Honestly what bugs me most isn't the incompetence. It's the way they ask if you need any help.
"No thanks, just looking"
"But Sir, I want to let you know we are NOT paid by commision"
"Uhm ok, I'm still just looking thanks"
Later I purchase a DVD player, and the salesperson spends 15 minutes explaining a $60 warranty that basicly lets me clean my DVD player for Free 3 times.
"Now I really think you should get this, but not because I get paid extra for selling it-- I don't"
Sigh. I'm thankfull for online shoping, saves alot of time from things like this.
I agree in that AMD isn't going to be any better than Intel if it continues to grow and takes over the market. I partly get the impression that Intel is failing because instead of concentrating on beating AMD, it's overly concerned with making sure none of it's own products overlap and steal thier own share. Which to me is foolish: wouldn't it be preferrable to lose a few pentium 4 sales to a DDR pentium 3 system, rather than lose them to DDR Athlon systems? Right now, Celerons are useless because they are limited to a pathetic 66Mhz FSB. Pentium 3's are limited to 512MB Ram with the i815 chipset, as well as crappy onboard video+audio. The alternative is to go rambus for no real performance gain and pay an extra 150% premium on the memory. Pentium 3's at 1133Mhz will be put on hold untill mid next year so they don't compete with the 1.4Mhz pentium 4's. It just leads to a bunch of inferior products that _will_not_ compete with each other, and _can_not_ compete with AMD.
Of course, Slashdot isn't any different from the other news sites. "Best Buy Stores Recalling Pentium 4 Machines" is going to hurt Intel whether it's accurate or not. _If_ you read and reread the article you will learn that it's a faulty BIOS chip. The average consumer doesn't have a clue what that means and the only thing they will take away from the article is "pentium 4 recalled". Recall brings to mind images of faulty Firestone tires and other dangerously unsafe products. This is a very bad thing for Intel, even if it's HP's fault.
>A sales representative for Best Buy in Houston >said several Hewlett-Packard computers with the >1.4GHz Pentium 4 chip inside had been on >display, but were suddenly pulled from the >shelves because "they were running too fast."
I love how the story slips this in, and shows just how knowledgable those Best Buy employees are.
The recompiled benchmark (not the SSE2 optimised one) is about 25% faster on the Pentium 4 1500mhz then the Athlon 1200mhz. 1500 is 25% more than 1200.
Next thing you know there will be a 10% tax on your electric bill that goes directly to the RIAA. After all, it would be impossible to operate a computer with attached CD-Writer without electricity.
Where the heck were you checking prices? At pricewatch it took me 10 seconds to see that the cheapest "Motherboard w/CPU+Fan Celeron 400" is $149, while "Motherboard w/CPU+Fan Duron 600" starts at $129.
This whole thing seems pretty hypocritical. Several states don't have Nader on the ballot, and of those some don't allow him as a write in. If voters get confused by a simple layout problem, how far off is it to think it might be a tiny bit confusing when the party you support isn't even on the ballot?
Don't be absurd. People didn't vote for Nader because they wanted Gore to win, they voted for Nader because they wanted to send a message. Most were probably people who wouldn't have voted otherwise, and some were people who would have voted for Bush.
>Imagine all of the Nader supporters going back >to the polls... but THIS time, they know just >how incredibly important their vote is for >getting a liberal into the White House. I could >all but guarantee you that the Nader vote >shrinks to close to zero and those votes go to >Gore. This would be true at the county level, >state level, or national level.
The AMD codenames stick because they are good codenames. Who wants a CPU named after some lame horse or river? Anyway, it's not the AMD marketing people who use the codenames... if you look at www.amd.com they say "athlon with performance enhancing cache" not thunderbird. It's the fan sites that make the codenames stick.
Anyway, I can't wait till AMD releases the 6Ghz Viper
No, actually it was Al Gore. If it wasn't for Gore stealing votes from Ralph Nader, Nader would have had a real chance. So many people are afraid of 'wasting' a vote on Nader they instead waste it on Gore. Serves them right. I can't believe anyone voted for Gore when in truth they prefered Nader.
I personally could care less whether Bush or Gore win, they both look like liars to me and what they say has nothing to do with what they will actually do.
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Unfortunatly, there is a long list of drivers who thought they could drive without regard for the speed limit or basicly any other traffic laws.
Of course, some people will say "those people were just bad drivers to begin with, or drunks, or total idiots who couldn't tie thier own shoes much less change lanes on the interstate at 85mph while talking on a cell phone" Yeah and D&D is just a game! Like people who think they can play around with drugs, sex, or windows me, the person who drivers a motorized vehicle is just getting in line to die. The evidence is clearly stacked against them. The interstates are too carefully designed to cause death to avoid.
Yeah, right.
Eh, incorrect. Public defenders are, as the name implies, for _defending_. They only apply if you are charged with a crime. On the other hand, there are in some places free legal services for the poor, however they aren't very usefull. At the time I was making $1200/month. Rent where I live is $800, my car insurance is $100 and my car payment is $300. Aparently, I didn't qualify for the free legal aid. At $1200/month I was making way too much money.
If you count humans as 'natural', than it's only fair to count us that way all the time. Killing off the tiger was the natural affect of us comming into contact with it, and now the natural affect we have discovered through cloneing may bring it back.
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Honestly what bugs me most isn't the incompetence. It's the way they ask if you need any help.
