jennyh :
And if AMD dies out, Linux too? Do you remember rejoicing at AMD hitting $1.62 over a year ago fazers? I do - I remember you rejoicing at it.
IIRC it was $1.63
😛. However my remarks were directed at how inept AMD's management (namely Hector Ruiz) was, with his marketshare-at-all-costs philosophy. Not to mention sitting on their butts back when they had the technical lead over Intel. To understand somebody's viewpoint, you really have to follow it instead of looking at just a few posts. Plus my attitude is more akin to a reaction over the Barcelona disappointment - made me go out and buy a Q6700 instead
. I haven't permanently given up on AMD, despite what you think.
I'd bet the Tiananmen Square protestors would find your preoccupation with Intel, nVidia, MS, etc rather silly in comparison to their human rights complaints. Just because you may personally have it good in Scotland doesn't mean you should ignore large parts of the rest of the world by focusing in on some companies you disagree with.
I'm not ignoring it, however I have no means of making any kind of difference.
But you do. Everybody here who can afford a gaming rig just for purely selfish entertainment, can afford to make a small difference. Everybody. Even if it's just giving $20 or so a month to a decent (!) charitable organization. And the exclamation point means to do some research and not contribute to those organizations where they skim off the bulk of the funds so that just a trickle finds its way to the needy.
You know, last time I was in Vietnam, we came across a bunch of Cambodian refugees begging in one of the Saigon streets. Most of the Vietnamese, I hate to say, would cross the street or look the other way. But I also understood that when you can barely support yourself, you probably cannot help the even more needy, despite being embarrassed about it. Anyway, I insisted that the taxi driver go round the traffic circle again so that I could hand out the 2 or 3 hundred thousand dong ($10 or $15) that I had on me. Yeah, I know the parents probably dirtied up their kid's faces to make them look even more needy, but if you could see the hungry yet vacant stare in their faces, you'd still sympathize.
I've traveled fairly extensively and even lived in Europe for 3 years as a teen, and have come to personally realize the "7 degrees of separation" adage is quite true - we're all related to each other by an average of 7 ancestral generations...
You know, I support my wife's extended family in Vietnam to the tune of around $15K a year. That means the difference between a life of poverty and being able to rent a nice house, furniture, and send the youngest to good schools since the gov't over there doesn't offer much in the way of basic services such as clean hospitals or decent schools - you have to pay up front if you want an hospital bed instead of a mat on the floor, clean dressings, medicine, etc. Most of her family is decent and hard-working, but when the average monthly salary in Saigon is < $100, it's hard to afford the basics let alone necessities.
The problem I have with you fazers is - you would still have these people spend more on intel cpu's if they had it. Think about that.
LOL - obviously you have not seen my in-laws
😛. Whenever I come to visit, it's "mot-hai-ba-YO!!" (One-two-three-DRINK!) time... I don't think I have ever even said the word "Intel" once during my many visits. Even if I did, they wouldn't understand me. The only prosetylizing I may have done is giving the eldest brother an old Dell laptop, and I seriously doubt he knew what kind of CPU it had. Seriously, I'm much more interested in learning the history and and culture and customs of the places I visit, not some silly CPU war.
Anyway, just saying that there are far more important issues to get involved with than some cpu-making company with somewhat shady marketing that for some unknown reason you have developed a real hate for.
There isn't. My dislike of intel is the dislike I have for any corporation who treats us like sheep. Note I'm not talking about myself here, because clearly I am free of that influence. I make decisions based on morality and logic, and I am completely immune to advertising and fashion.
Why are so many AMD fanboys/girls so aggressive? This is what it feels like to be doing the right thing no matter the consequences Fazers. People like myself, Baron Matrix, KeithLM and others are driven by this need to help set you and others free. I would bet you anything that all three of us would say the same thing (I don't know either of them but I would assume so) - it's not about supporting AMD, it's about harming intel so we can all reap the benefits.
Well if that's your self-appointed mission in life, so be it. Myself, I consider it a bit on the dubious side. However one could make the argument that helping those who would probably die off and leave more for the rest of us, is not a worthy goal. Or one could argue that humanity should do both - help the less fortunate plus advance the standard of living for the fortunate, on the theory that the first preserves what makes us human while the 2nd eventually benefits all.
I hold Intel in fairly high regard because they
invented the general-purpose CPU (the 4004), and have done far more to advance the personal computer industry that any other company I can think of, with the remotely possible exception of Microsoft. If it weren't for Intel,
very few of us would be here on Tom's expounding on our world views to the detriment and boredom of our fellow posters
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