Gaak! Is it Monday already?
Wow. Lack of updates, much? It has been a very slow week what with the Happy Spring Totally Non-denominational Happy Happy Fun Day (or whatever the crap I'm supposed to call Easter now). There certainly not as much to bitch about when most folks are away on vacation. Speaking of which, I'll be taking my little road show to New York this Friday through Sunday. Since I'm leaving Thursday night and have only two more nights to pack and eat the perishables in my kitchen, it might be another week before I get around to writing an entry. I'll have my laptop on me when I go, but I might just not have time to deal with you people.
The US Justice Department has ruled that the merger between XM and Sirius Satellite Radio is no big deal, really. The merger was approved by the shareholders last November but it took until now (5 months on, speaking of vacations) for the rubber stamp to come out. The next stop is the FCC. Maybe sometime after that someone will figure out that both XM and Sirius have wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada that will have to be cleaned up (or out, if you work for XM) and what that does to service here. I know we're easy to forget, there's only 32 million of us.
It seems that ze Germans have broken all your graphics cards (muhahaha!). Okay, that's a stretch, but Crysis, a first-person shooter developed by Germany's Crytek has become the benchmarking tool of choice for graphics cards since its release in November '07 (a good month!). This is primarily because, on maximum settings, the game is so processing-intensive that no graphics card on the market at the time could give the 60 frames-per-second considered adequate for smooth gameplay. Gamers are a strange bunch and have always pushed computer graphics technology, but what would possess a game developer to make a game that basically brings every graphics card on the market to its knees seems a bit silly. How do you test it? Maybe if you daisy-chain a half dozen cards together like in that episode of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles which eventually brings about Skynet and therefore Judgment Day... but I digress. Way off. The point is that even Nvidia's new hotness can't get the coveted 60 fps. And the thing costs $700. Maybe by the time the sequel comes out?
And finally, the New York Times reports that the British are actually deeper in dept than the United States, sub-prime mortgage crisis and all. Britons have racked up more dept than the country's gross national product. Ouch.
The US Justice Department has ruled that the merger between XM and Sirius Satellite Radio is no big deal, really. The merger was approved by the shareholders last November but it took until now (5 months on, speaking of vacations) for the rubber stamp to come out. The next stop is the FCC. Maybe sometime after that someone will figure out that both XM and Sirius have wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada that will have to be cleaned up (or out, if you work for XM) and what that does to service here. I know we're easy to forget, there's only 32 million of us.
It seems that ze Germans have broken all your graphics cards (muhahaha!). Okay, that's a stretch, but Crysis, a first-person shooter developed by Germany's Crytek has become the benchmarking tool of choice for graphics cards since its release in November '07 (a good month!). This is primarily because, on maximum settings, the game is so processing-intensive that no graphics card on the market at the time could give the 60 frames-per-second considered adequate for smooth gameplay. Gamers are a strange bunch and have always pushed computer graphics technology, but what would possess a game developer to make a game that basically brings every graphics card on the market to its knees seems a bit silly. How do you test it? Maybe if you daisy-chain a half dozen cards together like in that episode of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles which eventually brings about Skynet and therefore Judgment Day... but I digress. Way off. The point is that even Nvidia's new hotness can't get the coveted 60 fps. And the thing costs $700. Maybe by the time the sequel comes out?
And finally, the New York Times reports that the British are actually deeper in dept than the United States, sub-prime mortgage crisis and all. Britons have racked up more dept than the country's gross national product. Ouch.
Labels: crysis, debt, New York, Nvidia, Sirius, terminator, XM
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