they released the 480 and overdrew the power to the board past PCIE specs to get a little more oomph out of a disappointing overhyped release, I really sensed the desperation. Overpromise, under-deliver and disappoint. I expect Zen will be a fine product that uses more power, makes more heat, and performs below its Intel counterparts.
They hardly gave up or hit a wall. Hell the Pentium 4 was slated to go to 12GHz and beyond. You'd have needed the liquid nitrogen for that, or use it to heat your house.
LOL. Reading is fundamental, as is remaining on topic. The DS isn't a console. I noted the Wii as the only success since the SNES. The nintendo64, Gamecube and Wii-U all sold so badly I'm quite sure they didn't cover R&D costs.
People aren't lining up to buy the NES classic, resellers bought them up to resell on ebay and craigslist. There'll be thousands of them returned in January when they don't sell. And nobody has any visibility as to how many sold in the first place.
I bought every Nintendo console until the Wii-U, mostly out of nostalgia. However $400-450 for a wii-u, extra controllers, recharge stations and a handful of games is a non working proposition. The Switch looks like an overpriced portable that'll rarely be used as a console and I still don't see how it'll succeed when a superior and similar product (nvidia shield and shield tablet) sell like crap.
I promise...nintendo is hemorrhaging money and has been doing so for a while. After the Switch falls on its head perhaps they'll finally wise up and port their games to android and ios. Making hardware isn't something they can consistently do with any success.
Every once in a while I'll open Edge or use a chrome incognito tab where my load of extensions aren't active. I can't freaking believe how much auto start video, flashing ads, screaming audio that there is. Its completely un readable.
So when companies whine about using an adblocker...#^@% them...they asked for it.
Now I see that web pages want to scan my system and look at what I'm doing. I had one streaming web site (Showtime or Starz, I forget) tell me I couldn't watch a movie as my windows patch level was too low. It was completely current. I asked tech support 3-4 times why they thought they had any business profiling my computer without telling me or asking permission. They made sure to comment about everything except that and ended up telling me to use a different browser. Now when I move my mouse to the top of the screen to close a tab, I get a popup telling me "please don't leave" or "before you go...". Guess what...I don't want them doing that either. Its creepy. And of course the "we see you're using an ad blocker".
The privacy violations, all of the advertising and system scanning, extensions out the wazoo, having to wait while ad shovel ware gets loaded, malware in the ads...on and on and on. No wonder browsers are slow.
...that Nintendo product planning meetings usually include a deliverable about "How do we make this not that great and then fail". Consider that Nintendo execs tried numerous times to kill off the motion controller for the Wii as it was expensive. Had they succeeded we'd be looking back at the SNES as the most recent success after failures by the N64, Gamecube, Wii, and Wii-U. Anyone else get the feeling that these folks couldn't find their own ass with both hands?
This device looks like it'll perform more like a PS3 or Xbox 360. Why is it that Nintendo keeps tossing out overclocked gamecubes and wondering why that strategy fails?
At least this means they'll port their games to the ARM architecture. Then when this face plants they can finally release the games for android and ios. Then they'll make money.
Had they at least made the price on the Wii-U or the Switch rational for the weak hardware, maybe. I've seen Xbox Ones for $150ish and PS4's for $200ish. There's no way I'm paying more than that to get old slow hardware.
I have dozens and dozens of supposedly intelligent facebook friends who share news so fake I'm initially looking to see if its an Onion article. Really bad.
When I link a snopes article I get "Snopes is fake". No kidding. When I link an article from a credible source that contradicts, I get "Well it sounded interesting. Just passing it along".
I can't believe a corporation would make a capital investment primarily in areas where people are more likely to be able to afford more profitable levels of service!
Next you'll be telling me that there are more Mercedes dealerships, pool service companies and expensive boutique stores in wealthy towns than poor ones, and that their customers tend to be wealthy people! Like I'd fall for that one...
The time they tried to help us with our pesky terrorists who wanted to form their own country and didn't want the english, french and spanish to participate anymore.
Translated: They have more money than we have, they're getting all the girls, and we'd like them to go home so we can get a few girls with our skinny wallets.
Anyhow...About 22 or so years ago I was sitting in the hot tub with my girlfriend at her apartment complex in Mountain View when two dorky young guys come and jump in with us. I'm thinking "swell, we're usually alone out here all evening and there go my immediate plans for a little semi public nooky".
One starts talking about how he and the other guy are going to start up this search company named Yahoo and went on and on about it. Eventually they left and I turned to my girlfriend and said "That's the stupidest name I've ever heard of for a company".
And I think that sums up Yahoo. Disrupting others for a bit to no purpose, much rambling and meandering, and a silly name.
Not that "Google" is much better, or Microdick...err...Microsoft. It sounds so...little.
The only thing I've used yahoo for in over ten years is for a site login when I'm going to troll someone.
I did use them as a news aggregator, but their innovation turned into moving things around and changing the font sizes, to the point where while the content never changed the look and feel did change enough to make it easy to just give up on them and use something that just did what it was supposed to do and didn't change layouts every 3 months.
