The weathermen amy not be any better than 50% at predicting ordinary weather, but tornados, rain-caused floods, huricanes, monsoons, snow-storms, heat waves, high winds, droughts, etc. are predicted far better now than in the past. Would you like to be vacationing in Florida and get a huricane warning, or just get washed out to sea? Would you like to be in the tornado cellar in Kansas, or take a trip to LA via tornado? Get real. Modern weather prediction saves lives, money, property, insurance, boats, airplanes, etc. now, whereas in the past people just lost everything, or died.
What if they do this to lead geeks out of dark basements and into the light, where they can trap us ? They could control the nerd/geek kingdom! Oh, no! where is my tinfoil hat when I need it!
You say no one is buying high end servers from Dell, and getting them from the other guys? But Dell is number 1 in server sales in the US, and increased market share in server sales. Dell is not missing a boat. Number one in every market segment. Market share increased in every segment. This quarter's results just announced. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6463485 Y es, I work at Dell.
Uh, let's see now, I work at Dell, and we are now shipping Redhat, Suse... Maybe Windows is not dead right now, but soon, very soon... (My personal opinion) Please... I am so tired of fixing systems with windows issues. Although now that I use mozilla for most of my web surfing, I am not getting any of the crud I use adaware, pest patrol, spybot, spy blaster for. And no viruses come in... Of course I only use mozill on my own systems.
People win prizes this big nearly every day. winning a money prize means squat. Winning the nobel prize, however, means a lot, and has money attached. We need a prize similar to the nobel prize. THe first flight would have gotten it.
Retail means sold by retailers. The business definition of retailers is stores. Buildings that you go into to buy things.
Web sales are not retailers. Direct sales is manufacturers selling directly to the end user.
Dell does this, as well as HP, IBM, and Gateway. A few stores buy from Dell and HP, and sell to the customers. That would be retail.
"Merchants selling tangible goods in a face-to-face environment who normally use conventional terminals and swipe transactions."
"Trade in which a client buys or sells an over-the-counter stock through a broker-dealer."
"In Retail Sales (formerly cash and carry sales), prices are marked before the store is open, and the customers pick what they want, pay and leave." "the selling of products, usually in a shop."
So we have three categories:
1) Store sales. Retail. 2) Internet, or web sales by sellers to end users, not sold by the manufacturers. 3) Direct sales. by the manufacturers to the end users, whether over the web or at the manufacturers.
If you understood business worth beans, or at least took the time to research before you commented, you would know this. Do not take such a narrow view that just one info source is the complete answer, even if it calls itself a dictionary or definition. Just because it calls itself a dictionary or authority does not mean it is one.
So if you read the business news, there are constantly articles about how retail sales are being hurt by the internet sales businesses.
Do you remember Egghead going out of business? Gateway stores closing? That is because retail stores have much higher costs than web sellers, who have higher costs than direct sales. This is why many retailers are going out of business, with only a few big guys still in business. This is why many big store chains are going through chapter 11 or whatever. Notice that the biggest web seller, Amazon, just started to make a profit after many years in business.
There is quite a turnover in web business as well. The neat thing about taxes and business is you can run a business for years without making a profit. But you still gave yourself a paycheck. What happens towards the end is that the employees (not the owners or big guys) stop getting paychecks. The companies supplying stuff on 30, 60, or 90 day till pay terms stop getting paid. Then the business declares bankrupcy. The owners, founders, and big guys did not lose out. They just go off and start up another business, with a different name. Rip off more employees and vendors. Pocket more paychecks. Greed.
All of Dell's sales are through their website. A few of those sales are to VARs. but a kot of VAR sales are direct as well. Like I said before, HP, IBM, and Intel all sell through their web sites. Just goe there amd see. Intel went to 100% of their sales through the web. All their big customers enter their orders on the web as well. You can order one cpu or one complete motherboard on Intel's website. That has been going one for years. 25 bi;;ion folars of sales. So apparently you are not paying attention. I worked for Intel as an EE designing some of those motherboards you can buy from Intel, for 6.5 years. Intel is actually one of the largest motherboard manufacturers, with more than 10 million a year. Dell is the largest. I have been working for dell as an EE designing servers for 1.7 years now. I actually know what I am talking about. So get a clue.
