If you have 128M of ram, for now, create two 64M (or 128M if you can spare the space, but I wouldn't) swap partitions on two different drives. If you have only one drive, make it a 128M partition near the beginning...
Partitions:
/boot SWAP ... others...
... this way your kernel files are always in the first 1024 cylinders but your swap is at the fastest part of older disks (newer disks use scattering to make all reads and writes the same speed).
If you use two disks, and assuming the load on both is about the same, set the priorities to be equal in/etc/fstab:
This way the Linux kernel automatically uses both partitions simultaneously for faster reads and writes. If your hard drive isn't doing anything else, you'll get twice the speed out of this.
Again, with 128M of ram, you only need 128M of swap, even for most mid-level server apps. If you want to run Slashdot on your PC, you might need more:)...
... leave some unpartitioned space in the middle of your drive to add swap to later if you need to... (or to quickly partition and back up data to if another partition craps out).
Are you having a serious case of ignorance today? Because the author never said that companies were releasing drivers all the time, he said they should. You also infer that you haven't done any driver coding yourself -- that's a serious loss of credibility in this game considering your comments.
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Actually, MP3 is quite good for Joe Sixpack... I know people who can't remember which switch is Power and which is Reset that use, create and trade MP3 files on the Internet. I used RealAudio format for my friends' CDs (Hey, can I borrow that?) for a long time before using MP3 because I already had a realaudio player and real encoder is free... Mp3 is just easier now because there are so many tools. Sure, Joe sixpack who buys a new computer tomorrow may not use MP3... but in a month he will:).
Want quality? Get a good ripper & encoder... most people don't use quality tools. CDParanoia (for Linux only AFAIK) rips CDs digitally (not using the sound card, but raw off the drive) to avoid skips, etc. and BladeEnc gets better audio quality at higher bitrates (168k+) than the other compressors.
I must say, I doubted Microsoft a few years ago when they said that DirectX would allow Windows to become the gaming platform of the future. They were right... DirectX is the only reason for Windows... a driver platform for DOS basically;). Oh, and multitasking that you shouldn't use unless you want to crash. I only use Windows to play heat.net these days;)
I think a distributed project would be great, assuming anonymity, and the fact that most people's outgoing pipeline is fairly unused. If browsers could simply toss the current page an META summary to a search server for it to check if that page is indexed and update that information. If the page isn't indexed, it can do it's spidering on it... of course, a majority of visited pages would probably be indexed, but the work completed would increase exponentially (especially personal sites).
For an excellent example that is almost there, see the Open Directory.
Interestingly I find hotbot to be the best search engine in this respect as it has a very useful advanced search option... "Find color with word stemming located anywhere created at any time but do not include pages containing x,y,z,a,b,c"... I do a basic search, get a few dozen thousand matches, look over what pages I'm getting that I don't want, hit back and add those keywords to my "don't match" list... eventually I get a few hundred websites that are highly related. Then I bookmark the search results (as they're dynamic).
You might want to learn to quote properly... so your posts are legible...
Antitrust law is retroactive, which means that even if something was perfectly legal when you actually did it, if it is subsequently declared illegal you are still liable.
This means that there is no way to tell if you are breaking the law when you do something, because the law doesn't exist yet! Microsoft's phalanx of corporate lawyers would never have broken existing laws, Bill is too smart for that.
What I'm sick of is people who don't understand the law. antitrust can only really be applied in hindsight. When you see a company suddenly charging $250+ for an OS that used to cost $100 and no one has a competing product (but used to) and there doesn't seem to be much reason for it (the other products were viable)... then you investigate. OS/2 didn't fall because it sucked (I didn't like it much, but I didn't like Windows either)... it fell mostly because it didn't get shipped on OEM desktops.
That's why MS is getting it where it's deserved... pushing OEMs around. Latest Computer Reseller News has an article on OEMs begging MS to let them multi-boot their PCs into Windows 2000 and Windows 98 so the user can decide which to use, then after a "period of time", have to have the other erased (automatically). MS wants to charge full dual licensing for the two copies...
The point is not that Windows wasn't compatible with other DOSs, in fact, it was. DR-DOS and others were better DOSs than DOS itself. The only reason for the incompatibilities (pick up Undocumented DOS by Andrew Schulman at a used book store) was Microsoft purposely adding checks for its own DOS. If they'd simply made a product (even if it ran best on their own DOS) and tried to make it work well, they'd have no legal problems. The legal problem is in checking obscure things to see whose DOS is running (like what part of memory the character map for the keyboard is stored in... which was specific to MS DOS because it was illogical).
