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> Finally, I’d like to end this piece with a comment on the Cable TV-ification of the web. A core belief that Anand and I have held dear for years, and is still
by rock_artist 2y ago
> Finally, I’d like to end this piece with a comment on the Cable TV-ification of the web. A core belief that Anand and I have held dear for years, and is still on our About page to this day, is AnandTech’s rebuke of sensationalism, link baiting, and the path to shallow 10-o'clock-news reporting. It has been our mission over the past 27 years to inform and educate our readers by providing high-quality content
That’s the core of it. And too bad they’re off. Finding a news outlet that isn’t “tweeting” an article and isn’t a blog post on HN was great. And while they mention Tom’s hardware. It always felt (to me) less verbose where I needed it.
Fair well.
- harshaxnim 2y agoTangential - your last line made me think about what "Fare well" means. Weird that I come across it so often, but never stopped to think what it means. :)
- throw0101d 2y ago> Tangential - your last line made me think about what "Fare well" means. Fare is unrelated to fair: > From Middle English farewel, from fare wel! (and the variants with the personal pronoun "fare ye well" and "fare you well" used in the Renaissance), an imperative expression, possibly further derived from Old English far wel!, equivalent to fare (“to fare, travel, journey”) + well.* * https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/farewell#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/farewell#Etymology * https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fare https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fare So to say "farewell" to someones is "have a good journey (in life?)".
- frankvdwaal 2y agoIn German there's a similar word, "fahren", which means driving or traveling. In Dutch the word "varen" mean to sail or in an older sense of the word "to move". I can only assume, but considering the Dutch "vaarwel" is so close to English, I'm going to guess it means "Go well" - or more poetically when speaking of one's path in life: may fate treat you well.
- dahart 2y ago> Fare is unrelated to fair True, but ‘fair well’ was likely just a misspelling. > So to say “farewell” to someones is “have a good journey (in life?)” On the wiki page for ‘fare’, you have to scroll a little to see the most relevant usage - see Etymology 2 definitions 2, 4, and 5. To get along, to pass through an experience, to happen, to progress. As a verb, farewell is roughly synonymous with ‘be well’. (This agrees with have a good journey in life, but it doesn’t need to be thought of as travel or an analogy to travel, the meaning and common usage of farewell is already abstract and more general than travel, e.g., “how has your business fared?”) As a noun, farewell has come to mean a valediction (the opposite of a greeting): wishing someone well when parting. Funny enough, valediction in multiple dictionaries I just checked is defined as a farewell or as the act of bidding farewell.
- frrlpp 2y agoQue te vaya bien!
- rfl890 2y agoYou just gave me jamais vu.
- peddling-brink 2y agoAlso consider Goodbye, God be with ye. [0] Adiós - A diós - go to god. [1] [0] https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/articles/goodbye-is-short-for-god-be-with-you.html?lang=eng#:~:text=The%20first%20known%20use%20of,years%20the%20word%20%E2%80%9Cgood%E2%80%9D%20was https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/articles/goodbye-is-short... [1] https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/145252/origins-of-adis https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/145252/origins-of-adis
- ljm 2y agoGoogle captured the web with their search product. Then they monopolised it with Adsense.
- throwaway48476 2y agoAnd absolutely did not optimize for returning quality information.
- fallingknife 2y agoSeems like less something that Google did and more just a natural consequence of the massive economic value of being at the top of the ranking and therefore tremendous incentive to hack the algorithm with advanced SEO.
- lll-o-lll 2y agoI don’t agree. As soon as commercialisation of the web began, this massive incentive existed. The early search engines all fell victim to “algorithm hacking” (granted, these algorithms were far more primitive). Google won search in these years by having much more sophisticated algorithms that were resilient to such attempts. Today - well, two possible things have happened. Either scamming search engines have become too effective for even a company with the resources of Alphabet to mitigate. Or, Google optimised for revenue rather than knowledge indexing. Which one seems more likely?