See the title of the graph in the register article? AMD has a leading share of RETAIL desktop sales. Retail sales is declining as a percentage of overall sales. THere is not enough info in their data to tell if AMD is even gaining market share against Intel overall.
good point. Although the 20% includes IBM power PCs, HP PA-Risc, Sun RISC, Compaq alphas, most of the 20% is AMD. There, I did the math for you. Now take two aspirin and call me in the morning. heh heh.
3 million laptop processors is an annoyance to Intel, not a huge deal. And market analysts are amazingly clueless. Just look at what they have said in the past. They are so often wrong in hindsight, but that is not something they kie to admit.
They said reduce excess inventories. That does not mean they actually have excess inventories. They just said that. If you believe everything their PR men say, you are indeed a fool. Actually, they do have excess inventories of laptop cpus. Not huge numbers. No big issue. A recent slowdown in laptop sales. I do not know why. Intel has a regular price cut schedule. It assists them in inventory control. They do it every three months, with a few extra dates thrown in for fun. Every three months they roll out new speed steps, and those usually get the top price slot, so everything else has to move down to make room. Current Analysis is basing their numbers on retail sales, but most of "Intel" PC are direct sales, whereas most "AMD" PC sales are retail. Current Analysis is not the only Market watch / analysis firm saying this stuff, without giving the whole story in big print. It gives them a lot of free publicity, since many big and little magazines and other news portals report that they said that. I have written Fortune about their bad reporting, but they do not care. Headlines mean sales. Not accurate headlines, just headlines. Ever see the national enquirer and other mags at the supermarket checkout? Same thing. Or as I say, same-o same-o. Notice the title of the graph in the article, though? Retail Desktop sales. Oh. now I see. It was in front of me all the time. Doh. heh heh. So they are not lying. Technically. If you look at the headline without reading the whole article, you jump to the wrong conclusion. THey did that on purpose. It actually means the opposite, since retail sales is steadily declining as a percentage of total sales. Direct sales are the more profitable approach. Just ask Dell. HP does direct sales as well. And IBM. And Intel. Hmmm. The top three firms do direct? Most firms do. Of course HP does sell AMDs as well as Intel CPUs. But you will have a very hard time finding any article reporting that retail sales of PCs are steadily decreasing as a percentage of overall PC sales. The easy way to figure this out is look at Dell. Each quarter their market share increases. And all their sales are direct. Hmmm. And they are number one in all PC categories in sales. The other big firms are not increasing market share, and they are not 100% direct sales. Ahh, now I see.
look at the following, for example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/23/ibm cpu sales rocket/ (replace the spaces with _) Intel worldwide cpu sales 80% of the market. By far the majority of Intel sales, and AMD's as well, are the desktop sales. It costs 2 billion dolars to add another plant to make them, so as long as Intel makes more profits than AMD, they can keep ahead in adding capacity as well. Sorry bout that.
AMD numbers are based on (mostly?) retail sales. All of Dell sales are direct. Most of HP sales are direct. Most of IBM sales are direct. Most of Intel sales are direct. I am referring to desktops in the gov, and corp market, as well as direct to customer sales. So yes, AMD sells more retail. Retail sales overall are a decreasing percentage of the desktop sales figures. Makes for a great headline, but it is not true at all, not even close. AMD does not have anywhere near the production capacity Intel has, and both are cranking out full steam ahead. So do the math yourself. if AMD has 20% of the capacity of Intel, and both are maxed out, who sells more?
