Agreed. AMD and ATI are two hugely succesfull and innovative companies. ATI has a huge chunk (more than nvidia) of the discrete graphics market, and AMD has more than doubled it's server side market share in under a year. I'm not an investor, but my first reaction to a merger like this isn't "oh man, that stuck is going to PLUMMET."
Agreed. A US special interest group having any sway over foreign policy is scarey as hell. It's also self-defeating.
If Russia joined the WTO the WTO may have jurisdiction to say "these areas of these buisness' are acting in an illegal or non-competetive way" and could do something about it. That's the spirit of these type of groups. Human rights is a valid reason for not allowing someone to join something that would benefit all involved, but to not allow a country as large as Russia because of a small (globally) company that operates within it's borders selling music is silly at best and idiotic at worst.
What happened to politics.
As I understand it one of the drawbacks of DSL is the further away you are from your provider the more interference the signal is subjected to. So unless you are within a few hundred feet of your provider the overall quality of a DSL connection will drop. And that's one of the advantages that cable internet has over DSL.
I have a 3 meg connection from Charter and whenever a server has the bandwith to spare it hits 380k/s. Runs like a champ.
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Agreed. AMD and ATI are two hugely succesfull and innovative companies. ATI has a huge chunk (more than nvidia) of the discrete graphics market, and AMD has more than doubled it's server side market share in under a year. I'm not an investor, but my first reaction to a merger like this isn't "oh man, that stuck is going to PLUMMET."
Agreed. A US special interest group having any sway over foreign policy is scarey as hell. It's also self-defeating. If Russia joined the WTO the WTO may have jurisdiction to say "these areas of these buisness' are acting in an illegal or non-competetive way" and could do something about it. That's the spirit of these type of groups. Human rights is a valid reason for not allowing someone to join something that would benefit all involved, but to not allow a country as large as Russia because of a small (globally) company that operates within it's borders selling music is silly at best and idiotic at worst. What happened to politics.
As I understand it one of the drawbacks of DSL is the further away you are from your provider the more interference the signal is subjected to. So unless you are within a few hundred feet of your provider the overall quality of a DSL connection will drop. And that's one of the advantages that cable internet has over DSL. I have a 3 meg connection from Charter and whenever a server has the bandwith to spare it hits 380k/s. Runs like a champ.