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Your *last* ATI card was designed seven years ago, and was a budget card with no T&L unit so how exactly could you claim you have relevant experience? I ran an ATI 8500, and then an Nvidia 6600GT, and had the following problems with both cards:

ATI 8500:

Battlefield 1942 flickering textures. Never resolved fully (but it happened less and less with newer drivers).
And unlike you, I had no issues playing Wolfenstein on my 8500.

Nvidia 6600GT:

Water shaders incorrectly rendered in Source Engine. This bug was never fixed.
Battlefield 2: game would eventually freeze, did not happen on other Nvidia 6-series cards. This bug was never fixed.

BOTH cards had shitty drivers.

But here's my RECENT experience with both ATI and Nvidia

Nvidia 7900GT: no serious problems with games. One serious issue: the fan would not throttle-down between 2D and 3D modes (happened with a lot of 7900GT cards), had to get a 3rd-party cooler to get the noise down.

ATI 4850: no serious issues.

In this day and age, both Nvidia and ATI have quality drivers that are generally equal in compatibility and performance. The only exception today is Crossfire/SLI, where Nvidia has a slight edge...but for single-card setups (%95 of the gaming population), you'll be happy with either company.

http://www.tech-hounds.com/article29/ArticlesPage1.html shows that there are niggling I/O performance issues. As well as issues with sound cards and network transfer (reminds me of all the linux issues in 2.4 before some of the fair scheduler changes in 2.6.x)

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/411-8/ATI+Radeon+HD+2900+XT+Vista+Performance/ shows that game performance in Vista isn't any worse.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3060&p=1 shows high memory usage with recent fixes to ameliorate the problem somewhat.

We're talking wifi, not wires.

Dvorak was. I don't think you can disassociate municipal WiFi from the broader municipal broadband issue.

There's no possibility of a natural monopoly on wifi.

Sure there is. It's called "interference". IIRC from the last WiFi config I did, you have a choice of a whopping three channels: 1,6,11 (in the US). Just type "wifi interference" into a Google search box and you find many articles discussing the issue. At best you could have two muni-wide WiFi installations, using two channels and leaving the third for citizens to use for their own home networks if they're not using the muni WiFi service.

And, with respect to your "moral responsibility" phrase, municipalities have no "moral responsibility" to provide electricity, telephone, television, water, sewer, garbage/recycling, snow removal, park maintenance, etc. to its citizens either, and one could debate whether the phrase "moral responsibility" would cover such things as police, ambulance, or fire services. In these cases, many municipalities offer some of these services (or centralized rights-of-way for services, such as with telephone and television franchises) due to natural monopolies.

For even more details/thoughts on DTX and some photos, have a look here: http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/365/

Lol dude when I looked at this page and the thumbnail - I though JESUS CHRIST THATS A BIG MOTHERBOARD HES HOLDING.

Turns out, its four of them all together from the PCB fab I guess.

dailytech.com and thetechlounge.com have some great photos:.

Here are some more sites covering it... all about the same content, really:
viperlair.com
hardocp.com
techreport.com
thetechzone.com
tweaktown.com
thetechzone.com
hothardware.com
hexus.net
pcper.com
legionhardware.com
thetechlounge.com
bigbruin.com

here it is...I had to look around for it... day 2

Ah, yes, Anand's articles are certainly less fullfilling than these wonderful gems of journalistic laurels. After all, why talk about ATI video card availability when you can comment on their booth babes. I feel safe trusting my news to the guys who couldn't find the ATI video cards in the ATI booth.

Ah, yes, Anand's articles are certainly less fullfilling than these wonderful gems of journalistic laurels. After all, why talk about ATI video card availability when you can comment on their booth babes. I feel safe trusting my news to the guys who couldn't find the ATI video cards in the ATI booth.

Ah, yes, Anand's articles are certainly less fullfilling than these wonderful gems of journalistic laurels. After all, why talk about ATI video card availability when you can comment on their booth babes. I feel safe trusting my news to the guys who couldn't find the ATI video cards in the ATI booth.