I agree with you on many points. I worked for Intel for 6.5 years, and I felt that most everything was to line Craig Barrett's pockets. I had no room to move, and I got in trouble whenever I questioned the party line. I do not think the CEO is nice at all. But as far as corporate abuses are concerned, no one at Intel does anything that in any way resembles abuse, because it would open them up to law suits and scrutiny. They do not want anyone scrutinizing them, so they do nothing that might lead to that. Instead, they have a very strict set of corporate / HR policies, and everyone sticks to it, or gets canned. Yes, the top management makes all the decisions and controls everyone below them too much, but the top level does own the company, so they can. That is not illegal. Abusing the market in any monopolistic way or illegal way, never happens, because the company has very strict rules against it. They do not wabt to give any lawyers or government agency any openings to come in, snoop around, meddle, or change what they are doing. There is no chance that Intel is interested in taking over the internet. It is not a profitable item to take over. There is no decent margin to make a profit. The government would come in and take over control. Intel is in business to make money, so since there is very little money to make off the internet, they are not interested. Even the government has not started to tax the internet, because they ahve not seen any way to make decent money out of it.
I personally worked for Intel for 6.5 years, and they do not want to do anything like you are saying. They do not want to kill of the competition, because that will open them up to monopoly prosecution. I am sure that they are not happy that the PA-RISC and Alpha are going away because that reduces the nuber of competitors, and moves them closer to monopoly status. They like living free of government scrutiny and control, which monopoly status would cause. They try to limit the incursions that AMD tries to make into the market, because that allows them more control over the market. More control means that they know more of what is going to happen, so they loose less money gambling on wrong turns. When they loose less money, they pocket more. Greed. THe cost of a PC has fallen from $2500, when the original IBM PC came out (that is not current dollars) to what, $300? So how is Intel ripping people off? You pay as much or more for ram, or HD, or printer, or monitor, than you do for a CPU or chipset. And Intel does not make any of those. And there are several other companies making chipsets, so Intel has competition there as well. Consumers are not a captive group, and Intel does not rip anyone off. AMD is making CPUs as fast as they can, because there are more buyers than they can make chips. Same for Intel. each step in increasing capacity costs about 2 billion dollars, and takes 18 months to build (chip foundries). Intel is building them as fast as they can. One of the biggest problems is that the companies that make PCs want 20% more cpus and chipsets each year thatn Intel and AMD combined can make, and while Intel and AMD increase their capacity up to 20 % each year, that just means that they stay 10 or 20% short of demand. THey can never catch up. ANd while America is nearly filled up with PCs, China, Russia, India, Asia, S Am, and Africa are not, so there is a constantly growing market for their products. It is not likely the Intel and AMD will saturate the market for another 20 years. While I aggree that Microsoft tries to control the market in every way, I am certain that Intel is told by IBM, Dell, HP, and the other big guys what the big guys want. In fact, every year there are far more requests for new products and variations than Intel, or any of the other big guys can supply. There is a limit to the number of engineers available for projects. So all the big guys prioritize the projects they do by asking their customers what they absolutely have to have, and the rest of the projects just do not get done. I know that Intel keeps pushing everything into one cpu instead of offloading some of the computing tasks onto application processors, and I do not like that. But I cannot expect to get everything I want. Intel is not at all interested in a police state. Intel is made up of 40,000 Americans who like their privacy just as much as everybody else. A police state would not help Intel. A police state would slow down the economy, decrease greatly the number of people who would be allowed to buy or use PCs, and suck all the spending money out of the consumers' pockets, so they would have less to spend on Intel. And China is coming up with their own CPU (Dragon?), etc, so maybe there will be more competitors and less market control in China / Asia / India if the Chinese are successful. By the way, China is a perfect example of why Intel does not want the kind of government you wrongly claimed they wanted. As long as the Chinese government was in complete control of Chinese lives, there was no market for Intel there. Intel could not make any money there. Now that China is loosening up, and allowing free market stuff to happen, Intel is making a lot of money.
