Ahhh, that explains it. I'll have to give the newer version a shot. I already have it on my laptop -- I installed Fedora Core 4 recently -- but I haven't been writing any Important Essays Worth Lots Of Marks, so I haven't had a chance to stress test it.
(Ok, so I've just been too lazy to poke around with any real software on the thing. I keep getting distracted by games like Creatures Docking Station, which I've been playing obsessively. Mmm... free Linux mini version of one of my favourite virtual life games...)
Even assuming this is true, I think there's still reason to worry about the disease. Prions are nasty little buggers, and they scare me all the more because we know so little about them. I mean, these aren't virii, bacteria, parasites or anything that we know how to deal with -- they're just proteins that happen to be shaped in an unusual way. They even exist naturally inside our bodies, but sometimes, for some unknown reason, they start "reproducing" by warping normal proteins into prions... and then bad things happen.
I don't know about you, but even with a low rate of infection, I'd like to see scientists learn more about them and the diseases that they cause and hopefully further drop the chances of me (or anyone else) getting sick. Ok... I'll admit it, I'm just afraid of the unknown, but my solution is to make that unknown known as soon as possible:)
Possible Exposure to CJD or vCJD: People are not eligible to donate blood or plasma if they have spent a cumulative total of three months or more in the United Kingdom (U.K.) between January 1980, and December 31, 1996, or if they have spent a cumulative total of three months or more in France between January 1980, and December 31, 1996, or if they have spent a cumulative total of five years or more in Western Europe outside the U.K. or France since 1980. In addition, people will no longer be eligible to donate blood or plasma if they have had a blood transfusion in the U.K., France or Western Europe since 1980. This is owing to the risk of transmission of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) through blood.
I'm a first generation Canadian of British descent, so when I was younger, my parents took me to Britain many times to visit relatives -- I suspect that I've been there for at least 3 months in total, so I guess I'm banned from donating blood too.
I suspect that the scientists wouldn't have used hamsters (or any lab animals) if they didn't have to, at least in part because procuring and maintaining lab animals ain't cheap and requires a fair bit of paper work. We don't really understand much about prions (well, we know what they are and what they can do, but we have no idea -why- they're like that, or how they work), so this makes it very difficult to just model a simulation or fiddle around with some tissue culture. This makes some animal testing necessary, unfortunately, and the best the scientists can do is try to be humane and hope that their research will be used to save human and animal lives.
Incidentally, I'm a former biology major, and one reason why I switched to computer science during second year was that I couldn't handle hurting animals, let alone taking them apart and poking at their squishy bits. I don't like using lab animals any more than you do, but I think it would do more harm than good if we just outlawed the practice.
I generally love open source software, but I haven't had much luck with Open Office. I used it to write a few essays last term on my laptop (which was, at the time, running Mandrake), and I found that it mimicked old MS products a little too well -- it crashed randomly, usually when I was in the middle of something important. This may have been an issue with Mandrake, or maybe with that particular version of Open Office, but it was still extremely annoying. I also had some issues moving documents between OO and Word (I'm using MS Office 97, incidentally, so that may be part of the problem).
In the future I'll probably try and do most of my essay writing on my Windows machine when.doc files are required, and use vi or emacs on my Linux machine when I can choose my formatting style and file type. I need more practice with LaTeX anyway:)
Small changes aren't necessarily bad, nor are big changes in the long run. However, big environmental changes have been responsible for an awful lot of extinctions in the past. I think people have good reason to be worried.
Life doesn't have to be under most of the surface to exist in a gully like this, it just has to be able to survive an awfully long time without water/other essentials. Just think about bacteria on earth... many those little buggers just go dormant when whatever they need goes away, and then wake back up again when it returns.
They obviously won't care about what courses I took specifically, but knowing how to write an essay and read critically (and having a transcript to prove it) is gonna be damn useful if I want to go into research and write papers for a living. The fact is that many computer science students lack those kinds of basic skills... and if I can give myself an edge by taking an English course that I'm already interested in, I'm definitely going to go for it.
Also, switching majors is normal and extremely common. Lots of people start off with something that seems cool at the time and then switch to something that they're more passionate about, so in the end, I'll just look more well-rounded and certainly be none the worse for it. I'm also considering doing more bio courses and getting a double major, in which case I'll have a much higher chance of getting into some of the industries that I'm interested in.
