Pff... I've been coming to Tom's Hardware for at least three years now, but if Tom allows such grotesquely biased articles as <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/column/20030213/index.html" target="_new">"3D Mark 2003 - The Gamers' Benchmark (?)"</A> to be published, I, like more and more of my peers, will dismiss the value of this website. You know, I don't know that 'Tom' himself is so biased persay... he is just pretty aloof and doesn't seem to closely monitor his page. He just lets little peons with their own agenda run their own little segment of the site.... and kicks them off if they go too far... Remember Van Smith?
So, I'm hoping he will redeem himself and give Lars a kick out the door! Look at this article from last year:
<A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/blurb/20020825/index.html" target="_new">Tom's Blurb: Battle of Hypocrites</A>
In which he shares his disdain for Van Smith and Kyle Bennett's regurgitating the stories which had been spoon fed by companies that something to gain by the airing of the laundry. This line in particular ironic:
Lars' bias is obvious, one needn't look only to his articles, the fact that he runs <A HREF="http://www.rivastation.com/go.htm?http://www.rivastation.com/about.htm" target="_new">Riva Station</A> an NVIDIA fansite, is proof of this. That said, a fan of one product has the ability to put aside his biases when it comes down to the wire, unfortunately Lars has not done that consistantly.
In <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030127/geforce_fx-29.html" target="_new">NVIDIA GeForceFX: Brute Force Attack Against the King</A> Lars was the only tier-1 (if you like to consider yourself a tier-1 site), reviewer that awarded NVIDIA the crown.
It might be premature to eject Lars from Tom's Hardware, but I hope he is thoroughly dressed down for his latest, horriblely biased article!
I am tired and going to bed now, but should you require a item, by item scrutiny of Lars' regurgitated NVIDIA PR, I'll do so tomorrw. In the mean time, goodnight. :lol: If anyone is interested, a good measure of my faith in Tom's Hardware would be restored if I came back tomorrow to find Lars' most recent article retracted.
<i>Edited title, I would have done it earlier, but was unaware I could do so. My apologies for the derogatory comment. It was written in frustration/anger</i>
So, I'm hoping he will redeem himself and give Lars a kick out the door! Look at this article from last year:
<A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/blurb/20020825/index.html" target="_new">Tom's Blurb: Battle of Hypocrites</A>
In which he shares his disdain for Van Smith and Kyle Bennett's regurgitating the stories which had been spoon fed by companies that something to gain by the airing of the laundry. This line in particular ironic:
Today Tom's site has done just that, NVIDIA's marketing job for them. Tom should be thoroughly disgusted with this. I do not believe one line of the article above was researched by Lars, but rather just regurgitated from NVIDIA's spoon fed PR-spindoctors.I thought "Aha! ATi is cheating. Let's have a look!" I checked it out and indeed, there was something cheesy going on. However, I did not consider the issue serious enough. In fact, I was a bit irritated by the fact that the information about it had come from NVIDIA. If I picked up on this issue, I had to tell the world that it came from NVIDIA and I would do nothing but NVIDIA's marketing job.
Lars' bias is obvious, one needn't look only to his articles, the fact that he runs <A HREF="http://www.rivastation.com/go.htm?http://www.rivastation.com/about.htm" target="_new">Riva Station</A> an NVIDIA fansite, is proof of this. That said, a fan of one product has the ability to put aside his biases when it comes down to the wire, unfortunately Lars has not done that consistantly.
In <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030127/geforce_fx-29.html" target="_new">NVIDIA GeForceFX: Brute Force Attack Against the King</A> Lars was the only tier-1 (if you like to consider yourself a tier-1 site), reviewer that awarded NVIDIA the crown.
It might be premature to eject Lars from Tom's Hardware, but I hope he is thoroughly dressed down for his latest, horriblely biased article!
I am tired and going to bed now, but should you require a item, by item scrutiny of Lars' regurgitated NVIDIA PR, I'll do so tomorrw. In the mean time, goodnight. :lol: If anyone is interested, a good measure of my faith in Tom's Hardware would be restored if I came back tomorrow to find Lars' most recent article retracted.
<i>Edited title, I would have done it earlier, but was unaware I could do so. My apologies for the derogatory comment. It was written in frustration/anger</i>