But Intel was one of the inventors of the internet, and one of the biggest drivers of the expansion of the internet. If it was not for them, and some other big companies, the internet, and the computer business would not have grown nearly so fast. Just calling Intel bad because it is big is stupid. Calling Intel bad because it wants to make more money is stupid. You want to make more money. Does that mean you are bad? No, it is how you spend your money and time that determines if it is good or bad. Intel spends mney on research, and speeding up computing. according to you and everyone else, that is a good thing. AMD does exactly the same thing, in the same big company way. What the internet needs is Intel and other companies that try to find or fund new or faster or safer ways to use computers and the internet. Microsoft is the biggest company trying to find new ways to slow down or make more dangerous using computers and the internet, by code bloat and negligent programming methods that apparently guarantee exponential growth of security issues and code bugs. All you are doing is complaining that you do not like what other people and companies do. Instead of being a major negative source of bullshit, try contributing something positive, like ideas, programs, or hardware designs that fix problems or move us forward. Like Intel does. Shut the fuck up. And stop wasting some of that precious bandwidth posting crap and downloading p0rn.
dude, you do not have a humble opinion, you have an attitude problem. In attacking Dell, you are attacking 25,000 hard-working Americans who make the best computers available. At least you could learn to spell. Best researched, best designed PC products, according to every survey done by all the leading magazines in the business. Those are customer surveys. They sell the most PCs (they are # 1 in sales) because more people like them than any other brand. So why are you shitting on the guy who bought a Dell? Probably because you like attacking people. I am one of those hard-working, proud Dell engineers. I have a clue. I would suggest you get one, except it would be a waste of wisdom.
Recent studies indicate that coin tosses and die rolls are not random. The coin will end up same as it started a little more often than not. do google search on Diaconis coin random to see paper. coin spins on edge are no-where 50-50 because the coin weighs more on the head side, so tails comes up 80% of the time, so coin spins are not random either
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The weathermen amy not be any better than 50% at predicting ordinary weather, but tornados, rain-caused floods, huricanes, monsoons, snow-storms, heat waves, high winds, droughts, etc. are predicted far better now than in the past.
Would you like to be vacationing in Florida and get a huricane warning, or just get washed out to sea?
Would you like to be in the tornado cellar in Kansas, or take a trip to LA via tornado?
Get real.
Modern weather prediction saves lives, money, property, insurance, boats, airplanes, etc. now, whereas in the past people just lost everything, or died.
What if they do this to lead geeks out of dark basements and into the light, where they can trap us ?
They could control the nerd/geek kingdom! Oh, no! where is my tinfoil hat when I need it!
Hasn't HP's server market share been decreasing for some time now, as well?
Dell just announced Suse as well.
You say no one is buying high end servers from Dell, and getting them from the other guys?
Y es, I work at Dell.
But Dell is number 1 in server sales in the US, and increased market share in server sales.
Dell is not missing a boat.
Number one in every market segment.
Market share increased in every segment.
This quarter's results just announced.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6463485
you mean plead the filth!
Uh, let's see now, I work at Dell, and we are now shipping Redhat, Suse...
Maybe Windows is not dead right now, but soon, very soon... (My personal opinion)
Please...
I am so tired of fixing systems with windows issues.
Although now that I use mozilla for most of my web surfing, I am not getting any of the crud I use adaware, pest patrol, spybot, spy blaster for.
And no viruses come in...
Of course I only use mozill on my own systems.
What were you thinking?
Alas? Not.
SInce this material is pure carbon, there is no possibility that anyone could become allergic to it.
What were you thinking?
People win prizes this big nearly every day. winning a money prize means squat.
Winning the nobel prize, however, means a lot, and has money attached.
We need a prize similar to the nobel prize.
THe first flight would have gotten it.
No, actually the first flight to altitude of SpaceShipOne would be the anniversary date.
Today was its second trip.
I'll bet the Navy got a version that automatically locates and zooms in on nude sunbathers.
I want it....
Retail means sold by retailers. The business definition of retailers is stores. Buildings that you go into to buy things.
Web sales are not retailers. Direct sales is manufacturers selling directly to the end user.
Dell does this, as well as HP, IBM, and Gateway.
A few stores buy from Dell and HP, and sell to the customers. That would be retail.
