1 P.R. By choosing to release after AMD, they would in essence be saying "We want you to have all the glory, and forever be remembered as the company who got to 1GHz first". Not likely! The marketing department would have gone ballistic. As we all know, Intel love their huge marketing campaigns. No company in their right mind would brag "We came second... out of two"
2 Market Knowledge. Ironically the clue is in the question: Or more accurately TFA. These analyst meetings are designed for the propagation of carefully chosen information, designed to increase and defend share prices and investor confidence. These propaganda missions are created with care to put as much happy face on every piece of information possible. The best way to compete against an innovator (AMD) is to beat them at their own game. To do this Intel innovates, releases roadmaps and the like to the press and then do their best to meet them. Earnings forecasts, and analyst meetings are held to make sure the market knows that the company forecast is good and so create demand for the stock and consequently increase the value of the company and the CEO's stock options and bonuses. Companies dont give out release dates of June and then ship in February. That would waste opportunity to dominate the headlines in the press in regard to their latest triumphs.
Net result, AMD just beat them to it. The market knew they were both coming.
Crock of $h1t. I am 35, finally last year I was diagnosed with ADHD. This was after eliminating BiPolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder and a few others. I have been taking a prescription now for about 6 months and it has changed my life. I used to think it was normal to sit in infront of my PC and have to remember why I sat down (Tough for a guy who is a server support person). I do, and always have had the ability to 'hyperfocus'; it is very much part of the condition. In fact many ADHD sufferers have an amazing ability to zone in on certain things.
Your comment upsets me. I feel like I am starting a whole new life after this diagnosis and I dont want to hear ignorant, from the hip comments from people who have no clue of the impairment involved in ADHD.
Granted the diagnosis is WAY overused, particularly in some school districts; but dont let that be a reson for you to invalidate my suffering. It's embarrasing anough thank you.
While you have me on a soap box, psychiatrists dont actually sell drugs. That would be the pharmaceutical companies. You mention that "It is simply a case of teacher to (sic) stupid to teach kids" and "Most kid's (sic) diagnosed with adhd (sic)...". I can only assume you teacher was also too stupid to really teach grammar.
As I'm sure you can tell, I am offended. Like with any other mental illness, do your research before you humiliate someone!
Your comment may be 'insightful', but it is wrong.
This is one of those situations where the CEO of Equifax would have been right. I dont remember the exact quote but in effect he said "It isn't your information, it's other people's information about you".
My first question is this: The vocal cords are resonators, they move because air is moving over them. If the cords aren't making any noise, it's because they aren't moving. If they aren't moving how does this system pick up their movement. If you have to sub vocalise (ie mumble quietly to yourself) then how is this different from the throat mike that has been around for ages. Very skimpy article for the New Scientist (all new, no science)
The point about 'casual gamers' and reference to Madden is very accurate. There are only a certain number of games in a season or other finite accomplishments in many games. The Sims however reopens an old can of worms. The MUD, MOO, MUCK , MUSH phenomenon has certainly not died but ASCII really doesn't cut it for many people nowadays. The Sims has many of the same 'hooks' that the MUD's did... some interaction, character development and virtually endless scope for gameplay (No pun intended).
From my experience MUDding's open ended nature caused many people a few trips to Summer School and worse! In my opinion these open ended pastimes are the real distinction between the casual and hardcore gamer.
Although the argument both for and against the presence of competitors ads have some merit the fundamental issue is still personal choice.
I run a business, my ad is in the yellow pages along with everybody else who is in the same line of work. Why is it that despite the fact that I am surrounded by the ads of others (mostly bigger than mine) I have a larger market share in my area? A rhetorical question to which I'm sure we all know the answer to, my service is better and my prices are fair.
The decision to use a company is still based on choices made on the basis of information provided... NOT on the the basis of 'I saw you first'. You cannot call "Shotgun" in the business world and expect everybody to agree. The solution for these companies is to make sure that people still choose their service or product, even after they have been exposed to all the other available options. This is the USA, there is never going to be someone telling you that you are not allowed to be the best.
Go ahead run your ads anywhere you like in my local yellow pages. My company is the best. If these companies cant handle the competition then maybe they should check what they can do better within their company rather than attempting to call 'shotgun' and make their competitors go away!
