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Cool and all... too bad they had to go with a dual slot solution, but it is sort of a poetic justice/irony thing (considering all the flack the 5800 series got for its dustbuster)... but if the performance is there (emphasis on "if"), then who cares, right? Except for maybe SFF owners... W...

Heh, this all just tells me how much of a mess things are. I don't know if it means ATI is in trouble in the long-term, but it sure is giving their rep a tarnish in the short-term.

Wait wait wait... if they miss their October date, they're really in trouble.

CCDs pick up Infrared very clearly (part of why they work so well in low-light situation). Flooding the cinima with infrared light would render CCDs virtually worthless while having no impact on actually watching the movie.

What about CMOS sensors? Are they subject to the same vulnerability?

Looks like The Kernel is right: Maybe Hardware Analysis has more grudge than fact after all.

Which is, of course, encouraging that ATI won't have a flop product... discouraging that HA would falsify benchmarks just to slam a company.

Oh well. Still waitin' for release...

Where's that from?

Pressing Enter after every line: The surest sign that what you're reading is pure shit-comma-bull.

Actually, I would argue that, in Ye Olden Golden days (oh, the 1800s), the fact that news WASN'T so prevalent made it even MORE cutthroat.

And they were always owned by corporate greed. Ever heard of William Randolph Hearst?

What the hell happened to journalistic standards

They've remained relatively unchanged for a couple centuries, at least.

And if you spend enormous amounts of money on advertising, you're going to pass those costs onto the consumer so it's quite likely that you'll be offering inferior value for money compared to someone who makes a high quality product but doesn't spend much on advertising. A good example of this woul...

An excellent point. I guess it can easily be said that there's no ONE way to define the self. It's not memories, because those are so fragile. It's not personality, because that's so easily altered (relatively). It's not physical matter, because that changes over long periods of time (or short perio...

Someone should make a John Kerry card; its only power would be "Tap to Not Get Elected".

I guess I just take a pretty gestalt view on the whole thing. A person is made up of many different parts AS WELL AS the way those parts are put together. Think of a jigsaw puzzle.... if you take the whole thing apart and then put it back together, is it still the same picture? Remember that the hum...

But your conciousness was torn apart. Unnoticeably so, according to the thought experiment. I tell you what. I'll take a sledge to your skull and then put the icky stuff that seeps out into a convenient blender and have fun. After that, I'll get a really good brain surgeon to reconstruct your brain...

My immediate thought is that a market with a broad spectrum of competing products would foster a greater amount of parity between the leading brands. Think of products like Mp3 players and LCD monitors... both commonly use parts (the important parts, anyway, like the storage medium or the actual scr...

Or do you believe being disintegrated at the molecular level and sent across as a stream in subspace or whatever maintains your conciousness? Sure. Why not? There's nothing magically unique about a person. Unless you believe in some sort of soul? No, no.... if the mind that's re-formed is the "...

I also heard about this one terrible rag called The Onion. They have some stories that are just REALLY dumb. STUPID, even. OUTRAGEOUS and IMPOSSIBLE and INANE and GROSS and FAKE, even.

Funny, though.

I don't know whether or not there will be a price disparity, and neither do you. I don't know why you insist on making such authorative statements with so little to base them on. Wait a sec, I've been calling it speculation from day one. You're right that the 7800GTX's price fell rapidly... but the...

And Saddam wasn't Bush's boogey man? Chavez has a right to be concerned about invasion.

Chavez is launching missiles as US and British fighters?

The 7800 GTX could be had for $100 under MSRP only a few weeks after release. ::sigh:: So... what? You're simply naming ANOTHER way in which the match-up is uneven. This doesn't change the fact that the match-up is, indeed, uneven. Get it? There is no tie between these products if one of them is si...

The 7800's lower price has to do with the fact that it came out first. This in no way changes the fact that the R520 is overpriced (officially) for these (rumor) performance numbers. It simply explains it. If the 520 had been released at the same time, roughly, as the 7800, the parity would be there...

That's nice, except for the fact that it was the Federal Government and not environmental groups that hamstrung the Army Corp of Engineers trying to reinforce the levees in New Orleans. If the actions of environmental groups changed public opinion, that is a legitimate concern to be acknowledged no...

Fear mongering is more when you try to get people scared to subsequently get them to change their behavior. Christians do this all the time... "Worship Jesus to save your soul!" Warning about possible risk is just practical, but that depends on the particular bent that your article had. Re...

There is no sw ( in traditional sense ) in the brain. Software in the brain is more like it's generated on the fly... memories, for example, aren't stored as pictures or movie clips (or the organic brain equivalent), but as approximations.... heavily compressed, essentially. When recalling memories...

I think it will a very long time before the gas and oil companies allow (or are forced to allow) the wide-spread establishment of stations for alternative fuels. The gas and oil companies sell more than just gasoline for cars. Losing the Almighty Gas Station to an alternafuel isn't going to assassi...

Uh-oh. Did that look like they were trying to re-do the Reverse Beartrap sequence with a miniature iron maiden? Great sequence and all, but that doesn't inspire me to get excited. On the other hand, it may turn out to be a semi-remake, like Evil Dead II was. The first Saw had some pretty nasty glari...