"Merchants selling tangible goods in a face-to-face environment who normally use conventional terminals and swipe transactions."
"Trade in which a client buys or sells an over-the-counter stock through a broker-dealer."
"In Retail Sales (formerly cash and carry sales), prices are marked before the store is open, and the customers pick what they want, pay and leave."
"the selling of products, usually in a shop."
So we have three categories:
1) Store sales. Retail.
2) Internet, or web sales by sellers to end users, not sold by the manufacturers.
3) Direct sales. by the manufacturers to the end users, whether over the web or at the manufacturers.
If you understood business worth beans, or at least took the time to research before you commented, you would know this. Do not take such a narrow view that just one info source is the complete answer, even if it calls itself a dictionary or definition. Just because it calls itself a dictionary or authority does not mean it is one.
So if you read the business news, there are constantly articles about how retail sales are being hurt by the internet sales businesses.
Do you remember Egghead going out of business?
Gateway stores closing?
That is because retail stores have much higher costs than web sellers, who have higher costs than direct sales.
This is why many retailers are going out of business, with only a few big guys still in business.
This is why many big store chains are going through chapter 11 or whatever.
Notice that the biggest web seller, Amazon, just started to make a profit after many years in business.
There is quite a turnover in web business as well.
The neat thing about taxes and business is you can run a business for years without making a profit. But you still gave yourself a paycheck.
What happens towards the end is that the employees (not the owners or big guys) stop getting paychecks. The companies supplying stuff on 30, 60, or 90 day till pay terms stop getting paid. Then the business declares bankrupcy. The owners, founders, and big guys did not lose out. They just go off and start up another business, with a different name. Rip off more employees and vendors. Pocket more paychecks.
Greed.
All of Dell's sales are through their website. A few of those sales are to VARs. but a kot of VAR sales are direct as well.
Like I said before, HP, IBM, and Intel all sell through their web sites. Just goe there amd see.
Intel went to 100% of their sales through the web. All their big customers enter their orders on the web as well.
You can order one cpu or one complete motherboard on Intel's website. That has been going one for years. 25 bi;;ion folars of sales. So apparently you are not paying attention.
I worked for Intel as an EE designing some of those motherboards you can buy from Intel, for 6.5 years.
Intel is actually one of the largest motherboard manufacturers, with more than 10 million a year.
Dell is the largest. I have been working for dell as an EE designing servers for 1.7 years now.
I actually know what I am talking about.
So get a clue.
See the title of the graph in the register article? AMD has a leading share of RETAIL desktop sales. Retail sales is declining as a percentage of overall sales. THere is not enough info in their data to tell if AMD is even gaining market share against Intel overall.
good point. Although the 20% includes IBM power PCs, HP PA-Risc, Sun RISC, Compaq alphas, most of the 20% is AMD.
There, I did the math for you.
Now take two aspirin and call me in the morning. heh heh.
3 million laptop processors is an annoyance to Intel, not a huge deal.
And market analysts are amazingly clueless. Just look at what they have said in the past. They are so often wrong in hindsight, but that is not something they kie to admit.
They said reduce excess inventories.
That does not mean they actually have excess inventories. They just said that. If you believe everything their PR men say, you are indeed a fool.
Actually, they do have excess inventories of laptop cpus. Not huge numbers. No big issue.
A recent slowdown in laptop sales. I do not know why.
Intel has a regular price cut schedule.
It assists them in inventory control.
They do it every three months, with a few extra dates thrown in for fun.
Every three months they roll out new speed steps, and those usually get the top price slot, so everything else has to move down to make room. Current Analysis is basing their numbers on retail sales, but most of "Intel" PC are direct sales, whereas most "AMD" PC sales are retail.
