My trip over to NYC was exhausting; I finished my X800 XL review at around 2AM yesterday, went to sleep for 4 hours and then hit the road by around 6:30. Despite it only being about 75 miles away, I didn't get to my meeting in the city until 10AM. The last 15 miles were the worst, they took about an hour alone. The meeting went well, although it's nothing I can talk about until sometime in Q1 next year.
I did a decent amount of gift shopping for Vinney in and around the city. The problem with living in Branford is that if you want anything other than what you can get at "the Walmart" you're pretty much out of luck, so taking advantage of trips out to more consumer-friendly areas is always on the to-do list.
I've been missing a good burger for quite some time now. The one thing we had plenty of in Raleigh were good burger joints (Cookout, Chargrill, Circus, etc...) and although none of them come close to the unhealthy goodness that is In-and-Out, they are better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be any good equivalents up here, although yesterday I found out that there are a plethora of Checkers in NY that I may be tempted to visit. We had Checkers back in Raleigh for a while, but there was some hepatitis B scare which I believe forced them to close down. They came back for a little bit but then went away again for similar reasons I believe. Checkers was a high school favorite of mine just for the fries, so I may have to find some excuse to make the always tiresome journey out to NY to sample them once more.
We'll be driving down to NC for the holidays, Vinney finishes up classes on the 21st so we'll be leaving somewhere around then. This time I'm not leaving until I get all of my work done so I don't have to fool myself into thinking that I'll be able to get work done on a laptop in NC. Luckily it looks like I'll be all out of NDAs and other product launches by then so if I can stay busy I should be able to take the last week or so of 2004 off.
With the X800 XL and 6200 Turbo Cache articles done and posted, I can get back to this Half Life 2 CPU guide that I've been working on for so long. Benchmarking is almost complete and I'm going to try my best to get this thing finished by early tomorrow morning. I'm off to visit ATI tomorrow which will eat up a good hunk of my day and I'd rather not put it off any longer, so I'll be doing my best today.
My Dothans finally came in for my Desktop Pentium M review, testing on them will begin as soon as I can stick a fork in Half Life 2.
I may chime back in before I leave for ATI tomorrow morning, but if not you'll definitely hear from me afterwards.
Take care.
I did a decent amount of gift shopping for Vinney in and around the city. The problem with living in Branford is that if you want anything other than what you can get at "the Walmart" you're pretty much out of luck, so taking advantage of trips out to more consumer-friendly areas is always on the to-do list.
I've been missing a good burger for quite some time now. The one thing we had plenty of in Raleigh were good burger joints (Cookout, Chargrill, Circus, etc...) and although none of them come close to the unhealthy goodness that is In-and-Out, they are better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be any good equivalents up here, although yesterday I found out that there are a plethora of Checkers in NY that I may be tempted to visit. We had Checkers back in Raleigh for a while, but there was some hepatitis B scare which I believe forced them to close down. They came back for a little bit but then went away again for similar reasons I believe. Checkers was a high school favorite of mine just for the fries, so I may have to find some excuse to make the always tiresome journey out to NY to sample them once more.
We'll be driving down to NC for the holidays, Vinney finishes up classes on the 21st so we'll be leaving somewhere around then. This time I'm not leaving until I get all of my work done so I don't have to fool myself into thinking that I'll be able to get work done on a laptop in NC. Luckily it looks like I'll be all out of NDAs and other product launches by then so if I can stay busy I should be able to take the last week or so of 2004 off.
With the X800 XL and 6200 Turbo Cache articles done and posted, I can get back to this Half Life 2 CPU guide that I've been working on for so long. Benchmarking is almost complete and I'm going to try my best to get this thing finished by early tomorrow morning. I'm off to visit ATI tomorrow which will eat up a good hunk of my day and I'd rather not put it off any longer, so I'll be doing my best today.
My Dothans finally came in for my Desktop Pentium M review, testing on them will begin as soon as I can stick a fork in Half Life 2.
I may chime back in before I leave for ATI tomorrow morning, but if not you'll definitely hear from me afterwards.
Take care.
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Denial - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
That's $33 round trip. :)Denial - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
You DROVE to the city from New Haven during rush hour? Do you always have such masochistic tendencies? Take Metro North!!!! That's what it's there for. Geeezzzz. I even looked up the price for you. It's $33 peak, and you won't have to pay for gas, tolls, parking, tickets, wear and tear on your car, etc. Plus you get to sit back and read or sleep for the whole 1.5 hours the ride takes. On at 7am in new Haven and in Grand Central at ~8:30.You must really love driving to even attempt that.
Anonymous - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
#3, you sound like the typical unqualified IT manager that caused these jobs to go overseas! If IT management up throught CIO were more tech educated there would have been less bloat in the late 90's.The new breed it Business and IT savvy. They are the future of IT.
Ninja_Dean - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
#8: Just because I am pointing out a few differences between Intel and AMD platforms doesn't mean that I prefer one over the other. Intel is good for rendering while AMD is good for gaming.As stated previously, all platforms have pluses and minuses, but then again - why am I even replying to you? You are an uninformed kid...
By the way, if you have the fastest Intel CPU, your games won't be laggy. I understand that it's not practical, but Intel chips do not give you laggy games. Please check your facts next time.
Demo - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
I wanna know what the meeting was about :P I shall look forward to seeing it realised here even if it is next year :)RKON - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
Drive to NYC???? Are you nuts. Next time drive to Hew Haven and take the train right in to Grand Central. 1.5 hour ride !!The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
also ninja boy, i forgot you liked Intel to, go ahead have laggy games and get riped off when your shoping at wal-mart b/c you can't afford to drive any where, b/c you spent all your money on an overpriced intel chip, hey did you not read the article; belowIntel's Pentium 4 570J - Will 3.8GHz do the trick?
Review | Nov 14th, 2004 10:56 AM
Intel has been facing an uphill battle lately when it comes to striving for that performance crown. Now at 3.8GHz, are things any better?
the answer in no it did not.
static1117 - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
I dont know if they do but they have 4500 some stores worldwide.Why does it matter, we are turing into a global market anyway, there is very little that is made "in America" these days. Take a International Business class or something sheesh.
Anyway, Anand tell ATI we want an AGP version of their X800XL, that would be smashing.
The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
hey, Ninja_Dean, thats the beauty of free tradeThe_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
ok shop at wal-mart then. Wait do they have any in the united kingdom?