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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4221 |  Afterburner (37) Jun 15, 2007 - 03:56 pm
| Just a little background:
Schooling for Indian farmers and villagers is a luxury. Starting school at age 30 is far from easy as you don't take in nearly as much knowledge as you would when you are under 15. High School exams in india are tougher than university/college exams in North American. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15267 | Afterburner (37) Apr 27, 2007 - 04:04 pm
| DX10 is more than a bunch of dll files. What is the point of getting the dll files installed without the requisite drivers to use them?
The reason is that XP does not support the driver model that DX10 is based on and requires to operate. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3698 | Afterburner (37) Dec 07, 2006 - 02:38 pm
| | It is a little extreme to take legal action for a kiss. However I think India's conservatism is something to be proud of. With a divorce rate of 1.1%, coupled with arranged marriage's and a billion plus population, I would say that conservative values have been instrumental in India's global success. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3259 | Afterburner (37) Aug 18, 2006 - 03:59 pm
| | You would probably be right, but the response would be very different. Canada has a very small military so we won't be waging any wars apart from NATO or UN sanctioned deployments. In addition Canada's parliamentary system and current minority government would make it harder for drastic measures to be taken. And most of all Canada is a very liberal country where even the Conservative Party would seem to be LEFT of the Democrats in the US. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3259 | Afterburner (37) Aug 17, 2006 - 08:30 pm
| I understand that but in America's case who can impeach the president? The Republicans have a majority in all levels of government. That leaves the judiciary.
In Canada, a no-confidence vote can only be done in a minorty government situation (unless you have dissenters in the ruling party) so if the ruling party is a majority the other parties cannot hope to win a non-confidence vote. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3259 | Afterburner (37) Aug 17, 2006 - 06:31 pm
| Everybody refers to it as the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" where they "wiretap terrorists." Seeing as they know they are terrorists it would not be too hard to get a warrant through legal channels.
It is also interesting that the term "wartime powers" is applied to the President. This must refer to the "War on Terror". That term is vague and open-ended. How does one win a war on terror? More importantly, how does one lose a war on terror? How did wartime powers apply to the now faded War on Drugs? Is the NEW war on drugs the war on terror? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11546 | Afterburner (37) Aug 04, 2006 - 09:15 pm » Edited on Aug 04, 2006 - 09:23 pm
| I agree. I think the reason they are doing this is that the XBox 360 Premium is more expensive in Canada than the US, relatively speaking. The US/Canada exchange rate is 1.12 which means that the Walmart.com price of (US)$399.92 translates to (CA)$447.91. The Walmart.ca price for the same system is (CA)$497.63. In essense us Canadians are paying (CA)$50 more than our American counterparts for the same thing. The same applies for other stuff including cars and even cell phone plans. When I say cell phone plans I mean I can get a north america wide plan from a US provider and use it in Canada and it would be cheaper than getting a Canada wide plan from a Canadian provider.
Cars that are not available in Canada include the Mitsu Evo and the entire Scion brand. Although, it is not completely bad since we do have the Smart Car :( Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11345 | Afterburner (37) Jul 27, 2006 - 05:52 pm
| I don't think that the graphics industry cycle will slow down at all. It was Nvidia who brought the industry to this pace and now neither ATI/AMD nor Nvidia can do anything about it. The current pace benefits them as they have a new product to sell every six months and benefits consumers as there are performance and feature advances at the same frequency. The only consumers who are affected negatively by this pace are the ones who have to have the best performance available. I see no reason to upgrade from my 9800. I don't even think Intel try's to keep up with the industry cycle as it really does not have to since it does not really compete with either Nvidia or ATI.
The only group that can slow down the graphics industry are the game developers. If they stop making resource hungry games that suck the power out of the latest GPU's there would not be any reason to upgrade. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11345 | Afterburner (37) Jul 26, 2006 - 04:00 pm
| | I don't know why everyone is proclaiming the death of ATI in the high-end market due to the speculation that they would be concentrating on the integrated graphics market. Currently they do both discrete graphics and integrated graphics for AMD, Intel and Mac platforms. The high-end market sets the standard for features and performance that the integrated market is based on. AMD's weakness is ATI's strength which is to cater to a number of markets equally well. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11325 | Afterburner (37) Jul 25, 2006 - 05:40 pm
| I think the benefit for AMD in this deal would be the media, mobile, integrated graphics, chipset and handset markets, all of which AMD is either not competing in or not competitive to Intel. Since ATI has extensive experience and relationships in these areas it would benefit AMD. The benefits for ATI in this deal would be a closer relationship with AMD and inside knowledge of interfacing with their processors. The nForce chipset for AMD processors literally made Nvidia a force to be reckoned with (Pun intended) and which ATI has played a distant second fiddle. Since Intel makes their own chipsets there is not much room to grow in that relationship.
The most interesting thing to watch as far as I am concerned would be what the OEM's like Dell, HP, Lenovo think of the deal. AMD could not compete with Intel in that arena as Intel provided a "complete solution" of processor, chipset, graphics, that the OEM's are looking for. Now that AMD has a chipset and graphics business and will be able to provide a "complete solution" we might be seeing AMD powered Dell computers in the near future. Flag this | Edit this post |
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