I'm a computer science major at UBC, and I've been taking as many electives as possible in the hopes of rounding myself out and learning a lot of really interesting stuff. Just last term, I did a course on Medieval literature, and I was actually a biology major for a year and a half before I switched to computer science.
This will hopefully give me access to careers in more traditional computer sciency fields (eg. academic research, game development, etc.), and also give me an opportunity to use my programming skills to develop software to help biology researchers, for example. (Though admittedly, I do have a bit of an ulterior motive there... I want an excuse to play with octopuses and other neat animals without having to take them apart and look at all the squishy bits.)
Oh yeah, and I don't think I need to worry about jobs in any of the fields I've mentioned being moved overseas. I live in Canada... American jobs are being outsourced up here:D
There's also a school of thought that says that global warming may melt enough of the ice caps to divert the gulf stream, rapidly cooling Europe and plunging the world into another ice age. Sure, it's unlikely, but it's impossible to predict exactly what will happen.
I just go to a regular university (UBC, to be precise), but I always check email headers before downloading attachments or visiting unusual links, even in emails from profs. This is mainly because university email addresses tend to be very public, and I know quite well that it wouldn't take much for a phisher or other unsavoury person to grab my address, grab the name/email of some random prof, and send me a seemingly valid email. Admittedly, I haven't found anything bad yet, but I like to stay on my toes. I'm a computer science student, so it'd look awfully bad if I got tricked by a common email scam;)
On the topic of the article, I think it's good that this guy tricked his students like this. I can certainly understand them feeling betrayed, but folks in the military are really the last people we want tricked by authentic-looking emails. I mean, if I open an email that's supposedly from a prof and accidentally download some nasty virus, yeah, it sucks, but at worst, I lose some money and data. If some military grunt gets an email from a phisher posing as his commander, the worst case is likely to involve the loss of human lives. I think this is something worth guarding against, and if the education process upsets the students, then so be it.
Well, personally, if I was going to try and spread the word of government injustice, I wouldn't do it through email. Most (intelligent) people would read such an email and either think "Oh, great, another scam trying to take advantage of me" or wonder why the hell you were bugging them about it... and then wish they hadn't just wasted their time reading it. The only people who would be likely to respond are the same kinds of people who actually believe those sad stories about Nigerian businessmen who've lost everything but need some random Westerner's help to reclaim their fortunes.
In short, I don't think it's ok to spam even in that situation. It won't help you, and it'll just piss off the rest of us. It's better to just let people decide what they want to read. If they want to find out about the injustices going on in the world, that's what blogs/news sites/personal websites/etc. are for.
You make some good points, but I think that the main reason why studies like this are done is not to try and make anyone rid the world of cellphones but to tell governments what needs to be regulated and what the cellphone companies need to improve to increase safety. With your car example, there are an awful lot of people who have spent a lot of time and money making cars safer.
There have been so many studies of this sort, and so many that have subsequently been proven wrong, that I'm just going to wait until something more conclusive comes along before I start worrying. As it is, I don't even own a cellphone anyway. I intend to get one at some point, but I'm in no rush. I spend almost all my time within arm's reach of a computer or a landline phone, so while the geek in me yearns for more gizmos, I'm practical enough to realize that the less I spend on gizmos that I don't need, the more I can spend on computer upgrades that I do need.
And if I do get a cellphone and it degrades my vision, at least I'll finally have an excuse to wear glasses (which I think are sexy) and try out coloured contact lenses. Hey, I just like looking on the bright side:)
I must admit that I've never even noticed this problem with LCD screens. Maybe I'm just incredibly unobservant, but you'd think that something that's known as "the main drawback of LCD TVs" would be noticable to even the casual watcher.
When I saw the title of this article, though, the first thing that came to mind was this old TV that belonged to a club at my highschool. It was hooked up to a little camera on a remote-control robotic camera mount that a former club member had created, so the idea was that people sitting in another room could swivel it about with a joystick. Unfortunately, the mount broke, so the camera (which then became known as buttcam, due to its lowered position) ended up stuck looking in the same direction for some long period of time. This background image eventually got burned in somehow, and it got to the point where people could walk in front of the camera and appear transluscent on the TV.... and the end result was something that deserved the name "ghosting" far more than anything an LCD TV can do:)
There's more on this topic in Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot that you might find interesting. He devotes quite a bit of time to talking about the improbability of life intelligent evolving and how there's only one situation in which anyone will be wondering about it: if it's happened despite the huge odds against it. It was years ago when I read the book, but I remember that he talked about how we can't really think of ourselves as so special because of this. We're lucky, sure, but if there are a billion planets and only one can support intelligent life, obviously that intelligent life will be on that one, and we'll only see (or be) the lucky ones.
