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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3977 |  viz (161) Mar 31, 2007 - 09:09 pm
| What a load of nonsense.
'Britain’s participation or perceived involvement in these injustices negates any moral authority Britain may have been able to claim at one time and precludes a response to the kidnappings, not that anyone pointing this out ever believed Britain or the U.S. possessed any moral authority to begin with.'
Comparing the 'morals' of Britain and Iran is hilarious. A nation that treats half of it's citizens as hugely superior to the other half is a disgrace. Women are barely treated better than animals in Iran. 'Iran' and 'morals' don't work in the same sentence.
http://www.wfafi.org/laws.pdf
Iran wants to push it's weight about because it knows it has a snowflakes chance in hell of getting the nukes it so badly wants. And yes my friend, you'd better start hoping that they don't for good reason... Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14679 | viz (161) Mar 15, 2007 - 09:27 am » Edited on Mar 15, 2007 - 09:28 am
| Indeed, I've still got my CD32 - "the worlds first 32-Bit CD games machine"
Those were the days...
Edit: It was the CDTV that was the botched 'A500' with a CD drive. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14636 | viz (161) Mar 10, 2007 - 07:21 pm » Edited on Mar 10, 2007 - 07:39 pm
| By that mentality, then why should companies bother to optimise ANY of their code, any performance issues of today due to inefficient code will be taken care of by the processors of tomorrow... erm ok.
If there is room for improvement then it should be welcomed with open arms. Lower network bandwidth is a HUGE plus point, as is lower storage requirements. Also the cpu usage concern you talk of by decompressing an image is unfounded. Opening a hi res jpeg is by and large instantaneous, there is no reason to suspect that a smaller file of higher quality would take longer as this would also be using lossy compression (just implemented better).
Speaking of compression, keep in mind that jpeg uses lossy compression meaning that the filesize is reduced by literally removing data. In this format HD Photo would be the same as jpeg but will result in smaller size, higher quality and less artifacts. Cpu usage would only rise during lossless de/compression, which jpeg can't do.
Compression is a huge subject and one that is essential for every aspect of todays media, without compression we would not have high quality TV, radio, websites, communications, portable music, games would have little or no graphical or audio assets.. the list goes on and on.
Compression is here to stay and rightly so. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14166 | viz (161) Feb 02, 2007 - 05:59 pm
| | The hardcore 'iFanatics' are a vain lot; branding is central to their existence. They also don't care about (or are blind to) apple spoon feeding them propoganda at every possible opportunity. Most of it aimed squarely at microsoft. Flag this | Edit this post |
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12752 | viz (161) Oct 17, 2006 - 09:15 am » Edited on Oct 17, 2006 - 09:20 am
| | The retailers that won't sell it (dixons group) don't deserve to sell ANY games, how funny is it that they won't stock Bully but will stock GTA and the like. In fact the dixons group branches - PC World, Currys and Dixons are all pretty much the SAME but with different trading names, and all are useless to most consumers execpt as they say, the 'family' (ie: the clueless, charge me what you want, feed my brain with jargon that I don't understand) market. Flag this | Edit this post |
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12326 | viz (161) Sep 21, 2006 - 10:35 pm » Edited on Sep 21, 2006 - 10:31 pm
| » Gainward Golden Sample 7800GS+ 512MB AGP
I was glad to see gainward release something worthwhile for those of us looking to get some more life from AGP before making a full system upgrade (for DX10). Why they had to call it (G71) a 7800 GS though is a mystery and why only 1500 worldwide?
Any chance of a review FiringSquad - if you can get hold of one? ;) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12315 | viz (161) Sep 19, 2006 - 05:42 pm
| | MS didn't get where they are today by sitting back and watching the world rotate. MS is constantly looking at new ways to eat into the competition - just like every other company out there. It just so happens that MS has a shedload more cash to throw into such ventures. Flag this | Edit this post |
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