Neither amd nor nvidia makes the actual card, just the chips and design spec. Busted fans would be the fault of the card manufacture. And it's a good bet the same manufacture makes crappy nvidia cards too.

Drivers are a valid point. Though not one I've experienced myself.
Worst i can say about drivers is nvidia won't let you easily uninstall the support software if you replace a burnt out card with an amd. The uninstaller wouldn't run without a valid nvidia card installed.

I'm not exactly a routine patron of review sites, but from my last bit of research the top sites all dock points because amd made the cards.
Same with cpus. The first site google returned claimed no performance difference between my 6 year old 4 core 2.3ghz amd, my new 8 core 4.2ghz amd, and the single core intel my father's 8 year old netbook runs.

There is a lot of blatant intel/nvidia bias out there and it's really annoying to wade through to get an idea of real performance.

I buy AMD because it's cheaper. I have yet to notice a real performance difference.
The fact my money doesn't go towards bribing benchmark/review sites and prebuilt manufactures to lock competition out of the market is just a bonus.

640k res. That should be enough for anyone.

"The great white devils executed him out of fear. Even with him helpless they feared him so much they killed him in his sleep."

VS

"They feared him so much they, uhm, tossed him in basement and forgot about him... like, uhm, birthday socks from your aunt..."

The latter has less of a holy war recruitment kick to it.

Slapping him in maximum security prison for life with no chance of parole might as well be death, but is something like 1/10th as expensive as execution.

Plus, in death he gets to be a martyr and his story paraded around on recruitment drives. But in life he can be forgotten and quietly keel over (after a couple years of a porkrind and bacon diet).

Unfortunately their luggage was placed on air freight and half of it is currently believed to be somewhere in Seattle. The other half was recently spotted in a TSA frequented pawnshop in Miami.

As I recall, the original iteration of subway cars were windowless.
It didn't end well...

Even if there is nothing to see outside, people still need that visual connection to the outside world.

Cryofreeze everyone in the world for the duration of a trip. Then all transportation will be instantaneous for all.

AC is just using his default rage scapegoat.
If this were fox news the post would be "Thanks Obama!"
NBC: "Bush era leftover for us to deal with."
Country music station: "Muslim terrorists!"
3am radio talk show: "Alien Illuminati plot to steal our toe nails!"

You read a couple thousand hours playing a single game.
She reads "easily entertained and focuses on a single repetitive activity. Just have to stock up on learning games and mommy can have lots of Me time."

I don't see ads because I run adblock.
But I'm not deluded enough to believe ads don't have a legitimate use.

Slapping a sponsored link to adobe at the top of my search for "pdf editor" is vastly different than overwriting the links and sending me to a hack job website trying to sell me genuine counterfit handbags, black magic love slavery spells, and adobe pro licenses for 1/10th what they normally cost.

Google is providing a service, or is serving ads on behalf of the webpage owner you are viewing.
Superfish is getting ad revenue without providing you a service.

If you can't tell the difference between a legitimate and limited advertiser and leech malware then you need your eyes checked.

15 year old Handheld GPS receiver...

It should have gone away when the soviets did. It hasn't made any sense since the 80's.
Well, other than for a way for TV shows/movies to show off how rich someone is by offering the main character a cuban cigar.