So what have I been up to this weekend? Let's see, working on a project for my data structures class...and more of working on a project for my data structures class. Since my partner doesn't know Java, I was the programmer out of the group (which is a shame as he is the much better programmer out of us two) so things took slightly longer than expected. I program for necessity, definitely not for fun, and definitely not for fun when it's for a class that is nothing more than a graduation requirement and well outside of my engineering major. In fact, I don't think I've had a single computer science course at State that I've had respect for or I've learned anything from. Maybe that's just because Engineers are given the worst possible CSC courses at state or some other reason that escapes me at the moment.
Enough of the ranting, let's talk business. Right now Derek is out visiting NVIDIA and a bunch of game developers. I don't have a list of who made the final cut yet but there were some big name developers that were supposed to be at the meeting (I saw it as a response to ATI's Valve/Shader Day). He should be back Wednesday night, just in time to put the finishing touches on his GeForce FX 5700 Ultra review. The card is looking good thus far and from what he's seen he says that the 5600U -> 5700U step is much more of what we all wanted to see from the Radeon 9600 XT. Will it dethrone the Radeon 9700 Pro as the card to get? Well, you'll just have to wait until Thursday and see ;)
These next three weeks are going to be packed full of wonderful exams and such for me so I have yet to finalize what I'm going to be able to work on (although there are a few things that I'd definitely like to tackle, some of the Prescott rumors being one of them).
I just wanted to keep you all updated, you'll see more of me this week (whether or not that's a good thing is up to you ;)...)
Take care.
Enough of the ranting, let's talk business. Right now Derek is out visiting NVIDIA and a bunch of game developers. I don't have a list of who made the final cut yet but there were some big name developers that were supposed to be at the meeting (I saw it as a response to ATI's Valve/Shader Day). He should be back Wednesday night, just in time to put the finishing touches on his GeForce FX 5700 Ultra review. The card is looking good thus far and from what he's seen he says that the 5600U -> 5700U step is much more of what we all wanted to see from the Radeon 9600 XT. Will it dethrone the Radeon 9700 Pro as the card to get? Well, you'll just have to wait until Thursday and see ;)
These next three weeks are going to be packed full of wonderful exams and such for me so I have yet to finalize what I'm going to be able to work on (although there are a few things that I'd definitely like to tackle, some of the Prescott rumors being one of them).
I just wanted to keep you all updated, you'll see more of me this week (whether or not that's a good thing is up to you ;)...)
Take care.
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Anonymous - Friday, October 31, 2003 - link
Intelligent? Saying Anand was a fool and wrong and did not know how to benchmark anything? What is Intelligent about that? It was Hatefull and argumentive comments from people who don't know what they are talking about.Anonymous - Friday, October 31, 2003 - link
No, it was not just comments, even hack attempts and stuff that could not be filtered out.Anonymous - Thursday, October 30, 2003 - link
I agree with #35 and 36, whats all this about?Anonymous - Thursday, October 30, 2003 - link
and how come this new "Posts for registered users only" thing came about a couple days ago? i only saw very intelligent and interesting debates and posts going onAnonymous - Thursday, October 30, 2003 - link
if it was just people making dumb comments why didnt anand either make a word filter, or delete the dumb posts?dennis travis - Thursday, October 30, 2003 - link
ALL Good ISP's provide Email. Use it. Some of you were not here when AOL was blocked and don't know just how bad it got and how AOL REFUSED to do a thing about it. EVERY other ISP worked with Anand but AOL. They flat out refused to do a thing about their Hackers and Trolls so Anand had to block all AOL IP's. You block just one IP they will come back on another and another. I was here when it all came down and it was a mess.Anonymous - Thursday, October 30, 2003 - link
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php...As The Blogs Churn
By Robyn Greenspan
According to Perseus Development Corp., a significant number of Internet users jumped on the blog [define] bandwagon and then jumped off, as the company found that two-thirds of the 3,634 hosted blogs that were surveyed were inactive.
Anonymous - Thursday, October 30, 2003 - link
Yes, I'm serious #31, and those companies are ISP's not email providers. You have to pay for all those. And a bunch? 90% of people with email accounts use AOL, HOTMAIL(the biggest), and Yahoo. So, I don't understand this whole abuse issue, but for one I do not abuse anything, and for a couple of stupid people to ruin it for the rest, this is just ridiculous. Why not just ban the IP from posting?Also, haven't heard much from Anand on this site, so maybe he should set this fury straight?
Anonymous - Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - link
#29, yeah, that's unfortunate, but apparently it's a problem that has to do with dynamic IP's and the fact that they can be abused like fremail accounts such as Yahoo! and Hotmail. At least, that's what Jason, the AnandTech webmaster, claimed a few months ago.#30, are you serious? How about Comcast? SBC? Netzero? There are a bunch.
Anonymous - Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - link
#28 if you eliminate yahoo, hotmail, aol what others are there?