This Mark Fiore guy is really something. Its too bad I didn't know about him before. Have a look at some of his animated editorial cartoons: Meat industry's voluntary regulation, White House hybrids and Esther Investor. I need to make sure I visit Mark's site more often.
On a side note, there is truly a certain joy of pulling strings to get tickets that should cost $383 for $192! Anyway I'll be headed home on the 13th of December with string pulled tickets and back into Austin on the 11th of Jan of the coming year. Should the weather choose not to get sufficiently cold this year, or should it not snow in sufficient amounts I will make sure I put the weather machine hidden under the south pole out of its misery. I'm still reeling from last year's disappointment.
The boys over at Tech-Report have put together this rather nice piece on why the new GeForce FX isn't really worth it. Just like Intel brute forcing more performance by upping the clock on the Pentium 4, this is essentialy whats NVidia is doing. The pixel shaders 2.0+ are cool, but not a single game in the market is taking advantage of anything like that and I doubt any game will be using such complex pixel shaders for the foreseeable future. Another thing about the GeForce FX is that its got massive cooling, which means they've taken the architecture to the highest clock possible before it just won't go anymore and this too at the .13 manufacturing process. ATI's R300 is on the .15 process and uses the complex but awesome 256-bit wide memory bus and will nearly match the FX's performance. Imagine what will happen when ATI drops the R300 to the .13 process, cranks the memory bus or moves on to DDRII, yea the FX is going to get blown away all over again like the Ti4600 did. NVidia seems to have really missed the beat on this one. Also the whole sacrificing a PCI slot to allow my video card to cool business isn't going to fly with me and probably a lot of other sane people as well. Previews of the GeForce FX architecture: 1, 2, 3.
So Bush's version of the clean air act is out. Take a deep breath and try not to cough.
If only I actually knew girls who actually wore this or this or this. But wait, what if the stereotype for a male geek (of which I am a clear exception) carries over to the female side? Eeeeeewwwwww
There is a common misconception that women are clear in their intentions and mature. Let me set that straight. Women aren't really ever clear about much. By women I mean women not related to you. For example ask a girl if she wants to catch a movie. She says sure and then completely forgets the follow through. Thats called being confusing. If she never wanted to go in the first place why not just make up some lame excuse or just say no straight up. Or just don't call the person the movie is supposed to be seen with. Maybe that will be perfectly clear. Stupid people hurt head. Ug.
P.S. Eating rocks can be painful. Black beans are tasty all the same.
Posted by Mr. Keyur at November 25, 2002 02:33 AM