e740, ATI, XScale, Varium, etc

[randall]

#1 I don't owe you any respect.

#2 You don't use your real name so I can give you respect.

#3 You have not provided a bit of valuable information that deserves respect.

#4 The pitiful arguments and flawed logic are something else entirely- quite amusing.

#5 You yourself have shown a great deal of disrespect.

#6 If you READ these goddam pages, you'll discover WHY we have come to the conclusion that we can't fix the e740.

#7 If you can't UNDERSTAND these pages, then you have no right arguing them. These are not submitted in laymens terms so that you may enjoy them.

#8 it is assumed that you are NOT a developer, otherwise you would have already come up with a solution, or come to the same realisation that all these other prominent developers have.

#9 if you are a developer, what the hell is your excuse? Give us the solution already.

#10 What is it exactly that you WANT? Varium? Its a friggin GAME... get over it. Its not like we are hoarding the Holy Grail or something.

It is true that we have recieved alot of personal emails from very prominent developers. Now you can call us liars, call us lazy and call us incompetent. I really don't care. I have a game to design and you (and the e740) are the very least of my problems.

This is EXACTLY why I do not even want to bother wasting the time to support the e740 in the first place. The game hasn't even launched... WAIT a public DEMO has not even been made available and already this crap is starting. I can't imagine 1000 people acting like this.

Varium doesn't support the Mips devices. Those people can't complain, because we blatantly DON'T support the device. We have not established an obligation to do so.

We have much better things to be doing, rather than wasting the time to troubleshoot crap like this- while both Toshiba and ATI turn their backs and pretend the problems don't exist.

[Another guest...]

[James S]

That was your cue to get up an go, not to disrespect the developers more by disagreeing with their observations.

[Digby]

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[brendan]

[Robotbeat]

[sponge]

Another guest is always rude. He's a stupid little troll.

Robotbeat: I don't think those fixes were made on the Imageon chip - they were just general speedups.

[Another guest is rude]

[James S]

Robotbeat

2) Well duh, no one has been polite to Another Guest because he hasn't been polite to anyone else. He has only been controversial and obnoxious from his initial post. His arguments are fallacious, and his usefulness nill. Read his posts.

3) So you've got one example, that makes a pattern? Your argument is erroneous. Open-source usually means the developer doesn't want to spend all his time working on it so he drops and makes it open source, or that he doesn't have the means to continue the project alone, or that the original program was open source and thus a port must be open source as well. It does not mean that a project will instantly become better simply because some 12 year old is able to download the source and add his name to the credits.

4) The patch was MONTHS late, and they never official announced there was a problem to begin with. The patch should have been a part of the initial release of the product. When something is that buggy and poor quality you usually don't release it until you've got it fixed. Toshiba/ATI are lazy and never admitted anything ever being wrong.

5) Open source does not mean that it will advance faster and have more features. By your logic no one is going to concede information to a competing product anyway, open source or not.

Open source does not necessitate quality or innovation. Quality and innovation are tied to the intelligence of the developer and have nothing to do with the format a software is released in.

[Digby]

[Another guest observes]

[James S]

It's your attitude, Another Guest [Verb], not what you say.

[damian]

[James S]