Current Analysis is not the only Market watch / analysis firm saying this stuff, without giving the whole story in big print. It gives them a lot of free publicity, since many big and little magazines and other news portals report that they said that. I have written Fortune about their bad reporting, but they do not care. Headlines mean sales. Not accurate headlines, just headlines. Ever see the national enquirer and other mags at the supermarket checkout? Same thing. Or as I say, same-o same-o. Notice the title of the graph in the article, though? Retail Desktop sales. Oh. now I see. It was in front of me all the time. Doh. heh heh. So they are not lying. Technically. If you look at the headline without reading the whole article, you jump to the wrong conclusion. THey did that on purpose.
It actually means the opposite, since retail sales is steadily declining as a percentage of total sales. Direct sales are the more profitable approach. Just ask Dell. HP does direct sales as well. And IBM. And Intel. Hmmm. The top three firms do direct? Most firms do. Of course HP does sell AMDs as well as Intel CPUs.
But you will have a very hard time finding any article reporting that retail sales of PCs are steadily decreasing as a percentage of overall PC sales. The easy way to figure this out is look at Dell. Each quarter their market share increases. And all their sales are direct. Hmmm. And they are number one in all PC categories in sales. The other big firms are not increasing market share, and they are not 100% direct sales. Ahh, now I see.
look at the following, for example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/23/ibm cpu sales rocket/ (replace the spaces with _)
Intel worldwide cpu sales 80% of the market.
By far the majority of Intel sales, and AMD's as well, are the desktop sales.
It costs 2 billion dolars to add another plant to make them, so as long as Intel makes more profits than AMD, they can keep ahead in adding capacity as well.
Sorry bout that.
AMD numbers are based on (mostly?) retail sales.
All of Dell sales are direct.
Most of HP sales are direct.
Most of IBM sales are direct.
Most of Intel sales are direct.
I am referring to desktops in the gov, and corp market, as well as direct to customer sales.
So yes, AMD sells more retail.
Retail sales overall are a decreasing percentage of the desktop sales figures.
Makes for a great headline, but it is not true at all, not even close.
AMD does not have anywhere near the production capacity Intel has, and both are cranking out full steam ahead.
So do the math yourself.
if AMD has 20% of the capacity of Intel, and both are maxed out, who sells more?
I agree with you on many points. I worked for Intel for 6.5 years, and I felt that most everything was to line Craig Barrett's pockets. I had no room to move, and I got in trouble whenever I questioned the party line. I do not think the CEO is nice at all. But as far as corporate abuses are concerned, no one at Intel does anything that in any way resembles abuse, because it would open them up to law suits and scrutiny. They do not want anyone scrutinizing them, so they do nothing that might lead to that. Instead, they have a very strict set of corporate / HR policies, and everyone sticks to it, or gets canned. Yes, the top management makes all the decisions and controls everyone below them too much, but the top level does own the company, so they can. That is not illegal.
Abusing the market in any monopolistic way or illegal way, never happens, because the company has very strict rules against it. They do not wabt to give any lawyers or government agency any openings to come in, snoop around, meddle, or change what they are doing.
There is no chance that Intel is interested in taking over the internet. It is not a profitable item to take over. There is no decent margin to make a profit. The government would come in and take over control. Intel is in business to make money, so since there is very little money to make off the internet, they are not interested. Even the government has not started to tax the internet, because they ahve not seen any way to make decent money out of it.
I personally worked for Intel for 6.5 years, and they do not want to do anything like you are saying.
They do not want to kill of the competition, because that will open them up to monopoly prosecution.
I am sure that they are not happy that the PA-RISC and Alpha are going away because that reduces the nuber of competitors, and moves them closer to monopoly status.
They like living free of government scrutiny and control, which monopoly status would cause.
They try to limit the incursions that AMD tries to make into the market, because that allows them more control over the market. More control means that they know more of what is going to happen, so they loose less money gambling on wrong turns. When they loose less money, they pocket more. Greed.
THe cost of a PC has fallen from $2500, when the original IBM PC came out (that is not current dollars) to what, $300? So how is Intel ripping people off? You pay as much or more for ram, or HD, or printer, or monitor, than you do for a CPU or chipset. And Intel does not make any of those.