Now I'm supremely pleased that I ignored their constant efforts to get me to give them my cell phone number and any other data to "secure my account". All they have is a 20 year old activation from a long dead email and a fake name.
...why I'm only going to buy Nexus devices. Almost every other phone I've bought was basically abandoned. If a couple of guys can do alternative roms and update the phone, the manufacturer should be able to do the same.
Apple updates older devices better than most android OEM's and they seem to have little trouble getting people to upgrade.
I bought a box off Amazon for $25. It goes between the phone line and the phone. I can whitelist and blacklist numbers. When a number that isn't on the whitelist calls, they get a message saying to remove me from their telemarketer list or if they're someone I know to press '2' to put their call through. I can then whitelist anyone who asked to bypass. After 2 weeks, pretty much everyone I knew was whitelisted.
Kills robocallers dead, as they don't have ears and can't press 2.
Kills most telemarketers who are live calling. I've had two try to ring through. I just press the blacklist button, it hangs up for them and if they call again they get hung up on immediately. They get one ring and then click -dialtone-.
Other than those 2, my phone hasn't rung once from someone I don't know. Only the guy repairing my vacuum cleaner got confused about 'press 2', but he's not the brightest bulb in the factory.
Its turning on stuff I already turned off. I had cortana turned off (dont need, dont want) and it turned it back on. Apparently I have to add a registry key to turn it back off. Also turned on a bunch of windows notifications I had turned off.
What is it with the uber "we'd have to use a galaxy level stargate and a warp 20 capable ship to get to an ivory tower close enough" mentality with microsoft and stupid non customer centric crud like this?
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There isn't any such thing as a 'strong amd to offset intel'.
Intel has an extremely efficient in house manufacturing division and billions of cash in the bank. At any given moment they can drop their prices, throw in some new features and submarine AMD, Having to farm out manufacturing to outfits that are nowhere near as efficient and losing money for over a decade aren't a good platform.
The thing is, AMD has never really meant much to Intel. Since the Pentium 4 days, the only thing AMD did was push intel to release 64 bit chips. Which then sat without user models or software to take advantage of it. But hey, users love more bits, whether they're useful or not.
They're a nice foil to fend off anti trust suits. Other than that...
I didn't think much of AMD recently but when they released the 480 and overdrew the power to the board past PCIE specs to get a little more oomph out of a disappointing overhyped release, I really sensed the desperation. Overpromise, under-deliver and disappoint. I expect Zen will be a fine product that uses more power, makes more heat, and performs below its Intel counterparts.
Its far from dead, and there are plenty of new materials and processes kicking around to keep it going indefinitely.
They hardly gave up or hit a wall. Hell the Pentium 4 was slated to go to 12GHz and beyond. You'd have needed the liquid nitrogen for that, or use it to heat your house.
LOL. Reading is fundamental, as is remaining on topic. The DS isn't a console. I noted the Wii as the only success since the SNES. The nintendo64, Gamecube and Wii-U all sold so badly I'm quite sure they didn't cover R&D costs.
People aren't lining up to buy the NES classic, resellers bought them up to resell on ebay and craigslist. There'll be thousands of them returned in January when they don't sell. And nobody has any visibility as to how many sold in the first place.
I bought every Nintendo console until the Wii-U, mostly out of nostalgia. However $400-450 for a wii-u, extra controllers, recharge stations and a handful of games is a non working proposition. The Switch looks like an overpriced portable that'll rarely be used as a console and I still don't see how it'll succeed when a superior and similar product (nvidia shield and shield tablet) sell like crap.
I promise...nintendo is hemorrhaging money and has been doing so for a while. After the Switch falls on its head perhaps they'll finally wise up and port their games to android and ios. Making hardware isn't something they can consistently do with any success.
Every once in a while I'll open Edge or use a chrome incognito tab where my load of extensions aren't active. I can't freaking believe how much auto start video, flashing ads, screaming audio that there is. Its completely un readable.
So when companies whine about using an adblocker...#^@% them...they asked for it.
Now I see that web pages want to scan my system and look at what I'm doing. I had one streaming web site (Showtime or Starz, I forget) tell me I couldn't watch a movie as my windows patch level was too low. It was completely current. I asked tech support 3-4 times why they thought they had any business profiling my computer without telling me or asking permission. They made sure to comment about everything except that and ended up telling me to use a different browser. Now when I move my mouse to the top of the screen to close a tab, I get a popup telling me "please don't leave" or "before you go...". Guess what...I don't want them doing that either. Its creepy. And of course the "we see you're using an ad blocker".
The privacy violations, all of the advertising and system scanning, extensions out the wazoo, having to wait while ad shovel ware gets loaded, malware in the ads...on and on and on. No wonder browsers are slow.
