Wouldn't it just be easier to just buy the stats from the web sites instead of doing it the hard way. Yahoo and other such sites track what you may click on after a search - so bother them for stats.
See, what would bother me is if MicroSoft was turning around and selling the info to the gov't. Who cares if a stupid marketing company gets my info, they won't care if I click on a "How to make Crystal Meth" page?
To marketing companies just remember you are only a number!
I think this guys right, maybe we will see a convergence of PC's and Apple's. AMD's in Macs that can also run linux. Who doesn't win?
Maybe Linus should just buy AMD himself (I'd donate a couple bucks) and implement the whole thing and in the mean time kick Bill Gates out.
What would all this do to linux? Not much I'm sure because linux runs all over the place on both Intel and AMD chips. If they said to Linus "You can only develop kernels that work on AMD proc's" (like someone up top said) then people would just diverge from the new updates and do their own right? And wouldn't that just defeat the purpose of linux anyways - to have someone dictate when, where and on what you could run it.
Come on people... If anything it would get a major hardware maker in the linux corner - plus the chips they make at Transmeta are x86 emulated chips.
Hell we could see linux shipping with new pc's that have AMD chips... but i doubt it.
AMD isn't buying Linus.
Oh, and doesn't AMD already have a bigger market share than Intel, I heard that on CNBC like 6 months ago, and people are still talking about them taking charge. I run an AMD and love it, my 750 Athlon is fast enough to reboot into linux after my roomates run a windows session it doesn't bother me they are still in the dark ages of computing.
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Wouldn't it just be easier to just buy the stats from the web sites instead of doing it the hard way. Yahoo and other such sites track what you may click on after a search - so bother them for stats. See, what would bother me is if MicroSoft was turning around and selling the info to the gov't. Who cares if a stupid marketing company gets my info, they won't care if I click on a "How to make Crystal Meth" page? To marketing companies just remember you are only a number!
I think this guys right, maybe we will see a convergence of PC's and Apple's. AMD's in Macs that can also run linux. Who doesn't win?
Maybe Linus should just buy AMD himself (I'd donate a couple bucks) and implement the whole thing and in the mean time kick Bill Gates out.
What would all this do to linux? Not much I'm sure because linux runs all over the place on both Intel and AMD chips. If they said to Linus "You can only develop kernels that work on AMD proc's" (like someone up top said) then people would just diverge from the new updates and do their own right? And wouldn't that just defeat the purpose of linux anyways - to have someone dictate when, where and on what you could run it.
Come on people... If anything it would get a major hardware maker in the linux corner - plus the chips they make at Transmeta are x86 emulated chips.
Hell we could see linux shipping with new pc's that have AMD chips... but i doubt it.
AMD isn't buying Linus.
Oh, and doesn't AMD already have a bigger market share than Intel, I heard that on CNBC like 6 months ago, and people are still talking about them taking charge.
I run an AMD and love it, my 750 Athlon is fast enough to reboot into linux after my roomates run a windows session it doesn't bother me they are still in the dark ages of computing.