Reminds me of the MIT AI Olympics and other such events. For instance, the attempt to build a robot that, without touching the ground, can find a red circular 'puck', pick it up, and put it in another specified location. These contests have been going on for years and some of the universities have done well -- but to my knowledge, none have pulled it off yet.
It'll be interesting to see the level this science (pertaining to nanotech and AI) has got to outside the University research community...
Sorry, someone had to use that word in here. But at any rate, part of the issue is Unix-minded people looking at Windows-minded people. I know people who honestly believe that Outlook is a good program because it does everything that it does. Mind you, they run Pentium-II 300+ machines with 8gig or more of drive space and twice as much RAM as necessary (in my mind).
Unix has always aimed at having dozens (or hundreds) of tiny single-purpose programs to do individual groups of tasks. Shell scripting is a very powerful tool in this environment because combining grep, awk, sed and find you've got more tools than Windows has already (using ANY built-in tools). The issue is ease-of use.
Bill Gates wants "a computer on every desktop" and what he understands is that people don't want to write shell scripts. People here is defined as those who spend money on computers on average. We the *nix community do not fit into that category. We are not the vast majority of users. Therefore, bloatware gets built, not out of laziness or pressure tactics, but because of a philosophy of ease-of-use. Making a program intuitive and easy means adding hundreds of features to make it intuitive and easy to all the people who might come across it. emacs is intuitive to some people (I don't know who:) whereas vi makes sense to others. Some prefer the feel of jed or joe. In the MS world, people all use Word and Notepad. That's it (most don't even use Notepad).
Most of the people I've trained in Windows have told me they didn't even know Outlook (which they may use daily) had sticky-notes built in. I like those sticky notes... but to make them built-in, Outlook's code stays in memory even if you just want one stupid sticky note on the screen. People don't know the feature exists because the software's intuitive enough to get them working without having to explore. No exploration = no novelties.
As people become more and more computer savvy, they start buying toolkits, like Norton or Nuts&Bolts to do things to their computer... they want stuff to work with. *nix has those things built-in, the difference is that we, the anti-bloat community, don't appeal to the masses because they don't want to type
/sbin/ifconfig | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -f 2 ' '
to get their IP address. Heck, they don't care that they have an IP address.
Should we fix this? I don't think so. I don't think that the Linux community will benefit from appealing to the general public because Linux will then become bloated as well. Linux is not bloated because it is limited in scope and tries to do what it does well. It's that different paradigm thing:).
Enough of my rambling...
- Windows on the desktop, sure... but can we keep the server alive for an hour, please?
Unfortunately, windows.h in Windows references every possible function... so including it (which you almost must) will link your program against all library functions -- some of which are NOT dynamic. Also, since Windows does DLLs so poorly (not versioned in the filename), most big apps are linked statically or come with their own copies of the same DLLs to put in their local path to make sure nothing gets broken. Ever searched a Windows machine for MFC*.DLL or winsock*.dll ?... have a good one!
You do realize, of course, that your hundred and some megs of ram are why it loads fast? Load up sysmon some time and take a look at the allocated memory. It's probably sitting around 130 meg. That DRAGS a computer with less ram to its knees. Sure, Word loads fast on my machine too... it also crashes if I edit a 6 meg document. Why shouldn't it edit a 6 meg document, it can insert 6 meg pictures, can't it? Microsoft adds a lot of toy value to its software, but power-hungry users are left begging for REAL software. Unfortunately, we (the power people) are the minority... that is, we're NOT Microsoft's market. That, and most power-hungry users just go out and buy more hardware to make the software run. I'll pay an extra $100 for a better video card to make my games go from 8 fps to 50... but to get a real-time spell checker? hello?
Interestingly enough, when I read your post it made me think of all the E-Zines I read when I started reading Wired. I was subscribing to 2600 by mail, CDC by E-mail, and several other 'hacker' zines that were available at the time. I ran a BBS and hubbed 4 networks with political and technical discussions on them. One day it happened -- everyone was talking about the first month's issue of Wired magazine. Everyone was talking about the second, then the third. It wasn't a replacement of the others, it was the interest in having a 'real' magazine to go out and buy and bring to school or work that really represented the "us" that read it.
