Of course, getting an award from a rather poorly "high end" gaming
magazine is not exactly in the same classification as getting an award
from a magazine that matters to the people most likely to either
deploy or use OOo. These type of magazines hand out awards like
popcorn treats - yipee.


Chip


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:29:38 -0600, Robert Derman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian Lynch wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 05:48, Robert Derman wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>    This is particularly high praise when you know what really tough
> >>critics the editors at /MaximumPC/ are.  They don't think that any PC
> >>below 3 GHz or the AMD equivalent is even worth sitting down at.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Then they are stupid ;-)
> >
> >I am working at a 1 GHz Athlon and we build computers so if I thought it
> >would make any difference to my productivity I'd upgrade it. For the
> >tasks I do it would make no difference and just cost me money and more
> >importantly time.
> >
> >
> >
> Robert Derman replies:  Pay attention Ian, these people are not
> concerned with costs, nor with what buisness or academic users need,
> only with raw performance particularly with high end games!  They will
> never give a top score to a product for merely being the best of its
> type, it must be significantly better than any competitor, and have at
> least 1 major new innovation besides to score a 10!  That's what I mean
> by tough critics.
> 
> 


-- 
"The reason the mainstream is considered a stream is because it's so
shallow" --George Carlin

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