The following ramblings reflect my op-onions, as such do not allow my words to influence your decisions or views as I drink alot!
To the participants, do not send me legal documents as they are too big for my mail box and will wrinkle my copies of Big'uns and Rolling Stone!
Yeah it makes me laugh a heck of alot despite my feelings towards the two (I think they are good companies/groups independant of each other).
I sent an e-mail to Kyle when he promoted his essay on his views of benchmarking (just before changing their style of benchmarking), and I mentioned that there will be no predictor and really you need to make sure you have the tools and let other people find the strengths and weaknesses and that whatever he adopted wouldn't be any mnore externally valid. Man did that ever get his hackles-up.
I'm still not sure if Kyle's biggest issue is with the zombified buyers/users simply going to BestBuy/FutureShop and looking at Lars' list of 3Dmk results and then making their 'decisions', or whether it's deeper than that. I know he's trying to do the best he can, and really succeeds far better at a bigger picture than most do, but really why is he so adamant and so focused on being critical? I'm not sure if he (and his minions) even tested 3Dmk05 before making snyde comments about it. I think he made his point with the first few original posts, beyond that let it go, just ignore it. Instead Kyle et al. find it worthy of adding any FM 'news' to their frontpage news list, but it is always accompanied by an evaluatory comment attached, which is invariably negative or dismissive.
So it shows that they realize it's important enough to their readers to include in their news, but they still can't avoid trying to make fun of it when given this chance.
It can be funy at times, but at other times you just wonder, why bother? I think the 'editorial' content of the 'news' is getting worse and worse with lamer and lamer jokes too, at least the quality of the actual reviews and other content on [H] has remained high or even improved in such a way as to offset this trend.
At the very least Kyle should get these 'editors/collectors' of his some 'satire for dummies' books so at to improve the quality of their bashing, justified or not.
Anywhoo, just keep giving me the nice graphs and screenies and I'll be happy, even if the shoddy writing intrudes on the reviews.
In any case, I'm just suprised that FM even bothered to contact them, and even more surprised that they would try to silence them. I doubt this will go anywhere, and I definitely support [H] in telling them where they can stick it, as there's no way that a court would side against free expression despite what might be read into the words. Really this seems like a PR blunder for FM, and just makes them look weak and silly. Sue [H] for their opinion of the benchmark, but do nothing when people monkey with your benchmark costing you ACTUAL credibility.
<b>*<font color=red>+</font color=red>*</b> The preceding was simply an editorial of my view of the situation, these view do not reflect those of THG, THGC, or the Actual GreatGrapApe cartoon, whose only comment when informed of the situation was "Oh!Grape Ape, Grape Ape!", which truely are wise words in these uncertain times.
What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of Lake Ontario...?
- You need a licence to buy a gun, but they'll sell anyone a stamp <i>(or internet account)</i> ! - <font color=green>RED </font color=green> <font color=red> GREEN</font color=red> GA to SK
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