Ah well... I still read CDC and the like... and don't read Wired anymore. Like another reader mentionned, I have the best issues on my shelf in order, right back to the first few.
/. is becoming what WiReD was... but it lacks some of the hard journalism that a "professional" (making money doing it) magazine can pull off...
I think you missed the point... did you digest WiReD in the way that Katz is describing? I did... I read every article for 5 years... I used the E-mail gateway to grab electronic copies of the articles for issues I missed back when I was on FidoNET. It was the ultimate magazine, and would be now, if the "outsiders" of this new-media culture had been willing to fund its venture. Unfortunately, this new culture is cheap as well... I think that's the area WiReD forgot.
You may be wondering what's going to happen, but those of us who read and followed WiReD already know... it was almost predicted, and Katz hints at it himself -- it won't be WiReD anymore. It'll be a magazine. God forbid, it'll be a newsy version of Yahoo... or PC Gamer... whatever. It doesn't matter. It won't be what it was and what it was was good. I don't even buy it anymore because it's not worth the money now (here in Canada, it's cheaper on the newsstand than to pay the subscription price in $US).
At any rate, you may end up enjoying Wired mk II... I'll stick to slashdot -- this is where HoTWiReD tried to go but didn't. A touch more politics and human-centric information in here and it'd be WiReD... =P-]
I think part of the misconception here is that the game company would spend years developing the game engine in a closed area and then free it to everyone. This isn't what is intended by the Bazaar model. However, it's probably what that company's lawyers would tell them:). The idea would be to be open from the near-beginning. Get a game engine going, help work on it, make it GPL. If most 3D gaming companies worked on one excellent GPL'd rendering engine, then the variety in games would be in the artistic quality and gameplay. Yes, art should be art. Art has always been seen as valuable in society. Art sometimes requires no effort but is still valued because of esthetics. A GPL'd game engine may use non GPL'd levels, artwork, music, game theory, etc. Game companies would be rated on creativity, not who had the money to license Carmack's latest engine ($500,000 US).
(Flame warning) If you're going to argue, be right.
Flammable:Adj. Easily set on fire -- see flammability (Websters, Copyright 1979).
Inflammable:Adj. Another word for flammable. Also, easily excited. (Ibid.)
Irregardless:Adj/Adv. A word used by mistake or in a humorous way instead of regardless.
As for the truck thing, you may be right about that inside the trucking world, but you're still wrong in the English world. Just because some neophyte (beginner / amateur) didn't know that flammable and inflammable are the same word doesn't mean that they aren't.
Besides (as a side note), English is a usage-based language. If it's used enough, it's English. If you want a strictly regulated language, research French or Latin some time.
Maybe you unionized (no offense to unions in general in case I get mail bombed) lazy workers in IT don't like it, but those of us who've had a choice of recompiling a kernel or staring at a BSOD have chosen recompiling kernels. Would you rather pay Microsoft $150 to tell you you should wait for the next service pack? I guess you would. If you think recompiling a kernel is hard (try make xconfig from an xterm window, it's easier than the Windows control panel... ) or beyond what a company is willing to do, it's because the IT person is to lazy to learn something so simple. Linux makes sense. Things are laid out simply and logically. Sure, there's a learning curve. It took me about 2 years to get into the MS groove with Windows NT... figuring out what was working where and how... the registry? No one's an expert. Linux? There are no hidden settings. You want to find out all the options for something, grep out the comments in the Linux kernel to a text file and store it for reference. Can't do that? Shouldn't be an IT person. Don't 'feel like it'? Go home.
I notice you haven't seen that AMD's not dropping the K6 line at any rate. They'll keep producing the Super7's as long as there's a market for them. That ought to make the low-cost PCs keep rolling out.
I would presume that AMD, having a lower budget than Intel, is hoping that the intelligent community would see the benefits in its technology and download the specs to use them. AMD has all of its optimization information (VERY good information) available for its chips. http://www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/ for example.
I hate to break it to you, but Intel sells their breaking CPUs for over $2000 a part. AMD tops out at ~$600. Have a nice day (Intel's taxing you, not AMD).
