My trip over to NYC was exhausting; I finished my X800 XL review at around 2AM yesterday, went to sleep for 4 hours and then hit the road by around 6:30. Despite it only being about 75 miles away, I didn't get to my meeting in the city until 10AM. The last 15 miles were the worst, they took about an hour alone. The meeting went well, although it's nothing I can talk about until sometime in Q1 next year.
I did a decent amount of gift shopping for Vinney in and around the city. The problem with living in Branford is that if you want anything other than what you can get at "the Walmart" you're pretty much out of luck, so taking advantage of trips out to more consumer-friendly areas is always on the to-do list.
I've been missing a good burger for quite some time now. The one thing we had plenty of in Raleigh were good burger joints (Cookout, Chargrill, Circus, etc...) and although none of them come close to the unhealthy goodness that is In-and-Out, they are better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be any good equivalents up here, although yesterday I found out that there are a plethora of Checkers in NY that I may be tempted to visit. We had Checkers back in Raleigh for a while, but there was some hepatitis B scare which I believe forced them to close down. They came back for a little bit but then went away again for similar reasons I believe. Checkers was a high school favorite of mine just for the fries, so I may have to find some excuse to make the always tiresome journey out to NY to sample them once more.
We'll be driving down to NC for the holidays, Vinney finishes up classes on the 21st so we'll be leaving somewhere around then. This time I'm not leaving until I get all of my work done so I don't have to fool myself into thinking that I'll be able to get work done on a laptop in NC. Luckily it looks like I'll be all out of NDAs and other product launches by then so if I can stay busy I should be able to take the last week or so of 2004 off.
With the X800 XL and 6200 Turbo Cache articles done and posted, I can get back to this Half Life 2 CPU guide that I've been working on for so long. Benchmarking is almost complete and I'm going to try my best to get this thing finished by early tomorrow morning. I'm off to visit ATI tomorrow which will eat up a good hunk of my day and I'd rather not put it off any longer, so I'll be doing my best today.
My Dothans finally came in for my Desktop Pentium M review, testing on them will begin as soon as I can stick a fork in Half Life 2.
I may chime back in before I leave for ATI tomorrow morning, but if not you'll definitely hear from me afterwards.
Take care.
I did a decent amount of gift shopping for Vinney in and around the city. The problem with living in Branford is that if you want anything other than what you can get at "the Walmart" you're pretty much out of luck, so taking advantage of trips out to more consumer-friendly areas is always on the to-do list.
I've been missing a good burger for quite some time now. The one thing we had plenty of in Raleigh were good burger joints (Cookout, Chargrill, Circus, etc...) and although none of them come close to the unhealthy goodness that is In-and-Out, they are better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be any good equivalents up here, although yesterday I found out that there are a plethora of Checkers in NY that I may be tempted to visit. We had Checkers back in Raleigh for a while, but there was some hepatitis B scare which I believe forced them to close down. They came back for a little bit but then went away again for similar reasons I believe. Checkers was a high school favorite of mine just for the fries, so I may have to find some excuse to make the always tiresome journey out to NY to sample them once more.
We'll be driving down to NC for the holidays, Vinney finishes up classes on the 21st so we'll be leaving somewhere around then. This time I'm not leaving until I get all of my work done so I don't have to fool myself into thinking that I'll be able to get work done on a laptop in NC. Luckily it looks like I'll be all out of NDAs and other product launches by then so if I can stay busy I should be able to take the last week or so of 2004 off.
With the X800 XL and 6200 Turbo Cache articles done and posted, I can get back to this Half Life 2 CPU guide that I've been working on for so long. Benchmarking is almost complete and I'm going to try my best to get this thing finished by early tomorrow morning. I'm off to visit ATI tomorrow which will eat up a good hunk of my day and I'd rather not put it off any longer, so I'll be doing my best today.
My Dothans finally came in for my Desktop Pentium M review, testing on them will begin as soon as I can stick a fork in Half Life 2.
I may chime back in before I leave for ATI tomorrow morning, but if not you'll definitely hear from me afterwards.
Take care.
