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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20485 |  CAG-Spitfire (491) May 23, 2008 - 10:22 pm
| | I'm sure the recommended specs will be whatever pathetic, overpriced Mac hardware Apple sold last year to the dead brained hippies who love the smell of Steve Jobs' feces. No self respecting visitor to Firingsquad has anything to worry about. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4469 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 28, 2008 - 11:26 am
| | Heh heh. Damn buggy software. What can you do? Oh well. Thank god the shadowy puppet masters began flooding the news with Miley Cyrus in anticipation of the possibility of such an unfortunate event. If too many people had noticed... I shudder to think about it. There may have been tens of hundreds of put off viewers. They are indeed wise. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20394 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 23, 2008 - 11:01 am » Edited on Apr 23, 2008 - 11:16 am
| | You mean the 486 "Sucks"? Absolutely. I was still in high school when the 486 came out, but I remember trying to convince my Dad to fork out the extra cash for the DX. I'm not even sure I really knew what a FPU was at the time, but I knew games were just better with it. Luckily he bought the DX anyway, though probably not because of my compelling arguments. I think he even still has it running Windows 98 in a corner of the house somewhere. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20394 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 23, 2008 - 10:36 am
| | Well I'm not so sure AMD's product branding is all that bad actually and may actually identify with the Cotsco shopper who just buys whatever's pushed in their face. They should be pretty familiar with the Athlon X2 logo by now and assuming they were reasonably happy with their X2 purchase (and why wouldn't they be writing word documents and surfing the web) will naturally assume that the Phenom X3 is the next best thing. Of course savvy enthusiasts and gamers will know better and just ignore anything having to do with AMD cpus for the time being regardless of the branding. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20378 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 17, 2008 - 06:47 pm
| Oh I doubt you can determine overclocking potential until he's a couple years older. Sugar + Kids = Uberclock.
The price/performance ration probably won't be completely determined exactly until he's about sixteen and asks for the keys to the car.
Sounds like your in for a fun ride, Brandon. Congratulations and Good Luck! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20377 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 17, 2008 - 06:33 pm » Edited on Apr 17, 2008 - 06:38 pm
| | Hmm, yeah, I'm totally confused too. "Firesky" must have just purchased the rights to publish Stargate Worlds which is being developed by Cheyenne Mountain. There's no way there's a second Stargate MMO. As far as I understand it Cheyenne Mountain owns the rights to all things SG-1 the TV show as far as games go. Firesky sounds like they're composed of a bunch of dick wads. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20370 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 16, 2008 - 09:45 pm » Edited on Apr 16, 2008 - 10:02 pm
| I make jokes and generalizations which I shouldn't do, but in all seriousness, my experience with Indian engineers has been mixed, but mostly negative for the following reasons. I've found Indian engineers to be very bright, but there's a huge communication barrier going on when an American company contracts with an Indian company. For starters is the time zone differences which make it extremely daunting to coordinate projects and resources. Then there's the actual language barrier as far as English as a second language not to mention having to communicate over a piece of crap speaker phone. And, unfortunately, the code delivered reflects the lack of communication and has to be thrown out and rewritten. Not the fault of the Indian engineers or the American engineers really.
As far as positive experiences go. With Indian software developers, I have found that when the hiring software company has some control over which Indian engineers are actually hired rather than depending on a completely different company half a world away to determine who is qualified or not, makes a huge difference. Code delivered from external Indian companies comes with absolutely no formatting or structure. Even code which has been copied and pasted straight out of a book with absolutely no comprehension of what it does. If they worked for any other company they would be fired, but done through an Indian company they have no personal responsibility for the code delivered. Not only that, it's absolutely paramount that once a qualified Indian engineer is hired to do a job that they be able to work in close proximity with the other teams, preferably in the same rooms and buildings. When those conditions are met, I have found Indian engineers to deliver absolutely brilliant code. Unfortunately it's way too difficult to get qualified foreign engineers into the U.S. The current lottery system only lets in the luckiest engineers, not the most qualified. Thus when Microsoft and Intel complain to the U.S. senate that there is a desperate need to allow more foreign technical workers into the U.S. there's a very, very good reason for it and it's absolutely tragic that those idiots have their heads so far up their fat, discriminatory asses. I can only hope it improves someday. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20371 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 16, 2008 - 09:07 pm
| | Not that I buy into the psychological and social nonsense of religion, but if there were to be sort of gamers' Hell where those who install cheats and pirate software go, I think a strong theological case could be made that it would involve playing some variation of "The Sims" for time and all of eternity. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4464 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 15, 2008 - 04:19 pm
| | I hope France has a decent judicial system because a broad, difficult to define law such as this one should be overturned. I can see making it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their weight, but to define exactly, in a court of law, what does and does not encourage anorexia would be impossible to define. I mean you could argue that companies that make and sell bathroom scales encourage anorexia. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20357 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 11, 2008 - 02:50 pm