Considering the fact that they've been under the FTC's eye for the last 3 or 4 years pretty heavily, it's very dangerous. They can probably only afford it (politically) because AMD outsold them on the desktop this year so far. The problem is that if they both up their prices (to pay for their increasing costs), they'll get collusion... FTC again:).
AMD sold more processors than Intel in desktop machines in the first quarter of this year. Intel does not have 90%, it's more like 43% (desktop market).
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If you have 128M of ram, for now, create two 64M (or 128M if you can spare the space, but I wouldn't) swap partitions on two different drives. If you have only one drive, make it a 128M partition near the beginning ...
...
/etc/fstab:
:) ...
... (or to quickly partition and back up data to if another partition craps out).
Partitions:
/boot
SWAP
... others
... this way your kernel files are always in the first 1024 cylinders but your swap is at the fastest part of older disks (newer disks use scattering to make all reads and writes the same speed).
If you use two disks, and assuming the load on both is about the same, set the priorities to be equal in
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults,pri=1 0 0
/dev/hdc2 swap swap defaults,pri=1 0 0
This way the Linux kernel automatically uses both partitions simultaneously for faster reads and writes. If your hard drive isn't doing anything else, you'll get twice the speed out of this.
Again, with 128M of ram, you only need 128M of swap, even for most mid-level server apps. If you want to run Slashdot on your PC, you might need more
... leave some unpartitioned space in the middle of your drive to add swap to later if you need to
Are you having a serious case of ignorance today? Because the author never said that companies were releasing drivers all the time, he said they should. You also infer that you haven't done any driver coding yourself -- that's a serious loss of credibility in this game considering your comments.
Actually, MP3 is quite good for Joe Sixpack ... I know people who can't remember which switch is Power and which is Reset that use, create and trade MP3 files on the Internet. I used RealAudio format for my friends' CDs (Hey, can I borrow that?) for a long time before using MP3 because I already had a realaudio player and real encoder is free ... Mp3 is just easier now because there are so many tools. Sure, Joe sixpack who buys a new computer tomorrow may not use MP3 ... but in a month he will :).
Want quality? Get a good ripper & encoder ... most people don't use quality tools. CDParanoia (for Linux only AFAIK) rips CDs digitally (not using the sound card, but raw off the drive) to avoid skips, etc. and BladeEnc gets better audio quality at higher bitrates (168k+) than the other compressors.
I must say, I doubted Microsoft a few years ago when they said that DirectX would allow Windows to become the gaming platform of the future. They were right ... DirectX is the only reason for Windows ... a driver platform for DOS basically ;). Oh, and multitasking that you shouldn't use unless you want to crash. I only use Windows to play heat.net these days ;)
I think a distributed project would be great, assuming anonymity, and the fact that most people's outgoing pipeline is fairly unused. If browsers could simply toss the current page an META summary to a search server for it to check if that page is indexed and update that information. If the page isn't indexed, it can do it's spidering on it ... of course, a majority of visited pages would probably be indexed, but the work completed would increase exponentially (especially personal sites).
For an excellent example that is almost there, see the Open Directory.
Interestingly I find hotbot to be the best search engine in this respect as it has a very useful advanced search option ... "Find color with word stemming located anywhere created at any time but do not include pages containing x,y,z,a,b,c" ... I do a basic search, get a few dozen thousand matches, look over what pages I'm getting that I don't want, hit back and add those keywords to my "don't match" list ... eventually I get a few hundred websites that are highly related. Then I bookmark the search results (as they're dynamic).
What I'm sick of is people who don't understand the law. antitrust can only really be applied in hindsight. When you see a company suddenly charging $250+ for an OS that used to cost $100 and no one has a competing product (but used to) and there doesn't seem to be much reason for it (the other products were viable)
That's why MS is getting it where it's deserved
The point is not that Windows wasn't compatible with other DOSs, in fact, it was. DR-DOS and others were better DOSs than DOS itself. The only reason for the incompatibilities (pick up Undocumented DOS by Andrew Schulman at a used book store) was Microsoft purposely adding checks for its own DOS. If they'd simply made a product (even if it ran best on their own DOS) and tried to make it work well, they'd have no legal problems. The legal problem is in checking obscure things to see whose DOS is running (like what part of memory the character map for the keyboard is stored in ... which was specific to MS DOS because it was illogical).
...
