And its constantly growing. check it out: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?b=2&c=1

low education standards or mass-retardation?

to power the damn thing. Go Iter!

the developers are the hens and the eggs are the games

Take Dragon Age: the hen had potential but the farmer didn't give it enough free range and the egg came out bland and clichéd. I won't bother fitting the NPC-ads in to the analogy (is there a mod to get rid of them?)

If only they'd get over their dev hell they could finally bank on their work. I'm sure other die-hard fans don't care too much about the graphics. If they are having another crack at it hopefully they can stop thinking that it has to be perfect. If they could just get duke back for a few hours I'll be satisfied with it. I'm sure they have some good duke one-liners after more than a decade.

...I found it interesting that after the 2-second blurb by the anchor on channel 9 (aus) the only other commentary was from some standard and poors 'analyst' saying 'we are confident that the iphone is superior to the n1 in every way' followed by footage of the iphone. It seems they'll put any spin on for the right price.

In Australia: screeners monitoring xray machines are regularly tested with false xray scans of prohibited items (guns, knives, grenades etc.). If they miss one they are fired on the spot.

I know the Y2K bug was real for many systems and I believe that catastrophes were provably averted, which it why it is now popularly perceived as a false alarm.

To convince the naysayers we need a few real examples where the maintainers of some important system knew that their system would fail on Y2K with major real-world consequences without recoding. The articles don't mention any.

Intel effectively defrauded AMD of many billions of dollars in revenue. Intel should be forced to return those ill-gotten-gains to AMD and THEN be fined.

In the near future if AMD goes bankrupt (possible given their current uncertain situation) and Intel's unlawful actions could reasonably be considered to have led to the demise of their main competitor (AMD), Intel shouldn't be allowed to live with the benefits of their wrong-doing, namely a monopoly, and instead be forced to establish an equivalent competitor. The FTC may indeed be acting along these lines as Nvidia could possibly be a capable CPU producer.

Thats MS's desire. Its been shown that when people are overwhelmed with choices they go with what they know.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3679

...It's bad enough that they crawl though emails to find advertising targets, but the OS is one of their biggest plays yet to analyse every piece of seemingly benign and anonymous user data and assemble a specific user profile. Think about that: one company; the single biggest commercial data-miner knowing many of your details and habits and inferring others. Would they try to extract every possible profit out of that? Personally the last data-mining straw from google was them wanting my mobile number to create an email account. For verification? Yeah right... Wouldn't they just love to add that to the profile.

And that's just the front-end!

Do I still have to f**k around with 100 combinations/restarts of Qt, ffmpeg, XVideo, XvMC, libmpeg2, xv-blit, opengl, xlib, xshm, directfb, directx ...all whilst not being able to see the f**king mouse cursor and having to hit 'next' five times just to change one setting?