| | If you write a game optimized for x86 CPUs, it's probably not a game I'd be interested in playing. You'd be relegated to something along the lines of Quake 2 level graphics or less. The x86 CPU contains only very generic programmable logic and is extremely serial in nature due to the nature of it's problem set along the lines of "if this, then do that". The graphics processor, on the other hand, is very parallel in nature. Take this bucked of data, do the same thing to all the data and dump it to the screen all at the same time. The CPU could be programmed to do what the GPU does, but would so slow as to be unusable because it is not specialized enough. And x86 CPUs don't run very well in parallel. GPUs, on the other hand, because it is not a general purpose programmable piece of logic, it could not easily be coerced to take on the tasks of the CPU. It's programmable shaders are very specific to the tasks related to graphics only. I think what Intel is envisioning is a multicore strategy where they put several cores on one die and specialize some of those cores to take on graphical duties, but it's a bit premature of Intel to be tooting their horn. They've gotten ahead of practicality before like they did with the Pentium 4 and Netburst to be a pretty big failure given the promises they made at the time. So it is, I believe, with their proclamation that they would be able to produce CPUs (even if they did contain specialized graphics hardware) that would be able to seriously compete graphically with NVidia's hardware. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20357 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 11, 2008 - 08:37 am
| | Well of course NVidia is right. It's ludicrous to think that current x86 CPUs could compete against graphics processors, but it's wasted breath. Intel completely owns the IGP market simply because of customer ignorance and/or apathy. And they will continue to own it unless NVidia figures out a strategy to get it's toe in the door. Words alone and a flash page confusing customers on what constitutes a "Core" will not get them very far. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20352 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 10, 2008 - 12:32 pm
| | NVidia may not want to be in the x86 CPU game, but they're going to have to do something given the direction AMD and Intel are going especially with integrated platforms. I don't think the discrete graphics market on the desktop will be enough to sustain NVidia's growth. They should just merge with VIA and apply some of that graphics engineering efficiency to whip the Cyrix into shape since. VIA has a pretty bad reputation in the CPU market. They'll have to deliver a pretty strong, reliable part if they want to be able to grab any sort of market share. VIA could have a mobile processor that's twice as fast and costs half as much as Intel and the consumer is still going to choose Intel based on brand recognition. The only way they're going to succeed is by impressing the geeks and gaining traction by word of mouth. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20338 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 08, 2008 - 10:06 am
| Right around the corner? Don't be silly CNET.
Barcelona is nowhere near being able to compete with Core2 on price, performance or thermals. Their platform is in complete shambles. No, this is AMD just starting to pathetically stagger to their feet after a right uppercut knockout blow to the side of the head. We'll see if they can manage to put the pieces back together in time, but Intel's in top form with no signs of tiring. AMD's looking like an old, fat out of shape has-been. Taking this long to fix their TLB bug? Downright disgusting. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20333 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Apr 07, 2008 - 06:28 pm
| | Well in my opinion, the new 8.9" models will be nice because of the slightly bigger screen size but won't be much faster than the current model. So I would go for the significantly cheaper 7" model now, upgrade the memory for $40 and then get the 8.9" model when it's been refreshed with the significantly faster Intel Atom processor. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20237 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 31, 2008 - 05:45 pm
| | I prefer to see the happy, positive, glass is half full side to this story where the ratio of people who have not been conned into the overhyped, gimmicky piece of crap reaches parity with those who now find themselves with a mountainous dungheap of a gaming library to choose from thus diminishing demand. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20137 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 26, 2008 - 12:27 am
| | Free support for a product which the customer paid for. What an interesting concept. So Microsoft customers shouldn't follow the standard protocol and call their tech savvy family members? I don't think the sheeple will be able to break their long-standing habits so easily. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20107 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 21, 2008 - 02:10 pm
| | Only two things are guaranteed in the tech world. One that your product will be copied (or that you will be the copier) and two that you'll be hit with the "Successful Product Tax" by the lawyers. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, the lawyers still get a cut, just like the government. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20092 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 20, 2008 - 09:59 pm
| | Oh sheesh, we could go on about this forever. The gaming industry as a whole grows every year. The PC side of the equation may not be growing quite as fast as the consoles but it is still growing and is doing just fine. Whichever you like best, go have fun. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20031 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 18, 2008 - 11:23 am » Edited on Mar 18, 2008 - 11:26 am
| | I love how they simultaneously slap the "major vendors" across the face for bad performance that wasn't their fault to begin with and then immediately take credit for the "fix" by suggesting it has something to do with SP1. Good 'ol Microsoft. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20034 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 18, 2008 - 08:34 am » Edited on Mar 18, 2008 - 08:39 am
| | So why does that exclude Apple? As far as I know all laptop parts come out of Asia no matter if you're Dell, Apple, Sony or a laptop from you local mom and pop store. Of course, I'm just an Apple hater so don't mind me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20034 | CAG-Spitfire (491) Mar 18, 2008 - 12:42 am » Edited on Mar 18, 2008 - 12:53 am
| | My money's on Apple being a big contributor to that, specifically the Air especially if Apple didn't do a good job of tuning OS X for the flash drive. An overly aggressive swap disk will chew through a flash drive like a fat kid with a box of donuts. And to be fair it also sounds like only half the returns are hardware failures with the other half just general dissatisfactionl. I mean, only one USB port? Puhlease. Flag this | Edit this post |
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