What they should do, is take the chip they are going to release next month, which requires a bigass cooler, and NOT release it, work on it for another 2 years until they can have it work just as fast, without requiring a cooler.

The chips they currently release as low end solutions, which don’t require massive cooling, were the high end chips of 2 years ago, and at that time, they required massive cooling.

Understand?

You write really brilliant stuff man. If only nVidia and ATI would listen to your intelligent points about time travel. That would be sick.

Real world people – REAL WORLD. Its out there, I promise you, just open your curtains and take a look.

thanks for the posts. I’m not sure what version of Windows you’re using, but it has come a long way. Windows XP is very good compared to previous versions. I have it installed on my home PC which is always on and do all kinds of heavy stuff on it, and I don’t reboot for up to 4 weeks (!!). The last few times I had to reboot were because of power outages. So it is very stable for me. And it will only get MUCH better with Windows Vista it seems.

As for XBox, Microsoft has some things going on that Sony never will be able to do. Microsoft understands the art of integration. And this benefits not only users but also developers. And I think since I am a developer, I value this a lot. For example, if you’ve written a PC game, it takes little effort if you’ve done your homework, to port it to the XBox. With little effort, developers can release for both PC and Xbox, and this is a huge benefit compared to Playstation. A Playstation game requires lots more effort to port to PC or XBox. So the PC and Xbox are a more interesting platform for developers to release their games on. But not only because of the larger audience, but the tools for both platforms (PC and Xbox) are now being consolidated. So you can use the same tools to develop for both, think of how much easier it is becoming. And Microsoft has the best development tools right now. Even services such as XBox Live, will be available on both platforms. PC gamers will for example be able to interact with Xbox gamers, and again, this just makes the audience much bigger. Then you have integration with Media Center and other Microsoft products, everything plays well with eachother. etc. etc.
These are really strong advantages for Xbox. Sony is going to have a very difficult time with PS3.

And as for the parody, I especially liked the last part

I just thought of a great parody.

’911, Gates and the fascist connection’

Infiltrating every home is conspiracy, as American as apple pie. These are not wacky alien fantasies and everyone is involved as accessories after the fact, its orchestrator?s before the fact. Shortly after WWII a small group of co-conspirators pulled off one of modern days greatest conspiracies, a control tool upon our lives. Their power infiltrates the globe and affects every household to differing degrees. The puppet figurehead sits aloft, immune to accusations with ties to NAZI Germany, that an owned and controlled mainstream media rarely investigated or reports upon.

IBM having financed and profited from early cataloguing systems of the Holocausts victims set about a method of continued population control. Seeking out geeky and unusual, socially inept types, they set about manipulating individuals with briberies of positions of power and wealth in exchange for humiliating Fraternity practices, steeped in mysticism, bizarre sexual rites and the occult, to assure silence of their participators in their future lofty positions.

Conspiraring with later generations of this American wealth line, certain perpetrators, set about the adoption of a created product that would permeate all the publics? mindset worldwide. They have succeeded in keeping both its users and its critical ‘conspiracy theorists’ stuck firmly in cyberspace, lost in a quagmire of difficult to discern, dis-info filled websites, forums and technical literature, spawning an economic monolith of money making spin offs. All scratching their heads, as to the specifics of the problem before them, users and critics spend there time firmly in inaction, against the hidden enemy within, whilst chasing phantoms upon their monitors, not confronting those responsible directly. Prone to infiltration, dissemination of viral disruption and prone to collapses during the gathering of sensitive information and its archiving, the perfect product remains elusive and yet worshipped.

Both camps hang on every word of the players and are misdirected by each new advance or release of information that may hold a key to the gatekeeper?s intentions. Fear of the upheaval and change permeates both camps, with equal effect. The theorists remain hopeful of converting the users to the truth behind the products past and future intentions, whilst the users remain locked away in its distractions or pending improvements. Time is running out, until the release of a new more threatening product that will further perplex, endanger and strip the liberties further still, of both its users, its critics, and the world that it creates for and around them. Aware of its critics, the product makers fill space and cyberspace further still, an onslaught, a propaganda machine upon the users within the masses, who lap it up and beg for more from the masters they rally behind. Honed psychologically to perfection, its Agent Smith provocateurs fill our pages with comforting ads, of our promised, yet illusionary freedoms. With provocative slogans of “Where we may wish to go today”, Seated in relative discomfort in front of a screen or if discerning enough, a stressfully forced and maintained seat off of it and away from perception and the due process. Both camps remain lured like bees to the honey. The users, solely unaware of the monoliths next intended steps.

A once free communications tool, is to be itself, placed under the restrictions and controls of its creators and gatekeepers, this ever more apparent to the critics than its mainstream users. The helplessly “helpful” technical sites will remain for the users lost in the products flaws, willingly divulging more and more of their details to the benign benefactors, in the name of entertainments and distractions. Whilst the critics will be silently removed, to more secure, undisclosed locations, to be rarely seen upon the users perception, except in alarmist, dividing and segregating tales, further backed up by an easily alterable record of truth, upon the users easily manipulated screens. The suppression of subversion to the product.

So it is with in trepidation and a sense of adventure that critics embrace the latest advancements of WINDOWS into their lives, with its intended mirroring of the soul. Whilst the hooked and embracing users, seek the warmth of benign bug fixes and further expansions of where they can travel in inertia. The critics are clamouring to point out to the users that such WINDOWS on liberty, are easily exploited, readily exploited and will be exploited, if not now then soon. For the loss of liberty is always gradual, whether cyber, real, or imagined and when it is gone, it exists only in monopoly and the tyranny of evil men.

Who wants to be the old boot?

The creators!

It is a fascist boot and it fits them to a tee.

?Now watch this drive”

Regards
Reflecter

This piece on ati and nvidia is right up my street. LMAO great post. I used to be caught up in that rat race and yes, paper launches suck, noise levels suck, the power consumption sucks and most of all the very fact that these cards constantly push the games designers to re-design games and delay them for cards not even purchasable for end users until said game is old hat, whilst also meaning no real coding expertise for a given platform ever is nurtured or developed (unlike consoles) means to me a constant upgrade cycle and buggy games that only scratch at the potential of each level of hardware.

I should like to see a level playing field for at least a year + for each generation of pc technology, in order to both justify purchase and allow for proper bug tested hardware to be released as fully stable platforms that have full technical backup and software dedicated support. This would lead, like say the pSX to more matured games and software occuring over a longer period, prior to each hardware swap out. I know you are a windows fan, and I am a user, mostly because windows is complex enough and I dont have time to faff around with linux et al, but windows gets by, it is probably deliberately buggy to get people to upgrade constantly, yet works fine to a degree. It also has a monopoly money all its own and is firmly parked on mayfair with multiple hotels, stopping anyone elses attempts at real estate firmly. In the console world the Xbox was a failure that would have killed off any other console maker. Gates can absorb it and buck the trend of 5 year platform life with no pocket lightening effect. Its sole contribution was decent and organised online console games and I believe they succeeded where Sony planned and totally let their supporters down. I have not tested xbox 360 yet but hope it is more than flash gfx and samey online/offline games. The gfx are there for designers to get creative with but corporate profits / rapid hardware turnover and stick to the, ‘if it sells’ franchises mantra’s, have killed creativity and improving abilities with any given platform. PC’s and GFX cards are the death of and the crux of this ill. They also make obsolete many systems and create more landfill waste than is safe to take a WEEE on. I popped by for the Michael Rupert link btw. Look it up folks it may just open your eyes to the real world.

Take care fellow truth seeker.