Recent content by RichF

There is no 'console community'. Today's 'consoles' are PCs held hostage by software walled gardens and they, in turn, hold the PC gaming platform hostage. As for the problems, the 'consoles' shouldn't exist in the first place. Those wafers should be going to GPUs that are a legitimate part of...

Satire is one of the oldest ways people educate others, from Galileo on heliocentrism to this. The point is to show what reality is, to get people to wake up and get real. Of course, Galileo was placed under house arrest because he said things that some didn't want to hear. Trolling is not...

So, in recent months I was thinking of buying a GPU again. I had been waiting, back when the only options were the hot, extremely loud, and overpriced Vega cards and the overpriced Nvidia cards. i had also been considering buying a card back when the overpriced inefficient Fury line was all...

Your figures don't agree with your claims. None of the sums you have posted are even nearly as large as how much Star Citizen has brought in so far and that's just a video game.

That's actually what makes it more hopeful to have some competition in the GPU space. If only two foundries were in play at all then the availability crunch, in terms of being able to buy allocation (versus companies like Apple) would be unsolvable in the near term. The duopoly, though, is in...

It's not a strawman at all. You claimed that monopolization is inevitable and mean to codify them legally. That increases monopolization by embedding it even more strongly in the system via official codification. If you're going to make the "monopolization is inevitable" argument you must see...

Your argument, though, is that monopolization should be increased. That means getting rid of AMD from the GPU space so that Nvidia can rule it alone. I'm really not seeing how that's going to benefit consumers. Similarly, Samsung would be shut out of the foundry business so that only TSMC...

So, your solution to the situation we're in with GPUs and foundries is to increase monopolization?

What is irrefutable is that monopolization raises prices artificially. Most consumers don't want to pay more than they should. It's difficult to imagine paying more than $2200 for a GPU. I know some folks don't mind that but there really is another way.

It means making it possible for more competitors to establish themselves and compete. That's what anti-trust is all about. It's about making it possible to have competition. The trouble with monopolization is that it artificially increases prices to consumers.

Big tech is where another GPU company would exist. It's not a separate matter. All companies get their money from us. Crowdsourcing one is just another way of getting the money there. And, the figures you've quoted are a lot less than what Star Citizen has been taking in, and that's just one...

That's not what the history of business shows. It shows that business is constantly changing. Google Chrome didn't exist not long ago at all. Now, almost everyone uses it. Go a little further back and there was no Google. Many people seemed perfectly satisfied with all the search engines that...

One of the fun things about being old is that it doesn't seem very long ago that companies like Google, Facebook, Ebay, Twitter, Reddit, and the like did not exist. Want to search the Internet? Metacrawler, AltaVista, Lycos. Yahoo for categorical search. That's just one example. Prior to the...

We had three companies to choose from when Voodoo cards were on the market. We also would have had three companies to choose from had Matrox done a bit better job with Parhelia. Parhelia, for example, could have done these things right, instead of getting them wrong: 1. Not using the industry...

Well, we used to have Voodoo cards. And Matrox almost succeeded with Parhelia but botched it with some decisions that could have been avoided.