And there are several other companies making chipsets, so Intel has competition there as well.
Consumers are not a captive group, and Intel does not rip anyone off.
AMD is making CPUs as fast as they can, because there are more buyers than they can make chips. Same for Intel. each step in increasing capacity costs about 2 billion dollars, and takes 18 months to build (chip foundries). Intel is building them as fast as they can. One of the biggest problems is that the companies that make PCs want 20% more cpus and chipsets each year thatn Intel and AMD combined can make, and while Intel and AMD increase their capacity up to 20 % each year, that just means that they stay 10 or 20% short of demand. THey can never catch up. ANd while America is nearly filled up with PCs, China, Russia, India, Asia, S Am, and Africa are not, so there is a constantly growing market for their products. It is not likely the Intel and AMD will saturate the market for another 20 years. While I aggree that Microsoft tries to control the market in every way, I am certain that Intel is told by IBM, Dell, HP, and the other big guys what the big guys want. In fact, every year there are far more requests for new products and variations than Intel, or any of the other big guys can supply. There is a limit to the number of engineers available for projects. So all the big guys prioritize the projects they do by asking their customers what they absolutely have to have, and the rest of the projects just do not get done.
I know that Intel keeps pushing everything into one cpu instead of offloading some of the computing tasks onto application processors, and I do not like that. But I cannot expect to get everything I want.
Intel is not at all interested in a police state. Intel is made up of 40,000 Americans who like their privacy just as much as everybody else. A police state would not help Intel. A police state would slow down the economy, decrease greatly the number of people who would be allowed to buy or use PCs, and suck all the spending money out of the consumers' pockets, so they would have less to spend on Intel.
And China is coming up with their own CPU (Dragon?), etc, so maybe there will be more competitors and less market control in China / Asia / India if the Chinese are successful.
By the way, China is a perfect example of why Intel does not want the kind of government you wrongly claimed they wanted. As long as the Chinese government was in complete control of Chinese lives, there was no market for Intel there. Intel could not make any money there. Now that China is loosening up, and allowing free market stuff to happen, Intel is making a lot of money.
But Intel was one of the inventors of the internet, and one of the biggest drivers of the expansion of the internet. If it was not for them, and some other big companies, the internet, and the computer business would not have grown nearly so fast. Just calling Intel bad because it is big is stupid. Calling Intel bad because it wants to make more money is stupid. You want to make more money. Does that mean you are bad? No, it is how you spend your money and time that determines if it is good or bad. Intel spends mney on research, and speeding up computing. according to you and everyone else, that is a good thing. AMD does exactly the same thing, in the same big company way. What the internet needs is Intel and other companies that try to find or fund new or faster or safer ways to use computers and the internet. Microsoft is the biggest company trying to find new ways to slow down or make more dangerous using computers and the internet, by code bloat and negligent programming methods that apparently guarantee exponential growth of security issues and code bugs.
All you are doing is complaining that you do not like what other people and companies do. Instead of being a major negative source of bullshit, try contributing something positive, like ideas, programs, or hardware designs that fix problems or move us forward. Like Intel does. Shut the fuck up. And stop wasting some of that precious bandwidth posting crap and downloading p0rn.
dude, you do not have a humble opinion, you have an attitude problem. In attacking Dell, you are attacking 25,000 hard-working Americans who make the best computers available. At least you could learn to spell.
Best researched, best designed PC products, according to every survey done by all the leading magazines in the business. Those are customer surveys. They sell the most PCs (they are # 1 in sales) because more people like them than any other brand. So why are you shitting on the guy who bought a Dell? Probably because you like attacking people. I am one of those hard-working, proud Dell engineers. I have a clue. I would suggest you get one, except it would be a waste of wisdom.
Recent studies indicate that coin tosses and die rolls are not random.
The coin will end up same as it started a little more often than not.
do google search on Diaconis coin random to see paper.
coin spins on edge are no-where 50-50 because the coin weighs more on the head side, so tails comes up 80% of the time, so coin spins are not random either