The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[Neuromancer]

I think you are given to much credit to Charlie for his intentions. If he was a journalist he would write like one.

Charlie wants to get as many hits as possible. This is a man who will dress in a bunny suit at a convention. Who will hand out pamplets which try to humiliate the company that is having a function there. Charlie tries to write something that will provoke as much of a reaction as possible. Charlie isn't conservative in his writing because it helps get hits. It makes him look wrong alot of the time, but in this day and age, you don't get hits with vague uninteresting information. You do it by going out a limb and saying hard numbers(even those it might make you look like a fool in the end).

Charlie is trying his best to get people to notice him and is an attention whore. It probably why he started his own website. He will do something that demeans him just so he can get more people to read his stuff or listen to him.

The problem is.. he has not been that far off. And unfortunately... we have been lied to by "reviewers" and BIG QUOTES "Internet journalists" for so long now (hey remember when nVidia PAID people to go spam forums??? was not that long ago )ANYTHING you read should be taken with a grain of salt because 99.99% of them NEVER went to journalism school and as such never took an ethics class. On top of that.. you gotta figure that 9 out of 10 journalists are slanted anyway.

So what did Charlie say wrong? 2% ? TSMC admitted to "single digit success percentages" on their wafers but that the yields were only as low as 20%. (If you cant find the story on google you either are not looking or it was removed) March release date? Yup.. looking like it will be a paper launch at that time... Poor Clock management and overheating problems? Why is it that when he said it 5 months ago it was terrible slanted news and now that it is looking to be fact.. he is still be lambasted? I dont respect the guy... his writing is terrible, but he is right. (for a blogger) At least he has been pretty spot on with Fermi. The fact that they are releasing NOT their flagship model in march... (which is utterly unlike nVidia) should be s ign that the guy was not wrong.

He maybe he is (and I am) and there will be more than 1000 release units of the 480 in March... I expect it to hit stores in May though as he predicts, because lets face it... he has been right thus far...

So Charlie was right! but NOT, in the same breath. And the fools that think Charlie is an idiot but take nVidia PR as gospel (a company that has been proven to lie to you over and over) well I think that some "doth protest to much."

Trashing Charlie is kind of like someone joining a discussion about network news and mentioning the daily show. (Even with the caveat.. "I dont think it s a news show but I am just saying..."). Thanks a lot man.. .way to bring down the intelligence level of a discussion. Talk about a comedy show and try and compare it to news... especially since it IS completely slanted... well whatever... stupid point about stupid people.

So with that thought process... Don't believe ANYTHING you read.. but also don't try and discredit Charlie either... he is more believable than the great green PR machine.