Sagan explains all this better than I can, so I'd suggest just reading the book:) It's probably outdated in places, particularly with regards to some of the physics, but it's still a very interesting read.
You've basically just said all of what I was intending to post. My boyfriend's the build guy on EA's Need for Speed team, so while I don't know much about the specifics of the build process, from hanging out with him and his coworkers I've at least learned that the builds take hours to do and are very very easy to break, especially if the game's being developed on multiple different platforms at once. I can certainly see why rejected scenes might just be detached rather than deleted... but as other commenters have said, the ESRB doesn't care about things like that.
I'm just worried that they'll start going after relatively benign games where nudity and sex-related mods are extremely commonplace (eg. The Sims, Neverwinter Nights, etc.) just because said games left children vulnerable by allowing (and even, arguably, encouraging) that kind of modification.
I don't think it's the content that makes anime "different" from other cartoons, I think it's mainly the style... and given that I can identify almost any cartoon as anime or not anime based on a single glance at the art, I think that said style qualifies as a distinguishing characteristic. This doesn't mean that anime is -separate- from cartoons, just that it is a special type of cartoon that is easily recognizable as its own little subset.
I try not to use the word cartoon when talking about anime simply for the sake of clarity. I don't want people to think I'm talking about a Western animated series when I'm actually talking about a Japanese one.
Now, on the topic of the article... I like the idea of using bittorrent this way, but I agree with others that it might not end up being all that profitable for ADV. I kind of wish they'd picked a better series to offer a promo of, though... I saw the first episode or two of Madlax a while back, and I wasn't really impressed. Ah well, maybe if this works they'll get hold of more of the various really good series that're still only available in fansub form.
As others have pointed out, we're talking about Canada here. We may be next door to the US, but for the most part, we just yawned at the London bombings along with our British kin and went about our business.
Besides, there are always weirdos on public transit. I see people with martial arts practice weapons on the bus in Vancouver from time to time (and have transported my practice kendo sword via the Ottawa transit system in the past), people wearing strange costumes from LARP/etc., and there are always the random hobos who sit and mutter to themselves in a corner somewhere. Are a few geeks playing a game really going to draw that much attention? I suspect that most people, including the police, will just ignore them.
Ah, memories of highschool...
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Argh, this article is giving me flashbacks of all the consecutive years of "See Ice Melt!" chemistry labs in highschool. Every year from grade 9 through to grade 12, we were given the exciting task of putting ice in a beaker, measuring its temperature as it was slowly heated, and then drawing the cute little graph. And every year, we discovered that, surprise surprise, the results were the same as they had been the last time we did the lab.
Now, on the topic of the article... I'm not sure how this reflects on me as a geek, but my first thought was "Ooh, pretty pictures!", followed eventually by "Hmm, I wish I'd learned this instead of doing boring labs and watching Senior Physics videos."
I also had a teacher who'd do what he called "the water molecule dance" where he'd show the difference between solid, liquid and gas by... well... dancing. I wonder if he'll modify his dance at all if he reads about this study....
Last term, I had to take a required computer science course called Communications. The purpose of this course was, at least in theory, to teach computer science students how to communicate effectively since aside from first year English (which barely counts), very few had ever taken any kind of university-level English course. Unfortunately, this meant it was basically English For Dummies.
Let me put it this way: on the first day of class, some pretty young girl piped up and asked in a bewildered voice, "Um, professor, what's a verb?" This worried me slightly, as I had gleaned such gems of knowledge sometime in primary school, but the prof, unphased, replied brightly, "Oh, don't worry, I forget things like that too!"
From that class, I gained little but an easy A+ and the knowledge that most computer science really do live up to their reputation as people who can't write to save their lives. Why is this? I'm not entirely sure, but I have a few theories. The main one is just that computer science types simply don't get a chance to take real English classes that force them to learn how to write properly. Just as we can't expect anyone to come out of an Introduction-To-Computing-For-Arts-Students knowing how to really use a computer, we can't expect anyone to come out of an Introduction-To-English-Communication-For-Computer -Science-Students class knowing how to properly use the English language.
