Comment Gaming contribution story (Score 2) 90
When I was in my late teens there was a neighborhood with computer stores.
They would have sheets of specials on components. I would go around and collect all the sheets, find somewhere to sit and compare prices.
Hardware review websites were big at the time (Tom's, etc.) and I knew where all the components ranked. So I made an educated decision before speccing out a system.
Saving a few dollars here and there I would optimize.
Moore's law was big and framerates were low, benchmarks between components would have significant percentage differences.
Moore's law has stopped the gamers did it, GPUs used for rendering millions of pixels proved similar in intention to AI machine learning requirements.
Going to computer stores now is depressing, the huge gains are gone.
AI is often wrong and almost always lowest common denominator. Teenage boys blowing up mutants and Nazi's did more for computing than AI has.
They would have sheets of specials on components. I would go around and collect all the sheets, find somewhere to sit and compare prices.
Hardware review websites were big at the time (Tom's, etc.) and I knew where all the components ranked. So I made an educated decision before speccing out a system.
Saving a few dollars here and there I would optimize.
Moore's law was big and framerates were low, benchmarks between components would have significant percentage differences.
Moore's law has stopped the gamers did it, GPUs used for rendering millions of pixels proved similar in intention to AI machine learning requirements.
Going to computer stores now is depressing, the huge gains are gone.
AI is often wrong and almost always lowest common denominator. Teenage boys blowing up mutants and Nazi's did more for computing than AI has.
