Archive for May, 2007

Rant About Commenting On Other Blogs

I don’t know if this bothers anyone else but this infuriates me when this happens. I’ll go and read through an entire article about *insert random idea* and I’ll find that I have something to say and I’m greeted with a “insert username and password” prompt before I can comment. When I see this I [...]

Starcraft 2 Unveiled to the World, It’s a Boy! Err RTS!

Whew, Blizzard chose to create Starcraft 2 as an RTS, all hopes/fears of a different genre are settled.

Eight Years Later, Netburst Finally Dies

Netburst has been lingering around for the last 18 months filling in Intel’s ultra-budget market but very soon Intel will replace the Pentium D with it’s new Core 2 Duo E2xxx line of chips. The Core 2 Duo/Quad E6xxx chips form the mid and upper range of chips in Intel’s portfolio with the E4xxx chips [...]

Engadget Publishes Incorrect Article, Apple Stock Crashes

There really isn’t much to say about this little incident as I think Michael Arrington does a decent job pointing out all the obvious facts. One thing that should really be highlighted though is the ENTIRE chart showing Apple’s stock performance over the course of the day. The best/important part is watching the volume of [...]

First DX10 Demo Available, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Downloads

Months after DX10 capable hardware was released we are finally seeing some DX10 titles hit the stores. About an hour ago a 2 level demo of the PC-port of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was released featuring full DX10 support. I currently don’t have a DX10 video card however I will have an 8800GTS in my [...]

AMD R600XT Shows Promise

Before R600 even got out the door individuals were slandering it’s name due to the lengthy(5 months?) delays that this chip went through to make it to the market. AMD toted R600 as the super GPU to beat all other GPUs but when users finally got their hands on the chips they were less than [...]