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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21966 |  BillSeurer (26) Aug 01, 2009 - 07:57 pm
| | You know, he has a point. I make almost 5x what I did when I started working back in the 80s but games haven't increased in price much, if at all. Meanwhile the cost of the hardware has plummeted. I paid almost $5k for my first IBM PC. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21945 | BillSeurer (26) Jul 30, 2009 - 08:10 am » Edited on Jul 30, 2009 - 08:11 am
| » Good
I am glad they are doing this. We don't need any more rushed games. I greatly enjoyed all the previous splinter Cell games so I have been looking forward to this one.
(aside: Gah! The filter software on this site is a bit overzealous). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21759 | BillSeurer (26) Jun 16, 2009 - 07:17 am
| More likely you are going to just abandon the game.
What the difference if you can skip a part you can't get past via a console cheat/trainer/looking it up in a guide/reading about it on the internet mode and this? Nothing except you don't have to go externally to get the "cheat".
The only problem with it is it they make it TOO easy then the temptation is there to just turn it on every time you have trouble. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21504 | BillSeurer (26) Apr 10, 2009 - 07:30 am
| The real problem with Moore's law is heat. That's why we've gone from faster and faster processors to now putting in multiple cores. I saw a projection once where if you pushed current processor tech fast enough it would generate the heat of a nuclear power plant.
Multiple cores quickly run into their own problems unless you go to radical overall architectures like IBM's Blue Gene and Roadrunner. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21487 | BillSeurer (26) Apr 07, 2009 - 07:47 am » Edited on Apr 07, 2009 - 07:48 am
| Wait, didn't Intel dis AMD for doing something like this?
And, yeah, what happens when (if?) next year they come out with some new faster-than-the-fasted current one?
Say, how does Microsoft handle this (newer, faster stuff coming along) with that performance rating system they have for Vista? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21419 | BillSeurer (26) Mar 20, 2009 - 05:37 am
| | Whatever happens we as consumers don't want AMD dead! Otherwise Intel will get fat and lazy again and CPU development will trail off again as well. It wasn't until AMD shook things up that Intel got off their butts and did some better products. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21400 | BillSeurer (26) Mar 13, 2009 - 07:35 am
| » benchmarks
I do a lot of performance testing at work and artificial benchmarks like these are almost useless. For instance, I had to evaluated 3 different interface packages all of which claimed to be 2x to 3x faster than the other 2. They were in fact all correct *but* only for the specific benchmarks. Not only that but one package cheated and didn't implement the full specification it was supposed to. When I ran real world data through them their performance was not all that different.
What really matters is real world performance and that is going to vary wildly depending on the actual web pages you visit. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21150 | BillSeurer (26) Jan 07, 2009 - 12:41 pm
| Laptops are fine for many things *but* my current laptop (one of the latest models) still costs more than my current desktop (about a year) and the desktop blows the laptop away in every measurement of performance (disk, CPU, graphics, ...) and size (memory, disk space).
My guess is many people will have both, like me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21141 | BillSeurer (26) Jan 06, 2009 - 06:19 am
| Nintendo could care less if it is the "gamer" console. They still outsell both the other consoles by more than 2 to 1.
This Christmas is a good example of why. We brought our Wii to our family Christmas gathering. It got used continuously for 5 days by every person there from young kids to nearly 90s grandparents. And while others were playing more pople were watching.
If I had brought my XBox360 my son and I would have maybe used it.
Nintendo figured out how to make it fun for everyone (except hardcore gamers who don't seem to get it). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21141 | BillSeurer (26) Jan 05, 2009 - 08:31 am
| | Actually, all 3 game systems are based off the same general chip design and were in development at the same time so they all helped pay for each other. So the article could have been about how Microsoft helped pay for Nintendo to crush them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20894 | BillSeurer (26) Oct 03, 2008 - 06:23 am
| | That's my fear. I have a 360 and it's great for some things but I prefer my PC if the same games are available for both (they're usually $10 cheaper for one thing...). But if manufacturers release on both and the PC version doesn't sell well they may just give up on it as a platform. :-( Flag this | Edit this post |
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