Keep it straight
Reminds me of the MIT AI Olympics and other such events. For instance, the attempt to build a robot that, without touching the ground, can find a red circular 'puck', pick it up, and put it in another specified location. These contests have been going on for years and some of the universities have done well -- but to my knowledge, none have pulled it off yet.
...
It'll be interesting to see the level this science (pertaining to nanotech and AI) has got to outside the University research community
Sorry, someone had to use that word in here. But at any rate, part of the issue is Unix-minded people looking at Windows-minded people. I know people who honestly believe that Outlook is a good program because it does everything that it does. Mind you, they run Pentium-II 300+ machines with 8gig or more of drive space and twice as much RAM as necessary (in my mind).
:) whereas vi makes sense to others. Some prefer the feel of jed or joe. In the MS world, people all use Word and Notepad. That's it (most don't even use Notepad).
... but to make them built-in, Outlook's code stays in memory even if you just want one stupid sticky note on the screen. People don't know the feature exists because the software's intuitive enough to get them working without having to explore. No exploration = no novelties.
... they want stuff to work with. *nix has those things built-in, the difference is that we, the anti-bloat community, don't appeal to the masses because they don't want to type
:).
...
... but can we keep the server alive for an hour, please?
Unix has always aimed at having dozens (or hundreds) of tiny single-purpose programs to do individual groups of tasks. Shell scripting is a very powerful tool in this environment because combining grep, awk, sed and find you've got more tools than Windows has already (using ANY built-in tools). The issue is ease-of use.
Bill Gates wants "a computer on every desktop" and what he understands is that people don't want to write shell scripts. People here is defined as those who spend money on computers on average. We the *nix community do not fit into that category. We are not the vast majority of users. Therefore, bloatware gets built, not out of laziness or pressure tactics, but because of a philosophy of ease-of-use. Making a program intuitive and easy means adding hundreds of features to make it intuitive and easy to all the people who might come across it. emacs is intuitive to some people (I don't know who
Most of the people I've trained in Windows have told me they didn't even know Outlook (which they may use daily) had sticky-notes built in. I like those sticky notes
As people become more and more computer savvy, they start buying toolkits, like Norton or Nuts&Bolts to do things to their computer
/sbin/ifconfig | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -f 2 ' '
to get their IP address. Heck, they don't care that they have an IP address.
Should we fix this? I don't think so. I don't think that the Linux community will benefit from appealing to the general public because Linux will then become bloated as well. Linux is not bloated because it is limited in scope and tries to do what it does well. It's that different paradigm thing
Enough of my rambling
- Windows on the desktop, sure
Unfortunately, windows.h in Windows references every possible function ... so including it (which you almost must) will link your program against all library functions -- some of which are NOT dynamic. Also, since Windows does DLLs so poorly (not versioned in the filename), most big apps are linked statically or come with their own copies of the same DLLs to put in their local path to make sure nothing gets broken. Ever searched a Windows machine for MFC*.DLL or winsock*.dll ? ... have a good one!
You do realize, of course, that your hundred and some megs of ram are why it loads fast? Load up sysmon some time and take a look at the allocated memory. It's probably sitting around 130 meg. That DRAGS a computer with less ram to its knees. Sure, Word loads fast on my machine too ... it also crashes if I edit a 6 meg document. Why shouldn't it edit a 6 meg document, it can insert 6 meg pictures, can't it? Microsoft adds a lot of toy value to its software, but power-hungry users are left begging for REAL software. Unfortunately, we (the power people) are the minority ... that is, we're NOT Microsoft's market. That, and most power-hungry users just go out and buy more hardware to make the software run. I'll pay an extra $100 for a better video card to make my games go from 8 fps to 50 ... but to get a real-time spell checker? hello?
Interestingly enough, when I read your post it made me think of all the E-Zines I read when I started reading Wired. I was subscribing to 2600 by mail, CDC by E-mail, and several other 'hacker' zines that were available at the time. I ran a BBS and hubbed 4 networks with political and technical discussions on them. One day it happened -- everyone was talking about the first month's issue of Wired magazine. Everyone was talking about the second, then the third. It wasn't a replacement of the others, it was the interest in having a 'real' magazine to go out and buy and bring to school or work that really represented the "us" that read it.
... I still read CDC and the like ... and don't read Wired anymore. Like another reader mentionned, I have the best issues on my shelf in order, right back to the first few.