"No thanks, just looking"
"But Sir, I want to let you know we are NOT paid by commision"
"Uhm ok, I'm still just looking thanks"
Later I purchase a DVD player, and the salesperson spends 15 minutes explaining a $60 warranty that basicly lets me clean my DVD player for Free 3 times.
"Now I really think you should get this, but not because I get paid extra for selling it-- I don't"
Sigh. I'm thankfull for online shoping, saves alot of time from things like this.
I agree in that AMD isn't going to be any better than Intel if it continues to grow and takes over the market. I partly get the impression that Intel is failing because instead of concentrating on beating AMD, it's overly concerned with making sure none of it's own products overlap and steal thier own share. Which to me is foolish: wouldn't it be preferrable to lose a few pentium 4 sales to a DDR pentium 3 system, rather than lose them to DDR Athlon systems? Right now, Celerons are useless because they are limited to a pathetic 66Mhz FSB. Pentium 3's are limited to 512MB Ram with the i815 chipset, as well as crappy onboard video+audio. The alternative is to go rambus for no real performance gain and pay an extra 150% premium on the memory. Pentium 3's at 1133Mhz will be put on hold untill mid next year so they don't compete with the 1.4Mhz pentium 4's. It just leads to a bunch of inferior products that _will_not_ compete with each other, and _can_not_ compete with AMD.
Of course, Slashdot isn't any different from the other news sites. "Best Buy Stores Recalling Pentium 4 Machines" is going to hurt Intel whether it's accurate or not. _If_ you read and reread the article you will learn that it's a faulty BIOS chip. The average consumer doesn't have a clue what that means and the only thing they will take away from the article is "pentium 4 recalled". Recall brings to mind images of faulty Firestone tires and other dangerously unsafe products. This is a very bad thing for Intel, even if it's HP's fault.
>A sales representative for Best Buy in Houston >said several Hewlett-Packard computers with the >1.4GHz Pentium 4 chip inside had been on >display, but were suddenly pulled from the >shelves because "they were running too fast."
I love how the story slips this in, and shows just how knowledgable those Best Buy employees are.
The recompiled benchmark (not the SSE2 optimised one) is about 25% faster on the Pentium 4 1500mhz then the Athlon 1200mhz. 1500 is 25% more than 1200.
Freaky.
Next thing you know there will be a 10% tax on your electric bill that goes directly to the RIAA. After all, it would be impossible to operate a computer with attached CD-Writer without electricity.
What is your point exactly? There are several perfectly legal ways to shoot people with guns.
Where the heck were you checking prices? At pricewatch it took me 10 seconds to see that the cheapest "Motherboard w/CPU+Fan Celeron 400" is $149, while "Motherboard w/CPU+Fan Duron 600" starts at $129.
Last time I tried to change my home page I ended up voteing for Pat Buchanan.
This whole thing seems pretty hypocritical. Several states don't have Nader on the ballot, and of those some don't allow him as a write in. If voters get confused by a simple layout problem, how far off is it to think it might be a tiny bit confusing when the party you support isn't even on the ballot?
Don't be absurd. People didn't vote for Nader because they wanted Gore to win, they voted for Nader because they wanted to send a message. Most were probably people who wouldn't have voted otherwise, and some were people who would have voted for Bush.
>Imagine all of the Nader supporters going back >to the polls... but THIS time, they know just >how incredibly important their vote is for >getting a liberal into the White House. I could >all but guarantee you that the Nader vote >shrinks to close to zero and those votes go to >Gore. This would be true at the county level, >state level, or national level.
The AMD codenames stick because they are good codenames. Who wants a CPU named after some lame horse or river? Anyway, it's not the AMD marketing people who use the codenames... if you look at www.amd.com they say "athlon with performance enhancing cache" not thunderbird. It's the fan sites that make the codenames stick.
Anyway, I can't wait till AMD releases the 6Ghz Viper
No, actually it was Al Gore. If it wasn't for Gore stealing votes from Ralph Nader, Nader would have had a real chance. So many people are afraid of 'wasting' a vote on Nader they instead waste it on Gore. Serves them right. I can't believe anyone voted for Gore when in truth they prefered Nader.
I personally could care less whether Bush or Gore win, they both look like liars to me and what they say has nothing to do with what they will actually do.
Unfortunatly, there is a long list of drivers who thought they could drive without regard for the speed limit or basicly any other traffic laws. Of course, some people will say "those people were just bad drivers to begin with, or drunks, or total idiots who couldn't tie thier own shoes much less change lanes on the interstate at 85mph while talking on a cell phone" Yeah and D&D is just a game! Like people who think they can play around with drugs, sex, or windows me, the person who drivers a motorized vehicle is just getting in line to die. The evidence is clearly stacked against them. The interstates are too carefully designed to cause death to avoid. Yeah, right.
Eh, incorrect. Public defenders are, as the name implies, for _defending_. They only apply if you are charged with a crime. On the other hand, there are in some places free legal services for the poor, however they aren't very usefull. At the time I was making $1200/month. Rent where I live is $800, my car insurance is $100 and my car payment is $300. Aparently, I didn't qualify for the free legal aid. At $1200/month I was making way too much money.
If you count humans as 'natural', than it's only fair to count us that way all the time. Killing off the tiger was the natural affect of us comming into contact with it, and now the natural affect we have discovered through cloneing may bring it back.