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Shape-shifting, organ-probing chembots coming soon {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 5:36PM The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking.
T-1000 impersonating *John Conner*: Wolfie's fine, honey, Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?
The Terminator: [hangs up the phone] Your foster parents are *already* dead.
AMD's flagship Phenom X4 9950 BE announced: Intel laughs, points {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 3:35AM I tend to disagree with this belief that if amd didn't exist, Intel would stop progressing in terms of computer progress.
To be honest, its counter-productive to the most important thing to any company on the planet: Profit.
Idealy in Intel's perfect world, customers will buy new processors or new computers with their processor in it, once every day. In reality, most people upgrade their computer once every 2-4 years. By 'most people', I mean the average-consumer. The enthusaist upgrades a bit more often such as every 1-2 years.
Part of the reason average and advanced computer users upgrade is the belief that buying a new computer will be much or significantly faster than their old pc. I wouldn't buy a new computer if the new computer was only going to be 5% overall faster and costed $1000.00 for example. Nor would most common computer users.
When we would buy a new computer if we were only getting minor 5% increases is when our old computer dies. I suspect my current E6600 which has already lasted 2 years with my nice thermaltake ultra 120 will continue to keep it nice and cool running stock for a good 5-10 years more.
If computer users only upgraded their computers once every 5-10 years when they died, Intel would sell less processors as the demand would drop. Less sales = less profit.
If the demand for processors drop, Intel would need to drop prices to encouage customers to purchase new pcs which would negatively effect profit or increase prices to compensate for less sales which would reversely reduce sales even further.
Alternatively, they could produce faster processors to a significant degree to convince the average user to upgrade their pc while maintaining current prices(which has been the current and successful strategy used by Intel and amd for the past 15+ years).
I don't see any reason why they would abandon a proven marketing strategy that has worked successfully for so long just because they eliminate their competition to gain 90-95% marketshare.
Who knows, it might be that AMD gets replaced by IBM's cell processors someday as the second-running up.
AMD's flagship Phenom X4 9950 BE announced: Intel laughs, points {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 3:03AM @James Cameron
No, I think we should be pointing and laughing at you and amd together. Even the Q6600 has more overclocking potential, runs cooler and at a cheaper price performance.
The point Thomas was making which apparently you blantely missed was that if your a true PC Enthuasiast with a large budget cannot get much if he is amd-exclusive due to brand loyalty.
If he wants the best he can get performance wise, he'll need to go intel. If you have a large budget cause your love your hobby and your hobby is PC gaming/photoshop/3d modelling, you won't be able to get a good amd-chip that competes with intel's current technological powress.
You'd be better to get a Q9450 priced at $300.00 for a $100.00 more and way better performance than this at $245.00. or get an E8400 and overclock it to 3.5-4ghz for much better performance at $200.00 price point which is even cheaper than this amd offering.
If you were really really enthusiastic, you could get a intel extreme qx9650 which is what the author was trying to say. If you were really really enthusiastic about computers and amd-exclusive, the best you could get would be a X4 9950 at 1/2 the performance at best.
Not to mention, Intel is about to increase their own performance even at 2.6ghz clockspeeds with the new Nathalem chipset over their current top of the line extreme processors. So if this is the best amd can offer, how outdated will they look when intel increases its performance by 50% over their current xtreme processors?
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if when the 4870x2 comes out, if you try to cf two 4870x2s if this weak amd processor doesn't end up being a bottleneck for its own graphics card.
France's Numericable debuts 1080p full HD VOD {Engadget HD}
Jul 1st 2008 1:22AM Would you settle for cheerleaders :P
Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 1:18AM @Encoding
But no, no, that can't be true. *Twitch Twitch*. Apple software works right out of the box. There can't be any bugs *twitch twitch*. My Apple brethen YesHone has even explained it as so. Apple is never wrong, never bad. *Twitch Twitch*
Eric Lempel answers your frequently asked 2.40 questions {PS3 Fanboy}
Jul 1st 2008 1:02AM I was kind of disappointed too. No xmb during movie playback, no cross-game invites, no custom soundtracks unless included by developers in future games or patched retroactively rather than making it available across all games through the in-game xmb, no retroactive applying via save games of trophies :| which means you have to re-accomplish features or re-play through games you have already passed to get trophies, no voice-chat, no, no, no, not at this time, no no no.
Sigh, at least we got in-game xmb though. Its progress. Now I just hope for the rest in 2.50
PS3 trophy addicts can track their games at PS3Trophies.org {PS3 Fanboy}
Jul 1st 2008 12:53AM My E-penis is bigger than your E-penis! It makes noises!
Sorry, but, I had to say it. Being able to show your trophies online. Finally, I can use my iPhone or super-duper Acer EEE 1000 on the go to visit PS3trophies.com to show how many more I have than my friends! That'll prove to them whose the real MAN! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*sarcasm included, batteries extra*
Age of Conan reaches 700,000 players {Joystiq}
Jul 1st 2008 12:46AM Pretty much. In my case, I've already left and haven't looked back. Anyone want to buy my copy of AoC and my account off me? Its got a Priest of Mithra on it.
Europe gets DualShock 3 July 2, UK on July 4 {Joystiq}
Jul 1st 2008 12:41AM I'm suprised. Quite surprised. I thought this was already out in the UK. It seems its coming out quite late and at quite a high price. I can understand why you'd say no to £40!
It feels like this has been out in North America for quite a while.
Age of Conan reaches 700,000 players {Joystiq}
Jun 30th 2008 8:31PM Basically, the game is unfinished and kind of buggy. Its great up till lvl 20, so-so to good until lvl 45+, bad after 50+ worse at 80 when you find out there's no end game and you have nothing to do with your level 80 character but farm mats over and over again.
In short, its not worth the $50-$80.00 price tag(depending onw hich version you buy) and definitely not worht the monthyl fee once you reach lvl 50. Some people might pay for a month after their free period if they game very casually and haven't reached 50 though but I suspect next month you'll see more and more pople drop out of AoC.
I know I did as it has nothing to offer me. Perhaps its my own fault for leveling my character to get to the end game? Maybe if I had enjoyed the ride and leveled very slowly or leveled characters from 8 classes at once, by the time I reached end-game they'd have had content to keep me interested?
Either that or funcom should have made some end-game content during theri 4 yeras of development time. No Directx 10 mode as promised yet, no pvp experience system and no functional(non-buggy/winable) mounted pvp combat. Three things that would add at least a point out of 10 to the games worth.