Also, writing good English is often a style thing. Many hackers may be obsessed with getting something working properly (and efficiently), but the indentation of the code and the clarity of the comments/error messages may be viewed as being of relatively little importance. In this case, coding style can be seen as equivalent to spelling/grammar. Both increase readability and maintainability, but a piece of [bug-free] code with no indentation will still compile and run, and similarly, an research paper with terrible spelling can still put forward a theory.
Disclaimer: I have noticed that posting on Slashdot, almost without fail, makes me look immensely stupid. Thus, please ignore any glaring grammar/spelling mistakes in this post as they do not reflect my real writing skills.
Since I switched from biology to computer science before learning anything about human anatomy or the circulatory system, there's a fairly good chance that I'm going to sound incredibly stupid here... but... what happens if you cut yourself really badly and the body basically has to rewire a few of those veins? Will you be locked out of the system?
Also, since the camera is presumably looking at the heat coming from the veins, would this mean that if you lost circulation to your hand for whatever reason (extreme cold, medical condition, etc.), that would also cause the device to reject you?
Ok, I will admit that it was the emulation that I actually played on, but in theory, it's supposed to behave basically the same as the real thing. Incidentally, he's got what I assume is an actual Xbox 360 as well. The only reason I haven't tried that out as well is that it wasn't hooked up last time I visited.
The machine I'm talking about says "prototype" on it and looks awfully Xboxy. His office only got them within the past week or two, I think.
(And I can't say much else, because I don't want to get myself or my boyfriend in trouble for spreading rumours.)
As the girlfriend of a guy with an Xbox 360 under his desk, I'd like to post what little I've observed of this machine.
Now, I'm no hardware wiz, so I can really only comment on this from the perspective of the average non-techie gamer, but... I've played the new (ie. unreleased) Need for Speed on the thing, and I must say that it looks damn sweet. Sure, maybe the article's right and the machine doesn't perform as well as it should, but as a gamer, am I going to notice the limitations? Is my gaming experience going to be impacted by this? Probably not.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that while the article is certainly interesting to the geek in all of us, saying that the processors are "Not Up To Hype" seems a bit too sensational given that the only people who will notice these minor failings are the developers who, one would hope, already know about them.
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(Ok, so I've just been too lazy to poke around with any real software on the thing. I keep getting distracted by games like Creatures Docking Station, which I've been playing obsessively. Mmm... free Linux mini version of one of my favourite virtual life games...)
I don't know about you, but even with a low rate of infection, I'd like to see scientists learn more about them and the diseases that they cause and hopefully further drop the chances of me (or anyone else) getting sick. Ok... I'll admit it, I'm just afraid of the unknown, but my solution is to make that unknown known as soon as possible :)
I'm a first generation Canadian of British descent, so when I was younger, my parents took me to Britain many times to visit relatives -- I suspect that I've been there for at least 3 months in total, so I guess I'm banned from donating blood too.
Incidentally, I'm a former biology major, and one reason why I switched to computer science during second year was that I couldn't handle hurting animals, let alone taking them apart and poking at their squishy bits. I don't like using lab animals any more than you do, but I think it would do more harm than good if we just outlawed the practice.
In the future I'll probably try and do most of my essay writing on my Windows machine when .doc files are required, and use vi or emacs on my Linux machine when I can choose my formatting style and file type. I need more practice with LaTeX anyway :)
Small changes aren't necessarily bad, nor are big changes in the long run. However, big environmental changes have been responsible for an awful lot of extinctions in the past. I think people have good reason to be worried.
Life doesn't have to be under most of the surface to exist in a gully like this, it just has to be able to survive an awfully long time without water/other essentials. Just think about bacteria on earth... many those little buggers just go dormant when whatever they need goes away, and then wake back up again when it returns.
Also, switching majors is normal and extremely common. Lots of people start off with something that seems cool at the time and then switch to something that they're more passionate about, so in the end, I'll just look more well-rounded and certainly be none the worse for it. I'm also considering doing more bio courses and getting a double major, in which case I'll have a much higher chance of getting into some of the industries that I'm interested in.
