>> Looks like politicians and lobby groups here look to America to see what they could get away with
Or America is stifling competition on a global scale through what basically amounts to extortion in order to ensure they remain the big dog on the block (understandably).
Perhaps I was a bit too subtles, but yes, I know Macs have Intel processors.
Perhaps I am a bit jaded, but then again, I live in a country where HSPDA broadband easily competes with ADSL. Why? Because the only provider of landlines and international bandwidth owns the cell phone company.
Give it a year or two and/.'ers will be all over Intel again? Or god forbid, Cyrix is resurected and makes some sort of desperate play for our heart$ and mind$.
This is either fantastic news or the start of something truly terrible. For the last couple of years, I have encouraged everyone I know who was upgrading to go the AMD route for this very reason. Out of pure curiosity, I would really like to know where we would be if AMD wasnt on the scene, still dragging along at 2Ghz perhaps?
Now my concern is that at some point the two companies decide to stop competing, Intel goes off and corners the ultra high-end server processor market, and AMD sticks to standard desktop processors, and we are all left we were before AMD came along. Then Cyrix will come back into the picture with an Athlon killer processor, now I dont know about you, but im not really interested in going through this whole cycle again. Im buying a Mac just in case.
Disclaimer: This post may contain traces of nuts.
I live in a 3rd world African country where 60% of the population has never owned a Telephone and never even heard of the Internet (our Minister of Communications being one of them). Laws are written at the whim of our monopoly telecoms provider and anything and everything that can be done to increase profit and decrease expense IS done. A law like this being passed in the US would almost certainly be copied here, which would be a bad thing for me.
So I ask this of all Americans, with tears in my baby blue eyes, please dont let your government screw you over again. Stop them, before they stop me!
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>> Looks like politicians and lobby groups here look to America to see what they could get away with
Or America is stifling competition on a global scale through what basically amounts to extortion in order to ensure they remain the big dog on the block (understandably).
Perhaps I was a bit too subtles, but yes, I know Macs have Intel processors.
Perhaps I am a bit jaded, but then again, I live in a country where HSPDA broadband easily competes with ADSL. Why? Because the only provider of landlines and international bandwidth owns the cell phone company.
Give it a year or two and /.'ers will be all over Intel again? Or god forbid, Cyrix is resurected and makes some sort of desperate play for our heart$ and mind$.
This is either fantastic news or the start of something truly terrible. For the last couple of years, I have encouraged everyone I know who was upgrading to go the AMD route for this very reason. Out of pure curiosity, I would really like to know where we would be if AMD wasnt on the scene, still dragging along at 2Ghz perhaps? Now my concern is that at some point the two companies decide to stop competing, Intel goes off and corners the ultra high-end server processor market, and AMD sticks to standard desktop processors, and we are all left we were before AMD came along. Then Cyrix will come back into the picture with an Athlon killer processor, now I dont know about you, but im not really interested in going through this whole cycle again. Im buying a Mac just in case. Disclaimer: This post may contain traces of nuts.
I live in a 3rd world African country where 60% of the population has never owned a Telephone and never even heard of the Internet (our Minister of Communications being one of them). Laws are written at the whim of our monopoly telecoms provider and anything and everything that can be done to increase profit and decrease expense IS done. A law like this being passed in the US would almost certainly be copied here, which would be a bad thing for me. So I ask this of all Americans, with tears in my baby blue eyes, please dont let your government screw you over again. Stop them, before they stop me!