What an Interesting Week

and I can't tell you about some of it. Seriously, some of the stuff from this past week I cannot talk about and some of it I will not talk about either. So, instead I will talk about the R9 290X, the recently released GPU from AMD. Seems fair, since I talked about nVidia stuff recently.

nVidia News

Recently nVidia held a two-day press event, during which they announced many new technologies for PC gaming, and one new graphics card. In other words, they did what probably a lot of people expected (in a general sense, as one could not necessarily predict the specifics of their announcements). At least I was not surprised by any of it. AMD is in every next-gen console, so naturally nVidia is going to want to focus on PC gaming. To that end they announced new tools, such as an improved PhysX system, new lighting system, a new piece of monitor-technology, and a new graphics card. Let's talk about two of those.

Is Email Dead?

This is something I have been wondering for a while actually. Is email dead? I know I still use it, but it seems like a lot of people/organizations do not. Very regularly whenever I email some entity I do not get a reply, even the 'Contact Us' email addresses posted on some websites. I have to wonder why this is. The first makes little sense, because of how valuable a communication medium email is (unlimited length, software agnostic, hardware agnostic, private (in theory), attachments). The second is just disrespectful. I am actually almost to the point of making a Twitter account just to test some people/places. Send a question both as email and Twitter post, and see which is responded to first. I suspect the Twitter post would be, but then the questions are why and if/when the email will get a reply. If both addresses are given for a means of communication, but only one is responded to, that would seem to be a great failing on the part of the recipient(s).
Sadly, I doubt anyone would care, including the failing persons.

Nothing to say

Honestly, with everything going on that a man could comment on, I have nothing to say. Or at least nothing to say that won't make me sound like an ass. I'd prefer to avoid that, so I'll just keep my mouth shut this week, after saying I hope this next week is better for everyone than the last.