Check out the other two showfloor articles, there are other gadgets. We visited tons of booths each day and... well... they aren't all that great. We pulled the most interesting stuff we found and wrote about them. We have two other articles from the Pepcom Digital Experience and Lunch @ Piero's that have more interesting products. You can even check out our coverage of Antec's entire new line of products if the other stuff isn't new enough for you. Or you can just continue ranting about how the article doesn't live up to your expectations. Sorry we couldn't please you ;-)

Check out the other two showfloor articles, there are other gadgets. We visited tons of booths each day and... well... they aren't all that great. We pulled the most interesting stuff we found and wrote about them. We have two other articles from the Pepcom Digital Experience and Lunch @ Piero's that have more interesting products. You can even check out our coverage of Antec's entire new line of products if the other stuff isn't new enough for you. Or you can just continue ranting about how the article doesn't live up to your expectations. Sorry we couldn't please you ;-)

Check out the other two showfloor articles, there are other gadgets. We visited tons of booths each day and... well... they aren't all that great. We pulled the most interesting stuff we found and wrote about them. We have two other articles from the Pepcom Digital Experience and Lunch @ Piero's that have more interesting products. You can even check out our coverage of Antec's entire new line of products if the other stuff isn't new enough for you. Or you can just continue ranting about how the article doesn't live up to your expectations. Sorry we couldn't please you ;-)

here.

I'll have you the trouble...here are the babes

After the Infinium vs HardOCP, many "vaporware" lists throught the years, the "Phantom" Glorified PC... err... "Console" system made an appearance at this show. Will it ever make it on the store's shelves? Will people care? Stay tuned!

Girlsss..... And the rendered version...

Girlsss..... And the rendered version...

That Fossil wristPalm (TM ;) is HOT! Replace the USB connector with BlueTooth, run PalmVNC against an iPaq running Familiar, toss in a headless NAS unit, all BT'd together, and we're wearing our 'ware! Now to spread those other form factors around into a mithril mail vest, and the geek has finally arrived in its natural environment: the 21st Century.

That Fossil wristPalm (TM ;) is HOT! Replace the USB connector with BlueTooth, run PalmVNC against an iPaq running Familiar, toss in a headless NAS unit, all BT'd together, and we're wearing our 'ware! Now to spread those other form factors around into a mithril mail vest, and the geek has finally arrived in its natural environment: the 21st Century.

Check out that tricked out case

Has anyone seen or have info about this jacket with the display on the back? Cool.

image 01

What's David Bowie doing with that geek playing pocket pool?

Nerds.

I know nerds when I see them, and this ain't no nerd! Oo-la-la. I love Vegas.

But check out this image from the after party... there's a whole little group of them, what's up with *that*?!?

It's not clearly stated in the article, but my guess is that the photos were taken at the "Pepcom Digital Experience" pre-CES event. Those are just the tables you'll find at any hotel, complete with an inexpensive (but durable) tablecloth and decorative table skirt.

But why are you taking note of tables in the photos? The very first page after the introduction includes a genuine "Booth Babe" and surely she's more interesting than any silly table. :-)

These guys seem to think that it's smart for K/M to put their image stabilization technology inside the camera body instead of the lenses since it'll make the lenses less expensive. Nice thought.

I would point them to the lesson Contax learned when they put autofocus inside the camera body for the 35mm SLRs (the film plane moved back and forth in a mechanical box inside the camera to achieve focus). It was a great solution and allowed full autofocus with all of those great Contax lenses. It also died in the market.

For some reason, most photogs seem to want motors in their lenses. I don't understand it, but that's the way it is.

Hot girl at the CES. Notice that she's got a tag on which means she's one of the show attendants. What a great way to market! (I'm so there next year!)

Since I haven't read them, and I don't see them posted here anywhere, here are the links to the first two stories:

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article.php?directory =beyond_megapixels_part_1

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article.php?directory =beyond_megapixels_part_2

Ah yes, I can feel the Slashdotting coming on now =)

Since I haven't read them, and I don't see them posted here anywhere, here are the links to the first two stories:

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article.php?directory =beyond_megapixels_part_1

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article.php?directory =beyond_megapixels_part_2

Ah yes, I can feel the Slashdotting coming on now =)

For those who are interested: Part I and Part II.

For those who are interested: Part I and Part II.

When I think "technology", I immediately think of thetechlounge.com

And of course reputable technology sites have a naked "Babes" forum as seen here

This is a fucking joke.