This will hopefully give me access to careers in more traditional computer sciency fields (eg. academic research, game development, etc.), and also give me an opportunity to use my programming skills to develop software to help biology researchers, for example. (Though admittedly, I do have a bit of an ulterior motive there... I want an excuse to play with octopuses and other neat animals without having to take them apart and look at all the squishy bits.)
Oh yeah, and I don't think I need to worry about jobs in any of the fields I've mentioned being moved overseas. I live in Canada... American jobs are being outsourced up here :D
There's also a school of thought that says that global warming may melt enough of the ice caps to divert the gulf stream, rapidly cooling Europe and plunging the world into another ice age. Sure, it's unlikely, but it's impossible to predict exactly what will happen.
On the topic of the article, I think it's good that this guy tricked his students like this. I can certainly understand them feeling betrayed, but folks in the military are really the last people we want tricked by authentic-looking emails. I mean, if I open an email that's supposedly from a prof and accidentally download some nasty virus, yeah, it sucks, but at worst, I lose some money and data. If some military grunt gets an email from a phisher posing as his commander, the worst case is likely to involve the loss of human lives. I think this is something worth guarding against, and if the education process upsets the students, then so be it.
Well, personally, if I was going to try and spread the word of government injustice, I wouldn't do it through email. Most (intelligent) people would read such an email and either think "Oh, great, another scam trying to take advantage of me" or wonder why the hell you were bugging them about it... and then wish they hadn't just wasted their time reading it. The only people who would be likely to respond are the same kinds of people who actually believe those sad stories about Nigerian businessmen who've lost everything but need some random Westerner's help to reclaim their fortunes.
In short, I don't think it's ok to spam even in that situation. It won't help you, and it'll just piss off the rest of us. It's better to just let people decide what they want to read. If they want to find out about the injustices going on in the world, that's what blogs/news sites/personal websites/etc. are for.
You make some good points, but I think that the main reason why studies like this are done is not to try and make anyone rid the world of cellphones but to tell governments what needs to be regulated and what the cellphone companies need to improve to increase safety. With your car example, there are an awful lot of people who have spent a lot of time and money making cars safer.
And if I do get a cellphone and it degrades my vision, at least I'll finally have an excuse to wear glasses (which I think are sexy) and try out coloured contact lenses. Hey, I just like looking on the bright side :)
I must admit that I've never even noticed this problem with LCD screens. Maybe I'm just incredibly unobservant, but you'd think that something that's known as "the main drawback of LCD TVs" would be noticable to even the casual watcher.
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When I saw the title of this article, though, the first thing that came to mind was this old TV that belonged to a club at my highschool. It was hooked up to a little camera on a remote-control robotic camera mount that a former club member had created, so the idea was that people sitting in another room could swivel it about with a joystick. Unfortunately, the mount broke, so the camera (which then became known as buttcam, due to its lowered position) ended up stuck looking in the same direction for some long period of time. This background image eventually got burned in somehow, and it got to the point where people could walk in front of the camera and appear transluscent on the TV.... and the end result was something that deserved the name "ghosting" far more than anything an LCD TV can do
There's more on this topic in Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot that you might find interesting. He devotes quite a bit of time to talking about the improbability of life intelligent evolving and how there's only one situation in which anyone will be wondering about it: if it's happened despite the huge odds against it. It was years ago when I read the book, but I remember that he talked about how we can't really think of ourselves as so special because of this. We're lucky, sure, but if there are a billion planets and only one can support intelligent life, obviously that intelligent life will be on that one, and we'll only see (or be) the lucky ones.
:) It's probably outdated in places, particularly with regards to some of the physics, but it's still a very interesting read.
Sagan explains all this better than I can, so I'd suggest just reading the book
You've basically just said all of what I was intending to post. My boyfriend's the build guy on EA's Need for Speed team, so while I don't know much about the specifics of the build process, from hanging out with him and his coworkers I've at least learned that the builds take hours to do and are very very easy to break, especially if the game's being developed on multiple different platforms at once. I can certainly see why rejected scenes might just be detached rather than deleted... but as other commenters have said, the ESRB doesn't care about things like that.
I'm just worried that they'll start going after relatively benign games where nudity and sex-related mods are extremely commonplace (eg. The Sims, Neverwinter Nights, etc.) just because said games left children vulnerable by allowing (and even, arguably, encouraging) that kind of modification.
