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12/07/09
@ECAsh - Larrabee wasn't even related to the "standard" Intel graphics (GMA, etc), it was a discrete card with a LOT of x86 cores on it, like 40+ in the demo version I think. I don't know that Intel has ever shipped a discrete graphics card; not lately, anyway. This was (we presume) going to be a PCI-x card that would've competed with AMD's ATI cards, and NVidia's cards.
At least they've got experience with making many-core architectures and CPUs now - should come in handy when I get that 16-core Core i9 chip in 2012 or so !!!
12/04/09
12/04/09
People get Intel graphics when all they want to do is do word, browsing + email, power point presentations, etc. - and have good battery life while doing it. The X4500HD never claimed to be able to run Crysis so don't lambast it for not doing so.
12/05/09
Eh, the X4500 is a fine chip, but like a lot of previous generation solutions, it's running into a "just-not-good-enough" wall in a world of "good-enough" computing. Does that make any sense? The same thing happened to Intel Celeron and AMD Turion. They were fine when they came out, but then they kind of fell by the wayside as they just couldn't cut it.
The reason netbooks have risen up in style is because of "good enough" computing, because people don't need Core2Duos to do what they want to do.
However, the X4500 is falling behind because of HD video on Hulu, Youtube, and GPU acceleration for Flash and Web Browsers, and that little bit of stuttering is just enough to make it "not good enough".
And throw in
12/05/09
12/05/09
Like I said, the X4500 is a fine solution for the everyday user, but it's slowly becoming just not powerful enough.
Even if it can push 720 video online, once GPU acceleration hits the market in force beyond just making things look pretty, it just might not get there any more.
I would take the 9400M over the X4500 any day, because to me, it's better to have the power when you need it than risk the extra $25 and having something underperform.
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11/30/09
WaHaHa... I Do Love Using Superfluous Caps In Everything! Even Better If It's InAppropriAte In A Way That Makes The Word HArDeR tO REad...
*tazes self*
Sorry... I don't know what came over me there... I just uh... sorry... Won't Happen Again...
11/30/09
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12/01/09
There was actually a hidden message in there if you look at the context. I didn't just make a "your mom" joke so I could see words come up on the screen as I typed them.
11/30/09
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Your iPhone will be an iphone forevermore!
11/30/09
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11/30/09
Thank you for stepping up as prime example that even the internet troll can be supplanted by a lesser intellectual animal.
11/30/09
11/30/09
[www.mtholyoke.edu]
The opening paragraph:
"Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes."
Very interesting how it all seems to have been reversed as of late, yes? A return to the more complex?
11/30/09
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11/30/09
In short, I don't think we ought to be worrying about language too much.
11/30/09
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11/30/09
Not as often as I used to. I've gotten into the habit of writing "The" at the beginning of the sentence to save myself the trouble. So now I say "The iPod needs..." or "The iPhone is..." instead of starting a sentence with either of the brands.
11/30/09
Language is always changing, and it always has, influenced by the culture of the day. Just let it happen. Maybe it's okay that in the not-too-distant future we'll all be typing long strong-together words intermixed with random capital letters, all written out in the Comic Sans font. So what?
11/30/09
11/30/09
NYT isn't an acronym, it's an abbreviation. Unless you actually pronounce it as "Nite". then it's an acronym.
11/30/09
11/30/09
ahem:
an acronym is an abbreviation that is spoken as if it is a word, like NASDAQ (naz-dack).
Things like NYT or FBI or LSD or NAACP are not acronyms, as they are not spoken as if they are words.
dude... i know what the friggin NYT is.
wtf.
11/30/09
Acronyms can even create words or names that didn't previously exist such as SCUBA which is an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
So "Ahem" your wrong.
11/30/09
"An acronym (pronounced AK-ruh-nihm, from Greek acro- in the sense of extreme or tip and onyma or name) is an abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a pronounceable word. The word may already exist or it can be a new word. Webster's cites SNAFU and radar, two terms of World War Two vintage, as examples of acronyms that were created.
According to the strictest definition of an acronym, only abbreviations that are pronounced as words qualify. So by these standards, for example, COBOL is an acronym because it's pronounced as a word but WHO (World Health Organization) is not an acronym because the letters in the abbreviation are pronounced individually."
11/30/09
Now that we have all demonstrated our ability to use a dictionary, this case is dismissed based on the grounds that it is ridiculous by nature. Court is adjourned.
11/30/09
11/30/09
we haven't all demonstrated that ability - still waiting for Bwehngamun to catch up with us.
11/30/09
It is believed by some that a capital letter beat matt up as a child.
The walls of matt's bedroom are painted with phrases like "capital letters = satan's propaganda", "shift = shit getting f'ed" and "camel case will spit cancer on your soul", as well as big capital letters with "x"es marked all over them with notations saying "this is a lower-case x in a big font-size NOT a capital x".
The irony of that last one has not yet dawned on matt.
11/30/09
11/30/09
Translation:
"My wife despises me, and my children resent my very existence, because I am constantly correcting their grammar and giving them lessons on the history of word construction. Furthermore, I am blissfully unaware of how like a tool bag I sound, and how those around me mock me with the greatest of enthusiasm."