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Leave Anand alone- He is a tight wad little Indian nerd! Who with even half of the money that this kid makes would move to Branford CT?Anonymous - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link
Stay out of NYC, jeeze, never heard someone bitch so much of a commute. Take mass transit? Moron.Anonymous - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link
"nigga_dean,"Lets keep it simple: blow me!
From #12.
Appu - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link
15 miles in an hour! That's heaven. Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to cover the ~1.5 miles from home to work here in Bangalore :((, and that too on a two-wheeler. Imagine life in a car.Ninja_Dean - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
I never said Wal-Mart did anything to benefit their workers, so I don't know where you got that idea.Maybe I said it wrong, but you got it right. Asians do work harder and have better work ethic than Americans, which is quite sad.
I never said making more money in a business will usually help emplyees or anyone else for that matter, except the executives. As far as I know, there are few companies like Nike who donate 5% of their profits to charities. Not everyone does that.
Actually, most of R&D used to happen here, but not anymore. Google, Microsoft, Intel, and AMD all have labs in India where they do their R&D because of lower costs. Still though, you can't just pick a guy of the streets to make a chip, even though it is a repetitive task. You need some qualifications.
pete - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
I disagree that it takes brains and asians to excel at the IT industry, but thats fine. The fact that there may be a higher percentage of asian straight A students(which is completely debatable as well as stereotypical) is not a function of them simply being asian. maybe they actually have morals as well as ethics that make them work harder, unlike slobs in the U.S.Making more money does not necessarily mean the business will use that money in a beneficial way.
I dont know much about the IT industry, but it was my impression that a lot of development happens here, while the chips and hardware are built(repetitively in factories) overseas. As of now i dont have any facts about this so i dont really have anything to say about it.
Do you condone being malevolent to consumers for higher profits? I dont.
give me an example in which walmart actually did something to benefit their employees, and I will believe you. as of now, the only good thing they have is that since walmart slashes prices at the expense of the workers, the workers can then afford to buy things at walmart. However, they cant shop ANYWHERE else.
Ninja_Dean - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
#25: Actually that's not true. Technology companies (specifically) are not going to India and China because they can get the people to do repetitive tasks at lower wages; they are going there because Asians have minds. They are definitely smarter in technical subjects than an average American. I don't know your age, but ever wonder why majority of straight A students are Asians? It almost seems like technical subjects are natural to Asians, but that's not the point.Cashiers and people like that don't make much money here. That's because their jobs are repetitive. All they have to do is scan items for eight hours a day and manage a bit of money. I don't think companies would really benefit by starting a whole new operation outside US just to get 10% (at the most) profits from repetitive tasks.
If you are talking about companies like Nike where Asians mostly make shoes day-in and day-out (sort of like cashiers) then yes, companies are benefitting from that, BUT let's face it - you don't exactly need an engineer degree to repeat steps over and over.
My whole point is mainly situated around the IT industry. IT requires brains and Asians excel at that.
As far as business practices go, yes, it does mean morals and ethics. Nike donates 5% of their profits to charities and what not, which is why they are considered to have better business practices. You are correct in saying that some companies don't test products and lie to consumers. However, doesn't lying and not testing products part of business morale and ethics. The company is more concerned about its profits rather than consumers, so it lies and deceives people. Monoploying your competitors is also bad business practice because you have to play fair all around. But as know, many companies don't do that.
Microsoft, for example, anything that Google does - Microsoft does the same thing. Microsoft basically killed Lindows because it was posing a threat to their market shares and it's only because they have more money to deal with situations like that.
In business, anytime you can take advantage of consumers or your competitors, based on your brand or the amount of money you have, is considerd immoral and unethical in the business world.
What's fair is that you use your money to create better products (and in wal-mart's case give benefits to your employees) to gain an edge over competition. It's not fair to use your money to try to buyout competition or something similar to that.
pete - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link
business is not something i ever want to be part of in this country. its pretty much common sense that you make more money in this country by "cutting costs." but business practice most certainly does not rely on company ethics or values. why do companies like monsanto make products without testing them to make sure they are safe? and why do they lie to consumers? the IT industry is not what i'm talking about here. and whether or not the idea of outsourcing has ANYTHING to do with higher education is entirely questionable. you can teach anyone to do a repetitive task. they don't even have to know that if they were in the U.S. they could make more money.