...that Nintendo product planning meetings usually include a deliverable about "How do we make this not that great and then fail". Consider that Nintendo execs tried numerous times to kill off the motion controller for the Wii as it was expensive. Had they succeeded we'd be looking back at the SNES as the most recent success after failures by the N64, Gamecube, Wii, and Wii-U. Anyone else get the feeling that these folks couldn't find their own ass with both hands?
This device looks like it'll perform more like a PS3 or Xbox 360. Why is it that Nintendo keeps tossing out overclocked gamecubes and wondering why that strategy fails?
At least this means they'll port their games to the ARM architecture. Then when this face plants they can finally release the games for android and ios. Then they'll make money.
Had they at least made the price on the Wii-U or the Switch rational for the weak hardware, maybe. I've seen Xbox Ones for $150ish and PS4's for $200ish. There's no way I'm paying more than that to get old slow hardware.
They're too busy getting Trump elected. Second string Chechnyans have been called in to back fill.
I have dozens and dozens of supposedly intelligent facebook friends who share news so fake I'm initially looking to see if its an Onion article. Really bad.
When I link a snopes article I get "Snopes is fake". No kidding. When I link an article from a credible source that contradicts, I get "Well it sounded interesting. Just passing it along".
If you're looking around and everyone else seems crazy, its probably just you.
The conspiracy theory sounds great when you don't actually know anything about the subject.
...how easy it is to hack a person taking votes. A few hundred dollar bills and 2 minutes is all it takes.
I can't believe a corporation would make a capital investment primarily in areas where people are more likely to be able to afford more profitable levels of service!
Next you'll be telling me that there are more Mercedes dealerships, pool service companies and expensive boutique stores in wealthy towns than poor ones, and that their customers tend to be wealthy people! Like I'd fall for that one...
It probably had a little more to do with the country changing from an agricultural emerging market to a manufacturing developing nation.
The time they tried to help us with our pesky terrorists who wanted to form their own country and didn't want the english, french and spanish to participate anymore.
Overpaid, oversexed and over here.
Translated: They have more money than we have, they're getting all the girls, and we'd like them to go home so we can get a few girls with our skinny wallets.
I can say with some authority that regardless of the results of any study, work ethic has declined while entitlement has soared.
Dear Penthouse -
Whoops, wrong place.
Anyhow...About 22 or so years ago I was sitting in the hot tub with my girlfriend at her apartment complex in Mountain View when two dorky young guys come and jump in with us. I'm thinking "swell, we're usually alone out here all evening and there go my immediate plans for a little semi public nooky".
One starts talking about how he and the other guy are going to start up this search company named Yahoo and went on and on about it. Eventually they left and I turned to my girlfriend and said "That's the stupidest name I've ever heard of for a company".
And I think that sums up Yahoo. Disrupting others for a bit to no purpose, much rambling and meandering, and a silly name.
Not that "Google" is much better, or Microdick...err...Microsoft. It sounds so...little.
The only thing I've used yahoo for in over ten years is for a site login when I'm going to troll someone.
I did use them as a news aggregator, but their innovation turned into moving things around and changing the font sizes, to the point where while the content never changed the look and feel did change enough to make it easy to just give up on them and use something that just did what it was supposed to do and didn't change layouts every 3 months.
Now I'm supremely pleased that I ignored their constant efforts to get me to give them my cell phone number and any other data to "secure my account". All they have is a 20 year old activation from a long dead email and a fake name.
add in the lost business from people who don't shop or use their services anymore? I haven't shopped at Target or Home Depot since they lost my data.
Tom Brady was responsible. He breaks every cell phone he can find.
The plural of 'small sample size anecdote' is not 'data'.
...why I'm only going to buy Nexus devices. Almost every other phone I've bought was basically abandoned. If a couple of guys can do alternative roms and update the phone, the manufacturer should be able to do the same.
Apple updates older devices better than most android OEM's and they seem to have little trouble getting people to upgrade.
I bought a box off Amazon for $25. It goes between the phone line and the phone. I can whitelist and blacklist numbers. When a number that isn't on the whitelist calls, they get a message saying to remove me from their telemarketer list or if they're someone I know to press '2' to put their call through. I can then whitelist anyone who asked to bypass. After 2 weeks, pretty much everyone I knew was whitelisted.
Kills robocallers dead, as they don't have ears and can't press 2.
Kills most telemarketers who are live calling. I've had two try to ring through. I just press the blacklist button, it hangs up for them and if they call again they get hung up on immediately. They get one ring and then click -dialtone-.
Other than those 2, my phone hasn't rung once from someone I don't know. Only the guy repairing my vacuum cleaner got confused about 'press 2', but he's not the brightest bulb in the factory.
Its turning on stuff I already turned off. I had cortana turned off (dont need, dont want) and it turned it back on. Apparently I have to add a registry key to turn it back off. Also turned on a bunch of windows notifications I had turned off.
What is it with the uber "we'd have to use a galaxy level stargate and a warp 20 capable ship to get to an ivory tower close enough" mentality with microsoft and stupid non customer centric crud like this?