Posted 03/02/2008 at 10:24:59am

The reason intel doesn't want to fix their video support is because they are trying to kill off AMD by staying ahead of them in the CPU market. This fact is also why AMD picked up ATI, to put pressure on Intel with the integrated video/CPU solution, MAKING Intel fight the war on both fronts. It's obvious. Intel, instead of fighting fair, pulls in a favor over at MS to have this happen, putting off the graphics problem for a few years at least - hurting AMD further and sort of making the ATI merger backfire. Everyone's focusing on Microsoft when they should be focusing on Intel. Of course MS bent, but in the long run, this is really about CPU/Graphics, not operating sytems. It's a shame for consumers.

Posted 02/10/2008 at 01:25:34pm

It's nice to know I'm not the only one addicted to 4X games. I have been a fan of Civilization since the first version in 1991. I missed days worth of sleep and forgot to eat many times. I was in high school then and I'd go to school in a fog, thinking about how best to take over another country while everyone around me was worrying about how to pop their next pimple -- idiots. Every Civ edition after that was just better and better and I still find myself thinking about tactics, etc while at work. I actually could see Firaxis (the company who now makes Civ franchise) sitting at a congressional hearing and each executive taking his/her turn saying, "I believe Civilization is NOT addictive..." the way big tobacco did. What have they done to us? I don't care, I love it!