Dude, PC World UK is not the same as PC World Magazine. One is a store that'll try and sell you an extended warranty on a CD-R disc in the UK, and the other is a very popular and well-known magazine in the USA
Please actually read the article next time.
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ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
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I can't speak for the other sites mentioned, but (speaking as someone who works for PC World), I think that the submitter obviously didn't bother reading the article we wrote. He says "hardware review sites which depend on ATi's generosity for pre-release hardware have released their necessarily favorable reviews."
And yet the article that PC World posted says "exclusive tests by the PC World Test Center show a preproduction 9800 Pro board struggling to outrun the competition, including ATI's own Radeon 9700 Pro." Doesn't sound like a "necessarily favorable" review to me.
I'd suggest that Slashdot and the poster think twice before they start making that sort of accusation. We don't review products more favorably because we get them first: we look at everything in the context of how well it does what it is designed to do...
Well, speaking as a former staff writer on Amiga Format and editor of Amiga Shopper, I can tell you that we didn't review unfinished games. We would sometimes do news stories, etc on cool new games before they were released, but we didn't review them. I can't comment on other mags, but that was the way we did it...
The Amiga Power 2 site was done by Stuart Campbell and other AP alumni. Stuart has a Web site (which doesn't seem to have been updated for several months) and the AP2 site is here
Death from the skies
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"A war without sacrifice is definitely a 21st century idea"
An interesting aricle, but doesn't that depend on which side you are on? I'm sure that the majority of Afghans and the Northern Alliance troops who did most of the groundwork wouldn't agree that it was without sacrifice...
Of course, what you means is that for the US it was basically without sacrifice. What would be interting would be if the situation was reversed: if another nation was attacking the US using these weapons, would the media be filled with reports about the "inhuman war machines that fire death from a distance which no civilised nation should use"?
A Roger Waters quote springs to mind : "The Bravery of being out of Range"
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Dude, PC World UK is not the same as PC World Magazine. One is a store that'll try and sell you an extended warranty on a CD-R disc in the UK, and the other is a very popular and well-known magazine in the USA
I can't speak for the other sites mentioned, but (speaking as someone who works for PC World), I think that the submitter obviously didn't bother reading the article we wrote. He says "hardware review sites which depend on ATi's generosity for pre-release hardware have released their necessarily favorable reviews."
And yet the article that PC World posted says "exclusive tests by the PC World Test Center show a preproduction 9800 Pro board struggling to outrun the competition, including ATI's own Radeon 9700 Pro." Doesn't sound like a "necessarily favorable" review to me.
I'd suggest that Slashdot and the poster think twice before they start making that sort of accusation. We don't review products more favorably because we get them first: we look at everything in the context of how well it does what it is designed to do...
Well, speaking as a former staff writer on Amiga Format and editor of Amiga Shopper, I can tell you that we didn't review unfinished games. We would sometimes do news stories, etc on cool new games before they were released, but we didn't review them. I can't comment on other mags, but that was the way we did it...
The Amiga Power 2 site was done by Stuart Campbell and other AP alumni. Stuart has a Web site (which doesn't seem to have been updated for several months) and the AP2 site is here
Is he going to try bouncing his DSL off the moon?[SETI League]
"A war without sacrifice is definitely a 21st century idea"
An interesting aricle, but doesn't that depend on which side you are on? I'm sure that the majority of Afghans and the Northern Alliance troops who did most of the groundwork wouldn't agree that it was without sacrifice...
Of course, what you means is that for the US it was basically without sacrifice. What would be interting would be if the situation was reversed: if another nation was attacking the US using these weapons, would the media be filled with reports about the "inhuman war machines that fire death from a distance which no civilised nation should use"?
A Roger Waters quote springs to mind : "The Bravery of being out of Range"
Erm, excuse me for sounding like an idiot, but why did you do this if you were already getting 100% signal strength everywhere you want to use it?
I'm sure I saw some of this primitive pond scum working in Target recently. They were the ones being more helpful than the rest of the staff...