May, 2004


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May 04

AMD beats Intel at retail for the first time ever

AMD sold more desktop processors than Intel for the week ending April 24th, with 52% of that market. It’s thought to be the first time that has ever happened. AMD already gave Intel something sour to chew on with their Opteron 64 bit processor and now they’ve managed to become more than just a little competitive in desktop cpu sales. All of this is without the help of Dell, too.

Geeks everywhere are no doubt watching all of this with keen interest…


6
May 04

Hey Crackhead

A San Francisco guy who had his motorcycle vandalized twice in a couple of days wrote an open letter to the perpetrator. I laughed out loud a few times, though it still sucks that his bike was violated like that.


5
May 04

What about that John Kerry?

I’m starting to lean this way myself.


4
May 04

Sony launches Digital Music Service

Sony has launched their Connect digital music service. It boasts the largest music selection (bigger than iTunes?) and has the same pricing structure as the rest (99 cents a track, etc). It’s for Windows only and I think it uses their own proprietary ATRAC-3 digital music format and is playable on their own Minidisc devices.