Yes, with MANY things today: F' in GREED... you don't see Mercedes doing that now, do you? Cutting corners, building CRAP, so they make the 'quick buck'...?
NO, you see them build 1 million mile capable vehicles not created for product obsolescence, & overblown marketing hype here in the U.S. as some "rich man's car" whereas in other nations they just think of them as "WELL MADE, GOOD BUYS"...
It's all about greed. Short-term profit thinking... sure, they will try to tell you the spinmaster b.s. line of "well, if you build too well, nobody buys again often enough & we have to downsize" what a load of shit:
They downsize anyhow, because they build shit, & nobody wants to buy crap here in the U.S.A., to top it ALL off... & I certainly do NOT see Mercedes going out of business lately due to building superior vehicles... far from it.
Same in computers... we've ALL seen it.
Heh, is why I (like most of yourselves no doubt) have been building my OWN pc's from componentry I hand select, since 1991-1992 or so!
It took me only 1 system to learn how it's done, as I am sure is the case w/ all of you as well...
It was a "FastMicro" & a "buy of the year" that year (@ $999, lol, for THAT no less & you'll laff too, once you see its init. makeup (it was near "state-of-the-art" then, though!))
I have only purchased 1 prebuilt PC, ever, my first!
It was a 486 Sx/25mhz 4mb RAM & 40mb 4500rpm (iirc on the rpm here, Quantum ProDrive or Fireball iirc) HDD & a Diamond Stealth 24 ISA Windows Accelerator vidcard (1mb RAM).
I end up upgrading it to a 486 Dx/4 133mhz 32mb RAM, & dual 242mb WD Caviar 5400rpm disks driven off a TekRam ISA 4mb caching controller in RAID 0 array...
In fact - I have a NEARLY perfect replica of that, except not ALL ISA like that, but Vesa Local Bus in it here that still runs Windows NT 3.51 SP #5 + ALL hotfixes in fact.
ALL same for most part as its original 2 year older counterpart described above, except Diamond SpeedStar 24 VLB 2mb video, & 16mb on a VLB version of that TekRAM controller!
Why?
So I could avoid "the U.S. car industry (& all else I am sad to say) idiocy", as it is applied to many products, including computers...
We do this all of us... partially to learn & also imo, for avoiding the cost-cutting cut the corners on TOO much, creating marketable & profitable CRAP by comparison to what really can be done!
Crap SO full of engineer's tricks that are supposed to outdo superior materials & workmanship, & often fail, it really makes me laugh.
I have pals who are engineers, & their jobs? NOT DESIGNING BETTER PRODUCT, but cheaper ones... cut costs by 10% this year, or you are gone type stuff.
I finally understand, because of THIS field? WHY HARLEY GUYS WON'T BUILD YOU A CHOPPER GENERALLY - but they will help YOU build it yourself... so you know how it works, how to fix it yourself, & what-not (computers turned me onto that train-of-thought).
APK
P.S.=> Today? Sorry guys... the world has me Pi$$ED OFF LARGE: "Welcome my SON: Welcome to the (greed) MACHINE!" - I just see so much of this, & so much lately the last few years now?? Well, I gotta vent...
E.G.-> Would I pay $5 more for a pair of jeans made here in the USA, that is made well, vs. crap from elsewhere that falls apart in 6 months? YOU BET!
I have even seen it on the job, being told (by morons that can't code themselves no less yet are my superiors, I mean "WTF!!!" what are dudes like that doing being MIS/IS/IT CIO's or CTO's for instance... many aren't even experienced network admins/engineers for Gosh's sake) that is defective!
I've been TOLD to issue products/code w/ "known defects" (usually the WORST kind, intermittent) so some venture capitalist doesn't rape them on time deadline violation, & instead gets them screwed on vulnerabilities present, or bad rep due to bugs... makes me SICK! All because the same moron who hasn't done the job in cahoots with some mindless marketer said it "can be done yesterday" etc.
I was told to "just get it running, don't optimize it to the 100% mark" & build w/out errtraps (as it was given to me - real shitbox rookie code I did repair properly & DID build in errtraps because it was MY WORK & NAME) on my last job in fact... it's INSANE!
What if your bank account, or life support system depended on such code? Well, not far off on the job I am speaking of either... remember that folks.
If I build, I generally build it right as I can, first time out... if you do that? You aren't the one getting the fingers pointed @ YOU, as is the morons @ the top's usual action finding a fallguy... & your reputation carries you into your next place because you did things right as rain...
IMO, the root of ALL OF THIS? The stockmarket... & the banks! apk
But i agree... ATI´s is definitly better att mobile gpu´s than N.
), hl2 at 800xx600, halo at 640x480, even bf2 was somewhat playable (upped to 2GB ram).
