I state my honest opinion, and SAY IT'S MY OPINION, and the AMD fan trolls come in here and nuke me into oblivion.

There wasn't ANYTHING "troll" about my honest discussion of my experience,and you people who modded me down are fucking idiots.

"The performance is absolutely stellar."

Not for me it wasn't, which is the only thing that matters, much more than your assertions.

"Would you please elaborate on the "poor performance"."

Why? I don'thave to explain/justify anything, so why would I?

"so please further elaborate on how "they burned (you) with their 64 bit processors"."

No, I won't.

"What additional benefit were you expecting from 64-bit architecture?"

Where did I say I "expected an additional benefit"? Why are you putting words in my mouth?

I don't get why you think a) I have to justify my experience to you, and b) you think I said something I clearly didn't.

I used them they were slow, nuff said.

And by that I mean

I paid for a product which , IN MY OPINION, underperformed. AS A CUSTOMER, MY OPINION IS SUFFICIENT TO DETER ME FROM BUYING AMD AGAIN

And no other explanation is necessary, for you or anyone else.

However, before you assume I'm trolling, I will say I used them in a professional capacity, and daily, and they were not up to the task.

Mostly, the poor performance (subjectively, save the benchmarks) of the 64 bit processors made me balk. I had two of them, and they were garbage, IMO.

And this is from a long time supporter of AMD.

Now I have to ask, what's the market for this?

Is it going to compete against Atom?

It seems from the article, it's actually going to compete against the higher/mid range of intel processors, at which point I have to wonder, if they burned me with their 64 bit processors, why would I consider 100 bucks a good deal when I fully expect to get burned again?

I strongly suspect it isn't, nor was it ever, one type of evolution over the other, but a complex interaction between many environmental pressures where both types of evolution played a role.

Why are you proud of showing everyone you have the emotional maturity of an infant?

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=arguing+on+the+internet&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

"they aren't worth taking seriously"

Exactly what I thought after reading your initial post, where you got the facts completely wrong and slathered your smug all over the screen.

It was quite unpleasant to read, actually, because you don't seem terribly interested in real debate, but in that sarcastic teenage crap that adults stop engaging in after they leave high school.

Luckily, I now know that you're that guy who continues slathering his now-proven-irrelevant point all over everything in spite of the fact that his credibility is shot to hell by his well proven willingness to shoot his mouth off with all the facts.

"I do prefer our insanity to 'theirs' but lets not throw stones here."

I'll throw as many stones as I like while they're randomly blowing people up.

And you'll sit there and take it because I'm right and you're wrong.

"These guys are not stupid"

They blow themselves and others up for political/religious ideology.

That is as stupid as it gets.

Virtually all of the discussion here (at the moment 450 comments) regards the US Airlines security response and the various and sundry ways it's stupid.

Which, really, is the least important, least interesting, most overdone subject on Slashdot, but never ceases to be the only thing that occupies Slashdotters minds, as though serious, critical thinking about what happened is beyond you.