I don't think it's the content that makes anime "different" from other cartoons, I think it's mainly the style... and given that I can identify almost any cartoon as anime or not anime based on a single glance at the art, I think that said style qualifies as a distinguishing characteristic. This doesn't mean that anime is -separate- from cartoons, just that it is a special type of cartoon that is easily recognizable as its own little subset.
I try not to use the word cartoon when talking about anime simply for the sake of clarity. I don't want people to think I'm talking about a Western animated series when I'm actually talking about a Japanese one.
Now, on the topic of the article... I like the idea of using bittorrent this way, but I agree with others that it might not end up being all that profitable for ADV. I kind of wish they'd picked a better series to offer a promo of, though... I saw the first episode or two of Madlax a while back, and I wasn't really impressed. Ah well, maybe if this works they'll get hold of more of the various really good series that're still only available in fansub form.
As others have pointed out, we're talking about Canada here. We may be next door to the US, but for the most part, we just yawned at the London bombings along with our British kin and went about our business.
Besides, there are always weirdos on public transit. I see people with martial arts practice weapons on the bus in Vancouver from time to time (and have transported my practice kendo sword via the Ottawa transit system in the past), people wearing strange costumes from LARP/etc., and there are always the random hobos who sit and mutter to themselves in a corner somewhere. Are a few geeks playing a game really going to draw that much attention? I suspect that most people, including the police, will just ignore them.
Now, on the topic of the article... I'm not sure how this reflects on me as a geek, but my first thought was "Ooh, pretty pictures!", followed eventually by "Hmm, I wish I'd learned this instead of doing boring labs and watching Senior Physics videos."
I also had a teacher who'd do what he called "the water molecule dance" where he'd show the difference between solid, liquid and gas by... well... dancing. I wonder if he'll modify his dance at all if he reads about this study....
Let me put it this way: on the first day of class, some pretty young girl piped up and asked in a bewildered voice, "Um, professor, what's a verb?" This worried me slightly, as I had gleaned such gems of knowledge sometime in primary school, but the prof, unphased, replied brightly, "Oh, don't worry, I forget things like that too!"
From that class, I gained little but an easy A+ and the knowledge that most computer science really do live up to their reputation as people who can't write to save their lives. Why is this? I'm not entirely sure, but I have a few theories. The main one is just that computer science types simply don't get a chance to take real English classes that force them to learn how to write properly. Just as we can't expect anyone to come out of an Introduction-To-Computing-For-Arts-Students knowing how to really use a computer, we can't expect anyone to come out of an Introduction-To-English-Communication-For-Computer -Science-Students class knowing how to properly use the English language.
Also, writing good English is often a style thing. Many hackers may be obsessed with getting something working properly (and efficiently), but the indentation of the code and the clarity of the comments/error messages may be viewed as being of relatively little importance. In this case, coding style can be seen as equivalent to spelling/grammar. Both increase readability and maintainability, but a piece of [bug-free] code with no indentation will still compile and run, and similarly, an research paper with terrible spelling can still put forward a theory.
Disclaimer: I have noticed that posting on Slashdot, almost without fail, makes me look immensely stupid. Thus, please ignore any glaring grammar/spelling mistakes in this post as they do not reflect my real writing skills.
Also, since the camera is presumably looking at the heat coming from the veins, would this mean that if you lost circulation to your hand for whatever reason (extreme cold, medical condition, etc.), that would also cause the device to reject you?
Have I melted your brain yet? :D
(Ok, I'll stop now before I get too off-topic.)
The machine I'm talking about says "prototype" on it and looks awfully Xboxy. His office only got them within the past week or two, I think.
(And I can't say much else, because I don't want to get myself or my boyfriend in trouble for spreading rumours.)
Now, I'm no hardware wiz, so I can really only comment on this from the perspective of the average non-techie gamer, but... I've played the new (ie. unreleased) Need for Speed on the thing, and I must say that it looks damn sweet. Sure, maybe the article's right and the machine doesn't perform as well as it should, but as a gamer, am I going to notice the limitations? Is my gaming experience going to be impacted by this? Probably not.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that while the article is certainly interesting to the geek in all of us, saying that the processors are "Not Up To Hype" seems a bit too sensational given that the only people who will notice these minor failings are the developers who, one would hope, already know about them.