... but it lacks some of the hard journalism that a "professional" (making money doing it) magazine can pull off ...
Ah well
/. is becoming what WiReD was
I think you missed the point ... did you digest WiReD in the way that Katz is describing? I did ... I read every article for 5 years ... I used the E-mail gateway to grab electronic copies of the articles for issues I missed back when I was on FidoNET. It was the ultimate magazine, and would be now, if the "outsiders" of this new-media culture had been willing to fund its venture. Unfortunately, this new culture is cheap as well ... I think that's the area WiReD forgot.
... it was almost predicted, and Katz hints at it himself -- it won't be WiReD anymore. It'll be a magazine. God forbid, it'll be a newsy version of Yahoo ... or PC Gamer ... whatever. It doesn't matter. It won't be what it was and what it was was good. I don't even buy it anymore because it's not worth the money now (here in Canada, it's cheaper on the newsstand than to pay the subscription price in $US).
... I'll stick to slashdot -- this is where HoTWiReD tried to go but didn't. A touch more politics and human-centric information in here and it'd be WiReD ... =P-]
You may be wondering what's going to happen, but those of us who read and followed WiReD already know
At any rate, you may end up enjoying Wired mk II
l8r.
I think part of the misconception here is that the game company would spend years developing the game engine in a closed area and then free it to everyone. This isn't what is intended by the Bazaar model. However, it's probably what that company's lawyers would tell them :). The idea would be to be open from the near-beginning. Get a game engine going, help work on it, make it GPL. If most 3D gaming companies worked on one excellent GPL'd rendering engine, then the variety in games would be in the artistic quality and gameplay. Yes, art should be art. Art has always been seen as valuable in society. Art sometimes requires no effort but is still valued because of esthetics. A GPL'd game engine may use non GPL'd levels, artwork, music, game theory, etc. Game companies would be rated on creativity, not who had the money to license Carmack's latest engine ($500,000 US).
As for the truck thing, you may be right about that inside the trucking world, but you're still wrong in the English world. Just because some neophyte (beginner / amateur) didn't know that flammable and inflammable are the same word doesn't mean that they aren't.
Besides (as a side note), English is a usage-based language. If it's used enough, it's English. If you want a strictly regulated language, research French or Latin some time.
Have a great day (look it up next time).... umm "My boss ... he" is not sexist -- it's a real person. They know if their boss is male or female.
Maybe you unionized (no offense to unions in general in case I get mail bombed) lazy workers in IT don't like it, but those of us who've had a choice of recompiling a kernel or staring at a BSOD have chosen recompiling kernels. Would you rather pay Microsoft $150 to tell you you should wait for the next service pack? I guess you would. If you think recompiling a kernel is hard (try make xconfig from an xterm window, it's easier than the Windows control panel ... ) or beyond what a company is willing to do, it's because the IT person is to lazy to learn something so simple. Linux makes sense. Things are laid out simply and logically. Sure, there's a learning curve. It took me about 2 years to get into the MS groove with Windows NT ... figuring out what was working where and how ... the registry? No one's an expert. Linux? There are no hidden settings. You want to find out all the options for something, grep out the comments in the Linux kernel to a text file and store it for reference. Can't do that? Shouldn't be an IT person. Don't 'feel like it'? Go home.
Duh ... look it up. http://www.distributed.net
I notice you haven't seen that AMD's not dropping the K6 line at any rate. They'll keep producing the Super7's as long as there's a market for them. That ought to make the low-cost PCs keep rolling out.
I would presume that AMD, having a lower budget than Intel, is hoping that the intelligent community would see the benefits in its technology and download the specs to use them. AMD has all of its optimization information (VERY good information) available for its chips. http://www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/ for example.
I hate to break it to you, but Intel sells their breaking CPUs for over $2000 a part. AMD tops out at ~$600. Have a nice day (Intel's taxing you, not AMD).
Considering the fact that they've been under the FTC's eye for the last 3 or 4 years pretty heavily, it's very dangerous. They can probably only afford it (politically) because AMD outsold them on the desktop this year so far. The problem is that if they both up their prices (to pay for their increasing costs), they'll get collusion ... FTC again :).
AMD sold more processors than Intel in desktop machines in the first quarter of this year. Intel does not have 90%, it's more like 43% (desktop market).