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Statistics dont lie; this is true. However correlation causality. Just because two things happen at the same does not mean one causes the other.
Nice idea, but not realistic. Two reasons:
1 P.R. By choosing to release after AMD, they would in essence be saying "We want you to have all the glory, and forever be remembered as the company who got to 1GHz first". Not likely! The marketing department would have gone ballistic. As we all know, Intel love their huge marketing campaigns. No company in their right mind would brag "We came second... out of two"
2 Market Knowledge. Ironically the clue is in the question: Or more accurately TFA. These analyst meetings are designed for the propagation of carefully chosen information, designed to increase and defend share prices and investor confidence. These propaganda missions are created with care to put as much happy face on every piece of information possible. The best way to compete against an innovator (AMD) is to beat them at their own game. To do this Intel innovates, releases roadmaps and the like to the press and then do their best to meet them. Earnings forecasts, and analyst meetings are held to make sure the market knows that the company forecast is good and so create demand for the stock and consequently increase the value of the company and the CEO's stock options and bonuses. Companies dont give out release dates of June and then ship in February. That would waste opportunity to dominate the headlines in the press in regard to their latest triumphs.
Net result, AMD just beat them to it. The market knew they were both coming.
Your comment upsets me. I feel like I am starting a whole new life after this diagnosis and I dont want to hear ignorant, from the hip comments from people who have no clue of the impairment involved in ADHD.
Granted the diagnosis is WAY overused, particularly in some school districts; but dont let that be a reson for you to invalidate my suffering. It's embarrasing anough thank you.
While you have me on a soap box, psychiatrists dont actually sell drugs. That would be the pharmaceutical companies. You mention that "It is simply a case of teacher to (sic) stupid to teach kids" and "Most kid's (sic) diagnosed with adhd (sic)...". I can only assume you teacher was also too stupid to really teach grammar.
As I'm sure you can tell, I am offended. Like with any other mental illness, do your research before you humiliate someone!
Your comment may be 'insightful', but it is wrong.
All slashnerd's girlfriends have one of these already dont they? Although I dont really like calling myself a device :)
This is one of those situations where the CEO of Equifax would have been right. I dont remember the exact quote but in effect he said "It isn't your information, it's other people's information about you".
My first question is this: The vocal cords are resonators, they move because air is moving over them. If the cords aren't making any noise, it's because they aren't moving. If they aren't moving how does this system pick up their movement. If you have to sub vocalise (ie mumble quietly to yourself) then how is this different from the throat mike that has been around for ages. Very skimpy article for the New Scientist (all new, no science)
The point about 'casual gamers' and reference to Madden is very accurate. There are only a certain number of games in a season or other finite accomplishments in many games. The Sims however reopens an old can of worms. The MUD, MOO, MUCK , MUSH phenomenon has certainly not died but ASCII really doesn't cut it for many people nowadays. The Sims has many of the same 'hooks' that the MUD's did... some interaction, character development and virtually endless scope for gameplay (No pun intended).
From my experience MUDding's open ended nature caused many people a few trips to Summer School and worse! In my opinion these open ended pastimes are the real distinction between the casual and hardcore gamer.
Although the argument both for and against the presence of competitors ads have some merit the fundamental issue is still personal choice.
I run a business, my ad is in the yellow pages along with everybody else who is in the same line of work. Why is it that despite the fact that I am surrounded by the ads of others (mostly bigger than mine) I have a larger market share in my area? A rhetorical question to which I'm sure we all know the answer to, my service is better and my prices are fair.
The decision to use a company is still based on choices made on the basis of information provided... NOT on the the basis of 'I saw you first'. You cannot call "Shotgun" in the business world and expect everybody to agree. The solution for these companies is to make sure that people still choose their service or product, even after they have been exposed to all the other available options. This is the USA, there is never going to be someone telling you that you are not allowed to be the best.
Go ahead run your ads anywhere you like in my local yellow pages. My company is the best. If these companies cant handle the competition then maybe they should check what they can do better within their company rather than attempting to call 'shotgun' and make their competitors go away!