My trip over to NYC was exhausting; I finished my X800 XL review at around 2AM yesterday, went to sleep for 4 hours and then hit the road by around 6:30. Despite it only being about 75 miles away, I didn't get to my meeting in the city until 10AM. The last 15 miles were the worst, they took about an hour alone. The meeting went well, although it's nothing I can talk about until sometime in Q1 next year.
I did a decent amount of gift shopping for Vinney in and around the city. The problem with living in Branford is that if you want anything other than what you can get at "the Walmart" you're pretty much out of luck, so taking advantage of trips out to more consumer-friendly areas is always on the to-do list.
I've been missing a good burger for quite some time now. The one thing we had plenty of in Raleigh were good burger joints (Cookout, Chargrill, Circus, etc...) and although none of them come close to the unhealthy goodness that is In-and-Out, they are better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be any good equivalents up here, although yesterday I found out that there are a plethora of Checkers in NY that I may be tempted to visit. We had Checkers back in Raleigh for a while, but there was some hepatitis B scare which I believe forced them to close down. They came back for a little bit but then went away again for similar reasons I believe. Checkers was a high school favorite of mine just for the fries, so I may have to find some excuse to make the always tiresome journey out to NY to sample them once more.
We'll be driving down to NC for the holidays, Vinney finishes up classes on the 21st so we'll be leaving somewhere around then. This time I'm not leaving until I get all of my work done so I don't have to fool myself into thinking that I'll be able to get work done on a laptop in NC. Luckily it looks like I'll be all out of NDAs and other product launches by then so if I can stay busy I should be able to take the last week or so of 2004 off.
With the X800 XL and 6200 Turbo Cache articles done and posted, I can get back to this Half Life 2 CPU guide that I've been working on for so long. Benchmarking is almost complete and I'm going to try my best to get this thing finished by early tomorrow morning. I'm off to visit ATI tomorrow which will eat up a good hunk of my day and I'd rather not put it off any longer, so I'll be doing my best today.
My Dothans finally came in for my Desktop Pentium M review, testing on them will begin as soon as I can stick a fork in Half Life 2.
I may chime back in before I leave for ATI tomorrow morning, but if not you'll definitely hear from me afterwards.
Take care.
I did a decent amount of gift shopping for Vinney in and around the city. The problem with living in Branford is that if you want anything other than what you can get at "the Walmart" you're pretty much out of luck, so taking advantage of trips out to more consumer-friendly areas is always on the to-do list.
I've been missing a good burger for quite some time now. The one thing we had plenty of in Raleigh were good burger joints (Cookout, Chargrill, Circus, etc...) and although none of them come close to the unhealthy goodness that is In-and-Out, they are better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be any good equivalents up here, although yesterday I found out that there are a plethora of Checkers in NY that I may be tempted to visit. We had Checkers back in Raleigh for a while, but there was some hepatitis B scare which I believe forced them to close down. They came back for a little bit but then went away again for similar reasons I believe. Checkers was a high school favorite of mine just for the fries, so I may have to find some excuse to make the always tiresome journey out to NY to sample them once more.
We'll be driving down to NC for the holidays, Vinney finishes up classes on the 21st so we'll be leaving somewhere around then. This time I'm not leaving until I get all of my work done so I don't have to fool myself into thinking that I'll be able to get work done on a laptop in NC. Luckily it looks like I'll be all out of NDAs and other product launches by then so if I can stay busy I should be able to take the last week or so of 2004 off.
With the X800 XL and 6200 Turbo Cache articles done and posted, I can get back to this Half Life 2 CPU guide that I've been working on for so long. Benchmarking is almost complete and I'm going to try my best to get this thing finished by early tomorrow morning. I'm off to visit ATI tomorrow which will eat up a good hunk of my day and I'd rather not put it off any longer, so I'll be doing my best today.
My Dothans finally came in for my Desktop Pentium M review, testing on them will begin as soon as I can stick a fork in Half Life 2.
I may chime back in before I leave for ATI tomorrow morning, but if not you'll definitely hear from me afterwards.
Take care.
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Dee - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
#1: After Anand's comments, I decided to ignore you, but your ignorant comments simply amaze me. Thanks for clearing up the fact that you are still in high school, as it explains majority of your stupid comments.Like Ninja_Dean said, don't comment on issues that you are unaware of and stop being a little hoe and pretending to be someone you are not (college student)...yeah, right. After all the lies in your last posts, I am sure your information is credible.
Do you even own a computer because with your computing knowledge it seems that you can't even tell the difference between AMD and Intel CPUs expect the MHz difference maybe.
Shut up dumbass!
Ninja_Dean - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
#1: Uh, okay... You do realize that almost every company is sending jobs overseas, don't you. AMD and Intel both have research and development centers in India. Many high-tech companies have call centers there. Microsoft and Google both have research centers in India.Are you going to lock yourself and not use anything because many companies are going off seas? Did you flunk Economics and other business courses in high school or did you not take them at all?
The whole point of operating a business is for profits. Labor overseas is much affordable than what you would find in the United States, so companies have a good reason to move to China and India.
If people like you (who are unaware of the economic conditions of the nation) continue to exist in the United States, I doubt any companies will exist here.
Please don't comment unless you know what you are talking about. Besides, do you think this little post that you made will really kill Walmart's business model. They could care less if people like you come to them or not. Walmart is one of the top businesses in the United States, so yell and preach all you want, but no one is listening to you.
Majority of the people can think on their own and know what they are talking about, so I am fairly sure they don't need your advice on anything.
The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
con-AMD IN hl2 cpu scalingThe_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link
(1) don't buy anything from wal-mart unless you support shiping jobs overseas,(2) MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE 3500