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Of course I'm not shocked that Ars picked it up. Their journalistic quality has majorly slipped over the last few years. AMD is punching way above their weight
by DarronWyke 9y ago
Of course I'm not shocked that Ars picked it up. Their journalistic quality has majorly slipped over the last few years.
AMD is punching way above their weight class lately. It's causing competitors (or really competitor since Intel is their main one) to have to scramble to counter them.
- Numberwang 9y agoDo you have alternative sources you would recommend instead of Ars? I quite like ars but if there are better publications out there I'd love to know.
- DarronWyke 9y agoNot found anything worthwhile really. Slashdot is still decent. Of course HN. User-run sites tend to be better. But I stopped reading Ars and The Register a while ago due to slippages in journalistic quality and various other hit pieces.
- guitarbill 9y agoTo be fair, The Register is good at UK/Oz/storage news, as well as puns - if those don't interest you, it's probably not worth reading. Also not sure what level of "journalistic quality" you're expecting from El Reg? Or any news outlet for that matter.
- DarronWyke 9y agoHow about writing and publishing actual facts rather than hit pieces? I've seen El Reg push out several articles about non-UK things that were patently wrong -- and that their userbase ripped them for. No apology, no retraction, no update.
- gghjhbb 9y agoElReg is The Sun for computers, down to the color scheme and headlines with a word capitalised at random.
- digi_owl 9y agoanandtech.com may be worth a look.
- ionised 9y agoThat has been going downhill since Anand left.
- needz 9y agoI'm finding myself enjoying Ars less and less. Recommendations for what to replace it with?
- bob_theslob646 9y agoMit tech review.
- agumonkey 9y agoIt's indeed not a happy thing to see Ars publishing this. In the old days of Jon Stokes CPU articles what AMD did would get never ending streams of articles. Considering what AMD went through, I indulge in a bit of AMD fanboyism at times, I try to avoid it. Some articles compare the latest Intel releases with AMD, and they often end up saying "ok Intel still has a 10% perf lead in half the tests, but .. twice the price". Am I the only one to consider what AMD did a miracle ? is it Intel friend network turning this into a "meh" ?
- tyfon 9y agoI have bought intel for the last 15-20 years, however my next workstation/gaming computer will have a threadripper of some sort. I have never been a fanboy of either but for my use case it's a nobrainer right now. Even if I was a fanboy I'd have a hard time justifying getting an intel chip.
- kop316 9y agoChiming in to agree about Ars. I was really disappointed to see how there was no fact checking when the Voynich Manuscript "decoding" came out (granted they did publish an article retracting it, but even a cursory amount of fact checking could have told you that theory held no water), I simply don't trust any articles they publish outside of their core tech competency (and seeing articles like this hurt even my trust on that). I would like to see an alternative, but the only thing I really read for tech news past them is here.
- agumonkey 9y agoThe voynich issue was a black spot. But somehow they tried to evolve bigger and got far from what they were. It was a very simple website before but the articles and people around were high grade. Now it's big thing with less quality all around. Market dynamics I suppose.
- away2017throw 9y agoThe last thing to do is adding a bunch of pro-SJW topics and you got another Verge/Vox/Polygon.
- DarronWyke 9y agoThey already did that when they went anti-GG and started taking cues from people like Brianna Wu. That was the start of the decline for them.
- anon11012017 9y agoAnti-GG is a good thing in my book.
- cyberpunk0 9y agoHow so?
- digi_owl 9y agoThe death kneel for me regarding Ars was that they shut down their Open Source section while their Apple section kept spilling over into their other sections. More and more i felt the place could be rechristened Apple Technica.
- zeveb 9y agoI feel like it went from being a news site for Linux-loving geeks to being a news site for centre-left Apple fans. I still love their article on setting up one's own mail server. That was probably the high-water point for their quality.
- bdpete 9y agoIt's too bad about Ars. It's the same problem, except exacerbated, with Wired-- nowadays there's just the odd good long-form article. Over the last few years almost half of the print magazine has been devoted to progressive issues from a tech angle rather than tech- and the rest revolves around fan-geekery, if that's a word. Both are owned by Conde Nast... MIT Technology Review remains superb, however: www.technologyreview.com
- coldtea 9y ago>Of course I'm not shocked that Ars picked it up. Their journalistic quality has majorly slipped over the last few years. What does the fact that they picked a report that had an impact on a company (in other words a newsworthy story) with their "journalistic quality"? Even if the report is back, it had an impact, and that should be reported. You'd rather they didn't covered stories involving upsetting things?