- devjab 2y agoI wonder what makes you say that Google was more resilient to what you call “algorithm hacking” considering Google has quite literally auctioned off result placement for two decades. Do you think that selling result placement for keywords and search terms to the highest bidder had a higher resilience to search engine optimisation than other search engines? I’d argue that Google was simply good at turning search itself into a product. A lot of their early competition around the world didn’t really do “search” as much as they did a combination of web content in a “portal” sort of presentation. Google is still better at it than their competition, but Google’s model is now being pressured by big money. Local businesses in Europe are simply losing any sort of search auction to the Chinese sites as an example. Anyway, you can always pay for Kagi if you want a better experience on the internet.
- xwowsersx 2y agofarewell*
- andrewstuart2 2y agofare thee well*
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoI was really surprised they survived this long. Long, overly elaborate, badly structured, too technical, and hence boring for the average joe, kinda articles all around. Future plc and their rooted in the 2000s, absolutely horrible website structure that is forced on every news outlet they own... bleh. Ancient mammoths need a good spanking.
- jimjimjim 2y agoFor those of us with an attention span, long investigative reading is enjoyable and the knowledge gained is beneficial
- chemmail 2y agoI'm surprised people today even learn to read. Just watch youtube.
- bratwurst3000 2y agoi was shocked when i realized some people cant write but use emoji as mean of communication
- kaechle 2y ago:clown + :pointright + ?! (Surely, you jest?!)
- imajoo 2y agoThe whole point of some of their articles was to go into the more esoteric technical details rather than gloss over them like some other sites. So in that aspect you are correct: it wasn’t for “the average joe”. However, for some people it was what they wanted. That attention to technical detail and knowledge is why people like Der8auer have an audience today and people respect his opinion.
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoHave you ever wondered whether these long form articles give you ANY substantial knowledge or only the illusion that you gained something...
- eduction 2y ago“We dont play silly cheap web traffic games” [proceeds to pointlessly split every article across 10 pages]
- darkwater 2y agoI don't know your age but rest assured that when Anandtech started, and for the following 7-8 years, doing that was absolutely needed for a good user experience. Try loading a giant single page with dozens of images on a 28.8kbaud connection... It will not end well
- eduction 2y agoLol I read plenty of long articles on a 14.4kbps connection and have been around long enough to know you’re using baud incorrectly :-) Without trackers and superfluous images, excessive CSS etc you could load a nice long article reasonably quickly. Text does not need to be split like that. It was done for $$$. Ars even offered a pagination escape hatch as a premium benefit at one point.
- eptcyka 2y agoThe print version concatenated all the pages. They did it to allow users to not load all the charts all at once.
- Abishek_Muthian 2y agoTom's Hardware has been biased towards intel(reg the recent 13th,14th gen over-voltage issues), Anand Tech seemed quite reliable in comparision.
- freeAgent 2y agoI remember waaaaay back in the day when Tom’s Hardware was mocked as Tom’s Hotware because they did some testing of what would happen to AMD and Intel CPUs if the heat sink spontaneously fell off while they were running. I think at the time, the AMD CPU melted itself, which Tom’s Hardware criticized. It did seem back then that there was a subtle anti-AMD bias on the site, but I haven’t paid close attention to it over time. It’s interesting to hear that the accusations of Intel bias still exist!
- Abishek_Muthian 2y agoGamers Nexus also showed in their video that TH's writer was the moderator of intel subreddit and they had been deleting posts on the recent issues with intel CPUs.
- freeAgent 2y agoThat is interesting. Between Anandtech and Tom’s Hardware, I am sad to see that Tom’s has ultimately survived longer. Anandtech was one of, if not the, best.
- throwaway48476 2y agoTo be fair I've accidentally run a CPU without a heatsink and it did a thermal shut down while testing a BIOS issue. It's a useful feature.
- ghusbands 2y agoThat was fairly standard startup behaviour across all makers. The comment you're replying to talks about the heatsink suddenly falling off - a very specific testcase seemingly chosen to make a company look bad.